Presumably you've been to Cuba so you know that those things are true objectively, and not learned through the US media? Or are you an American, who is forbidden upon penalty of law, to visit Cuba to find out for yourself?
Advocating public ownership of a shared resource does make you a socialist, and that is in no way a bad thing. It is extremely naive to think that society can exist indefinitely without any concern for the impact of private ownership of a shared resource.
I don't know if thats what Google uses... I saw a california plated dodge neon out here in vancouver the other day with the actual google logo and a tripod mounted camera on the roof.
You should have known it was a sham the first time they refused to reveal actual evidence to back up their claims. If Linux really does violate anyone's copyright, it would be trivially easy to prove where it came from and when.
I too respect and appreciate the apology, but it doesn't fix the fairly significant credibility problem that Lyons and Forbes have as a result of his part articles.
There were more "offensive" things about muslims (and rednecks) in the first couple of minutes of the first episode of "Little Mosque on the Prairie" that this particular cartoon.
One unintentially hilarious thing that happened after the airing were the people expressing outrage at how non-muslims were depicted as dumb rednecks. Good stuff.
A one watt processor surely aims at the mobile/embedded market. Backward compatibility is not an issue there.
Not quite. DOS is used quite heavily in embedded systems still, and it only runs on x86. I've done projects where we had to port DOS software over to Linux specifically to take advantage of the lower power ARM boards. With this chip (assuming it is available in quantity and in the right form factors) many companies can continue to use DOS and still save energy.
And how much does anyone, including the Apple reps who went to inspect the place, really see? They admit at the beginning of the article that many parts of the plant are off-limits and protected by a 1000 member strong security force. For a company headed by a man who says he idolizes Genghis Khan you would have expected a little more research into the ethical practices of the company. Mind you, since this is an article in the Wall Street Journal, I am not surprised they spent more time talking about the guys wealth and his company's income than they did investigating the working conditions or environmental practices in his factories.
How about a cheaper 400Mhz phone for about half the price that runs a fully open source OS that you don't have to use an "unofficial" toolkit to develop applications for?
I do something similar on an el-cheapo 1.4Ghz pentium 4 with 512 mb of ram and an ATA-100 hard drive that I bought refurbished for $199 about 3 years ago. It is a combined MythTV front-end and back-end, as well as an occasional desktop (when no one is already using it for TV).
I've personally been using it as a desktop for years now, and one of the things that KEEPS me on Linux, when using Widows or OS X would be simpler from an application-availability perspective, is its performance (never gets bogged down by disk or network io) and openness.
I could never go back to a situation where some company decides for me ahead of time what I can or cannot do with my data and my hardware. Many people who use Windows or Macs have no qualms about DRM and their reliance on proprietary software, more power to them, but for me it is just the wrong choice.
Of course they are, but politicians never fact-check claims made by powerful corporate lobbyists, which is why these made up numbers worked like a charm.
I own a few IBM shares too, and I would have absolutely no problem with this because the positive benefits of the action (good PR for IBM, potentially brighter kids coming out of that school district who could be hired by IBM some day and contribute to its success, etc) would most likely outweigh the paltry $0.003 per share it would cost.
I've had a mythtv system for a couple of years as well and for it "just works". Plays DVD's, games, and mp3's and of course all the good PVR functionality. Looking at the uptime, I see its up to 80 days now... my record is 140 days. I bet I could correlate my system outages with wind storms (think power outage).
None of my new Linux PC's have floppies and I've never seen this problem. What version of Linux are you running? I believe most versions these days load the floppy driver as a module, so it should not even be loaded. You could try adding "alias floppy off" to your module config file to turn it off completely.
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Presumably you've been to Cuba so you know that those things are true objectively, and not learned through the US media? Or are you an American, who is forbidden upon penalty of law, to visit Cuba to find out for yourself?
Fairly often.
Did you RTFM? It's all there in the link to kernelnewbies.
do you have the intel video and opengl working on your t61?
Advocating public ownership of a shared resource does make you a socialist, and that is in no way a bad thing. It is extremely naive to think that society can exist indefinitely without any concern for the impact of private ownership of a shared resource.
I don't know if thats what Google uses... I saw a california plated dodge neon out here in vancouver the other day with the actual google logo and a tripod mounted camera on the roof.
Zunior.com sell's FLAC's for $2 (CDN) extra.
that should read: "past articles".
:)
See, you can fix a mistake without waiting a few years!
You should have known it was a sham the first time they refused to reveal actual evidence to back up their claims. If Linux really does violate anyone's copyright, it would be trivially easy to prove where it came from and when.
I too respect and appreciate the apology, but it doesn't fix the fairly significant credibility problem that Lyons and Forbes have as a result of his part articles.
I think the moral of the story is that Forbes magazine is a dumb place to get stock tips. The capitalist tool needs to get a tune up.
How is that ironic?
There were more "offensive" things about muslims (and rednecks) in the first couple of minutes of the first episode of "Little Mosque on the Prairie" that this particular cartoon.
One unintentially hilarious thing that happened after the airing were the people expressing outrage at how non-muslims were depicted as dumb rednecks. Good stuff.
Not quite. DOS is used quite heavily in embedded systems still, and it only runs on x86. I've done projects where we had to port DOS software over to Linux specifically to take advantage of the lower power ARM boards. With this chip (assuming it is available in quantity and in the right form factors) many companies can continue to use DOS and still save energy.
And how much does anyone, including the Apple reps who went to inspect the place, really see? They admit at the beginning of the article that many parts of the plant are off-limits and protected by a 1000 member strong security force. For a company headed by a man who says he idolizes Genghis Khan you would have expected a little more research into the ethical practices of the company. Mind you, since this is an article in the Wall Street Journal, I am not surprised they spent more time talking about the guys wealth and his company's income than they did investigating the working conditions or environmental practices in his factories.
I'm with you. I'm more than willing to give these guys a chance. I would hate to have to lose my beloved MythTV listings!
How about a cheaper 400Mhz phone for about half the price that runs a fully open source OS that you don't have to use an "unofficial" toolkit to develop applications for?
http://www.openmoko.org/
I do something similar on an el-cheapo 1.4Ghz pentium 4 with 512 mb of ram and an ATA-100 hard drive that I bought refurbished for $199 about 3 years ago. It is a combined MythTV front-end and back-end, as well as an occasional desktop (when no one is already using it for TV).
I could never go back to a situation where some company decides for me ahead of time what I can or cannot do with my data and my hardware. Many people who use Windows or Macs have no qualms about DRM and their reliance on proprietary software, more power to them, but for me it is just the wrong choice.
Who wins if it plays God?
Huh?
For years now, every version of Linux I've used (Gentoo, Fedora, Ubuntu) has had a native GUI administration tool for the printer settings.
Of course they are, but politicians never fact-check claims made by powerful corporate lobbyists, which is why these made up numbers worked like a charm.
I own a few IBM shares too, and I would have absolutely no problem with this because the positive benefits of the action (good PR for IBM, potentially brighter kids coming out of that school district who could be hired by IBM some day and contribute to its success, etc) would most likely outweigh the paltry $0.003 per share it would cost.
I've had a mythtv system for a couple of years as well and for it "just works". Plays DVD's, games, and mp3's and of course all the good PVR functionality. Looking at the uptime, I see its up to 80 days now... my record is 140 days. I bet I could correlate my system outages with wind storms (think power outage).
None of my new Linux PC's have floppies and I've never seen this problem. What version of Linux are you running? I believe most versions these days load the floppy driver as a module, so it should not even be loaded. You could try adding "alias floppy off" to your module config file to turn it off completely.