I'm not saying Trolltech is obligated to make a Qt Free edition for Windows
I'm not saying they're obligated to do anything, but I think it's time for them to rethink their business model. The per developer license is confusing, and IMHO, self-defeating.
They should consider a royalties-based pricing scheme.
Until this point I was assuming you were trolling, and I was pulling your line a bit.
Now it looks as you've been being serious,so that's what I think:
1984 is SF only if you stretch the definition out of shape. Two way television is just doing the work of an human informer, it's not instrumental to the plot, and can be eliminated without loss to the book. The rest of the SF props is the same.
The political parts are just very_thinly_disgused allusions to the real playes of the time: Stalin, the cult of personality, the purgues, the public trials, Trotsky, the Cold War (I thought Oceania and Eurasia were rather obvius give-aways).
I still would classify 1984 as political satire, but if you feel otherwise, be my guest.
As I remember, BeOS was already a walking dead when they grasped the BeIA idea out of sheer desperation. They were at the end of the road, and hopeless.
One can only guess what would have happened if they had Open Sourced BeOS (minus propietary bits) but the idea was too bold for them.
Not only it wasn't "that bad", it was way better that the "director's cut". I see this last version as little more that a grab for a few extra dollars.
I saw the original version in the theatre (yes, I'm really old), and the voice-over was half the atmosphere.
but most importantly, even if i am proven wrong and we do make something like that, it should never be given the rights of a human as it is neither human nor animal nor living. that's my main point. we cannot equate an inanimate object with a living thing.
I think you have the issue backwards.
When we make it (note i'm saying WHEN, not IF), we better worry about what rights IT will give US.
As I see it, we are more or less in agreement, but differing about the meaning of dumbing down. English not being my first language, I'm assuming it's my fault.
I don't think of myself as dumb, but there are lots and lots of fields I know very little about. If I were to ask the experts to simplify the field so I understand it, not considering how they cheapen the experience, or distort the matter in question, I'd say they were dumbing down the issue to my level. I don't know if this is the correct usage, but that's what I meant.
Back to Mandrake: the Linux experience, in order to be enjoyed, implies accepting some complexity. In fact, it's half the fun!
My wife isn't dumb either, but she just uses the computer: word processor, e-mail, that's it. I have a user configured for her, dumbed it down if you will, but for her it's just a Windows that doesn't crash.
Who cares about what OS every moron out there is using? Computing is obviously forking in two very definite camps: those that know nothing and don't want to learn, and the rest of us.
I'm no UNIX guru by any means, but i've using computers for work and fun since 1985. I've been dual booting since Mandrake 7.0, the first distro that autoinstalled in my machine with no problems.
Three monts ago, I erased the Windows partition and went Mandrake 9.1 cold turkey. You know, I miss nothing! Nothing at all! That's how good Mandrake is now.
I'm downloading Texstar's KDE 3.1.4 right now, from GUI. Never opened a terminal window. Far easier that tweaking DOS config.sys and autoexec.bat ever was, and we did it for playing games.
I don't see the need for dumbing down the Linux experience.
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Obviously some are going to be out of reach, but multimedia is no subst for the real thing when it's at all possible.
I agree with the spirit of your post, but let's get real: in school you don't have neither the means nor the time for the real thing.
Sad, but true.
Cheers,
I'm not saying Trolltech is obligated to make a Qt Free edition for Windows
I'm not saying they're obligated to do anything, but I think it's time for them to rethink their business model.
The per developer license is confusing, and IMHO, self-defeating.
They should consider a royalties-based pricing scheme.
Cheers,
We've met the enemy, and he's us!
See you in the next SF thread.
Cheers,
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Until this point I was assuming you were trolling, and I was pulling your line a bit.
Now it looks as you've been being serious,so that's what I think:
1984 is SF only if you stretch the definition out of shape.
Two way television is just doing the work of an human informer, it's not instrumental to the plot, and can be eliminated without loss to the book. The rest of the SF props is the same.
The political parts are just very_thinly_disgused allusions to the real playes of the time: Stalin, the cult of personality, the purgues, the public trials, Trotsky, the Cold War (I thought Oceania and Eurasia were rather obvius give-aways).
I still would classify 1984 as political satire, but if you feel otherwise, be my guest.
Best wishes,
I don't see it your way.
As I remember, BeOS was already a walking dead when they grasped the BeIA idea out of sheer desperation.
They were at the end of the road, and hopeless.
One can only guess what would have happened if they had Open Sourced BeOS (minus propietary bits) but the idea was too bold for them.
Their loss, our loss.
Cheers
I guess you also think Moby Dick is a book about fishing.
And Gulliver's Travels are about very small and very large people?
Cheers,
Mabe you're right, but I think the real reason BeOS bombed was that they were the last company trying to charge for an OS without being a monopoly.
One can only guess what would have happened if they had open sourced the OS an tried doing a Red Hat.
Everyone has 20/20 vision looking backwards, but I think they were the last of a dying breed.
And in case you're wondering, I used and loved BeOS.
Cheers,
I tried hard, but I can't respect the assholes.
Cheers,
Oceania won, in 1990 (more or less)
Cheers,
Really? There was a war in 1948 between Oceania and Eurasia? I never knew.
Have you ever heard about the Cold War?
Cheers,
But my video club has a copy, so I see it again almost every year.
The "director's cut" bombed here in South America.
Cheers,
You are prpetuating a very common mistake:
George Orwell wasn't a science fiction writer, writing about the future, but a political writer, writing about the present.
1984 is a demolishing attack on Stalinism, as evident to anyone familiar with the URSS's politics in the forties. Hint: 1984...1948.
Cheers,
Not only it wasn't "that bad", it was way better that the "director's cut".
I see this last version as little more that a grab for a few extra dollars.
I saw the original version in the theatre (yes, I'm really old), and the voice-over was half the atmosphere.
"But then again, who does"
Cheers,
Thanks.
I cannot guess if your post is:
1) A truly great troll.
2) A sad display of complete ignorance about the most basic facts of biology,
but the thing that amazes me is that some morons found it Insightful.
Cheers,
No disrespect intended, but tell us, who made your father the yardstick of desktop readiness? Or of anything else?
I'm sure he's a perfectly fine gentleman, but maybe you're overstating the universality of your domestic problems.
Cheers,
(it's also negligible compared to an SUV)
What part of this you didn't understand?
Hat off to you!
Cheers,
but most importantly, even if i am proven wrong and we do make something like that, it should never be given the rights of a human as it is neither human nor animal nor living. that's my main point. we cannot equate an inanimate object with a living thing.
I think you have the issue backwards.
When we make it (note i'm saying WHEN, not IF), we better worry about what rights IT will give US.
I, for one, welcome our new AI overlords.
Sorry, I couldn't resist!
Cheers,
In order to design something that can think better than us, we have to understand the process of thinking
Big, big mistake...
Cheers,
As I see it, we are more or less in agreement, but differing about the meaning of dumbing down. English not being my first language, I'm assuming it's my fault.
I don't think of myself as dumb, but there are lots and lots of fields I know very little about. If I were to ask the experts to simplify the field so I understand it, not considering how they cheapen the experience, or distort the matter in question, I'd say they were dumbing down the issue to my level. I don't know if this is the correct usage, but that's what I meant.
Back to Mandrake: the Linux experience, in order to be enjoyed, implies accepting some complexity. In fact, it's half the fun!
My wife isn't dumb either, but she just uses the computer: word processor, e-mail, that's it. I have a user configured for her, dumbed it down if you will, but for her it's just a Windows that doesn't crash.
Maybe she should be using Lindows.
Cheers,
Idou, I know I'm being trolled, but what the hell...
You don't seem to know anything about either Mandrake nor bittorrents.
Cheers,
Both the troll and you are confusing the issue:
Who cares about what OS every moron out there is using?
Computing is obviously forking in two very definite camps: those that know nothing and don't want to learn, and the rest of us.
I'm no UNIX guru by any means, but i've using computers for work and fun since 1985. I've been dual booting since Mandrake 7.0, the first distro that autoinstalled in my machine with no problems.
Three monts ago, I erased the Windows partition and went Mandrake 9.1 cold turkey. You know, I miss nothing! Nothing at all! That's how good Mandrake is now.
I'm downloading Texstar's KDE 3.1.4 right now, from GUI. Never opened a terminal window. Far easier that tweaking DOS config.sys and autoexec.bat ever was, and we did it for playing games.
I don't see the need for dumbing down the Linux experience.
Cheers,
Baki, I'm out of moderation points but yours was a really great troll!
Chapeau!
Cheers,
On the other hand, once there were thousands of blacksmiths.
And your point was?
Cheers,