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Naming my cat "dog" does not make it a dog. Nor does naming anarcho-socialism "anarchism" make it such.

My brain needs sleep because of AMD/ATI drivers. It's been a decade and they still suck in linux.

Thanks for making me look up [1] that term.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome

If you settle and close your matter civilly (even if it is a criminal matter), you do not have to disclose. Vince Neil of Motley Crue does not have an obligation to disclose his vehicular manslaughter conviction for this reason. There are other examples, but Vince's is the easiest to google.

It never made it past DR0.14. Patches welcome.

Not knowing the passwords, and keeping them in a locked database you copy/paste from creates plausible deniability if in a situation where one is beaten with a $5 wrench.

For some people, the risk of disclosure by violence is more a worry than the risk of disclosure by the clipboard.

According to the very letter of the law, the queen could become absolute ruler over Canada aswell :). All hail Empress Elizabeth II, terror of all the known world?

You are more correct than you could ever possibly imagine.

There should be a prize for taking things out of context. You'd win it. Here's some more relevant quotes from that citation [1], to show how you twisted it:

For the first time in the fifty-five years of my life I found out what it was like to feel racist, from the inside.

I was able to notice that, when paying attention with the top of my brain, I could not notice any rational reason for me to even dislike these people, let alone feel disgusted and revolted by them. I began to analyze my revulsion as though it were a specimen on a laboratory slide

The most important point is that black people in particular have never made me feel repelled in the way minority X does. I’ve had black girlfriends and might not implausibly have ended up married to one of them,

my hindbrain thought it was surrounded by alien shit zombies. My forebrain, meanwhile, was all like “What is up with you, hindbrain?” Apparently my human-recognition template needed some updating.

The pressure on me eased a bit when I realized that what I was experiencing was a really severe case of Uncanny Valley reaction, and that more exposure to minority X might well stretch my template to the point where they didn’t seem so creepily repulsive any more.

So basically, you took him out of context, and selected choice quotes from your citation in order to make ESR look as bad as possible. You're an excellent propagandist. I'll be adding your nickname to the list of known trolls on HN. thanks.

[1] http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=5001 "Preventing Visceral Racism"

There should be a prize for taking things out of context. You'd win it. Here's some more relevant quotes from that citation, to show how you twisted it:

For the first time in the fifty-five years of my life I found out what it was like to feel racist, from the inside.

I was able to notice that, when paying attention with the top of my brain, I could not notice any rational reason for me to even dislike these people, let alone feel disgusted and revolted by them. I began to analyze my revulsion as though it were a specimen on a laboratory slide

The most important point is that black people in particular have never made me feel repelled in the way minority X does. I’ve had black girlfriends and might not implausibly have ended up married to one of them,

my hindbrain thought it was surrounded by alien shit zombies. My forebrain, meanwhile, was all like “What is up with you, hindbrain?” Apparently my human-recognition template needed some updating.

The pressure on me eased a bit when I realized that what I was experiencing was a really severe case of Uncanny Valley reaction, and that more exposure to minority X might well stretch my template to the point where they didn’t seem so creepily repulsive any more.

So basically, you took him out of context, and selected choice quotes from your citation in order to make ESR look as bad as possible. You're an excellent propagandist. I'll be adding your nickname to the list of known trolls on HN. thanks.

I'm curious as to your opinion of tptacek's deleted comment, and whether that was above or below the positive contribution threshold.

Sure, I'll do your homework for you. Start here: http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Affidavit

All it takes is an unrebutted affidavit to get a Judge to retire, or have disciplinary action taken against him. It's a wonder more people don't hold them accountable.

Fantastic app. Thank you for making this.

Yes. they should. now think real hard about why that might not be happening here.

Zeller's

Seems you're double-posting this one. stay classy, poolpool.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6884756

1) [citation needed]

2) You're not exactly coming out of this looking like a saint, you know.

I declare Eric S. Raymond officially unseated as 'chief archivist of hacker culture'.

So a mac zealot with no FOSS tendencies, or any legit hacker cred, decides he wants to take over a jargon file he barely understands, and wants to update it with pointless additions?

Consider yourself overruled. ESR's still doing fine, thanks.

Also, I must have missed the meeting that nominated you as his replacement. Perhaps you could provide us with the meeting minutes?

1. Linux Mint is Linux. People who run it say "I'm running linux." 2. Linux Mint does not run steam. People who run it say "Steam doesn't work on Linux Mint". 3. This means that the linux market is fragmented.

Hmm. perhaps you'd like some reality:

1) Person who says they run it says "steam doesn't work on linux mint" 2) others come out and confirm that it does actually work on Mint. 3) you argue with person that makes original claim, and ignore that it actually does, in fact work. 4) When pointed out that LM does work with Steam, you reply that you don't follow the argument. 5) you then decide to expand on this false premise that something isn't working with a specific flavor of linux by comparing it to Android fragmentation, even though there isn't a case of fragmentation actually happening.

You still are unapologetic for your ad hominem, and decided to double-down on the fragmentation issue to move the goalposts.

To reiterate: Steam works on all reasonably-current flavors of Debian, Ubuntu, Redhat, Arch, Slackware, and even Gentoo.

Yeah, you've never used KDE before.

Until mp3 fixes its Walkman story I'm going to stick with cassettes.

Adobe's Creative Suite runs great in KVM (with the Spice backend). Runs faster than Virtualbox or VMWare Player, even over remote session.

I suspect you would get great enjoyment out of KXStudio [1]. built-in support for Windows VST plugins (via Carla/Vestige). Wine with the WineASIO setup working means that FL Studio (and similar) works flawlessly under JACK. Also, there is nothing in the windows world that competes with JACK and Claudia.

You might also want to check out the Linux Musicians forum [2]. Most of your itches are probably already scratched by someone.

[1] http://kxstudio.sourceforge.net

[2] http://www.linuxmusicians.com/

Seemingly.

They've only been running all their servers on Linux PC's for upwards of 10 years now.

Kubuntu 13.10 (or the latest Chakra if you don't like *buntu) should work, and solve your HDMI pain.

There have been rather fast Open drivers for the HD3650 for at least two years now. I'm curious as to what distribution you're using that would exhibit these sorts of problems in 2013.

See, this right here is a perfect example of "Moving the Goalposts" [1]. We first redefine "excellent" to mean "without flaw", then state that using non-open drivers, which are freely available, no longer makes linux driver support excellent because it closes a section of the linux community. This also comes dangerously close to being a "No True Scotsman" fallacy as well [2].

What's even more interesting is that in a different post, you said that AMD's open drivers were better than their closed ones, citing power management and less bugs as one of the benefits. Here you are doing a complete 180.

Go to Phoronix.com and show me the benchmarks where Nvidia's windows drivers consistently outperform the Linux ones.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_scotsman

That would be equivalent to, say, buying a desktop from Dell (300~500 USD) and an XBox One (500 USD),

As a reference, the fastest home consoles now(XBO and PS4) are based on an AMD Jaguar core (AMD's version of the Atom), with 8GB of Ram. You can build a (Faster) AMD A10-based machine with the same specs for less than $400 in Canada.

Yes, and if you'd read anywhere else in the thread, You'd find that the Linux Mint issue does not happen because there's a package in the LM16 repositories for steam. Which means that the entire issue of LM not running steam is moot. Which means there is no fragmentation issue in Linux as related to steam.

Which means we're left with your Ad Hominem, which you don't see.

My laptop came with linux preinstalled. Same with my netbook. Neither required much work to use linux.

A standard Kubuntu (or Chakra) install on any Intel/AMD PC made before June will likely work without hiccups or missing hardware. Most distributions include an app to specifically detect/install proprietary drivers (Ubuntu uses Jockey). A browsing of Phoronix.com will provide you with benchmarks showing the NVIDIA/AMD/Intel drivers running neck-and-neck with Windows. But hey, let's not let the truth get in the way of your FUD.