They should skip the box and manuals and instead just stuff that ugly little green lizard with a DVD version of SuSE.
It probably wouldn't cost more than a box and manual if they made the lizard in some eastern sweatshop and if they changed lizards for each new version people would start to have real reasons to upgrade.
They would also have the edge against redhat. Who wouldn't choose the little cuddly toy vs the stupid looking red hat. There is also no point in making variants of red hats. A red hat is just a red hat but people would actually start collecting the variants of the green lizards if they were cute enough.
Remember when CD-roms started becoming popular? Normal HD's had a maximum capacity of a few hunderd megs and cd's could store such huge amounts of data.
Those 6 gigs of dvd space is getting really old really quick now. Wonder how long it will take for someone to release a new media with capacity that really makes a difference (like HDTV)?
If this continues it will start making sense storing movies on hd's. When that day comes we can kiss DVD goodbye:)
I wonder if the copyright crimes napster and it's clones are encouraging is going to have any negative effects on the release of media content.
My guess is it's not. Making movies and music has never been cheaper than it is today. That coupled with the fact that that you don't have to work is the sweat of your face anymore to survive gives people with real creativity the ability to produce god material.
The big media companies have worked against quality content and instead focused on suplying crap for the masses. The last fifteen years have produced no Brian Wilsons, John Lennons, Luc Bressons or Orson Welles.
The free software movement has proven these points for software. The big media companies has a much bigger effect on our lives than companies like microsoft has ever had. For some reason pirating music and movies never felt as bad as pirating software. I'm getting incoherent now, best quit
Would't it be a good idea to just shut down slackware?
I know lots and lots of people use slackware and it is supposed to be a quite nice distro (haven't tried it) but if these people came out and said something like: "We are going to start working on free tutition software for poor children in africa instead of maintaining slackware. The world doesn't need 20 linux distros."
I know this post is a bit stupid, silly and idealistic but it does seem like the "community" is more geared towards making X look pretty than making a difference.
Well the name is probably inspired by the very famous danish viking/king Harald Blåtand.
Blåtand was a real kickas king and he did lots of dirty deeds including having his own nephew killed so that Blåtand could get a hold of norway.
The people who came up with the name were probably fans of the book The Longships written by Frans G Bengtsson. The Longships is a great book an I suggest you all read it.
There is nothing to do with it (please prove me wrong here).
I imagine one could do lots of funky stuff with this once there is any hardware to play with.
Ohh the fun/horror when everything in your home is connected to your network througt this. Next time I'll go shopping for a microwave or fridge or whatewer I'll ask them for one with bluetooth just for the heck of it.
But that's just one of the countless DVD/mp3 players. Portable cd's with the ability to play mp3's have been demonstrated by companies like thomson but noone is selling them
But the mp3's get converted to ATRAC first and I guess that kind of destroys the whole point of it. I think there was a story posted on slashdot about it a few months ago.
There are minidisk replicators and recorders that can write at 4X speed which is probably not more than 200 kb/s so.
Probably the best solution is to get a soundcard with a digital out and record your mp3's that way.
A rdbms no one uses. A java ide inferior to ibm's. I'm sure there is more but borland/inprise doesn't seem like the best deal around.
But then again isn't 2.4 bn $ kind of no money at all compared to other companies (like what is it Yahoo has that merits it's value).
As usual I don't get it.
Like if I had 2.4 bn $ I bet I could become a world player in something real like ballbearings or rubber. I wouldn't spend it on some dying IT company (or maybe I would , it feels like I don't know shit anymore). I bet everyone needs ballbearings and rubber but who need borland?
I'm graduating in a few weeks (not comp Sci) and still don't know the definition. My current best guess is "don't do anything until you know what you want to do and then make it in a way so that its easy to change it when you later on realize you wanted something else". I don't know if its the right definition but i'm sure they didn't teach me that in school.
My guess the problem of badly engineered projects is quite common. It's just more obvious in programming
Maybe not a good thing when you take others in consideration but I prefer being rude to ppl I don't know.
Flaming is my safety vault and when you are in a dark and cynical mood it's not even flaming. It's pointing out the thruth to all these naive and stupid ppl (which is wrong I know!).
Still has the coolest and best balanced weapons of any shooter imho. All the cool stuff like the flamethrower, dual double barreled shotguns and the energy gun that went critical and nuked a whole area when you overcharged it. Mmm sweet memories. Marathon dm was a blast and single player wasn't that bad either.
Playing marathon under Linux would be great but is there any free levels, player models etc?
Saying mexico is in big trouble is wrong. GDP has been up 5 % each year since 97. only 10 % of GDP is public spending. 26 % of public spending goes to education.
Yes mexico is a very poor country. It was hit extremly hard by the asian crisis but since then the economy has been quite stable. Education is low and child mortality is high.
Now when both political and economical situations are reasonably stable you can expect lots of money to flow into mexico, especially from the US where skilled cheap labour is hard to find and the educational system sucks.
What all this has to do with gnome is that things will happen but don't expect them to happen soon.
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The thing was slow and noisy.
The person using the thing did successfully lift someone out of a wheelchair and onto an examination table though.
I still don't know whether the ending was a happy or a sad one. I guess that fact alone makes the book worth reading.
I think I liked microserfs for many of the same reasons I liked this book although I don't know what those reasons are.
Well read the book anyway. Some parts like the one where the heroine tortures a guy by overloading the engine of his ferarri are just hillarious.
It's ease of use. :) can quite successfully administer a linux system.
Someone with not alot of experience (like me
Being a admin on solaris or true64 in most cases mean you have a lot more experience in the security department.
Then again, if you hire someone with no experience to admin those systems you are terminally screwed. That is not the case with linux.
They should skip the box and manuals and instead just stuff that ugly little green lizard with a DVD version of SuSE.
It probably wouldn't cost more than a box and manual if they made the lizard in some eastern sweatshop and if they changed lizards for each new version people would start to have real reasons to upgrade.
They would also have the edge against redhat. Who wouldn't choose the little cuddly toy vs the stupid looking red hat. There is also no point in making variants of red hats. A red hat is just a red hat but people would actually start collecting the variants of the green lizards if they were cute enough.
Remember when CD-roms started becoming popular?
:)
Normal HD's had a maximum capacity of a few hunderd megs and cd's could store such huge amounts of data.
Those 6 gigs of dvd space is getting really old really quick now. Wonder how long it will take for someone to release a new media with capacity that really makes a difference (like HDTV)?
If this continues it will start making sense storing movies on hd's. When that day comes we can kiss DVD goodbye
Everything is free.
I wonder if the copyright crimes napster and it's clones are encouraging is going to have any negative effects on the release of media content.
My guess is it's not. Making movies and music has never been cheaper than it is today. That coupled with the fact that that you don't have to work is the sweat of your face anymore to survive gives people with real creativity the ability to produce god material.
The big media companies have worked against quality content and instead focused on suplying crap for the masses. The last fifteen years have produced no Brian Wilsons, John Lennons, Luc Bressons or Orson Welles.
The free software movement has proven these points for software. The big media companies has a much bigger effect on our lives than companies like microsoft has ever had. For some reason pirating music and movies never felt as bad as pirating software. I'm getting incoherent now, best quit
Would't it be a good idea to just shut down slackware?
I know lots and lots of people use slackware and it is supposed to be a quite nice distro (haven't tried it) but if these people came out and said something like:
"We are going to start working on free tutition software for poor children in africa instead of maintaining slackware. The world doesn't need 20 linux distros."
I know this post is a bit stupid, silly and idealistic but it does seem like the "community" is more geared towards making X look pretty than making a difference.
Well the name is probably inspired by the very famous danish viking/king Harald Blåtand.
Blåtand was a real kickas king and he did lots of dirty deeds including having his own nephew killed so that Blåtand could get a hold of norway.
The people who came up with the name were probably fans of the book The Longships written by Frans G Bengtsson. The Longships is a great book an I suggest you all read it.
There is nothing to do with it (please prove me wrong here).
I imagine one could do lots of funky stuff with this once there is any hardware to play with.
Ohh the fun/horror when everything in your home is connected to your network througt this. Next time I'll go shopping for a microwave or fridge or whatewer I'll ask them for one with bluetooth just for the heck of it.
Uh well maybe not but I really don't see any significance in this.
This migth be a bad thing for wine though
But that's just one of the countless DVD/mp3 players.
Portable cd's with the ability to play mp3's have been demonstrated by companies like thomson but noone is selling them
But you can't buy them. The companies making them probably think that the costs of a potential lawsuit is to high.
But the mp3's get converted to ATRAC first and I guess that kind of destroys the whole point of it. I think there was a story posted on slashdot about it a few months ago.
There are minidisk replicators and recorders that can write at 4X speed which is probably not more than 200 kb/s so.
Probably the best solution is to get a soundcard with a digital out and record your mp3's that way.
With the thousands of monkeys typing away at slashdot isn't this something that must happen soon enough.
How can you continue being nice to geeks when so many of them flame you all the time?
Is it the people themselves, the culture or was it just just a journalistic niche that needed to be filled.
A rdbms no one uses.
A java ide inferior to ibm's.
I'm sure there is more but borland/inprise doesn't seem like the best deal around.
But then again isn't 2.4 bn $ kind of no money at all compared to other companies (like what is it Yahoo has that merits it's value).
As usual I don't get it.
Like if I had 2.4 bn $ I bet I could become a world player in something real like ballbearings or rubber. I wouldn't spend it on some dying IT company (or maybe I would , it feels like I don't know shit anymore). I bet everyone needs ballbearings and rubber but who need borland?
I'm graduating in a few weeks (not comp Sci) and still don't know the definition.
My current best guess is "don't do anything until you know what you want to do and then make it in a way so that its easy to change it when you later on realize you wanted something else".
I don't know if its the right definition but i'm sure they didn't teach me that in school.
My guess the problem of badly engineered projects is quite common. It's just more obvious in programming
Makes you feel a bit better.
Maybe not a good thing when you take others in consideration but I prefer being rude to ppl I don't know.
Flaming is my safety vault and when you are in a dark and cynical mood it's not even flaming. It's pointing out the thruth to all these naive and stupid ppl (which is wrong I know!).
Still has the coolest and best balanced weapons of any shooter imho. All the cool stuff like the flamethrower, dual double barreled shotguns and the energy gun that went critical and nuked a whole area when you overcharged it. Mmm sweet memories.
Marathon dm was a blast and single player wasn't that bad either.
Playing marathon under Linux would be great but is there any free levels, player models etc?
Saying mexico is in big trouble is wrong.
GDP has been up 5 % each year since 97.
only 10 % of GDP is public spending.
26 % of public spending goes to education.
Yes mexico is a very poor country.
It was hit extremly hard by the asian
crisis but since then the economy has been
quite stable. Education is low and child
mortality is high.
Now when both political and economical
situations are reasonably stable you can
expect lots of money to flow into mexico,
especially from the US where skilled cheap
labour is hard to find and the educational
system sucks.
What all this has to do with gnome is that
things will happen but don't expect them to
happen soon.