I disagree. I think that what we need is to help the Ogg Vorbis people with their video codec. Having a Free and free alternative to all of these proprietary and fee-for-use codecs will be a good step. That we won't be breaking the law and we will all have what we want.
(Except for all these corporations that want all of our money for nothing. They'll be out of luck.)
Furthering the myth that all Linux users are crooks is a *Bad Thing* (tm).
Cheers
So...let me get this straight. You can use a more user friendly installer and then apt-get your way to Debian testing or unstable? That sounds really great to me.
I love running Debian, I've got it on my desktop and two laptops, but it is sometimes hard to install.
Good Luck Libranet, I would like a little easier install.
"Many people today are still reluctant to trust computers with their personal information, such as financial and medical records, and few people would knowingly entrust their lives to them"
Every time you fly on a plane your life is in the 'hands' of computers. Every time someone gets an x-ray or a CT scan or any one of many now normal medical procedures you are entrusting your life and health to computers. Most (if not all) medical and financial records are entrusted to computers.
We do it everyday and the reason we do it is because these devices are designed and built by companies that have earned our trust by building quality products to very strict specifications for safety. These companies have good track records of safety and if they have problems then they are reported.
What Mr. Mundie should have said is:
"Many people today are still reluctant to trust Microsoft with their personal information, such as financial and medical records, and few people would knowingly entrust their lives to Microsoft."
--
Remember that interview that he did with Barbara Walters a couple of years back. She asked him if he would do Han Solo again he said no. Han was too flat a character. She asked him if he would do Indiana Jones again.
He said, "In a New York minute!"
He loves the role. Give it to him. It wouldn't be Indy without him.
Cute idea except for the fact that the story broke on Saturday. So how are these "friends" supposed to sell their stock with the markets closed? Today is the first day that the market has been open since the leak.
So both of your ideas are easily dismissed.
I've migrated all of my old mp3 files to ogg vorbis. Well actually I re-ripped everything and encoded them to ogg. The music is a lot more crisp than it was under mp3.
Granted, Part of that was the more stingy encoding rate that I had used. I let ogg go with the defaults. And it is much better.
And I must admit that I think that there is some cool factor in using something different and Free/Libre. YMMV
Apparently the two implementations are or at least were that mutually exclusive.
I don't have the link (sorry) but there was talk on the kernel mailing list that it would be a big ball of spaghetti to include them both.
So Linus made his choice.
I disagree about the arguing. It would be nice if they were a little more civil about it. But hey, these guys are some of the best in the world at what they do. You know they've all got egos too. And those egos will sometimes cause people to work extra hard to prove the other wrong. That is good for the user. And the fact that a lot of great work happens at a fast pace in spite of the arguing and ego plays is a tribute to the Open Source development strategy.
You have to start someplace.
If you don't watch them then you can't learn about the dangers that they pose.
If we don't know how many there are or how devastating they could be then how do you expect to convince people to take steps to do something about it in the future.
Point is we can't get ready to do something about it unless we watch them.
Yeah I thought the same thing when I read his comment. For me running Debian gets me the latest stuff faster than I would from an rpm based distro. Apt is just so darned easy and thorough that I feel very comfortable updating anything and everything on a regular basis. I am not yet that comfortable with other distros. They are probably pretty easy too but I've used Debian much more than any other.
Big time kudos to the Debian developers from this grateful user.
From your comments about playing the game I assume that you are talking about the 0.61 version of the game. If you look at the mailing list archives You will see that the developers have completely redone all of the rendered models, physics, collision detection etc. It's a very different game apparently.
In addition the hacker culture that embodies the Open Source and Free Software movements was around long before Bill Gates whined about people sharing his Basic interpreter without paying him his large fee.
Okay so I agree about the whole continent thing...
*But* Have you ever eaten at one of Roy Yamaguchi's restaurants? Amazing.
He started his first one in Hawaii and has gradually put them all over the United States. The food is spectacular.
http://www.roysrestaurant.com
All those that detect and report security flaws in systems are terrorists because they comunicate these details to the Crackers (accidentally, but what does that have to do with it?).
Bummer...
No this makes a lot of sense. We can't have people listening to these songs. Look what they are about:
Dave Matthews Band "Crash Into Me"
about: Sex
Barenaked Ladies "Falling for the First Time"
about: Falling in love for the first time (Sex)
Billy Joel "Only the Good Die Young"
about: All the crazy, stupid fun things that you do when you are young including but not limited to Sex.
Louis Armstrong "What A Wonderful World"
about: I love this world and I'm gonna sing about it. (Sex is probably in there too.)
Neil Diamond "America"
about: One Really Great Country! Let's all go live in America where we can be free from tyranny, opression and censorship.
Yeah better not have anyone listening to Evil Terrorist provoking garbage like that. People might see what a great world this is and how much they love to make love in America. Stinking Communists.
(Score: -1, Too Much Sex)
If they can't win they are going to stall long enough so that they can get XP released before they are required to make changes to it.
Did you noticed the announcement that MS was moving forward its release date to OEMs? They are probably just going to ship the thing as is to get it out there and then release a service pack or two in January to fix all the stuff that they couldn't fix because they were rushing too fast.
No surprise there
from the article
"For example, at the last Super Bowl, when cameras scanned each fan as they entered the arena, the images were run through an algorithm in the expert system to look for facial matches with known criminals. If the image system found a match, the expert system (using a neural network) queried a knowledge base that attached prior offenses to the matched photos, then sent a digital "package" of information consisting of the photos, suspect id, and prior offenses to a human operator for final analysis and action."
I don't know about you but that is Cool and Scary at the same time.
Cool that computers can be made to do that and Scary that computers can be made to do that.
Thank you for sharing the article. I found it very interesting.
Greg
Until we get some really good flat panel displays I don't think that I'll be getting into e-books. Paper is much easier on the eyes.
And e-books are too expensive. I prefer to get my books from "Half-Priced Books" Great deals all around.
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I disagree. I think that what we need is to help the Ogg Vorbis people with their video codec. Having a Free and free alternative to all of these proprietary and fee-for-use codecs will be a good step. That we won't be breaking the law and we will all have what we want. (Except for all these corporations that want all of our money for nothing. They'll be out of luck.)
Furthering the myth that all Linux users are crooks is a *Bad Thing* (tm).
Cheers
One of my co-workers purchased one of these HP-Mandrake boxes and it's pretty nice.
The support was a little bit rusty back when he bought it but I helped get it all going nicely.
I'm sure that they've gotten some more of the kinks worked out. It's progress.
So...let me get this straight. You can use a more user friendly installer and then apt-get your way to Debian testing or unstable? That sounds really great to me.
I love running Debian, I've got it on my desktop and two laptops, but it is sometimes hard to install.
Good Luck Libranet, I would like a little easier install.
This one kills me. From Craig Mundie:
"Many people today are still reluctant to trust computers with their personal information, such as financial and medical records, and few people would knowingly entrust their lives to them"
Every time you fly on a plane your life is in the 'hands' of computers. Every time someone gets an x-ray or a CT scan or any one of many now normal medical procedures you are entrusting your life and health to computers. Most (if not all) medical and financial records are entrusted to computers.
We do it everyday and the reason we do it is because these devices are designed and built by companies that have earned our trust by building quality products to very strict specifications for safety. These companies have good track records of safety and if they have problems then they are reported.
What Mr. Mundie should have said is:
"Many people today are still reluctant to trust Microsoft with their personal information, such as financial and medical records, and few people would knowingly entrust their lives to Microsoft."
--
Remember that interview that he did with Barbara Walters a couple of years back. She asked him if he would do Han Solo again he said no. Han was too flat a character. She asked him if he would do Indiana Jones again.
He said, "In a New York minute!"
He loves the role. Give it to him. It wouldn't be Indy without him.
Well actually Reuters/Yahoo is reporting here that there never were any talks. ``AOL is not in negotiations with Red Hat.''
Yahoo has this story about the alleged merger.
Apparently an AOL/TimeWarner spokesman said they are not in negotiations.
Ravishly searching for the next big rumor.
Cute idea except for the fact that the story broke on Saturday. So how are these "friends" supposed to sell their stock with the markets closed? Today is the first day that the market has been open since the leak.
So both of your ideas are easily dismissed.
I've migrated all of my old mp3 files to ogg vorbis. Well actually I re-ripped everything and encoded them to ogg. The music is a lot more crisp than it was under mp3.
Granted, Part of that was the more stingy encoding rate that I had used. I let ogg go with the defaults. And it is much better.
And I must admit that I think that there is some cool factor in using something different and Free/Libre. YMMV
Apparently the two implementations are or at least were that mutually exclusive.
I don't have the link (sorry) but there was talk on the kernel mailing list that it would be a big ball of spaghetti to include them both.
So Linus made his choice.
I disagree about the arguing. It would be nice if they were a little more civil about it. But hey, these guys are some of the best in the world at what they do. You know they've all got egos too. And those egos will sometimes cause people to work extra hard to prove the other wrong. That is good for the user. And the fact that a lot of great work happens at a fast pace in spite of the arguing and ego plays is a tribute to the Open Source development strategy.
It's an LDAP client for Linux. It's a nice little program for verifing your configuration. I'm not sure about editing though.
Insightful? What?
You have to start someplace.
If you don't watch them then you can't learn about the dangers that they pose.
If we don't know how many there are or how devastating they could be then how do you expect to convince people to take steps to do something about it in the future.
Point is we can't get ready to do something about it unless we watch them.
Yeah I thought the same thing when I read his comment. For me running Debian gets me the latest stuff faster than I would from an rpm based distro. Apt is just so darned easy and thorough that I feel very comfortable updating anything and everything on a regular basis. I am not yet that comfortable with other distros. They are probably pretty easy too but I've used Debian much more than any other.
Big time kudos to the Debian developers from this grateful user.
Well after all it was his life's work. It was his passion. A passionate man can accomplish great things.
From your comments about playing the game I assume that you are talking about the 0.61 version of the game. If you look at the mailing list archives You will see that the developers have completely redone all of the rendered models, physics, collision detection etc. It's a very different game apparently.
In addition the hacker culture that embodies the Open Source and Free Software movements was around long before Bill Gates whined about people sharing his Basic interpreter without paying him his large fee.
I hate revisionist history.
Okay so I agree about the whole continent thing ...
*But* Have you ever eaten at one of Roy Yamaguchi's restaurants? Amazing.
He started his first one in Hawaii and has gradually put them all over the United States. The food is spectacular.
http://www.roysrestaurant.com
I want all you brilliant gifted *thieving* developers to build me a better P2P network so I can make millions.
Not the way to make friends with developers.
I just think that it is hilarious that ZDNet is using money they get from Microsoft's advertisments to bash them like this.
Go ZDNet!
All those that detect and report security flaws in systems are terrorists because they comunicate these details to the Crackers (accidentally, but what does that have to do with it?).
Bummer...
No this makes a lot of sense. We can't have people listening to these songs. Look what they are about:
Dave Matthews Band "Crash Into Me"
about: Sex
Barenaked Ladies "Falling for the First Time"
about: Falling in love for the first time (Sex)
Billy Joel "Only the Good Die Young"
about: All the crazy, stupid fun things that you do when you are young including but not limited to Sex.
Louis Armstrong "What A Wonderful World"
about: I love this world and I'm gonna sing about it. (Sex is probably in there too.)
Neil Diamond "America"
about: One Really Great Country! Let's all go live in America where we can be free from tyranny, opression and censorship.
Yeah better not have anyone listening to Evil Terrorist provoking garbage like that. People might see what a great world this is and how much they love to make love in America. Stinking Communists.
(Score: -1, Too Much Sex)
If they can't win they are going to stall long enough so that they can get XP released before they are required to make changes to it. Did you noticed the announcement that MS was moving forward its release date to OEMs? They are probably just going to ship the thing as is to get it out there and then release a service pack or two in January to fix all the stuff that they couldn't fix because they were rushing too fast. No surprise there
from the article
"For example, at the last Super Bowl, when cameras scanned each fan as they entered the arena, the images were run through an algorithm in the expert system to look for facial matches with known criminals. If the image system found a match, the expert system (using a neural network) queried a knowledge base that attached prior offenses to the matched photos, then sent a digital "package" of information consisting of the photos, suspect id, and prior offenses to a human operator for final analysis and action."
I don't know about you but that is Cool and Scary at the same time.
Cool that computers can be made to do that and Scary that computers can be made to do that.
Thank you for sharing the article. I found it very interesting.
Greg
Until we get some really good flat panel displays I don't think that I'll be getting into e-books. Paper is much easier on the eyes. And e-books are too expensive. I prefer to get my books from "Half-Priced Books" Great deals all around.