ColdAsIce

"Why do we need textbooks that costs more than 80 dollars, even in the digital version. And worse, Why do we need a new edition every couple years?"

Because writing good books takes time, a lot of time. Just like writing good software. Do you want to be payed for your software? Your software as a service? Developing takes time, somebody has to pay.

More freedom software projects should be have a foundation behind them, like GNU or Linux Foundation.

" Internet is tightly controlled (which it cannot be.)"

Oh, it can be controlled alright. SOPA, PIPA today, tomorrow FIPA, DIPA and FuckInternetPA. One of them will pass, then more and more.

And then you're sitting on cable tv. Clicked that link? Invoice has been mailed to you. Clicked that link? House search. Clicked that link? Prison cell prepared. Thank you and good bye.

Oh, you will watch what you do online, you will not click on links without knowing before hand what is behind it. Good luck with that. You will not read just about anything, you will not write whatever you want, certainly not where ever. You will censor yourself before they come to censor you. They will produce and you will consume.

"On the other hand, it allows quicker and easier communication than ever before, and contributed to the Arab Spring to the point where the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt are known as "the Facebook revolutions""

From an interview by an 17 year old Tunisian protester when asked how did social media influence the protesters actions:

"Only after we organized and burned down a third of the police stations in less than a day, foreign media asked us about these social media networks. By then it was already to late to use them, they where shut down. We kept burning the remaining police stations."

Awesome.

I just cant describe how awesome Moglen is.

A "journalist" wants a story, a complete article, so she doesnt have to think - get this she says " I was hoping you might be ableto help me think about this particular" - she wants him to think for her! She could as well have told him to please write the article for her in full, but she will take the credit and money. Then he still serves her an idea and a very fruitful thesis which she could write several articles about if she would pull her finger out of her ass for once.

What did you just say!?

The insight is, offering something for free isn't worth it. And why? Because free users cost more money than paying users when considering the headaches and work they cause.

Fuckify this ify trend to emulate or ride the spotify (anti)fame.

Is it just me or does anyone else also just back away whenever there is a project which turns nouns into verbs with ify? Spotify is a sockpuppet of

Not much new on the distributed side of things since 2003, perhaps except for bitcoin then.

Anyone know how it went with that ant-based file sharing network, mute or something?

What is the deal with these new cloud/Saa services? Convenience over installing your own server and managing your own data? Outsource it to parse.com?

How can you be certain your data wont be compromised, read or misused by parse.com or whoever is behind it?

For serious apps, I wouldnt let a third-party peek at anything I store, when and how. This is more like a toy.

Why would a hardware vendor care about APIs or monopolistic behaviour?

Why would a hardware vendor make a deal which said vendor can only use this software on the hardware they make but not other?

He could have improved esd or jack. But no.

" or playing audio on a remote computer over the internet".

I thought thats the point of pulseaudio and really wanted to try it.

How can I say... it FAILS at even that! I got it working with ssh and mpd faster than... oh dont make remember.

"Microsoft effectively shut down the alternative market by making Windows-hardware coupling mandatory for large hardware vendors."

How did they do that, how?!

That is exactly why GNU/Linux on the desktop isnt used by more people.

Linux user since 1999, redhat 6.2 days I think, kernel 2.2. Messed with getting audio to work on an old ISA card, setting some ports in some config files, recompiling the kernel. I got it working, no big deal, even from several sources at the same time, with no artsD or esd, but I did try those to just for fun.

Invested same amount of time and effort, still have only horrible memories of pulseaudio. I shiver anytime I see puslea. Argh.arhgh.why,.asdhj as.

And how can you disrupt the passivity?

Wow this is great.

Finally I understand what the whoile point of Backbone.js and client-side mvc frameworks is! Thanks!

To be fair, slave masters where required to feed and put a roof over their slaves. Modern slave masters don't even do that.

Child comes with the parent and sits or sleeps in his small chair in the parents office. When the child wakes up or wants something, the parent gives it to him like any other person that comes into the office and wants something. Usually the baby is happy if he can get a toy or push the chair around a bit. The baby also likes to have his father in clear sight when in his chair with toys.

For the father it means he gives attention to the child from time to time, but he can still get his job done.

Once he was on phone with a key account manager on the other side, the baby started crying for attention or something, the key account manager heard and asked if he needs a minute or two... he took the baby in his arm and continued the conversation while the baby tryed to smack him, thats how it looked like. Very funny and uplifted the whole conversation.

I imagine for bigger children we could dedicate one office full with toys to them. It would be like daycare center on-site.

Would you explain whats wrong with that UI?

Could you with your skills fit more information and ability to change it that fast in that amount of space? I doubt it.

Does that mean that our internet has been taken over by sock puppets?

When we no longer can trust that the other guy is indeed a guy/girl just like us, but now is an algorithm, carefully crafted for a specific purpose.

Communication suffers, the internet may no longer be a meeting ground.

Who says you cant bring your child to work?

False dichtomy "careerist" "or" "family". Modern family can evolve to just as other relationships. It is very frightening for a child to be left at a day-care center, it would be much better if the parents could bring their children to work and have an "office" only for kids. Hire a baby-sitter and you are all set. Work and family.

Don't tell me this and that as reasons why it cant work. It works for me and my coworkers just fine.

Democracy is a nice idea, cast your vote people.

Who counts the votes? That is where the power is. -- Stalin.

Where is AdBlockPlus2? The fork?

Whats the problem with having babies? Its not impossible to continue working and taking care of babies, after the first year or so. During that year your husband can take the work or someone you hire. Big deal.

This argument what woman want is kind of sexist, since nobody talked what men want before. Do whatever the fuck you want and stfu, gay, lesbian or baby-creator.

Scala is a pile of shit, its worse than C++.

It allows too much and has a too complicated syntax. Scala is what C++ was for C with a bit of Perl mixed in.

s/in the bank/under your bed/g.

The internet hasnt changed much since the 1970s, IPv4 and TCP/UDP are still the same standard. Only some physical layers have seen innovation.

So, you have something in your car to hide? Is that why you switch now. Pot-smoker? Tell us where the pot is bill!

Because there is really no need for the widgets dojo provides. In every project where a widget kind of thing was required - the requirement also included it to be developed in house, exactly suited to our needs. If we would have chosen dojo widgets we would have had to alter them heavily to do what we want, the way we want it, the way it fits with our codebase. We did that once though, and learned not do try that again.

How is using dojo widgets not "cut and paste"? Thats exactly what cut and paste is, all the jQuery stuff we develop is our own, not cut and pasted. If we really wanted to use dojo widgets, some in the team would have to dig deep into dijit, which makes the whole thing useless since they might as well develop their own "widgets" using jquery in less time, and less maintenence, and less dependency on yet another abstraction/library.