Comment Re:Do no evil indeed (Score 1) 383
C'mon... are you really implying that lies and deceit aren't built-in to the game in the US ?
Comment Re:Who the heck (what 1 million monkeys) (Score 1) 434
I know, and it's patented too.
Comment Re:BSD license was always more permissive, so grea (Score 1) 808
The GPL doesn't "destroy freedom" in order to protect anything, it just protects some freedoms and forbids some other freedoms. I would never claim that is more free than the BSD license, but I *will* claim that it does a better job at protecting those four freedoms than the BSD license.
Like I said, I could care less if the BSD license is "more free" than the GPL. I don't care about "license freedom championships", I want my ability to use, see, modify and share the code legally protected, and the GPL is the better tool to enforce that.
Furthermore there isn't anything inherently wrong about either license. Both pursue different aims that's all. Which is "freer" is a purely demagical standpoint.
Comment Re:BSD license was always more permissive, so grea (Score 1) 808
If you're going to pursue that course of action, then don't call it "protecting freedom". That's a simple, bald-faced lie.
After my 10th birthday I learned that the world isn't black-and-white, so of course I will call it "protecting freedom", as the GPL *does* protect freedoms.
What is a simple, bald-faced lie (and I'll repeat: "specially in the context of a society") is to correlate protection of freedoms to "allow everything". It's just not how societies work, they're all based on the premises of restrictions.
Comment Re:BSD license was always more permissive, so grea (Score 1) 808
You don't maximize freedom by destroying it. The BSD license destroys no freedoms. The GPL does. It's truly that simple.
I don't care. Society destroys the freedom too kill each other and I like that. That's my point.
Blind, demagogic pursue of "true freedom" is pure bullshit, SPECIALLY in the context of a society.
Comment Re:BSD license was always more permissive, so grea (Score 1) 808
So in the end it's THIS argument who is overly idealistic, and not the GPL. Surprise surprise!
The GPL was never about free as in "*the* real, total freedom". Total absolute freedom is something humans can't even define properly, there's always some set of rules anywhere allowing people to build and maintain a society. You have to be pushing your hands firmly over your eyes to ignore that.
GPL protects *specific* freedoms, not *all* freedoms. The specific freedoms it protects are:
Freedom 0: The freedom to run the program for any purpose. Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish. Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor. Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits.
Other freedoms, or "total freedom" whatever it may be, were never an aim for the GPL. Now repeat after me again:
GPL is not about "freedom in the general, ideal sense", nor it's about "totally free code". GPL its about the "four software freedoms stated by the FSF".
Submission + - The Condescending UI 1
theodp writes: Paul Miller has some advice for user interface designers: Don't be condescending. 'The Ribbon in Microsoft Office products,' complains Miller, 'is constantly talking down to me, assuming I don't know how to use a menu, a key command, or an honest-to-goodness toolbar.' Miller's got some harsh words for Apple, too: 'And of course, there is the transgression of the century: Apple's downward spiral into overt 1:1 metaphors. The physical bookshelf, the leather desk calendar (complete with a torn page), the false-paginated address book...these new tricks are horrible and offensive [and likened to Microsoft Bob]. They're not only condescending and overwrought, they're actually counter-functional.' So, how does Miller cope while waiting for his UI knight in shining armor? 'I recently switched my Windows 7 install over to the Classic Theme', Miller explains, 'which is basically Windows 95 incarnate, just with all the under-the-hood improvements I've come to rely on. I really like it. It feels right, and if it isn't beautiful, at least it's honest. I wish there was a similar OS 9 mode for OS X.'
Comment Re:Don't bitch. (Score 2) 353
No Christian needs a 10TB RAID0+1 array - Jesus would use RAID6 (with a battery backed caching RAID controller)
Nope, he actually would use RAID5, and thrash the array because a) one disk totally failing on him and b) another one failing reads three times during recovery. But don't worry, somehow a three-day ddrescue would finally bring back all data (to be saved in "the cloud", of course).
Comment Re:Don't bitch. (Score 5, Funny) 353
Back to complaining then, boys! We still got until someone comes with "the definition"!
Comment Re:Your assessment is quite incorrect, actually (Score 1) 218
So now people travels over IP??? Wow, didn't know teleportation was already so advanced....
Comment Re:what will happen: (Score 1) 1105
s/homo sapiens/americans/g ...FTFY, it's just the tone of your post made me think about your nationality
"We slash and burn"
So true.
Comment Re:Sorry, but it's not worth the time (Score 1) 487
So unless you code, where do you get your computer fun then? The feeling of boredom that avalanched over me as I read your post nearly kills my willing to live :(
Comment Re:How old are you??? (Score 1) 798
Geeks claim to be all about change and innovation but in all honesty in many ways they're as set in their ways as anyone else.
No we don't. I use what's USEFUL, what's FLEXIBLE, what's EFFICIENT. Unity is neither of those. Had it been better than what I'm using I'd just went and used it. It's not about "being set in your way", no it's not something that childish. I have an old proverb for you to mark in your head with fire: "IF IT AIN'T BROKEN, DON'T FIX IT".
According to Geeks the window manager was perfected by Microsoft in Windows 95 and everything else has been an abomination.
They don't care what the statistics or the user testing show... they know they're right. After all it's been that way since 1994.
"Statistics and user testing" my ass. What are you some kind of marketer? Now we should be making choices because some retard did "studies" that concluded his new fly UI is "the way of the future". Oh, and I don't know where you have been since '94, but my desktop doesn't look at all like it was back then. So please feel free to cut the crap.
The reason we geeks never evolve is because we aren't willing to buy-in to the notion that there's a better way.
Speak for you. I do evolve, if you don't, shame on you. If you are willing to buy the notion that there's a better way, when that way is failing to you in your face, shame twice on you.
You have to adapt to the new ways. If you try to do things the old way then it often is clunky and slow.
We believe that since we've used the system for 20+ years we know the best way to do something we've done forever. But sometimes the old way kind of works but in all honesty they've changed the entire philosophy of how to do something.
I think you are mistaking how SHEEPS think with how GEEKS think. We don't "adapt" to anything because it is "the new way", that's what sheeps do. Show me something superior and I'm all for change, like I have always been. Again, speak for yourself not for me.
