"Linus Torvalds was just 21 when he changed the world. Working out of his family's apartment in Helsinki in 1991, he wrote the kernel of a new computer operating system called Linux that he posted for free on the Internet -- and invited anyone interested to help improve it.
Today, 15 years later, Linux powers everything from supercomputers to mobile phones around the world, and Torvalds has achieved fame as the godfather of the open-source movement, in which software code is shared and developed in a collaborative effort rather than being kept locked up by a single owner.
Some of Torvalds' supporters portray him as a sort of anti-Bill Gates, but the significance of Linux is much bigger than merely a slap at Microsoft. Collaborating on core technologies could lead to a huge reduction in some business costs, freeing up money for more innovative investments elsewhere. Torvalds continues to keep a close eye on Linux's development and has made some money from stock options given to him as a courtesy by two companies that sell commercial applications for it.
But his success isn't just measured in dollars. There's an asteroid named after him, as well as an annual software-geek festival. Torvalds' parents were student radicals in the 1960s and his father, a communist, even spent a year studying in Moscow. But it's their son who has turned out to be the real revolutionary."
Employeds might take annual vacation time to stand in line...which might make sense if they had 1)2 weeks time saved up, 2)Make less than $500 a week, 3)Are able to sell them on Ebay for 1k over purchase price, 4)Are actually willing to sell them soon as they get them....still, breaking even or better than that still doesn't make up for spending 2 weeks outside of a building waiting for an electronics device.
Macrodobe...making content suck...and suck HARD across browsers and platforms...we have no regard for your OS or browser! We will bend it over and make your starfish our own!
I for one do not welcome our Reach Arounding Uberlords.:(
It's clear that Microsoft's GUI designers have been smoking some pretty serious weed and studying arcane bullshit notions and ologies of myth when you use Vista or IE7.
He will go to jail for a very long time and his file system will remain mostly pointless for a very long time, then it will go from being pointless to forgotten. In the end, Linux will still be a very bad OS and an incoherent one at that. Then in the year 2035 Firfox grabbed another 1% market share versus IE at 97%...and the gnomes made happy. The Linux mods dropped a mod bomb on my ass in order to shut me up. Conspiracy theorie abound until I was photographd in Monaco with Mike Jackson and at least three of us were seen wearing high heels purchased in Milan on a Tuesday.
Welcome to DNA RAR. We have developed an exclusive peptide encryption method using random RNA sequences as hash key while pinching out false exclusives, just for yucks.
DNA RAR allows all of your genetic material to be encoded within an encryption program that is both free source code and open source.
So, to get the same basic functionality that I currently have in XP Home, I have to spend $450 for full version of Windows Ultimate or the upgrade at $275, that's a cool $1000 for every PC that I have now that I paid $400 for XP. Forcing abusive pricing on people just so they can use Remote Desktop and rattle off ISO's I think will encourage piracy on a much larger scale than what is going on currently with XP.
I won't pirate the product, but I sure as hell won't buy it either.
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The time between a critical flaw and a patch to fix it is too great. IE7 has been patched more than FF2.0, and this is not a good thing.
There hasn't been a *single* patch to fix flaws in FF2. Not. A. Single. One.
This isn't a troll, so please don't mode me down. When MS leads the way for browser security, things are very, very wrong for FF.
I'm an XP user partly by choice, but when I seriously consider running FF2 under XP via a VM in Linux just to get some security, something is wrong.
From the article:
"Linus Torvalds was just 21 when he changed the world. Working out of his family's apartment in Helsinki in 1991, he wrote the kernel of a new computer operating system called Linux that he posted for free on the Internet -- and invited anyone interested to help improve it.
Today, 15 years later, Linux powers everything from supercomputers to mobile phones around the world, and Torvalds has achieved fame as the godfather of the open-source movement, in which software code is shared and developed in a collaborative effort rather than being kept locked up by a single owner.
Some of Torvalds' supporters portray him as a sort of anti-Bill Gates, but the significance of Linux is much bigger than merely a slap at Microsoft. Collaborating on core technologies could lead to a huge reduction in some business costs, freeing up money for more innovative investments elsewhere. Torvalds continues to keep a close eye on Linux's development and has made some money from stock options given to him as a courtesy by two companies that sell commercial applications for it.
But his success isn't just measured in dollars. There's an asteroid named after him, as well as an annual software-geek festival. Torvalds' parents were student radicals in the 1960s and his father, a communist, even spent a year studying in Moscow. But it's their son who has turned out to be the real revolutionary."
RMS screams out loud, "No, that is GNU/Hero, damn it!"
MS DNA in the GPL via SuSE?
:(
Gather the troops.
Employeds might take annual vacation time to stand in line...which might make sense if they had 1)2 weeks time saved up, 2)Make less than $500 a week, 3)Are able to sell them on Ebay for 1k over purchase price, 4)Are actually willing to sell them soon as they get them. ...still, breaking even or better than that still doesn't make up for spending 2 weeks outside of a building waiting for an electronics device.
This tag should read:
Dude, you really, really, really need to get a life.
I wonder how many of these folks are virgins? ...or just don't care.
To gain access to root on these machines, enter this code.
Left left left, right, A, A, C, Right, Left.
Just use that Russian flaoting nuclear plant to heat the water up first...it'll work!
That's Trollblait how? I suspect most of the mods here are French and use Debian.
Macrodobe...making content suck...and suck HARD across browsers and platforms...we have no regard for your OS or browser! We will bend it over and make your starfish our own!
:(
I for one do not welcome our Reach Arounding Uberlords.
"Novell also takes issue with Ballmer's comments that no vendor today stands behind Linux with full intellectual-property indemnification."
That's the salvo that will be the real start of the war. The question isn't whether Microsoft will follow SCO's lead, but WHEN.
Editors need to RTFA.
Think for a moment, then join the not-so-recent trend of outsourcing your work.
:)
But plan for the backlash when you change the domain name to www.outsourceforge.net.
LOL, good spot. She needs to apply some vastu to her site, or perhaps just a soothing balm.
LAFF at "The fusion of two sciences" bit on there.
Windows Vastu.
It's clear that Microsoft's GUI designers have been smoking some pretty serious weed and studying arcane bullshit notions and ologies of myth when you use Vista or IE7.
Penn and Teller had a decent show on Feng Shui, and I agree with with their conclusion.
It's all bullshit!
Just like the subject of this news post.
Er...wrong.
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kimjongil@kwp.nk
12 hours of always up useage...(I have the flu..and can't sleep)
Youtube, Veoh... lots of other sites.
It's using 90 Megs now, which I'm pretty sure would be 250+ megs idle under previous versions.
And this is on XP Pro.
I can listen to two podcasts at the same time, as well as browse Slashdot, Digg, Techreport and Youtube.
:(
Oddly enough, I cannot rub my head and pat my belly at the same time.
What's going to happen is this.
He will go to jail for a very long time and his file system will remain mostly pointless for a very long time, then it will go from being pointless to forgotten. In the end, Linux will still be a very bad OS and an incoherent one at that. Then in the year 2035 Firfox grabbed another 1% market share versus IE at 97%...and the gnomes made happy. The Linux mods dropped a mod bomb on my ass in order to shut me up. Conspiracy theorie abound until I was photographd in Monaco with Mike Jackson and at least three of us were seen wearing high heels purchased in Milan on a Tuesday.
Welcome to DNA RAR. We have developed an exclusive peptide encryption method using random RNA sequences as hash key while pinching out false exclusives, just for yucks.
DNA RAR allows all of your genetic material to be encoded within an encryption program that is both free source code and open source.
All of this fucking harcore science for DMCA.
Woo!
So, to get the same basic functionality that I currently have in XP Home, I have to spend $450 for full version of Windows Ultimate or the upgrade at $275, that's a cool $1000 for every PC that I have now that I paid $400 for XP. Forcing abusive pricing on people just so they can use Remote Desktop and rattle off ISO's I think will encourage piracy on a much larger scale than what is going on currently with XP.
I won't pirate the product, but I sure as hell won't buy it either.
Wow...so many viruses on my desktop. Does Microsoft make that too?