You may be right that the situation in e.g. North Korea or China is be a lot worse, but those countries don't claim to be the land of the free and we basicly expect them to be like that. We call those states dictatorships rather than police states.
The USA on the other hand is a democratic country in which freedom has always been a very important thing, a country that has always been trying to expand this freedom to the rest of the world and a country that has always had a large influence on the rest of the world. To see the freedom in this country - of all countries - deterioate this rapidly, is a lot more scary to the rest of the world than the situation in non-democratic and not really that influential countries like China or North Korea.
It's especially this influence the USA has on the rest of the world that makes this scary; think about the situation around DeCSS, the new German passport that has to contain RFID chips in order to get into the USA, requiring armed US air-marshalls on airplanes while the international agreement is: no guns in planes, invading iraq based on false claims about WMD etc. etc.
"so-and-so won't work with so-and-so-else, let's start a whole new operating system development tree! Wow. Grow up."
That's what Lenin must have been thinking when just another baker opened a bakery....
What's going on here is just healty software economics; the best products get selected by distribution maintainers just like sony or samsung select the right chips for your DVD-player. This is simply the best way to get the best result. That's why capitalism works better than communism and that's why difference is good.
The fact that this leads to the problems described by the author is also very similar to the DVD-player case; cables or extras for brand A may not fit on brand B while the brand C amplifier has another color just like binaries for Red Hat may not work with Slackware and your KDE application may look a bit different from Gnome. It's simply the cost of a free market; you have to make choices. You cannot have it both ways.
Oh. And there is no such thing as the 'Open Source Movement'. It simply doesn't exist. There isn't a 'Windows movement' either, nor an 'Apple movement'. It's all just individuals doing their own little thing. Just like in normal society where you can buy a car from one company and then get this ultra cool add-on from another company and it may not just fit, you won't go whine about how the 'car movement' movement needs to grow up.
I think you're right about the 1KM/M2, but that doesn't mean that's the upper limit of their photovoltatic cell. Though it's a bit misleading that they don't mention that simple fact, using a large enough lense will solve all power/surfacearea-limits:)
What I really want to know, is what the efficiency of their module is; it may be able to deliver 120 watts per square inch, but if it requires 120 kilowatt per square inch to do that, it's pretty useless:) I believe the current standard cells have an efficiency of about 25% so no photovoltaic cell is ever going to produce more than 4 times more power than the ones we use now.
I totally agree with you on the danger stigmatism, but the suffering of the Chornobyl disaster was definately a LOT worse than you claim (for a large part due to the utterly stupid reaction of the USSR government...). I suggest you'd read this to find out that even the lowest estimates on the death toll are at least 3 times those 3000 people.
How does your test tell us anything at all about the speed of the filesystem? I think it tells us more about how many times you can fork() touch in a certain amount of time:P
First I searched for zmooc - no results, 5 minutes later: 15 results. A minute later a friend of me got 85 results:) Then I searched for "anale sex met paarden" - I got 12 results while a friend that also search for "anale sex met paarden" first got 2 and then 15:) It must be spidering at 5 terabyte/sec or something:P
I've already seen such trucks on festivals around Europe about 4 years ago and probably made quite a few calls through their systems too - nothing new here.
If dark matter does interact with conventional matter through gravity and passes through conventional matter, then shouldn't all stellar objects be completely full of it?
Some day people will hopefully understand that even though it may be pretty hard to read computer programs, they're just something written in a certain language. Microsoft won't sell you a button at all - it sells you a library with instructions especially sorted out by them to instruct your computer to do something. They differ from a book (ok an eBook) in absolutely nothing except for the language they were written in.
Think of it. Theoretically it is possible to write a compiler that compiles the text of a patent to software that implements it. That shouldn't even have to be so very theoretical if version 0.1 only has to be able to compile one certain patent text. Now all of the sudden the patent itself has become a patented piece of software! If we don't stop patenting software now and one day someone comes up with a fucking smart compiler that can do such things, we'll all be uttering patented programs all day.
The lack of a compiler from natural language to software (and vice versa) doesn't make software any less language. Software patents exist thanks to the utter stupidness of people that cannot see the difference between "an apparatus" and "some text I don't understand and I don't have a translator(compiler) for".
1. I looked around kde-look.org; when you upload something, you have to specify the type of license. But at least for the mentioned images this license is not clearly shown before downloading them - I couldn't even find it at all! 2. All the copyright information I saw was "Copyright 2001-2004 KDE-Look.org Team" below the page. I suppose Linspire must have seen the same copyright. 3. KDE-look.org is sponsored by Linspire. That effectively makes them allies on the front of spreading KDE to the world:)
So in my opinion kde-look.org is at fault; they receive a copyrighted upload for which the uploader has specified the license and what do they do? They totally ignore the license and republish the work of art as if it was their own. Until we know if Lindows possibly got permission to use this work from their "partner" kde-look.org, we won't know if they really made a mistake. If they didn't, kde-look.org sure did.
So exactly what things do qualify as things that a little 9 year old shouldnt be seing? Things that make dad feel embarassed when he has to explain it to them? Or is there also some kind of objective criterium for sending guys to jail?
I'm really surprised by the reactions here on/. as compared to the reactions I hear from my - dutch - friends that all consider it the next stupid hypocritical action by police state #1. Maybe you could explain to me what exactly it is that justifies such ridiculous attacks on freedom? Especially in the country that's always so hypocritically proud of its `freedom'?
It's just like it is with cars; crooks usually steal the fastest car if they need one for a job just like a hacker prefers a Linux system over a Windows system.
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The most important Linux Desktop (uh-huh) Tip I can give you: use ^R in Bash as much as you can;-)
You may be right that the situation in e.g. North Korea or China is be a lot worse, but those countries don't claim to be the land of the free and we basicly expect them to be like that. We call those states dictatorships rather than police states.
The USA on the other hand is a democratic country in which freedom has always been a very important thing, a country that has always been trying to expand this freedom to the rest of the world and a country that has always had a large influence on the rest of the world. To see the freedom in this country - of all countries - deterioate this rapidly, is a lot more scary to the rest of the world than the situation in non-democratic and not really that influential countries like China or North Korea.
It's especially this influence the USA has on the rest of the world that makes this scary; think about the situation around DeCSS, the new German passport that has to contain RFID chips in order to get into the USA, requiring armed US air-marshalls on airplanes while the international agreement is: no guns in planes, invading iraq based on false claims about WMD etc. etc.
Dude, your country is viewed as the sole definition of a police state by the rest of the world, might you not have noticed.
I meant to say that it's not illegal to do that:)
In the Netherlands downloading illegaly shared music from p2p networks is illegal; we don't need an iPod-tax for that.
"so-and-so won't work with so-and-so-else, let's start a whole new operating system development tree! Wow. Grow up."
That's what Lenin must have been thinking when just another baker opened a bakery....
What's going on here is just healty software economics; the best products get selected by distribution maintainers just like sony or samsung select the right chips for your DVD-player. This is simply the best way to get the best result. That's why capitalism works better than communism and that's why difference is good.
The fact that this leads to the problems described by the author is also very similar to the DVD-player case; cables or extras for brand A may not fit on brand B while the brand C amplifier has another color just like binaries for Red Hat may not work with Slackware and your KDE application may look a bit different from Gnome. It's simply the cost of a free market; you have to make choices. You cannot have it both ways.
Oh. And there is no such thing as the 'Open Source Movement'. It simply doesn't exist. There isn't a 'Windows movement' either, nor an 'Apple movement'. It's all just individuals doing their own little thing. Just like in normal society where you can buy a car from one company and then get this ultra cool add-on from another company and it may not just fit, you won't go whine about how the 'car movement' movement needs to grow up.
I think you're right about the 1KM/M2, but that doesn't mean that's the upper limit of their photovoltatic cell. Though it's a bit misleading that they don't mention that simple fact, using a large enough lense will solve all power/surfacearea-limits:)
What I really want to know, is what the efficiency of their module is; it may be able to deliver 120 watts per square inch, but if it requires 120 kilowatt per square inch to do that, it's pretty useless:) I believe the current standard cells have an efficiency of about 25% so no photovoltaic cell is ever going to produce more than 4 times more power than the ones we use now.
One more reason for not having kids:)
I wonder what happened to the overall images.google.com top10... it must have been too filthy to put it on there:P
I was thinking "I never have that, that guy is full of shit!", type apt-get update && apt-get upgrade et voila... fonts broken:P
I totally agree with you on the danger stigmatism, but the suffering of the Chornobyl disaster was definately a LOT worse than you claim (for a large part due to the utterly stupid reaction of the USSR government...). I suggest you'd read this to find out that even the lowest estimates on the death toll are at least 3 times those 3000 people.
How does your test tell us anything at all about the speed of the filesystem? I think it tells us more about how many times you can fork() touch in a certain amount of time:P
What would you do with this much bandwidth?
How about moving all harddisks to somewhere I can't hear them?
First I searched for zmooc - no results, 5 minutes later: 15 results. A minute later a friend of me got 85 results:) Then I searched for "anale sex met paarden" - I got 12 results while a friend that also search for "anale sex met paarden" first got 2 and then 15:) It must be spidering at 5 terabyte/sec or something:P
I've already seen such trucks on festivals around Europe about 4 years ago and probably made quite a few calls through their systems too - nothing new here.
Somebody please overbid me!
Xandros is Debian-based, I believe? Then it won't have any trouble installing mplayer from
/etc/apt/sources.list, type "apt-get update && apt-get install mplayer" and you're done).
deb http://freevo.sourceforge.net/debian unstable main
(just add that line to
It should play those movies just fine.
There is no legal basis for a windows license not being transferable to another computer whatsoever in most countries.
Ever considered the possibility that it might be traveling towards you and therefore shift the other way?:P
If dark matter does interact with conventional matter through gravity and passes through conventional matter, then shouldn't all stellar objects be completely full of it?
Some day people will hopefully understand that even though it may be pretty hard to read computer programs, they're just something written in a certain language. Microsoft won't sell you a button at all - it sells you a library with instructions especially sorted out by them to instruct your computer to do something. They differ from a book (ok an eBook) in absolutely nothing except for the language they were written in.
Think of it. Theoretically it is possible to write a compiler that compiles the text of a patent to software that implements it. That shouldn't even have to be so very theoretical if version 0.1 only has to be able to compile one certain patent text. Now all of the sudden the patent itself has become a patented piece of software! If we don't stop patenting software now and one day someone comes up with a fucking smart compiler that can do such things, we'll all be uttering patented programs all day.
The lack of a compiler from natural language to software (and vice versa) doesn't make software any less language. Software patents exist thanks to the utter stupidness of people that cannot see the difference between "an apparatus" and "some text I don't understand and I don't have a translator(compiler) for".
1. I looked around kde-look.org; when you upload something, you have to specify the type of license. But at least for the mentioned images this license is not clearly shown before downloading them - I couldn't even find it at all!
2. All the copyright information I saw was "Copyright 2001-2004 KDE-Look.org Team" below the page. I suppose Linspire must have seen the same copyright.
3. KDE-look.org is sponsored by Linspire. That effectively makes them allies on the front of spreading KDE to the world:)
So in my opinion kde-look.org is at fault; they receive a copyrighted upload for which the uploader has specified the license and what do they do? They totally ignore the license and republish the work of art as if it was their own. Until we know if Lindows possibly got permission to use this work from their "partner" kde-look.org, we won't know if they really made a mistake. If they didn't, kde-look.org sure did.
So exactly what things do qualify as things that a little 9 year old shouldnt be seing? Things that make dad feel embarassed when he has to explain it to them? Or is there also some kind of objective criterium for sending guys to jail?
/. as compared to the reactions I hear from my - dutch - friends that all consider it the next stupid hypocritical action by police state #1. Maybe you could explain to me what exactly it is that justifies such ridiculous attacks on freedom? Especially in the country that's always so hypocritically proud of its `freedom'?
I'm really surprised by the reactions here on
It's just like it is with cars; crooks usually steal the fastest car if they need one for a job just like a hacker prefers a Linux system over a Windows system.
Well I'm smoking something and I understood it so do the math:)