Except that what the politicians in Washington are selling as "free market" has nothing to do with it.
The bubble that just burst has a lot to do with bad regulation and too low interest rates. The fed just pumped way too much money into the markets. The current bailout feels like communism.
No free markets sir! (Just because they are selling it to you doesn't mean it has anything to do with it).
In a free market those that f*ck up fail. And I don't see those banks fail, do you?
I thought I was clear. You need Ram + x (where x can be as small as you like) for secure suspend to disk not using one of those awsome tools the other people described.
Whatever you do, you need to remember to setup you swap partition to as large or bigger than your ram in order to be able to use the "suspend to disk" function in Linux. On older laptops suspend is sometimes handled by the bios. Then you need a special partition. But nowdays Linux just suspends to your swap. And if your memory was full...
And it already had everything I would want from a Netbook. Decent ruggedized hardware. Somewhere around 70% the size of a small notebook. And an embedded hardware and os for cheaper price and longer battery life. Smartphones already carry all the features most people would ever want. Webbrowsing, basic text editing and email. Plus wlan, bluetooth, gps, sd flash card slot and whatnot. So why not a Windows Mobile 6.1 subnotebook with flash based storage and usb for removeble storage? Bluetooth and wlan could be optional, based on price. And what about a gsm module. Heck, just any existing smartphone and add a larger keyboard and screen. And use the power from the larger battery to add the power for the larger screen. For eight to ten hours runtime.
But I am sure Microsoft prohibits that, because they don't want their five dollar os to eat away from their fifty dollar os. Symbian doesn't have a decent interface for that. Linux used to be problematic, because of the lacking powersave features.
Maybe someone will just use Android or whatever to finally build a normal Netbook again.
Nokia also has some sort of webpad with a Linux os and gui. Maybe that gui could do.
The IPhone has DRM. Of the worst kind. They control everything. I can remember when the/. community was up in arms about the TCPA and TPM. But with Apple this is suddenly OK? I don't get it.
And now they sue you if you happen to mention that they use their DRM to block you?
"it's bane in the desktop market, and for software support as well." That's probabely why Debian has so few programs...
Maybe I am dumb, because I am not a developer, but AFAIR someone already stated that Linux now supports more hardware in existence than any other os. It might have not been established as a fact, but I suppose in hardware support Linux can compete with the rest of them. Your comment was not about hardware though, it was about software.
No one can argue that the number of programs released for Windows is much, much higher than for Linux. But the reason for that is mainly the difference between open and closed source. In the closed source area there are many, many programs for the same purpose. In Linux when you want to develope something you can help in an already existing one making it better, or just use existing code and libs and build something on top. With closed source all unmaintained programs die. I do believe that the number of actively maintained programs in Windows is much much lower, but still larger than for Linux. But when you take into account that there is more cooperation than competition in the oss world (competition still is strong and healthy, see Gnome vs. KDE, RedHat vs. Suse vs. xBSD) more people work together on one projet instead of alone on their own. Now my guess would be that Linux and Windows are about equal with respect to how many programs are out there that fulfill different purposes. And by making that guess the derived guess would be that software support in Linux is pretty good. But then again I am not really a developer, so maybe this is all just bs.
Actually that is really, really cheap compared to other methods. And other methods won't even work, because the politicians will never be able to agree upon quotas much less enforce them (India, China, Brazil). Their population is so indoctrinated by propaganda about the evil west that they would think global warming is a western invention to prevent them from attaining equal status.
But in such a complex system, where would you spray the water? I heard the climate is so vast and complex that there are even places where it gets colder because of climate change.
You are most likely not reading this, but I would like to clarify that issue non the less, because I suppose my disclaimer was not sufficiant and maybe other people will fail to understand this as well.
I am not from the "angry left". In fact, I am not even from the Americas. And here in my country I also made some bad experience with people that call themselves "leftists". But what I did wrote was that it doesn't matter if you consider yourself left, right or whatever, double standards are bad. And I have seen them all do it.
I am just reading 1984 from George Orwell and I came up with calling it doublethink, because it is so fitting. And here is where the tech issue comes in. If you use doublethink (or double standards) on ANY issure, including technology, it doesn't really matter what you are saying, since you will turn around and say or do something entirely different.
And I still think McCain made some smart foreign policy speeches during the 90s. Foreign policy can be very difficult, and one of the good things about McCain is that at least he is smarter than Bush by a long shot.
I would like to close my argument with my opinion on the term "Angry Left". I am following US politics very closely and I always thought that the word "angry" would fit much better for the religious conservative than on any of the major left wing political groups. There is so much the right wingers hate. For example the Clintons. Hillary for herself and Bill for a b-job. "Angry" would therefore be much better used to describe large parts of the Republican party. The "angry right".
You know, I don't care if they are right or left or nuts or both. But double standards are double standards and the right wing conservatives have a lot of issues where doublethink is required.
Disclaimer: I used to like McCain back in the 90s when I read some smart foreign policy stuff and when he was working for campaign finance reform and generally across party lines. But I am not sure if he would make a better president than Obama.
"The Left" doesn't need Tony Blair for a bad name: 20th century Man-made Megadeaths # TOTAL: 92M deaths by Communism. # RESIDUE: 96M deaths by non-Communism. So according to this website (http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat8.htm) Communism ist to blame for about half the major losses of life of the 20th century.
I believe "Left" and "Right" to be more of historical than political relevance and actually cloud current political issues at hand. Many times they are used for exactly that reason.
I mean I don't want to barge ahead. We only read the accounts of one side, but if it is even remotly true the US of A is far from being a free country. Why would the police even want to intimidate people that way? Only if there was a political reason. Semi-random police brutality is one thing, but the report looks like those were fairly large scale orchestrated moves by the police to influence politics. When the police stops working as law enforcment and starts working for a political party how far is that from a banana republic?
And then the W guy comes up and talks about spreading democracy in the middle east? How about spreading it in Minneapolis?
I always thought the people take diet coke instead of normal coke precisely because it is not sticky, because it does not contain sugar. And I also used to believe that most of the corrosive behaviour of coke also comes from the sugar. But that's just me.
Black is a good background color. When first I used IceWM I had a black background as well, but changed to the default blue of IceWM, because I liked it better. I know have the default blue of KDE without a picture. I think black would be good for many people with an awful taste they dislike themselves...
Freedom to choose who will support the apps in the future should there be any disagreement with the original developer. Some people try to educate the customers about that. From the developer perspective it looks quite different. They they it should be their right to lock in the customer with closed source.
As I am mainly a customer and not a developer it always seems that developers cry for freedom to choose closed source is only their twisted version of it. Well, as a customer I CHOOSE choice in support and avoid lock-ins. I choose free software over proprietary stuff.
With binary you are bound to the manufacturer. If he goes out of business or simple chooses not to support you any more you lost. Customers that for some reason need long term support for their hardware (more than two to three years) have good reasons to choose free software over closed source.
One example would be large customers that could pay for someone else to support them with open source. Another example would be myself. Some hardware I use is not supported in Windows XP (granted it is very little, but still), and most is not supported in Vista. Why should I need to buy new stuff even if my old stuff still works? Wireless network hardware is a huge issue. Encryption if often for some reason part of the driver. So with binary crap many older cards don't support WPA. In Linux they do, out of the box, as long as the hardware is supported.
So while your post is correct for some people, there are many very real and very pressing issues why open source matters to many customers. It's just that many customers are too dumb and get roped into dependencies (bread and butter for the it industry) on a single company.
All I am asking is not to make fun of savy customers who demand choice.
Game companies create new games all the time that demand new hardware and the hardware industry then promotes them. Even if those games could run on older hardware and look almost if not just as nice. So Quake was never given away with new graphic hardware? And how about that "the way it's meant to be played"?
It is very simple. They have absolutely no motivation either way, because they have a monopoly for certain things on the web. And because there is only one player (proprietary or not) it is also a gaping security hole. Millions of installs, monoculture (only one client), security nightmare. And the browser becomes the OS, because the apps are now net based.
We need other clients, and since no company seems to do it (like for example PDF where the Foxit PDF reader is a very good alternative that I recommend for speed and security) open source seems the way to go. And the open source client could even be compiled for Win32, Linux AMD64, OpenBSD, IPhone,...
I would be willing to pay money for something like that. Does Gnash (or something similar) have a way to donate? Because I think lots of people might want an alternate client. Maybe they would even get enough money to fund a developer. Maybe Mozilla should be asked to lend a hand?
Take something as simple as bribes. For example if a candidate already had a platform that a certain industry likes they are going to sponsor that. Now do some evolution (only two parties, lots of pre-elections until someone rises to the top) and finally the politician with the most support has risen to the top. And it is the politician with the platform best suited to all the people that give money to them.
But they aren't bribed now. They are just supported by the people that benefit from his platform.
This is an oversimplification of the complex processes in politics. Also the issues are very complex as well. And politicians can't lie anymore anyways (risk of exposure) so they don't even say anything anymore. Sure they talk, but do they say anything?
The most honest politician is probabely the one you completely disagree with. Unfortunately it is usually the lunatic on the sidelines.
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Except that what the politicians in Washington are selling as "free market" has nothing to do with it.
The bubble that just burst has a lot to do with bad regulation and too low interest rates. The fed just pumped way too much money into the markets. The current bailout feels like communism.
No free markets sir! (Just because they are selling it to you doesn't mean it has anything to do with it).
In a free market those that f*ck up fail. And I don't see those banks fail, do you?
I thought I was clear. You need Ram + x (where x can be as small as you like) for secure suspend to disk not using one of those awsome tools the other people described.
Not Ram x2 !
Autoimmune disease is on the rise. I would bet on that.
Or some other "modern" disease.
Whatever you do, you need to remember to setup you swap partition to as large or bigger than your ram in order to be able to use the "suspend to disk" function in Linux. On older laptops suspend is sometimes handled by the bios. Then you need a special partition. But nowdays Linux just suspends to your swap. And if your memory was full ...
I would say the original Netbook was the Psion Netbook
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Netbook
And it already had everything I would want from a Netbook. Decent ruggedized hardware. Somewhere around 70% the size of a small notebook. And an embedded hardware and os for cheaper price and longer battery life. Smartphones already carry all the features most people would ever want. Webbrowsing, basic text editing and email. Plus wlan, bluetooth, gps, sd flash card slot and whatnot. So why not a Windows Mobile 6.1 subnotebook with flash based storage and usb for removeble storage? Bluetooth and wlan could be optional, based on price. And what about a gsm module. Heck, just any existing smartphone and add a larger keyboard and screen. And use the power from the larger battery to add the power for the larger screen. For eight to ten hours runtime.
But I am sure Microsoft prohibits that, because they don't want their five dollar os to eat away from their fifty dollar os. Symbian doesn't have a decent interface for that. Linux used to be problematic, because of the lacking powersave features.
Maybe someone will just use Android or whatever to finally build a normal Netbook again.
Nokia also has some sort of webpad with a Linux os and gui. Maybe that gui could do.
I don't get why this video has only about 20.000 views:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgFbqSYdNK4
The IPhone has DRM. Of the worst kind. They control everything. I can remember when the /. community was up in arms about the TCPA and TPM. But with Apple this is suddenly OK? I don't get it.
And now they sue you if you happen to mention that they use their DRM to block you?
Will I be sued for this comment?
Studies Say Ideology Trumps Facts
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/09/25/036232
This comment was very nice: "cognitive dissonance"
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=975171&cid=25148179
Applied to Apple it would mean that people that bought completely overpriced Apple products are now looking for justification and trying to convince other people that it was right to spend so much money.
See? Bush was right. The US did invade the right country. 9/11 is the whole reason for the war in Iraq.
"And what about the war in Afghanistan?"
Afga-What?
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Was that a good Palin?
"it's bane in the desktop market, and for software support as well."
That's probabely why Debian has so few programs...
Maybe I am dumb, because I am not a developer, but AFAIR someone already stated that Linux now supports more hardware in existence than any other os. It might have not been established as a fact, but I suppose in hardware support Linux can compete with the rest of them. Your comment was not about hardware though, it was about software.
No one can argue that the number of programs released for Windows is much, much higher than for Linux. But the reason for that is mainly the difference between open and closed source. In the closed source area there are many, many programs for the same purpose. In Linux when you want to develope something you can help in an already existing one making it better, or just use existing code and libs and build something on top. With closed source all unmaintained programs die. I do believe that the number of actively maintained programs in Windows is much much lower, but still larger than for Linux. But when you take into account that there is more cooperation than competition in the oss world (competition still is strong and healthy, see Gnome vs. KDE, RedHat vs. Suse vs. xBSD) more people work together on one projet instead of alone on their own.
Now my guess would be that Linux and Windows are about equal with respect to how many programs are out there that fulfill different purposes. And by making that guess the derived guess would be that software support in Linux is pretty good. But then again I am not really a developer, so maybe this is all just bs.
Maybe he was in on the calls business. And he thought if those bills turn up the customers would be too embarressed to compain.
Imagine how many divorces that guy most have caused.
How would you explain such a bill to your significant other and how would they react?
Actually that is really, really cheap compared to other methods. And other methods won't even work, because the politicians will never be able to agree upon quotas much less enforce them (India, China, Brazil). Their population is so indoctrinated by propaganda about the evil west that they would think global warming is a western invention to prevent them from attaining equal status.
But in such a complex system, where would you spray the water? I heard the climate is so vast and complex that there are even places where it gets colder because of climate change.
You are most likely not reading this, but I would like to clarify that issue non the less, because I suppose my disclaimer was not sufficiant and maybe other people will fail to understand this as well.
I am not from the "angry left". In fact, I am not even from the Americas. And here in my country I also made some bad experience with people that call themselves "leftists". But what I did wrote was that it doesn't matter if you consider yourself left, right or whatever, double standards are bad. And I have seen them all do it.
I am just reading 1984 from George Orwell and I came up with calling it doublethink, because it is so fitting. And here is where the tech issue comes in. If you use doublethink (or double standards) on ANY issure, including technology, it doesn't really matter what you are saying, since you will turn around and say or do something entirely different.
And I still think McCain made some smart foreign policy speeches during the 90s. Foreign policy can be very difficult, and one of the good things about McCain is that at least he is smarter than Bush by a long shot.
I would like to close my argument with my opinion on the term "Angry Left". I am following US politics very closely and I always thought that the word "angry" would fit much better for the religious conservative than on any of the major left wing political groups. There is so much the right wingers hate. For example the Clintons. Hillary for herself and Bill for a b-job.
"Angry" would therefore be much better used to describe large parts of the Republican party. The "angry right".
So are you one of them? Are you Angry Right?
This one is soooo cool:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086&title=Sarah-Palin-Gender-Card
You know, I don't care if they are right or left or nuts or both. But double standards are double standards and the right wing conservatives have a lot of issues where doublethink is required.
Disclaimer: I used to like McCain back in the 90s when I read some smart foreign policy stuff and when he was working for campaign finance reform and generally across party lines. But I am not sure if he would make a better president than Obama.
"The Left" doesn't need Tony Blair for a bad name:
20th century Man-made Megadeaths # TOTAL: 92M deaths by Communism. # RESIDUE: 96M deaths by non-Communism. So according to this website (http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/warstat8.htm) Communism ist to blame for about half the major losses of life of the 20th century.
I believe "Left" and "Right" to be more of historical than political relevance and actually cloud current political issues at hand. Many times they are used for exactly that reason.
I mean I don't want to barge ahead. We only read the accounts of one side, but if it is even remotly true the US of A is far from being a free country. Why would the police even want to intimidate people that way? Only if there was a political reason. Semi-random police brutality is one thing, but the report looks like those were fairly large scale orchestrated moves by the police to influence politics. When the police stops working as law enforcment and starts working for a political party how far is that from a banana republic?
And then the W guy comes up and talks about spreading democracy in the middle east? How about spreading it in Minneapolis?
Arrest him! Now!
I always thought the people take diet coke instead of normal coke precisely because it is not sticky, because it does not contain sugar. And I also used to believe that most of the corrosive behaviour of coke also comes from the sugar. But that's just me.
Black is a good background color. When first I used IceWM I had a black background as well, but changed to the default blue of IceWM, because I liked it better. I know have the default blue of KDE without a picture. I think black would be good for many people with an awful taste they dislike themselves...
For the customer that is.
Freedom to choose who will support the apps in the future should there be any disagreement with the original developer. Some people try to educate the customers about that. From the developer perspective it looks quite different. They they it should be their right to lock in the customer with closed source.
As I am mainly a customer and not a developer it always seems that developers cry for freedom to choose closed source is only their twisted version of it. Well, as a customer I CHOOSE choice in support and avoid lock-ins. I choose free software over proprietary stuff.
Try to change perspective sometimes.
With binary you are bound to the manufacturer. If he goes out of business or simple chooses not to support you any more you lost. Customers that for some reason need long term support for their hardware (more than two to three years) have good reasons to choose free software over closed source.
One example would be large customers that could pay for someone else to support them with open source. Another example would be myself. Some hardware I use is not supported in Windows XP (granted it is very little, but still), and most is not supported in Vista. Why should I need to buy new stuff even if my old stuff still works? Wireless network hardware is a huge issue. Encryption if often for some reason part of the driver. So with binary crap many older cards don't support WPA. In Linux they do, out of the box, as long as the hardware is supported.
So while your post is correct for some people, there are many very real and very pressing issues why open source matters to many customers. It's just that many customers are too dumb and get roped into dependencies (bread and butter for the it industry) on a single company.
All I am asking is not to make fun of savy customers who demand choice.
Game companies create new games all the time that demand new hardware and the hardware industry then promotes them. Even if those games could run on older hardware and look almost if not just as nice. So Quake was never given away with new graphic hardware? And how about that "the way it's meant to be played"?
This article has pics
http://www.presseportal.de/polizeipresse/pm/4969/1248483/polizeipraesidium_suedhessen
Its in German, though.
It is very simple. They have absolutely no motivation either way, because they have a monopoly for certain things on the web. And because there is only one player (proprietary or not) it is also a gaping security hole. Millions of installs, monoculture (only one client), security nightmare. And the browser becomes the OS, because the apps are now net based.
We need other clients, and since no company seems to do it (like for example PDF where the Foxit PDF reader is a very good alternative that I recommend for speed and security) open source seems the way to go. And the open source client could even be compiled for Win32, Linux AMD64, OpenBSD, IPhone, ...
I would be willing to pay money for something like that. Does Gnash (or something similar) have a way to donate? Because I think lots of people might want an alternate client. Maybe they would even get enough money to fund a developer. Maybe Mozilla should be asked to lend a hand?
Take something as simple as bribes. For example if a candidate already had a platform that a certain industry likes they are going to sponsor that. Now do some evolution (only two parties, lots of pre-elections until someone rises to the top) and finally the politician with the most support has risen to the top. And it is the politician with the platform best suited to all the people that give money to them.
But they aren't bribed now. They are just supported by the people that benefit from his platform.
This is an oversimplification of the complex processes in politics. Also the issues are very complex as well. And politicians can't lie anymore anyways (risk of exposure) so they don't even say anything anymore. Sure they talk, but do they say anything?
The most honest politician is probabely the one you completely disagree with. Unfortunately it is usually the lunatic on the sidelines.
Maybe just some guys with balls doing business how it's supposed to be.
Maybe they do something not 100% legal, but morally I hardly see them doing something terribly wrong.