And he slips in a claim that the Bill and Melinda Gates charity foundation doesn't really help the poor; it just pretends to while actually subjecting them to greater harm.
And how does Richard Stallman help the poor outside of the FSF work? I guess all the ranting he does on his website about harry potter books, cell phones, lets boycott "everything" and removing passwords from their WiFi hubs will help out poor people.
I can never understand why people call this guy an activist, the activists I know actually do something about things they feel strongly about rather than talk about it or get others to do it for them; which from what his web site seems to promote.
So putting aside the software stuff what has this guy even done that is meaningful? I mean if he is going to attack the Gates' on things they do outside of MS time for him to fess up to what he as done for humanity outside of the FSF.
Maybe not at the mercy of a company, but a team of core developers that don't want to do it any more. Now tell me which is worse?
And don't try and throw the "oh we can do it ourselves crap". The issue here is maybe the casual developer has contributed are you saying that this casual developer now has to work on it full time so the project can move forward?
Not likely to happen.
One of the problems facing OSS is the people who move it forward are the ones who live, breath and feel passionately about the project (99% of the time the core developers), take away those people away and the project usually dies no matter how popular it is.
Maybe instead of worrying about the next generation of GPU's they should be more concerned with fixing their shitty driver support for Vista. I have a laptop that came with Vista but the driver support is so useless and buggy I had to downgrade to XP. The control panel options under XP vs. Vista are night and day.
Because of all the problems I have had with it I doubt I will ever buy another laptop/motherboard with a nVidia product on it.
It's hard to come up with the latest and greatest when nobody will buy your products... Dumbass...
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You also forgot this venture, the Xilleon(TM) Panel Processors. With the advent of digital only TV brodcasts (US) in 2009 there is a huge market for these kinds of processors to make TV's display HD content perfectly on flat panel displays. I would estimate that this market is even bigger than the PC market.
Ahh no it's the kiss ass sales people who fill the clients head full of eye candy from other sites.
"Oh look your competitor has all these cool gradient images, border images and flash up the ass, how cool would it be to have something like that in your site".
Maybe he will try and launch WebRouser (again), watch it fail miserably (again) and decide that Firefox is actually worth going after when he runs out of M$ money.
More than 60% of the projects listed in that blog are not being maintained, some have not since 2002. It makes me wonder if the blogger just copied the list from some other blog and has called it his/her own just to get some traffic.
It's simple; pirated versions of the OS have annoying popup adverts for Viagra every so often. It's either going to make you run another OS or pay up, it's brilliant I tell you....
The press conference ended with Reggie Fils-Aimee revealing Nintendo's goal to make videogaming one of the pre-eminent forms of entertainment, across all age groups I call bull-shit on this remark. If they actually mean across all age groups then why can't I as an over thirty gamer play Manhunt2 in it's original form. What a crock of shit.
Wow, a slashdotter who posts and does not like how his/her comments are modded. I can't believe that I found someone who actually takes this moderation seriously. I only wish I had mod points, I would have modded you down too just to make you cry.
The more and more I read about the whole GPL thing the more I realize that it's not about freedom but more about control. If something is free then it is free, you have the freedom to do anything and everything to it without consequences from the originator, yet the GPL is hardly that. I think that the people in the GPL camp are trying to blur the distinction between freedom and control to make it sound like what is going on is good. No matter how you look at it the GPL is about control, the controlling of the object using a license and control is not freedom.
According to the unofficial blog of the Uruguayan project, named proyecto Ceibal, the infrastructure for wireless is not yet in place but will be provided in the next few days by the national telco ANTEL
In other news....
Wiley publishing notes an increase in sales of its dummies series "learn to speak the language of third world countries" by creepy looking adult men.
I have a question and a comment, first how much of the code base is made up of other GPL projects?
If the answer is none then all you have to do is think about it for a second and you will realize that at any time the shareholders could take over and make it closed source, what's stopping them. Maybe this is the reason why they are going public, the lack of other GPL code means they can close it at anytime and start charging for it and maybe this is the reason other open source projects have never gone public because of the code base being made up of other GPL projects.
I have used windows for many years, including setting up networks.
I tried to set up Windows server 2003 as a file server and a web server.
This is a file server for other Windows boxes only.
I could not get the file server to work. Then I tried the web server. Works, but to access the pages, the users have to use windows user logon. Gave up on this too.
Had basically *no* experience with linux. Installed Mandrake Linux, picked Samba and Apache.
It all worked flawlessly right away.
In addition, windows always become unstable after a few weeks of running. The Linux box has now run for two years, and no issues.
If you pick windows for a server you have to be crazy.
Two problems with this:
A. "I have used windows for many years, including setting up networks"
B. Flagged as "Insightful"
Sorry dude but if you say you have "set up many windows networks" I have to wonder if you are full of shit. My home network server runs WINS, DNS, DHCP, HTTP (.NET and PHP), SQL Server, MySQL, ISA, Active Directory and a DFS and the only time I have to reboot is when I decide to run a Windows Update, it has never just gone down unless I made it go down. This all on a 1.8ghz, 1gb ram on Windows 2003 Standard. Oh yeah I have had no training in Windows Networking (a developer) and this is the only Windows Network I have set up. All this based on reading stuff off the internet when I got stuck.
If I had moderator points I would have flagged you as a troll since that's all you are doing. I would assume that people have flagged this comment as insightful because you mentioned how bad Windows was and how good Linux is without realizing what you said didn't make any sense.
Not to me anyway.
Get better educated before you post..
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Alot of what I have read in these threads are based on first and second generation Plasma and LCD technology maybe a refresher course in the technology as it stands in a more current state.
You forgot the HD TV they are also providing, I would assume that it's somewhere in the 42-50" range from the press pictures I have seen. So you might want to add another 2k-3k on top of that depending on what make and model they are using.
Also from what I have read in other press articles on this they actually recommend going with an electrician to do the electrical work.
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And he slips in a claim that the Bill and Melinda Gates charity foundation doesn't really help the poor; it just pretends to while actually subjecting them to greater harm.
And how does Richard Stallman help the poor outside of the FSF work? I guess all the ranting he does on his website about harry potter books, cell phones, lets boycott "everything" and removing passwords from their WiFi hubs will help out poor people.
I can never understand why people call this guy an activist, the activists I know actually do something about things they feel strongly about rather than talk about it or get others to do it for them; which from what his web site seems to promote.
So putting aside the software stuff what has this guy even done that is meaningful? I mean if he is going to attack the Gates' on things they do outside of MS time for him to fess up to what he as done for humanity outside of the FSF.
Maybe not at the mercy of a company, but a team of core developers that don't want to do it any more. Now tell me which is worse?
And don't try and throw the "oh we can do it ourselves crap". The issue here is maybe the casual developer has contributed are you saying that this casual developer now has to work on it full time so the project can move forward?
Not likely to happen.
One of the problems facing OSS is the people who move it forward are the ones who live, breath and feel passionately about the project (99% of the time the core developers), take away those people away and the project usually dies no matter how popular it is.
Funny I don't recall a recall only a 3 year warranty extension covering the RoD.
/. form allowing an article to spread false truths...
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News for Nerds.... Stuff that may or may not be true...
Maybe instead of worrying about the next generation of GPU's they should be more concerned with fixing their shitty driver support for Vista. I have a laptop that came with Vista but the driver support is so useless and buggy I had to downgrade to XP. The control panel options under XP vs. Vista are night and day.
... Dumbass ...
Because of all the problems I have had with it I doubt I will ever buy another laptop/motherboard with a nVidia product on it.
It's hard to come up with the latest and greatest when nobody will buy your products
Anonymously of course...
You also forgot this venture, the Xilleon(TM) Panel Processors. With the advent of digital only TV brodcasts (US) in 2009 there is a huge market for these kinds of processors to make TV's display HD content perfectly on flat panel displays. I would estimate that this market is even bigger than the PC market.
Sony pays millions of dollars in favors and kickbacks to various large consumer businesses to sell blue-ray exclusively. News at 11:00.
Now only if there was a website to base this new website off of..... cough cough sourceforge
Ahh no it's the kiss ass sales people who fill the clients head full of eye candy from other sites.
"Oh look your competitor has all these cool gradient images, border images and flash up the ass, how cool would it be to have something like that in your site".
Maybe he will try and launch WebRouser (again), watch it fail miserably (again) and decide that Firefox is actually worth going after when he runs out of M$ money.
More than 60% of the projects listed in that blog are not being maintained, some have not since 2002. It makes me wonder if the blogger just copied the list from some other blog and has called it his/her own just to get some traffic.
It's simple; pirated versions of the OS have annoying popup adverts for Viagra every so often. It's either going to make you run another OS or pay up, it's brilliant I tell you....
I call bull-shit on this remark. If they actually mean across all age groups then why can't I as an over thirty gamer play Manhunt2 in it's original form. What a crock of shit.
Seems nobody has told the boys and girls over at Maximum PC they are a year to late the Linux desktop bubble may have already burst.
The more and more I read about the whole GPL thing the more I realize that it's not about freedom but more about control. If something is free then it is free, you have the freedom to do anything and everything to it without consequences from the originator, yet the GPL is hardly that. I think that the people in the GPL camp are trying to blur the distinction between freedom and control to make it sound like what is going on is good. No matter how you look at it the GPL is about control, the controlling of the object using a license and control is not freedom.
Wiley publishing notes an increase in sales of its dummies series "learn to speak the language of third world countries" by creepy looking adult men.
I have a question and a comment, first how much of the code base is made up of other GPL projects?
If the answer is none then all you have to do is think about it for a second and you will realize that at any time the shareholders could take over and make it closed source, what's stopping them. Maybe this is the reason why they are going public, the lack of other GPL code means they can close it at anytime and start charging for it and maybe this is the reason other open source projects have never gone public because of the code base being made up of other GPL projects.
Things that make you go hmmmmm.....
Because the original poster wants /. users to trash M$ Vista of course so it will make him / her feel better.
Virtual PC 2007 + Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image = Ability to test IE6 and IE7 on your dev machine.
As a project manager I am amused by how much time has been spend talking about this. Clearly developers need more work and shorter deadlines.
A. "I have used windows for many years, including setting up networks"
B. Flagged as "Insightful"
Sorry dude but if you say you have "set up many windows networks" I have to wonder if you are full of shit. My home network server runs WINS, DNS, DHCP, HTTP (.NET and PHP), SQL Server, MySQL, ISA, Active Directory and a DFS and the only time I have to reboot is when I decide to run a Windows Update, it has never just gone down unless I made it go down. This all on a 1.8ghz, 1gb ram on Windows 2003 Standard. Oh yeah I have had no training in Windows Networking (a developer) and this is the only Windows Network I have set up. All this based on reading stuff off the internet when I got stuck.
If I had moderator points I would have flagged you as a troll since that's all you are doing. I would assume that people have flagged this comment as insightful because you mentioned how bad Windows was and how good Linux is without realizing what you said didn't make any sense.
Not to me anyway.
Alot of what I have read in these threads are based on first and second generation Plasma and LCD technology maybe a refresher course in the technology as it stands in a more current state.
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You forgot the HD TV they are also providing, I would assume that it's somewhere in the 42-50" range from the press pictures I have seen. So you might want to add another 2k-3k on top of that depending on what make and model they are using.
Also from what I have read in other press articles on this they actually recommend going with an electrician to do the electrical work.