So they are totally delusional? You see that is just as bad if not worse. To lie and say you fully support when you really don't believe in it just to get re-elected seems far more evil to me. Add in the fact that Obama says he has no intention of pulling out of Afghanistan just makes it all seem so silly to me. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/20/obama.afghanistan/index.html Obama isn't going to get the US out of combat and even his stance on Iraq seems to be changing. Hey I have no problem with a politician changing his mind when he has new data but so many people seem to be totally clueless about what the people they support are really saying.
Except that the majority of democrats all voted to go as well. So no it totally doesn't make any sense. Not only that but the current Democratic candidate is all for putting more solders on the ground in Afghanistan and I will bet that his rhetoric about pulling out of Iraq will slack off over time. Just my guess. So nope it really doesn't make any sense at all.
Gnome on my Ubuntu systems really does just work for me. And it is pretty speedy. I have to say that I have yet to find a GUI that I just love. Gnome just works for me at least the way Ubuntu packages it. Kbuntu just never felt as right to me.
"I know quite a few people that would immediately jump onto a solution that "just works" (i.e.: one program to install) and uses a sane template language." How many? One hundred only if you can charge $30,000 for it. A thousand? Well that might get the price down to $4,000. And support would run at least $400 a year.
LaTex works and is free. That is very hard to beat.
I have to say I don't hate this guy. I mean let's face it he took bribes and did some other scummy things. Hate seems over the top for this guy. Yep I don't care if he is Republican, Democrat, or Ron Paul's love child. If he guilty get him out. As far as partisan bickering... I never understood the emotional investment people make in politicians.
Sorry I guess I missed your articles on KDE 4. You are usually so very positive about all things FOSS that I made a bad assumption. My bad. I have been very disappointed with KDE 4 that I went back to Gnome. But then I am probably in the small minority that I like speed, stability, and simplicity over flash.
Doesn't have to be them but the problem is all too often KDE and or Gnome will be great praise when it really needs a swift kick in the butt. KDE 4.0 really wasn't ready for prime time and I wouldn't be so sure about KDE 4.1 yet.
"Also known as "Do our R & D for us for free, and we'll give you money if you come up with something really good." That's I message I wouldn't just send, I'd broadcast it at top volume."
What R & D? This is pretty much straight coding. Simple truth is they can pay some coders to write Scrabble and then collect 100% of the profit. It would only be of limited PR value to pay the developers to keep their code and it would encourage other people to make programs based off of Hasbro's games.
Actually if they have enough cheap electricity they can make hydrocarbons from air and water. So they really don't even have to import that. It is probably just cheaper for now to import it.
"The problem for the last 11yrs in this country has been purely political as we stood stubbornly by the US. Because of this misdirected loyalty our power generation remains 90+% derived from coal and we have seen many innovations payed for by taxpayers sold off to private companies in the EU and elsewhere. " Wow and just how is the US to blame for this? The US told you to not build solar, or wind? Or even nuclear reactors? Or did you keep to coal because it was cheap and you have a crap load of it. Not to mention that Australia makes a bunch of money selling it to China? Please take some responsibility for your own actions. Lots of other countries are allies of the US like Germany and Japan and they both have invested heavily in to none carbon based power systems. Just silly this whole "Devil made me do it" mentality take some responsibility.
Why would you cut your price if people where still buying it and you where making more money?
Hey when the exchange rate is working in your favor you go for it. There are no real competitors for Dreamweaver or a lot of other software. If the exchange rate is shifting so your software costs the same as it used to but you make more money wouldn't you keep the price the same?
If the Dollar became extremely strong again do you think a company that sold say French wine could make an extra 30% per bottle without raising their price they wouldn't?
When the pound dropped in the 50s do you think MG cut prices in the US or do you think they took extra profit?
Actually it can take a lot more than you would think. Some spellings are different. The company I work for charges the same price everywhere and charges in dollars but we are thinking of changing that. The number of customers in the EU in our market is tiny and our support costs are much higher. I doubt that the price difference will be anything close to what I am seeing in this thread.
I agree but then most users don't use Emacs and GCC. If you want to use OpenOffice, or Firefox, or even FireFox and Gaim and Thunderbird you could run into issues with only 128MB. Ubuntu runs really well on "only" 512 MB and a pretty slow CPU and GPU. That is with Compwiz and Gnome.
Yep Cell phones are the a model that points out the system can work. The ITunes store is another. As a software developer I can tell you for a fact that the iTunes store model isn't terrible. Right now it is just about impossible to get a horizontal program out on the market. As far as retail space goes getting your program into BestOfficeMaxMartUSA is just about impossible. Your option then is to put it out on the internet but then you must also become the retailer. Itunes is offering iPhone developers 80% which is a huge percentage. Much better than you would ever get through a regular retail channel. If they are relatively open then all the better. What you and most other people on slashdot don't understand is most people HATE COMPUTERS. They like what they do with them but they really don't like computers. They are a pain to use and keep running right. Think if the iTunes store as a commercial version of apt-get or yum. I know this will not fit into most people on Slashdots world view but just say you wrote a great little puzzle game. With this kind of set up you can just upload it and charge say $1.99 for it. If 10,000 people download it and you get 80% of the money that would be over $15,000. Which is a very nice chunk of change. Heck even if just 1000 people download it then it would be $1500. It really could work and be very popular. It could even be a huge benefit for FOSS. I know I use a ton of really good FOSS and I have contributed code to some FOSS projects but not to every one I use. Just imagine the revenue stream if every person that downloaded Gimp paid just $0.99 and the GIMP team got %80 of it. Frankly I don't care if Apple or Ubuntu does it but an ITunes like store where you can buy software and media for a reasonable price would actually be a benefit for software developers and users. I don't have a problem paying $0.99 or even $1.99 for a good program.
Not at all. Just like the iPod the money will be in replacements and the iTunes store. If Apple can get a 20% cut of every program sold then they will make lots of money. The only easy way to put software on will be through the iTunes store. Just like the iPhone. Of course I am just making it up off the top of my head.
Apple can get OS/X to run on these low power machine as proven by the IPhone.
Just wait for the iNetbook. It will be sexy an little bit more expensive than the lesser NetBooks but will work with ITunes. The new Itunes store will offer a large selection of software that all you have to do is point and click to download. It will of course tether with your IPhone and will have the option to use you IPod as mass storage. The EeePC and other netbooks will become the Rios of netbooks.
With only 128 MB of ram? Ouch. I think a little more RAM would make a world of difference. Make it 512 MB and at least two GB of Flash with a SDCard slot for expansion and it will good to go.
Only if it is going to be a tablet. I don't want to move my hands that far from the keyboard plus I don't think multi-touch would be all that good for graphics programs. Now what would rock is a tablet With an external monitor.
My guess it is the aluminum that is "eco-friendly" Aluminum is super easy to recycle compared to plastic but then so is glass. Not a lot of other info so it is all guess work at this time. Now to make it really "eco-friendly" they should promise to support it with ten years and promise that all future versions of OS/X for the next ten years will run on it. Not going to happen but I would so love to see the end of disposable computers.
Why not Obama? Because he isn't old? Because he looks healthy? He could have any number of health issues cancer, hypertension, diabetes, heart problems that could effect him.
Frankly if Obama was asked and refused I would actually like him more. He is probably in perfect health but I would have a lot or respect for someone that took a stand on NOT releasing his records just to get an advantage on the other candidates.
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For a lot of users one of the low power Semperons would be a better choice right now. The problem is they are not as sexy as the Atom.
So they are totally delusional? You see that is just as bad if not worse. To lie and say you fully support when you really don't believe in it just to get re-elected seems far more evil to me.
Add in the fact that Obama says he has no intention of pulling out of Afghanistan just makes it all seem so silly to me.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/20/obama.afghanistan/index.html
Obama isn't going to get the US out of combat and even his stance on Iraq seems to be changing.
Hey I have no problem with a politician changing his mind when he has new data but so many people seem to be totally clueless about what the people they support are really saying.
Funny I guess that means that nobody in power thinks the way I do.
Or just sue them and then pick up their code for fire sale prices if you even want to.
No need to share any revenue that way.
Except that the majority of democrats all voted to go as well. So no it totally doesn't make any sense. Not only that but the current Democratic candidate is all for putting more solders on the ground in Afghanistan and I will bet that his rhetoric about pulling out of Iraq will slack off over time. Just my guess.
So nope it really doesn't make any sense at all.
Gnome on my Ubuntu systems really does just work for me. And it is pretty speedy. I have to say that I have yet to find a GUI that I just love. Gnome just works for me at least the way Ubuntu packages it.
Kbuntu just never felt as right to me.
"I know quite a few people that would immediately jump onto a solution that "just works" (i.e.: one program to install) and uses a sane template language."
How many?
One hundred only if you can charge $30,000 for it.
A thousand? Well that might get the price down to $4,000.
And support would run at least $400 a year.
LaTex works and is free. That is very hard to beat.
I have to say I don't hate this guy. I mean let's face it he took bribes and did some other scummy things. Hate seems over the top for this guy.
Yep I don't care if he is Republican, Democrat, or Ron Paul's love child. If he guilty get him out.
As far as partisan bickering... I never understood the emotional investment people make in politicians.
Sorry I guess I missed your articles on KDE 4. You are usually so very positive about all things FOSS that I made a bad assumption.
My bad. I have been very disappointed with KDE 4 that I went back to Gnome.
But then I am probably in the small minority that I like speed, stability, and simplicity over flash.
Doesn't have to be them but the problem is all too often KDE and or Gnome will be great praise when it really needs a swift kick in the butt.
KDE 4.0 really wasn't ready for prime time and I wouldn't be so sure about KDE 4.1 yet.
"Also known as "Do our R & D for us for free, and we'll give you money if you come up with something really good." That's I message I wouldn't just send, I'd broadcast it at top volume."
What R & D? This is pretty much straight coding.
Simple truth is they can pay some coders to write Scrabble and then collect 100% of the profit.
It would only be of limited PR value to pay the developers to keep their code and it would encourage other people to make programs based off of Hasbro's games.
Sorry but Linux.com and Bruce Byfield praising KDE is like PC Magazine praising Vista.
I would like to some more critical reviews.
They do. It is called Aluminum :)
Actually if they have enough cheap electricity they can make hydrocarbons from air and water. So they really don't even have to import that. It is probably just cheaper for now to import it.
"The problem for the last 11yrs in this country has been purely political as we stood stubbornly by the US. Because of this misdirected loyalty our power generation remains 90+% derived from coal and we have seen many innovations payed for by taxpayers sold off to private companies in the EU and elsewhere. "
Wow and just how is the US to blame for this?
The US told you to not build solar, or wind? Or even nuclear reactors?
Or did you keep to coal because it was cheap and you have a crap load of it. Not to mention that Australia makes a bunch of money selling it to China?
Please take some responsibility for your own actions. Lots of other countries are allies of the US like Germany and Japan and they both have invested heavily in to none carbon based power systems.
Just silly this whole "Devil made me do it" mentality take some responsibility.
Why would you cut your price if people where still buying it and you where making more money?
Hey when the exchange rate is working in your favor you go for it. There are no real competitors for Dreamweaver or a lot of other software. If the exchange rate is shifting so your software costs the same as it used to but you make more money wouldn't you keep the price the same?
If the Dollar became extremely strong again do you think a company that sold say French wine could make an extra 30% per bottle without raising their price they wouldn't?
When the pound dropped in the 50s do you think MG cut prices in the US or do you think they took extra profit?
Actually it can take a lot more than you would think. Some spellings are different.
The company I work for charges the same price everywhere and charges in dollars but we are thinking of changing that. The number of customers in the EU in our market is tiny and our support costs are much higher.
I doubt that the price difference will be anything close to what I am seeing in this thread.
I agree but then most users don't use Emacs and GCC.
If you want to use OpenOffice, or Firefox, or even FireFox and Gaim and Thunderbird you could run into issues with only 128MB.
Ubuntu runs really well on "only" 512 MB and a pretty slow CPU and GPU. That is with Compwiz and Gnome.
Yep Cell phones are the a model that points out the system can work. The ITunes store is another.
As a software developer I can tell you for a fact that the iTunes store model isn't terrible. Right now it is just about impossible to get a horizontal program out on the market. As far as retail space goes getting your program into BestOfficeMaxMartUSA is just about impossible. Your option then is to put it out on the internet but then you must also become the retailer.
Itunes is offering iPhone developers 80% which is a huge percentage. Much better than you would ever get through a regular retail channel.
If they are relatively open then all the better.
What you and most other people on slashdot don't understand is most people HATE COMPUTERS. They like what they do with them but they really don't like computers. They are a pain to use and keep running right. Think if the iTunes store as a commercial version of apt-get or yum.
I know this will not fit into most people on Slashdots world view but just say you wrote a great little puzzle game. With this kind of set up you can just upload it and charge say $1.99 for it. If 10,000 people download it and you get 80% of the money that would be over $15,000.
Which is a very nice chunk of change. Heck even if just 1000 people download it then it would be $1500.
It really could work and be very popular. It could even be a huge benefit for FOSS. I know I use a ton of really good FOSS and I have contributed code to some FOSS projects but not to every one I use.
Just imagine the revenue stream if every person that downloaded Gimp paid just $0.99 and the GIMP team got %80 of it.
Frankly I don't care if Apple or Ubuntu does it but an ITunes like store where you can buy software and media for a reasonable price would actually be a benefit for software developers and users.
I don't have a problem paying $0.99 or even $1.99 for a good program.
Not at all. Just like the iPod the money will be in replacements and the iTunes store. If Apple can get a 20% cut of every program sold then they will make lots of money.
The only easy way to put software on will be through the iTunes store. Just like the iPhone.
Of course I am just making it up off the top of my head.
Apple can get OS/X to run on these low power machine as proven by the IPhone.
Just wait for the iNetbook. It will be sexy an little bit more expensive than the lesser NetBooks but will work with ITunes.
The new Itunes store will offer a large selection of software that all you have to do is point and click to download.
It will of course tether with your IPhone and will have the option to use you IPod as mass storage.
The EeePC and other netbooks will become the Rios of netbooks.
With only 128 MB of ram?
Ouch.
I think a little more RAM would make a world of difference.
Make it 512 MB and at least two GB of Flash with a SDCard slot for expansion and it will good to go.
Only if it is going to be a tablet.
I don't want to move my hands that far from the keyboard plus I don't think multi-touch would be all that good for graphics programs.
Now what would rock is a tablet With an external monitor.
My guess it is the aluminum that is "eco-friendly" Aluminum is super easy to recycle compared to plastic but then so is glass.
Not a lot of other info so it is all guess work at this time.
Now to make it really "eco-friendly" they should promise to support it with ten years and promise that all future versions of OS/X for the next ten years will run on it.
Not going to happen but I would so love to see the end of disposable computers.
That is for a sub orbital space craft. Just about anything that moves is a suborbital vehicle. But your right in that I am down to nitpicking.
Why not Obama?
Because he isn't old? Because he looks healthy? He could have any number of health issues cancer, hypertension, diabetes, heart problems that could effect him.
Frankly if Obama was asked and refused I would actually like him more.
He is probably in perfect health but I would have a lot or respect for someone that took a stand on NOT releasing his records just to get an advantage on the other candidates.