Cheap hardware is what brought PCs to the masses. Bugs are inevitable in software, not fixing them or at times even acknowledging them is Microsoft's forte. The problem with security holes is that they are security holes. The problem with Microsoft's security holes is that they create so farking many of them and don't fix them.
Windows is a harmless amusing piece of junk. Microsoft's illegal monopoly is pure evil from the darkest pits of hell. They are the enemy of the free market, they oppose and destroy competition. So there.
The MM10 used Transmeta's older Crusoe processor, which was praised for its miserly power consumption but panned for its performance..............Sharp's tests showed that Efficeon delivers about 1.4 times the performance of Crusoe
Windows and Mac OS X will stop the HD after a period of inactivity. I've never got this working in Linux. The drive sleeps briefly before spinning up again. Maybe writing log messages or accessing the swap partition. Don't know. Anyway, that's probably a small part of the problem.
The use of the term "nigger members" is unwarranted and grossly offensive.
Freedom and democracy are two different things. Indeed if it is the will of the majority, or rather the dominant minority as is the case in most western democracies, then numerous personal freedoms can be oppressively curtailed. The DMCA and the Patriot act are two delightful examples of modern democracy at work.
An 'Associate Member' is just the name given to a private sponsor who has donated more than a certain amount of money to the FSF. Are you suggesting that through this donation they have legitimately purchased voting rights?
This is a curious and I suspect baseless allegation. Who donated the money? When? Why?
I believe RMS's advocacy work is performed on behalf of the FSF, a non profit organisation which relies on private and corporate sponsorship. These donations would be made to the FSF, not to RMS. I suspect RMS receives a salary from the FSF for his work, though I can't confirm that.
Curiously the MacOS X version of Flash MX sucks rocks. It's a shabby bit of Carbon wrapped cruft that runs well in OS 9 but I've found it really flakey in OS X.
When I was attending Affluent-White-Kids-In-A-Western-Industrialised-Na tion high school as a youngster it was all about the Walkman. If you were cool you had one and you swapped mix tapes at lunch time and hid behind the bike sheds smoking cigarettes and all that sort of crap. I didn't have one. Now I work with computers. I forget what my point was.
Too right. I was quietly chuckling at an ad the other day. A soothing voice explaining how 'our' commitment to something or other was feeding the starving millions and curing cancer and ultimately guaranteed peace for all mankind or something and then suddenly there's the Microsoft logo and I'm like 'WTF?', you guys aren't bringing me any peace at all, you just make me really angry and.... oops sorry.
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Python and Ruby are not scripting languages. They are portable byte compiled object-oriented programming languages. Hell, even Perl is a programming language.
Scripting languages offer a programming interface to automate the use of a specific tool. eg. Javascript in a browser, Bash in a terminal.
Python, Ruby, Perl and perhaps Rexx (can't be sure, haven't used it) can be used for general programming which might otherwise be tackled in C, C++, Java, etc.
What's on the CD is usually hopelessly out of date. It's enough to build a working system. Once it's going and online you use apt-get to upgrade either individual packages or the whole system, including the kernel. This can take a long time, particularly if you have a slow connection.
Once the system is up-to-date you continue to update packages using apt-get indefinitely. There is no 'next version', you never need to burn/buy CDs and upgrade or rebuild.
If you are running servers this is very good. If you are running a desktop machine and you're used to Windows, MacOS or other Linux distros this is, as you say, very confusing.
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100% troll. Or perhaps you are retarded.
Cheap hardware is what brought PCs to the masses. Bugs are inevitable in software, not fixing them or at times even acknowledging them is Microsoft's forte. The problem with security holes is that they are security holes. The problem with Microsoft's security holes is that they create so farking many of them and don't fix them.
Windows is a harmless amusing piece of junk. Microsoft's illegal monopoly is pure evil from the darkest pits of hell. They are the enemy of the free market, they oppose and destroy competition. So there.
And you are a troll.
Python, Perl, Ruby, gcc, Gnome, KDE, the Linux kernel, GNU tools, etc.
Oh yeah, going nowhere because the Free and open source development model has stifled development.
No, it's a zillion that goes both ways.
RTFA
The MM10 used Transmeta's older Crusoe processor, which was praised for its miserly power consumption but panned for its performance..............Sharp's tests showed that Efficeon delivers about 1.4 times the performance of Crusoe
No way, gorillas. We could breed an army of super intelligent gorillas to take over the world.
And regular shots of B12.
How would buying a Mac improve the battery life on his Thinkpad? You are a crazy person.
Incidentally I have an iBook and I get great battery life under Linux (YDL 3.01). Pretty much the same battery life as I used to get under OS X.
Windows and Mac OS X will stop the HD after a period of inactivity. I've never got this working in Linux. The drive sleeps briefly before spinning up again. Maybe writing log messages or accessing the swap partition. Don't know. Anyway, that's probably a small part of the problem.
The use of the term "nigger members" is unwarranted and grossly offensive.
Freedom and democracy are two different things. Indeed if it is the will of the majority, or rather the dominant minority as is the case in most western democracies, then numerous personal freedoms can be oppressively curtailed. The DMCA and the Patriot act are two delightful examples of modern democracy at work.
An 'Associate Member' is just the name given to a private sponsor who has donated more than a certain amount of money to the FSF. Are you suggesting that through this donation they have legitimately purchased voting rights?
RMS has personally received millions of dollars
This is a curious and I suspect baseless allegation. Who donated the money? When? Why?
I believe RMS's advocacy work is performed on behalf of the FSF, a non profit organisation which relies on private and corporate sponsorship. These donations would be made to the FSF, not to RMS. I suspect RMS receives a salary from the FSF for his work, though I can't confirm that.
Curiously the MacOS X version of Flash MX sucks rocks. It's a shabby bit of Carbon wrapped cruft that runs well in OS 9 but I've found it really flakey in OS X.
oh sorry, I thought you said SCO
One definition of sigil is 'magic symbol'.
Having recently used Perl for the first time I found the use of 'magic symbols' like '@_' and '$_' confusing. Does Ruby have similar 'features' ?
Is it useless? Was it intended to be useless? Probably art.
dual Apple Power Mac G5 systems running a custom Windows NT Kernel.
When I was attending Affluent-White-Kids-In-A-Western-Industrialised-Na tion high school as a youngster it was all about the Walkman. If you were cool you had one and you swapped mix tapes at lunch time and hid behind the bike sheds smoking cigarettes and all that sort of crap. I didn't have one. Now I work with computers. I forget what my point was.
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Too right, except that you I'm sure you meant Python.
Too right. I was quietly chuckling at an ad the other day. A soothing voice explaining how 'our' commitment to something or other was feeding the starving millions and curing cancer and ultimately guaranteed peace for all mankind or something and then suddenly there's the Microsoft logo and I'm like 'WTF?', you guys aren't bringing me any peace at all, you just make me really angry and .... oops sorry.
Python and Ruby are not scripting languages. They are portable byte compiled object-oriented programming languages. Hell, even Perl is a programming language.
Scripting languages offer a programming interface to automate the use of a specific tool. eg. Javascript in a browser, Bash in a terminal.
Python, Ruby, Perl and perhaps Rexx (can't be sure, haven't used it) can be used for general programming which might otherwise be tackled in C, C++, Java, etc.
So many people miss the point of Debian.
What's on the CD is usually hopelessly out of date. It's enough to build a working system. Once it's going and online you use apt-get to upgrade either individual packages or the whole system, including the kernel. This can take a long time, particularly if you have a slow connection.
Once the system is up-to-date you continue to update packages using apt-get indefinitely. There is no 'next version', you never need to burn/buy CDs and upgrade or rebuild.
If you are running servers this is very good. If you are running a desktop machine and you're used to Windows, MacOS or other Linux distros this is, as you say, very confusing.
Seems to me the obvious solution is to boot PPC Linux and run OS X in a window under Mac-On-Linux.
A fedora is a type of hat. Get it?
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=fedora
oops, it may have been GNUDarwin that I had problems with. I don't recall. OK, something broke my system real bad.