How would the BSD license have saved LG and others for signing patent licenses with Microsoft? Let me rephrase that: The BSD license would not have helped LG at all.
Also, why the fuck should FOSS users care about what Apple does for their own closed-source OS? Before you say Darwin, consider the fact that not a single soul uses Darwin as his main OS. Why? Because it's shit.
If you think Windows isn't a real OS, you probably wouldn't recognise one anyway, and you certainly wouldn't be able to get one running properly on an ARM system.
Because you can get something like the Asus Eee Pad Transformer with a real OS to run real apps, not some crippled consumer bullshit like iOS and Android. Well, that's what I hope for, anyway.
Faulkner. Pynchon's V (and the V2 of Gravity's Rainbow) is obviously another white whale. Same can be said for the Samizdat of DFW's Infinite Jest (though I imagine Pynchon was more important for him than Melville). Rushdie, of course. Cormack McCarthy. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan.
The difference is, Melville's influence on other great literature is, well, great, whereas Tolkien just created a vast industry of crappy fantasy literature.
Also, there was no Nobel prize until some time after Melville's death.
Oh great. An AC getting modded up +2 for reposting the same link from the summary that SharkLaser (a known shill, admittedly) is modded down for disputing with other links. And some people say Slashdot isn't an echo chamber of idiot fanboys reposting the same inane bullshit over and over.
There's always a bunch of people who won't like a game, and Crysis 2 has 86% on Metacritic. Somehow, I think the more objective view of paid critics sort of outweighs the negative opinion of some wanker on an internet messageboard.
For their computers, sure, but for phones, that's simply untrue. Planned obsolescence is part of Apple's phone business as well, but all the Android pushers are far worse. I've been looking at the Motorola Defy+ lately, then I noticed the older and slightly slower Defy (nonplus) isn't even updated to Gingerbread, despite being practically identical to the Defy+. It's also locked up tight so that the nice CyanogenMod will have to run on the not so nice Froyo kernel. And when the bootloader isn't locked and encrypted, the kernel depends on all sorts of binary blob bullshit, meaning you're stuck with an antiquated kernel anyway.
I'm not sure whether Motorola is the worst offender, I'm just saying at least Apple isn't even close to their level of shittiness.
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How would the BSD license have saved LG and others for signing patent licenses with Microsoft? Let me rephrase that: The BSD license would not have helped LG at all.
Also, why the fuck should FOSS users care about what Apple does for their own closed-source OS? Before you say Darwin, consider the fact that not a single soul uses Darwin as his main OS. Why? Because it's shit.
SharkLaser is Microsoft shill. The GPL is against Microsoft's interests. bonch is an Apple shill.
"Sight". Written like someone using a touch screen or suffering a stroke.
Because loads of people here are buying into the nonsense that touchscreens are so awesome and the future of everything.
If you think Windows isn't a real OS, you probably wouldn't recognise one anyway, and you certainly wouldn't be able to get one running properly on an ARM system.
Because you can get something like the Asus Eee Pad Transformer with a real OS to run real apps, not some crippled consumer bullshit like iOS and Android. Well, that's what I hope for, anyway.
So it's based on Meego the same way that Wings were based on Beatles.
If it's using the EFL library, then perhaps it's based on Bada rather than Meego, which revolved around Qt?
That would make ebooks worse than they actually are.
Faulkner. Pynchon's V (and the V2 of Gravity's Rainbow) is obviously another white whale. Same can be said for the Samizdat of DFW's Infinite Jest (though I imagine Pynchon was more important for him than Melville). Rushdie, of course. Cormack McCarthy. Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan.
He was a linguist, not a stylist. His prose is utter shit.
The difference is, Melville's influence on other great literature is, well, great, whereas Tolkien just created a vast industry of crappy fantasy literature.
Also, there was no Nobel prize until some time after Melville's death.
E: somethinginteresting depends on bigmedia (>= 2.0.1-1) but will not get installed.
It's not based on prejudice, it's based on observation of libertarians, many of them on this site. You're idiots.
Idiot.
This isn't about rooting.
No, I think most of that lot aren't internet addicts.
Libertarians are more likely to be intellectually immature internet addicts with far too high an opinion of themselves.
Oh great. An AC getting modded up +2 for reposting the same link from the summary that SharkLaser (a known shill, admittedly) is modded down for disputing with other links. And some people say Slashdot isn't an echo chamber of idiot fanboys reposting the same inane bullshit over and over.
Lumia seems to sell very well in the Netherlands.
There's always a bunch of people who won't like a game, and Crysis 2 has 86% on Metacritic. Somehow, I think the more objective view of paid critics sort of outweighs the negative opinion of some wanker on an internet messageboard.
Oh, it's like this: global warming cause taxes, taxes are wrong and therefore global warming is wrong. QED.
For their computers, sure, but for phones, that's simply untrue. Planned obsolescence is part of Apple's phone business as well, but all the Android pushers are far worse. I've been looking at the Motorola Defy+ lately, then I noticed the older and slightly slower Defy (nonplus) isn't even updated to Gingerbread, despite being practically identical to the Defy+. It's also locked up tight so that the nice CyanogenMod will have to run on the not so nice Froyo kernel. And when the bootloader isn't locked and encrypted, the kernel depends on all sorts of binary blob bullshit, meaning you're stuck with an antiquated kernel anyway.
I'm not sure whether Motorola is the worst offender, I'm just saying at least Apple isn't even close to their level of shittiness.
You mean fashion accessories for narcissists.
The same goes for most of Slashdot.
The whole world is techno-geek these days. At least as much as the average Slashbot.