But the problem is, until Joe Blow can order some no-name hardware off of BobsDiscoutPCParts.com and have it come with drivers for linux, application programers are going to be leery of making programs for linux. Why should they spend their time making software for a OS that hardware vendors don't seem interested in supporting?
That's exactly my point. Write to those companies and tell them that you want Linux support. Do it now, _before_ you need the hardware. That way, when you and Joe Blow go to the computer store, there will be enough boxes with penguins on them to choose from.
I hope that nothing changes. That way, people will continue to pour over to Ubuntu. More people using Ubuntu will mean more apps written for Linux. Everybody (for values of everybody outside Redmond) wins.
>Really this page is just some renderings of some concept computers that are pretty far out of practical production reach. Some >interesting ideas, but mostly a whole lot of yeah right.
Then why is it on/.?? Slow Monday morning?? Whatever happened to the "stuff that MATTERS" part of the slogan??
This probably mattered to someone A MONTH AGO when it was posted. Look at the date on the blog.
In short, what you mean to say is that the good have no need for laws to tell them how to behave, and that the bad will find ways around the laws? Those are Plato's words if I'm not mistaken, and eerily true today as they must have been millenia ago.
The THIEVES are using the law to steal from those who's values the law was not designed to protect.
I had a Discrete Mathematics professor who did the same thing.
From TFA: "It is troubling that there is a culture of infringement out there,"
It is more troubling that there is a culture of printing on dead trees with the explicit intent of making them obsolete before the ink dries to sell more of them.
Actually, at home I do have broadband. But I like taking cheap shots at Adobe. So far they've saved me hundreds of dollars by forcing me into the Gimp because Photoshop isn't ported to Linux yet.
You hear me, Adobe! Do not port Photoshop to Linux! I need to keep my money in the bank!
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IMO, Vista is Microsoft's version of New Coke or the Arch Deluxe (if any of you are old enough to remember them).
Remember them?!? I was serving them at the time...
The "piece" raises more questions than the answers it provides.
That's why it is called science.
Please don't cloud /. with facts.
Maybe they should rename it MS-ISO.
I$O
I've played videos in Linux that were impossible to play in Linux.
You should try Linux next time.
But the problem is, until Joe Blow can order some no-name hardware off of BobsDiscoutPCParts.com and have it come with drivers for linux, application programers are going to be leery of making programs for linux. Why should they spend their time making software for a OS that hardware vendors don't seem interested in supporting?
That's exactly my point. Write to those companies and tell them that you want Linux support. Do it now, _before_ you need the hardware. That way, when you and Joe Blow go to the computer store, there will be enough boxes with penguins on them to choose from.
...they will simply refer to her as Yoda.
Something like Dev 2.0..., or better maybe an acronym, like PEAT
People Eating Another Toolkit?
RMS is dead?!
I'm still looking for the Nancy Reiser reference.
If someone is good at something, ferchrissake KEEP THEM THERE!
I see that finishing a project appears to be a foreign concept to you.
-jcr
He's a maintenance coder, apparently. And likes it.
I rather have more driver hardware support from vendors in Linux first. Apps will follow soon after.
I rather have more driver hardware support from vendors in Linux first. Apps will follow soon after.
Do you write to them and tell them that? Here are some addresses, write to one or two:
Creative (Webcams) http://asia.creative.com/contactus/presales/
Logitech (Webcams) http://logitech-en-amr.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/logitech_en_amr.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php
Lexmark (Printers) http://www.lexmark.com/lexmark/sequentialem/home/0,6959,204816596_689444666_0_en,00.html
Nokia (PIM sync software with OpenSync) http://www.nokia.com/A4126575
Epson (Printers) http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/AboutContactUs.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes
Gigabyte (New motherboards should ship with Linux drivers) http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Company/ContactUs.aspx?CompanyWebPageID=6
Linksys (Networking equipment) http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Content_C1&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1114037291276&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper
SIS http://www.sis.com/support/support_tech.htm
ASUS http://usa.asus.com/aboutasus.aspx?show=3
Ah, so _this_ is MS after Gates?!?
I hope that nothing changes. That way, people will continue to pour over to Ubuntu. More people using Ubuntu will mean more apps written for Linux. Everybody (for values of everybody outside Redmond) wins.
>Really this page is just some renderings of some concept computers that are pretty far out of practical production reach. Some >interesting ideas, but mostly a whole lot of yeah right.
Then why is it on /.?? Slow Monday morning?? Whatever happened to the "stuff that MATTERS" part of the slogan??
This probably mattered to someone A MONTH AGO when it was posted. Look at the date on the blog.
Here on Slashdot, you shouldn't expect anybody to even notice your screen name, let alone infer your gender from it.
A) /.ers know what gender is?
B) What is a screen name, anyway?!? I use sigs for identifying people.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
That you, Gene?
In short, what you mean to say is that the good have no need for laws to tell them how to behave, and that the bad will find ways around the laws? Those are Plato's words if I'm not mistaken, and eerily true today as they must have been millenia ago.
The THIEVES are using the law to steal from those who's values the law was not designed to protect.
I had a Discrete Mathematics professor who did the same thing.
From TFA:
"It is troubling that there is a culture of infringement out there,"
It is more troubling that there is a culture of printing on dead trees with the explicit intent of making them obsolete before the ink dries to sell more of them.
Actually, at home I do have broadband. But I like taking cheap shots at Adobe. So far they've saved me hundreds of dollars by forcing me into the Gimp because Photoshop isn't ported to Linux yet.
You hear me, Adobe! Do not port Photoshop to Linux! I need to keep my money in the bank!
That's in fact what this is doing. The silicone balls are intended to...
I have a strange feeling that we will soon be getting spam for silicon balls...
Then why are they wasting all of this time and energy making a physical "standard"? This reeks of agency PR.
Think of what CSS would be without a reference implementation. Or OOXML. Or, oh, wait,...
Doesn't gravity's effect imply that a perfectly round object could only exists in "gravity-free" (outer) space?
Not if it is sufficiently rigid. GRavity is not that strong compared to, say, the weak nuclear force.
What is teet?
What you walk on when your feef hurt.
...Flash always crawls. That's life on dialup.
a wind-up gramaphone
I read that as wind-up grandma. Something that I briefly imagined grandpa enjoying. Then I felt sick.