Projects

Blogs from friends

bfish.xaedalus.net
a blog, of sorts
  • Best PS3 game ever
    Hello all, Not sure if any of u have a ps3, but if you do, u must get this game: Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket Powered Battle Cars , or SARPBC for short. It’s a football type game in an arena using cars which are very easy to drive/boost/fly with rocket power! ...
  • A script for measuring the coupling in your C++ design
    Werd homez. Here is a Perl script that will extract dependency information from all the C++ source and header files it finds within a specified directory structure, and spit out a bunch of interesting stuffs it can find out about them. It would be fairly trivial to convert to parsing Java...
  • When Drug Smuggling Goes Bad
    Spotted this on BBC News today: Drug smugglers appear to have made a major slip-up, after huge quantities of cocaine were delivered to supermarkets in Spain hidden in boxes of bananas. … Reports suggest an error by drug smugglers had led to their failing to retrieve almost 80kg (175lb) of cocaine from the...

The Escapist

The Escapist Forums : Threads
  • How many games do you have installed?

    Probably around 10 games.

    I need to start cleaning up though, I'm running out of space. X_x

  • Rock Band Network Store Review (drummer perspective)

    Jacob.pederson:
    [quote="khaimera" post="9.179810.5254827"]
    Yea I had to have good overdrive timing to make it through Battery. I really deeply despise that song in particular, and Metalica in general. Drummers that lean heavily on speed for speed's sake bug me. For me Danny Carey is the ultimate drummer. Lars will always be just a spaz :)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7YeesK-8pg

    Speaking as an expert guitar/bass player than can beat the hard stuff saving lots of overdrive and some luck, and a expert drummer that can beat about half the songs, Battery can go and jump off a cliff. The hard on guitar and bass is much harder to get streaks on than any other disc song (save Visions, which is just an brutal expert chart on hard), and I feel like it's intentionally charted too hard, as if Lars wouldn't let them use the song unless they made it harder than everything else on the disc. I've only 4 starred it on hard once, I think.

  • Internet Icons

    Furburt:

    Jedamethis:

    Damn, what happened? Hate threads? Threatening PMs?

    I got a few nasty PM's, got called 'the worst thing on the Escapist' and I made this ill advised thread about what people thought of high posters because I was really paranoid and it sort of turned into a massive flame war.

    I'm making a big thing about it though.

    You're not supposed to say that last bit :P
    All the exciting things happen when I'm not here >:(

My free software philosophy PDF Print E-mail
Written by Mat   
Friday, 16 January 2009 02:57

Whereas, the free software ideology embodied in the GNU licenses is a Great Thing that shall one day save humankind from all suffering.

Whereas, the statement "software should be free" is one case of the more general but equally true "everything should be free."

Whereas, such a general statement is the basis of socialism, which is similarly a Great Thing that will one day be the salvation of the human race.

Unfortunately, socialism has not yet been established anywhere in the world.

And whereas, socialism cannot properly coexist with capitalism, and I still need money to obtain food and shelter:

Therefore, where the GNU GPL or LGPL would limit my ability to derive income from what is virtually a full-time job, I will use other licenses such as the X11 (modified BSD) license, one of the Creative Commons licenses or my own share-alike license: the Open Non-Commercial License, which is based on one of the licenses for the Intel C Compiler. This is very uncommon however, and anything that is not free software carries a conspicuous notice to that effect.

And yes, I have explored other open source business models. I can always switch to a free software license later if it seems practicable.

Read the Socialist FAQ before arguing with me on politics, if you please.

Socialist comic strip

Last Updated on Saturday, 31 January 2009 14:29