I would gladly attend one at San Jose or Stanford. I'm definitely a soccer fan (Go Quakes! Beat Mexico!) but we don't have enough qualifiers and friendlies out here.
Slow news week for BusinessWeek? "Convergence" has been the "most disruptive EVAR" wave of the future for decades now. It's not like anything has fundamentally changed and everyone wants one device to do everything now that they didn't want before. Who really needs a microwave that surfs the internet, or a television with Caller ID?!
Maybe it's like the metric system, and soccer in America*. It's the wave of the future, and always will be.
* maybe not. US Soccer is #8 in the world now, ahead of Germany!
A do-not-spam list right now would be a spam-me-now list. So many spammers are beyond the reach of the law at the moment that adding your address or domain to this list would be like adding it to WHOIS.
The UNIVAC I was delivered to the Census Bureau in 1951. It weighed some 16,000 pounds, used 5,000 vacuum tubes, and could perform about 1,000 calculations per second.
heh. when I was a kid and first heard about UNIVAC, I thought the name meant that it used one vacuum tube.
The problem is that there is no "Linux" operating system
But that's just it. This may be technically true, but it's not how the average (non-Linux-geek) user views it. The average user has already assigned the name "Linux" to the whole OS, like it or not.
is to stop confusing the GNUbies with the blasted "GNU/Linux" name!
I know RMS has a point that many GNU utilities are in Linux. But as a brand name, it's crap. "Linux" is hard enough to remember or understand in comparison to names like "Macintosh" or "Windows" - please, please don't make it worse by adding something vaguely unpronounceable and obscure-sounding at the beginning and then arguing about it endlessly.
Just call it Linux. Not Lindows, not GNU/Linux, not the endless new and old distribution names (and what the heck is "Gentoo" anyway?!), just Linux.
Then people might understand what the heck you're talking about. Which would be a step in the right direction.
Cast iron would be a bad idea because it retains heat. Unless you like your CPU slow-roasted.
Aluminum (no i) is better because of its very low specific heat - it dissipates heat quickly. (Think of foil wrap - even seconds out of the oven it becomes cool to the touch.)
Apple DRM still sucks. UK buyers: don't fall into the trap! Use iTunes for your MP3 collection and with your iPod, but forget the store unless you use DVD-Jon's decryptor.
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Comdex is dying. Or, rather, Comdex is dead.
My impression: It's nice webmail. That's it.
I don't see the huge hype, but then again I did click on that invite link, didn't I?
And the cheering and stomping of feet of the civilized world. GO PISTONS!
MORE freaking Radiohead knockoffs.
And that doesn't even count the multiple browser crashes.
Mexico is mighty pissed that we keep winning against them.
I would gladly attend one at San Jose or Stanford. I'm definitely a soccer fan (Go Quakes! Beat Mexico!) but we don't have enough qualifiers and friendlies out here.
Maybe it's like the metric system, and soccer in America*. It's the wave of the future, and always will be.
* maybe not. US Soccer is #8 in the world now, ahead of Germany!
A do-not-spam list right now would be a spam-me-now list. So many spammers are beyond the reach of the law at the moment that adding your address or domain to this list would be like adding it to WHOIS.
So you don't mind if "they" use Windows, then? Please clarify.
Maybe the submitter is an Asynchronous Transfer Mode geek.
heh. when I was a kid and first heard about UNIVAC, I thought the name meant that it used one vacuum tube.
How about "Linux Desktop?" This would make sense and not sacrifice the enormous amount of effort that has gone into building the Linux brand name.
Because new users won't know to use man in the first place!
But that's just it. This may be technically true, but it's not how the average (non-Linux-geek) user views it. The average user has already assigned the name "Linux" to the whole OS, like it or not.
I know RMS has a point that many GNU utilities are in Linux. But as a brand name, it's crap. "Linux" is hard enough to remember or understand in comparison to names like "Macintosh" or "Windows" - please, please don't make it worse by adding something vaguely unpronounceable and obscure-sounding at the beginning and then arguing about it endlessly.
Just call it Linux. Not Lindows, not GNU/Linux, not the endless new and old distribution names (and what the heck is "Gentoo" anyway?!), just Linux.
Then people might understand what the heck you're talking about. Which would be a step in the right direction.
Seriously. Radio? What's that? If I want music in the car or walking around I listen to my iPod.
No man, the future is ringtones!
Aluminum (no i) is better because of its very low specific heat - it dissipates heat quickly. (Think of foil wrap - even seconds out of the oven it becomes cool to the touch.)
Well, that part I can certainly relate to!
the SCAdian geeks favor the kilt look
Kilts can be useful, ya know. Beer in one pocket, tools in another, and there are even Privacy Snaps if you don't want to show off your sack.
Sic transit gloria Veneris.
The current generation of Aluminum PowerBooks doesn't run hot. A little warm, yes, but you need that on those cold summer San Francisco nights.
Because most of us wear pants when using a laptop?
The White Mountain Apache Tribe does run Apache, however.
Apple DRM still sucks. UK buyers: don't fall into the trap! Use iTunes for your MP3 collection and with your iPod, but forget the store unless you use DVD-Jon's decryptor.