After all, the European Union is all about Market, and they refer to their populace as "Consumers" first. As a German (hence EU) citizen, I wouldn't say it's about capitalism at all. We have a great and well-functioning domestic market at least. They rather like to use prevention of terroristic acts as an excuse for such laws and massive police action.
It should be totally easy to arrange and weld together some spare container ship hulls in a 64x64 grid, using an oil platform in the center as the bridge. Man with pirates. Then let that raft float on the gulf stream to the arctic sea for great cooling. Add a few more harddisks. Voila, portable offshore beowulf cluster serving all teh torrents on the intarweb! Sealand will be jealous.
Government has no place in business, you always end up with cronyism, corruption and an entrenched pile of criminals pillaging the rest of the country. In this other extreme case, we end up with draconian monopolies pressuring the government (hello USA). It's not only black and white. Germany for example has a social market economy with complex but equitable taxation laws and many options of governmental intervention, but manages to be the world's largest exporter nevertheless.
With over 90% of embedded systems, supercomputers, high-end workstations, production servers, thin clients, media centers und mobile devices on the planet running Linux... aaah, forget it, I'm wasting my energy here.
The dinosaur looks down, puzzled. It tickles. It also squishes. Only to realize that the mouse's death has enraged hundreds of other nearby mice, which decide to collectively leave their comfortable holes, start chewing on the dinosaur's feet, climbing his back and biting his neck, until the lone old giant stumbles in agony and falls to be squished by his own weight.
Hey, you are missing the point. Lunix doesn't need to do detect and configure an awful lot of hardware, given the platform it runs on: http://lng.sourceforge.net/
- and if the chaff is Red Hot and the product Sun's OpenOffice what then? Then I'll just be using Debian and KOffice and still be productive. So, who cares?
Are you joking? Linux' software management can hardly get any easier as it is already. As long as you use that thingy called "package manager", of course.
And again one of those "experts" who clicked around a new OS for an hour and, on noticing all his years of Windows knowledge were worthless there, just claimed the OS as inferior instead of learning to solve that little crappy problem. Doh!
Port it to Debian and the difference between debian-based distros and windows will be 3d games. Yast2 makes distributions look and behave like Windows? Then I'm glad I never touched it!
Well, the linked Wikipedia article states the budget will be $1M for each (1 hour long) episode of the series - this simply doesn't allow for CG as detailed as in the movies. So the cartoony look of the characters is for sure intentional to make the best of it.
You contradict yourself. It's clearly stated on Dell's website that Ubuntu is not a Windows operating system. Everyone too stupid to not notice that instruction while shopping for several hundred dollars shouldn't be using a PC anyway.
On the other hand, I have installed 35 spare PCs at my workplace with Kubuntu. These were sold to fellow workers who had, for the very largest part, never owned a PC before. It has been a month now, and I am still to hear any of the complaints you mention. I expected some complaints about obscure video files not playing etc. though, but figured out they googled and found ubuntuusers.de, where help was easily available:-) Fine, less work for me.
The problem is not the clueless users - they will just google or ask to learn just enough to get things going - but the users that are already accustomed to Windows concepts. These are VERY unlikely to break their habits, but they won't buy a Linux powered machine either.
In fact, the only computer generated imagery in the original trilogy is the wireframe death star animation during the battle briefing in A New Hope. But there was indeed a (for the time) revolutionary and innovative use of computers involved. The cameras that filmed the model spaceships were computer controlled, which allowed for dramatic angles and close flybys never seen before. The optical printer you mention, by the way, was heavily used. In the final space battle over Endor some shots are composed of several dozen layers.
Technical/support issues with different distributions are nonexistent if the game executable keeps a minimum of external dependencies or is statically linked in the first place. I agree however that the majority of Linux gamers dual boot or emulate Win32 games, which keeps the market for commercial Linux games neglectible. They do themselves no favor with it in the long term.
I got a vague idea of the concept after reading it word for word two dozen times;-) The patent is about when you select some object in a document, related or contained objects are also selected and the prevous selection is killed. Total nonsense, because every CAD/3D modelling software on this planet has prior art to this.
As technology improves, it will be interesting to see if someone one-ups this idea and provides the entire operating system in something closer to an Ubuntu Live CD. I don't know what planet you are from, because Mandriva has been offering a full-blown Linux on a USB stick for quite a while now.
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Because they are themselves from a country where government enacted murder is perfectly legal?
Time between article posted containing the word "Germany" in the title and article being Godwined: exactly 5 minutes. Damn troll pack.
I registered one radio to keep them happy and away from my door, apart of having three radios and two TV cards :-)
It should be totally easy to arrange and weld together some spare container ship hulls in a 64x64 grid, using an oil platform in the center as the bridge. Man with pirates. Then let that raft float on the gulf stream to the arctic sea for great cooling. Add a few more harddisks. Voila, portable offshore beowulf cluster serving all teh torrents on the intarweb! Sealand will be jealous.
I'm afraid I have to throw some actual facts into this perky troll-vs-troll thread: Kernel Comparison: Linux (2.6.21) versus Windows (Vista)
Listen, Mr. Dancing Monkey Boy Ballmer, I have already told you several times not to post as AC or shut the fuck up.
That French company will withstand Microsoft, I think. Ok, at least I hope.
With over 90% of embedded systems, supercomputers, high-end workstations, production servers, thin clients, media centers und mobile devices on the planet running Linux ... aaah, forget it, I'm wasting my energy here.
Hey, you are missing the point. Lunix doesn't need to do detect and configure an awful lot of hardware, given the platform it runs on: http://lng.sourceforge.net/
Are you joking? Linux' software management can hardly get any easier as it is already. As long as you use that thingy called "package manager", of course.
And again one of those "experts" who clicked around a new OS for an hour and, on noticing all his years of Windows knowledge were worthless there, just claimed the OS as inferior instead of learning to solve that little crappy problem. Doh!
RPM packages are in all cases I know tested, repackaged and GPG signed by the maintainer(s) of the repository.
Well, the linked Wikipedia article states the budget will be $1M for each (1 hour long) episode of the series - this simply doesn't allow for CG as detailed as in the movies. So the cartoony look of the characters is for sure intentional to make the best of it.
Frozen Bubble 2 (yes, seriously!)
You contradict yourself. It's clearly stated on Dell's website that Ubuntu is not a Windows operating system. Everyone too stupid to not notice that instruction while shopping for several hundred dollars shouldn't be using a PC anyway.
On the other hand, I have installed 35 spare PCs at my workplace with Kubuntu. These were sold to fellow workers who had, for the very largest part, never owned a PC before. It has been a month now, and I am still to hear any of the complaints you mention. I expected some complaints about obscure video files not playing etc. though, but figured out they googled and found ubuntuusers.de, where help was easily available :-) Fine, less work for me.
The problem is not the clueless users - they will just google or ask to learn just enough to get things going - but the users that are already accustomed to Windows concepts. These are VERY unlikely to break their habits, but they won't buy a Linux powered machine either.
In fact, the only computer generated imagery in the original trilogy is the wireframe death star animation during the battle briefing in A New Hope. But there was indeed a (for the time) revolutionary and innovative use of computers involved. The cameras that filmed the model spaceships were computer controlled, which allowed for dramatic angles and close flybys never seen before. The optical printer you mention, by the way, was heavily used. In the final space battle over Endor some shots are composed of several dozen layers.
Technical/support issues with different distributions are nonexistent if the game executable keeps a minimum of external dependencies or is statically linked in the first place. I agree however that the majority of Linux gamers dual boot or emulate Win32 games, which keeps the market for commercial Linux games neglectible. They do themselves no favor with it in the long term.
Parent should be rather modded funny ... the dwarf pic is hilarious ;-)
I got a vague idea of the concept after reading it word for word two dozen times ;-) The patent is about when you select some object in a document, related or contained objects are also selected and the prevous selection is killed. Total nonsense, because every CAD/3D modelling software on this planet has prior art to this.