Although Microsoft wasn't the first to market with motion-controlled games (see: Nintendo Wii), they did capture the market by building a next-generation motion control system. Have we seen any hints in WP7 that Microsoft has created anything but an also-ran in the smartphone space?
Languages should be taught first, because it means that students will be able to do more. Then, later, teach them to use an IDE, because it will help them organize their projects and develop faster.
While I agree with another poster that Ubuntu puts a bit more care than other distros into making sure its menu items get their descriptive function added to their name (e.g., "Firefox Web Browser" instead of just "Firefox"), there is some wiggle room here. While my dad won't know what Evince is from the name, he wouldn't really need to; he'd just open a PDF and it'd be there. By the same token, people are only familiar with Outlook being a mail/contacts/datebook program because it comes with Office.
When it comes down to it, programs have to be named intelligently, put into menus intelligently and, yes, people have to get used to the fact that they're not using Windows. It is a different system, with different programs. All we can do is build great programs like Evolution (or KMail) that make the transition easy.
It's not really a collaboration; Microsoft just chose to use Firefox's feed icon. Now, the real question is: does using the icon, which is under the MPL, require Microsoft to do anything different? (Like, if they modify it.)
I never use Google/ig, because the precise reason I started using Google (in addition to their better search) was that I was sick of "portals", where every square inch of screen space had to be taken up with something. From the moment I first visited Google, I knew I was looking at something better, because the Google folks decided that they didn't need to tart their site up to look like all those awful circa-1997 portals. Go look at http://www.excite.com/, because that's where we're all headed...*again*. The only difference is that now it's customizable with JavaScript instead of lots of server-side stuff.
No, thank you; I'll stick with regular old google.com or better yet, the Google search bar built into Firefox.
Wouldn't it be safe to say that Microsoft hasn't released the IE7 beta because if it screws up a person's computer, it's impossible to downgrade again? Or am I way off, there?
Well, yeah, but Linux gaming still doesn't hold a candle to Windows gaming. After all, they have DirectX; we have eighty-nine thousand different sound cores. I wish I were a developer, because if Linux could develop a solid competitor to DirectX, Microsoft would indeed be in (even more) dire trouble (than they are already).
Wow, those are nice Motif widgets in the screenshot at the top of the article. Now if we make CDE the default desktop for SCO Openserver, it'll be just like 1994 all over again!
While I think de Raadt is primarily complaining due to sour grapes, he does have some technical points. The BSD code is actually a lot cleaner than Linux code, so we really ought to be dedicating some effort to cleaning it up. On the other hand, OpenBSD doesn't support anywhere near as much hardware as Linux, so I guess it all evens out. He makes a point, though, that's worth discussing. We *should* be assessing what works in Linux and what doesn't, because that's how you keep an operating system great.
Those are four sound cores for Linux that I just thought of, straight off of the top of my head.
Why do we have all of these sound cores in 2005? I do think it's high time the Linux community merged or killed all the sound cores but one. Standardisation, people, is the name of the game. There is only a need for one high-quality sound core, and what I've seen of the Linux sound community is that the sound cores have added support for more cards, but not a whole lot else.
I have the same problem. My sound core (or should I say cores) all kill programs on my computer when I'm trying to listen to more than one sound at a time.
We can argue about a lot of things, but what we cannot deny as a community is that the DirectX system (DirectSound, Direct3D, etc) allowed anyone to write a program which used sound (or 3D, etc) without having to worry about it. Meanwhile, we in the Open Source community still do.
Simply put, we need to get out of the lets-all-do-things-our-own-way attitude and standardize these core functions if we ever hope to approach the mainstream and ask Grandma to use Linux. The idea is that over time, more than just the kernel should be standard. We should have solid, standard core functions which everyone can include in their distro and not have to worry about (much in the way we don't have to worry about the kernel).
That's the only way we'll ever hit mainstream critical mass.
This seems like a very bad idea. Isn't it exactly this sort of thing that got sites like Suprnova shut down? I mean, they weren't hosting a single copyrighted product, but they got killed anyway. Then again, perhaps Bram is looking for a big legal fight.
Such a thing, I think, will only serve to showcase how BT is used only for piracy. The MPAA will be able to say, "Look at all these copyrighted works they're distributing!", while good uses of BT, like Blizzard's BT distribution system, will be overlooked as a legitimate use of the technology. It seems that this will only serve to (further) de-legitimize BT in the eyes of the public, when in fact it's a godsend of technology. We should be promoting its legal uses and trying to minimize the perception of BT as solely a tool for piracy.
Orwell really was spot-on when he said in the late 1940s that "fascism" had ceased to have any specific meaning beyond "something undesirable."
Let's look at what fascism really is. It is neither Nazism, socialism or communism, nor is it hypercapitalism. In fact, there have only been two bona fide Fascist governments: that of Spain under Franco and Italy under Mussolini. That's it. Hitler, Stalin, Mao...none of them ever referred to their governments as fascist; Mussolini and Franco are the only self-described fascists.
I'm sure a lot of people are basing their definition of "fascism" on what Robert Kennedy, Jr. said: "Communism is the control of business by government; fascism is the control of government by business." However, do Franco's Spain and Mussolini's Italy fit that mold? Of course not! "Il Duce" wasn't a puppet of corporations and neither was Franco. If I remember correctly, Kennedy also included Nazi Germany as a fascist nation, too, but do you really think that Hitler was taking orders from BMW and Deutsche Bank (or whatever the major bank was in those days)?
People refer today to anything bad as "fascism". Hypercaptialism = fascism, communism = fascism, dictatorship = fascism, etc. In truth, fascism is very anti-capitalist and not communist, and although Franco was a dictator, that doesn't mean a dictator is automatically fascist.
Here's the big difference: Communism is indeed the control of business by government, but Fascism is a system in which the government used labor unions and trade federations used strikes and direct action to control business. THAT was Mussolini's vision, and that's about as far from "government controlled by business" as I can imagine one could get.
Be clear, people! If you're talking about a hypercapitalist attitude, then say "hypercapitalist".
George W. Bush is a hypercapitalist, because he wants to let corporations do pretty much whatever they want to make a profit while soaking the poor and middle classes. He's a miserable little bastard for making Northerners, Californians and gays the scapegoats for all our problems.
Price of health care is high? It must be all those awful people suing doctors for little problems like leaving instruments inside them and operating on the wrong patients; those bastards are just out to make an easy buck.
Drug prices are high? It must be because we have that nasty, socialist FDA; let's make them rubber-stamp every drug that comes in! Then when people start dying of the drugs' side effects, we tell them that they're just trying to make an easy buck from that poor, defenseless, mom-and-pop outfit known as Merck. (Insert "Mom" from "Futurama" advertisement here.)
War in Iraq going badly? Don't worry about budgeting for it; we'll just ask for more "emergency" spending, FOUR FREAKING YEARS after al-Qaeda^H^H^H^H^H^H Saddam attacked us. And heck, while we're at it, let's throw in little provisions to that "emergency" spending bill which flies directly in the face of the Tenth Amendment and eliminates public review of just about anything. Oh, and if you don't support this bill, you're unpatriotic and the terrorists win.
You nominated 218 judges and only 208 got confirmed? Well, it must be the fault of those communist hippie gay-loving limousine liberals who are secretly meeting RIGHT NOW to put a big pink dildo on the American flag! Those Northerners tolerate gays, so they must want that big, pink dildo on the flag, too! Let's eliminate the only course of action they have in preventing our Bible-humping judges, and let's say that the filibuster was THEIR idea, even though WE used it against the last Democratic (read: commie) president's judges.
We're not turning into Hitler's Germany. We're not turning into Franco's Spain. We're not turning into Stalin's Russia. We're turning into a terrible combination of Herbert Hoover's laissez-faire America and Pope Paul III's Inquisitional Catholic Church.
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Although Microsoft wasn't the first to market with motion-controlled games (see: Nintendo Wii), they did capture the market by building a next-generation motion control system. Have we seen any hints in WP7 that Microsoft has created anything but an also-ran in the smartphone space?
This is fantastic! So, when can we expect to see Microsoft release an NTFS API that allows users to safely read and write to those volumes?
Languages should be taught first, because it means that students will be able to do more. Then, later, teach them to use an IDE, because it will help them organize their projects and develop faster.
This means we can no longer trust him. Of course, I'll be 30 in a year, so will I be able to trust myself?
Intern: Sir, the iTunes Music Store is selling singles left, right and center!
Label Head: Bring this "iTunes"... TO ME.
I have one and I hate this laptop. I have never seen such an unmitigated piece of CRAP in all my time dealing with computers. I'm getting in on this.
Are they still around? I haven't heard that name in two or three years.
While I agree with another poster that Ubuntu puts a bit more care than other distros into making sure its menu items get their descriptive function added to their name (e.g., "Firefox Web Browser" instead of just "Firefox"), there is some wiggle room here. While my dad won't know what Evince is from the name, he wouldn't really need to; he'd just open a PDF and it'd be there. By the same token, people are only familiar with Outlook being a mail/contacts/datebook program because it comes with Office.
When it comes down to it, programs have to be named intelligently, put into menus intelligently and, yes, people have to get used to the fact that they're not using Windows. It is a different system, with different programs. All we can do is build great programs like Evolution (or KMail) that make the transition easy.
It's not really a collaboration; Microsoft just chose to use Firefox's feed icon. Now, the real question is: does using the icon, which is under the MPL, require Microsoft to do anything different? (Like, if they modify it.)
I never use Google/ig, because the precise reason I started using Google (in addition to their better search) was that I was sick of "portals", where every square inch of screen space had to be taken up with something. From the moment I first visited Google, I knew I was looking at something better, because the Google folks decided that they didn't need to tart their site up to look like all those awful circa-1997 portals. Go look at http://www.excite.com/, because that's where we're all headed...*again*. The only difference is that now it's customizable with JavaScript instead of lots of server-side stuff.
No, thank you; I'll stick with regular old google.com or better yet, the Google search bar built into Firefox.
The best interface is no interface.
Wouldn't it be safe to say that Microsoft hasn't released the IE7 beta because if it screws up a person's computer, it's impossible to downgrade again? Or am I way off, there?
I actually blogged about both why MSFT ought to dump Windows' codebase for a BSD-based one and why Microsoft has lost control of their ship some time ago. I'd appreciate any thoughts.
I predict that within a month, someone will hack out an extension or extensions for Firefox that do what Flock does. Then, it will be obviated.
Well, yeah, but Linux gaming still doesn't hold a candle to Windows gaming. After all, they have DirectX; we have eighty-nine thousand different sound cores. I wish I were a developer, because if Linux could develop a solid competitor to DirectX, Microsoft would indeed be in (even more) dire trouble (than they are already).
I'd say this sounds like one of the best compliments one could get: a Windows-lover and Linux-hater saying Ubuntu was nice. Thank you, sir!
Because they're there.
Oh, well; I wasn't really using the Fourth Amendment, anyway.
Could you elaborate on what exatly a "userland" is and of what it is comprised?
Wow, those are nice Motif widgets in the screenshot at the top of the article. Now if we make CDE the default desktop for SCO Openserver, it'll be just like 1994 all over again!
Throwing out all that hardware is incredibly wasteful. For goodness' sake, folks, just get a Knoppix CD. Boom, no more spyware.
If you absolutely MUST get rid of your hardware, find a recycling center (computers contain lots of things like lead, cadmium, barium and mercury, none of which we need in our landfills) or to a school or donation program.
OH, NO. God help us.
While I think de Raadt is primarily complaining due to sour grapes, he does have some technical points. The BSD code is actually a lot cleaner than Linux code, so we really ought to be dedicating some effort to cleaning it up. On the other hand, OpenBSD doesn't support anywhere near as much hardware as Linux, so I guess it all evens out. He makes a point, though, that's worth discussing. We *should* be assessing what works in Linux and what doesn't, because that's how you keep an operating system great.
ALSA. OSS. ARTS. ESD.
Those are four sound cores for Linux that I just thought of, straight off of the top of my head.
Why do we have all of these sound cores in 2005? I do think it's high time the Linux community merged or killed all the sound cores but one. Standardisation, people, is the name of the game. There is only a need for one high-quality sound core, and what I've seen of the Linux sound community is that the sound cores have added support for more cards, but not a whole lot else.
I have the same problem. My sound core (or should I say cores) all kill programs on my computer when I'm trying to listen to more than one sound at a time.
We can argue about a lot of things, but what we cannot deny as a community is that the DirectX system (DirectSound, Direct3D, etc) allowed anyone to write a program which used sound (or 3D, etc) without having to worry about it. Meanwhile, we in the Open Source community still do.
Simply put, we need to get out of the lets-all-do-things-our-own-way attitude and standardize these core functions if we ever hope to approach the mainstream and ask Grandma to use Linux. The idea is that over time, more than just the kernel should be standard. We should have solid, standard core functions which everyone can include in their distro and not have to worry about (much in the way we don't have to worry about the kernel).
That's the only way we'll ever hit mainstream critical mass.
This seems like a very bad idea. Isn't it exactly this sort of thing that got sites like Suprnova shut down? I mean, they weren't hosting a single copyrighted product, but they got killed anyway. Then again, perhaps Bram is looking for a big legal fight.
Such a thing, I think, will only serve to showcase how BT is used only for piracy. The MPAA will be able to say, "Look at all these copyrighted works they're distributing!", while good uses of BT, like Blizzard's BT distribution system, will be overlooked as a legitimate use of the technology. It seems that this will only serve to (further) de-legitimize BT in the eyes of the public, when in fact it's a godsend of technology. We should be promoting its legal uses and trying to minimize the perception of BT as solely a tool for piracy.
Orwell really was spot-on when he said in the late 1940s that "fascism" had ceased to have any specific meaning beyond "something undesirable."
Let's look at what fascism really is. It is neither Nazism, socialism or communism, nor is it hypercapitalism. In fact, there have only been two bona fide Fascist governments: that of Spain under Franco and Italy under Mussolini. That's it. Hitler, Stalin, Mao...none of them ever referred to their governments as fascist; Mussolini and Franco are the only self-described fascists.
I'm sure a lot of people are basing their definition of "fascism" on what Robert Kennedy, Jr. said: "Communism is the control of business by government; fascism is the control of government by business." However, do Franco's Spain and Mussolini's Italy fit that mold? Of course not! "Il Duce" wasn't a puppet of corporations and neither was Franco. If I remember correctly, Kennedy also included Nazi Germany as a fascist nation, too, but do you really think that Hitler was taking orders from BMW and Deutsche Bank (or whatever the major bank was in those days)?
People refer today to anything bad as "fascism". Hypercaptialism = fascism, communism = fascism, dictatorship = fascism, etc. In truth, fascism is very anti-capitalist and not communist, and although Franco was a dictator, that doesn't mean a dictator is automatically fascist.
Here's the big difference: Communism is indeed the control of business by government, but Fascism is a system in which the government used labor unions and trade federations used strikes and direct action to control business. THAT was Mussolini's vision, and that's about as far from "government controlled by business" as I can imagine one could get.
Be clear, people! If you're talking about a hypercapitalist attitude, then say "hypercapitalist".
George W. Bush is a hypercapitalist, because he wants to let corporations do pretty much whatever they want to make a profit while soaking the poor and middle classes. He's a miserable little bastard for making Northerners, Californians and gays the scapegoats for all our problems.
We're not turning into Hitler's Germany. We're not turning into Franco's Spain. We're not turning into Stalin's Russia. We're turning into a terrible combination of Herbert Hoover's laissez-faire America and Pope Paul III's Inquisitional Catholic Church.