There actually is one car I'm considering, it's the Chrysler Neon. And maybe a Viper, but that one fits your description with extreme precision.:-) I still cannot understand why all Americans are driving farmer's vehicles (pickups).
The question shouldn't be "anyone stay on as much/more as me?", it should be "anyone able to stay on more as me and live?". No, I for one am not able to be online that much, I sleep 7 to 8 hours a day, sometimes go to the bathroom (otherwise the room really becomes messy), go out and get me some food and a new pack of beer and somtimes I feel the need to stretch my legs. Oh yeah, I have to go to work too, but there I'm online again the whole day. But 17 hours a day? That's way out of my league...
At the time they were announcing the distro, those points were valid. Mind you, that was before Mandrake and Corel Linux and prob. even before Caldera hit the market (although I'm not sure about the last one). Stampede just had a lower profile than Mandrake and the others.
"At the Intel Developer Forum here, Intel Corp. unveiled a copy protection scheme that will add a layer of encryption between the system and the digital display."
If "copy protection scheme" doesn't ring a bell, I don't know what would...:-) Seems as if Intel is looking for new friends, like the MPAA.
unless you live in the states, you don't know what expensive gas (or petrol) is
Excuse me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't you "s/unless/if/"? I'm from the Netherlands and over here 75/80% of the gasprize is tax. This week we reached an all-times high with NLG 2.51 per liter. That's about $5 per gallon.
You are right, if we were all driving on the friendly fuell, the government would still put high taxes on it.
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For me winning the OS war will be when we really have a choice. At home I have and I can impress my friends with my system. But at work it is a whole different story. Here, I'll have the choice when we have all the apps I need (and Lotus Notes is one of the necessary ones) and to have the apps, we need to have the audience and as the audience is the "dumb"...
At work all we have is Windows and AIX. AIX to run Baan and Domino and Windows to do almost everything else. A few NT servers could be replaced, but... *sigh* I won't start while I'm still in a good mood.:-)
IMHO, winning is *not* having quality. It has never been quality and it never will be. I really think that in case to win, we need to crush MS. Its share on the desktop needs to be less than half of what they have right now, otherwise they'll still be too powerfull and be a too-save choice. A breakup of MS will help too.:-)
After the last time I saw Metcalfe on/. I thought and hoped he would never again be able to make it back onto "our" frontpage, but he did it again. He really is just trying to get the Slashdot Effect (TM) on his page and I really, really doubt he believes what he preaches.
And off course I'm just pissed off he got me again, he got my hit, I read the article and wasted another 5 minutes on him. Hemos, please don't post these kind of articles. Please!!!:)
Heh. A while back I had a (heated) discussion with an MCSE guy. I couldn't get it into his head that Windows indeed *does* run on top of DOS. Yeah, it was fun.
No, as a European citizen (from the Netherlands) I can tell you I like the UK better than I like the US. If only because in the UK they know how to build cars...
A couple days ago CmndrTaco said that it was "funny" that Time was reporting on AOL's jacked up AOL 5.0. Will it be 'funny' now when slashdot reports on VA's screwups? Or will VA just never make screwups, is that it?
Common, get your facts straight. It was emmet who posted that story and who made the "funny" comment.
Thimo
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Since when is this negative news? I think this is good news, it creates a solid OS/FS front. Even stronger than they used to be, so this is good news!
I like/. a lot and it's still easy to ignore the articles/comments I don't want to read. Guess we won't see you much around anymore and I can't really say I'm sorry because I really don't care.
Hmmm... Are you sure you're talking about roads, not about swimming pools?:-)
But, I don't agree with what you're saying here. With music, you buy the music, you'll 0wn:) it. With the road, you certainly don't buy a piece of the road, you pay to use it for a short while.
It's more like you buy a car and you'll only be able to drive it on certain highways. If you want to drive through the bushes, the car stops. That sucks and I won't buy such a car.
From the same page, this is what I extremely like:
Corel has been working with the WINE community since late 1998, concentrating on those areas of WINE that are required to allow us to complete WordPerfect® Office for LINUX®.
No BS, straight forward: Just develop the things you as a company are going to need in this piece of OS software and release it back to the community. Cheers to Corel!:-)
It's getting really off-topic, but way too interesting to keep for myself. I just found a snippet from an amazon.com (that we boycot it doesn't mean we can't read their interviews, does it?:) interview with Chuck D. Imagine this, in 1994 (!!!) they predicted what we now have with MP3 and the internet and the *wanted* it to be like this. These are mainstream artists, making big bucks...
Amazon.com: You're still finishing up the new album, There's a Poison Goin' On. How's it going?
Chuck D: It's going well. It's what we call 21st-century music. And in 1994 when I made Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age, we predicted that the ways of distributing music would change, that the music business would change. I mean, people can go to Muse Sick and find [that], on Harry Allen's interactive superhighway phone call to Chuck D, we mentioned everything that is happening now. And we made that record for 1999, but this record here, There's a Poison Goin' On, is definitely for the year 2000. So it's going really well.
Oke, this is a joke, I'll bite. I think PE would never pee on Linux because they support the openness and freedom Linux stands for. They are pretty interesting in this field. On a CD back in 1995 Harry Allen (PE's spokesman) was talking about new technologies that were coming along that would enable artists to be their own distributors. The technology didn't really exist at that time ("or was still in crude form"), but would come along later. Now we all know what MP3 and the internet has done for artists and most will remember that/. announced that PE was selling their album on the internet in MP3 form. I was about to submit the written text for that song to/., but always wondered if it would be news. Maybe I'll still do it one day...
Thimo
PS: To the "people who know", I'm talking about number 20 on the 1995 CD ("Muse sick'n hour mess age", IIRC!!!) and it is the voice of Harry Allen on Chuck's answering machine. --
(Deja vu) So he's going to work for Transmeta, right? Does that mean we get a programmable PDA processor running Linux and Mozilla? Whoop!!!
Imagine a beowolf... (shouldn't have said that)
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Well, kinda like the versioning with the Linux kernel: 3.3.x is the stable release, 3.9.x is the development release which, eventually, is going to be the 4.0.x release. Oke, it is *not* like Linux with even/odd numbers, but you get the idea...
I have got to disagree with RedHat being the newbie's Linux AND Debian being the administrator's Linux. Common, look at what Corel did with Debian: Can you spell "Userfriendly"? They didn't have to re-do all of Debian, mostly just the GUI things.
RedHat certainly doesn't keep things stupid, that's pure FUD. "Newbie OS?" LOL!
At RedHat they have reasonable defaults, at most. Yes, the install is a lot friendlier than the strange floppy install I had with my first ever Linux install from Slackware. Later on I tried RH 3.0.3 and it just felt better, it was a complete OS, not a whole lot of packages dumped together on one HD. What's wrong with this?
Debian being hardcore? Oh please! This just makes me feel sick. Please, give me one good and counting example of why RedHat is less hardcore, more newbie-ish and less an administrators OS than Debian and I will instantly agree. Or is the packaging system the only thing you're talking about here? I'm happy with RPM and if I want to install an tar.gz, who's stopping me?
Grrr... Stop dissing RedHat! We owe them more than we can imagine.
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There actually is one car I'm considering, it's the Chrysler Neon. And maybe a Viper, but that one fits your description with extreme precision. :-) I still cannot understand why all Americans are driving farmer's vehicles (pickups).
Thimo
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Things the US should stop exporting: McDonalds (eat British, eat Burger King :-), Windows and Sunny Delight.
You forgot one thing: Cars!
:-)
Thimo
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Hate to correct you, but shouldn't this be:
"100,000,000 trolls on Slashdot, 100,000,000 trolls,
Moderate one down, move your mouse around,
100,000,001 trolls on Slashdot..."
:-)
Thimo
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Don't we all pick it up from our buddies in the chat rooms? (and off course email and newsgroups)
Thimo
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The question shouldn't be "anyone stay on as much/more as me?", it should be "anyone able to stay on more as me and live?". No, I for one am not able to be online that much, I sleep 7 to 8 hours a day, sometimes go to the bathroom (otherwise the room really becomes messy), go out and get me some food and a new pack of beer and somtimes I feel the need to stretch my legs. Oh yeah, I have to go to work too, but there I'm online again the whole day. But 17 hours a day? That's way out of my league...
Thimo
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At the time they were announcing the distro, those points were valid. Mind you, that was before Mandrake and Corel Linux and prob. even before Caldera hit the market (although I'm not sure about the last one). Stampede just had a lower profile than Mandrake and the others.
Thimo
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From the article:
:-) Seems as if Intel is looking for new friends, like the MPAA.
"At the Intel Developer Forum here, Intel Corp. unveiled a copy protection scheme that will add a layer of encryption between the system and the digital display."
If "copy protection scheme" doesn't ring a bell, I don't know what would...
Thimo
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unless you live in the states, you don't know what expensive gas (or petrol) is
Excuse me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't you "s/unless/if/"? I'm from the Netherlands and over here 75/80% of the gasprize is tax. This week we reached an all-times high with NLG 2.51 per liter. That's about $5 per gallon.
You are right, if we were all driving on the friendly fuell, the government would still put high taxes on it.
Thimo
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For me winning the OS war will be when we really have a choice. At home I have and I can impress my friends with my system. But at work it is a whole different story. Here, I'll have the choice when we have all the apps I need (and Lotus Notes is one of the necessary ones) and to have the apps, we need to have the audience and as the audience is the "dumb"...
:-)
:-)
At work all we have is Windows and AIX. AIX to run Baan and Domino and Windows to do almost everything else. A few NT servers could be replaced, but... *sigh* I won't start while I'm still in a good mood.
IMHO, winning is *not* having quality. It has never been quality and it never will be. I really think that in case to win, we need to crush MS. Its share on the desktop needs to be less than half of what they have right now, otherwise they'll still be too powerfull and be a too-save choice. A breakup of MS will help too.
Thimo
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After the last time I saw Metcalfe on /. I thought and hoped he would never again be able to make it back onto "our" frontpage, but he did it again. He really is just trying to get the Slashdot Effect (TM) on his page and I really, really doubt he believes what he preaches.
:)
And off course I'm just pissed off he got me again, he got my hit, I read the article and wasted another 5 minutes on him. Hemos, please don't post these kind of articles. Please!!!
Thimo
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Heh. A while back I had a (heated) discussion with an MCSE guy. I couldn't get it into his head that Windows indeed *does* run on top of DOS. Yeah, it was fun.
Thimo
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No, as a European citizen (from the Netherlands) I can tell you I like the UK better than I like the US. If only because in the UK they know how to build cars...
:-)
Thimo
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He's talking GSM bandwidth here!!! Not LAN bandwidth.
Thimo
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A couple days ago CmndrTaco said that it was "funny" that Time was reporting on AOL's jacked up AOL 5.0. Will it be 'funny' now when slashdot reports on VA's screwups? Or will VA just never make screwups, is that it?
Common, get your facts straight. It was emmet who posted that story and who made the "funny" comment.
Thimo
PS: CmdrTaco, keep up the good work. Thank you!!!
--
Since when is this negative news? I think this is good news, it creates a solid OS/FS front. Even stronger than they used to be, so this is good news!
/. a lot and it's still easy to ignore the articles/comments I don't want to read. Guess we won't see you much around anymore and I can't really say I'm sorry because I really don't care.
I like
Thimo
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you have to pay to dive
:-)
:) it. With the road, you certainly don't buy a piece of the road, you pay to use it for a short while.
Hmmm... Are you sure you're talking about roads, not about swimming pools?
But, I don't agree with what you're saying here. With music, you buy the music, you'll 0wn
It's more like you buy a car and you'll only be able to drive it on certain highways. If you want to drive through the bushes, the car stops. That sucks and I won't buy such a car.
Thimo
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From the same page, this is what I extremely like:
:-)
Corel has been working with the WINE community since late 1998, concentrating on those areas of WINE that are required to allow us to complete WordPerfect® Office for LINUX®.
No BS, straight forward: Just develop the things you as a company are going to need in this piece of OS software and release it back to the community. Cheers to Corel!
Thimo
--
It's getting really off-topic, but way too interesting to keep for myself. I just found a snippet from an amazon.com (that we boycot it doesn't mean we can't read their interviews, does it? :) interview with Chuck D. Imagine this, in 1994 (!!!) they predicted what we now have with MP3 and the internet and the *wanted* it to be like this. These are mainstream artists, making big bucks...
Amazon.com: You're still finishing up the new album, There's a Poison Goin' On. How's it going?
Chuck D: It's going well. It's what we call 21st-century music. And in 1994 when I made Muse Sick-n-Hour Mess Age, we predicted that the ways of distributing music would change, that the music business would change. I mean, people can go to Muse Sick and find [that], on Harry Allen's interactive superhighway phone call to Chuck D, we mentioned everything that is happening now. And we made that record for 1999, but this record here, There's a Poison Goin' On, is definitely for the year 2000. So it's going really well.
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Oke, this is a joke, I'll bite. I think PE would never pee on Linux because they support the openness and freedom Linux stands for. They are pretty interesting in this field. On a CD back in 1995 Harry Allen (PE's spokesman) was talking about new technologies that were coming along that would enable artists to be their own distributors. The technology didn't really exist at that time ("or was still in crude form"), but would come along later. Now we all know what MP3 and the internet has done for artists and most will remember that /. announced that PE was selling their album on the internet in MP3 form. I was about to submit the written text for that song to /., but always wondered if it would be news. Maybe I'll still do it one day...
Thimo
PS: To the "people who know", I'm talking about number 20 on the 1995 CD ("Muse sick'n hour mess age", IIRC!!!) and it is the voice of Harry Allen on Chuck's answering machine.
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Beautiful, isn't it? It almost makes me cry...
:-)
Thimo
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(Deja vu) So he's going to work for Transmeta, right? Does that mean we get a programmable PDA processor running Linux and Mozilla? Whoop!!!
Imagine a beowolf... (shouldn't have said that)
Thimo
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Well, kinda like the versioning with the Linux kernel: 3.3.x is the stable release, 3.9.x is the development release which, eventually, is going to be the 4.0.x release. Oke, it is *not* like Linux with even/odd numbers, but you get the idea...
Thimo
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Now imagine what a Beowolf-cluster of those bacteria could do!
:)
Thimo
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The previous message just was one too many...
I have got to disagree with RedHat being the newbie's Linux AND Debian being the administrator's Linux. Common, look at what Corel did with Debian: Can you spell "Userfriendly"? They didn't have to re-do all of Debian, mostly just the GUI things.
RedHat certainly doesn't keep things stupid, that's pure FUD. "Newbie OS?" LOL!
At RedHat they have reasonable defaults, at most. Yes, the install is a lot friendlier than the strange floppy install I had with my first ever Linux install from Slackware. Later on I tried RH 3.0.3 and it just felt better, it was a complete OS, not a whole lot of packages dumped together on one HD. What's wrong with this?
Debian being hardcore? Oh please! This just makes me feel sick. Please, give me one good and counting example of why RedHat is less hardcore, more newbie-ish and less an administrators OS than Debian and I will instantly agree. Or is the packaging system the only thing you're talking about here? I'm happy with RPM and if I want to install an tar.gz, who's stopping me?
Grrr... Stop dissing RedHat! We owe them more than we can imagine.
Thimo
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Moderate this up, this is funny!
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