This is like renting to the the poor and charging just enough so they
can have a place to live, but never own a house and is flat out wrong.
What a money grab from Microsoft. The next step is renting your OS and
effectively your hardware to you.
Why can't they just charge less all the world around? Seems like
corporations and industry organizations are having a problem with
understanding supply and demand these days.
Not to mention that if MS goes belly up, who's going to give the thumbs up to all the DRM software?
Who's going to activate it all? All you have to do is have one lonely cach of Linux code survive and
you are back in buisness....
Or we can all switch to BSD and be on our merry way.....
I bought a Gazell value and I've had no problems with it at all.
Wifi works. Video out works. Flash reader works. Only thing I had to fix was libdvdcss2.
To sum it up...My moms next computer is going to be a System76.
She said so herself after using mine.
I think Dell should concentrait on Debian instead of Ubuntu.
You get more trickle down that way while still having rocksolid OS.
Also Debian is one of the most standardized distributions and because
it is one of the most outspoken in term of free software you won't have
to concern yourselves with the problem of proprietry drivers. As soon as
Dell went Debian You'd see alot more open source driver because people would
want a peice of the Dell action, but would have to provide free and open source
drivers to fit in to Debian. Yea.....I can dream can't I?
If dell does Linux here is my prediction
45% chance of Suse because of the MS deal.
40% chance of Red Hat because they are the biggest vendor.
10% chance of Ubuntu because its making waves and will continue to make waves with CNR.
5% chance of Linspire/Freespire because it had CNR to begin with.
I started with Gnome, went to KDE, went back to Gnome, and am now using Gnome on my laptop with Fluxbox on my desk computer, sometimes I use XFCE.
I think Gnome and KDE both have a nich, as do Fluxbox and XFCE. I really don't under stand the bickering thats going on here though.
It's like watching two 5 year olds arguing over who is better, GI-Joe or Ninja Turtles, while in your own head you are thinking
"Fzuk that, Voltron would stomp the both of them."
By the looks of things the signals going to be pretty small so I don't imagine it
would send much interference. But it might recieve a buch though if it has to be ulra
sensitive though. Oh well it's not like you need more than 30-40fps.
On the other hand what if you woke up, switched on your recievers so you could find
where your glasses were by looking at what was infront of them...wonder if they can
do this with car keys?
And one more idea, what about the aplication of remote sensing. You have the recievers
implanted into your head and use cameras around your house. Guess you would need to be
pretty paranoid to do that....
I'm not looking to be flamed here so bear with my reasoning.
If you are going to stick with windows wouldn't you want the most secure windows?
Regarless of if my machines could have all the gimicks or not I'd still want security.
That said, I use Debian Gnu/Linux. I am moving my mom's bug infested box over to Ubuntu.
I don't know about you but I learn more about how to do things right
when I get to do them my self. Take Linux and Windows. Linux shows you
how to do things right, and encourages you to try stuff on your own
Windows just shows you how bad it can get when you don't do things right.
Sorry I felt like running around wainting for the flames to eat me.....
This makes American corporations short sighted- if they can't show a profit within 4 months, then that's a project not worth doing.
It's kinda true. My father lives less that 20 miles from Great Falls, which is one of the top 5 cities in Montana.
But he had to choose between Satalite Internet, Dialup, or pay to have a T1 line brought to him (digg and extend the infastructure).
Why they were going to charge him (Individualy!) for the infastructure I don't know but it was just plane silly. He went with Satalite.
Canada's chronic failure to modernize its copyright regime
I happen to think that Canada has a more progressive idea than we do with DRM.
It's a much more consumer friendly approach and every one still gets a peice
of the proverbial pie.
The only people who don't like it are the private corporations who aren't understanding
the signs they are seeing in the free market society. Charge less for your shit and people
will feel more inclined to pay. It's the way the world works. Or you could try to squeez us
more....obligitory Princess Lea quote aside, YOU ARN'T GOING TO GET MORE MONEY! so STFURIAA
What's the point in this?
It's a stupid Gimick to get your sister to buy a new phone and that's it.
The only feature that would get me to buy it would be if it is running
Linux underneath, and it's not. This is just another Consumer Phone.
It seams like a more reasonable solution that what the US has with stupid DRM and Mafia RIAA.
At least this would be state regulated meaning the RIAA would have to be hands off in any trial
I know this seems not good but it does give you license to share your music with your fiends.
If it shuts up the RIAA (and is a reasonable amount, like 2$ per GB max of 5$) I'm all for it.
All of this leads me to believe that if we wern't so car centric
we wouldn't have as many walmarts and malls to do our centralized
shoping. I fail to see the 'bad' in this....it would be the return of
buying local. two birds one stone. Which, duh, still takes sacrifice
No one said it wouldn't. But think of it as open-source future. Every one
finds the a bug in what they do and fixes it. Ok maybe that was too Obama'08,
but you get the picture.
Does CNR.com use new packages rather than the traditional.deb and.rpm systems?
No! The great thing about CNR.com, is that it normalizes the installation process for the user WITHOUT requiring a new or altered packaging system. CNR.com uses standard.deb and.rpm files, but hides the complexity of this from the user. This allows developers to continue using their same methods and the different distributions to continue with their normal release management practices, yet provide their users with a much easier software management system.
Will I break anything if I sometimes use CNR and at other times use other install systems such as apt-get or YAST?
You shouldn't, provided you only pull from the same version repository when using either CNR or the other method. CNR does have several additional safeguards that other install technologies do not have to automatically correct dependency problems, but as long as you are using the same version repository, you should be able to install using both CNR and other install systems. However, if you mix repositories (pulling from other versions of your distributions), then you do run the risk of creating dependency problems within your system. Rather than having to pull from multiple warehouse pools, it is our desire to have as much current software in the CNR Warehouse pools as possible, so the need to go outside these pools is minimized, thereby reducing the risk of breaking your system
It doesn't sound too bad but the last lines sound like the path to the dark side of lock in, if taken too far.
It kinda makes sense now why *spire is going to be bassed on Ubuntu so that there won't be any repository problems.
But in the end it sounds like you can do CNR their way or you better not do CNR at all....
How many people really need to drive 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year?
I live in montana (read: it's cold and there is very very poor public transportation) and I still walk/ride bike every where.
Why can't more people do this? The problem with the us is that we are to car centric. When the automobile stops being the
american icon is when we will be free of oil. Once that and all it's ramifications settles into your brain, it's quite eye opening
what a oil free america would look like.
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I thought it was phrased so monkey boy Balmer *could* understand it.
This is like renting to the the poor and charging just enough so they
can have a place to live, but never own a house and is flat out wrong.
What a money grab from Microsoft. The next step is renting your OS and
effectively your hardware to you.
Why can't they just charge less all the world around? Seems like
corporations and industry organizations are having a problem with
understanding supply and demand these days.
even mention the word consumer and say this.
Not to mention that if MS goes belly up, who's going to give the thumbs up to all the DRM software?
Who's going to activate it all? All you have to do is have one lonely cach of Linux code survive and
you are back in buisness....
Or we can all switch to BSD and be on our merry way.....
I bought a Gazell value and I've had no problems with it at all.
Wifi works. Video out works. Flash reader works. Only thing I had to fix was libdvdcss2.
To sum it up...My moms next computer is going to be a System76.
She said so herself after using mine.
I think Dell should concentrait on Debian instead of Ubuntu.
You get more trickle down that way while still having rocksolid OS.
Also Debian is one of the most standardized distributions and because
it is one of the most outspoken in term of free software you won't have
to concern yourselves with the problem of proprietry drivers. As soon as
Dell went Debian You'd see alot more open source driver because people would
want a peice of the Dell action, but would have to provide free and open source
drivers to fit in to Debian. Yea.....I can dream can't I?
If dell does Linux here is my prediction
45% chance of Suse because of the MS deal.
40% chance of Red Hat because they are the biggest vendor.
10% chance of Ubuntu because its making waves and will continue to make waves with CNR.
5% chance of Linspire/Freespire because it had CNR to begin with.
Flying Pig deserves a +1 integrity
For some reason this kinda reminds me of Battle Angle Alita.
Especialy the new ones coming out. Check it out
Let's look at the value of using linux as a server or in a soft real-time
embedded system. Yea what was I thinking, there is no value to be had there.
I think you are missing the point that the value in linux isn't how you can
market it directly but in how it enables you to make a product.
I started with Gnome, went to KDE, went back to Gnome, and am now using Gnome on my laptop with Fluxbox on my desk computer, sometimes I use XFCE.
I think Gnome and KDE both have a nich, as do Fluxbox and XFCE. I really don't under stand the bickering thats going on here though.
It's like watching two 5 year olds arguing over who is better, GI-Joe or Ninja Turtles, while in your own head you are thinking
"Fzuk that, Voltron would stomp the both of them."
Doesn't make jordy laforge look so silly now does it?s /dn11198/dn11198-1_600.jpg s /dn11198/dn11198-2_650.jpg
http://www.newscientisttech.com/data/images/ns/cm
http://www.newscientisttech.com/data/images/ns/cm
By the looks of things the signals going to be pretty small so I don't imagine it
would send much interference. But it might recieve a buch though if it has to be ulra
sensitive though. Oh well it's not like you need more than 30-40fps.
On the other hand what if you woke up, switched on your recievers so you could find
where your glasses were by looking at what was infront of them...wonder if they can
do this with car keys?
And one more idea, what about the aplication of remote sensing. You have the recievers
implanted into your head and use cameras around your house. Guess you would need to be
pretty paranoid to do that....
I'm not looking to be flamed here so bear with my reasoning.
If you are going to stick with windows wouldn't you want the most secure windows?
Regarless of if my machines could have all the gimicks or not I'd still want security.
That said, I use Debian Gnu/Linux. I am moving my mom's bug infested box over to Ubuntu.
I don't know about you but I learn more about how to do things right
when I get to do them my self. Take Linux and Windows. Linux shows you
how to do things right, and encourages you to try stuff on your own
Windows just shows you how bad it can get when you don't do things right.
Sorry I felt like running around wainting for the flames to eat me.....
But he had to choose between Satalite Internet, Dialup, or pay to have a T1 line brought to him (digg and extend the infastructure).
Why they were going to charge him (Individualy!) for the infastructure I don't know but it was just plane silly. He went with Satalite.
I happen to think that Canada has a more progressive idea than we do with DRM.
It's a much more consumer friendly approach and every one still gets a peice
of the proverbial pie.
The only people who don't like it are the private corporations who aren't understanding
the signs they are seeing in the free market society. Charge less for your shit and people
will feel more inclined to pay. It's the way the world works. Or you could try to squeez us more....obligitory Princess Lea quote aside, YOU ARN'T GOING TO GET MORE MONEY! so STFURIAA
So close to the ides of march.....
What's the point in this?
It's a stupid Gimick to get your sister to buy a new phone and that's it.
The only feature that would get me to buy it would be if it is running
Linux underneath, and it's not. This is just another Consumer Phone.
I'm waiting for OpenMoko and the Neo1973.
It seams like a more reasonable solution that what the US has with stupid DRM and Mafia RIAA.
At least this would be state regulated meaning the RIAA would have to be hands off in any trial
I know this seems not good but it does give you license to share your music with your fiends.
If it shuts up the RIAA (and is a reasonable amount, like 2$ per GB max of 5$) I'm all for it.
So you are saying young health single males are the only ones who can benifit from walking/biking more?
Why don't you make a less vauge point instead of me gussing at your meaning...
All of this leads me to believe that if we wern't so car centric
we wouldn't have as many walmarts and malls to do our centralized
shoping. I fail to see the 'bad' in this....it would be the return of
buying local. two birds one stone. Which, duh, still takes sacrifice
No one said it wouldn't. But think of it as open-source future. Every one
finds the a bug in what they do and fixes it. Ok maybe that was too Obama'08,
but you get the picture.
How bout instead of me telling you I just keep on doing what I'm doing....actions speak louder than words....
BTW I hardly consider myself left wing. I live in Montana for a reason.
It kinda makes sense now why *spire is going to be bassed on Ubuntu so that there won't be any repository problems.
But in the end it sounds like you can do CNR their way or you better not do CNR at all....
How many people really need to drive 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year? I live in montana (read: it's cold and there is very very poor public transportation) and I still walk/ride bike every where. Why can't more people do this? The problem with the us is that we are to car centric. When the automobile stops being the american icon is when we will be free of oil. Once that and all it's ramifications settles into your brain, it's quite eye opening what a oil free america would look like.