Most of my experience has been with Ubuntu. Functionally, it does most of what I need right after installation. (I'm including the basically simple Flash, Java, and codec installations that really should be included in the baseline installation.)
I know most people are unwilling to read things like the Ubuntu Philosophy, but you really should, because then you'd know the proprietary stuff like Flash and various codecs are not included with Ubuntu because the goal of Ubuntu is to make a user-friendly GNU/Linux distribution from free software. So the lack of proprietary software is not some oversight, it's a goal of the project.
Of course the beauty of GNU/Linux distros is that you can always just use another one, and Linux Mint sounds very much like what you really want.
Actually, I don't think it will matter. In 10-15 years, the emphasis will shift away from traditional binary computing and towards quantum computing anyway
I was thinking similarly, but more along the lines that it won't matter so much because Gordon Moore will most likely be dead in 10-15 years and won't have to listen to ridicule if he's wrong again.
A for-profit company that emphasizes public good over profit? If the organization's goals are not profit-taking then why did they set up a for-profit organization? So they can make money from business dealings and funnel that money into the Mozilla Foundation to further the development of the products they sell. It's exactly what the Mozilla Corporation has been doing for a while now.
I'm sure I remember a previous 'non-stick gum' that was invented years ago. As I recall, the only problem with that was a bitter taste, necessitating lashings of sugar to make it halfway palatable. Is this new gum in any way related?
SCO v. IBM, Novell, Red Hat, Linux users worldwide, etc got old years ago. It's all about Microsoft v. The Civilized World now! Get with the times Slashdot!
It's the 21st Century buddy -- Get with the program! This is pretty much what I was going to say. Thanks to the inattentiveness and laziness of the American public, the American Dream has gone old and mouldy. No one wants it any more. At this rate, G.I. Joe is only the first of many American heroes that are going to die.
It certainly starts a hell of a lot faster than Firefox or Thunderbird do in the morning, and it can be fully operated by keystrokes, which is handy for an IRC client.
I'm guessing that if you had a picture of two people next to each other, one with a solid colored shirt, and the other with a striped colored shirt, that the solid colored shirt guy would get skinner than the striped when shrinking, and the reverse when enlarging.
The video describes a way to 'protect' areas of an image to make sure that doesn't happen. The way described sounds very easy as well.
With Gnash now supporting YouTube, and Silverlight on the horizon, Adobe Flash is under serious threat of becoming irrelevant. Frankly, I want to see that day happen. It may finally spur Adobe to try and get the support of the users by giving us proper 64-bit support or (God forbid) just open-sourcing Flash.
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I know most people are unwilling to read things like the Ubuntu Philosophy, but you really should, because then you'd know the proprietary stuff like Flash and various codecs are not included with Ubuntu because the goal of Ubuntu is to make a user-friendly GNU/Linux distribution from free software. So the lack of proprietary software is not some oversight, it's a goal of the project.
Of course the beauty of GNU/Linux distros is that you can always just use another one, and Linux Mint sounds very much like what you really want.
I was thinking similarly, but more along the lines that it won't matter so much because Gordon Moore will most likely be dead in 10-15 years and won't have to listen to ridicule if he's wrong again.
That's the Nostradamus way of making predictions.
Oh, marmalade!
I'm sure I remember a previous 'non-stick gum' that was invented years ago. As I recall, the only problem with that was a bitter taste, necessitating lashings of sugar to make it halfway palatable. Is this new gum in any way related?
SCO v. IBM, Novell, Red Hat, Linux users worldwide, etc got old years ago. It's all about Microsoft v. The Civilized World now! Get with the times Slashdot!
It certainly starts a hell of a lot faster than Firefox or Thunderbird do in the morning, and it can be fully operated by keystrokes, which is handy for an IRC client.
With Gnash now supporting YouTube, and Silverlight on the horizon, Adobe Flash is under serious threat of becoming irrelevant. Frankly, I want to see that day happen. It may finally spur Adobe to try and get the support of the users by giving us proper 64-bit support or (God forbid) just open-sourcing Flash.
So then we'll just get a DMCA-alike law against people removing watermarks. I think it's time we stopped playing this game.