...is a project team to decode the corporatespeak of the original memo. Have you actually read that thing? What the hell ever happened to English?
I agree with the comment that IBM is soft-pedaling the memo to avoid public timelines. This would be a huge transition, and needs to be taken at its own pace. Good luck, Big Blue.
Caveat emptor was never intended as absolute license for consumer fraud -- such an attitude would have fostered complete chaos in matters of trade. There was also the twin doctrine of caveat venditor: the principle that the seller is responsible for any problem the buyer has with a product or service. All caveat emptor placed was the burden of reasonable diligence on the part of the buyer.
In any case, we don't live in ancient Rome. If we did, cheating merchants would be slapped in chains and sold in the maketplace to recoup their ill-gotten gains.
If going to the Mars would be a start of serious space exploration by the human species then it is well worth putting more workers on the streets. Trading space exploration for more social welfare is more than stupid, it is dangerous for humanity in the long run.
Fine. You head for the unemployment office first.;-)
There is nothing -- nothing at all -- more dangerous to humanity than the growing inequities of unbridled capitalism. It will toss the lot of us into the furnace before the end of this century if allowed to fester without control.
That being said, the workers being tossed onto the streets would be put there by a crashed economy. Crashed ecomonmy = no space program of any kind, so let's be sure we have a great plan before throwing a trillion or so dollars into the air.
I wanna go to Mars, too. Keeping humakind on Earth is like putting all our eggs in one basket. Let's reach out.
But what awful timing. Here we are with the biggest budget defecit in recent memory and an administration that has no plan to get spending under control. They continue, in fact, to commit us to fantastically expensive foreign adventures. Things aren't likely to get better in the short term.
Meanwhile, million of Americans live without health insurance. The federal government keeps shifting the burden of services back down to the states, who are massively cutting things like education just to stay afloat.
There's a soft economic recovery underway, but it won't last long when interest rates begin to react to federal debt. Then there will be inflation, and even more idle workers will add to our miserable unemployment rate.
Now it's proposed we spend a trillion dollars or so on the down payment for a Mars program. What madness.
This is an election year stunt and grounds for the biggest corporate welfare program since the Cold War. The Spirit photos are exciting, but let's figure out how to go to Mars without bankrupting ourselves or putting more workers on the streets.
Yeah, I abandoned OS X on my older (first generation) iBook -- it was just too slow. Then I tried Panther. It's a much snappier user experience, even on old Mac hardware.
I liked Yellow Dog Linux on my laptop, but the new version of OS X runs so nicely I'll probably leave it. Still happily running SUSE on my x86 desktop, but I think a dual-boot Powermac is somewhere in the near future.
So don't get started flaming "This article is FUD FUD FUD" when you don't realize that Microsoft isn't marketing Windows to US, the Slashdot-reading Linux-using IT professionals...
...I'm a huge fan of the space program, but will someone please remind me what they are really doing up there in ISS? Other than watching the station slowly rot, I mean.
The ISS budget would fund a lot of real science missions. Deorbiting the psace station would also allow us to kill the shuttle program before we blow up the ships we have left.
This looks like more of a troll than I intend. But, seriously, are we going to wait for ISS to become a deathtrap like Mir? We can't support a fully staffed crew or properly supply it anymore.
Thanks for your interest in my Linux desktop. I have proof that my machine is not running any Unix code, but this information is confidential. Have a nice day.
There certainly is a version of Open Office for OS X -- but, damn, it's huge. I have an older iBook with a small HD, and would prefer a more compact office suite to Open Office for that machine.
As other posters have pointed out, Open Office requires a running X server. I like the idea of a native Koffice. Would probably be a better alternative than Appleworks, which is what I currently use on OS X.
I think Koffice is under-appreciated. Though I prefer the power of Open Office on Linux machines with sufficient resources, Koffice is faster and looks good. It's also more intuitive. Hooray for more choices.
Because the going theory is that comets are the building blocks of our solar system. Many astronomers feel that the planets were formed as the dust ring accreted around the sun, developed into uncountable comets, and ran into each other in a long symphony of construction and destruction.
Those comets still on the prowl are essentially icy time capsules: calling cards of the solar system (and the galaxy's) early history. Having a look at a comet's raw materials will shed some interesting light on how we all got here.
Of course, if the theory that the solar system was built by comets is correct, you needn't look much further than your skin for a sample of ancient interstellar material.
> I've ridden 10s of thousands of miles and I'm here to say that a bicycle helmet is an absolute necessity, period.
Amen. Holy shit, you'd have to be a moron to get into traffic without a helmet.
Wanna ride without a helmet? Ride closed circuit. That way, at least, your blood won't be on a motorist's hands.
I, too, have been struck a few times. One crash left me with a mangled helmet. Better plastic than bone, I think.
If you can afford a bike, you can afford a basic helmet.
> I wonder how many others (than me) are seriously considering moving to debian now that RH9 isn't a 'hold-your-hands' upgradable system (assuming you buy RH update:-)
They'll find plenty of hand-holding with SUSE and Mandrake.
> You can't hate IBM for telling the truth - lets face it, Linux is NOT ready for the desktop
I've been using Linux at home and work for three years. But now I hear Linux isn't ready for the desktop. Guess I'll go uninstall it.
Well, there's always something new coming down the Open Source turnpike. That's the downside of using a rapidly evolving OS, I suppose. As far as SUSE goes, my experience with them has been pretty good. A new version of XFree86 would probably be offered as a patch via Yast's update function, as will the new kernel when it's ready. But I'd prefer to wait until KDE 3.2 is good to go before I buy disks.
Red Hat's move really shouldn't surprise anyone. SUSE seems committed to desktop consumer releases, as is Mandrake and a host of others. RH is probably doing the right thing, moving closer to its core business. That will make it easier for the consumer-targeted distros to sell boxes.
If RH's abandonment of supported consumer releases teaches us anything, it's the importance of financially supporting our favorite distros and tolerating the bit rot of boxed sets.
Actually, that is exactly why I'll wait for the next point release from SUSE. My 8.2 install runs fine. I'll plunk down cash when 9.1 hits the streets with the full release of KDE 3.2.
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I agree with the comment that IBM is soft-pedaling the memo to avoid public timelines. This would be a huge transition, and needs to be taken at its own pace. Good luck, Big Blue.
In any case, we don't live in ancient Rome. If we did, cheating merchants would be slapped in chains and sold in the maketplace to recoup their ill-gotten gains.
If going to the Mars would be a start of serious space exploration by the human species then it is well worth putting more workers on the streets. Trading space exploration for more social welfare is more than stupid, it is dangerous for humanity in the long run. Fine. You head for the unemployment office first. ;-)
There is nothing -- nothing at all -- more dangerous to humanity than the growing inequities of unbridled capitalism. It will toss the lot of us into the furnace before the end of this century if allowed to fester without control.
That being said, the workers being tossed onto the streets would be put there by a crashed economy. Crashed ecomonmy = no space program of any kind, so let's be sure we have a great plan before throwing a trillion or so dollars into the air.
But what awful timing. Here we are with the biggest budget defecit in recent memory and an administration that has no plan to get spending under control. They continue, in fact, to commit us to fantastically expensive foreign adventures. Things aren't likely to get better in the short term.
Meanwhile, million of Americans live without health insurance. The federal government keeps shifting the burden of services back down to the states, who are massively cutting things like education just to stay afloat.
There's a soft economic recovery underway, but it won't last long when interest rates begin to react to federal debt. Then there will be inflation, and even more idle workers will add to our miserable unemployment rate.
Now it's proposed we spend a trillion dollars or so on the down payment for a Mars program. What madness.
This is an election year stunt and grounds for the biggest corporate welfare program since the Cold War. The Spirit photos are exciting, but let's figure out how to go to Mars without bankrupting ourselves or putting more workers on the streets.
I liked Yellow Dog Linux on my laptop, but the new version of OS X runs so nicely I'll probably leave it. Still happily running SUSE on my x86 desktop, but I think a dual-boot Powermac is somewhere in the near future.
A very reasonable article.
No, I realize that. So...
This article is FUD FUD FUD!
The ISS budget would fund a lot of real science missions. Deorbiting the psace station would also allow us to kill the shuttle program before we blow up the ships we have left.
This looks like more of a troll than I intend. But, seriously, are we going to wait for ISS to become a deathtrap like Mir? We can't support a fully staffed crew or properly supply it anymore.
Sincerely,
John Q. Linux
I'm getting a ton of that. Better to delete it than flag as spam, I'd guess.
As other posters have pointed out, Open Office requires a running X server. I like the idea of a native Koffice. Would probably be a better alternative than Appleworks, which is what I currently use on OS X.
I think Koffice is under-appreciated. Though I prefer the power of Open Office on Linux machines with sufficient resources, Koffice is faster and looks good. It's also more intuitive. Hooray for more choices.
Those comets still on the prowl are essentially icy time capsules: calling cards of the solar system (and the galaxy's) early history. Having a look at a comet's raw materials will shed some interesting light on how we all got here.
Of course, if the theory that the solar system was built by comets is correct, you needn't look much further than your skin for a sample of ancient interstellar material.
> Little know fact (or widely known) almost all Macs will reset to January 1, 1969 if the batter is removed.
Removing the batter from most apples will completely ruin the pie. So a reset would seem appropriate.
Thank you! I'll load 'er up.
I think we're all tired of being sold, but the Honda "Cog" commercial is art. If there must be ads, let them be like that.
.asf worked under Xine, but not too well. Pity. ;-)
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...with a marvelously crafted lucite Union Jack for a lid. From my mom. I'll feel like Austin Powers every time nature calls.
Stop the presses! Microsoft has found a way to slow down email! This is news? ;-)
> I've ridden 10s of thousands of miles and I'm here to say that a bicycle helmet is an absolute necessity, period. Amen. Holy shit, you'd have to be a moron to get into traffic without a helmet. Wanna ride without a helmet? Ride closed circuit. That way, at least, your blood won't be on a motorist's hands. I, too, have been struck a few times. One crash left me with a mangled helmet. Better plastic than bone, I think. If you can afford a bike, you can afford a basic helmet.
> They want you dropping $2,000 on a new Apple computer. What they'd *really* like is your $3k + for a dual G5.
> I wonder how many others (than me) are seriously considering moving to debian now that RH9 isn't a 'hold-your-hands' upgradable system (assuming you buy RH update :-)
They'll find plenty of hand-holding with SUSE and Mandrake.
More likely, a quote from Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik telling the reader to "master" Windows instead.
> You can't hate IBM for telling the truth - lets face it, Linux is NOT ready for the desktop I've been using Linux at home and work for three years. But now I hear Linux isn't ready for the desktop. Guess I'll go uninstall it.
I agree! What's next--Matrix COMIC BOOKS?
Well, there's always something new coming down the Open Source turnpike. That's the downside of using a rapidly evolving OS, I suppose. As far as SUSE goes, my experience with them has been pretty good. A new version of XFree86 would probably be offered as a patch via Yast's update function, as will the new kernel when it's ready. But I'd prefer to wait until KDE 3.2 is good to go before I buy disks. Red Hat's move really shouldn't surprise anyone. SUSE seems committed to desktop consumer releases, as is Mandrake and a host of others. RH is probably doing the right thing, moving closer to its core business. That will make it easier for the consumer-targeted distros to sell boxes. If RH's abandonment of supported consumer releases teaches us anything, it's the importance of financially supporting our favorite distros and tolerating the bit rot of boxed sets.
Actually, that is exactly why I'll wait for the next point release from SUSE. My 8.2 install runs fine. I'll plunk down cash when 9.1 hits the streets with the full release of KDE 3.2.
Mark my words. Or mark Nostradamus': http://www.earthchangestv.com/predict/nostrabobus/ 0221sun.htm ;-)