Why should they provide a service for free? If their income is based on people buying things with copyrighted names, then they're going to lose money! What company wants to lose money?
> Will the open-source alternative fill the void ?
I don't think so. I do think that the open-source alternatives are almost always better for experienced computer users.
Let me give an example. Yesterday, I saw an ad for some Macromedia product that allows people to update the content on a webpage without messing with the design. Good idea. I applied the same idea to update one of my pages years ago with a simple perl script. Run./update_notes and type the news and it would be on the page. Easy.
But the problem is it isn't easy for other people. They need a shiny UI that matches their point-and-drool web design tools. So I think there will always be a market for software with a solid, shiny UI and good technical support. The open-source movement doesn't seem to fufil the needs of idiots by providing this. They seem to cater to smart people that want to read to learn how to use something. Word is easier to learn than Emacs+LaTeX, but the flexibility and end-results of LaTeX are far better than the alternatives. But you have to type commands instead of clicking pretty widgets.
So my point is that people are too stupid to use open source software. And that's not a bad thing:)
Google has a monopoly over good search engines (i.e. google is the only search that anyone wants to use). They should block France until the French Government changes their opinion on this ruling. They'll do this because everyone will complain that they can't use google, and google will tell them that google's no longer profitable in France, and that they can't afford to do business there with the new laws. That should result in some change fairly quickly:)
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The problem with not calling it GNU/Linux is that it's more GNU than Linux. Want to copy a file with cp? That's a GNU program. Like bash? It's GNU. Text editing with emacs? GNU.
Of course, you couldn't do any of that without a kernel, which is what Linux is. So both parts are equally important. Without GNU, Linux would be behind... without Linux, GNU wouldn't be useful to anyone:)
Why can't we just record the raw waves from the antenna and "play" them to decoding equipment? The decoder won't know the difference, and in analog form the "evil bit" means nothing. This is some pretty bad security here.
That's right. For some reason I read the grandparent as saying that the OS issues HLT instructions. So it's a HLT "loop" that is ended by an interrupt. Not NOP. That's while(isTrue());:)
Actually, I think it sounded better the first time. If somebody gave away an important paper that you NEED, you're not going to say "To whom did you give it!?", you'll say "Who did you give it to!?". Being mad == grammar quality goes down:)
Remember in "Office Space" where the conversation goes like this:
Peter: "Oh Shit" Samir: "Shit! Peter "Son of a bitch! Shit!" Samir: "This is a... fuck!" Peter: "Son of a bitch" Samir: "Shit!"
Not very good grammar, but you get the idea that something bad happened:)
Nah, they fix themselves upon restart thanks to DeepShit (DeepFreeze). Although they don't disable CD booting, so I could just change it undex knoppix *idea*.
It's not really valid HTML though. I assume that IE looks in comments and parses stuff inside them ([If IE]...[endif]). So it sees an , which is surely not valid HTML. It's still funny to set that page to the start page on school computers and watch IE crash, restart, crash, restart, crash, restart and the person try IE on the next computer (and fail hahah). Then I tell them to use mozilla:)
Very, very good point. Why is it that slashdoter's fuck-you emails are always un proofread? Post them here first and THEN send them!!! We'll help you guys write nice, English:) letters.
I have a new 2500+ here, and it's just too fast for me. I *never* use 100% CPU (except in UT and when doing computations). With my gig of RAM, it's kind of a waste of my computer to use xfce4 and emacs as opposed to KDE and OpenOffice. I'm so used to my old 233MHz box that I don't need bloated software anymore. Oh well:)
I agree with you on the clockspeed thing. I have a 2500+ (that was $80) overclocked to a 3000+ (turns out they're the same chip...). The 3000+ is about $250. So for $150 extra I can have 15 seconds (that's what I got from compiling about 10 times on a 2500+ and averaging the last 9 times and doing the same with the OC'd one) off my kernel compile. I'm so 1337. That, or stupid.
I have a $40 chieftech case. I never look at it because it's big and ugly, but it keeps everything inside of it nice and cold (right now: CPU at 35C, internals at 30C, hda 20C, hdb 26C [these two are on opposite sides of an air column, the sensor for hda is quite close to the fan], hdd 30C), and it's nice looking inside.
Don't waste your money on a case, buy a good power supply (and CPU, Mobo, Graphics Card, etc:) Anyone who buys $10 LED fans instead of $3 fans should be shot:)
Where did these Chinese people get names like Jerry, Johnny, Kevin, Ken, Jim, etc? Don't they have _real_ names? Why does everyone think English is so cool?
> bash-2.05a$ fortune > bash: fortune: command not found
Heh, apparently one of fortune's cookies reads:
"Segmentation fault (core dumped)"
This, after debugging a faulty memory module that had been fucking everything up, appeared when I first logged in after removing the faulty module. Confused the fuck out of me. Damn you, fortune:)
You know what? Fuck you. I'm so tired of all these windows zealots telling me how good XP is. So _I'll_ tell you how good it is: IT FUCKING SUCKS! The fucking *login screen* crashed on my home machine today (not my machine, mine is Linux only). The whole system goes down because I mistyped my password. Great.
You windows users also need to stop bitchine about wine. Where would _you_ be if the OSS people didn't write/port to windows OpenOffice, BZFlag, Mozilla, or whatever fun OSS app you're using right now. Nowhere? Or out $800. I see. So you can use our stuff and bitch about us using wine to use kazaa lite or something. Thanks.
It comes down to this. Don't complain about other's choice in OS. If you like windows, great. If you like linux, great. I don't care which one you use, just let ME use the one I want without all your "it's too hard" comments. If it were too hard, I wouldn't be using it. Some people are smarter than a piece of shit.
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Why should they provide a service for free? If their income is based on people buying things with copyrighted names, then they're going to lose money! What company wants to lose money?
> Will the open-source alternative fill the void ?
./update_notes and type the news and it would be on the page. Easy.
:)
I don't think so. I do think that the open-source alternatives are almost always better for experienced computer users.
Let me give an example. Yesterday, I saw an ad for some Macromedia product that allows people to update the content on a webpage without messing with the design. Good idea. I applied the same idea to update one of my pages years ago with a simple perl script. Run
But the problem is it isn't easy for other people. They need a shiny UI that matches their point-and-drool web design tools. So I think there will always be a market for software with a solid, shiny UI and good technical support. The open-source movement doesn't seem to fufil the needs of idiots by providing this. They seem to cater to smart people that want to read to learn how to use something. Word is easier to learn than Emacs+LaTeX, but the flexibility and end-results of LaTeX are far better than the alternatives. But you have to type commands instead of clicking pretty widgets.
So my point is that people are too stupid to use open source software. And that's not a bad thing
Google has a monopoly over good search engines (i.e. google is the only search that anyone wants to use). They should block France until the French Government changes their opinion on this ruling. They'll do this because everyone will complain that they can't use google, and google will tell them that google's no longer profitable in France, and that they can't afford to do business there with the new laws. That should result in some change fairly quickly :)
Did you buy the CD? If not, off to jail you go...
The problem with not calling it GNU/Linux is that it's more GNU than Linux. Want to copy a file with cp? That's a GNU program. Like bash? It's GNU. Text editing with emacs? GNU.
:)
Of course, you couldn't do any of that without a kernel, which is what Linux is. So both parts are equally important. Without GNU, Linux would be behind... without Linux, GNU wouldn't be useful to anyone
Why can't we just record the raw waves from the antenna and "play" them to decoding equipment? The decoder won't know the difference, and in analog form the "evil bit" means nothing. This is some pretty bad security here.
That's right. For some reason I read the grandparent as saying that the OS issues HLT instructions. So it's a HLT "loop" that is ended by an interrupt. Not NOP. That's while(isTrue()); :)
Switches won't help you!
It's your $899 you pay for Office. OO is $0.
Bring me a slashdot poster that says "whose" instead of "who's", and I'll show you someone "whose" failing English!
iMac/233 running debian. ssh://rockway.gotdns.org/
Dragging an image from Firebird into OpenOffice works fine. But since you assume that it won't work, you won't try. Good work, asshole.
Actually, I think it sounded better the first time. If somebody gave away an important paper that you NEED, you're not going to say "To whom did you give it!?", you'll say "Who did you give it to!?". Being mad == grammar quality goes down :)
:)
Remember in "Office Space" where the conversation goes like this:
Peter: "Oh Shit"
Samir: "Shit!
Peter "Son of a bitch! Shit!"
Samir: "This is a... fuck!"
Peter: "Son of a bitch"
Samir: "Shit!"
Not very good grammar, but you get the idea that something bad happened
Nah, they fix themselves upon restart thanks to DeepShit (DeepFreeze). Although they don't disable CD booting, so I could just change it undex knoppix *idea*.
It's not really valid HTML though. I assume that IE looks in comments and parses stuff inside them ([If IE]...[endif]). So it sees an , which is surely not valid HTML. It's still funny to set that page to the start page on school computers and watch IE crash, restart, crash, restart, crash, restart and the person try IE on the next computer (and fail hahah). Then I tell them to use mozilla :)
I dunno. OO's calc is a damn good spreadsheet. What do you do that needs more than OO?
Anyway, I personally have been using emacs->LaTeX/emacs->GnuPlot to prepare my documents that need graphs. LaTeX with GnuPlot graphs is sexy...
Nice sig. But after you get modded down for it, you can't get the point back by making them click the link :)
Very, very good point. Why is it that slashdoter's fuck-you emails are always un proofread? Post them here first and THEN send them!!! We'll help you guys write nice, English :) letters.
I have a new 2500+ here, and it's just too fast for me. I *never* use 100% CPU (except in UT and when doing computations). With my gig of RAM, it's kind of a waste of my computer to use xfce4 and emacs as opposed to KDE and OpenOffice. I'm so used to my old 233MHz box that I don't need bloated software anymore. Oh well :)
I agree with you on the clockspeed thing. I have a 2500+ (that was $80) overclocked to a 3000+ (turns out they're the same chip...). The 3000+ is about $250. So for $150 extra I can have 15 seconds (that's what I got from compiling about 10 times on a 2500+ and averaging the last 9 times and doing the same with the OC'd one) off my kernel compile. I'm so 1337. That, or stupid.
I have a $40 chieftech case. I never look at it because it's big and ugly, but it keeps everything inside of it nice and cold (right now: CPU at 35C, internals at 30C, hda 20C, hdb 26C [these two are on opposite sides of an air column, the sensor for hda is quite close to the fan], hdd 30C), and it's nice looking inside.
:) Anyone who buys $10 LED fans instead of $3 fans should be shot :)
Don't waste your money on a case, buy a good power supply (and CPU, Mobo, Graphics Card, etc
Where did these Chinese people get names like Jerry, Johnny, Kevin, Ken, Jim, etc? Don't they have _real_ names? Why does everyone think English is so cool?
> bash-2.05a$ fortune
> bash: fortune: command not found
Heh, apparently one of fortune's cookies reads:
"Segmentation fault (core dumped)"
This, after debugging a faulty memory module that had been fucking everything up, appeared when I first logged in after removing the faulty module. Confused the fuck out of me. Damn you, fortune
> As long as there's a second amendment, there will always be a first.
:)
By well-ordering, right
You know what? Fuck you. I'm so tired of all these windows zealots telling me how good XP is. So _I'll_ tell you how good it is: IT FUCKING SUCKS! The fucking *login screen* crashed on my home machine today (not my machine, mine is Linux only). The whole system goes down because I mistyped my password. Great.
You windows users also need to stop bitchine about wine. Where would _you_ be if the OSS people didn't write/port to windows OpenOffice, BZFlag, Mozilla, or whatever fun OSS app you're using right now. Nowhere? Or out $800. I see. So you can use our stuff and bitch about us using wine to use kazaa lite or something. Thanks.
It comes down to this. Don't complain about other's choice in OS. If you like windows, great. If you like linux, great. I don't care which one you use, just let ME use the one I want without all your "it's too hard" comments. If it were too hard, I wouldn't be using it. Some people are smarter than a piece of shit.