"If the government wants to put something in the public domain, it should. Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works."
Linus can do whatever he pleases with Linux. Ballmer is just jealous because there's a better OS than WinBlowz out there. Granted, Mozilla needs work and it doesnt have all the games you want to play on it, but it is a good OS, stable fast. I've had Mandrake since March and have had one crash, while WinMe crashed on me just this morning!
I love how he's kissing Gates' ass in the article.
But Linux being a cancer? What about MS being a cancer to competition?
Are you serious???! haven't you ever watched a subitled movie?? you can very well read the subtitles while paying perfect attention to the images... unless your really slow or stupid.
Yes, I've watched them, and it depends on who subtitles them, they can be very fast, or very slow. I've watched Love Hina episodes subtitled where I was trying to catch up with the show while reading the titles, or as to just wait minutes for the next line to come along. Also, as I said, subtitling takes away from the film and adds less entertainment value to it.
As for the rest of your comments, I suggest you read the article first before you make anymore assumptions, beause you look like the troll not I.
Square is considering what to do about it, and it was an Ask Slashdot article, so I posted my opinion.
If you had read it btw, it said that the movie stands an equal chance of making it big in all countries among its intended market, and not just the US.
And no, I'm not a troll, I'm Polish
But, we'll be looking down at the bottom of the screen, we'll be missing seconds, which might be crucial to the film, like a small detail which will be important, IE: MI.
I've gone to Europe a couple of times and noticed that instead of voice dubs they do this:subtilting the movie, but who would want to look at the bottom of a screen the whole movie? You could have voice translators, but then, that'd ruin the movie's sound and make the experience less entertaining.
Square might have made the best looking amination ever, but, apparently, they also made the least unwatchable but non-English speaking peoples of the world.
Voice dubs might have to be forced, because redoing the movie will be much too expensive to do and is not worth it. Redoing the movie in Urkanian for a profit of 12 thousand bucks is not worth a multi-million dollar project, Square will have to bite the bullet and do voice dubs.
Unless you go there or the country has a extratriation treaty, then you've got nothing to worry. IE: Country A doesnt have a extraraitation treaty with the Country B, so I can go there and murder someone come back and not worry about being arrested until a treaty is signed, unless my homeland refuses me entry because they found out what I did and have me answer for it in Country B.
Those kids got tricked into going to the US, had they stayed in Russia, they most likely would have never ben convicted unless the Russians extradited them, which the odds of that are close to null.
Damn, why can the FBI only hack hackers, but when a Russian hacks me, I can't do shit?!
The precendent that this sets would be: you can hack whoever you want, as long as you think they hacked you first. So, anyone with a PC could be hacked by the FBI with this reason, the FBI can say, "they thought". First Carnivore/Echleon, now this!
For Mandrake and RH, it MIGHT work, considering they're popular and both Linux companies that could have IPOs. But, most of us don't want to blow a grand on something we might not get a profit for, but thats the stock market, but if you look at the two distros, they're likely a good buy now for the long term because right now, they're paying overhead and would break even and a profit a few more years down the road.
Btw, why not do this with VA Linux?
These phones are very interesting. The video display and the phone itself looks impressive, and the rate for data transmission is no more than a minute on a regular cell phone here, although it might go drastically up, (bandwidth, etc).
I'd love to have one of these phones, and I await when it shall come out. Although, have a buggy phone might be a problem, imagine getting the blue screen of death on one of these things, (of course, I don't think would be running windows)
Imagine a Linux version of this, hehe.
The Palm Pilot just got smaller and is now a cell phone.
Might be redundant...
But, I don't really find a pratical use for this keyboard, unless you want FP or something dumb like that. Its a nice idea, but very impratical. How do you expect me to type more quicker with this thing when I have to worry about touching the space bar every few seconds? No thanks, I'll stay with my good old fashioned QWERTY.
It might be of use for small computers, laptops, Palms, but not for a PC.
Echelon: the program which checks for possible plots and attempts of terrorism, ie: a way to go into ur email.
Has anyone actually taken into consideration that Echelon could fall into the wrong hands, that of hackers or people who would use it for their own evil purposes. Its bad enough the government has it and can do wrong with it, but think of what someone in the public can do if they have it and is pissed off.
Echelon, is not just a privacy concern, but a security one as well
I get free MS software, so I don't pay for it and I don't care about it. I don't intend paying MS any money for their products, EVER, unless I have to buy a PC, which now I'll most likely build my own. (Btw, my university gives out free MS-licsensed software, just so if anyone thinks im a warez dealer, you're wrong! lol)
Thank you. I have an errata. I ask this AC to please post me these links where you found these pages and I will give you all the books which I derive my material from my previous opinion alone.
Hitler told his force that he would "propogandize" the start of the Second World War, which he did by the radio station incident.
I demand you to counter my argument AC, or will you stay quiet with the truth now?
And stop visiting those revisionist sites.
Its a reflex, and plus, look at what MS wanted to do with their products: rental fees, restricting certain files, overy security features. I don't know about you, but I don't a OS with backdoors, pay a yearly fee for software which you paid for the in first place.
As for the history and criticism of Linux: at least we can ADMIT our mistakes, MS takes longer than a Florida election recount to solve their software bugs.
It can fall because of the net intivative, the rental plan. And as for the net becoming stagant, it is quite fresh, everyday brings something new online, a new page, a new chatter, etc.
MS is another IBM, just in the software sense, and Linux is the Compaq:-)
The article could be a reflection on a simimlar article written before Win95 came out, describing MS' monopoly power. Here, this pre WinXP article is describing the comeback kid that MS became.
If MS gets off the hook here, then expect a battle at the Supreme Court, which will have a huge impact on all software because, they'll most issue a blanket ruling on MS which will make sure such cases are brought up again.
The XP suite won't be that successful this year, because no one will want to upgrade their computers for those projects. The XP projects will be more successful in the next two years or so.
Money does not buy happiness, but it can make my happy to have that nice mp3 player from thinkgeek.
I can make a profit if i want to, just have to put some effort into it. But if being happy is being profitable, so be it.
Its how the market works. Just a thought
Mod me down, but I'm defending my country and this slander I cannot sit back and take:
<I>Your politically correct textbooks<I>
Now, I am not only a coder/Linux enthusiaist/gamer, but I am also a Polish historian and I know much more on this topic than you. The textbooks don't go over such things, they just tell what happened to Poland, my sources are texts from promiment authors.
<I>don't tell you about the Germans who were ethnicly cleansed from Poland following WWI.
or the many more forced to leave during the 20' and 30's do to officially backed anti-German pogroms. <I>
I know of no such progroms from the Pilduski government or the government thereafter, if there was such a thing, Hitler would have presented it in his propoganda machine and I have never found such a thing as this. As for the killing of Germans, groups of independent anti-German poles are as bad as groups of independent anti-Semitic Germans
<I>They don't tell you that Hitler signed a peace treaty with Poland in 1934, recognizing the existing borders, or that Danzig was a German city, not part of Poland, which wanted to rejoin Germany. Hitler's only territorial claims were Danzig, which was not Poland's anyway, and road and rail connections across Poland connecting East Prussia with the rest of Germany<I>
Danzig was a independent city, not German or Polish. Controlled by the League of Nations. It was not up to them, but the LoN. And Poland has the right to decide what to do with their own territory, its called soverignity.
<I>In other words, Germany was not asking for any Polish territory. <I>
I beg to differ, they asked for rail and roads, don't you consider that terriotry, and also, recall they also wanted Silesia, but did not include that foremost in their demands, (Slask)
<I> Now, another thing they don't tell you about that alleged staged German attack on the radio station: whatever the truth of the story, it was totally unnecessary, since Poland had been violating German territory and was trying to provoke a German attack, convinced that Britain and France would then come into the war and defeat Germany, thus giving Poland a chance to grab more German territory.<I>
So it happened and you can't admit the fact that I'm right. As for Poland violating Polish territory, Versallies and the 1934 treaty is what I'm going on, and what did a treaty mean to hitler anyway?
<I> Poland had already grabbed territory from Czechoslovakia, and was gunning for more. <I>
Over the city of Czesyn. So Poland was land hungry after WW1.
<I>Polish government officials boasted of their invasions of German territory<I>
No where have I run across officals bragging of this, the attitude in Poland was there wasn't even going to be a war. And the government knew that going to war would result in a disaster.
<I> and bragged that they would be marching into Berlin within a month or two after goading Germany into war.<I>
A Polish division did march into Germany and was within 100 miles of Berlin, but had to pull back when they saw that the war effort was going very bad.
<I> They were cocky and overconfident, after they had gotten the gaurantee from Britain that she would go to war if Germany attacked Poland. This was practically writing a blank check to Poland, since it encouraged Poland to do anything possible to provoke a war with Germany.
<I>
Poland was confident there would be no war. The alliance was done because they feared Germany would attack.
<I>This Poland proceeded to do, by attacking Germany with tiny cross border raids, and by instituting new pogroms against the German population in Poland. Of course this is not going to show up in your typical establishment history books<I> Yes, there were raids, just as Germans raided Poland.
<I> In fact most people reading this will assume I am making it up. But, do some research, the web is a good tool for discovering officially repressed history. <I> You mean pro-Nazi rubbish?
<I>Hitler had all the justification he needed for attacking Poland<I>
What justification, I just ruined all your so called justification
<I>without having to stage a Polish raid. That particular incident sounds like a ham-handed afterthought by some Nazi party hack on the make<I>
This hack was Hilter himself.
In conclusion, Poland did not provoke Hitler, Hitler intended to take Poland as Lebusarum, (living space), as early as 1937.
As for you dear AC, next time Log on with your account and take the karma beating like the bitch you are! Flaming bullshit like your post deserves to be modded down!
Might be redundant...
I read the paper the other day, calling my Generation, (17-28), a whining generation. We simply whine about everything, that nationalism is a bad thing and PC. But Brokaw's "Greatest Generation" (the people in Pearl Harbor), was proud of their country..
The author has a valid point, we seem not to be proud to be American these days. I remember going into a IRC chat room and telling a story about displaying the American flag and I was called a nut.
Then, apparently, telling the story of America the victim of a vicious attack, is wrong and un-pc and is modififed by other countries, (is the pin-cushion Hitler in the movie modified as well? Maybe it should be a veteran because of how the movie butchers the battle)
Fuck political correctness, its getting so that we are so afraid on stepping on anyone's toes to tell any kind of truth. As for the right of nuking two cities, well, its better than the millions that would have been lost in the island invasion, look at Okinwana.
As for Germany, they started the war with a bullshit excuse of a Polish invasion of a German radio station, (Germans in Polish uniform invaded the station) and they seem to always be starting wars too.
Usenet is exteremly popular, if a profit can be made from it, then Google has the right to make one. They can charge you a fee if they want, you don't have to go there. An example, if you decided to post an entire prog that you yourself created, Google owns it. What you say on Google, they own it.
But then again, MS technically owns all the progs you write when you run windows <shrug>.
Well, its because of:
1. Games
2. Hardware Issues
3. Learning Unix
Non-techs aren't going to have the desire to learn Unix and put up with problems of 1 and 2. Its sad really. There is VMware, (which I can't get going on my Linux box) and WinLin, but once again: you need to know Unix. A few years ago, it was you had to know MS-DOS, but it was a few simple commands. I learned DOS at an early age since my father saw into what the computer was going to be, later came Unix. Although learning them is not complicated, you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
But Linux not in mainstream magazines? Its been in Time and Newsweek, those are pretty mainstream. Every major news website has touched upon Linux. It is something on the map now, now it just reaching out to non-techs and is doing a fantastic job. My ten year old sister can use Mandrake.
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"If the government wants to put something in the public domain, it should. Linux is not in the public domain. Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works."
Linus can do whatever he pleases with Linux. Ballmer is just jealous because there's a better OS than WinBlowz out there. Granted, Mozilla needs work and it doesnt have all the games you want to play on it, but it is a good OS, stable fast. I've had Mandrake since March and have had one crash, while WinMe crashed on me just this morning!
I love how he's kissing Gates' ass in the article.
But Linux being a cancer? What about MS being a cancer to competition?
Are you serious???! haven't you ever watched a subitled movie?? you can very well read the subtitles while paying perfect attention to the images... unless your really slow or stupid.
Yes, I've watched them, and it depends on who subtitles them, they can be very fast, or very slow. I've watched Love Hina episodes subtitled where I was trying to catch up with the show while reading the titles, or as to just wait minutes for the next line to come along. Also, as I said, subtitling takes away from the film and adds less entertainment value to it.
As for the rest of your comments, I suggest you read the article first before you make anymore assumptions, beause you look like the troll not I.
Square is considering what to do about it, and it was an Ask Slashdot article, so I posted my opinion.
If you had read it btw, it said that the movie stands an equal chance of making it big in all countries among its intended market, and not just the US.
And no, I'm not a troll, I'm Polish
But, we'll be looking down at the bottom of the screen, we'll be missing seconds, which might be crucial to the film, like a small detail which will be important, IE: MI.
I've gone to Europe a couple of times and noticed that instead of voice dubs they do this:subtilting the movie, but who would want to look at the bottom of a screen the whole movie? You could have voice translators, but then, that'd ruin the movie's sound and make the experience less entertaining.
Square might have made the best looking amination ever, but, apparently, they also made the least unwatchable but non-English speaking peoples of the world.
Voice dubs might have to be forced, because redoing the movie will be much too expensive to do and is not worth it. Redoing the movie in Urkanian for a profit of 12 thousand bucks is not worth a multi-million dollar project, Square will have to bite the bullet and do voice dubs.
Unless you go there or the country has a extratriation treaty, then you've got nothing to worry. IE: Country A doesnt have a extraraitation treaty with the Country B, so I can go there and murder someone come back and not worry about being arrested until a treaty is signed, unless my homeland refuses me entry because they found out what I did and have me answer for it in Country B.
Those kids got tricked into going to the US, had they stayed in Russia, they most likely would have never ben convicted unless the Russians extradited them, which the odds of that are close to null.
Damn, why can the FBI only hack hackers, but when a Russian hacks me, I can't do shit?!
The precendent that this sets would be: you can hack whoever you want, as long as you think they hacked you first. So, anyone with a PC could be hacked by the FBI with this reason, the FBI can say, "they thought". First Carnivore/Echleon, now this!
For Mandrake and RH, it MIGHT work, considering they're popular and both Linux companies that could have IPOs. But, most of us don't want to blow a grand on something we might not get a profit for, but thats the stock market, but if you look at the two distros, they're likely a good buy now for the long term because right now, they're paying overhead and would break even and a profit a few more years down the road.
Btw, why not do this with VA Linux?
Might be years, they expect to have 150,000 users of this in japan in the first year, only because of slow roll out, so don't expect it here real soon
These phones are very interesting. The video display and the phone itself looks impressive, and the rate for data transmission is no more than a minute on a regular cell phone here, although it might go drastically up, (bandwidth, etc).
I'd love to have one of these phones, and I await when it shall come out. Although, have a buggy phone might be a problem, imagine getting the blue screen of death on one of these things, (of course, I don't think would be running windows)
Imagine a Linux version of this, hehe.
The Palm Pilot just got smaller and is now a cell phone.
Might be redundant...
But, I don't really find a pratical use for this keyboard, unless you want FP or something dumb like that. Its a nice idea, but very impratical. How do you expect me to type more quicker with this thing when I have to worry about touching the space bar every few seconds? No thanks, I'll stay with my good old fashioned QWERTY.
It might be of use for small computers, laptops, Palms, but not for a PC.
Echelon: the program which checks for possible plots and attempts of terrorism, ie: a way to go into ur email.
Has anyone actually taken into consideration that Echelon could fall into the wrong hands, that of hackers or people who would use it for their own evil purposes. Its bad enough the government has it and can do wrong with it, but think of what someone in the public can do if they have it and is pissed off.
Echelon, is not just a privacy concern, but a security one as well
MS has been doing this for years, and its news now?
Certain webpages can't be accessed from certain browsers, so really, this article isnt news
And if it was posted via Google, would the system password be owned by Google?
You're right, fuck!
Damn that 1,000 dollar tech fee
I get free MS software, so I don't pay for it and I don't care about it. I don't intend paying MS any money for their products, EVER, unless I have to buy a PC, which now I'll most likely build my own. (Btw, my university gives out free MS-licsensed software, just so if anyone thinks im a warez dealer, you're wrong! lol)
Thank you. I have an errata. I ask this AC to please post me these links where you found these pages and I will give you all the books which I derive my material from my previous opinion alone.
Hitler told his force that he would "propogandize" the start of the Second World War, which he did by the radio station incident.
I demand you to counter my argument AC, or will you stay quiet with the truth now?
And stop visiting those revisionist sites.
Its a reflex, and plus, look at what MS wanted to do with their products: rental fees, restricting certain files, overy security features. I don't know about you, but I don't a OS with backdoors, pay a yearly fee for software which you paid for the in first place.
As for the history and criticism of Linux: at least we can ADMIT our mistakes, MS takes longer than a Florida election recount to solve their software bugs.
It can fall because of the net intivative, the rental plan. And as for the net becoming stagant, it is quite fresh, everyday brings something new online, a new page, a new chatter, etc. :-)
MS is another IBM, just in the software sense, and Linux is the Compaq
The article could be a reflection on a simimlar article written before Win95 came out, describing MS' monopoly power. Here, this pre WinXP article is describing the comeback kid that MS became.
If MS gets off the hook here, then expect a battle at the Supreme Court, which will have a huge impact on all software because, they'll most issue a blanket ruling on MS which will make sure such cases are brought up again.
The XP suite won't be that successful this year, because no one will want to upgrade their computers for those projects. The XP projects will be more successful in the next two years or so.
Money does not buy happiness, but it can make my happy to have that nice mp3 player from thinkgeek.
I can make a profit if i want to, just have to put some effort into it. But if being happy is being profitable, so be it.
Its how the market works. Just a thought
Mod me down, but I'm defending my country and this slander I cannot sit back and take:
<I>Your politically correct textbooks<I>
Now, I am not only a coder/Linux enthusiaist/gamer, but I am also a Polish historian and I know much more on this topic than you. The textbooks don't go over such things, they just tell what happened to Poland, my sources are texts from promiment authors.
<I>don't tell you about the Germans who were ethnicly cleansed from Poland following WWI.
or the many more forced to leave during the 20' and 30's do to officially backed anti-German pogroms. <I>
I know of no such progroms from the Pilduski government or the government thereafter, if there was such a thing, Hitler would have presented it in his propoganda machine and I have never found such a thing as this. As for the killing of Germans, groups of independent anti-German poles are as bad as groups of independent anti-Semitic Germans
<I>They don't tell you that Hitler signed a peace treaty with Poland in 1934, recognizing the existing borders, or that Danzig was a German city, not part of Poland, which wanted to rejoin Germany. Hitler's only territorial claims were Danzig, which was not Poland's anyway, and road and rail connections across Poland connecting East Prussia with the rest of Germany<I>
Danzig was a independent city, not German or Polish. Controlled by the League of Nations. It was not up to them, but the LoN. And Poland has the right to decide what to do with their own territory, its called soverignity.
<I>In other words, Germany was not asking for any Polish territory. <I>
I beg to differ, they asked for rail and roads, don't you consider that terriotry, and also, recall they also wanted Silesia, but did not include that foremost in their demands, (Slask)
<I> Now, another thing they don't tell you about that alleged staged German attack on the radio station: whatever the truth of the story, it was totally unnecessary, since Poland had been violating German territory and was trying to provoke a German attack, convinced that Britain and France would then come into the war and defeat Germany, thus giving Poland a chance to grab more German territory.<I>
So it happened and you can't admit the fact that I'm right. As for Poland violating Polish territory, Versallies and the 1934 treaty is what I'm going on, and what did a treaty mean to hitler anyway?
<I> Poland had already grabbed territory from Czechoslovakia, and was gunning for more. <I>
Over the city of Czesyn. So Poland was land hungry after WW1.
<I>Polish government officials boasted of their invasions of German territory<I>
No where have I run across officals bragging of this, the attitude in Poland was there wasn't even going to be a war. And the government knew that going to war would result in a disaster.
<I> and bragged that they would be marching into Berlin within a month or two after goading Germany into war.<I>
A Polish division did march into Germany and was within 100 miles of Berlin, but had to pull back when they saw that the war effort was going very bad.
<I> They were cocky and overconfident, after they had gotten the gaurantee from Britain that she would go to war if Germany attacked Poland. This was practically writing a blank check to Poland, since it encouraged Poland to do anything possible to provoke a war with Germany.
<I>
Poland was confident there would be no war. The alliance was done because they feared Germany would attack.
<I>This Poland proceeded to do, by attacking Germany with tiny cross border raids, and by instituting new pogroms against the German population in Poland. Of course this is not going to show up in your typical establishment history books<I> Yes, there were raids, just as Germans raided Poland.
<I> In fact most people reading this will assume I am making it up. But, do some research, the web is a good tool for discovering officially repressed history. <I> You mean pro-Nazi rubbish?
<I>Hitler had all the justification he needed for attacking Poland<I>
What justification, I just ruined all your so called justification
<I>without having to stage a Polish raid. That particular incident sounds like a ham-handed afterthought by some Nazi party hack on the make<I>
This hack was Hilter himself.
In conclusion, Poland did not provoke Hitler, Hitler intended to take Poland as Lebusarum, (living space), as early as 1937.
As for you dear AC, next time Log on with your account and take the karma beating like the bitch you are! Flaming bullshit like your post deserves to be modded down!
Might be redundant...
I read the paper the other day, calling my Generation, (17-28), a whining generation. We simply whine about everything, that nationalism is a bad thing and PC. But Brokaw's "Greatest Generation" (the people in Pearl Harbor), was proud of their country..
The author has a valid point, we seem not to be proud to be American these days. I remember going into a IRC chat room and telling a story about displaying the American flag and I was called a nut.
Then, apparently, telling the story of America the victim of a vicious attack, is wrong and un-pc and is modififed by other countries, (is the pin-cushion Hitler in the movie modified as well? Maybe it should be a veteran because of how the movie butchers the battle)
Fuck political correctness, its getting so that we are so afraid on stepping on anyone's toes to tell any kind of truth. As for the right of nuking two cities, well, its better than the millions that would have been lost in the island invasion, look at Okinwana.
As for Germany, they started the war with a bullshit excuse of a Polish invasion of a German radio station, (Germans in Polish uniform invaded the station) and they seem to always be starting wars too.
Usenet is exteremly popular, if a profit can be made from it, then Google has the right to make one. They can charge you a fee if they want, you don't have to go there. An example, if you decided to post an entire prog that you yourself created, Google owns it. What you say on Google, they own it.
But then again, MS technically owns all the progs you write when you run windows <shrug>.
RH could take it over, but then there'd be that faction accusing RH of becoming Linux's MS.
Well, its because of:
1. Games
2. Hardware Issues
3. Learning Unix
Non-techs aren't going to have the desire to learn Unix and put up with problems of 1 and 2. Its sad really. There is VMware, (which I can't get going on my Linux box) and WinLin, but once again: you need to know Unix. A few years ago, it was you had to know MS-DOS, but it was a few simple commands. I learned DOS at an early age since my father saw into what the computer was going to be, later came Unix. Although learning them is not complicated, you can't teach an old dog new tricks.
But Linux not in mainstream magazines? Its been in Time and Newsweek, those are pretty mainstream. Every major news website has touched upon Linux. It is something on the map now, now it just reaching out to non-techs and is doing a fantastic job. My ten year old sister can use Mandrake.