You said `the specialized hardware developed by Nintendo and Sega just isn't needed, as shown by the Xbox'.
Whether it's `needed' or not is going to depend on a lot of things, which certainly aren't clear until the unit actually ships, regardless of the claims spit out by the marketroids.
It could turn out that the Xbox wipes the floor with Nintendo and Sega, but it could also turn out that the Xbox's mix of more generic parts just doesn't do it, and costs too much, or doesn't put out the performance they thought it would.
What many people (especially those decrying RMS as inflexible) seem to be missing is that, in the end, Jorrit seemed to have convinced RMS that his plan was a good idea, despite the negative points.
RMS can be very annoying, but it's not hard to get him to change his mind if you really have a good argument. If you *don't* have a good argument, well... you're doomed.
[as a side comment, Jorrit did come of as something of a clod, when he *kept* using the term term `open source' even though it was obviously pissing off RMS. Did he really not see this, or was he simply being a prick?]
Well, OK, the world is a shitty place, so I guess you can't really complain when we make YOU pay for it all. Of course it will be hell listening to you whine, but hell, the world is a shitty place after all.
I don't think `DoCoMo' is an abbreviation.
In Japanese `doko mo' means `everywhere', which seems an appropriate moniker for a cellular phone company...
I must admit, I've only seen MST3K a couple of times, after hearing a great deal about how hilarious it was.
When I finally watched it, I was really primed, but... the thing was, they weren't funny. Not even a little bit. They clearly *thought* they were funny, but it was like watching a couple of grade school kids telling fart jokes for an hour; not something for which you would use the word `wit.' In fact, the movies themselves weren't all that bad, and the thing I kept thinking was `I wish those morons in the front row would shut up!'
I certainly hope I just caught them on a bad day...
For those of you running debian, a much more convenient way to check out nautilus is to use the (aptable) debian archive provided by Takuo Kitame.
See the README at http://www.debian.org/~kitame/gnome/. for the exact lines to put in your/etc/apt/sources.list file. Then you can just do `apt-get install nautilus'.
I tried them out, they seem to work fine, and are much smaller in terms of both disk space and download size than the mega tar file provided by eazel.
The psone is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a `handheld' in the same sense the gameboy is. It's small (although nowhere near as small as a gameboy), and it's cute, but it also needs to be plugged into the wall, and uses a separate PSX controller.
[I don't know about you, but I usually use my gameboy while *standing up*, on the *train*. Try *that* with a psone!]
If you run debian stable, you can use the package system (apt-get) to dynamically install security fixes. This means that you get them far, *far*, sooner than if you use one of those _other_ distributions.
Redhat et al. *have* to make frequent releases (and more importantly, you have to install them, with all the attendant bother) because they don't have a better method like debian does.
Your analogy is much more silly. The entire value of currency lies in the prohibition against copying it --- so copying it actually does in some sense `destroy' the original.
As this article makes clear, music (or software, whatever) is a much more ambiguous case.
All the more to use BSD or like licensed code. Not necessarily because the code is better or worse or even because of the license itself, but to avoid the circus of misinformation, OS zealots, and publicity from OSS evangelists.
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You said `the specialized hardware developed by Nintendo and Sega just isn't needed, as shown by the Xbox'.
Whether it's `needed' or not is going to depend on a lot of things, which certainly aren't clear until the unit actually ships, regardless of the claims spit out by the marketroids.
It could turn out that the Xbox wipes the floor with Nintendo and Sega, but it could also turn out that the Xbox's mix of more generic parts just doesn't do it, and costs too much, or doesn't put out the performance they thought it would.
The point is: We'll see.
Excuse me, but the Xbox hasn't shown a damn thing yet.
Do you have constant brushes with black helicopters too...?
What many people (especially those decrying RMS as inflexible) seem to be missing is that, in the end, Jorrit seemed to have convinced RMS that his plan was a good idea, despite the negative points.
RMS can be very annoying, but it's not hard to get him to change his mind if you really have a good argument. If you *don't* have a good argument, well... you're doomed.
[as a side comment, Jorrit did come of as something of a clod, when he *kept* using the term term `open source' even though it was obviously pissing off RMS. Did he really not see this, or was he simply being a prick?]
Did you perhaps ask him what he thinks of Mach?
That makes the real Bill Joy crash too...
Well, OK, the world is a shitty place, so I guess you can't really complain when we make YOU pay for it all. Of course it will be hell listening to you whine, but hell, the world is a shitty place after all.
I don't think `DoCoMo' is an abbreviation.
In Japanese `doko mo' means `everywhere', which seems an appropriate moniker for a cellular phone company...
-Miles
I must admit, I've only seen MST3K a couple of times, after hearing a great deal about how hilarious it was.
... the thing was, they weren't funny. Not even a little bit. They clearly *thought* they were funny, but it was like watching a couple of grade school kids telling fart jokes for an hour; not something for which you would use the word `wit.' In fact, the movies themselves weren't all that bad, and the thing I kept thinking was `I wish those morons in the front row would shut up!'
When I finally watched it, I was really primed, but
I certainly hope I just caught them on a bad day...
Skeptical,
-Miles
For those of you running debian, a much more convenient way to check out nautilus is to use the (aptable) debian archive provided by Takuo Kitame.
See the README at http://www.debian.org/~kitame/gnome/. for the exact lines to put in your /etc/apt/sources.list file. Then you can just do `apt-get install nautilus'.
I tried them out, they seem to work fine, and are much smaller in terms of both disk space and download size than the mega tar file provided by eazel.
The psone is not, by any stretch of the imagination, a `handheld' in the same sense the gameboy is. It's small (although nowhere near as small as a gameboy), and it's cute, but it also needs to be plugged into the wall, and uses a separate PSX controller.
[I don't know about you, but I usually use my gameboy while *standing up*, on the *train*. Try *that* with a psone!]
-Miles
Unfortunately, "BetterC" has the side-effect of making your program look like it was written in fortran...
If you run debian stable, you can use the package system (apt-get) to dynamically install security fixes. This means that you get them far, *far*, sooner than if you use one of those _other_ distributions.
Redhat et al. *have* to make frequent releases (and more importantly, you have to install them, with all the attendant bother) because they don't have a better method like debian does.
Your analogy is much more silly. The entire value of currency lies in the prohibition against copying it --- so copying it actually does in some sense `destroy' the original.
As this article makes clear, music (or software, whatever) is a much more ambiguous case.
Apple's done a lot of good UI work, but the double-click thing is about as intuitive as haggis.
-Miles
You've obviously never done kernel hacking while dialed up from home. My question -- can you make it reboot using the serial port...?