I wish I had the balls to make random baseless claims. Clearly you must have seen the future being a wizard and all...
Well then, you shouldn't have let Microsoft's company nurse cut them off just so you could post here. If you're dishonest enough to shill for Bill, take it a step further and just tell him you're shilling and take the money and stop posting here. It saves you work and save our time. If you're shilling for ideological reasons and not getting compensated then maybe it's time to take up a more socially redeeming hobby than shilling.
Microsoft has using software patents offensively for years. The
suit over FAT and the suit against TomTom are just two examples from this year. A quick trip to Google will show you more from this year and many other years. If not Google, then Cuil.
Am I alone thinking that if this company wins their suit maybe Microsoft would actually rename their search engine to something not as cringeworthy?
You're both alone and wrong. It's just a buggy, ad-ridden front end for the WolframAlpha search engine and serves as a distraction from what Microsoft Activist Icahn and his attack dogs started doing to Yahoo.
After re-branding Live Search as "Bing", to leave the baggage associated with the old name, they also struck a deal so that Bing is a front-end for Wolfram Alpha plus whatever Live Search might have had. So to get those results unmodified, you don't have to go through M$ filter, you can go straight to WolframAlpha skipping the middle man. Not at all difficult.
There are even meta-search engines that can cross-search both Google and Wolfram Alpha for you. For Firefox there is the Goofram add-on which lets you search both at the same time. If you're on Opera, Safari or Chromium, there are also search customization options there, too
Intellectual property is an invention of the rich countries to force the poor countries into an economic model that benefits them. Knowledge has always been power, and the developed countries of the world realize that by locking up their books and restricting the free trade of information and knowledge, they can effectively keep those countries enslaved -- producing real, material goods, in exchange for imaginary ones.
First order of business should be to clear out Redmond. That's where the damage comes from. Microsoft is not a technology problem, it is a personnel problem. Get rid of the staff promoting, signing off on, or boosting Microsoft products (on both sides of the fence) and you kill off 99.9999% percent of existing malware and virtually all vectors for botnets.
Basically the author of FreeNAS is going to start over doing it on Linux, but some other group is taking over the FreeBSD portion of FreeNAS
I was just looking at FreeNAS the other week. It would be absolutely fantastic if FreeNAS started supporting OpenAFS. A lot of sites using NAS are actually distributed around a single city or several cities. A distributed, networked file system would be an advantage for a lot of activities.
Anonymous FTP for download is fine, it's like HTTP. But dropping FTP for upload should be a priority.
Military needs to learn from them, and disguise some military ships as cargo vessels:)
It'd take more than that. The modern pirates tend to know not just which ship is carrying valuable cargo and what it is but also know exactly where it is stowed. You'd have to fake an entire loading terminals' activity at least electronically. It'd be easier to set some Marines on board with particularly valuable cargo.
Loading and load distribution takes into weight and destination, so that containers can be taken off the top, in sequence, while maintaining the balance of the ship. Thousands of containers are routed in what amounts to a packet-switched network of 20- and 40-foot containers. Packing is all done by fairly simple computer programs, which if they are run on Windows are as good a being publicly published for the pirates. Sure it would be possible to bribe someone and get that information, but this is one of the few cases where Windows makes things easier to get.
Don't buy into that bogey man of kiddie snuff. It is being used to get a carte blanche for all kinds of restrictions against democratic principles like freedom of the press, freedom of speech and the right to peaceably assemble. The way it works is simple, a corporate or political interest has its skunk works bombard a service or site with offending material then they run to their co-investors in the media and whine for restrictions. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
Keeping encryption and privacy in the mainstream is a very strong reason to promote Tor and one of the reasons mentioned for creating PGP in Phil Zimmermann's Why I Wrote PGP. Technology cannot police social problems.
Chauchesku, Big Bush & Little Bush, various politburos and national Party committees have a problem with Usenet, Tor or anything else decentralized. Even e-mail and mailing lists, though centralized, seem a little to Free for them.
I don't see request for Tor by default in Ubuntu. What about other distros or other onion routers? That would increase the base. Amnesty or Human Rights Watch or The Democracy Center all have a stake in onion routing. To take the thread in the same direction, but further, the group that backed Bush may have left the top offices in the administration, but it has not entirely left power. And the voting machine problem is not yet solved. Those are still under their sphere of influence.
Phil Zimmermann's Why I Wrote PGP and OpenSSH's SSH FAQ are two works that come to mind first about privacy. Most countries recognize the natural right to peaceable assembly. Do the corporations that now have larger budgets and more political clout than some small countries also those rights? You know the answer. The price of freedom is not just eternal vigilance, the cost also includes acting to proactively resolve threats to that freedom.
Well, what's illegal is deceptive business practices.
If it weren't for illegal and deceptive business practices, they wouldn't have any business practices at all.
They claim to be offering a cash back if you utilize Bing, which implies a discount, where in fact, they are charging a higher price upfront to Bing users and creating a deceptive impression that the cash back is providing a discount of their normal price.
Like any discount programme, they throw barriers to reduce the number of people they have to reimburse. The upside is that if you use the special discount code you get to choose the amount of cash reimbursed.;)
Not really. After re-branding Live Search as "Bing", to leave the baggage associated with the old name, they also struck a deal so that Bing is a front-end for Wolfram Alpha plus whatever Live Search might have had. So to get those results unmodified, you don't have to go through M$ filter, you can go straight to Wolfram Alpha skipping the middle man. Not difficult.
There are even meta-search engines that can cross-search both Google and Wolfram Alpha for you. For Firefox there is the Goofram add-on which lets you search both at the same time. If you're on Opera, Safari or Chromium, there are also search customization options there, too.
The article is a troll or misdirection because the computers you will find online or in the remaining brick-and-mortar shops will not be delivered with Windows XP. If they are infected with Windows at all, they will have either Vista or Vista7. So the article should be about the refund price for Vista or Vista7 not XP.
Or go to the trouble of faking that. It got spotted reasonably quickly and fixed fast enough after it was spotted. That's working more or less as it should What is broken is how did such a misfeature even get in there in the first place?
Wow. Thank goodness those guys "discovered" that allowing non-root users to do dangerous things to the OS/application stack was a bad idea and "agreed" to lock it down. We might have had some serious problems there. (roll eyes)
WTF? How on gawds green earth did this happen in the first place?
The use of the word "controversial" to describe the rollback to the original, more secure settings is bizarre, too. The failure here was the process and the people that must have worked to push through the weird settings that allowed everyone and their dog to install random 'signed' but unconfigured packages. That's something we'd expect from Microsoft employees, trainees, 'engineers' or 'researchers', not Red Hat staff or volunteers.
I notice that mono has shown up in the distro, too. When will managers learn about bringing posers bringing the One Microsoft Way into a project? Microsoft hasn't done much of any technology right during the time it's been around. Is it a wise choice to start letting that way of thinking spread and gut yet another fine distro?
Bill, that's probably the largest single reason to ensure that mono and the other M$ products stay out of Ubuntu. Hard-to-maintain and unreliable are the opposites of easy-to-use.
Also think of Ubuntu as a learning platform and leave room for gradual progression of advancement of skills. Eliminating dead ends like mono ensure that novices that begin dabbling with the computer can over time learn and contribute.
One of the ways of introducing people to alternative software is to install it and have in sitting there on the menu. By removing the GIMP, they're just encouraging people to think that linux is "not ready for serious users."
I agree 100%. And judging from the response from the "monomaniacs" elsewhere on this topic you have identified a very important way of introducing people to FOSS. But one that runs counter to their apparent goals.
Part of the apparent goals of the monomaniacs is to steer any loose strays back into Microsoft lock-in, and ideally wholly back into MS Windows. The specious reasons offered for removal of GIMP look grounded in the idea that Ubuntu must become top-to-bottom Microsoft technology. Microsoft hasn't done much of any technology right during the time it's been around. Is it a wise choice to start letting them gut two fine distros, Ubuntu and Debian, to fill them with expensive, defective sublicensed software?
One confrontational approach might be to take Canonical to the Better Business Bureau for this fraud : it is not allowed to send someone a product, unsolicited, and then ask for payment later. That's what's happening with F-Spot (the M$ competitor to Solang, Digikam), Tomboy (the M$ competitor to Zim, Getting-things-gnome, Knotes and BasKet) or Banshee (the M$ competitor to Amarok, Rhythmbox, Totem and XMMS). Use now, pay later. If you compare the individual applications, you'll also see that the M$ version rather sucks, especially in regards to performance, but even in function and usability. The M$applications aren't built with reliable technologies. The regulars are and use python, c++ or java.
Mono, to name one of the problems, has a paper trail back to Microsoft via Novell and years of payments from Novell to Microsoft for said products. You use Mono with the understanding that it is a sub-licensed product that must be rented. The payment for the right to use it is paid by Novell for the time being. Who may be asked to pay may be up for grabs in the future, but patent law says it is the user and 5 years of receipts say that the payment is not just obligatory but accepted by the community. And standard business practice says that if it has become indispensible, then price is what the market will bear...
The claims of removing Gimp are just smoke and noise to hid the damage the monomaniacs are doing elsewhere in Debian and Ubuntu.
Microsofters always try to present their schemes as a done deal. It's documented in their bag of tricks. The relevant trick is from plaintiff's exhibit 3096 from the court case Comes v Microsoft. Microsoft appeared prepared to ignore the last state, Iowa, indefinitely in the last unresolved class action case for over-charging. Roll down to page 45 and start reading. Or download the song version.
Regardles, Ubuntu 10.4, Lucid Lynx is just starting.
There are several channels through which the mistake can be corrected. One is through brainstorm:
Idea #110: No Mono by default in Ubuntu can use your vote.
The topic of open discourse and freedom of expression is such a fundamental part of democracy that it is written in the constitutions of most countries.
It is. And you can calculate how much you need during a given year and maintain a rotating supply, if you keep in mind that can be 40 to 80 years from sow to harvest in the north. Up to that last 4 years there has been mostly very good management. Now there is more than a little mismanagement and some very inappropriate decisions. e.g. profitable, sustainable mills being closed just as (sustainable and profitable) demand increase.
A nice thing about wood heat is that if you have a traditional stove or oven for the heat, you have always-on cooking facilities. That makes all kinds of stews, roasts, bbq, and crockpots practical. Slow cooked food brings out the best flavor. Fish, some say, should not be baked for less than three hours. Desserts like custard or baked apples no longer are expensive and wasteful, but easy and part of the deal.
Fishing and most hunting is not a practical option because of the heavy over population. If you have your own lake (or share a lake) or have a pond, then managed fishing is very practical. Moose is practical, but it's more of a cull or harvest. Drivers sweep the forest and guide the moose past the snipers. The moose population is tightly managed and probably more exact demographics than the US Census.
A lot of companies would like to censor the net. It's cheaper than programming products that work. Don't give them ammo. It has repercussions for other countries, if not your own. Democracy depends on the ability to make informed decisions and that ability is contingent on open and multi-faceted debate. You can't have that if only One True Way is approved.
You have the right to say your views, no matter how wrong they are, but it stops there when it starts imposing on other people.
"The right to swing your fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841 - 1935)
One of the ways of introducing people to alternative software is to install it and have in sitting there on the menu. By removing the GIMP, they're just encouraging people to think that linux is "not ready for serious users."
I agree 100%. I would also add that part of the apparent goals of the monomaniacs is to steer people back to Microsoft lock-in, and ideally back into MS Windows. The specious reasons offered for removal of GIMP look grounded in the idea that Ubuntu must become top-to-bottom Microsoft technology.
Microsoft hasn't done much of any technology right during the time it's been around. I don't see that it is a wise choice to start letting them gut two fine distros, Ubuntu and Debian, to fill them with expensive, defective sublicensed software.
One approach might be to take Canonical to the Better Business Bureau for this fraud : it is not allowed to send someone a product, unsolicited, and then ask for payment later. That's what's happening with F-Spot (the M$ competitor to Solang, Digikam), Tomboy (the M$ competitor to Zim, Getting-things-gnome, Knotes and BasKet) or Banshee (the M$ competitor to Amarok, Rhythmbox, Totem and XMMS). Use now, pay later. If you compare the individual applications, you'll also see that the M$ version rather sucks, especially in regards to performance, but even in function and usability. The M$applications aren't built with reliable technologies. The regulars are and use python, c++ or java.
Mono, to name one of the problems, has a paper trail back to Microsoft via Novell and years of payments from Novell to Microsoft for said products. You use Mono with the understanding that it is a sub-licensed product that must be rented. The payment for the right to use it is paid by Novell for the time being. Who may be asked to pay may be up for grabs in the future, but patent law says it is the user and 5 years of receipts say that the payment is not just obligatory but accepted by the community. And standard business practice says that if it has become indispensible, then price is what the market will bear...
Lucid is not out yet, so there is time to undo the damage done by the monomaniacs.
You might want to lift up a comment that was posted anonymously. There's a lot that gets posted, anonymously. Some of it good, but almost none of it breaks the 1+ threshold because of starting at 0 and for other reasons.
The bad engineering is a legitimate question. Bill Gates and his helpers have made computers synonymous with unreliable. Sam looks like he is working to bring that to Open Source.
I see it as ending up on mobile devices and maybe netbooks.
I see it ending up on netbooks especially. Eventually it'd be nice to see it installed by default by the OEM. That was a possibility during the first months of netbooks before M$ shut down that option.
However, the work-around, aka the windows refund, might not be as financially bad as it sounds. It used to be profitable to buy a car or other expensive item in a high-tax country and then fill out the import papers to have it brought home and pay the tax at home. The reason was because the vendor had to cut down on the base price to leave room for the tax and still have it within reach of enough of the market.
Same deal with the Windows refund. The manufacturers have to keep the overall price down to cover the cost of Windows. Take that off and the discount is noticeable. The downside is that it takes a little patience and a little record keeping to plod through the process. However, all retailers have a refund process, especially during the holiday season.
It's like Fluxbox in terms of resource use (and unfortunately on flashy little GUI indicators) but looks amazing!
Kudos on this! Let's get windows management handled! It's been so many years of updates on something that should have been handled by now!
I've been using Compiz on my desktop the last few months, and the jury is still out. On the netbook, I went all the way back to FVWM just for the speed. The crystal theme is not bad and even the basic FVWM can be pimped out, within limits. I used Enlightenment for years, so this is great news. It is time to take a look at it again.
The review is well timed. The book was from the beginning of the year, but since then the US Whitehouse has gone back to FOSS on its web site. It's
using drupal. It's good to see more discussion of these tools. Everyone has heard of Drupal and plone and respect the capabilities. They are the heavy hitters like Apache2 for httpd.
What new FOSS CMS tools are corresponding to Lighttpd and nginx, ready and useful but not as visible as they could be?
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"in order to use patents as weapons."
I wish I had the balls to make random baseless claims. Clearly you must have seen the future being a wizard and all...
Well then, you shouldn't have let Microsoft's company nurse cut them off just so you could post here. If you're dishonest enough to shill for Bill, take it a step further and just tell him you're shilling and take the money and stop posting here. It saves you work and save our time. If you're shilling for ideological reasons and not getting compensated then maybe it's time to take up a more socially redeeming hobby than shilling.
Microsoft has using software patents offensively for years. The suit over FAT and the suit against TomTom are just two examples from this year. A quick trip to Google will show you more from this year and many other years. If not Google, then Cuil.
Why run flash at all? Try patronizing sites that support better video technology and maybe even open standards.
Am I alone thinking that if this company wins their suit maybe Microsoft would actually rename their search engine to something not as cringeworthy?
You're both alone and wrong. It's just a buggy, ad-ridden front end for the WolframAlpha search engine and serves as a distraction from what Microsoft Activist Icahn and his attack dogs started doing to Yahoo.
After re-branding Live Search as "Bing", to leave the baggage associated with the old name, they also struck a deal so that Bing is a front-end for Wolfram Alpha plus whatever Live Search might have had. So to get those results unmodified, you don't have to go through M$ filter, you can go straight to WolframAlpha skipping the middle man. Not at all difficult.
There are even meta-search engines that can cross-search both Google and Wolfram Alpha for you. For Firefox there is the Goofram add-on which lets you search both at the same time. If you're on Opera, Safari or Chromium, there are also search customization options there, too
Intellectual property is an invention of the rich countries to force the poor countries into an economic model that benefits them. Knowledge has always been power, and the developed countries of the world realize that by locking up their books and restricting the free trade of information and knowledge, they can effectively keep those countries enslaved -- producing real, material goods, in exchange for imaginary ones.
digital sharecropping. nuff sed.
First order of business should be to clear out Redmond. That's where the damage comes from. Microsoft is not a technology problem, it is a personnel problem. Get rid of the staff promoting, signing off on, or boosting Microsoft products (on both sides of the fence) and you kill off 99.9999% percent of existing malware and virtually all vectors for botnets.
The economy could use a $ 10 000 000 000 USD boost about now right? Of course. Get rid of Conficker and the others. The savings for the first year will be more than that.
Basically the author of FreeNAS is going to start over doing it on Linux, but some other group is taking over the FreeBSD portion of FreeNAS
I was just looking at FreeNAS the other week. It would be absolutely fantastic if FreeNAS started supporting OpenAFS. A lot of sites using NAS are actually distributed around a single city or several cities. A distributed, networked file system would be an advantage for a lot of activities.
Anonymous FTP for download is fine, it's like HTTP. But dropping FTP for upload should be a priority.
Re-doing FreeNAS is exciting news.
Military needs to learn from them, and disguise some military ships as cargo vessels :)
It'd take more than that. The modern pirates tend to know not just which ship is carrying valuable cargo and what it is but also know exactly where it is stowed. You'd have to fake an entire loading terminals' activity at least electronically. It'd be easier to set some Marines on board with particularly valuable cargo.
Loading and load distribution takes into weight and destination, so that containers can be taken off the top, in sequence, while maintaining the balance of the ship. Thousands of containers are routed in what amounts to a packet-switched network of 20- and 40-foot containers. Packing is all done by fairly simple computer programs, which if they are run on Windows are as good a being publicly published for the pirates. Sure it would be possible to bribe someone and get that information, but this is one of the few cases where Windows makes things easier to get.
Don't buy into that bogey man of kiddie snuff. It is being used to get a carte blanche for all kinds of restrictions against democratic principles like freedom of the press, freedom of speech and the right to peaceably assemble. The way it works is simple, a corporate or political interest has its skunk works bombard a service or site with offending material then they run to their co-investors in the media and whine for restrictions. Lather, Rinse, Repeat.
Keeping encryption and privacy in the mainstream is a very strong reason to promote Tor and one of the reasons mentioned for creating PGP in Phil Zimmermann's Why I Wrote PGP. Technology cannot police social problems.
Chauchesku, Big Bush & Little Bush, various politburos and national Party committees have a problem with Usenet, Tor or anything else decentralized. Even e-mail and mailing lists, though centralized, seem a little to Free for them.
I don't see request for Tor by default in Ubuntu. What about other distros or other onion routers? That would increase the base. Amnesty or Human Rights Watch or The Democracy Center all have a stake in onion routing. To take the thread in the same direction, but further, the group that backed Bush may have left the top offices in the administration, but it has not entirely left power. And the voting machine problem is not yet solved. Those are still under their sphere of influence.
Phil Zimmermann's Why I Wrote PGP and OpenSSH's SSH FAQ are two works that come to mind first about privacy. Most countries recognize the natural right to peaceable assembly. Do the corporations that now have larger budgets and more political clout than some small countries also those rights? You know the answer. The price of freedom is not just eternal vigilance, the cost also includes acting to proactively resolve threats to that freedom.
Well, what's illegal is deceptive business practices.
If it weren't for illegal and deceptive business practices, they wouldn't have any business practices at all.
They claim to be offering a cash back if you utilize Bing, which implies a discount, where in fact, they are charging a higher price upfront to Bing users and creating a deceptive impression that the cash back is providing a discount of their normal price.
Like any discount programme, they throw barriers to reduce the number of people they have to reimburse. The upside is that if you use the special discount code you get to choose the amount of cash reimbursed. ;)
After the search is where it gets better.
Not really. After re-branding Live Search as "Bing", to leave the baggage associated with the old name, they also struck a deal so that Bing is a front-end for Wolfram Alpha plus whatever Live Search might have had. So to get those results unmodified, you don't have to go through M$ filter, you can go straight to Wolfram Alpha skipping the middle man. Not difficult.
There are even meta-search engines that can cross-search both Google and Wolfram Alpha for you. For Firefox there is the Goofram add-on which lets you search both at the same time. If you're on Opera, Safari or Chromium, there are also search customization options there, too.
The article is a troll or misdirection because the computers you will find online or in the remaining brick-and-mortar shops will not be delivered with Windows XP. If they are infected with Windows at all, they will have either Vista or Vista7. So the article should be about the refund price for Vista or Vista7 not XP.
You basically had to be logged into the console.
Or go to the trouble of faking that. It got spotted reasonably quickly and fixed fast enough after it was spotted. That's working more or less as it should What is broken is how did such a misfeature even get in there in the first place?
Wow. Thank goodness those guys "discovered" that allowing non-root users to do dangerous things to the OS/application stack was a bad idea and "agreed" to lock it down. We might have had some serious problems there. (roll eyes) WTF? How on gawds green earth did this happen in the first place?
The use of the word "controversial" to describe the rollback to the original, more secure settings is bizarre, too. The failure here was the process and the people that must have worked to push through the weird settings that allowed everyone and their dog to install random 'signed' but unconfigured packages. That's something we'd expect from Microsoft employees, trainees, 'engineers' or 'researchers', not Red Hat staff or volunteers.
I notice that mono has shown up in the distro, too. When will managers learn about bringing posers bringing the One Microsoft Way into a project? Microsoft hasn't done much of any technology right during the time it's been around. Is it a wise choice to start letting that way of thinking spread and gut yet another fine distro?
Bill, that's probably the largest single reason to ensure that mono and the other M$ products stay out of Ubuntu. Hard-to-maintain and unreliable are the opposites of easy-to-use.
Also think of Ubuntu as a learning platform and leave room for gradual progression of advancement of skills. Eliminating dead ends like mono ensure that novices that begin dabbling with the computer can over time learn and contribute.
One of the ways of introducing people to alternative software is to install it and have in sitting there on the menu. By removing the GIMP, they're just encouraging people to think that linux is "not ready for serious users."
I agree 100%. And judging from the response from the "monomaniacs" elsewhere on this topic you have identified a very important way of introducing people to FOSS. But one that runs counter to their apparent goals.
Part of the apparent goals of the monomaniacs is to steer any loose strays back into Microsoft lock-in, and ideally wholly back into MS Windows. The specious reasons offered for removal of GIMP look grounded in the idea that Ubuntu must become top-to-bottom Microsoft technology. Microsoft hasn't done much of any technology right during the time it's been around. Is it a wise choice to start letting them gut two fine distros, Ubuntu and Debian, to fill them with expensive, defective sublicensed software?
One confrontational approach might be to take Canonical to the Better Business Bureau for this fraud : it is not allowed to send someone a product, unsolicited, and then ask for payment later. That's what's happening with F-Spot (the M$ competitor to Solang, Digikam), Tomboy (the M$ competitor to Zim, Getting-things-gnome, Knotes and BasKet) or Banshee (the M$ competitor to Amarok, Rhythmbox, Totem and XMMS). Use now, pay later. If you compare the individual applications, you'll also see that the M$ version rather sucks, especially in regards to performance, but even in function and usability. The M$applications aren't built with reliable technologies. The regulars are and use python, c++ or java.
Mono, to name one of the problems, has a paper trail back to Microsoft via Novell and years of payments from Novell to Microsoft for said products. You use Mono with the understanding that it is a sub-licensed product that must be rented. The payment for the right to use it is paid by Novell for the time being. Who may be asked to pay may be up for grabs in the future, but patent law says it is the user and 5 years of receipts say that the payment is not just obligatory but accepted by the community. And standard business practice says that if it has become indispensible, then price is what the market will bear...
Lucid is not out yet, so there is time to undo or head off the damage done by the "monomaniacs"
The claims of removing Gimp are just smoke and noise to hid the damage the monomaniacs are doing elsewhere in Debian and Ubuntu.
Microsofters always try to present their schemes as a done deal. It's documented in their bag of tricks. The relevant trick is from plaintiff's exhibit 3096 from the court case Comes v Microsoft. Microsoft appeared prepared to ignore the last state, Iowa, indefinitely in the last unresolved class action case for over-charging. Roll down to page 45 and start reading. Or download the song version.
Regardles, Ubuntu 10.4, Lucid Lynx is just starting. There are several channels through which the mistake can be corrected. One is through brainstorm: Idea #110: No Mono by default in Ubuntu can use your vote.
The topic of open discourse and freedom of expression is such a fundamental part of democracy that it is written in the constitutions of most countries.
So while we're at it, fuck off.
I consider firewood to be "stored solar"
It is. And you can calculate how much you need during a given year and maintain a rotating supply, if you keep in mind that can be 40 to 80 years from sow to harvest in the north. Up to that last 4 years there has been mostly very good management. Now there is more than a little mismanagement and some very inappropriate decisions. e.g. profitable, sustainable mills being closed just as (sustainable and profitable) demand increase.
A nice thing about wood heat is that if you have a traditional stove or oven for the heat, you have always-on cooking facilities. That makes all kinds of stews, roasts, bbq, and crockpots practical. Slow cooked food brings out the best flavor. Fish, some say, should not be baked for less than three hours. Desserts like custard or baked apples no longer are expensive and wasteful, but easy and part of the deal.
Fishing and most hunting is not a practical option because of the heavy over population. If you have your own lake (or share a lake) or have a pond, then managed fishing is very practical. Moose is practical, but it's more of a cull or harvest. Drivers sweep the forest and guide the moose past the snipers. The moose population is tightly managed and probably more exact demographics than the US Census.
don't vent on the net. Save it for the local pub, or the diary you keep under your pillow.
Fuck you and take your anti-democracy attitude with you when you leave. You don't belong on the net. Get out.
Most countries have codified the right to religion and expression. Not just for the ones you, Robot, agree with, but the right for everybody.
A lot of companies would like to censor the net. It's cheaper than programming products that work. Don't give them ammo. It has repercussions for other countries, if not your own. Democracy depends on the ability to make informed decisions and that ability is contingent on open and multi-faceted debate. You can't have that if only One True Way is approved.
You have the right to say your views, no matter how wrong they are, but it stops there when it starts imposing on other people.
"The right to swing your fist ends where the other man's nose begins."-- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841 - 1935)
One of the ways of introducing people to alternative software is to install it and have in sitting there on the menu. By removing the GIMP, they're just encouraging people to think that linux is "not ready for serious users."
I agree 100%. I would also add that part of the apparent goals of the monomaniacs is to steer people back to Microsoft lock-in, and ideally back into MS Windows. The specious reasons offered for removal of GIMP look grounded in the idea that Ubuntu must become top-to-bottom Microsoft technology. Microsoft hasn't done much of any technology right during the time it's been around. I don't see that it is a wise choice to start letting them gut two fine distros, Ubuntu and Debian, to fill them with expensive, defective sublicensed software.
One approach might be to take Canonical to the Better Business Bureau for this fraud : it is not allowed to send someone a product, unsolicited, and then ask for payment later. That's what's happening with F-Spot (the M$ competitor to Solang, Digikam), Tomboy (the M$ competitor to Zim, Getting-things-gnome, Knotes and BasKet) or Banshee (the M$ competitor to Amarok, Rhythmbox, Totem and XMMS). Use now, pay later. If you compare the individual applications, you'll also see that the M$ version rather sucks, especially in regards to performance, but even in function and usability. The M$applications aren't built with reliable technologies. The regulars are and use python, c++ or java.
Mono, to name one of the problems, has a paper trail back to Microsoft via Novell and years of payments from Novell to Microsoft for said products. You use Mono with the understanding that it is a sub-licensed product that must be rented. The payment for the right to use it is paid by Novell for the time being. Who may be asked to pay may be up for grabs in the future, but patent law says it is the user and 5 years of receipts say that the payment is not just obligatory but accepted by the community. And standard business practice says that if it has become indispensible, then price is what the market will bear...
Lucid is not out yet, so there is time to undo the damage done by the monomaniacs.
You might want to lift up a comment that was posted anonymously. There's a lot that gets posted, anonymously. Some of it good, but almost none of it breaks the 1+ threshold because of starting at 0 and for other reasons.
The bad engineering is a legitimate question. Bill Gates and his helpers have made computers synonymous with unreliable. Sam looks like he is working to bring that to Open Source.
I see it as ending up on mobile devices and maybe netbooks.
I see it ending up on netbooks especially. Eventually it'd be nice to see it installed by default by the OEM. That was a possibility during the first months of netbooks before M$ shut down that option.
However, the work-around, aka the windows refund, might not be as financially bad as it sounds. It used to be profitable to buy a car or other expensive item in a high-tax country and then fill out the import papers to have it brought home and pay the tax at home. The reason was because the vendor had to cut down on the base price to leave room for the tax and still have it within reach of enough of the market.
Same deal with the Windows refund. The manufacturers have to keep the overall price down to cover the cost of Windows. Take that off and the discount is noticeable. The downside is that it takes a little patience and a little record keeping to plod through the process. However, all retailers have a refund process, especially during the holiday season.
Just a few for ideas. It varies from country to country, of course:
http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/59381
http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/07/29/amazons-windows-refund-helps-the-earth/
http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/59381
Samsung is awesome, so is enlightenment.
It's like Fluxbox in terms of resource use (and unfortunately on flashy little GUI indicators) but looks amazing!
Kudos on this! Let's get windows management handled! It's been so many years of updates on something that should have been handled by now!
I've been using Compiz on my desktop the last few months, and the jury is still out. On the netbook, I went all the way back to FVWM just for the speed. The crystal theme is not bad and even the basic FVWM can be pimped out, within limits. I used Enlightenment for years, so this is great news. It is time to take a look at it again.
The review is well timed. The book was from the beginning of the year, but since then the US Whitehouse has gone back to FOSS on its web site. It's using drupal. It's good to see more discussion of these tools. Everyone has heard of Drupal and plone and respect the capabilities. They are the heavy hitters like Apache2 for httpd.
What new FOSS CMS tools are corresponding to Lighttpd and nginx, ready and useful but not as visible as they could be?