You're right that he's probably a very unhappy person, but there's one correction I'd like to make. That is; he obviously did get laid - once. He always links to the photograph he took immediately afterward to prove it. Unfortunately he was so revolted or nervous at the time, that he emptied his stomach on the floor right next to her, the poor girl. However, she looks quite unconscious in the picture, so maybe she never noticed.
Uhm. No. They happened separately. The only thing you can point to that was obviously promoted by religion is the arts from the renaissance until the enlightenment. If your perspective is western, that is.
Device drivers must be compiled with the kernel sources nearby. That is to say, you'd have to download the kernel source package for your distro and install those. This will usually lead to some filling underneath/usr/src/linux. That is step 1. Go to the top of the linux kernel source tree in a shell (where you see a 'Makefile' listed) and type 'make menuconfig'. Browse to this page where you see 'Integrated Sound' listed and follow the instructions. Exit the menuconfig, and enter 'make' and 'make bzImage' or 'make modules' and 'make modules_install', depending on whether you built those extra modules into the kernel or as loadable kernel modules. Reboot.
Plus that the binding of an IDE to a language or language-version is really one element of a range of product-binding: some development tools are sold as products, the source files of which can *only* be edited through a special proprietary tool.
If I may be so free as to expand on this, by way of replying to my own post..
The few features that Linux now has over Windows are going to be implemented on the world's most protected operating system sooner or later. Since MS does nothing without changing things a little and wrapping it up in patents, we have to be very wary of what happens to our beloved multiple desktops, packet managers + central/p2p software repositories and shells (and I'm sure people can think of others). In other words; has this whole Linux-like package management system (whether apt or emerge or yum) been freely software-patented yet ?
Essentially, your argument boils down to what people have been saying about the dumbing down of news as well - people like it that way. Lots of people find Google attractive and fast, and they use it, in the same way that people like news about cats in trees and don't want to know about what's really going on. In spite of there being reporters producing hard-won content, they like it the easy way; content producers be damned. But you forget that a) no content-producer is forced into the game, and b) content-producers have always had other ways of generating revenue, even online. Newspapers as material will continue to be produced for quite a while - even as they'll have to move into different markets (cheaper editions for the short run, bigger editions weekly or monthly) to keep afloat. But also, as a large portion of what keeps them afloat - an online section for the day to day affairs. That can't cost much, so it'll all look like it just came off of Reuters, AP, AFP and such, and the interviews and analysis will have to wait until the weekend.
No. Obviously, that's not what I meant. I mean that the higher level, routable protocol on top of ethernet would become unroutable, because it's the lower level ethernet that has to be aware, between to electrical endpoints, of my security wishes. Since I can't expect to be able to export those wishes beyond the borders of my network, I'd have a problem. Also, I'd have to have much tighter integration between the levels in my network, as security is usually negotiated on the highest levels, whereas electrical current is the lowest. Did I formulate it precisely enough for your preferences now ?
But if I understand correctly, and I want to do this over ethernet, for example, that means that it is a) unroutable and b) my ethernet endpoints would have to be aware of my security preferences ?
True enough. But it's just like porn-sites and the defence industry and velcro, if you get my drift: 3D games have a tendency to produce offspring in 3D rotating multiple desktops and those quivering windows when you move them. And _that_, my friend, a user can never do without.
You'd need to ship a compiler for every platform with every CD release. That, and some _damn_ clever script inside the autorun to figure out where it is and what it can expect.
Civil ? 'The seventees called...' ? That's not being nice or civil to begin with. The tone of your post is generally contemptuous and self-righteous; there's nothing civil about it. That's why I said you were young. Young people have a tendency to forget that when engaging in conversation, not everybody around them can readily absorb a 'jackass' mode of dialogue. I'm sorry if I've offended you by calling you 'young'.
SCO losing would make quite a few unknown things an established fact. If MS were smart, they'd buy up SCO for a few pennies in the near future and drop the case; not only would it produce a big 'huh?' from our side; the outcome of any litigation might not be in their favour because it would settle things like ownership of UNIX, whether or not Linux has any code in it that's owned by others, etc. If they were to leave it at this uncertain point, they'd have a lot more ammo in the upcoming FUD-wars. It would even be better for MS if SCO were to 'disappear' before anything could be established - no further liabilities. Does anyone have a concrete mixer the size of Utah ?
You must be young. Your tone is aggressive, contemptuous and you think you're the one and only standard the world should be held to. Keep it up. I'm sure you've got lots of friends. I hope you keep 'em when you get older.
The crusades were a horrible part of Christian history and Bernard de Clairveaux should be desacrated (and added to the likes of Calvin and Savonarola) for instigating it. I know it's hyperbolic, but if it weren't for him, the plague may have been spared us, the renaissance may have come sooner (and more gradual) and that whole inquisition thing might not have happened. And Abelard would have (maybe) kept his gonads, or at least died a happy man. O, how you can *hate* some people, even when they're long dead.
Software patents - or any untested region of patents, for that matter - are a bit like printing your own money; you can have as much as you like, all it takes is a little bit of work, and the outside world *might* believe it, but if they don't - if they suddenly find out that it is indeed worthless self-printed money, then - oops, the whole house of cards comes down.
Novell cut a deal with Microsoft and I think Novell and Microsoft are working together to secure the next market of Open Source. Will it work? Probably. If I was an IT exec and you had either Redhat or Novell selling me Open Source I would probably take Novell because there is less risk. Interesting tactic... It will not work when their source-base starts to slowly descend into obsolesence because nobody is willing to contribute to the cause under the same license. Microsoft would still win in that scenario, though. But only in the sense that they managed to kill one head of the hydra.
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You're right that he's probably a very unhappy person, but there's one correction I'd like to make. That is; he obviously did get laid - once. He always links to the photograph he took immediately afterward to prove it. Unfortunately he was so revolted or nervous at the time, that he emptied his stomach on the floor right next to her, the poor girl. However, she looks quite unconscious in the picture, so maybe she never noticed.
Philosophy is the child of Religion.
Uhm. No. They happened separately. The only thing you can point to that was obviously promoted by religion is the arts from the renaissance until the enlightenment. If your perspective is western, that is.
Device drivers must be compiled with the kernel sources nearby. That is to say, you'd have to download the kernel source package for your distro and install those. This will usually lead to some filling underneath /usr/src/linux. That is step 1. Go to the top of the linux kernel source tree in a shell (where you see a 'Makefile' listed) and type 'make menuconfig'. Browse to this page where you see 'Integrated Sound' listed and follow the instructions. Exit the menuconfig, and enter 'make' and 'make bzImage' or 'make modules' and 'make modules_install', depending on whether you built those extra modules into the kernel or as loadable kernel modules. Reboot.
Plus that the binding of an IDE to a language or language-version is really one element of a range of product-binding: some development tools are sold as products, the source files of which can *only* be edited through a special proprietary tool.
- I am intimidated now -
[big long silence]
So, how's the wife ?
Oh no you're wrong.
Well I must say it's true: a company is born on /. every minute.
it's exactly the "ignore the facts in favor of blind praise" type people who drove me away from Firefox.
Hm. I can only say that if life seems empty, perhaps you could find hobby. I hear those computers can be fun. Oh and look - the sun is shining !
If I may be so free as to expand on this, by way of replying to my own post..
The few features that Linux now has over Windows are going to be implemented on the world's most protected operating system sooner or later. Since MS does nothing without changing things a little and wrapping it up in patents, we have to be very wary of what happens to our beloved multiple desktops, packet managers + central/p2p software repositories and shells (and I'm sure people can think of others). In other words; has this whole Linux-like package management system (whether apt or emerge or yum) been freely software-patented yet ?
just kidding. ..
You're not kidding. What happens is that you're going to be the next company on the list for MS to buy or emulate, whichever is cheaper.From the clan McClod ? Oooooo. That was bad. Me sorry.
Essentially, your argument boils down to what people have been saying about the dumbing down of news as well - people like it that way. Lots of people find Google attractive and fast, and they use it, in the same way that people like news about cats in trees and don't want to know about what's really going on. In spite of there being reporters producing hard-won content, they like it the easy way; content producers be damned. But you forget that a) no content-producer is forced into the game, and b) content-producers have always had other ways of generating revenue, even online. Newspapers as material will continue to be produced for quite a while - even as they'll have to move into different markets (cheaper editions for the short run, bigger editions weekly or monthly) to keep afloat. But also, as a large portion of what keeps them afloat - an online section for the day to day affairs. That can't cost much, so it'll all look like it just came off of Reuters, AP, AFP and such, and the interviews and analysis will have to wait until the weekend.
If I told you a circle is a square, can it still be round ?
I'm talking about _windows_ as well, dude.
No. Obviously, that's not what I meant. I mean that the higher level, routable protocol on top of ethernet would become unroutable, because it's the lower level ethernet that has to be aware, between to electrical endpoints, of my security wishes. Since I can't expect to be able to export those wishes beyond the borders of my network, I'd have a problem. Also, I'd have to have much tighter integration between the levels in my network, as security is usually negotiated on the highest levels, whereas electrical current is the lowest. Did I formulate it precisely enough for your preferences now ?
But if I understand correctly, and I want to do this over ethernet, for example, that means that it is a) unroutable and b) my ethernet endpoints would have to be aware of my security preferences ?
True enough. But it's just like porn-sites and the defence industry and velcro, if you get my drift: 3D games have a tendency to produce offspring in 3D rotating multiple desktops and those quivering windows when you move them. And _that_, my friend, a user can never do without.
You'd need to ship a compiler for every platform with every CD release. That, and some _damn_ clever script inside the autorun to figure out where it is and what it can expect.
Civil ? 'The seventees called...' ? That's not being nice or civil to begin with. The tone of your post is generally contemptuous and self-righteous; there's nothing civil about it. That's why I said you were young. Young people have a tendency to forget that when engaging in conversation, not everybody around them can readily absorb a 'jackass' mode of dialogue. I'm sorry if I've offended you by calling you 'young'.
SCO losing would make quite a few unknown things an established fact. If MS were smart, they'd buy up SCO for a few pennies in the near future and drop the case; not only would it produce a big 'huh?' from our side; the outcome of any litigation might not be in their favour because it would settle things like ownership of UNIX, whether or not Linux has any code in it that's owned by others, etc. If they were to leave it at this uncertain point, they'd have a lot more ammo in the upcoming FUD-wars. It would even be better for MS if SCO were to 'disappear' before anything could be established - no further liabilities. Does anyone have a concrete mixer the size of Utah ?
You must be young. Your tone is aggressive, contemptuous and you think you're the one and only standard the world should be held to. Keep it up. I'm sure you've got lots of friends. I hope you keep 'em when you get older.
The crusades were a horrible part of Christian history and Bernard de Clairveaux should be desacrated (and added to the likes of Calvin and Savonarola) for instigating it. I know it's hyperbolic, but if it weren't for him, the plague may have been spared us, the renaissance may have come sooner (and more gradual) and that whole inquisition thing might not have happened. And Abelard would have (maybe) kept his gonads, or at least died a happy man. O, how you can *hate* some people, even when they're long dead.
They must be mighty expensive then !
Software patents - or any untested region of patents, for that matter - are a bit like printing your own money; you can have as much as you like, all it takes is a little bit of work, and the outside world *might* believe it, but if they don't - if they suddenly find out that it is indeed worthless self-printed money, then - oops, the whole house of cards comes down.
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Novell cut a deal with Microsoft and I think Novell and Microsoft are working together to secure the next market of Open Source. Will it work? Probably. If I was an IT exec and you had either Redhat or Novell selling me Open Source I would probably take Novell because there is less risk. Interesting tactic... It will not work when their source-base starts to slowly descend into obsolesence because nobody is willing to contribute to the cause under the same license. Microsoft would still win in that scenario, though. But only in the sense that they managed to kill one head of the hydra.