partitioned my c: drive and installed Kubuntu whilst I was outside cleaning the car. She was playing Portal when I left her - I swear it was under twenty minutes and I was watching her through the window the hole time!
Is it due to her bone marrow mysteriously becoming populated with stem cells from the donor which has caused the change in both her blood type and her immune system?
And I just didn't get the *in joke* here, either from the original reference or the link, until I realized I'm browsing on my sister's PC with IE. Donut.
Some pundits (that would be me) think Google will bid to win its spectrum block, then will trade that block to Sprint/Nextel for some of that company's 2.5-GHz WiMAX licenses that are far better suited for data.
Score some 700-MHz off eBay then do the old baseball card trade for some 2.5-GHz!
Finally someone with an open mind has cracked it! In addition: more public awareness of the sci & tech involved; inspiration to kids (who think becomming a NASA spacemen is beyond them); R&D into aerodynamics, avionics and propulsion technology that could benefit other commercial enterprises; and ultimately give NASA and the Govt a prod in the butt. And all for litle or no tax $$$ whatsoever! There's no pleasing everyone is there.
Besides, realisticly who wants to change their entire application stack, all at once? One day you use Win/IE/Outlook/Office and like *poof* you're going to use Linux/Konqueror/KMail/KOffice? That doesn't happen except in geek territory.
Agree 100%
Make something a kick-ass utility that 90% on Windows use, and I'll swear you'll see bigger Linux migration as well.
This is where I have a problem. If I was your typical, full-time windows user [whatever the hell that is] and I saw KDE and some cool/useful applications running on it, and then I discovered that these apps will also run perfectly well on my Windows OS, then I don't believe there would be enough incentive for me to switch my entire OS. The wizzy OS graphics stuff might entice me, but my tech support Nazi's would inevitably disable some of the 'unnecessary' CPU intensive features of compiz, anyway!
Remember, in business you normally need to pay for Windows and most consumers don't want to bother cracking WGA every so often. That Linux is free as in beer and can be downloaded legally and simply online are advantages that also won't go away.
50% - 50%. In my business experience a migration to another plaform such as Linux/ OSS realistically only happens once the company has the knowledge and infrastructure to support the new platform; Network OS integration; Network support; user technical support; user OS training; user applications training; conversion of existing docs, security and backups procedures etc. This is a big step for even a small-medium sized company - except for the '90% geek' software houses who relish this kind of challenge.
distribute open source software to a much wider audience
Yes, but the huge majority of this audience will therefore still probably be running this software on Windows. Getting your *average punter* or, indeed, a typical exec to switch their OS will be - imo - even tougher if they are able to run the snazzy new OSS applications equally well on their existing M$ box, no?
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest transparently operated charitable foundation in the world, founded in 2000 and doubled in size by Warren Buffett in 2006. The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and, in the United States, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology.
The foundation has an endowment of US$37.6 billion as of July 11, 2007.
If Bill wants to shoot his moyth off about capitalism and poverty I think he's earned the right.
Everytime you buy a M$ product you can be pretty sure that a small chunk of the profits will end up helping the 3rd world - didn't you guys figure that out yet?
[Erin Driscoll] "Jack, start prepping a team for an assault on the east wing. Edgar- where's Chloe? Find her and tell her to open a new socket in the server room as a new priority."
[Edgar Stiles] "Chloe's.. erm.. working from home today, Miss Driscoll..."
space proposals include the belief that "..the United States needs a strong space program to help maintain its superiority not only in space, but also here on earth.."
He clearly hasn't had a chance to examine the latest Vulcan ballot rigging schematics that were rather controversially published in the Centauri Gazette last month.
And then, to your dismay, you discover that the KDE apps they are running on their Windows 7 machine have been enhanced by M$soft's KDE S.W.A.T. team and actually run faster, and offer better functionality than the equivalent apps on your Linux box! Now that's gotta hurt! (and remember, I dual-boot Linux K/ubuntu and Vista...)
What, are we all 17 year old students here all of a sudden? Stealing is stealing. Acquiring copyright protected music and video using peer-to-peer filesharing applications, illegal download sites etc., is media piracy - AKA theft. It's really as simple as that.
Yes, the established artists will be less effected since they receive most of their profits from their performances, tours, concerts etc. But it's up-and-coming artists who rely heavily on royalties gained from their music and need every penny they can get from album sales when they are starting off. They are, after all, the future of the industry, n'est pas?
Ultimately, in the long run consumers, record labels, retailers and artists are all negatively effected by illegal distribution of music and vidoes. Whilst the media world is trying to find ways to tackle this issue without unfairly restricting the consumer, it's no surprise that the aforementioned artists are keen to have their copyright protected so they may earn the revenues they deserve.
If you want to deter talented new artists from accross all genres from entering the industry, however, and instead increase the amount of 'pop manufactured junk' that the big record companies will happily produce, promote, control and generally shove down out throats as a substitute, then offering no adequate protection to the artists is definitely the way forward.
I take your point. But understand that when I refer to the 'average commute time' I'm not just talking about drivers but also the majority of commuters, who use public transport. The busses and trains are now more congested than ever before due to the additional volume of commuters who've ditched their cars. Economics is certainly not my forte but it's my understanding that it should be the majority of the city workforce that the govt should be attempting to make as efficient and productive as possible.
The only way it could backfire is if they write crappy software and do damage to the reputation of OSS in general
But surely the opposite is equally true. If the KDE applications are well received by Windows users - and they run perfectly well on that OS - does this not potentially erode incentives for Linux adoption?
..when I booted my new laptop running Vista and MS Word 2007 started to save my docs with a suspicious looking new '.sucx' extension.
Foolishly I didn't take the time (nor had I the inclination) to investigate the implication of this change and I assumed it was just another completely unnecessary m$oft 'enhancement' designed to (i) annoy me (ii) make it harder for 'lesser mortals' to migrate their platform.
Yep, I know: what a naïve, conceited, presumptuous fuckwad, etc. etc.
At the time I had intended to - and have since - started dual-booting Linux K/ubuntu, on a separate partition, and so I didn't think that adopting Bill's new file format was something I should be at all concerned about...
And now that I've accumulated a truck stop full of.sucx docs - with all kinds of embedded attachments - you're telling me I should start thinking about going through 'em all and convert them *back* to the.doc?!
OMFG WTF USOBs. S.O.S. nearest Borg - please take me away from this place
"KDE developer Aaron Seigo also spoke about KDE's cross-platform ambitions and discussed some of the broader implications. Bringing popular KDE programs to Windows and Mac OS X is somewhat controversial in the open source software community, because doing so is seen by some as a means of eroding incentives for Linux adoption."
"Seigo and many in the KDE community contend that making KDE applications available on other platforms brings more freedom and choice to Windows users and gives them the ability to adopt open standards and establish an easier migration path to Linux."
Is KDE's cross-platform approach going to backfire?
...and diversity of online video grows by the day"?
Quantity, quality of production and diversity -- Perhaps.
But quality of the actual material i.e. writing, dramatisation, performance? -- Not so sure.
If using the internet to download and watch televised shows such a Lost counts then I agree: Online video is replacing conventional tv broadcasting for many.
But if we're just talking about the online shows that are NOT also broadcast on tv then let's face it: as soon as any of these shows start to get *really good*, they'd surely be snapped up in a flash by a big publisher and aired on conventional tv aswell!
I don't know the in's and out's of the writers strike over in the US but perhaps what's happenning is some of these writers are doing some (hush hush) moonlighting for web-based productions and hence the quaility of online video is rising...
Ah. On my first parse of your initial post none of my browsers (Konqueror, Epiphany, Enigma, IceWeasel) detected the über-sarc! BTW, to successfully browse paintings from the Italian Renaissance period you need to use Mosaic.
I'm surprised at the amount of scepticism over this project, esp on/. Let's face it, commercial designs such as SS2 are the only way any of us down here will be getting 'up there' in our lifetime.
FYI, from el Wiki: "More than 65,000 would-be space tourists have applied for the first batch of 100 tickets to be available. The price will initially be US$200,000. However, after the first 100 tickets are sold the price would be dropped to around $100,000. Then deposits after the first year will drop to around $20,000. The duration of the flight will be approximately 2.5 hours, and weekly launches are planned.
In December 2007 Virgin Galactic had 200 paid-up applicants on its books for the early flights, and 95% were passing the necessary 6-8 g centrifuge tests"
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Just 'cos you never scored the BFG and did any *real* damage ;)
partitioned my c: drive and installed Kubuntu whilst I was outside cleaning the car. She was playing Portal when I left her - I swear it was under twenty minutes and I was watching her through the window the hole time!
Is it due to her bone marrow mysteriously becoming populated with stem cells from the donor which has caused the change in both her blood type and her immune system?
And I just didn't get the *in joke* here, either from the original reference or the link, until I realized I'm browsing on my sister's PC with IE. Donut.
Finally someone with an open mind has cracked it! In addition: more public awareness of the sci & tech involved; inspiration to kids (who think becomming a NASA spacemen is beyond them); R&D into aerodynamics, avionics and propulsion technology that could benefit other commercial enterprises; and ultimately give NASA and the Govt a prod in the butt.
And all for litle or no tax $$$ whatsoever! There's no pleasing everyone is there.
Getting your *average punter* or, indeed, a typical exec to switch their OS will be - imo - even tougher if they are able to run the snazzy new OSS applications equally well on their existing M$ box, no?
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest transparently operated charitable foundation in the world, founded in 2000 and doubled in size by Warren Buffett in 2006. The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and, in the United States, to expand educational opportunities and access to information technology. The foundation has an endowment of US$37.6 billion as of July 11, 2007.
If Bill wants to shoot his moyth off about capitalism and poverty I think he's earned the right. Everytime you buy a M$ product you can be pretty sure that a small chunk of the profits will end up helping the 3rd world - didn't you guys figure that out yet?
My application was rejected: until you're also competent with explosives they won't be interested.
[Erin Driscoll] "Jack, start prepping a team for an assault on the east wing. Edgar- where's Chloe? Find her and tell her to open a new socket in the server room as a new priority."
[Edgar Stiles] "Chloe's.. erm.. working from home today, Miss Driscoll..."
space proposals include the belief that "..the United States needs a strong space program to help maintain its superiority not only in space, but also here on earth.."
He clearly hasn't had a chance to examine the latest Vulcan ballot rigging schematics that were rather controversially published in the Centauri Gazette last month.
And then, to your dismay, you discover that the KDE apps they are running on their Windows 7 machine have been enhanced by M$soft's KDE S.W.A.T. team and actually run faster, and offer better functionality than the equivalent apps on your Linux box!
Now that's gotta hurt! (and remember, I dual-boot Linux K/ubuntu and Vista...)
What, are we all 17 year old students here all of a sudden? Stealing is stealing. Acquiring copyright protected music and video using peer-to-peer filesharing applications, illegal download sites etc., is media piracy - AKA theft. It's really as simple as that.
Yes, the established artists will be less effected since they receive most of their profits from their performances, tours, concerts etc. But it's up-and-coming artists who rely heavily on royalties gained from their music and need every penny they can get from album sales when they are starting off. They are, after all, the future of the industry, n'est pas?
Ultimately, in the long run consumers, record labels, retailers and artists are all negatively effected by illegal distribution of music and vidoes. Whilst the media world is trying to find ways to tackle this issue without unfairly restricting the consumer, it's no surprise that the aforementioned artists are keen to have their copyright protected so they may earn the revenues they deserve.
If you want to deter talented new artists from accross all genres from entering the industry, however, and instead increase the amount of 'pop manufactured junk' that the big record companies will happily produce, promote, control and generally shove down out throats as a substitute, then offering no adequate protection to the artists is definitely the way forward.
I take your point. But understand that when I refer to the 'average commute time' I'm not just talking about drivers but also the majority of commuters, who use public transport. The busses and trains are now more congested than ever before due to the additional volume of commuters who've ditched their cars.
Economics is certainly not my forte but it's my understanding that it should be the majority of the city workforce that the govt should be attempting to make as efficient and productive as possible.
Strapping it on is not a probem but you firstly need to install the Firefox 'UnPlug' extension to make the device reusable.
Still can't drink, drive, vote or fuck tho'
..when I booted my new laptop running Vista and MS Word 2007 started to save my docs with a suspicious looking new '.sucx' extension.
.sucx docs - with all kinds of embedded attachments - you're telling me I should start thinking about going through 'em all and convert them *back* to the .doc?!
Foolishly I didn't take the time (nor had I the inclination) to investigate the implication of this change and I assumed it was just another completely unnecessary m$oft 'enhancement' designed to (i) annoy me (ii) make it harder for 'lesser mortals' to migrate their platform.
Yep, I know: what a naïve, conceited, presumptuous fuckwad, etc. etc.
At the time I had intended to - and have since - started dual-booting Linux K/ubuntu, on a separate partition, and so I didn't think that adopting Bill's new file format was something I should be at all concerned about...
And now that I've accumulated a truck stop full of
OMFG WTF USOBs. S.O.S. nearest Borg - please take me away from this place
"KDE developer Aaron Seigo also spoke about KDE's cross-platform ambitions and discussed some of the broader implications. Bringing popular KDE programs to Windows and Mac OS X is somewhat controversial in the open source software community, because doing so is seen by some as a means of eroding incentives for Linux adoption."
"Seigo and many in the KDE community contend that making KDE applications available on other platforms brings more freedom and choice to Windows users and gives them the ability to adopt open standards and establish an easier migration path to Linux."
Is KDE's cross-platform approach going to backfire?
...and diversity of online video grows by the day"?
Quantity, quality of production and diversity -- Perhaps.
But quality of the actual material i.e. writing, dramatisation, performance? -- Not so sure.
If using the internet to download and watch televised shows such a Lost counts then I agree: Online video is replacing conventional tv broadcasting for many.
But if we're just talking about the online shows that are NOT also broadcast on tv then let's face it: as soon as any of these shows start to get *really good*, they'd surely be snapped up in a flash by a big publisher and aired on conventional tv aswell!
I don't know the in's and out's of the writers strike over in the US but perhaps what's happenning is some of these writers are doing some (hush hush) moonlighting for web-based productions and hence the quaility of online video is rising...
Ah. On my first parse of your initial post none of my browsers (Konqueror, Epiphany, Enigma, IceWeasel) detected the über-sarc!
BTW, to successfully browse paintings from the Italian Renaissance period you need to use Mosaic.
Take a look at the "Am I missing a plugin or something" thread above
I'm surprised at the amount of scepticism over this project, esp on /. Let's face it, commercial designs such as SS2 are the only way any of us down here will be getting 'up there' in our lifetime.
FYI, from el Wiki: "More than 65,000 would-be space tourists have applied for the first batch of 100 tickets to be available. The price will initially be US$200,000. However, after the first 100 tickets are sold the price would be dropped to around $100,000. Then deposits after the first year will drop to around $20,000. The duration of the flight will be approximately 2.5 hours, and weekly launches are planned.
In December 2007 Virgin Galactic had 200 paid-up applicants on its books for the early flights, and 95% were passing the necessary 6-8 g centrifuge tests"