The oil exporting countries have been colluding to hide this incredible energy source from the public. In fact, a single dick-powerstation installed on RMS would provide practically unlimited amounts of Free (as in speech) Energy for everyone. The only other component required is an endless horde of open source bigots eager to suck RMS' cock. That won't be a problem, though.
If it meant that the clowns and the color mauve are standard across ALL the applications, I'd still use it.
The current "use whatever widget set you want" anarchy is just horrible.
Pope wants to start the fucking Inquisition again!
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If there's a single religion of terror, it's this one.
"The Pope has since taken part in two more exorcisms... He carried out these exorcisms because he wanted to give a powerful example. He wanted to give the message that we must once again start exorcising those who are possessed by demons," Amorth said.
There are the windows XPerience designers who want to lock everything down. Ok. That works with the closed source.
Then there are the open source guys who are afraid to/incapable of settling on a well defined, common standard that would bring unified desktop and improve user friendliness on Unix. Why? Because they are afraid of things getting locked down. But how could the desktop get locked down when everything is open source?! Settle on a standard and if anyone is not satisfied, let him/her compile her own programs and live outside the standard! Don't make us all live in the "download the most recent code and recompile it" hell. Some of us just want a desktop that works and looks good. We don't want to tweak our computers!
Standardisation does not mean conformity! It's fanatics like you who are keeping the Linux on desktop down.
Settle on a standard, write all programs to conform to that. Everyone else who doesn't like the standard desktop is free to write his/her own niche version of the program. It's free source, people!
Please try to close your tags properly in the future.
There is no such word as 'shareholdership'
Well, if there wasn't before I just made it up. If you don't like it, then please tell me how it is uninformative or misleading which might actually disqualify it as a brand new word?
Or are you one of those assholes who think that languages should not develop at all and that everybody should talk according to the definitions in some fucking reference book? Get a fucking life.
Finally, my native tongue is not English so I consider it my God-given right to abuse it in any way I want.
I have a Compaq Presario 1700 with a DVD/CD-RW and a 3.5" drive.
When has anyone used a floppy dive on a laptop anymore?
And just how do you store your data permanently then? I'd rather give away floppies to my business contacts than the bloody expensive CD-R/W discs.
Regarding the DVD playback, did you show them how you have to download "illegal" code and compile it before you can even unlock the DVDs you're going to play? I bet you didn't.
I want all the sweets like hot-plug IDE devices (CD, DVD, CD-RW and floppy!), halt to memory and DVD playback.
Until all those are made available out-of-the-box, Linux does not exist for me on laptops (or desktops for that matter). That's why I still use WinME on my laptop. At least that way I can watch my DVDs and swap DVD/CD-RW to a 3.5" drive without resetting the computer.
Ignorance breeds fear, fear leads to terrorism. Is that really what they want?
Unlimited, uncensored, totally free science is our only weapon against ignorance! I will not submit my research to some "office of scientific censorhip" and I fully expect that any scientists who participate in any such commitee are excluded from the community.
Science was globalised before the word was even coined! Don't let this hysteria about terrorism lead us back to the dark ages.
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My beautiful mind is about to blow!
Yeah, right. Everyone who hates Java MUST be a troll.
How do you expect people to set it up when the majority of people are not familiar with non-standard implementation languages such as Java?
I for one couldn't figure out how to get it to work even though I have been programming in C and C++ for over ten years.
Heh. That was actually pretty funny.
The oil exporting countries have been colluding to hide this incredible energy source from the public. In fact, a single dick-powerstation installed on RMS would provide practically unlimited amounts of Free (as in speech) Energy for everyone. The only other component required is an endless horde of open source bigots eager to suck RMS' cock. That won't be a problem, though.
Well, I'm pretty drunk myself. How about you? What have you got to say for yourself?
I'm a scientist. I don't want to waste my precious time MAKING the computers to work the way I want. I want them to work the way I want from the box.
Your page widening doesn't work on Mozilla 0.9.8, you moron.
I think it'll involve clowns and the color mauve
If it meant that the clowns and the color mauve are standard across ALL the applications, I'd still use it.
The current "use whatever widget set you want" anarchy is just horrible.
"The Pope has since taken part in two more exorcisms... He carried out these exorcisms because he wanted to give a powerful example. He wanted to give the message that we must once again start exorcising those who are possessed by demons," Amorth said.
They actually let you to connect your laptop to the company server? Lucky bastard.
There are the windows XPerience designers who want to lock everything down. Ok. That works with the closed source.
Then there are the open source guys who are afraid to/incapable of settling on a well defined, common standard that would bring unified desktop and improve user friendliness on Unix. Why? Because they are afraid of things getting locked down. But how could the desktop get locked down when everything is open source?! Settle on a standard and if anyone is not satisfied, let him/her compile her own programs and live outside the standard! Don't make us all live in the "download the most recent code and recompile it" hell. Some of us just want a desktop that works and looks good. We don't want to tweak our computers!
You got it all wrong.
Standardisation does not mean conformity! It's fanatics like you who are keeping the Linux on desktop down.
Settle on a standard, write all programs to conform to that. Everyone else who doesn't like the standard desktop is free to write his/her own niche version of the program. It's free source, people!
Wouldn't it be better to settle on a single desktop instead of bringing out competing desktops every month?
There is no such word as 'shareholdership'
Well, if there wasn't before I just made it up. If you don't like it, then please tell me how it is uninformative or misleading which might actually disqualify it as a brand new word?
Or are you one of those assholes who think that languages should not develop at all and that everybody should talk according to the definitions in some fucking reference book? Get a fucking life.
Finally, my native tongue is not English so I consider it my God-given right to abuse it in any way I want.
When has anyone used a floppy dive on a laptop anymore?
And just how do you store your data permanently then? I'd rather give away floppies to my business contacts than the bloody expensive CD-R/W discs.
Regarding the DVD playback, did you show them how you have to download "illegal" code and compile it before you can even unlock the DVDs you're going to play? I bet you didn't.
No thanks.
Is it some rmmod/modprobe kludge?
One shouldn't have to fire up the command line for such a simple task (which also goes for mounting media!).
Government interference is communism. You don't want communism, now do you? We have the God given right to rip off our neighbour!
So, you know someone who's actually buying Linux?
Please list the companies so that I can sell my stock accordingly... a company that pays for nothing is selling my shareholdership out.
I want all the sweets like hot-plug IDE devices (CD, DVD, CD-RW and floppy!), halt to memory and DVD playback.
Until all those are made available out-of-the-box, Linux does not exist for me on laptops (or desktops for that matter). That's why I still use WinME on my laptop. At least that way I can watch my DVDs and swap DVD/CD-RW to a 3.5" drive without resetting the computer.
It doesn't work on a real browser, so you may as well stop posting your crap.
You still believe that discussion on /. should be relevant to the article? And you have a five digit ID?! I hope you didn't pay much for yor account...
Ignorance breeds fear, fear leads to terrorism. Is that really what they want?
Unlimited, uncensored, totally free science is our only weapon against ignorance! I will not submit my research to some "office of scientific censorhip" and I fully expect that any scientists who participate in any such commitee are excluded from the community.
Science was globalised before the word was even coined! Don't let this hysteria about terrorism lead us back to the dark ages.
Im talking about normal women, not some beach babes who cant eat or drink for the fear of getting "fat" but keep taking speed instead.
I'm talking about the likes of Kate Winslet.