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At the risk of getting repetitive: I think rms was speaking strictly from a utilitarian perspective-- that is, Jobs' absence is overall a good thing for the FOSS movement (even though that might not actually be true, unless Cook is more committed to FOSS than Jobs). I can see how some find his statement tactless, but I'm not offended by it because Jobs was not an important person in my life. That doesn't mean that his life had no value, but his life wasn't more valuable to me than the life of any of the thousands of people who die every day from preventable causes. I honestly don't understand why so many people claim to be sad because Jobs is gone. Why did they feel so connected to a CEO? Steve Jobs was not your uncle. You have no rational reason to be upset over his death, and especially over what a coot like rms says about him. If you're upset enough to "fork the FSF" you're probably suffering from some illusory feeling of connectedness towards Jobs. I don't agree with a lot of what the FSF says, but one single comment made by one single guy is not going to make me turn my back on the whole organization. I will no longer be reading Larry's blog if he thinks this kind of flighty and ostentatious display of disapproval is warranted.
I still disagree. 'Mail files' could be anything. Local mail clients on those laptops they carry on the ISS. It sounds like they have a local LAN which is not any type of control system. Most likely the ISS is run by some RTOS. Its typical in aircraft and ships and power plants to have a unsecure network for things like workstations and completely separate and often incompatible network for control systems. All the mail servers could crash and every laptop infected, but the ISS control systems would be fine.

Yes, we all know they use Windows on their workstations and it was assumed they had a file/mail server too. Why wouldn't they?

You can use differing definitions for "what the ISS runs" but a mail server is not a control server and its disingenuous to keep insisting it is. Its purposeful misdirection like this that leads Joe Sixpack into thinking the spaceships get viruses a la Independence Day and hacker kiddies can whistle a virus that'll send the ISS crashing into the Earth.
The video on the link to Colbert's site from the TechCrunch article worked just fine on my iPad.
While I don't always agree with RMS, I think he truly believes everything he says.

I don't think the same of Fred Phelps. I long ago reached the conclusion that he tries to say the most inflammatory thing possible wether he really believes it or not. I have no idea why, but I believe he has some other agenda than just the condemnation of homosexuality.

I've even almost seriously entertained the idea that he is a closet extreme atheist out to discredit theists.
1. Startup Weekend (They might have one in your city.)
2. Internet Marketing Summit
3. Founders Institute
4. Toastmasters/Rotary or other business clubs in your city
5. Tech Conferences
6. Online Forums/discussion boards (marketing/biz/tech ones)

Since I'm on my computer all day and at home a lot, I have to go to events to meet people which I'm getting better at.
The hospital my dad works at, and all other hospitals in this area of the UK, all the machines have the USB ports disabled. All laptops issued by the local Health Authority have the USB ports/bus disabled. They had issues with worms, twice back in the early 00s, and after that all removable storage was banned.

If it's good enough for the NHS, it's good enough for uncle sam.
Odd. No attribution to that really cool logo.
Another example showing why the valuation formula, "add $1M in value per hacker, subtract 500k per MBA," holds.
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Brilliant and fun. All those years of hand kerning type pays off, finally.
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If you want an advocacy organization with a better ear for public sensibilities and business, that's what the Open Source Initiative was designed for, wasn't it? Why not join them instead of starting yet another organization?
There have been tough barriers to entry set up by pricing for a long time in "education." If some providers have exclusive subsidies from taxpayers, it is difficult for other providers to compete. "In modern times [as contrasted with ancient times] the diligence of public teachers is more or less corrupted by the circumstances which render them more or less independent of their success and reputation in their particular professions. Their salaries, too, put the private teacher, who would pretend to come into competition with them, in the same state with a merchant who attempts to trade without a bounty in competition with those who trade with a considerable one. . . . The privileges of graduation, besides, are in many countries . . . obtained only by attending the lectures of the public teachers. . . . The endowment of schools and colleges have, in this manner, not only corrupted the diligence of public teachers, but have rendered it almost impossible to have any good private ones." -- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, Book V, Part 3, Article II (1776)
Yes, but RMS is simply wrong, here. Jobs has put great software into more hands than RMS ever did. Jobs might well have (indirectly) had an even more positive influence on FOSS by spreading BSD.

(I'm not saying that there isn't a ton of FOSS out there in lots of hands -- but RMS isn't responsible for its being there in the same way Jobs is responsible. Jobs is responsible for the iPhone. RMS isn't responsible for Android.)
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The ultimate revolution is to provide an operating system and applications simple enough that anyone could use them. Programming on the other hand should be easy and fun- simple doesn't have to play into it; something can be complex and still fun, and fun is what keeps people coming back.
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Naww, he's just a zealot. The history of religion is the history of zealotry, as well as oppression and violence. Funny how you think he must be an atheist, when he fits the religious zealot profile to a 't.' Phelps fits the character of so many religious leaders who have millions of followers and millions of dollars. Phelps' big issue is that he's poor at monetizing his crazy, unlike other successful bigots like Falwell and Graham.

I'm sick of the conspiracy theories that he must be some kind of secret agent. Bigotry and hatred is typical in religion, especially for homosexuals. Theists need to call him an atheist or a con man to make them feel better about being theists and following the philosophy of 1st century madmen.
Go ahead... fork it. Then what happens?

Will you travel the world tirelessly promoting free software, speaking at universities and other events for very little money?

Will you maintain a job board, mailing list, hardware database, software directory, year after year?

Will you find lawyers to donate hundreds of hours to write and revise licenses?

Will you hire lobbyists to fight software patents?

Will you tirelessly fight the RIAA, day after day?

When you've done all these things, sign me up.
I don't get it, personally. Yes, Stallman's a loon - although as an aside I think that every good movement needs its loons. Who's going to say "you know what? I believe in Free Software so much that I will use nothing else, and publicly and harshly declare that anyone doing otherwise is a moron and a traitor to the future of humanity"? Anyone who is willing to sacrifice the usefulness of the last 30 years of proprietary tech to make a point has to be a bit barmy. But who else will make that point? All progress depends on unreasonable men.

And I agree that it would be helpful to have a moderate voice in Free Software. I use a Mac - sorry, it's really nice to use and I code a lot. I like my Kindle - sorry, it's better than the others and I read a lot. I live and work with proprietary software, but I believe in Free Software too. WebKit is popular because of Apple and Google. OS X is the most popular BSD, and the most popular consumer Unix. Non-free and free can and have worked together to mutual benefit. Is there anyone out there who can help me walk that line? If Larry is proposing to make that organisation, I would welcome it with open arms.

But what of this Jobs nonsense? Are we so timid and flammable that we can't handle a complex opinion that we don't agree with? Can you not accept that Jobs was a great leader who didn't deserve to die, but that he left a scary, proprietary footprint all over the mobile and tablet space? "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone." is an opinion I don't agree with, but I don't think it's ludicrous, tactless and heartless.

Not everyone has to respect the things I respect, and feelings don't suddenly trump debate because of death. Jobs is one of the hacker community's sacred cows, and we wouldn't accept this level of sanctification on any other topic. I'm sure when Bill Gates or the Dalai Lama dies, there will be posts saying "let's not forget that Windows Vista was awful and religion is the other opiate of Tibet" Will they cause the same outcry?
most of "I also must deliver you the news that Steve is dead, because you obviously didn't hear it in ALL THE NEWS OF THE WORLD" posts are also poorly wrought or could be tldr'd to 'I like my ipod', and those which aren't (mainstream blogs) look like a template written a long time ago. most of them are just linkbaits and karmawhoring.

> he could still have done so respectfully

and the rest of bloggers respectfully chace self-promotion and ad revenue by reposting stuff that has already been said. well, RMS gave them the occasion to continue this nonsense, but at least his view is original.
I wouldn't saay never.

FF vs IE for example.

Of course I would 100% agree if you are talking about windows/OS X vs linux in general.
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Yes, more RAM improves performance, but using less RAM with your program also improves performance independantly of RAM volume. As an extreme example, a program that fits in L2 will flay the (excuse my french) living sh*t out of a 2GB program loaded in RAM.
It was posted on his personal "politics" mini-blog, which consists of basically nothing but 2-3-line annoyed and not very nuanced statements on various topics. People who read it expect what they get there, and most people don't read it. Here's an example the quality of political cartoons you can also expect...: http://stallman.org/images/cartoon-6.jpg

As can be seen from the Update to that linked article, I think a big part of the problem is that these Web 2.0 "journalists" don't read, so in a game of telephone it's been turned into "FSF head Richard Stallman issues press release saying Jobs sux". If we're going to do that, you could manufacture about 300 scandals from his blog; "FSF head Richard Stallman equates U.S. President to Saddam Hussein!", etc.

Maybe it's still contemptible as it stands, but I think people are either missing or deliberately ignoring the context when evaluating it. I take his "politics" ticker as closer to an IRC chat than a place for carefully thought out statements (that's what his Essays are for). I like that in geek culture we don't have this weird demand for people to be 24/7 ensconced in a professional PR-oriented persona, like a CEO or politician, but allow people like RMS, ESR, and Theo de Raadt to have crazy personal opinions. (Heck, Jobs had some pretty offensive and harmful opinions about science and alternative medicine, and we allowed that.)

Honestly I'm more offended by this level of shameless profiteering with Steve-Jobs-death linkbait. Huffington Post, for example, shat out 188 separate Steve-Jobs-death posts within 24 hours: http://exploreto.tumblr.com/post/11114571981/huffingtonpost-...
> My understanding is that the definition of "Ivy league
> college" actually refers to what colleges play sports
> against what other colleges.

According to Wikipedia:

The use of the phrase is no longer limited to athletics,
and now represents an educational philosophy inherent to
the nation's oldest schools.

> I don't know anyone who doesn't work a service job
> who is really into sports.

There are downsides to the polar opposite though. Personally, I think the balance is to love playing sports (or possibly going to friends' sporting events to cheer them on), rather than to just love watching them.

> But this goes back to my own prejudice against
> liberal arts majors.

I think you're missing the distinction between someone that pursues are major because they want to coast through university vs someone that pursues a major because they have a passion of the subject.
As a developer, this seems like something that should be handled automatically by a typeface.
+1 (I especially agree with last part where you question forking FSF)
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Agreed. My girlfriend, who totally eschews anything social media related, is completely wrapped up in Pinterest. If I could buy stock I would.
Some think he's just a novel con-artist:

1. http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/gro...

2. http://kanewj.com/wbc/

Looks like it equates to fairly decent take-home pay given that he probably works far less than the 2080 full time hours a year for it.

And remember, it's a church, so it's all tax free.
I hate to say it but that post is impossible. RMS couldnt say it. Most kids on slashdot couldn't either. For better or worse computing atracts the worst asocial and negative people around. This is why every company goes apeshit when hiring new IT. Its difficult to tell in an interview if you're dealing with some kind of aspie misanthrope. I've worked with guys like this, and they are like RMS. Dogmatic zealots with zero people or persuasion skill. If Linus went with BSD instead of the GPL, RMS would have been long forgotten by now. His entire career was impressing a Finnish teenager to use his license.
> If they thought 4-inches was better, overall, as the one true size for the iPhone display, then the original iPhone would have had a 4-inch display.

This type of reverse justification irritates me. Apple's decisions have largely been successful, but just because something has worked for Apple doesn't mean that it is the global optimum or The Right Way.
All you really need to do is consider what Steve Jobs would have said about RMS if he were still here when RMS is no longer. At worst, he'd say nothing, at best, he'd say something that would have touched you and made you think deeply about what the two men had in common despite their deep differences.
> Aside from RMS's crusade against software patents, how is the FSF still relevant?

"Well, we just beat the tuberculosis into remission, so now all we have to deal with is this metastasising cancer."

Frankly, software patents have the potential to be a lot scarier than copyright ever could be. Anyone working to end them is doing good work.
Stallman is not some random blogger.
I, on the other hand, use it some what regularly, which is why I am not happy about this change.
Yes, that is the thing about SRAM. It is not 10x more expensive than DRAM. Oh no. No, no, no, no, no. If it were to ever fall to only 10x more, it would be like the 2nd coming of Memory.

On modern CPU's, HALF- or MORE of the silicon is used to afford 4-16MB L3 caches. A CPU die is not much smaller than a DRAM chip, and a 1GB chip of DRAM is less than $10 these days judging by the prices of 16GB, 16-chip sticks of DRAM.
I don't think you're stupid.
That's the problem, you're the problem if you refuse to accept that the best solution is going to be the freedom for people to sell commercial closed software as well as use open software. The idea that this is a war is exactly why RMS is wrong. The idea that we must win it and we must make everyone use the new hot open license is wrong.

The idea should be to encourage people to use open licenses, and to promote the good of open licenses, not declare war on everything and become some bitter asshole neckbeard when you see guys like Jobs doing well with a slightly different approach.

The FSF doesn't do much. They're little more than negative campaigners "Windows 7 Sins" etc. I'm not sure what its purpose or real world effect is other than to scare middle management from FOSS as much as possible. Stick vs Carrot. FSF is all stick and people have noticed.
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No. OSI was Eric's attempt to hijack the work of RMS. Eric is no better than, and in many ways, much worse than, RMS.
Mike Daisey in the NY Times was far, far more eloquent and actually in some ways, even more bitingly critical of Jobs than Stallman:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/06/opinion/jobs-looked-to-the...

But he was also basically respectful.
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Most zealots have a strong conviction, and will do whatever is necessary to further their cause. Sometimes what they deem necessary is shocking to the rest of us.

However, Phelps "ministry" seems to exist, simply to shock. He's like the one dimensional villain who is evil for the sake of being evil.

Since his public persona seems like a fictional character, I assume he is one.
Was expecting to see recreation of the fax machine scene from Office Space with a macbook.
Here are some ideas to think about.

1. Depends on what the problems are and if they are fixable. If there are solutions, if others have done it before, or if you know you can persevere and win in the end than obviously stick to it.

2. How passionate are you about the idea/product/industry? If you know deeply inside your heart that's what you want to do then you either persevere or pivot by changing something small or trying a different angle. If it's a throwaway idea and you're in it for the money and quick bucks then it doesn't matter if you do another idea or project...then fail fast.

3. How much time/money have you already invested into it? Can you salvage it or is there something valuable you can save out of it? If you spent a few hours on a landing page and it doesn't convert, toss that. Or if the project was started in a weekend and you don't really have much to lose if you start another project because you don't think it'll work after a sample testing.

4. But if you spent a year or two years on your company and all your life's savings on it, then ask yourself why you did that and if those reasons are still valid today.
There have been some really, really interesting cases where California's non-compete laws collide with other states:

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Now that I believe.
Steve Jobs is a brilliant man, but please he won't be talked about a thousand years from now.
The only reason to move from Java to C#, say, is if C# offers a library or tool Java doesn't, which is something external to the language. This is less true for Perl-to-Python moves, but Perl and Python aren't that different, either. You can bring the same conceptual toolkit to all of those mundane languages and get most of the same things done in the same amount of time.

Moving from any of those languages to Haskell or Erlang is going to turn your brain inside-out for a while and when the learning process is done you'll likely approach every other language a bit differently. That is a good reason to learn those languages.
>He's like the one dimensional villain who is evil for the sake of being evil.

That's how I see the Pope or your typical small town preacher, yet I believe their sincerity. I'm not sure why you get to sit there and decide who is sincere and insincere without any proof. They are Christians, they follow scripture, they have opinions and audience. They're not con men, they are simply misguided and in IMHO evil because its impossible to have a non-evil religion. At the end of the day, believing woo that justifies your biases is evil.

Phelps is just a Christian. Accept it. Move on.
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Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently.

They're not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status-quo.

You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them.

About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward.

And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world - are the ones who do!
Thanks for noticing! I put a pretty large effort on making it completely usable without touching the mouse. Safari (but not Chrome) has some gotchas that make it a real pain to work around.
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I thought that was only common among smartphones.
The problem with scaling the entire layout is that you end up with a lot of horizontal scrolling, in a lot of cases, which is more annoying than a semi-broken layout.

Of course, that all depends on how much you need to zoom in. For me, that's about 6x.
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Good kerning can be done with tight and loose letter grouping. I much prefer the loose tracking here as it give much greater precision to the final submission.
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Guy went on to say that if you have jumped curves, then "Don't worry, be crappy" - it's ok to be a bit crappy in this case.

The example he gave was the Apple laser printer as a revolution over the daisy printer. It was expensive, had a slow network interface and only printed 8x11. But that was ok because it had jumped a curve over the previous products, hence it was shipped.

One other example I can think of is the original iPhone - it wasn't perfect, but 3 years ahead of the competition when it shipped.
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Technically, during boot, it calls the BIOS for reading blocks, measuring memory and changing to VGA mode. The PCIRep() command will using the PCIBIOS, 32-bit code for getting PCI info. PCIRep is optional.

Use MemRep() if you are curious about memory. Yes, memory under 1Meg is not touched except the 200K or so for OSMain.