Mmm, the mistake that futurists make is to underestimate the deep insatiable craving to tell other people what they must and cannot do. Screaming "Thou Shalt Not!" is the ultimate high.
Because it looks like B&N is essentially arguing that it's fine to have a huge pile of software patents, but it's foul play if you actually use them.
The government (in its various guises) can't reasonably award software patents and then punish the owners for using them for exactly the purpose that they are intended, right?
And Ubuntu is basically Debian++ which is GPL/Linux++++. What's your point?
If you're looking for inferences, I'd say that Shuttleworth's Reality Distortion Field needs some work if he's going to persuade cranky cantankerous Lunix hippies that we actually like and want Unity. By and large, it seems that we don't.
You should give a modern Linux distro a try, they Just Work. I mean, obviously not the graphics drivers if you have anything even remotely non-mainstream, and for WiFi you should of course just use Windows drivers though ndiswrapper rather than wasting your time with native ones, plus "support" just means "that version is unlikely to get any more broken", and every time you click "allow update" you run the risk of breaking everything and ending up with a retard-o-interface, but other than that...
China doesn't care what anybody else thinks, we can't realistically threaten to boycott them (what are you reading this on, and where was it made?) and they essentially control the dollar and are making big inroads into the Euro as well.
This is a domestic Chinese problem, and it will be solved when the people of China decide to deal with their government one way or another. Until then all we can do is wring our hands and cry "Oh, the seething hordes of yellow sort-of-humanity! Oooh, new iPads!"
Nice try, but us Old Farts have and have enunciated very specific reasons why Unity and GNOME 3 are exactly the antithesis of why we use Linux based systems in the first place - we want multi-purpose machines for doing a variety of tasks, not "CLICK HEER 4 TEH LULZ" OSen.
So we won't "always be here", we'll be over there, having tucked-and-rolled off of the Canonical train wreck and switched to another distro. It's not like there's a paucity of choice.
Hang on though, just by bringing up the issue, it's been dragged into the, uh, "debate". I'm pretty sure a snake oil peddling ecomental will chip in soon shrieking that it is Man Made Accelerated Climate KillDeathMurder Change, and that it's denying it makes you a tool of the corporate oppressors (now buy my book from Amazon).
While I was looking up puerile, I noticed that you used shear instead of sheer (twice) and hear instead of here. The fine is 1.37 Internets. Also, I finally found puerile in yo momma.
Yup, I'm not convinced they've actually turned a profit yet from the XBox line. If they're tying it to Bing and their long line of CE/Mobile abominations, I'm pretty sure they're in the red.
OS and Office are still doing a good job of funding their delusions, mind.
Is the middle class white Grauniad guilt really so strong in you that you can't acknowledge that Jo-click-n Zimbabwean was better off when the white man was shouldering the burden of authority than when we upped sticks and left the natives to run their own affairs?
Oh, I'm sure it'll get better eventually, but only after their flag has been changed to two crossed starved beaten Zimbabweans emblazoned on a mound of starved beaten Zimbabweans.
Look, Africa was a huge cesspit of murderous tribal slaver thugs before the white man arrived, and it's a huge cesspit of murderous tribal slaver thugs now that we've gone. You don't get to blame us for the brief period of civilisation in the middle. Christian guilt was the best thing that ever happened to them.
Uh... it's not ad hominem to point out that the listed "experts" have a track record of being wrong, wrong and wrong again, and have been repeatedly caught with their hands in Microsoft's pockets.
Groklaw (under Pamela Jones) has called things correctly far more often than not.
Full Disclosure: On a personal note, I detest that whiny martyr PJ and her horde of White Knight sycophants, but I do have admit that it's hard to find examples of her getting things wrong.
I was torn between rating you "+1000 Informative", or posting "Hey! Everybody else! Read that, then shut up forever. The problem is (now) demonstrably with the parents". Ranting won out, as you can see.
Uh, your own sources show that fossil use is still growing, even though (ostensible) renewable generation is growing faster than demand. The numbers don't add up, and it's because fossil (and nuclear) plants need to be kept hot to supply sudden drops in wind and solar power.
Without large scale storage, wind and solar (in Europe) are greenwashing. We're just burning fossil fuels to build devices that don't reduce further fossil use one whit.
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Mmm, the mistake that futurists make is to underestimate the deep insatiable craving to tell other people what they must and cannot do. Screaming "Thou Shalt Not!" is the ultimate high.
Short version: a building blocks social game where you could neither build nor socialise.
Kiddo took a look at the free version, yawned, then went back to playing Lego Star Wars, and with actual Lego.
Because it looks like B&N is essentially arguing that it's fine to have a huge pile of software patents, but it's foul play if you actually use them.
The government (in its various guises) can't reasonably award software patents and then punish the owners for using them for exactly the purpose that they are intended, right?
What next, you'll lump together Israelis and Palestinians, North and South Koreans, or Nuns and Clowns?
And Ubuntu is basically Debian++ which is GPL/Linux++++. What's your point?
If you're looking for inferences, I'd say that Shuttleworth's Reality Distortion Field needs some work if he's going to persuade cranky cantankerous Lunix hippies that we actually like and want Unity. By and large, it seems that we don't.
Now, that's a new low, like putting on a black dress and molesting little boys freelance rather than through the regular Catholic church.
You should give a modern Linux distro a try, they Just Work. I mean, obviously not the graphics drivers if you have anything even remotely non-mainstream, and for WiFi you should of course just use Windows drivers though ndiswrapper rather than wasting your time with native ones, plus "support" just means "that version is unlikely to get any more broken", and every time you click "allow update" you run the risk of breaking everything and ending up with a retard-o-interface, but other than that...
China doesn't care what anybody else thinks, we can't realistically threaten to boycott them (what are you reading this on, and where was it made?) and they essentially control the dollar and are making big inroads into the Euro as well.
This is a domestic Chinese problem, and it will be solved when the people of China decide to deal with their government one way or another. Until then all we can do is wring our hands and cry "Oh, the seething hordes of yellow sort-of-humanity! Oooh, new iPads!"
Dibs on working for Information Retrieval.
Nice try, but us Old Farts have and have enunciated very specific reasons why Unity and GNOME 3 are exactly the antithesis of why we use Linux based systems in the first place - we want multi-purpose machines for doing a variety of tasks, not "CLICK HEER 4 TEH LULZ" OSen.
So we won't "always be here", we'll be over there, having tucked-and-rolled off of the Canonical train wreck and switched to another distro. It's not like there's a paucity of choice.
DALEK'S AREN'T ROBOTS! There's no emoticon for what I'm feeling.
Now, why does that South Park episode suddenly spring to mind?
Hang on though, just by bringing up the issue, it's been dragged into the, uh, "debate". I'm pretty sure a snake oil peddling ecomental will chip in soon shrieking that it is Man Made Accelerated Climate KillDeathMurder Change, and that it's denying it makes you a tool of the corporate oppressors (now buy my book from Amazon).
Without lube.
Further analysis would simply be tautological.
While I was looking up puerile, I noticed that you used shear instead of sheer (twice) and hear instead of here. The fine is 1.37 Internets. Also, I finally found puerile in yo momma.
TSA gotta find terrorists, lawyers gotta sue. Picking on the weak and innocent is fun for such thugs.
Yup, I'm not convinced they've actually turned a profit yet from the XBox line. If they're tying it to Bing and their long line of CE/Mobile abominations, I'm pretty sure they're in the red.
OS and Office are still doing a good job of funding their delusions, mind.
Yay, I want one with a child's tears and bloody handprint still on it!
Honestly, Negroponte has lost the plot. He's got a big heart, but he's trying to give diamonds to spades who need shovels.
Is the middle class white Grauniad guilt really so strong in you that you can't acknowledge that Jo-click-n Zimbabwean was better off when the white man was shouldering the burden of authority than when we upped sticks and left the natives to run their own affairs?
Oh, I'm sure it'll get better eventually, but only after their flag has been changed to two crossed starved beaten Zimbabweans emblazoned on a mound of starved beaten Zimbabweans.
Look, Africa was a huge cesspit of murderous tribal slaver thugs before the white man arrived, and it's a huge cesspit of murderous tribal slaver thugs now that we've gone. You don't get to blame us for the brief period of civilisation in the middle. Christian guilt was the best thing that ever happened to them.
Oh, cool, thanks for explaining that. That simultaneously solves the problem and negates the grandparent's point, right? Right?
Uh... it's not ad hominem to point out that the listed "experts" have a track record of being wrong, wrong and wrong again, and have been repeatedly caught with their hands in Microsoft's pockets.
Groklaw (under Pamela Jones) has called things correctly far more often than not.
Full Disclosure: On a personal note, I detest that whiny martyr PJ and her horde of White Knight sycophants, but I do have admit that it's hard to find examples of her getting things wrong.
So, they engaged an outfit of professional spammers, handed them their customer list and were surprised when the spammers did what spammers always do?
That's like buying a shark and shoving your dick in its mouth so that it can learn not to bite off your dick.
Sadly, the, uh bar for disbarment is set very high. You have to be absolutely whackadoodle moonbat crazy like Jack Thompson to be in with shout.
I was torn between rating you "+1000 Informative", or posting "Hey! Everybody else! Read that, then shut up forever. The problem is (now) demonstrably with the parents". Ranting won out, as you can see.
Uh, your own sources show that fossil use is still growing, even though (ostensible) renewable generation is growing faster than demand. The numbers don't add up, and it's because fossil (and nuclear) plants need to be kept hot to supply sudden drops in wind and solar power.
Without large scale storage, wind and solar (in Europe) are greenwashing. We're just burning fossil fuels to build devices that don't reduce further fossil use one whit.