i think by "win" he means break the stalemate. the ai in that game sucked and only stayed competitive by cheating. he should have been able to wipe out the opposing civs after 10 years of playing. especially since the op said he was only playing at prince/king difficulty.
I think he is just the background for articles related to that interview. Although I do agree it is a little weird just how many times his face shows just throughout the site.
No. He thinks they don't do enough to protect the users' freedom, but he still considers them Free Software and acceptable. He has also advocated for them in some cases, particularly for the Ogg Vorbis library.
I got what the problem is. Stallman does not try to protect anybody's freedom. The freedom he fights for is a product of his imagination and has very little to do with actually users and their freedom.
The days when every software users was if not programmer then at least IT guy in some sense are long gone. That model no longer fits the world.
Some say they admire the man who stoics to principles, but I think stubborn refusal to notice that the world has changed is just a sign of stupidity and nothing to brag about.
I never touched a line of Firefox's code, yet I and millions of others benefit immensely from the source being available. Thousands benefit from CyanogenMod despite not having the faintest idea of how it was created.
On a different level, non-tech companies and organizations have hired small software companies to develop solutions based on OSS projects that would otherwise have been prohibitively expensive.
The belief that only IT people benefit from access to the source is completely incorrect; one may disagree with them, but calling RMS' views obsolete is nonsensical.
That is unfortunate, but I don't see its relevance for this discussion, seeing as RMS is not one of those (particularly since he wouldn't use the term OSS in the first place ;)
Yeah, that's what they're pushing everyone towards: "you can sign up for Google+ right now to start prepping Reader-specific circles".
My bigger concern is the disconnect in sharing. Are they turning Reader into a one-way service, in that you share items to G+? It would seem incongruous to share things through Reader, but then have to go into G+ to see what other people shared.
It would be nice to have a panel inside Google Reader which would display only the G+ material shared from Google Reader - although I doubt they will do it that way. Anyhow, they surely will find a way to screw things up :P
This is getting into "architecture astronaut" territory, but Reader could have a "Google+" folder that aggregates "friend feeds" (of G+ status updates and shared articles). Does Google+ already publish RSS feeds for user content?
These changes are both awesome. Particularly the one to submodule update. I have a project setup where not everyone has access to all its submodules. Prior to this, people would have to manually run update for each submodule they were allowed to access. Otherwise it would fail part way through on the ones they didn't have access to. Great news!
Sounds like you have a lot of negative influences in your life. You should cut them out asap if that is how they are going to treat you. You made a decision. It didn't work out. You should be commended for having the bravery to try it.
Seriously though, you are only 20. You have your whole life ahead of you. People are right here to say you need to stop sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. Put that energy into getting a new job. Any job. Just get yourself out of the house. Work your ass off to build up your resume, hack projects on the side, contribute to open source, etc.
Don't commit suicide because that is just stupid and nobody is going to feel sorry for you.
I don't really get the point of this article. Felt like he was just saying that everyone today is a moron. I find this attitude annoying. Get off your high horse. Yeah, there's bad programmers and some people are oblivious. In any profession, there are people that are going to suck at it. There's also people that are simply brilliant and are amazing programmers.
Then to act like the entire software stack is broken is silly to me. Sure there's inefficiencies. In any large complicated system, you can expect there to be room for improvement. And anytime you introduce layers of abstraction, inefficiency is bound to happen. But guess what? Not everybody has time to write code in assembly. The fact of the matter is, the software ecosystem has become so complex that people are forced to specialize in more and more specific subsets of it.
And all this jazz about "Oh boo hoo.. software hasn't solved world hunger and doesn't wipe my ass for me when I use the bathroom". Geez man. Calm down. These problems your talking about like figuring out AI are incredibly hard. Its going to take a long, long time for them to be tackled fully. Software and computers have only been around for the blink of an eye in human existence.
Oh god. This is horrifying. Less is more facebook.. less is more. I agree with the people complaining about facebooks need to curate things for you. Thats what the "hide posts from this person" should be used for. Just give me one stream and let me decide what filters to put on it.
I definetely recommend viper mode. You'll have to install vimpulse also to make it really functional, but once you do that you should feel right at home. Just remember that ctrl-z toggles/untoggles it! So if you ever get into a non viper mode state, control+z should bring you back.
Personally I use it for all the modal editing goodness but I also rely on some emacs features as well such as ctrl-x ctrl-f for opening files, etc.
This is the route I went while using Clojure. I also ended up learning more and more about how to customize emacs with elisp.
Vimpulse and viper got me close enough to vim where I could get things done, and learning more and more elisp, as I went along, allowed me to add or change anything that didn't feel right.
