Geeze... parents who need something to whine about? Really, we all grew up on Quake and Doom and we're all normal...
... the voices in my head that tell me to frag agree as well...
... yeah... normal
Anyways I still remember an SNL skit of a toy manufacturer with "Bag `O Broken Glass" and "Play Doctor Medical Waste Goop".... now those were some toys, but video games that promote violence. How about you get mom and dad to quit yellin at each other through the stress of X-Mas? Erm wait, it's toys that make people corrupt not unbearable living enviroments.
But yeah... I will be giving out rocks for this years holliday season... maybe I'll put a slashdot on um so I can sell... my pet slashdot rock.(C):-)
I think people need to seperate the two halves of this article into "Free vs Open Source" and "Free Software and capitalism".
Alright... you go do that... because you and RMS are the only ones who care.
People love to scoff at "GNU/Linux" enthusiasts, but they forget that the Linux kernel is under the GNU GPL, and that without The GNU PRoject it's unlikely the Linux project would ever have grown so large.
*EEEEMMMPPP* wrong again *EEEEMMMPPP* Linux is so big because of peoples desire for options and a desire to create. Without the GNU project it would still be open source and would still thrive. It's because the GNU is a leech on the computer world and can't get their own OS working that GNU openly endorsed linux. GNU slaps its name on all kinds of things, but that's all it is... a brand name.
There have been so many articles on/. of late where columnists laud StarOffice and Macromedia Flash because they're "flashy and cool", and who suggest that the open source and free software communities should embrace proprietary software, miss the point entirely.
You show me where I can eat, sleep, live, and be comfortable for free... and I'll start liking the boring blinking console. Until that time... I'll keep using the "flashy and cool stuff.
As for the discussion of Marxism in relation to Free Software, I'm sure plenty of ignoramuses will be posting saying how the author of the article must be a communist pig, and that he obviously wants to hijack Linux to take down President Bush.
Here... from your beloved gnu.org
The $5000 Deluxe Distribution includes all GNU software compiled for your choice of computing platform (microchip and operating system). Please contact the FSF Office if you are interested.
Yup, righto that's $5K American dollars for FREE software... which absolutely amazes me because you would think they would just charge for the cost of the production because they don't really like money. But companies like cheapbytes are bad because they're a capitalistic company trying to spread linux at an affordable cost... right?
And in the light of capitalism I will quote cartman "AH! I think yer all a bunch of goddamme hippies"
Alright... I know it may seem a little "icky", but you definantelly need to remember to put a phone line and an ehternet port in the bathroom... I'm sorry, but all those times you'll be sitting there... relatively bored... you could be conducting business transactions and sending email...
First off like any linux mailing list whenever you make mention of the word Windows you piss off the die-hards. So that really didn't surprise me at all, but then for some unknown reason they make mention of RMS.
I know RMS is the God of GNU, but he is NOT the deciding factor on a damned thing when it comes to peoples ports. If it's in compliance with the GPL (source code is re-released) then there is no reason why you can't make a Windows 32 port of debian.
Looks too me like all that's been accomplished thus far is a./configure, make to Debian Base inside Cygwin, no big deal, but you HAVE to have some place to get your feet wet.
Then we hear the rants about how sourceforge is the devil? Since when? I would love to see another FREE (as in someone else gets stuck with the bill) For LOTS of bandwidth and lots of server space. Not to mention free web-hosting, Free CVS, Free advertising, and a whole lot more... so what if they're owned by VA... so's/....
So where do I stand in my views of Debian... Like GNU I will not let the views of a few define how I feel about a project as a whole, but it pisses me off and makes me want to kill the whole thing and go to slackware (ohh yeah... BTW, a little FYI... apt-sucks... no one is allowed to make fun of redhat any more...) And the only reason people from slack like to compile from source... SIMPLE... you _can_ compile from source on slack... try outta the box compiling on RH or Mandrake...
This Victory Strengthens The Soul
Computer Science Major and Political Science Minor
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DMCA 2, Freedom 0
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· Score: 5, Interesting
Well I'm a college student with a Computer Science majoy and a Political Science minor because quite frankly I'm tired of all of this. The DMCA was made for a good reason - "to protect copyrighted materials" - but for some reason has become an excuse for power hungry people to get their sobbed stories to give them permission to "push around the little guy".
The DMCA is a hassel and should definantelly be considered in the supreme court, why it's still in circut court is far beyound me, I guess EFF is just trying to go through the motions of getting it directly to the supreme court. Why the DoJ would make a motion to dismiss is beyound me though.
The United States division of powers The Legislative Branch is checked by the Judicial Branch THROUGH court rulings, but I guess someone forgot to mention this plain key fact to the DoJ, but wait... could I be right when I make the assumption that the government is no longer for the people which it represents and more for how well their own pockets can be lined by our fellow extremely wealthy citizens.
Could corperate Kick-Backs be the main case behind why the DMCA was born and is still alive? Of course not, We are Americans in a democracy for the people and by the people with full and equal representation and rights... *cough* bullshit *cough*... we're a capitalistic society and I'm ashamed that anything of this nature is going on. I'm also very surprised that like the DECSS the SDMI cracks haven't hit the open source world yet...
I am entirely sick of RMS. He has made me aggrivated before, but I have come to the comclusion that he will never bring anything better to the opensource world.
OSS is more of a political party than a way of doing things as it once was. God forbid we don't write GNU on everything that is opensourced... maybe we don't want it to be GNU... and even if my code is GPL'd, opensource, or buried in a bunker it will always remain my code and my code alone.
Eric Raymond this, Stallman that, Torvalds there... Great men in the world of open source, but what some people fail to realize is even without them open source will live on forever. It's not a power to choose... it's a choice to choose.
I'll tell you why I personallu endorse open source... I want the ability to maybe help someone out with my code in the future to be able to help them with their personal code, because I would have never learned the languages I know now had it not been for the viewing of working source code.
I don't need to feel better about my Linux OS by knowing the code is there... personally I've never looked at the kernel source code and I have no real intention to do so in the future, if I could upgrade a kernel via binary I probably would... there's no benefit to me for it being open source.
HOWEVER with the source there I can look at it to get a feel for how an operating system functions at the basic level of source code, and because I don't want to go poke around at the code doesn't mean that thousands of others around the world don't every single day.
I'm not anti-open-source, I'm just pissed that Stallman seems to think it doesn't exist without him...
Brings up the next question... with a computer that tiny are you going to be required to use a magnifying glass in order to see the monitor... and if you can use regular computer components... will you have to have some kind of super small ps2 ports and what not?...
Can you power these with bacteria?...
hehehehee a square foot of these as a beowulf cluster... and Does it run linux?:-)
The latest releases of mandrake [mandrakesoft.com] and redhat [redhat.com] are full of wonderful packages and resources that make linux more than a prime candidate for the desktop.
FreeBSD and Linux are always going to complement each other completely. Even though they are based behind two different kernels they are both free as in beer.
Personally I would use FreeBSD for a server for the sheer fact that I can never crash it. For desktop uses I would definantelly use linux.
But both of them being free in the same world will always complement each other. The only thing holding FreeBSD back from the desktop is a pretty installer...
though this _might_ count as a desktop varient of FreeBSD...
The latest releases of mandrake and redhat are full of wonderful packages and resources that make linux more than a prime candidate for the desktop.
But Linux and FreeBSD will ALWAYS complement each other...
djbdns states "I offer $500 to the first person to publicly report a verifiable security hole in the latest version of djbdns."... and no one has claimed the $500 yet.
Also OpenNIC is an ICANN indepent root system... why not just use them instead of ICANN?
I really think that the patent system should be made to be much more clearer... I mean I should go patent a device used to transfer media to and from a electrical device... I could sue just about every major appliance/electronics manufacturer and be a billionaire overnight...
SuperDuG
Quantom Computing still a ways away ...
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Quantum Computers
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You can draw up the plans for a pair of shoes that when equipped correctly will let the wearer fly, but I don't see that happening any time soon.
will we see the dawn of Quantom Computing? I don't see why not... but the sheer power, programming that would go in to it, and the understanding (hell it's still a thereom), will make this a reality further in the future..
Just out of curiosity...
where are you going to get these parts
14" TFT LCD, XGA 1024 x 768, 64K Hi-color
Intel Pentium III Processor
128MB SDRAM
20 GB hard drive
24X CD-ROM
On-board 10/100 Ethernet port
Your choice of distribution Pre-Installed
StarOffice 5.2 Pre-Installed
1 yr. parts and labor warranty
Free Technical Support
for less than $2300 ??? Remember this is a LAPTOP... not a DESKTOP...
3.) At home or in the office there is nothing a laptop can't do that a desktop can... trust me.
Now if you've ever tried to install linux on a laptop you will find that with everything built into the mother board and lack of room to tinker with the insides... that installing linux is not the easiest thing to do.
Solution... instead of buying a laptop with windows pre-installed... get linux pre-installed... and QLITech offers this...
And if you must have windows I am quite sure that QLITech would set you up with a dual-booting system.
So I am more than pleased to see that TuxTops legacy is still alive and not to mention all previously supported computers are still supported through QLITech... they could have easily just taken over the notebook section, but they stayed with the commitment of TuXtops.
Lastly... about the names... have you not noticed the names of notebooks these days... Protege, Satellite, iBook, or iPaq... come on these names are no more absurd than any otherrs... at least there's reasoning behind their names.
Okay well gaming is not a culture it's a way to pass spare time. Granted when more than one person does it, it becomes a way of bragging. Contra was an okay game, but remember IDDQD or IDKFA... yeah original doom cheats that everyone for some reason remembers.
I don't think that because of the nintendo that we have lost respect for our elders though. Maybe when they discuss how they use to have a fun time riding their bikes down a hill or when they use to run for fun (yes it's true people used to excercise for fun) we tend to blow them off because it doesn't apply to today's society.
But when you swap stories of political issues, science, mathmatics, or general history the stories are not only informative sometimes you get a first hand opinion of them.
My suggestion... turn quake off and give gramma a call... hell might even tell her your frag average...
With all the innovations in wireless web an so on I don't get why they would decide to run cable all that way. And if bandwidth was the case why not run to a closer contenant like... Asia?
This is good now, but what about when this becomes yet "another slow line"... now you have a nice cable running to america.. that's about it.
Good idea... works for about 10 years... then what?
The STB buyout kinda left me in the dark. I had just bought a STB TNT card and this was right before they decided to release OpenGL drivers for the card itself (DOH). Then they got bought out and with about 4 days worth of long distance phone calls I decided to give up and look into buying a new card. Then Low-And-Behold. nVidia came through with the Detonator drivers... AND... released XFree86 drivers as well... my dreams of QuakeIII could again become a reality.
But that buyout made me swear to never buy 3dfx products no matter what. So my latest laptop came complete with an ATI card and my upgrade... yep GeForce chipset:-)
Actually this is what I've been looking for... I would like a way to not get rid of the DNS from the other domains though... but this is exactly what I've been looking for
Slashdot Mirror
It's pretty obvious that this is an old stupid thing ... considering the actors included Gilda and Ackroyd.
Anyways I still remember an SNL skit of a toy manufacturer with "Bag `O Broken Glass" and "Play Doctor Medical Waste Goop" .... now those were some toys, but video games that promote violence. How about you get mom and dad to quit yellin at each other through the stress of X-Mas? Erm wait, it's toys that make people corrupt not unbearable living enviroments.
But yeah ... I will be giving out rocks for this years holliday season ... maybe I'll put a slashdot on um so I can sell ... my pet slashdot rock.(C) :-)
Alright ... you go do that ... because you and RMS are the only ones who care.
People love to scoff at "GNU/Linux" enthusiasts, but they forget that the Linux kernel is under the GNU GPL, and that without The GNU PRoject it's unlikely the Linux project would ever have grown so large.
*EEEEMMMPPP* wrong again *EEEEMMMPPP* Linux is so big because of peoples desire for options and a desire to create. Without the GNU project it would still be open source and would still thrive. It's because the GNU is a leech on the computer world and can't get their own OS working that GNU openly endorsed linux. GNU slaps its name on all kinds of things, but that's all it is ... a brand name.
There have been so many articles on /. of late where columnists laud StarOffice and Macromedia Flash because they're "flashy and cool", and who suggest that the open source and free software communities should embrace proprietary software, miss the point entirely.
You show me where I can eat, sleep, live, and be comfortable for free ... and I'll start liking the boring blinking console. Until that time ... I'll keep using the "flashy and cool stuff.
As for the discussion of Marxism in relation to Free Software, I'm sure plenty of ignoramuses will be posting saying how the author of the article must be a communist pig, and that he obviously wants to hijack Linux to take down President Bush.
Here ... from your beloved gnu.org
The $5000 Deluxe Distribution includes all GNU software compiled for your choice of computing platform (microchip and operating system). Please contact the FSF Office if you are interested.
Yup, righto that's $5K American dollars for FREE software ... which absolutely amazes me because you would think they would just charge for the cost of the production because they don't really like money. But companies like cheapbytes are bad because they're a capitalistic company trying to spread linux at an affordable cost ... right?
And in the light of capitalism I will quote cartman "AH! I think yer all a bunch of goddamme hippies"
I know RMS is the God of GNU, but he is NOT the deciding factor on a damned thing when it comes to peoples ports. If it's in compliance with the GPL (source code is re-released) then there is no reason why you can't make a Windows 32 port of debian.
Looks too me like all that's been accomplished thus far is a ./configure, make to Debian Base inside Cygwin, no big deal, but you HAVE to have some place to get your feet wet.
Then we hear the rants about how sourceforge is the devil? Since when? I would love to see another FREE (as in someone else gets stuck with the bill) For LOTS of bandwidth and lots of server space. Not to mention free web-hosting, Free CVS, Free advertising, and a whole lot more ... so what if they're owned by VA ... so's /. ...
So where do I stand in my views of Debian ... Like GNU I will not let the views of a few define how I feel about a project as a whole, but it pisses me off and makes me want to kill the whole thing and go to slackware (ohh yeah ... BTW, a little FYI ... apt-sucks ... no one is allowed to make fun of redhat any more ...) And the only reason people from slack like to compile from source ... SIMPLE ... you _can_ compile from source on slack ... try outta the box compiling on RH or Mandrake ...
This Victory Strengthens The Soul
The DMCA is a hassel and should definantelly be considered in the supreme court, why it's still in circut court is far beyound me, I guess EFF is just trying to go through the motions of getting it directly to the supreme court. Why the DoJ would make a motion to dismiss is beyound me though.
The United States division of powers The Legislative Branch is checked by the Judicial Branch THROUGH court rulings, but I guess someone forgot to mention this plain key fact to the DoJ, but wait ... could I be right when I make the assumption that the government is no longer for the people which it represents and more for how well their own pockets can be lined by our fellow extremely wealthy citizens.
Could corperate Kick-Backs be the main case behind why the DMCA was born and is still alive? Of course not, We are Americans in a democracy for the people and by the people with full and equal representation and rights ... *cough* bullshit *cough* ... we're a capitalistic society and I'm ashamed that anything of this nature is going on. I'm also very surprised that like the DECSS the SDMI cracks haven't hit the open source world yet ...
Oh well ... just my opinion I could be wrong.
OSS is more of a political party than a way of doing things as it once was. God forbid we don't write GNU on everything that is opensourced ... maybe we don't want it to be GNU ... and even if my code is GPL'd, opensource, or buried in a bunker it will always remain my code and my code alone.
Eric Raymond this, Stallman that, Torvalds there ... Great men in the world of open source, but what some people fail to realize is even without them open source will live on forever. It's not a power to choose ... it's a choice to choose.
I'll tell you why I personallu endorse open source ... I want the ability to maybe help someone out with my code in the future to be able to help them with their personal code, because I would have never learned the languages I know now had it not been for the viewing of working source code.
I don't need to feel better about my Linux OS by knowing the code is there ... personally I've never looked at the kernel source code and I have no real intention to do so in the future, if I could upgrade a kernel via binary I probably would ... there's no benefit to me for it being open source.
HOWEVER with the source there I can look at it to get a feel for how an operating system functions at the basic level of source code, and because I don't want to go poke around at the code doesn't mean that thousands of others around the world don't every single day.
I'm not anti-open-source, I'm just pissed that Stallman seems to think it doesn't exist without him ...
Brings up the next question ... with a computer that tiny are you going to be required to use a magnifying glass in order to see the monitor ... and if you can use regular computer components ... will you have to have some kind of super small ps2 ports and what not? ...
Can you power these with bacteria? ...
hehehehee a square foot of these as a beowulf cluster ... and Does it run linux? :-)
Genuis
Personally I would use FreeBSD for a server for the sheer fact that I can never crash it. For desktop uses I would definantelly use linux.
But both of them being free in the same world will always complement each other. The only thing holding FreeBSD back from the desktop is a pretty installer ...
though this _might_ count as a desktop varient of FreeBSD ...
The latest releases of mandrake and redhat are full of wonderful packages and resources that make linux more than a prime candidate for the desktop.
But Linux and FreeBSD will ALWAYS complement each other ...
SuperDuG
Also OpenNIC is an ICANN indepent root system ... why not just use them instead of ICANN?
you never know
SuperDuG
will we see the dawn of Quantom Computing? I don't see why not ... but the sheer power, programming that would go in to it, and the understanding (hell it's still a thereom), will make this a reality further in the future ..
still is fun to dream ...
then you could like show it off to all your friends and fellow LUG members
troll
also doesn't come with linux support ... and where's the graphics chipset? ... looks like your theory of them being overpriced just went downhill
where are you going to get these parts
14" TFT LCD, XGA 1024 x 768, 64K Hi-color
Intel Pentium III Processor
128MB SDRAM
20 GB hard drive
24X CD-ROM
On-board 10/100 Ethernet port
Your choice of distribution Pre-Installed
StarOffice 5.2 Pre-Installed
1 yr. parts and labor warranty
Free Technical Support
for less than $2300 ??? Remember this is a LAPTOP ... not a DESKTOP ...
1.) On an airplane - No net access so you can watch DVD's (yep you can watch DVD's in linux), Play games or type whatever you need to type.
2.) In the car when driving you can listen to mp3's
3.) At home or in the office there is nothing a laptop can't do that a desktop can ... trust me.
Now if you've ever tried to install linux on a laptop you will find that with everything built into the mother board and lack of room to tinker with the insides ... that installing linux is not the easiest thing to do.
Solution ... instead of buying a laptop with windows pre-installed ... get linux pre-installed ... and QLITech offers this ...
And if you must have windows I am quite sure that QLITech would set you up with a dual-booting system.
So I am more than pleased to see that TuxTops legacy is still alive and not to mention all previously supported computers are still supported through QLITech ... they could have easily just taken over the notebook section, but they stayed with the commitment of TuXtops.
Lastly ... about the names ... have you not noticed the names of notebooks these days ... Protege, Satellite, iBook, or iPaq ... come on these names are no more absurd than any otherrs ... at least there's reasoning behind their names.
I don't think that because of the nintendo that we have lost respect for our elders though. Maybe when they discuss how they use to have a fun time riding their bikes down a hill or when they use to run for fun (yes it's true people used to excercise for fun) we tend to blow them off because it doesn't apply to today's society.
But when you swap stories of political issues, science, mathmatics, or general history the stories are not only informative sometimes you get a first hand opinion of them.
My suggestion ... turn quake off and give gramma a call ... hell might even tell her your frag average ...
that doesn't look like windows CE ... obviously you haven't use linux lately ... most WM's have a start button now and a clock in the corner ...
Windows already has a 32 bit OS they're making for compaq in preperation for intels release of their 64 bit chip ...
exactly what I was getting at ... this really doesn't make much sense except for the "now"
This is good now, but what about when this becomes yet "another slow line" ... now you have a nice cable running to america .. that's about it.
Good idea ... works for about 10 years ... then what?
But that buyout made me swear to never buy 3dfx products no matter what. So my latest laptop came complete with an ATI card and my upgrade ... yep GeForce chipset :-)
Actually this is what I've been looking for ... I would like a way to not get rid of the DNS from the other domains though ... but this is exactly what I've been looking for