If I now realize that I'm a marshmellow eater, can I start recognizing that behavior and correct it. Thereby becoming more successful and have a happier life?

I had one child who went into the Montessori school and one of the things that they do, is not let you go onto the next activity until you've mastered the current one. These activities are all in very incremental steps and by the time he entered kindergarden he was able to add subtract, read and write, and had a basic understanding of multiplication. He is the brightest of my children and I wish that the other two had the same experience.

The point is that part of the Montessori method, is delayed gratification, you can't try the net neat thing until you've mastered this one.

Maybe that's because there is more then one person writing comments.

I've found that RMS often says things that make me step back and reconsider. For example cloud computing. I always get caught up in the buzzwords, but RMS pointed out that it actually gives people less control.

RMS is all about giving control to the user of the software. His whole philosophy is based upon being free to modify/repair/change any software that you are using, whether in a computer or printer or whatever. The fact that you've bought the software, means (in his mind) that you should have the right to change it. If you've bought a printer that has a bug in it's firmware you should be able to change it.

Companies don't like this idea because they will
1. have more expenses when a fix actually breaks something.
2. their propitiatory software is secret.
3. if you knew how simple the code was you would be upset at the price you paid.
4. competitors will use their code/ideas.
5. whatever

Companies are not consumer oriented. They are profit oriented. RMS is consumer oriented. He sounds eccentric when he talks because people have been brainwashed into thinking along the corporate lines.

If you view what he says from a consumer point of view he sounds very sane. Rather like Ralph Nader seemed eccentric when he went after the pinto.

I've been looking through all the posts, and YOURS was the one that I thought summed it up beautifully.

I agree with LordLimecat. An ip address identifies a computer which may or may not belong to the person using it. I don't see how you can say that an IP address is identifiable infomation. It's information that has a higher likelyhood of being true, but not absolutely. (Which for legal matters would be important).

That worked out really well. I read the blurb, it said it was available. Did the check for updates, it downloaded and restarted, and then I went into the story.

All upgrades should be so easy!

This stuff is so useful, that it can be used with any experiment to obtain the results you want.

So let's call 112 UnObtainium so we can finally do all those experiments.

Last week when everyone was talking about their favorite ide's I kept thinking that kdevelop should have this or has that.

It's the one IDE that I've used for Linux development (besides vi) that I've used for years. I'm looking forward to the new class browser.

And I think you're special for thinking he's special.

If you consider source code in which on a typical distro is made up of the work from 100's of thousands of programmers/designers/artists/documenters etc. And you use these distros on the faith that they are well put together. This to me is trust.

If you consider that the reason this came to be is due to RMS's ideals, which enforce those ideals, I have no problems at all.

BTW, why are you smelling 15 year old girls?

Arg. That was supposed to be...

I think the gpl shows the opposite. You can trust everyone, you just need to enforce it. He figured out a clever way to do that.