I don't know about The Register, but ZDNet 'news' is starting to do anti-Linux trolls with very little substance. I think their intent is to start flamewars to increase their page hits.
I don't think Slashdot is above that kind of behavior.
"It's called the process of creative destruction, and American industry will rise again, much like the Phoenix of lore. Contrast that with what Europe attempted by protecting its industries rather than letting them go and you'll see who had the better model."
Hmmm... Lets see: BMW, Volkswagen vs. GM and Ford. Daimler buys Chrysler. The American superiority isn't very clear there. And who's standard of living has been going down and who's has been rising in the last 20 years?
Soon Americans may have to install a lot more European windfarm equipment to keep our Phoenix toasty... and perhaps creatively destroy the environment a bit less.
Ha... that 'bullshit' ideology is the only thing that has succeeded in producing a real alternative to "Microsoft everywhere". MS would never have gotten off their (collective ideological) asses to fix/replace NT if Linux had not come along.
Want alternatives without an organizing principle? Be my guest and switch to Amiga or QNX.
Having invested so much in a heavy-handed SCO shill (DiDio), the Yankee Group finds it now has a huge credibility problem on its hands.
So now the Yankee Group wants to blame a nebulously-defined class of scapegoats ("Linux extemists") while it tries to recover.
Face it Yankee: Even Gartner did not make the same factual and ideological mistakes you did. Having your wagon hitched to SCO must be no fun right now and no doubt it is hurting business; THAT is the fault of noone but DiDio and her boss.
I think it means that countries with a mixed media market like the UK (with a large and independant public sector) have the right business model. The BBC 'customer' is anyone with a TV who pays the same license fee no matter how cheap or pricey the TV, so if other news outlets stop looking out the for little guy then the BBC almost certainly will fill the gap. This ensures that 'populist' news and entertainment remains a significant part of the information landscape.
Castrate the "public" sector media (Pathetic Braodcasting System *cough*) by making it merely a charity and a recipient of the well-heeled and purchased politicians, and the populace is left with only commercial media interests which become increasingly monopolistic, deranged and abusive. With no pluralism or competing vision for the media market, and a small class of large investors demanding that media corps push their interests, the US mass media are going off the deep-end.
When you've grabbed all the money then you have everything in the world to lose. Then grabbing CONTROL seems utterly necessary. This is why the US news media seems so self-censoring: Their conglomerates are now grabbing control of the government so their inclination is to cover for more of the government's misdeeds. When government and industry merge to champion economic purity (the fascist way I described or the opposite communist way) then look out! Corporations have control over real property and policy but now they want virtually all "Intellectual Property" to be private, effectively giving them control over our culture.
Ya know, in Soviet Russia...:-) Well, they had only one acceptable economic model for production as well as one political party. The US two-party system is now a false dichotomy and a false choice because both parties subscribe to the same single overall vision for the economy: Commercial conglomerates.
Pardon me for thinking that not being able to just download and use drivers is a kernel issue.
What drivers are available is an issue for the hardware manufacturers
I didn't say they weren't available. I know they're 'available' for compiling.
The only difference is that for Mac OSX the bulk of applications are written to use the Cocoa/Carbon file APIs rather than using the POSIX file APIs.
Since when is resticting onesself to POSIX a part of constructing a usable desktop system? Doesn't GNU discuss these issues with Linus.... or do we have two whole layers of OS developers who refuse to think about such basic, ubiquitous use-cases as installing applications and drivers? If they do, I'm sure at least one of two things are true: a) their use-case actors are limited to programmers and sysadmins, b) they don't even know what actors and use-cases are.
I said firewire networking with friends' computers, not camcorders. I think you'll find a lot of distros don't have IP-over-Firewire pre-compiled.
Enabling a feature shouldn't be this difficult.
Need a driver for Wifi equipment? Just install it! (ooops, wait, thats on Windows and OS X... on linux I have to find something like ndiswrapper, prism54usb or even more obscure and COMPILE it with my kernel).
What do symlinks offer towards to goal of drag-and-drop application installs/moves/removal? Aliases track their targets, symlinks do not.
Consistency in KDE file dialogs beats Gnome hands-down, since before Gnome even got a file dialog. And IMHO if you don't get file dialogs right, then just forget it.
No sorry I'm being unfair. Most of the 'Gnome' apps are really just GTK, since so many programmers avoid all the rest.
Apparently it is so modular that many Gnome apps still use custom, ugly and dysfunctional file dialogs. Can't count on the file dialog 'module' being there, can we?
And Gnome is so great that programmers have gotten into the habbit of bypassing it and using only GTK. If I install kde-base and kde-libs, at least I can be certain that they'll see plenty of use.
GNU/Linux systems have progressed to the point where the usability issue is arguable. I use Xandros 3 and Mac OS X at home. My Linux use goes back to 1999 whereas I haven't been using OS X for more than 2 months...
To enable firewire networking with my friends' WinXP systems, I clicked on a few checkboxes in OS X. In Linux, I have to recompile the kernel.
GNU/Linux is a networking powerhouse: So WHY did it take until Dec 2004 for someone (Xandros) to come up with a VPN client?
Oh, and if Linus or the FSF would allow themselves to see just how wonderful application installs/moves/removals are under OS X then perhaps we would see support for aliases in Linux. Dear LORD the problems that would solve!
I have a VOIP provider (VoipJet.com) that only allows connection via IAX2 protocol. While I understand it is a better protocol than SIP, the only IAX2 softphone I can find on Linux is IaxComm (which often crashes).
(crickets chirping) There's a familiar idiom for ya.
Actually "bugger all" is in very common use abroad. Loosely translated, it means: "You stupid American, who never makes a habit of reading anything foreign even if its written in English... please do get a brain."
Does Windows XP suddenly need re-activation if I merely repartition the drive and change the bootloader? Because these operations are common when installing Linux for a dual-boot setup.
It would be a rotten way for MS to discourage the use of alternatives.
"In twenty years, the Chinese will BURY Microsoft by shutting them out of the biggest middle-class economy on the planet..."
BURY them? Never. The Chinese know that is a Soviet attitude that is bound to fail.
China Inc. + Microsoft is a merger waiting to happen. They are both monopolists and ultimately have too many interests in common. MS will come to be to Chinese IT what Walmart is to Chinese industry... an extension into the West.
If Walmart, who actively brought the government-run "workers union" into their Chinese operations but shut down stores in the West that are unionized by real independant unions-- if this drawling megacorp can come to favor China Inc. then so can Microsoft.
...don't know if it will work. Perhaps Intel will have an advantage if people feel they need to run Windows XP on their game machine, though I doubt that.
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...the "Yes Men" of IT?
I don't know about The Register, but ZDNet 'news' is starting to do anti-Linux trolls with very little substance. I think their intent is to start flamewars to increase their page hits.
I don't think Slashdot is above that kind of behavior.
Hmmm... Lets see: BMW, Volkswagen vs. GM and Ford. Daimler buys Chrysler. The American superiority isn't very clear there. And who's standard of living has been going down and who's has been rising in the last 20 years?
Soon Americans may have to install a lot more European windfarm equipment to keep our Phoenix toasty... and perhaps creatively destroy the environment a bit less.
+5 Bluster for you.
thanks
Ha... that 'bullshit' ideology is the only thing that has succeeded in producing a real alternative to "Microsoft everywhere". MS would never have gotten off their (collective ideological) asses to fix/replace NT if Linux had not come along.
Want alternatives without an organizing principle? Be my guest and switch to Amiga or QNX.
Having invested so much in a heavy-handed SCO shill (DiDio), the Yankee Group finds it now has a huge credibility problem on its hands.
So now the Yankee Group wants to blame a nebulously-defined class of scapegoats ("Linux extemists") while it tries to recover.
Face it Yankee: Even Gartner did not make the same factual and ideological mistakes you did. Having your wagon hitched to SCO must be no fun right now and no doubt it is hurting business; THAT is the fault of noone but DiDio and her boss.
I'm sure ZDnet got a lot of pageviews in their comments section from this one. They are going yellow to stir up the fanboy wars.
I think it means that countries with a mixed media market like the UK (with a large and independant public sector) have the right business model. The BBC 'customer' is anyone with a TV who pays the same license fee no matter how cheap or pricey the TV, so if other news outlets stop looking out the for little guy then the BBC almost certainly will fill the gap. This ensures that 'populist' news and entertainment remains a significant part of the information landscape.
:-)
:)
Castrate the "public" sector media (Pathetic Braodcasting System *cough*) by making it merely a charity and a recipient of the well-heeled and purchased politicians, and the populace is left with only commercial media interests which become increasingly monopolistic, deranged and abusive. With no pluralism or competing vision for the media market, and a small class of large investors demanding that media corps push their interests, the US mass media are going off the deep-end.
When you've grabbed all the money then you have everything in the world to lose. Then grabbing CONTROL seems utterly necessary. This is why the US news media seems so self-censoring: Their conglomerates are now grabbing control of the government so their inclination is to cover for more of the government's misdeeds. When government and industry merge to champion economic purity (the fascist way I described or the opposite communist way) then look out! Corporations have control over real property and policy but now they want virtually all "Intellectual Property" to be private, effectively giving them control over our culture.
Ya know, in Soviet Russia...
Well, they had only one acceptable economic model for production as well as one political party. The US two-party system is now a false dichotomy and a false choice because both parties subscribe to the same single overall vision for the economy: Commercial conglomerates.
(end of rant
Thank you.
...perfect for that role.
What drivers are available is an issue for the hardware manufacturers
I didn't say they weren't available. I know they're 'available' for compiling.
The only difference is that for Mac OSX the bulk of applications are written to use the Cocoa/Carbon file APIs rather than using the POSIX file APIs.
Since when is resticting onesself to POSIX a part of constructing a usable desktop system? Doesn't GNU discuss these issues with Linus.... or do we have two whole layers of OS developers who refuse to think about such basic, ubiquitous use-cases as installing applications and drivers? If they do, I'm sure at least one of two things are true: a) their use-case actors are limited to programmers and sysadmins, b) they don't even know what actors and use-cases are.
I said firewire networking with friends' computers, not camcorders. I think you'll find a lot of distros don't have IP-over-Firewire pre-compiled.
Enabling a feature shouldn't be this difficult.
Need a driver for Wifi equipment? Just install it! (ooops, wait, thats on Windows and OS X... on linux I have to find something like ndiswrapper, prism54usb or even more obscure and COMPILE it with my kernel).
What do symlinks offer towards to goal of drag-and-drop application installs/moves/removal? Aliases track their targets, symlinks do not.
Consistency in KDE file dialogs beats Gnome hands-down, since before Gnome even got a file dialog. And IMHO if you don't get file dialogs right, then just forget it.
No sorry I'm being unfair. Most of the 'Gnome' apps are really just GTK, since so many programmers avoid all the rest.
Apparently it is so modular that many Gnome apps still use custom, ugly and dysfunctional file dialogs. Can't count on the file dialog 'module' being there, can we?
And Gnome is so great that programmers have gotten into the habbit of bypassing it and using only GTK. If I install kde-base and kde-libs, at least I can be certain that they'll see plenty of use.
It's interesting that Linus has moved away from the PC at about the same time that IBM has.
AND... What existing hardware platform would best allow Linus to prepare for the CELL processor???
A Mac!
GNU/Linux systems have progressed to the point where the usability issue is arguable. I use Xandros 3 and Mac OS X at home. My Linux use goes back to 1999 whereas I haven't been using OS X for more than 2 months...
To enable firewire networking with my friends' WinXP systems, I clicked on a few checkboxes in OS X. In Linux, I have to recompile the kernel.
GNU/Linux is a networking powerhouse: So WHY did it take until Dec 2004 for someone (Xandros) to come up with a VPN client?
Oh, and if Linus or the FSF would allow themselves to see just how wonderful application installs/moves/removals are under OS X then perhaps we would see support for aliases in Linux. Dear LORD the problems that would solve!
You want mods to screen for spyware before they submit stories about a great new idea? You want to be treated like a kindergartener here on Slashdot?
What's it like being a Torry these days?
As a plugin for Reiser4 perhaps.
I have a VOIP provider (VoipJet.com) that only allows connection via IAX2 protocol. While I understand it is a better protocol than SIP, the only IAX2 softphone I can find on Linux is IaxComm (which often crashes).
(crickets chirping) There's a familiar idiom for ya.
Actually "bugger all" is in very common use abroad. Loosely translated, it means: "You stupid American, who never makes a habit of reading anything foreign even if its written in English... please do get a brain."
Thank you.
Does Windows XP suddenly need re-activation if I merely repartition the drive and change the bootloader? Because these operations are common when installing Linux for a dual-boot setup.
It would be a rotten way for MS to discourage the use of alternatives.
"In twenty years, the Chinese will BURY Microsoft by shutting them out of the biggest middle-class economy on the planet..."
BURY them? Never. The Chinese know that is a Soviet attitude that is bound to fail.
China Inc. + Microsoft is a merger waiting to happen. They are both monopolists and ultimately have too many interests in common. MS will come to be to Chinese IT what Walmart is to Chinese industry... an extension into the West.
If Walmart, who actively brought the government-run "workers union" into their Chinese operations but shut down stores in the West that are unionized by real independant unions-- if this drawling megacorp can come to favor China Inc. then so can Microsoft.
...don't know if it will work. Perhaps Intel will have an advantage if people feel they need to run Windows XP on their game machine, though I doubt that.
This is about IBM, Apple and Sony ganging up on Microsoft in a BIG WAY.
It certainly does appear that Mac OS X could be the primary beneficiary of the new CELL processor.