This sentence is from the above article:
"Let me tell you why it’s important why you do.”
In good English grammatical style this sentence should read:
"Let me tell you why it's important that you do"
This guy is in severe need of remedial education. I wouldn't take anything of the tripe that he spouts as being in any way important.
As a dyed-in-the-wool Linux/Internet addict, I have to thank PJ for providing an important component of my many-times-a-day internet fix. This addiction has largely defined my lifestyle over a period of many years, so this latest news will have implications for my poor old psyche. Groklaw sits just above Slashdot on my iGoogle homepage.
First of all a huge thanks to PJ for all she has done in this absolutely vital area of Linux endeavour. I wish her only the best in her now altered lifestyle - she deserves this break more than anyone else I can think of.
What now? How is the Novell/Attachmate saga going to get monitored? Microsoft/Google slinging match? Hotz? Oracle/Google?Still so much to do - unending I'm afraid - but it's vital for open-source that the good fight does continue, business as usual.
Vigilance over the rights of free software needs to continue in the mould of the highly professional way that PJ has shown us.
Anything less than that could cost us our cherished Linux freedoms.
Maybe several blogs can be used in order to spread the work-load.
Nuf said.
This Gmail Motion idea could be utilised in various places in the Internet - not only Google sites
E.g. on porno sites (.xxx) there is the possibility to use a sort of regular sliding motion (using the left hand in a closed position around the well, you-know-what!, to give feed-back to the site as to its (the site's) effectiveness. Don't let Uncle Steve Balmer catch you at it though. He might think that you have a thing about Google and might start yelling Developers! Developers! Developers! (again)
PCLinuxOS is a Mandriva variant which works beautifully on PCs and is indispensable to me for use on my netbook.
Mandriva itself is also great on netbooks.
A primary example, that illustrates that Mandriva makes an excellent base to build other distros on. Mandriva seemed to produce solutions that were a breath of fresh air in comparison to the straight-thinking Ubuntu. No criticism of Ubuntu intended here. It's also a big favourite of mine.
Remains to be seen though if PCLinuxOs can still produce the goods independently of Mandriva.
OK, Mandriva is one of many fine Linux distros out there - but it had a certain something when it came to thinking out of the box.
I for one am sorry to hear this sad news. I hope the valued development traditions will somehow continue as a new incarnation of of the distro.
If the developers are willing, this ought not to be a problem.
Installing a Windows look-alike pack over the latest Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid is a great thing for Windows refugees who don't know or don't want to know anything about what goes on under the hood of the OS. Support requirements are way below that required for MS Windows.
I haven't looked back myself since I installed Ubuntu Lucid 10.4 64-bit Gnome desktop enhanced with the latest Windows 7 look-alike pack from Gnome-look.org called Win2-7. I also have real Windows 7 Ultimate installed to dual boot my main PC. The dolled-up Ubuntu blows away the genuine Windows 7 in terms of general performance and graphics handling on a side-by-side comparison.
If S. Ballmer ever gets a look at this he'll go ballistic. A forest-worth of trees are gonna get trashed. It's really quite hard to see cosmetic differences between the two OS's
It's a real problem for MS. Gnome-Look.org might may well get to hear more about this at some stage from the Steve. It's just too good to ignore.
Well, yes - who exactly gave them any such right to suggest anything? Who do they speak for? - you? me?
The original idea of the open internet was to promote communication between peer academic institutions for the dissemination of research data. All the other nodes simply plugged in to this network and it expanded from there.
It all makes me wonder if Google really even has the right to impose its own end-user Terms and Conditions on any user. Terms and Conditions? Is this anything to to with egalitarian democracy? What gives Google the right to suggest any policy to the government? Who has given them, or anyone else for that matter, (corporate or political entity) - any such mandate?
The government could get tax revenue from this idea if they can manage to convert the bag contents to beer instead.
Could fund the whole Medicare system
If they showed a video of Renee Fleming (or Anna Netrebko)singing Mozart opera, the yobs would have to be forcibly moved on by the police. She (Renee)is the most beautiful opera diva in the world. Go look in YouTube if you don't believe me. Mozart a punishment? - hardly. If these yobs are repelled by Mozart then I fear for the next generation of Brits.
I live in Vienna Austria now - not 5 mins. walk away from where Wolferl Mozart wrote The Marriage of Figaro. Get a life you uneducated british generation.
Message from Microsoft to Linux fans who run Firefox:
And for your continuing enjoyment of our products on your PC, our next contributed Firefox Extension will automatically download and install MS Windows on your PC, delete Linux and then debit your credit card for the cost of a copy of Windows. How did we get to know your credit card number? -- oops that was because of a previous clandestine install of a Firefox extension that we wrote ourselves. Who says Microsoft does not encourage inter-platform connectivity?
I know I'm a great programmer. But I now have social skills too!
So nowadays I don't clean my mouse mat by rolling the mouse over it after I used it as a plate to eat my cream cheese sandwich from, while sitting working at the computer - while the others are eating lunch out of the office!
Ah yes, I believe they will be using this system in the forthcoming upgrade to the Toyota Prius model announced at the Frankfurt show. It is to be called the "John Doe" series.
It automatically switches over to "auto-violin DRM-free mode" mode when within RIAA hearing range.
RIAA can't prosecute a robot -it's got no money!
It is time for a new approach. Everything could be regarded as a digital signal for the purposes of the following idea.
All this business of ineffectually trying to protect so-called copyright on digital media, music software etc. is really old hat now. What a pile of grief this has caused over time.
Conventional business models based on the notion that a commercial company can make money reliably from the "ownership" various forms of digital signals on offer, is simply flawed from the outset.
Think of the advantages that would stem from the establishment of a Ministry of Digital Signals. This governmental department would be responsible for gathering taxation revenue in the form of a slice of the normal tax that everyone in the country pays.
Part of its remit would be the evaluation of the commercial value of a particular digital signal, whether it be a song, a piece of software, an image, a piece of text or whatever.
The Ministry would have internal committees that consist of panels of authors, composers, programmers etc who would be in a good position to make these sorts of evaluations, i.e. judgment by ones peers as to what the likely value of a signal really was.
At the end of a financial year, the tax take would be divided out in proportion to perceived value to the various registered parties.
In this way, both Microsoft AND Linux would get their fair slice of the cake. Same for music composers. Even the music companies could get a fair slice if they really do provide good marketing and distribution of digital music signals.
No need now for silly ineffective DRM and whatever. No more insane legal litigation.
Sounds like a win-win-win situation to me. Linux development for example, would have more cash than it could ever possibly have dreamt of.
I'm only partially joking!
Computing is a vast subject. CS and IT overlap a lot. You need to be good at programming for either branch.
From experience with studying computing at university, I'd strongly advise you to be self-taught in programming before you start at Uni. Make sure you have a fluent command of C++ and Java at the very least plus, Python, PHP and VB if possible. Universities are notoriously EXTREMELY in-adept at teaching programming as a subject. You will face major difficulties if your programming is weak and will not be able to complete the necessary assignments as a computing undergrad (sophomore). So get those programming books out now and get programming! It's a practical subject rather than a theoretical one - more practice the better. Don't depend on Uni lectures to get you over the hurdle of learning to program. Most non self-taught programmers fail the second semester of the first year!
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This sentence is from the above article: "Let me tell you why it’s important why you do.” In good English grammatical style this sentence should read: "Let me tell you why it's important that you do" This guy is in severe need of remedial education. I wouldn't take anything of the tripe that he spouts as being in any way important.
As a dyed-in-the-wool Linux/Internet addict, I have to thank PJ for providing an important component of my many-times-a-day internet fix. This addiction has largely defined my lifestyle over a period of many years, so this latest news will have implications for my poor old psyche. Groklaw sits just above Slashdot on my iGoogle homepage. First of all a huge thanks to PJ for all she has done in this absolutely vital area of Linux endeavour. I wish her only the best in her now altered lifestyle - she deserves this break more than anyone else I can think of. What now? How is the Novell/Attachmate saga going to get monitored? Microsoft/Google slinging match? Hotz? Oracle/Google?Still so much to do - unending I'm afraid - but it's vital for open-source that the good fight does continue, business as usual. Vigilance over the rights of free software needs to continue in the mould of the highly professional way that PJ has shown us. Anything less than that could cost us our cherished Linux freedoms. Maybe several blogs can be used in order to spread the work-load. Nuf said.
This Gmail Motion idea could be utilised in various places in the Internet - not only Google sites E.g. on porno sites (.xxx) there is the possibility to use a sort of regular sliding motion (using the left hand in a closed position around the well, you-know-what!, to give feed-back to the site as to its (the site's) effectiveness. Don't let Uncle Steve Balmer catch you at it though. He might think that you have a thing about Google and might start yelling Developers! Developers! Developers! (again)
PCLinuxOS is a Mandriva variant which works beautifully on PCs and is indispensable to me for use on my netbook. Mandriva itself is also great on netbooks. A primary example, that illustrates that Mandriva makes an excellent base to build other distros on. Mandriva seemed to produce solutions that were a breath of fresh air in comparison to the straight-thinking Ubuntu. No criticism of Ubuntu intended here. It's also a big favourite of mine. Remains to be seen though if PCLinuxOs can still produce the goods independently of Mandriva. OK, Mandriva is one of many fine Linux distros out there - but it had a certain something when it came to thinking out of the box. I for one am sorry to hear this sad news. I hope the valued development traditions will somehow continue as a new incarnation of of the distro. If the developers are willing, this ought not to be a problem.
Installing a Windows look-alike pack over the latest Ubuntu 10.4 Lucid is a great thing for Windows refugees who don't know or don't want to know anything about what goes on under the hood of the OS. Support requirements are way below that required for MS Windows. I haven't looked back myself since I installed Ubuntu Lucid 10.4 64-bit Gnome desktop enhanced with the latest Windows 7 look-alike pack from Gnome-look.org called Win2-7. I also have real Windows 7 Ultimate installed to dual boot my main PC. The dolled-up Ubuntu blows away the genuine Windows 7 in terms of general performance and graphics handling on a side-by-side comparison. If S. Ballmer ever gets a look at this he'll go ballistic. A forest-worth of trees are gonna get trashed. It's really quite hard to see cosmetic differences between the two OS's It's a real problem for MS. Gnome-Look.org might may well get to hear more about this at some stage from the Steve. It's just too good to ignore.
Well, yes - who exactly gave them any such right to suggest anything? Who do they speak for? - you? me?
The original idea of the open internet was to promote communication between peer academic institutions for the dissemination of research data.
All the other nodes simply plugged in to this network and it expanded from there.
It all makes me wonder if Google really even has the right to impose its own end-user Terms and Conditions on any user.
Terms and Conditions? Is this anything to to with egalitarian democracy? What gives Google the right to suggest any policy to the government? Who has given them, or anyone else for that matter, (corporate or political entity) - any such mandate?
Does this qualify for an xxx domain name? http://blog.esaba.com/projects/catphotos/catphotos.php?image=746/
One bull can serve 10,000 cows ;-O
Instead of big Linux e.g Ubuntu etc, try a smaller Linux such as Puppy, http://www.puppylinux.com/ Approximately 100MB and fast.
They misspelled his name. With his level of computer knowledge his name should be spelled Anthony Digitali.
The government could get tax revenue from this idea if they can manage to convert the bag contents to beer instead. Could fund the whole Medicare system
If they showed a video of Renee Fleming (or Anna Netrebko)singing Mozart opera, the yobs would have to be forcibly moved on by the police. She (Renee)is the most beautiful opera diva in the world. Go look in YouTube if you don't believe me. Mozart a punishment? - hardly. If these yobs are repelled by Mozart then I fear for the next generation of Brits. I live in Vienna Austria now - not 5 mins. walk away from where Wolferl Mozart wrote The Marriage of Figaro. Get a life you uneducated british generation.
I'm up for a job. Email me at: hacker@thepiratebay.com
Now I'll need to find a way of hooking up AdBlock to my electricity meter!
Message from Microsoft to Linux fans who run Firefox: And for your continuing enjoyment of our products on your PC, our next contributed Firefox Extension will automatically download and install MS Windows on your PC, delete Linux and then debit your credit card for the cost of a copy of Windows. How did we get to know your credit card number? -- oops that was because of a previous clandestine install of a Firefox extension that we wrote ourselves. Who says Microsoft does not encourage inter-platform connectivity?
I know I'm a great programmer. But I now have social skills too! So nowadays I don't clean my mouse mat by rolling the mouse over it after I used it as a plate to eat my cream cheese sandwich from, while sitting working at the computer - while the others are eating lunch out of the office!
Ah yes, I believe they will be using this system in the forthcoming upgrade to the Toyota Prius model announced at the Frankfurt show. It is to be called the "John Doe" series. It automatically switches over to "auto-violin DRM-free mode" mode when within RIAA hearing range. RIAA can't prosecute a robot -it's got no money!
It is time for a new approach. Everything could be regarded as a digital signal for the purposes of the following idea. All this business of ineffectually trying to protect so-called copyright on digital media, music software etc. is really old hat now. What a pile of grief this has caused over time. Conventional business models based on the notion that a commercial company can make money reliably from the "ownership" various forms of digital signals on offer, is simply flawed from the outset. Think of the advantages that would stem from the establishment of a Ministry of Digital Signals. This governmental department would be responsible for gathering taxation revenue in the form of a slice of the normal tax that everyone in the country pays. Part of its remit would be the evaluation of the commercial value of a particular digital signal, whether it be a song, a piece of software, an image, a piece of text or whatever. The Ministry would have internal committees that consist of panels of authors, composers, programmers etc who would be in a good position to make these sorts of evaluations, i.e. judgment by ones peers as to what the likely value of a signal really was. At the end of a financial year, the tax take would be divided out in proportion to perceived value to the various registered parties. In this way, both Microsoft AND Linux would get their fair slice of the cake. Same for music composers. Even the music companies could get a fair slice if they really do provide good marketing and distribution of digital music signals. No need now for silly ineffective DRM and whatever. No more insane legal litigation. Sounds like a win-win-win situation to me. Linux development for example, would have more cash than it could ever possibly have dreamt of. I'm only partially joking!
Might be able to run Puppy Linux though? >8=|
Computing is a vast subject. CS and IT overlap a lot. You need to be good at programming for either branch. From experience with studying computing at university, I'd strongly advise you to be self-taught in programming before you start at Uni. Make sure you have a fluent command of C++ and Java at the very least plus, Python, PHP and VB if possible. Universities are notoriously EXTREMELY in-adept at teaching programming as a subject. You will face major difficulties if your programming is weak and will not be able to complete the necessary assignments as a computing undergrad (sophomore). So get those programming books out now and get programming! It's a practical subject rather than a theoretical one - more practice the better. Don't depend on Uni lectures to get you over the hurdle of learning to program. Most non self-taught programmers fail the second semester of the first year!