Yeah, but what's the likelihood that a civilization would become that advanced? It's much more likely that they would have built a board with a nail in it so big that it destroyed them all.
and before all tha "You don't get laid- Hah HAhahaA! I'm so original posts" to that I say...ANATOMICALLY CORRECT PLEASE!...Yoeman RAND! Position seven!
What made you think that would spare you from those posts? If anything it demonstrates just how much you need to get laid.
Sorry, but the current season of Farscape is only about half-over, which means that the other half of the season has yet to air. Sci-Fi aired a promo at the time of the last episode saying that new episodes would return in January. Until there's a press-release saying otherwise, consider it still cancelled.
These elite geeks put down users of publicly available commercial software that doesn't require broadband or other high-end technology to acquire and use.
Not true. The OOSEM (Official Open Source Elitism Manual) fully sanctions the use of such publicly available commercial software as Solaris and MacOS X.
Ummm, not only were there no cameras, there was no lock, the doors were open, and the report was sitting on the counter face down.
There can be no expectation of security when you put something confidential on a public server, and you can't scream foul play if someone using your server for its intended purpose finds it.
RH and Gentoo are the only distros I've tried recently that had decent looking fonts. Mandrake 9's looked awful. And supermount, while promising, seemed quite flaky. RH mounts and reads CD's on insert, but I still have to right-click on the desktop and choose to dismount (although, doing this automatically eject's the CD as well). Still, that's preferable to suddenly not being able to browse a CD or read files, or have an installation fail because it suddenly couldn't get to files on the CD, all because of supermount.
Of course this sort of thing is all relative anyway.
That's because Apple's campaign featured actual people, while Microsoft's "writer" is clearly an composite photograph tacked on to a marketing-department-written spiel.
No. UnitedLinux is not a merger (be silly timing for Caldera to change its name to SCO if it was going to merge and become part of a company called UnitedLinux). All four member companies will continue to release their respective distros. From the UnitedLinux FAQ:
UnitedLinux is a standards-based, worldwide Linux solution targeted at the business user and developed by The SCO Group, Conectiva, SuSE, and Turbolinux. Designed to be an enterprise-class, industry-standard Linux operating system, UL provides a single stable, uniform platform for application development, certification, and deployment and allows Linux vendors, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), and Independent Hardware Vendors (IHVs) to support a single high value Linux offering rather than many different versions.
In other words, UL will become a reference for each member company to base their distros on as well as a reference and certification platform for developers and hardware vendors so they can guarantee their hardware/software works on any UL-based distro.
I have read it, and I have one thing to say: Prove it. And linking to mosfet is not proof. Neither you nor he has provided a single concrete example of a KDE library or app not working in RH 8. My guess is you haven't even tried RH, and are relying on Mosfet's claims (who is, by the way, relying on the claims of others - he apparently hasn't tried RH either).
Please do your homework.
I really hope that UnitedLinux will gain ground.
So do I. UnitedLinux is a group of Linux distributors that have chosen to work together to advance the LSB. All distributors are open to join, including Mandrake and Red Hat. Will you still support UnitedLinux if Red Hat joins them?
'While I agree that this is really a bit of a scam, it is a way for us to pay salaries while not adversely affecting our users.'
I want to hear these companies explain, without the bullshit press release lingo, how this is anything but a scam. I want to know the bit that isn't the scam, because, that developer's statement to the contrary, I see nothing legitimate about this.
We have something similar in a park near my place. It sticks out like a sore thumb despite it's pine tree disguise because it's a lot taller than the actual trees around it, and it's perfectly straight, with two sets of branches ringing the top.
Well, think about it, it'll probably boost egyptian tourism by solving a mini-mystery. That tourism took a big blow after 9/11.
Very likely. I remember seeing a story about how representatives of Egypt were ramping up a big tourism campaign in this country, precisely because their tourist industry wound up on the rocks after 9/11. I also heard a story this morning about the new library in Alexandria, which they hope will give them a boost.
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And when you do make a breakthrough, I'm sure there's a lot of blood and stitches involved!
Yeah, but what's the likelihood that a civilization would become that advanced? It's much more likely that they would have built a board with a nail in it so big that it destroyed them all.
That board meeting must have gone something like this:
#1 "How can we better market our Linux distribution?"
#2 "I know! Let's launch the distribution, wait a couple of months, then beat the shit out of our competitors!"
#1 "I'm not sure that's a good idea..."
#2 "Why not? It worked for Microsoft!"
Cool! I managed to bash SCO and Microsoft in one irrational, ill-informed rant!
"How can we better market our Linux distribution? Anyone have any ideas?"
"I know! Let's launch the distribution, wait a couple of months, and then beat the crap out of most of our prospective customers!"
Assuming any of this is true of course.
Perhaps, but your argument is still a straw-man attack.
For example, Microsoft is forced to include Sun's Java.
You mean they were forced to abide by their licensing agreement? I am shocked - SHOCKED!
and before all tha "You don't get laid- Hah HAhahaA! I'm so original posts" to that I say...ANATOMICALLY CORRECT PLEASE!...Yoeman RAND! Position seven!
What made you think that would spare you from those posts? If anything it demonstrates just how much you need to get laid.
Sorry, but the current season of Farscape is only about half-over, which means that the other half of the season has yet to air. Sci-Fi aired a promo at the time of the last episode saying that new episodes would return in January. Until there's a press-release saying otherwise, consider it still cancelled.
Konqueror looks scary to new users, atleast to some extent.
Based on your scientific double-blind controlled study of, what, three people?
to dump in the landfills.
These elite geeks put down users of publicly available commercial software that doesn't require broadband or other high-end technology to acquire and use.
Not true. The OOSEM (Official Open Source Elitism Manual) fully sanctions the use of such publicly available commercial software as Solaris and MacOS X.
Ummm, not only were there no cameras, there was no lock, the doors were open, and the report was sitting on the counter face down.
There can be no expectation of security when you put something confidential on a public server, and you can't scream foul play if someone using your server for its intended purpose finds it.
Ever hear of JFS? How 'bout Eclipse?
RH and Gentoo are the only distros I've tried recently that had decent looking fonts. Mandrake 9's looked awful. And supermount, while promising, seemed quite flaky. RH mounts and reads CD's on insert, but I still have to right-click on the desktop and choose to dismount (although, doing this automatically eject's the CD as well). Still, that's preferable to suddenly not being able to browse a CD or read files, or have an installation fail because it suddenly couldn't get to files on the CD, all because of supermount.
Of course this sort of thing is all relative anyway.
That's because Apple's campaign featured actual people, while Microsoft's "writer" is clearly an composite photograph tacked on to a marketing-department-written spiel.
Because the greatest threat to a free society happens to be....grocery discount cards!
No. UnitedLinux is not a merger (be silly timing for Caldera to change its name to SCO if it was going to merge and become part of a company called UnitedLinux). All four member companies will continue to release their respective distros. From the UnitedLinux FAQ:
UnitedLinux is a standards-based, worldwide Linux solution targeted at the business user and developed by The SCO Group, Conectiva, SuSE, and Turbolinux. Designed to be an enterprise-class, industry-standard Linux operating system, UL provides a single stable, uniform platform for application development, certification, and deployment and allows Linux vendors, Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), and Independent Hardware Vendors (IHVs) to support a single high value Linux offering rather than many different versions.
In other words, UL will become a reference for each member company to base their distros on as well as a reference and certification platform for developers and hardware vendors so they can guarantee their hardware/software works on any UL-based distro.
I have read it, and I have one thing to say: Prove it. And linking to mosfet is not proof. Neither you nor he has provided a single concrete example of a KDE library or app not working in RH 8. My guess is you haven't even tried RH, and are relying on Mosfet's claims (who is, by the way, relying on the claims of others - he apparently hasn't tried RH either).
Please do your homework.
I really hope that UnitedLinux will gain ground.
So do I. UnitedLinux is a group of Linux distributors that have chosen to work together to advance the LSB. All distributors are open to join, including Mandrake and Red Hat. Will you still support UnitedLinux if Red Hat joins them?
'While I agree that this is really a bit of a scam, it is a way for us to pay salaries while not adversely affecting our users.'
I want to hear these companies explain, without the bullshit press release lingo, how this is anything but a scam. I want to know the bit that isn't the scam, because, that developer's statement to the contrary, I see nothing legitimate about this.
That brings up an interesting question: would Slashdotting a terrorist group's server be considered a patriotic act?
If they had cited school policy that would be okay. This isn't a school policy, it's the law. That's why it's not OK.
Gotta love that 1st Amendment. Now, where'd that thing go anyway?
If it does actually happen this way, there will be revolution, trust me.
How would that work? Would the rallying cry be "Liberte! Fraternite! TV Tray!"?
We have something similar in a park near my place. It sticks out like a sore thumb despite it's pine tree disguise because it's a lot taller than the actual trees around it, and it's perfectly straight, with two sets of branches ringing the top.
Why NOW ?
Well, think about it, it'll probably boost egyptian tourism by solving a mini-mystery. That tourism took a big blow after 9/11.
Very likely. I remember seeing a story about how representatives of Egypt were ramping up a big tourism campaign in this country, precisely because their tourist industry wound up on the rocks after 9/11. I also heard a story this morning about the new library in Alexandria, which they hope will give them a boost.