Every month Microsoft crowns itself the obliterator of botnets for some weird reason. All stories are never heard of a few days later. Nothing really will change, a publicity stunt is what a publicity stunt is. And if you have to ask... You lost "just because"
I think a lot of people share your position and if i were in a similar position my opinion might also be similar to yours, can't really tell because I'm not. One thing that I think I share here is the fear that all those new glorious mobile hardware (ipads,iphones, some of the android devices) will dominate the IT world so badly that Linux will start shrinking not because the software won't be able to work on the hardware but because manufacturers will lock it out in favor of promoting their own agendas. And no, rooting devices isn't a solution. The biggest enemy to free software atm is locked down bootloaders.
An optimal airbag deployment will help the seat+belt keep your deceleration at bay providing a front damper in addition to the slowly peeling away seat you are nailed to by the fired seatbelt loads. Extremities like your hands might not necessarily be better of and your face might feel as if you just got bashed with an iron girder but your organs will smile at you.
So yes there is serious merit in the airbag thing. Also, if you don't make it I'll get your spline in tact.
LoL and to imagine some countries (like Greece for example) are actually collecting your next years tax as a sort of down payment. Yep, when paying taxes in 2012 the Greeks are asking taxpayers to pay upfront for what they are going to earn untill the end of the year.
with Linux thanks to its actually being a server OS and NOT a desktop OS at heart if you remove CLI you've completely destroyed the OS and many distros won't even boot
I'm not one of the guys who supports the "Linux for the masses" idea. But I think you once were and are disappointed it never happened. Unfortunately you misunderstood Linux. The CLI isn't there only because Linux Devs are too bored to craete guis it is there because it is an enabler, it enables you to tinker in a resolution no GUI will ever achieve and that exactly is the reason for Linux being CLI friendly, it is an OS for people who want to tinker.
If you do not want to get your hands dirty with the CLI then IMHO you shouldn't consider Linux. Maybe some Ubunu spin that makes everything automatically but not the really good Linux distros..
Well, OS X didn't actually do "something". It just rode the ascent of apple's hardware into the mainstream. By all means I'm not saying that it isn't a good OS, much better than the last thing they used to power their devices but still you cannot compare OS X to other OS solutions without counting in the fact that apple doesn't want you to run anything else.
It's just like the ascent of Mircosoft in the 80s, IBMs machines came pre installed with DOS, IBM got fucked by the PC, Microsoft kept the monopoly because they had the interface that everybody wanted.
Bundling to a hw success is pretty much the story of OS monopolies.
With you on that one, Adobe has only one thing going for them ATM and that is software dependence. So many graphics artists, photographers and web designers (if you can call them that) are knee deep in Adobe's (proprietary) workflow system. They are effectively locked in because it would take a long time to find suitable alternatives and learn the new production process.
Adobe's software was great in late 2008. From then on nothing really that impressing has happened. About a year ago I had found some videos of a guy speed painting in a FOSS setup and the results were beautiful. This just goes to show that Linux is a realistic alternative, now, for the graphics artist; and I'm not talking just GIMP & Inkscape. There is other software out there too, mostly forks of one or the other but with added functionality for specific jobs.
Still my main concern remains, if more non-Nerd people come into the community it may hurt Linux.
OTOH why try to sell Linux to Joe sixpack in the first place? What helped me get up to speed with linux was the savvy community. Nerds, academics and devs have proven to be a big enough audience for the Linux desktop to progress and flourish. So why watter down the quality of the userbase? Also, Linux manages to fly under the radar in terms of security and legislation because of it's small numbers.
Ok, I'm not really scared about the security issues that could arise (most exploits that happen to be dug up need user idiocy as well to succeed) but I'm pretty sure that companies will start to sue sw like Gnome 3 for having round corners® and other "infringement" in the case Linux gets serious mainstream traction.
Yep, I'm giving a monthly amount to somafm.com and get some great music from their channels. Another upside to this particular radio is that they use a lot of indie bands that operate disjointed from big distributors, so when you buy an album from those bands or an LP, you know your money actually goes towards the music.
Gnome3 is the default desktop env that gets installed. Anaconda (the OS installer of fedora) asks you, on install, if you wish Gnome3 or KDE. Just choose KDE and you are set.
I get the point though, from the two KDE is definitely the better desktop env. Probably that choice came from higher up though.
You have a very watered down and actually quite academic definition of "suspicious individual". I'll tell you what: It isn't what you think. Your position is wrong and misguided, sorry. The truth is that the state will prosecute you if they think that you are of interest to them, having as an excuse your "suspicious behavior". Your idea is sound but it isn't reality. What is happening is agencies will label you as suspicious - regardless of context - if you display what once was called curiosity.
Now think of how much bone idleness stands between that and:
FBI’s Joint Regional Intelligence Center heavily implies this [tinkering being suspicious behavior], suggesting that individuals engaged in certain technical activities should be regarded as “suspicious” and specifically mentioning people who "download or transfer files with ‘how-to’ content, such as [] information about timers, electronics, or remote transmitters/receivers.”
Well done modern society, you made your visionaries and future inventors criminals in order to help the establishment to even more money.
The problem is that the apple2 came from a company that shared Woz' philosophy and the iPad came from a company that shares Jobs' philosophy.. Same trademark different companies.
In their defense, I don't think art critics allocate a big portion of their lifes to gaming so guessing that no gamers were actually involved in the selection going with successes might have been a save move.
Also a lot of people misunderstand gaming art for gaming themed visual art. It's not that. I personally have my own reservations to the selections, I'd like to have seen some Tale of tales games in there - because those come very close to actually being art in the sense of having no other function other than themselves, their existence.
Also I'm a it disappointed about the NES titles. The NES was a landmark in gaming and they managed to eek out only 4 games? This is where they failed completely I think. 1943? really? No Metroid, no original Mario but 1943?
Well, at least they managed to include the correct Okami & SoC versions.
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Relax, this isn't actually something newsworthy.
Every month Microsoft crowns itself the obliterator of botnets for some weird reason. All stories are never heard of a few days later.
Nothing really will change, a publicity stunt is what a publicity stunt is. And if you have to ask... You lost "just because"
I think a lot of people share your position and if i were in a similar position my opinion might also be similar to yours, can't really tell because I'm not. One thing that I think I share here is the fear that all those new glorious mobile hardware (ipads,iphones, some of the android devices) will dominate the IT world so badly that Linux will start shrinking not because the software won't be able to work on the hardware but because manufacturers will lock it out in favor of promoting their own agendas. And no, rooting devices isn't a solution. The biggest enemy to free software atm is locked down bootloaders.
Having only semi consciously watched the video I think their target audience is wikipedia editors, not developers.
An optimal airbag deployment will help the seat+belt keep your deceleration at bay providing a front damper in addition to the slowly peeling away seat you are nailed to by the fired seatbelt loads. Extremities like your hands might not necessarily be better of and your face might feel as if you just got bashed with an iron girder but your organs will smile at you.
So yes there is serious merit in the airbag thing. Also, if you don't make it I'll get your spline in tact.
what? Like this?
Correct, drugs should be legal.
So say we all!
LoL and to imagine some countries (like Greece for example) are actually collecting your next years
tax as a sort of down payment. Yep, when paying taxes in 2012 the Greeks are asking taxpayers to pay
upfront for what they are going to earn untill the end of the year.
No wonder that country is head first into debt.
TL;DNR got bored actually...
You lost me on:
with Linux thanks to its actually being a server OS and NOT a desktop OS at heart if you remove CLI you've completely destroyed the OS and many distros won't even boot
I'm not one of the guys who supports the "Linux for the masses" idea. But I think you once were and are disappointed it never happened. Unfortunately you misunderstood Linux. The CLI isn't there only because Linux Devs are too bored to craete guis it
is there because it is an enabler, it enables you to tinker in a resolution no GUI will ever achieve and that exactly is the reason for Linux being CLI friendly, it is an OS for people who want to tinker.
If you do not want to get your hands dirty with the CLI then IMHO you shouldn't consider Linux. Maybe some Ubunu spin that makes everything automatically but not the really good Linux distros..
Well, OS X didn't actually do "something". It just rode the ascent of apple's hardware into
the mainstream. By all means I'm not saying that it isn't a good OS, much better than the
last thing they used to power their devices but still you cannot compare OS X to other
OS solutions without counting in the fact that apple doesn't want you to run anything else.
It's just like the ascent of Mircosoft in the 80s, IBMs machines came pre installed with
DOS, IBM got fucked by the PC, Microsoft kept the monopoly because they had the
interface that everybody wanted.
Bundling to a hw success is pretty much the story of OS monopolies.
With you on that one, Adobe has only one thing going for them ATM and that is software dependence. So many graphics artists, photographers and web designers (if you can call them that) are knee deep in Adobe's (proprietary) workflow system. They are effectively locked in because it would take a long time to find suitable alternatives and learn the new production process.
Adobe's software was great in late 2008. From then on nothing really that impressing has happened. About a year ago I had found some videos of a guy speed painting in a FOSS setup and the results were beautiful. This just goes to show that Linux is a realistic alternative, now, for the graphics artist; and I'm not talking just GIMP & Inkscape. There is other software out there too, mostly forks of one or the other but with added functionality for specific jobs.
Still my main concern remains, if more non-Nerd people come into the community it may hurt Linux.
OTOH why try to sell Linux to Joe sixpack in the first place? What helped me get up to speed with linux was the savvy community. Nerds, academics and devs have proven to be a big enough audience for the Linux desktop to progress and flourish. So why watter down the quality of the userbase? Also, Linux manages to fly under the radar in terms of security and legislation because of it's small numbers.
Ok, I'm not really scared about the security issues that could arise (most exploits that happen to be dug up need user idiocy as well to succeed) but I'm pretty sure that companies will start to sue sw like Gnome 3 for having round corners® and other "infringement" in the case Linux gets serious mainstream traction.
Yep, I'm giving a monthly amount to somafm.com and get some great music from
their channels. Another upside to this particular radio is that they use a lot of indie
bands that operate disjointed from big distributors, so when you buy an album
from those bands or an LP, you know your money actually goes towards the
music.
Yes and No
Turbans; another flag you would like being introduced?
Thank you.
Gnome3 is the default desktop env that gets installed. Anaconda (the OS installer of fedora) asks
you, on install, if you wish Gnome3 or KDE. Just choose KDE and you are set.
I get the point though, from the two KDE is definitely the better desktop env. Probably that choice
came from higher up though.
Yes, if you want a plug'n play type of OS installation.
If you like tinkering then there are many many more possibilities.
I'm not 100% on what you said. I'm sure though that in the early years Woz had quite a say.
If you want do it now, before they make that illegal as well.
You have a very watered down and actually quite academic definition of "suspicious individual".
I'll tell you what: It isn't what you think. Your position is wrong and misguided, sorry. The truth
is that the state will prosecute you if they think that you are of interest to them, having as an
excuse your "suspicious behavior". Your idea is sound but it isn't reality. What is happening
is agencies will label you as suspicious - regardless of context - if you display what once was
called curiosity.
Now think of how much bone idleness stands between that and:
FBI’s Joint Regional Intelligence Center heavily implies this [tinkering being suspicious behavior], suggesting that individuals engaged in certain technical activities should be regarded as “suspicious” and specifically mentioning people who "download or transfer files with ‘how-to’ content, such as [] information about timers, electronics, or remote transmitters/receivers.”
Well done modern society, you made your visionaries and future inventors criminals in order to help the establishment to even more money.
The problem is that the apple2 came from a company that shared Woz' philosophy and the iPad came from a company that shares Jobs' philosophy.. Same trademark different companies.
In their defense, I don't think art critics allocate a big portion of their lifes to gaming so guessing that no gamers were actually involved in the selection going with successes might have been a save move.
Also a lot of people misunderstand gaming art for gaming themed visual art. It's not that. I personally have my own reservations to the selections, I'd like to have seen some Tale of tales games in there - because those come very close to actually being art in the sense of having no other function other than themselves, their existence.
Also I'm a it disappointed about the NES titles. The NES was a landmark in gaming and they managed to eek out only 4 games? This is where they failed completely I think. 1943? really? No Metroid, no original Mario but 1943?
Well, at least they managed to include the correct Okami & SoC versions.
Great to see Okami, in it's day It was touted as PS2's zelda and that overshadowed it's artistic beauty.
In general it looks like a very solid list. Wish I could go.
Well it's better than looking at some "random" naked fat lady that sold for 124M £