Anti-MS sheep are a subset of anti-MS people in general. There are those who think (RMS, Mark Shuttleworth) and sheep (Ubuntu mailing list subscribers).
The "no one was ever fired for buying IBM" line as applied to Microsoft is dangerous. I was pointing that out. Not that I'm not an anti-MS sheep or anything (typing on a Microsoft keyboard, though under Ubuntu) however a blanket statement that MS is somehow a safe harbor is far from the truth.
Could you clarify this distinction you make between the passive aggression of listening to pantera and active aggression that video games 'are'? Does this mean passively watching violent movies is also passive aggression? And killing a mosquito is active aggression? It sounds more like personal preference to me, clad in nice sounding terms.
Yes, aggression is a very personal thing. Aggression that that is not personal is called violence.
Hard to get excited when I still can't watch it on my mac (PowerPC) just as it was with the Olympics.
Don't get exited, then. Instead, write to Netflix and let them know that you, and the millions of other Ubuntu, PowerPC, Fedora, and other non-Windows || Intel Mac _still_ cannot use their service. Let them know that they need a cross-platform solution, not a pick-and-choose platform solution. Here is their address: http://www.netflix.com/ContactUs
...so that I don't have to be violet physically. Nothing like Pantera after a long day. However, Pantera is _passive_ aggression. Video games are _active_ aggression, and that's why I stopped playing them at about age 12 or so. If a 12 year old could identify that video games were making him (me) aggressive, what is the story here?
So can you please tell me where I can buy Linux versions of Final Cut Studio, Shake 4, Creative Suite CS, Flix Pro, Sound Studio, Toast, and Sony's XDCAM HD transfer apps please?
I cannot believe that you got modded troll for that. It is true, there are not enough commercial apps available for Linux at the moment. What I wouldn't do for Solidworks on my Ubuntu box!
Please, don't be shy and WRITE TO THEM! If we don't write and let them know that Linux is a viable OS with a strong user base, then they will never port their software to Linux.
It might be because silverlight is already compaitble with all their drm wmv files, not to mention to most companies, Apple and Windows are the most important two platforms.
Obviously those are considerations. Too bad these short-terms goals won out against the longer term goal of true platform independence, rather than "currently works on the platforms we currently want to support".
Well, you would probably be interested to learn that for example imeem is written in C# to be able to run it on both Windows and Linux. Silverlight in my, albeit biased, opinion, is much cleaner and neater than flash. Or WM solution for this case, obviously... MS has too much stigma for what it USED TO do, or what it still does but to significantly lesser extent
I don't see how the imeem reference is relevant. What am I missing?
While I won't go into the pros and cons of Flash, in comparison Silverlight currently runs on less platforms, has lower market market share on the platforms that it does run on, and has no superior DRM model. You can add to that your personal feelings about Microsoft and Adobe.
The number wasn't one in four for linux machines being returned. It was that the Acer One model with linux on it was being returned 4x as often as the XP model. Asus claims the EEE return rates for Linux and XP are approximately the same. This is likely just because Acer picked a limp distribution.
Thanks. There's nothing wrong with/. modding when my post containing wrong information gets modded to +3 Informative,right?
Slashdot Mirror
...but what happens if you just find a brown stain...
Please, enough about the Ubuntu wallpaper already!
For including Wayland in Ubuntu:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/15205/
With all the weird things we find on Earth, I wonder what could be in that water?
Don't drink it.
Maybe public relations? At the very least they could tell you who to contact. Update us with what they say.
Anti-MS sheep are a subset of anti-MS people in general. There are those who think (RMS, Mark Shuttleworth) and sheep (Ubuntu mailing list subscribers).
Why don't we do it in the road?
Because if you do it in front of a car you get tired. And if you do it behind the car you get exhausted.
In that case (and I think that you are right) look up the incident were some personal details of Wolfgang SchÃuble were published by CCC.
The "no one was ever fired for buying IBM" line as applied to Microsoft is dangerous. I was pointing that out. Not that I'm not an anti-MS sheep or anything (typing on a Microsoft keyboard, though under Ubuntu) however a blanket statement that MS is somehow a safe harbor is far from the truth.
Great! It is feedback like that that makes projects improve.
Could you clarify this distinction you make between the passive aggression of listening to pantera and active aggression that video games 'are'?
Does this mean passively watching violent movies is also passive aggression? And killing a mosquito is active aggression?
It sounds more like personal preference to me, clad in nice sounding terms.
Yes, aggression is a very personal thing. Aggression that that is not personal is called violence.
WHOOSH! (read GP)
Don't worry, I'm not holding my breath. I'm just not buying Sony until it works. I vote with my pocketbook.
Hard to get excited when I still can't watch it on my mac (PowerPC) just as it was with the Olympics.
Don't get exited, then. Instead, write to Netflix and let them know that you, and the millions of other Ubuntu, PowerPC, Fedora, and other non-Windows || Intel Mac _still_ cannot use their service. Let them know that they need a cross-platform solution, not a pick-and-choose platform solution. Here is their address:
http://www.netflix.com/ContactUs
...so that I don't have to be violet physically. Nothing like Pantera after a long day. However, Pantera is _passive_ aggression. Video games are _active_ aggression, and that's why I stopped playing them at about age 12 or so. If a 12 year old could identify that video games were making him (me) aggressive, what is the story here?
You know, I really think that information needs to be free or that it wants to be.
Dupe. Wake me up when someone renders a coin in emacs, that would have infinite hack value.
Heads: RMS
Tails: RIAA
Wasn't this posted a few days ago? Ensue the copy-pasting of witty comments....
Does it make more sense to call it a dupe or a counterfeit?
It's neither. Look at this beauty of a URL:
http://en.knm.nl/domains/knm/pagesarticle.asp?content=11720000000909_999_11650000000011navid=11650000000014_11720000000067&cookie=init
Duping that is like cloning DNA.
So can you please tell me where I can buy Linux versions of Final Cut Studio, Shake 4, Creative Suite CS, Flix Pro, Sound Studio, Toast, and Sony's XDCAM HD transfer apps please?
I cannot believe that you got modded troll for that. It is true, there are not enough commercial apps available for Linux at the moment. What I wouldn't do for Solidworks on my Ubuntu box!
For Creative Suite, write to these folks:
http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/contact.html
For Flix, write here:
http://www.on2.com/index.php?373
Write to these folks asking about Sound Studio for Linux:
http://www.freeverse.com/support/
This is the address for the people responsible for Toast:
http://www.roxio.com/enu/company/contact.html
And the infamous Sony:
http://www.sonycreativesoftware.com/corporate/contacts.asp
Please, don't be shy and WRITE TO THEM! If we don't write and let them know that Linux is a viable OS with a strong user base, then they will never port their software to Linux.
It might be because silverlight is already compaitble with all their drm wmv files, not to mention to most companies, Apple and Windows are the most important two platforms.
Obviously those are considerations. Too bad these short-terms goals won out against the longer term goal of true platform independence, rather than "currently works on the platforms we currently want to support".
Well, you would probably be interested to learn that for example imeem is written in C# to be able to run it on both Windows and Linux. Silverlight in my, albeit biased, opinion, is much cleaner and neater than flash. Or WM solution for this case, obviously... MS has too much stigma for what it USED TO do, or what it still does but to significantly lesser extent
I don't see how the imeem reference is relevant. What am I missing?
While I won't go into the pros and cons of Flash, in comparison Silverlight currently runs on less platforms, has lower market market share on the platforms that it does run on, and has no superior DRM model. You can add to that your personal feelings about Microsoft and Adobe.
I know Microsoft products are unpopular, but sadly, the adage "No one ever got fired for buying (trusting) Microsoft" probably applies here.
I counter with no one has ever been prosecuted for using Linux.
Enough with the IBM || Microsoft half-truths.
I'm doing it on Firefox 3 right now.
You've got me beat. I've done it on the kitchen table once or twice, and once _almost_ did it on a bus.
And they only pretty much did it because they found out it works easily with Silverlight in Intel based macs only.
Amazing that a company is switching _to_ Silverlight for a cross-platform solution. This is wrong on so many levels.
http://dotancohen.com/heb/wallashops.html
The number wasn't one in four for linux machines being returned. It was that the Acer One model with linux on it was being returned 4x as often as the XP model. Asus claims the EEE return rates for Linux and XP are approximately the same. This is likely just because Acer picked a limp distribution.
Thanks. There's nothing wrong with /. modding when my post containing wrong information gets modded to +3 Informative,right?
(please mod down my earlier post, thanks)