Here in Canada (Toronto specifically), they changed their bloody name to (wait for it) 'The Source'. That's right - toss all name/brand recognition (not that this amounted to much lately) out the window and choose the most generic ho-hum store name you can think of. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
...this guy is such an arrogant, self-aggrandizing asshole that I don't actually care if he's right. By virtue of the fact that he's such a prick, his theory can't possibly be correct.
I mean, really, it's physics via Bill O'Reilly. Please.
So, uh...are you asking me to come over and set it up for you? Are you lacking an external media player? I see no problem with using an external player, like XMMS - there are already too many for Linux.
I know it's not perfect, but it seems no one is mentioning the open source iTunes-ish app, gtkpod. Syncs great with iPods and does most of the work that iTunes does (minus the ripping).
[...]it is theoretically possible for them to block out competitor websites and only allow users to access websites that have paid Google to be shown to their users.
It's also theoretically possible that Google will create a giant factory outside of Copenhagen, dedicated to producing black and white kittens. Theoretically, twice a year, employees of Google would load the kittens on a large theoretical plane and drop the kittens into Mount Vesuvius. Again, this is theoretically possible.
This may help some people understand the nature of the dissent, albeit from a less than neutral stance: http://mediamatters.org/. If it's off the main page, look under Abrahamoff. I do not, however, advocate Media Matters, other than for a 'point of view'.
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Yes, I would rather we focus not on the moon, but on finding another propulsion method that isn't based on the 'upside-down firecracker' technique we've been using up till now.
Is this an article or an opinion piece (ie. Slashdot via FoxNews)?
Yes, someone calling you a jerk is not necessarily as bad as someone calling you at 3am. What if they call you a fascist? What if you don't have a land-line and your cellphone gets turned off before you go to bed? Is that 3am call more of a problem?
What I'm saying is: don't reduce arguments to childish write-offs, especially when these are supposed to be news threads and not nano-essays.
As a former Libranet user (now running Kubuntu I might add), I find this statement to be poorly reasoned as well as off-topic. Just because they both are Debian based does not preclude that one has somehow usurped the other. Furthermore, Libranet has been around longer than Ubuntu, and the founder of Libranet recently passed away. Show some respect.
Because they never allow movies recently released (and popular) the same benefit of becoming as dated/poignant/prescient/terrible as films made 10 years earlier (or more). There should always be a 1-2 year cut-off to disallow the passing whimsy of the box office.
Personally, I'd add Tarkovsky's 'Solaris' to the list.
Although I was very reticent to switch to GAIM (mainly aesthetics), I eventually did, and it's now my main IM app. Ironically, one thing GAIM has that I struggle to find in Windows Messenger is the 'do not show offline contacts' option.
I like the article, and it makes a good point, but I'm not exactly sure if she even knows what it is that Linux IM apps need, aside from swappable skins (?). The features that MSN Messenger have implemented probably aren't available for ICQ either (or Yahoo Messenger) - so why should an inordinate amount of man-hours programming/troubleshooting be spent on a gee-whiz horse race when perhaps questions of overall aesthetics/functionality be addressed first?
One thing I'd like: a GAIM panel icon that supports transparency in KDE.
Perhaps I'm just dense, but does it strike anyone else as strange that domains are becoming almost exclusively anglicised (meaning, based on English language)? It's easy to speculate that English is the international language, but what happens when the time comes that it *isn't*?
I think it's because, for people already using Windows, there's no motivation to switch if 'everything works' (which is subjective, yes). People want Linux to be More so that their decision, in their eyes at least, will be one of acension rather than sliding sideways. My 2 cents.
It's not a question of whether or not it's possible, but rather "is it feasible?". Driving an industry to mass-produce with the lowest possible standards in order to meet a fixed price is ridiculous.
I understand that there is also the social-benevolence aspect of this question, in terms of providing (eg Simputer in India) a publicly-available PC that approaches affordability. However, this can be a niche market (eg Simputer in India).
I think it's wrong-headed to aim for a price-point. There is neither a moon to reach in seven years, nor the need to reach it.
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Here in Canada (Toronto specifically), they changed their bloody name to (wait for it) 'The Source'. That's right - toss all name/brand recognition (not that this amounted to much lately) out the window and choose the most generic ho-hum store name you can think of. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
I can just hear it: "Oh yeah, well Gentoo can run on Mactel - just 'emerge Mac'!"
Why couldn't they have used Slackware...
...this guy is such an arrogant, self-aggrandizing asshole that I don't actually care if he's right. By virtue of the fact that he's such a prick, his theory can't possibly be correct.
I mean, really, it's physics via Bill O'Reilly. Please.
So, uh...are you asking me to come over and set it up for you? Are you lacking an external media player? I see no problem with using an external player, like XMMS - there are already too many for Linux.
I know it's not perfect, but it seems no one is mentioning the open source iTunes-ish app, gtkpod. Syncs great with iPods and does most of the work that iTunes does (minus the ripping).
Link: http://www.gtkpod.org/about.html
[...]it is theoretically possible for them to block out competitor websites and only allow users to access websites that have paid Google to be shown to their users.
It's also theoretically possible that Google will create a giant factory outside of Copenhagen, dedicated to producing black and white kittens. Theoretically, twice a year, employees of Google would load the kittens on a large theoretical plane and drop the kittens into Mount Vesuvius. Again, this is theoretically possible.
Great bit of speculation, that.
This may help some people understand the nature of the dissent, albeit from a less than neutral stance: http://mediamatters.org/. If it's off the main page, look under Abrahamoff. I do not, however, advocate Media Matters, other than for a 'point of view'.
Yes, I would rather we focus not on the moon, but on finding another propulsion method that isn't based on the 'upside-down firecracker' technique we've been using up till now.
Is this an article or an opinion piece (ie. Slashdot via FoxNews)?
Yes, someone calling you a jerk is not necessarily as bad as someone calling you at 3am. What if they call you a fascist? What if you don't have a land-line and your cellphone gets turned off before you go to bed? Is that 3am call more of a problem?
What I'm saying is: don't reduce arguments to childish write-offs, especially when these are supposed to be news threads and not nano-essays.
As a former Libranet user (now running Kubuntu I might add), I find this statement to be poorly reasoned as well as off-topic. Just because they both are Debian based does not preclude that one has somehow usurped the other. Furthermore, Libranet has been around longer than Ubuntu, and the founder of Libranet recently passed away. Show some respect.
...not 'Pergatory'.
(yes, I'm a fascist)
Yes, a script with no preview feature. One step indeed.
...but the number of steps involved to create a simple drop-shadow would depress anyone who read the tutorial.
I'm talking cage match here: polar bear or tiger - which one walks out?
Come on Thomson - show us your guts!
Because they never allow movies recently released (and popular) the same benefit of becoming as dated/poignant/prescient/terrible as films made 10 years earlier (or more). There should always be a 1-2 year cut-off to disallow the passing whimsy of the box office.
Personally, I'd add Tarkovsky's 'Solaris' to the list.
Although I was very reticent to switch to GAIM (mainly aesthetics), I eventually did, and it's now my main IM app. Ironically, one thing GAIM has that I struggle to find in Windows Messenger is the 'do not show offline contacts' option.
I like the article, and it makes a good point, but I'm not exactly sure if she even knows what it is that Linux IM apps need, aside from swappable skins (?). The features that MSN Messenger have implemented probably aren't available for ICQ either (or Yahoo Messenger) - so why should an inordinate amount of man-hours programming/troubleshooting be spent on a gee-whiz horse race when perhaps questions of overall aesthetics/functionality be addressed first?
One thing I'd like: a GAIM panel icon that supports transparency in KDE.
Oskee-wee-wee! Oskee-wa-wa!
Think Different.
Like all utopias: infinitely distant and infinitely elusive.
Quite the statement about our society when anything denoting freedom is referred to as a utopia. Prematurely cynical, if you ask me.
"Oh! And robot Joe Cole misses the net again!"
Perhaps I'm just dense, but does it strike anyone else as strange that domains are becoming almost exclusively anglicised (meaning, based on English language)?
It's easy to speculate that English is the international language, but what happens when the time comes that it *isn't*?
Wait...what the-?
I think it's because, for people already using Windows, there's no motivation to switch if 'everything works' (which is subjective, yes). People want Linux to be More so that their decision, in their eyes at least, will be one of acension rather than sliding sideways. My 2 cents.
Obviously this article was too interesting/pertinent for linux.com, which continues to be the most boring Linux site on the internet.
(NewsForge and Slashdot *and* Linux.com are both part of OSTG.)
It's not a question of whether or not it's possible, but rather "is it feasible?". Driving an industry to mass-produce with the lowest possible standards in order to meet a fixed price is ridiculous.
I understand that there is also the social-benevolence aspect of this question, in terms of providing (eg Simputer in India) a publicly-available PC that approaches affordability. However, this can be a niche market (eg Simputer in India).
I think it's wrong-headed to aim for a price-point. There is neither a moon to reach in seven years, nor the need to reach it.
1. Star-studded cast - check
2. Fantastic storyline - check
3. Less than a year from production to release - check
Wow - how will this not be a hit?