Along time ago I was the only one of my circle of friends using any FOSS, then I started convincing some of my more IT savy friends to try Fire Fox, now even my most non IT savy friends are using Firefox, Open Office, GIMP, and Audacity, so Linux (Ubuntu) is only one more small hurdle for them.
Hey it says you can write about "Virtual Reality" how about if in the virtual reality you can have Aliens, FTLs, etc... Just a thought
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I know this might seem like Flamebait, but...
Hey I started using Linux before there was a KDE or GNOME, and I've never really liked E. It has always been max on eye candy and min on usefulness.
I use KDE now, mostly because I think its set of apps are more integrated than GNOME. IMHO one the things that makes GNOME not so good is the fact that you can have the same settings in different places which makes a bit confusing. For example "Do you set the background picture in GNOME itself or in your chosen window manager?" because it can be set in both places. KDE just keeps it simple. I've used Window Maker a bit when I had a low spec machine (like a P1 or P2) and I wanted speed, but with my new machine (P4 with hyper theading) KDE flies along. KOffice is just a better integrated app than the apps which make up GNOME office. I use Open Office as well but that still hasn't shed its own (IMHO crappy) look and feel no mater what they say!
If I was making a hacker movie I might have them using E just because it looks different/cool, but I don't think it is a serious contender yet! I am prepared to keep an open mind!
Here in the Land Down Under.
Unleaded Petrol (or what people in the US call Gasoline) is retailing for about AUD$1.105 per Litre
Where as LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas) is retailing for about AUD$0.365 per Litre
Any of the modern conversions don't suffer any power loss and give the same fuel economy as Petrol.
At only arround AUD$2000 it pays back pretty quickly. Plus it is much cleaner on the emissions than Petrol.
I heard someone say the other day that the reason they (NASA) got to the moon 35 years ago was just because of the push from JFK. What it really amounted to was an unsustainable development (at that time) and it couldn't keep going.
Here in Australia they cost about $1200, or $76 a month on a 2 year plan. I think a PDA would be cheaper
The plus about the BlackBerry is the Battery life. And if you have (like my company) BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) installed you can keep it sycronised to your M$ Exchange or Domino server from anywhere in the world where there is BlackBerry coverage
I agree that for now it is only by choice, but if more and more people do it by choice, then it starts to be an inconvience not to have it (to the person and also the merchant), and sooner than you think, you won't be able to buy or sell with out it.
I've heard it was about $10k (USD) a year for programmers.
The difference is in India the salary doubles every time you get a promotion so the management types actually cost more than in the US. But the whole project is cheeper because the lower ranks are getting paid less.
I saw this in a magazine article about Indian outsourcing, but I am not really sure how true it is about salaries doubling. I know that in developing countries in general the increments with promotions are a lot higher percentages than in developed countries, but the base is very low
Way back in 1984 at the Perth electronics show I saw a Commodore 64 mother board suppended in a fish tank and it was switched on at the time. The reason it could survive was that it was coated with a spray on water proof coating. Now I am wondering why no one has used this for water cooling a more recent PC...
But I just can't remember the name of that spray on coating...
I've recently recieved an AMEX issued by Westpac (in Australia) which is a very dark shade of grey (background) and with lighter slades of grey in backgroud, it looks great!
We can chose if we want to buy a power pack, professional, server, etc of (Your Favorite Distro here) or we can just spend time downloading it and hunting arround the net for the ad ons we want
I've used a number of Distros Slackware, Redhat, Debian, Mandrake, for Redhat and Mandrake sometimes I've bought the boxed sets and other times I installed the downloadable editions (purchased for $5-15AUD from a local CD seller (I dont have broadband 8( )) and I must say I haven't really gained anything out the boxed sets and I don't read the Manuals (Maybe it is because sometimes they are not very readable).
In the past, before I saw the light I used to buy lots of M$ software, but still thought it was porly written, but I didn't think I had any choice. In my work place we buy a lot of poor software, but there are no open source competitors to those packages, so we buy it because we have no choice (except write our own)
So with open source software unless you really think you are getting something more out of the "pay for" than the "free"(as in beer) why are you going to buy. I remember that my powerpack of Mandrake 8.2, was more buggy that my download edition of 8.1! That put me off box sets forever, but the download editions of Mandrake got progressively worse with 9.0, 9.1, 9.2 (haven't tried 10.0 yet).
I thought, why doesn't some one come up with a C64 palm top. With a flash card to contain all of the.D64,.T64 files. I think it easy to make a C64 fit into a very small palm device with todays technology... It's sure to sell like caffinated penguin mints on thinkgeek!!!
Why bullet-proof baseball caps? Even if they don't work that well they are sure to sell on think geek! Maybe with a OpenBSD logo on them. Now that's something that's bullet-proof
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Along time ago I was the only one of my circle of friends using any FOSS, then I started convincing some of my more IT savy friends to try Fire Fox, now even my most non IT savy friends are using Firefox, Open Office, GIMP, and Audacity, so Linux (Ubuntu) is only one more small hurdle for them.
How true, if someone really likes the music/video they will buy the CD/DVD if they don't like it they will probably only listen/watch it once.
Same for software.
Try going to Japan, even the credit cards are region coded there!
Hey it says you can write about "Virtual Reality" how about if in the virtual reality you can have Aliens, FTLs, etc... Just a thought
I know this might seem like Flamebait, but...
Hey I started using Linux before there was a KDE or GNOME, and I've never really liked E. It has always been max on eye candy and min on usefulness.
I use KDE now, mostly because I think its set of apps are more integrated than GNOME. IMHO one the things that makes GNOME not so good is the fact that you can have the same settings in different places which makes a bit confusing. For example "Do you set the background picture in GNOME itself or in your chosen window manager?" because it can be set in both places. KDE just keeps it simple. I've used Window Maker a bit when I had a low spec machine (like a P1 or P2) and I wanted speed, but with my new machine (P4 with hyper theading) KDE flies along. KOffice is just a better integrated app than the apps which make up GNOME office. I use Open Office as well but that still hasn't shed its own (IMHO crappy) look and feel no mater what they say!
If I was making a hacker movie I might have them using E just because it looks different/cool, but I don't think it is a serious contender yet! I am prepared to keep an open mind!
What about the original Commodore Joystick, that was one ugly M.F. and dog to use. Not only that they didn't last very long!
Reminds me of a guy who was made some coffee cup sized jet engines for his bicycle!
With computers to into villages in India will this mean even cheeper IT labour?
The IT industries of developed nations will be doomed for sure!
Here in the Land Down Under.
Unleaded Petrol (or what people in the US call Gasoline) is retailing for about AUD$1.105 per Litre
Where as LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas) is retailing for about AUD$0.365 per Litre
Any of the modern conversions don't suffer any power loss and give the same fuel economy as Petrol.
At only arround AUD$2000 it pays back pretty quickly. Plus it is much cleaner on the emissions than Petrol.
I heard someone say the other day that the reason they (NASA) got to the moon 35 years ago was just because of the push from JFK. What it really amounted to was an unsustainable development (at that time) and it couldn't keep going.
They're going to have to change the openning credits of Star Trek Enterprise now!
It costs a lot
I am not sure how much they cost in the US
Here in Australia they cost about $1200, or $76 a month on a 2 year plan. I think a PDA would be cheaper
The plus about the BlackBerry is the Battery life. And if you have (like my company) BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) installed you can keep it sycronised to your M$ Exchange or Domino server from anywhere in the world where there is BlackBerry coverage
I agree that for now it is only by choice, but if more and more people do it by choice, then it starts to be an inconvience not to have it (to the person and also the merchant), and sooner than you think, you won't be able to buy or sell with out it.
Make a stand before it's too late.
I've heard it was about $10k (USD) a year for programmers.
The difference is in India the salary doubles every time you get a promotion so the management types actually cost more than in the US. But the whole project is cheeper because the lower ranks are getting paid less.
I saw this in a magazine article about Indian outsourcing, but I am not really sure how true it is about salaries doubling. I know that in developing countries in general the increments with promotions are a lot higher percentages than in developed countries, but the base is very low
Way back in 1984 at the Perth electronics show I saw a Commodore 64 mother board suppended in a fish tank and it was switched on at the time. The reason it could survive was that it was coated with a spray on water proof coating. Now I am wondering why no one has used this for water cooling a more recent PC...
But I just can't remember the name of that spray on coating...
I've recently recieved an AMEX issued by Westpac (in Australia) which is a very dark shade of grey (background) and with lighter slades of grey in backgroud, it looks great!
We can chose if we want to buy a power pack, professional, server, etc of (Your Favorite Distro here) or we can just spend time downloading it and hunting arround the net for the ad ons we want
I've used a number of Distros Slackware, Redhat, Debian, Mandrake, for Redhat and Mandrake sometimes I've bought the boxed sets and other times I installed the downloadable editions (purchased for $5-15AUD from a local CD seller (I dont have broadband 8( )) and I must say I haven't really gained anything out the boxed sets and I don't read the Manuals (Maybe it is because sometimes they are not very readable).
In the past, before I saw the light I used to buy lots of M$ software, but still thought it was porly written, but I didn't think I had any choice. In my work place we buy a lot of poor software, but there are no open source competitors to those packages, so we buy it because we have no choice (except write our own)
So with open source software unless you really think you are getting something more out of the "pay for" than the "free"(as in beer) why are you going to buy. I remember that my powerpack of Mandrake 8.2, was more buggy that my download edition of 8.1! That put me off box sets forever, but the download editions of Mandrake got progressively worse with 9.0, 9.1, 9.2 (haven't tried 10.0 yet).
If all of the governments of the world start buying this M$ and others FUD, and SCO gets their way, they may outlaw Linux...
What are we to do geek brothers and sisters?
Will we head underground, secretly using and churning out new versions of Linux?
Or will we unite and create our own Geek state based on the principles of the GPL?
Or will we just convert to *BSD?
The choice is ours geek brothers and sisters, now is the time to choose our destiny
Imagine it armies of killer Penguins marching on towards world dominationation!
How about the guy who turned a VAX in to a mini bar?
I thought, why doesn't some one come up with a C64 palm top. With a flash card to contain all of the .D64, .T64 files. I think it easy to make a C64 fit into a very small palm device with todays technology... It's sure to sell like caffinated penguin mints on thinkgeek!!!
- Portable MP3 Players (Done before)
- Net shotting guns (1960s James Bond movies)
- Build your own sub woofer (My friend built a 500mm (1'8") X 500mm X 1000mm(3'4") Sub Woofer in 1988 and then put it in his Ford Transit)
- Tiny Linux boxen (Seen 1000s of these and *BSD boxen as well)
But 100,000 Threeds on Linux now that's impressive, too bad it won't make one iota of a difference to most of us who use Linux for just readingWhy bullet-proof baseball caps? Even if they don't work that well they are sure to sell on think geek! Maybe with a OpenBSD logo on them. Now that's something that's bullet-proof
But it still doesn't make it free from Bugs!
Maybe Gnome will adopt KOffice as it's office suite. The world is a changin...