I find it interesting that the more socialist governments seem to be the ones first out of the box with these sorts of proposals.
The funny thing is that, at least in NZ, this is completely the opposite way around. The government that let the secret service (SIS) off the hook without explanation was the same one that pushes for free market etc. Hell there was even a report from the Herald that they were intending to give the SIS the ability to search someone/someplace without a warrant. They got found out and had to back-pedal on that one.
The people most likely to shoot this one down are both extremes of the spectrum. The Greens (You can't get more socialist!) and Act (Almost managed a flat tax rate, and ditching of social welfare). The real evil is the ignorant centre, who have never had to campaign for anything in their lives.
Anything that makes it easier to port software across platforms has to be a good thing. One of the greatest things that Windows has going for it, is its appeal to GUI programmers to build stuff for it. If we can convince the GUI programmers that they can also write for Linux, we will get more user-friendly widgets.
The Open Source software movement seems to build really great tools for the people that programmed them; however it's appeal to the less Linux literate has much to be desired. Borland (and other GUI programmers) has done a lot of research in its users. IMO something that Linux really needs.
the money they spent on trying to get this through all went down the drain.
Better than that, it informed a lot of people about blocking software, and some of those (who decided to find the other viewpoint) are now more educated about Internet privacy/censorship. People are now ad dumb as we sometimes think. Merely misinformed.
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The funny thing is that, at least in NZ, this is completely the opposite way around. The government that let the secret service (SIS) off the hook without explanation was the same one that pushes for free market etc. Hell there was even a report from the Herald that they were intending to give the SIS the ability to search someone/someplace without a warrant. They got found out and had to back-pedal on that one.
The people most likely to shoot this one down are both extremes of the spectrum. The Greens (You can't get more socialist!) and Act (Almost managed a flat tax rate, and ditching of social welfare). The real evil is the ignorant centre, who have never had to campaign for anything in their lives.
Can I start playing games as soon as I hit the "on" button? (10 seconds is too long for a quick game before you go out).
What about price? Isn't it better to buy the features separately; that way someone can watch a DVD, while someone else is playing a game.
Anything that makes it easier to port software across platforms has to be a good thing. One of the greatest things that Windows has going for it, is its appeal to GUI programmers to build stuff for it. If we can convince the GUI programmers that they can also write for Linux, we will get more user-friendly widgets.
The Open Source software movement seems to build really great tools for the people that programmed them; however it's appeal to the less Linux literate has much to be desired. Borland (and other GUI programmers) has done a lot of research in its users. IMO something that Linux really needs.
Thanks.
the money they spent on trying to get this through all went down the drain.
Better than that, it informed a lot of people about blocking software, and some of those (who decided to find the other viewpoint) are now more educated about Internet privacy/censorship. People are now ad dumb as we sometimes think. Merely misinformed.
Were you under a DoS attack? Or were your servers down while you played Quake deathmatch? I couldn't get on Slashdot last night for hours.
They were slashdotted by billions of geeks running Linux on their new Crusoe chips.
Has anyone written a Linux kernel for Modulo-2? i.e. could this be done with some of the other EPROM type chips?
Yea but it's refresh rate is terrible :)