I was thinking about buying a Palm IIIx, but now, I know I want a Visor. Just wondering when the thing will ship to Europe. Soon, I hope!
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"...20 million figure is estimated Linux boxes, not Linux users...it's highly unlikely that 7% of the American population uses Linux."
Hum, excuse me, but that's somewhat infuriating. Do you think you yankees out there are the only people using computers in the WORLD??? FYI, Linus Torvalds (remember him?) is from FINLAND, SuSE is GERMAN. Linux is huge here in Europe, maybe even more than in the US of A.
Why are american ALWAYS so self-centric... I'm going to believe you invented the belly-button...
Look at the Planet, will you? The World isn't only the US of A and what's left of the (former)USSR + Cuba. Mind you, here in Finland, 80% of the population has a mobile phone (a digital one) and over 70% has access to the net. In Europe we have technologies you americans will always dream of and will never touch. Think about it.
Moderators, please rate anticypher's post up. This is a proof of what's happening. Bertelsmann *is* a monopoly, but isn't threatened by US antitrust laws since it's a German company.
The worst of it is Bertelsmann has a pretty nasty background, to say the least. We should start boycotting this publishing goup and write to our dear Euro MPs about our concerns.
Maybe they're trying to do today what they managed in the 1930s with the Nazis: control all information from the source to the distribution channels. Geee... smells like an ugly conspiracy. And we're quite tied up since we have to rely on ISPs who themselves have to comply with certain laws...themselves made by congressmen more or less controlled by the big, bad industry. Ouch.
Now, how many peeople are conscious of what's happening, and how many actually give a shit if the Net is censored or not? Sadly, Europeans have shown very little interrest in European elections for the last decade or so, and corruption scandals are pretty usual among European Commission members. There's a profound distrust in our representatives building up, mixed with a complete lack of interrest in what they're doing. Most people will just complain, but will never *do* anything. We're in deeeeep shit, my friends.
One more thing... Bertelsann being such a huge publishing group, I bet they also publish porn... How ironic.
I've read it in a French book written by Jean-Claude Carrière. Basically, the book is a big interview with the Dalai-Lama. The title, roughly translated in English is (if my memory is right)"Understand Buddhism - How to improve your life in today's world".
I don't know if it's been translated though. The book isn't very big (about 180 pages, paperback size), but extremely interresting since the interviewer raised numerous questions related to the application of buddhist philosophy in the Western culture.
Mail me, I might manage to find the references, and see if there's an English version. In case there isn't, I'm sure youo can find similar comments in one of the numerous books published by the Dalai-Lama himself or one of his interviewer. He doesn't change his mind on such things, I guess...
I've watched the movie "Contact" about a month ago, and the religious zealots infuriated me (in the context, of course, but also as they do in general). The thing is, whatever the scientific challenge is, there's always some bible-buggers who will find something against it. See what happens, even now, with Evolution in Kansas!
On a rational point of view, IMHO, religion has mostly led to destruction, murders and such. See the catholic chuch's attitude towards condoms and birth control, and the way they manage to enforce it in poor, overpopulated countries in Africa and South America. They're doing a wonderful job at indirectly killing millions of people. Same goes for science. Every time science goes towards dicovering or re-creating the conditions for the origin of life, religious zealots start screaming.
Consider religions as businesses (and they are, in many ways) who are afraid of running out of business because Human Evolution has proved antique beliefs are complete bullshit. Remember Gallileo. Remember the Inquisition. Remember also most christian organizations didn't say a word when the Nazis were developing and using Zyklon B to exterminate the Jews. Remember how the American government tested nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on its own citizens, although they keep swearing by a "god" in their very constitution. It's not only the christians (I take them as an example here), but religions have that nasty tendency to only protect what may serve them best as a way for them to be able to say "see, we were right!" later on.
Now, back to "Contact", I believe that if there's any advanced alien civilization out there, they'd think the human species is damn primitive on behalf of those 90% religious people who'd rather stop the human scientific evolution than trying to solve all the problem humankind is afflicted with, and all the ways to go forward.
I leave religion to those who refuse to admit the very facts that run the Universe.
This fascination for religious dogmas is so dangerous it blinds people from seeing what humankind is missing. I recall a comment made by the Dalai-Lama (very wise guy) in which he declared "If science can prove the Holy texts are wrong, and if the Texts get against progress, we have to change the Texts, not stop science. A stop in evolution is a regression since the Universe keeps going on." (I'm not quoting litterally here, I fon't have the book on sight). I think this is an excellent attitude, considering it comes from one of the most prominents spiritual leaders of the planet. Spirituality has to evolve along with life itself, otherwise you find yourself thinking with a 15th century mind in a near 21st century world. Basically, you live *outside* of reality.
I hope I have made my point a bit more clearly than in my first post.
Hey, we're talking about SCIENCE here, not about those anti-progress, archaic nitwits who believe in that "god" thingo.
If scientists can't work in good conditions because of some bible-driven morons, they should move their facilities to countries where intelligence has more power than god-botherers.
I've noticed my computer would crash everytime my mobile rings, if the computer has it's box open. Talking about European GSM digital mobiles, they're 2W.
It's actually the case in many countries, regarding the country domain names (.fi,.de,.ch, etc). I know for sure that here in Finland, you can only own a name such as mydomain.fi if you're a company and hence pay a pretty important fee. And a company can only own one domain name.
I agree it's going a bit too far, but at least large companies don't own 90% of all possible names in the country.
What I see is very wrong too, is that the USA never use their country domain (.us?), but rather consider.com etc. as THEIR domain.
Hey, I was wondering... Why is it THE American law ruling the Net, since the Net is somehow *not only* in the USA.
I'm European, and I'm sick and tired to see whatever's done on and to the Net is ruled by yankee law. I think there should be an Internet Law, signed by as many nations as possible that would only apply on the Net.
Babbage's analytical engine was built, but a few years ago... using the technologies available in the 19th century.
The reasons why it didn't get built in the first place are 1)Babbage couldn't get it financed and 2)He died.
For the record, the whole thing was the size of a football field and needed six steam engines to run. And it worked! One thing: does anybody know if Babbage was converted to binary or if he was still using base ten for his engine? I'm no-one in maths... I just like history.
I wish I could find a page about it right now, but I feel lazy.
I got GIMP 1.1.9 and I still think the text tool is a dog. The text tool in Photoshop 5 and Fireworks 2 (my favorite) just make people like me buy the product...
"I've heard rumblings that this is the only major feature preventing a lot of professional graphics people switching to GIMP from Photoshop."
I wonder where you may have heard such rumblings...really. I'm a graphic designer and, although the GIMP is not bad, it doesn't approach Photoshop 5 when it comes to functionality. GIMP is closer to Photoshop 3. The text tool is a dog, among other things.
The GIMP is a good tool, but I won't call it professional yet. Remember that most graphic designers are not the kind of people who like putting their hands down the OS. Look at how many of them are using MACs!
I'm sure the GIMP will keep improving (I hope so), but sometimes you have to face the hard reality of the facts: out of Photoshop, Fireworks, Freehand or Illustrator, there's nothing much a professional graphic designer will work with, me included. Maybe e-picture on BeOS...
Now, I' d love to see all my favorite apps ported to Linux or BeOS, so I won't have to boot NT anymore...although it works_well_for_what_I_do, without crashing (yes, it's possible). Maybe it'll all happen with the Corel/Debian distro...
Maybe not everybody agrees with Apple's stategies, or simply the way Jobs does his job. But one must admit it works.
Apple was almost dead a couple of years ago, and now it's back on top. I say "bravo". They have managed to answer customer's needs, and we have to remember they are *not* M$ slaves all the way. Most users don't need and don't want to put their hands in the system, and Apple knows that.
Just my.02
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Well said.
I've been waiting a longtime here in slashdot for a POSITIVE comment regarding Be.
Just between you and me (already enough wars) I'd say Be is far more appropriate for the desktop than Linux. Linux for the servers, Be for the desktop... Sounds nice to me and coherent too.
I'd say both OS could (should!) learn a lot from each other in terms of development, hence giving an even better choice to the end user.
I agree with you, and enjoy even much the good conversation.
As for the filtering, I keep a low threshold *but* I'm a fast reader *and* nobody *forces* me to read everything... That's freedom! And also self-censorship... but our brains do it all the time to prevent overheating, huh?
I'm not confused, but it's just a subject upon which, IMHO, it is *difficult* to define *which* kind of freedom one wants, or what's one definition of freedom. After all, I was giving *my* opinion...
As for the term "anarchy", I was referring to it in the context of the discussion, with the meaning of "my freedom starts where yours stops" (and vice-versa). It is so true here on the Net, where a small number of morons can simply block thousands of people from accessing information and writing their own part of it. If you think flooding a discussion forum is part of your conception of freedom...try IRC.
About what I wrote, and your answers, I was referring to this particular situation (slashdot karma feature, etc.), not to political systems. I don't have the vanity (yet) to pretend knowing *the* ideal form of government (or lack of).
I appreciate (and I hope we all do) the opportunity given to us on/. and the Net in general to express ourselves freely. But, as Rob expressed it, it's hard to maintain a discussion when a bunch of hyperactive morons keep shouting around you. See what I mean?
"Everyone should always be able to express their opinion, or *legit opinions* will be able to be labeled as "Trolls", and banned from the system."
Sincerely, I don't think Rob was referring to opinions in general, but to a small bunch of troublemakers. I encourage the posting of opinions (hey, that's what we're here for, personally or technically, huh?), but not what was mentioned in Rob's explanation ("kill Bill Gates" and such).
This sole example of a censorship form here on/. proves once again, unfortunately, that self-organisation and cooperation ("anarchy") does not work. Blame the human nature? I don't know...
I just hope half the world's anarchist-wanabee's won't start spamming me now:)
I agree with Rob. You can't just let any idiot "express" himself (if trolls are an expression form) at the loss of others.
Freedom of speech OK, anarchy NO.
Most of the people who will protest against Rob's decision are the ones who, in their posts, usually promote the idea of censoring everybody who doesn't share their opinions.
Every society finds itself confronted with this very problem eventually, which can be seen i.e. with the "first ammendment" of the US constitution. On behalf of a supposedly guaranteed freedom of speech, how many morons/lunatics/facists abuse the system every day? I'm not promoting censorship (censorshit?), far from it. Just agreeing with the idea of keeping immature and stupid people away from what would one consider as an intelligent discussion space, at least until they *learn* something from their peers.
Opinions are like assholes, we all got one but you ain't forced to show it to everybody.
This is really great! It truly is! Debian being IMHO the best distro, it's now *easy* to install. Everybody's wondering how and when Linux will finally get to THE desktop of Mr/Mrs Everybody and his/her cousin, well now the solution's available.
Some grumpy hackers will always be against it, since it seems for them even X is too much. Hey, you guys want to see Linux everywhere? Let it be easy to use, nobody *forces* you to use one or another distro. If it has a Windoze look and feel, it's GOOD. It's the only way you'll get people buying into Linux. People don't want to learn a new GUI more than they want to chage their habits. Put them in from of the Corel distro, and they'll feel at ease immediately.
The presence of several distros makes Linux available in various forms as to satisfy a wide range of computer users, from the total beginner to the best hacker ever. It's just GOOD. That's why we like Linux, because we guys got the *choice*, a choice we didn't have before Linux (sorry for the Mac users).
I'm *very* happy and very confident upon the success of this distro, which should please a much, much wider range of people.
And for the licence, the article mentions Corel will release them to the Open Source community, so stop whining. And if the distro *costs* something, I'll clap my hands at them, because they'll be among the firsts to actually make a living out of Linux. And Corel makes also pretty good software, the kind that people actually want. No everybody's a hacker, not even at heart.
Come on. The Amiga was a great computer, but it was almost a decade ago. Who's going to buy it? There's basically nothing an Amiga could do a PC or Mac can't. Who's going to be foolish enough to invest in it, if it needs *proprietary* hardware as to run the old software?
All the *good* Amiga software relied on hardware (gee, coding in assembly, eh), and there's no way to make them work on actual platforms, apart from emulating.
Be realistic. Learn from what the amiga was able to do, and how. There's already enough OS wars.
IMHO, BeOS is certainly the *best* example to compare the Amiga to. Poorly distributed, but great...
I'm outraged by it, and have removed all my stuff from geocities/yahoo. But on your link, you recommend Tripod, which has the same *terms of service* than Yahoo... It's about time we start reading those boring lawyers' mumbo-jumbo..
And I'm wondering what happens to guys who save their Open Source, Free Software and stuff there...
Metcalfe invented Ethernet. And then what? Maybe the guy is a genius or whatever you want to call him, but even geniuses can be wrong. After all, they're human beings just like you and me.
This interview sounds like the guy is bitter at something or someone. I mean, ethernet is a PARC invention, isn't it? I seriously doubt he INVENTED it ALL BY HIMSELF. And not getting any royalties on it makes him jealous of Gates for being outsmarted on that one... I dunno.
But what I see through this article is that he's against the fact that some talented people actually *do* something without a dollar-hunger in their minds. He's against people who *want* to improve things without charging for bugfixes.
Comparing the Open source Community to Communism makes me smile. Maybe software is the only domain in which *communism* actually works, and works well. I don't see it as evil... Of course, it goes against the allmighty capitalism, but for what capitalism has done to the planet, I'd rather go with the Open Source Community summer camps.:)
And, for being long today, I'd like to add that all those hippie ideas Metcalfe seems to be against are at the origin of concepts such as *ecology*. Then again, the allmighty American capitalists are the biggest polluters. I find it quite a shameful analogy to BAD software you have to pay a lot for.
Bah, I'm gonna make plenty of ennemies anyway, so make it quick...
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Come on, everybody knows the earth is flat and travels through space on the back of a giant turtle (Great A'Tuin), carried by four giant elephants.
pffffff.
It IS
therefore is runs BeOS
I was thinking about buying a Palm IIIx, but now, I know I want a Visor. Just wondering when the thing will ship to Europe. Soon, I hope!
"...20 million figure is estimated Linux boxes, not Linux users...it's highly unlikely that 7% of the American population uses Linux."
Hum, excuse me, but that's somewhat infuriating. Do you think you yankees out there are the only people using computers in the WORLD??? FYI, Linus Torvalds (remember him?) is from FINLAND, SuSE is GERMAN. Linux is huge here in Europe, maybe even more than in the US of A.
Why are american ALWAYS so self-centric... I'm going to believe you invented the belly-button...
Look at the Planet, will you? The World isn't only the US of A and what's left of the (former)USSR + Cuba. Mind you, here in Finland, 80% of the population has a mobile phone (a digital one) and over 70% has access to the net. In Europe we have technologies you americans will always dream of and will never touch. Think about it.
Moderators, please rate anticypher's post up. This is a proof of what's happening. Bertelsmann *is* a monopoly, but isn't threatened by US antitrust laws since it's a German company.
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The worst of it is Bertelsmann has a pretty nasty background, to say the least. We should start boycotting this publishing goup and write to our dear Euro MPs about our concerns.
Maybe they're trying to do today what they managed in the 1930s with the Nazis: control all information from the source to the distribution channels. Geee... smells like an ugly conspiracy. And we're quite tied up since we have to rely on ISPs who themselves have to comply with certain laws...themselves made by congressmen more or less controlled by the big, bad industry. Ouch.
Now, how many peeople are conscious of what's happening, and how many actually give a shit if the Net is censored or not? Sadly, Europeans have shown very little interrest in European elections for the last decade or so, and corruption scandals are pretty usual among European Commission members. There's a profound distrust in our representatives building up, mixed with a complete lack of interrest in what they're doing. Most people will just complain, but will never *do* anything. We're in deeeeep shit, my friends.
One more thing... Bertelsann being such a huge publishing group, I bet they also publish porn... How ironic.
My
I've read it in a French book written by Jean-Claude Carrière. Basically, the book is a big interview with the Dalai-Lama. The title, roughly translated in English is (if my memory is right)"Understand Buddhism - How to improve your life in today's world".
I don't know if it's been translated though. The book isn't very big (about 180 pages, paperback size), but extremely interresting since the interviewer raised numerous questions related to the application of buddhist philosophy in the Western culture.
Mail me, I might manage to find the references, and see if there's an English version. In case there isn't, I'm sure youo can find similar comments in one of the numerous books published by the Dalai-Lama himself or one of his interviewer. He doesn't change his mind on such things, I guess...
Cheers,
M.
I've watched the movie "Contact" about a month ago, and the religious zealots infuriated me (in the context, of course, but also as they do in general). The thing is, whatever the scientific challenge is, there's always some bible-buggers who will find something against it. See what happens, even now, with Evolution in Kansas!
On a rational point of view, IMHO, religion has mostly led to destruction, murders and such. See the catholic chuch's attitude towards condoms and birth control, and the way they manage to enforce it in poor, overpopulated countries in Africa and South America. They're doing a wonderful job at indirectly killing millions of people. Same goes for science. Every time science goes towards dicovering or re-creating the conditions for the origin of life, religious zealots start screaming.
Consider religions as businesses (and they are, in many ways) who are afraid of running out of business because Human Evolution has proved antique beliefs are complete bullshit. Remember Gallileo. Remember the Inquisition. Remember also most christian organizations didn't say a word when the Nazis were developing and using Zyklon B to exterminate the Jews. Remember how the American government tested nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on its own citizens, although they keep swearing by a "god" in their very constitution. It's not only the christians (I take them as an example here), but religions have that nasty tendency to only protect what may serve them best as a way for them to be able to say "see, we were right!" later on.
Now, back to "Contact", I believe that if there's any advanced alien civilization out there, they'd think the human species is damn primitive on behalf of those 90% religious people who'd rather stop the human scientific evolution than trying to solve all the problem humankind is afflicted with, and all the ways to go forward.
I leave religion to those who refuse to admit the very facts that run the Universe.
This fascination for religious dogmas is so dangerous it blinds people from seeing what humankind is missing. I recall a comment made by the Dalai-Lama (very wise guy) in which he declared "If science can prove the Holy texts are wrong, and if the Texts get against progress, we have to change the Texts, not stop science. A stop in evolution is a regression since the Universe keeps going on." (I'm not quoting litterally here, I fon't have the book on sight). I think this is an excellent attitude, considering it comes from one of the most prominents spiritual leaders of the planet. Spirituality has to evolve along with life itself, otherwise you find yourself thinking with a 15th century mind in a near 21st century world. Basically, you live *outside* of reality.
I hope I have made my point a bit more clearly than in my first post.
Hey, we're talking about SCIENCE here, not about those anti-progress, archaic nitwits who believe in that "god" thingo.
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If scientists can't work in good conditions because of some bible-driven morons, they should move their facilities to countries where intelligence has more power than god-botherers.
My angry
I've noticed my computer would crash everytime my mobile rings, if the computer has it's box open. Talking about European GSM digital mobiles, they're 2W.
"One Organization, one Domain."
.de, .ch, etc). I know for sure that here in Finland, you can only own a name such as mydomain.fi if you're a company and hence pay a pretty important fee. And a company can only own one domain name.
.com etc. as THEIR domain.
It's actually the case in many countries, regarding the country domain names (.fi,
I agree it's going a bit too far, but at least large companies don't own 90% of all possible names in the country.
What I see is very wrong too, is that the USA never use their country domain (.us?), but rather consider
There should be a law for that.
Hey, I was wondering... Why is it THE American law ruling the Net, since the Net is somehow *not only* in the USA.
I'm European, and I'm sick and tired to see whatever's done on and to the Net is ruled by yankee law. I think there should be an Internet Law, signed by as many nations as possible that would only apply on the Net.
Waaahh, we might even GPL the law...
Babbage's analytical engine was built, but a few years ago... using the technologies available in the 19th century.
The reasons why it didn't get built in the first place are 1)Babbage couldn't get it financed and 2)He died.
For the record, the whole thing was the size of a football field and needed six steam engines to run. And it worked! One thing: does anybody know if Babbage was converted to binary or if he was still using base ten for his engine? I'm no-one in maths... I just like history.
I wish I could find a page about it right now, but I feel lazy.
I got GIMP 1.1.9 and I still think the text tool is a dog. The text tool in Photoshop 5 and Fireworks 2 (my favorite) just make people like me buy the product...
"I've heard rumblings that this is the only major feature preventing a lot of professional graphics people switching to GIMP from Photoshop."
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I wonder where you may have heard such rumblings...really. I'm a graphic designer and, although the GIMP is not bad, it doesn't approach Photoshop 5 when it comes to functionality. GIMP is closer to Photoshop 3. The text tool is a dog, among other things.
The GIMP is a good tool, but I won't call it professional yet. Remember that most graphic designers are not the kind of people who like putting their hands down the OS. Look at how many of them are using MACs!
I'm sure the GIMP will keep improving (I hope so), but sometimes you have to face the hard reality of the facts: out of Photoshop, Fireworks, Freehand or Illustrator, there's nothing much a professional graphic designer will work with, me included. Maybe e-picture on BeOS...
Now, I' d love to see all my favorite apps ported to Linux or BeOS, so I won't have to boot NT anymore...although it works_well_for_what_I_do, without crashing (yes, it's possible). Maybe it'll all happen with the Corel/Debian distro...
Keep on the good work!
Just my
Maybe not everybody agrees with Apple's stategies, or simply the way Jobs does his job. But one must admit it works.
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Apple was almost dead a couple of years ago, and now it's back on top. I say "bravo". They have managed to answer customer's needs, and we have to remember they are *not* M$ slaves all the way. Most users don't need and don't want to put their hands in the system, and Apple knows that.
Just my
Well said.
I've been waiting a longtime here in slashdot for a POSITIVE comment regarding Be.
Just between you and me (already enough wars) I'd say Be is far more appropriate for the desktop than Linux. Linux for the servers, Be for the desktop... Sounds nice to me and coherent too.
I'd say both OS could (should!) learn a lot from each other in terms of development, hence giving an even better choice to the end user.
Just a 3am opinion.
I agree with you, and enjoy even much the good conversation.
:)
As for the filtering, I keep a low threshold *but* I'm a fast reader *and* nobody *forces* me to read everything... That's freedom! And also self-censorship... but our brains do it all the time to prevent overheating, huh?
Glad I didn't get flamed...
I'm not confused, but it's just a subject upon which, IMHO, it is *difficult* to define *which* kind of freedom one wants, or what's one definition of freedom. After all, I was giving *my* opinion...
/. and the Net in general to express ourselves freely. But, as Rob expressed it, it's hard to maintain a discussion when a bunch of hyperactive morons keep shouting around you. See what I mean?
/. proves once again, unfortunately, that self-organisation and cooperation ("anarchy") does not work. Blame the human nature? I don't know...
:)
As for the term "anarchy", I was referring to it in the context of the discussion, with the meaning of "my freedom starts where yours stops" (and vice-versa). It is so true here on the Net, where a small number of morons can simply block thousands of people from accessing information and writing their own part of it. If you think flooding a discussion forum is part of your conception of freedom...try IRC.
About what I wrote, and your answers, I was referring to this particular situation (slashdot karma feature, etc.), not to political systems. I don't have the vanity (yet) to pretend knowing *the* ideal form of government (or lack of).
I appreciate (and I hope we all do) the opportunity given to us on
"Everyone should always be able to express their opinion, or *legit opinions* will be able to be labeled as "Trolls", and banned from the system."
Sincerely, I don't think Rob was referring to opinions in general, but to a small bunch of troublemakers. I encourage the posting of opinions (hey, that's what we're here for, personally or technically, huh?), but not what was mentioned in Rob's explanation ("kill Bill Gates" and such).
This sole example of a censorship form here on
I just hope half the world's anarchist-wanabee's won't start spamming me now
max
I agree with Rob. You can't just let any idiot "express" himself (if trolls are an expression form) at the loss of others.
Freedom of speech OK, anarchy NO.
Most of the people who will protest against Rob's decision are the ones who, in their posts, usually promote the idea of censoring everybody who doesn't share their opinions.
Every society finds itself confronted with this very problem eventually, which can be seen i.e. with the "first ammendment" of the US constitution. On behalf of a supposedly guaranteed freedom of speech, how many morons/lunatics/facists abuse the system every day? I'm not promoting censorship (censorshit?), far from it. Just agreeing with the idea of keeping immature and stupid people away from what would one consider as an intelligent discussion space, at least until they *learn* something from their peers.
Opinions are like assholes, we all got one but you ain't forced to show it to everybody.
Just my 0.02 (let's be different!)
Hey, the first ping was on October 20, 1969.
Read the Wired article here .
Anyway, it's another occasion to celebrate! 30 years, that's at least a keg...
Just for the fun of it, check www.angrydog.com it's a truckers/bilers bar in Texas... LOL
And the site is just plain ugly...
This is really great! It truly is! Debian being IMHO the best distro, it's now *easy* to install. Everybody's wondering how and when Linux will finally get to THE desktop of Mr/Mrs Everybody and his/her cousin, well now the solution's available.
Some grumpy hackers will always be against it, since it seems for them even X is too much. Hey, you guys want to see Linux everywhere? Let it be easy to use, nobody *forces* you to use one or another distro. If it has a Windoze look and feel, it's GOOD. It's the only way you'll get people buying into Linux. People don't want to learn a new GUI more than they want to chage their habits. Put them in from of the Corel distro, and they'll feel at ease immediately.
The presence of several distros makes Linux available in various forms as to satisfy a wide range of computer users, from the total beginner to the best hacker ever. It's just GOOD. That's why we like Linux, because we guys got the *choice*, a choice we didn't have before Linux (sorry for the Mac users).
I'm *very* happy and very confident upon the success of this distro, which should please a much, much wider range of people.
And for the licence, the article mentions Corel will release them to the Open Source community, so stop whining. And if the distro *costs* something, I'll clap my hands at them, because they'll be among the firsts to actually make a living out of Linux. And Corel makes also pretty good software, the kind that people actually want. No everybody's a hacker, not even at heart.
It's a great day for Linux.
Come on. The Amiga was a great computer, but it was almost a decade ago. Who's going to buy it? There's basically nothing an Amiga could do a PC or Mac can't. Who's going to be foolish enough to invest in it, if it needs *proprietary* hardware as to run the old software?
All the *good* Amiga software relied on hardware (gee, coding in assembly, eh), and there's no way to make them work on actual platforms, apart from emulating.
Be realistic. Learn from what the amiga was able to do, and how. There's already enough OS wars.
IMHO, BeOS is certainly the *best* example to compare the Amiga to. Poorly distributed, but great...
My 0.02
I'm outraged by it, and have removed all my stuff from geocities/yahoo. But on your link, you recommend Tripod, which has the same *terms of service* than Yahoo... It's about time we start reading those boring lawyers' mumbo-jumbo..
And I'm wondering what happens to guys who save their Open Source, Free Software and stuff there...
My 0.02
Metcalfe invented Ethernet. And then what? Maybe the guy is a genius or whatever you want to call him, but even geniuses can be wrong. After all, they're human beings just like you and me.
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This interview sounds like the guy is bitter at something or someone. I mean, ethernet is a PARC invention, isn't it? I seriously doubt he INVENTED it ALL BY HIMSELF. And not getting any royalties on it makes him jealous of Gates for being outsmarted on that one... I dunno.
But what I see through this article is that he's against the fact that some talented people actually *do* something without a dollar-hunger in their minds. He's against people who *want* to improve things without charging for bugfixes.
Comparing the Open source Community to Communism makes me smile. Maybe software is the only domain in which *communism* actually works, and works well. I don't see it as evil... Of course, it goes against the allmighty capitalism, but for what capitalism has done to the planet, I'd rather go with the Open Source Community summer camps.
And, for being long today, I'd like to add that all those hippie ideas Metcalfe seems to be against are at the origin of concepts such as *ecology*. Then again, the allmighty American capitalists are the biggest polluters. I find it quite a shameful analogy to BAD software you have to pay a lot for.
Bah, I'm gonna make plenty of ennemies anyway, so make it quick...