The error is, that they assume there would be such a thing as 100% altruistic people who could ignore their own interests in favor of the general public. To put them in charge. Basically as a medium. A channel for the interests of the people.
Of course that is just a pretty dream, as there is no such thing in reality.
Which is why, if you buy from e.g. Denmark, you should order from one of the smaller UK book stores so you get to pay the UK VAT (0% on books) instead of the Danish one (25% on everything).
Ah yes, but people need their Lego and butter-cookies. Got some pretty famous cartoons too, MUAHAHA!
i thought vlc was open source? isnt part of the power of open source that when crap like this happens the source code is available for ANYONE to continue it?
Yep, but if ANYONE don't want to develop for mac, then it wont get made.
If it happened on the windows version someone would step up because there are a lot of coders in their midst (few people are coders, but there are a lot of people).
If it happened on the Linux version someone would step up because there are a lot of coders in their midst (there are few people, but quite a few of them are coders).
If it happens on the Mac-version noone steps up because they're all graphic designers, artists or students (turtlenecks all the way down).
You are seriously underestimating the scale of the windows ecosystem. You currently have thousands of application in your primary ecosystem. Imagine hundreds of millions of them. Thats right. Hundreds of millions.
If you really believe people wouldn't blame it on Windows, you must be new here.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
What's with all the cloak-and-dagger trolling going on lately? Why can't people just proclaim "U SUCK, I (HEART) WINDOWZZ" like the old days. No, instead people mask their futile dissatisfaction with Slashdot-memes to blend in.
You can point fingers at Linux in a number of areas, but security is not one of them.
You don't see what the fuss is all about because when it's working right, you as an end-user don't really know it's there at all.
That's not what he said. He said they still have problems. AD is not a magic wand, it's trading in one kind of problems for another kind of problems, problems that an on-site supporter rarely have the permissions to fix.
Yes, a keyring is practical, until you loose one key that takes the rest of the keys with them.
The scientist raise a valid issue. This meat is from a artificial "muscle" that has never received any kind of exercise or strengthened itself. That is why it's not as steak, but I think it also affects taste of the meat too.
Don't worry it'll never fly, the target audience will consider eating it a kind of cannibalism.
If you cannot come to terms with your lifestyle choices, then I'm afraid you will lead a very unfulfilling life (most of it will probably be spent soliciting gay sex in public restrooms).
So, you went to Harvard, studied psychology, and THIS was what you chose to major in?
Slashdot Mirror
That would be awesome. Make the Zimbabwean Dollar pale in comparison, China would be like o.O'
China - It's kinda like playing Hearts, and the dude next to you got Ace, King and Queen of all suits.
The error is, that they assume there would be such a thing as 100% altruistic people who could ignore their own interests in favor of the general public. To put them in charge. Basically as a medium. A channel for the interests of the people. Of course that is just a pretty dream, as there is no such thing in reality.
GPLv3?
You both have the plaintext, and you don't...
Comic Sans?
Which is why, if you buy from e.g. Denmark, you should order from one of the smaller UK book stores so you get to pay the UK VAT (0% on books) instead of the Danish one (25% on everything).
Ah yes, but people need their Lego and butter-cookies. Got some pretty famous cartoons too, MUAHAHA!
Everybody knows that if you call Amazons customer support you'll get transferred to an indian.
Because what the chinese government want right now is a huge population of young angry and sexually frustrated males. What could possibly go wrong?
i thought vlc was open source? isnt part of the power of open source that when crap like this happens the source code is available for ANYONE to continue it?
Yep, but if ANYONE don't want to develop for mac, then it wont get made.
If it happened on the windows version someone would step up because there are a lot of coders in their midst (few people are coders, but there are a lot of people).
If it happened on the Linux version someone would step up because there are a lot of coders in their midst (there are few people, but quite a few of them are coders).
If it happens on the Mac-version noone steps up because they're all graphic designers, artists or students (turtlenecks all the way down).
You're laughing now. Just wait until Cthulhu returns.
That's Cocotulhu to you.
Why did you give America the worlds reset-button?!
What were you thinking?!?!
You are seriously underestimating the scale of the windows ecosystem. You currently have thousands of application in your primary ecosystem. Imagine hundreds of millions of them. Thats right. Hundreds of millions.
Vira doesn't count.
You are kidding, right? That screensaver runs as root, and could have pulled who-knows-what from the web and installed it wherever it likes.
Well excuuuuuse me, it seems Linux hasn't got that "only install Good Things with admin-priveleges"-functionality that Windows has /sarcasm
If you really believe people wouldn't blame it on Windows, you must be new here.
You say that like it's a bad thing.
What's with all the cloak-and-dagger trolling going on lately? Why can't people just proclaim "U SUCK, I (HEART) WINDOWZZ" like the old days. No, instead people mask their futile dissatisfaction with Slashdot-memes to blend in.
You can point fingers at Linux in a number of areas, but security is not one of them.
Yes, we need a new kind of package that only gives root-priveleges to packages that do Good Stuff(TM) ^^
Ahh clever.
See what he's doing guys? He's trying out the lesser known Mac-DDOS-attack strategy on Slashdot.
Wow look at the time, it's Patch Doomsday.
Bunnys don't like ethereal cats.
Schrödinger
Well, security updates stop coming at 13th of July 2010 but other than that I would see no reason to upgrade if machine has 4GB of RAM.
Don Corleone called, he wants his friendly advice back.
Just shows how much he wanna be a penguin.
Yes, a keyring is practical, until you loose one key that takes the rest of the keys with it.
It damn it, IT!
You don't see what the fuss is all about because when it's working right, you as an end-user don't really know it's there at all.
That's not what he said. He said they still have problems. AD is not a magic wand, it's trading in one kind of problems for another kind of problems, problems that an on-site supporter rarely have the permissions to fix.
Yes, a keyring is practical, until you loose one key that takes the rest of the keys with them.
The scientist raise a valid issue. This meat is from a artificial "muscle" that has never received any kind of exercise or strengthened itself. That is why it's not as steak, but I think it also affects taste of the meat too.
Don't worry it'll never fly, the target audience will consider eating it a kind of cannibalism.
Hey, who wouldn't want a direct line to the Waaahbulance?
I went to J-Popcon 2009, and I noticed that the staff at the entrance had a couple of Eee-pc's (901's I think) running Ubuntu.
If you cannot come to terms with your lifestyle choices, then I'm afraid you will lead a very unfulfilling life (most of it will probably be spent soliciting gay sex in public restrooms).
So, you went to Harvard, studied psychology, and THIS was what you chose to major in?