I don't get how a government can even try to 'standardize' on something like sex. Isn't that what's so great about sex, that it's *not* like a lunch line, where everyone gets the same food? Variety is the spice of life.
P.S. Before you judge my own sexual desires and fetishes, I ask you to let it go and ask yourself if it's even necessary. It's not my point to try and "legalize" beastiality or anything of the sort - I just think it's kind of lame to try and tell someone what is "ok" sexually, and what isn't (as long as nobody/nothing gets hurt or is forced to do something against their will - that's a completely different story). It reminds me of the "old days" when certain sex positions were illegal.
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But you already did. The original hardware manufacturer built the OS and applications and preinstalled it before they shipped it to you. Isn't that awesome? So why throw that all away and start again?...Because the OS and applications the original hardware manufacturer preinstalled are crap?
How interesting is it that attempting to impeach a president because he got a BJ and lied about it gets so much more publicity than one who kills thousands in an unjust war, breaks the constitution, and effectively turns a "free" country into a police-state./me weeps for the future
It really is pretty simple here - there are those who want overcoded, overprotective, overhyped operating systems. And then, there are those who want to use their computer.
The eee, Netbook remix, ume-launcher and all OSS-friendly friends fit into the latter. Let's face it - the operating system is slowly melting into the background. Vista, for instance, is trying to kick and scream its way back to the front of your widescreen LCD - but sooner or later, people are going to 'ho-hum' them into oblivion, and get on their Intarwebs the easier way.
I think Bill Gates is a brilliant man. Seriously, Slashbotters, listen:
Bill Gates, when he first started MS, had passion for software and coding. I *wish* I could program the stuff him and his buddies did way back then. I *wish* I had the left hemisphere brain activity he did. But you can only GET that activity if the passion to do it drives you.
For that, I applaud Bill Gates, as he is like many of us - he's passionate about technology.
Business is a completely different arena, and we all know that big business eventually corrupts - that isn't most directly Bill's fault - he's just a bad business man, in that sense.
I use Linux every day. I absolutely HATE Windows (and most other Microsoft) products. I hate them with a passion. I avidly try to get as many people using Linux as I can - my grandma, my wife's friends, you name it. That doesn't mean Bill Gates wasn't revolutionary and awesome because his drive was to create software. If it were all him coding Windows, 100%, you'd have to admit it'd probably be a lot better than it is today. Too many chefs in the kitchen just burns things when the ultimate goal is profit.
I dunno, I just thought I'd throw that into a whole ocean full of flames toward someone that probably respects OSS programmers a lot more than he'd be able to admit before July 1st.
Absolutely horrendous keyboard! Too small and cramped for me to be able to stand there and type out a few sentences at normal speed.
Not sure how big your hands are, but mine are pretty big, and I've had a 7" EEE since they came out - I absolutely LOVE the keyboard for how small it is. I haven't had a problem typing ~60WPM on it (I normally type ~65WPM). You don't want to type for hours on it, but nobody would want to do that on *any* subnotebook.
I don't want to RTFA because it seems the summary...well, summarizes it all.
There's nothing wrong with trying to make money off of F/OSS software. In reality, here on Earth, people need to provide for themselves and their loved ones. Ubuntu is embracing a very unique model in that they give away software, and even hire coders to work on the software they give back to the community. Who cares if they charge for support? There is still a HUGE, FREE community backing it. You don't have to pay Canonical for support to use Ubuntu. Of course, the option is there, which is nice for some individuals and companies.
They aren't stealing open-source code and making it proprietary (COUGHlinksysCOUGH), they aren't even charging for updates that come from paying people to find/fix them, and they're even contributing back to the most pure OSS Linux platform IMHO (Debian). What is the problem here?
What I want to know, is why Adobe wants to keep Flash closed-source. What can hurt them from open-sourcing that and Shockwave? It seems to me they are under a lot of pressure from business partners to keep it locked up, *because* it is so widely used.
And considering Windows and Apple have working Shockwave players... who does that leave out?
Adobe seems to want to jump on the OSS bandwagon, which might make a lot of people smile... although,....
- Flash isn't OSS
- The Linux Flash binary-only plugin is still WAY behind the Windows version in quality and stability (remember how long we had to wait for Flash 9.x on Linux??)
- Shockwave Director isn't OSS (and isn't even ported to Linux in a binary-only format, despite the 29511 signatures in the online petition that's been going on forever). Not a peep from Adobe on if this will ever even happen, even though revisions are still being made and it being widely used
- No intention of porting Flash to x86-64 platforms, on Linux -or- Windows (at least AFAIK)
- Just in my experience alone, COUNTLESS other buggy applications (like the other week, installing a version of Acrobat with a.0 known bug that plainly doesn't launch when executed without a fix from their website)
I agree Adobe has a LOT of momentum behind them with the Internet community. With this, however, comes great responsibility. If they want to play in the OSS playground, I think they need to share all of their toys like the others do.
Wow. I guess the story posters here really *do* like all of the "X OS is sooooo better than Y OS" comment threads. =p Flame on, SD community. Flame on.
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Maybe Adobe will actually make a Linux/FF Shockwave plugin (Yeah yeah, I know, fat chance)...
Yeah except Kings are set for life. George ends his term Jan 20, 2009.
Yes, this is true. One does have to wonder, however, if many small straws on a camel's back weigh more or less than one large bundle.
Long live King George II.
I await King George III so the people may repeat history. Again.
it would DEFINITELY be to the EFF. What heroes they are, in today's world!
I don't get how a government can even try to 'standardize' on something like sex. Isn't that what's so great about sex, that it's *not* like a lunch line, where everyone gets the same food? Variety is the spice of life.
P.S. Before you judge my own sexual desires and fetishes, I ask you to let it go and ask yourself if it's even necessary. It's not my point to try and "legalize" beastiality or anything of the sort - I just think it's kind of lame to try and tell someone what is "ok" sexually, and what isn't (as long as nobody/nothing gets hurt or is forced to do something against their will - that's a completely different story). It reminds me of the "old days" when certain sex positions were illegal.
But you already did. The original hardware manufacturer built the OS and applications and preinstalled it before they shipped it to you. Isn't that awesome? So why throw that all away and start again? ...Because the OS and applications the original hardware manufacturer preinstalled are crap?
Ugh... I hate it when people say "Well at least it's not as bad as X"...
It's still a F*CK of a lot worse than it USED to be. Which is the wrong direction.
PERIOD.
How interesting is it that attempting to impeach a president because he got a BJ and lied about it gets so much more publicity than one who kills thousands in an unjust war, breaks the constitution, and effectively turns a "free" country into a police-state. /me weeps for the future
I'm referring to those who want to do the basics - e-mail, WWW, maybe some light word processing - on the go.
Does that clarify, Daddy? =p
P.S. lolsauce on the age factor remarks. How petty of someone to assume that people of a certain age group all think a certain way.
Maybe a new name would be best?
:p
How about "Tux & Friends" ?
It really is pretty simple here - there are those who want overcoded, overprotective, overhyped operating systems. And then, there are those who want to use their computer.
The eee, Netbook remix, ume-launcher and all OSS-friendly friends fit into the latter. Let's face it - the operating system is slowly melting into the background. Vista, for instance, is trying to kick and scream its way back to the front of your widescreen LCD - but sooner or later, people are going to 'ho-hum' them into oblivion, and get on their Intarwebs the easier way.
P.S. lolsauce.
So....doesn't that eliminate the whole point of having electronic voting machines in the first place?
Here's my (serious) question: What's worse?
a) Having a paper trail and therefore eliminating the anonymity of voting
-or-
b) Having no idea whether your vote actually counted
?
I think Bill Gates is a brilliant man. Seriously, Slashbotters, listen:
Bill Gates, when he first started MS, had passion for software and coding. I *wish* I could program the stuff him and his buddies did way back then. I *wish* I had the left hemisphere brain activity he did. But you can only GET that activity if the passion to do it drives you.
For that, I applaud Bill Gates, as he is like many of us - he's passionate about technology.
Business is a completely different arena, and we all know that big business eventually corrupts - that isn't most directly Bill's fault - he's just a bad business man, in that sense.
I use Linux every day. I absolutely HATE Windows (and most other Microsoft) products. I hate them with a passion. I avidly try to get as many people using Linux as I can - my grandma, my wife's friends, you name it. That doesn't mean Bill Gates wasn't revolutionary and awesome because his drive was to create software. If it were all him coding Windows, 100%, you'd have to admit it'd probably be a lot better than it is today. Too many chefs in the kitchen just burns things when the ultimate goal is profit.
I dunno, I just thought I'd throw that into a whole ocean full of flames toward someone that probably respects OSS programmers a lot more than he'd be able to admit before July 1st.
Absolutely horrendous keyboard! Too small and cramped for me to be able to stand there and type out a few sentences at normal speed.
Not sure how big your hands are, but mine are pretty big, and I've had a 7" EEE since they came out - I absolutely LOVE the keyboard for how small it is. I haven't had a problem typing ~60WPM on it (I normally type ~65WPM). You don't want to type for hours on it, but nobody would want to do that on *any* subnotebook.
there's nothing unique about their model.
Sure there is - it's WORKING. =)
I don't want to RTFA because it seems the summary ...well, summarizes it all.
There's nothing wrong with trying to make money off of F/OSS software. In reality, here on Earth, people need to provide for themselves and their loved ones. Ubuntu is embracing a very unique model in that they give away software, and even hire coders to work on the software they give back to the community. Who cares if they charge for support? There is still a HUGE, FREE community backing it. You don't have to pay Canonical for support to use Ubuntu. Of course, the option is there, which is nice for some individuals and companies.
They aren't stealing open-source code and making it proprietary (COUGHlinksysCOUGH), they aren't even charging for updates that come from paying people to find/fix them, and they're even contributing back to the most pure OSS Linux platform IMHO (Debian). What is the problem here?
What I want to know, is why Adobe wants to keep Flash closed-source. What can hurt them from open-sourcing that and Shockwave? It seems to me they are under a lot of pressure from business partners to keep it locked up, *because* it is so widely used.
And considering Windows and Apple have working Shockwave players... who does that leave out?
Your "Linux License" may never see fruitation
...?
Ummm, fruition
Maybe people who can spell (or use a spellchecker? I don't think IE has one yet) have a different opinion.
Adobe seems to want to jump on the OSS bandwagon, which might make a lot of people smile... although, ....
.0 known bug that plainly doesn't launch when executed without a fix from their website)
- Flash isn't OSS
- The Linux Flash binary-only plugin is still WAY behind the Windows version in quality and stability (remember how long we had to wait for Flash 9.x on Linux??)
- Shockwave Director isn't OSS (and isn't even ported to Linux in a binary-only format, despite the 29511 signatures in the online petition that's been going on forever). Not a peep from Adobe on if this will ever even happen, even though revisions are still being made and it being widely used
- No intention of porting Flash to x86-64 platforms, on Linux -or- Windows (at least AFAIK)
- Just in my experience alone, COUNTLESS other buggy applications (like the other week, installing a version of Acrobat with a
I agree Adobe has a LOT of momentum behind them with the Internet community. With this, however, comes great responsibility. If they want to play in the OSS playground, I think they need to share all of their toys like the others do.
"How's that for fueling religious platform wars?"
Wow. I guess the story posters here really *do* like all of the "X OS is sooooo better than Y OS" comment threads. =p Flame on, SD community. Flame on.
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