I played a game of "Frozen Bubble" Against Linus at Linux.Conf.Au. on what I assumed was his laptop (but may not have been).
It was an apparently vanilla Fedora Cora 1.
Linux uses different distributions just to be independent (IIRC he wrote that down in his book "Just for Fun"). He used SuSe at work and Red Hat at home (or the other way around).
You might be able to pass off a fake US note easily enough in the right conditions (dim lighting in a busy, smokey bar) but you'd have to find a blind barman to be able to pass off your colour laser copies of a Euro note as the real thing:
If you have made a real good copy of your bank note, a blind bar man might be the one person to detect your fraud.
...The BUMA can still sue people the way the RIAA does in the US for downloading copyrighted music files. So far, suing has been the main repercussion from KaZaa and file sharing. Once a court upholds that I cannot be sued for downloading such files, be it using direct connect, gnutella, KaZaa, then we'll have gotten to the next step...
In the Netherlands downloading.mp3s is NOT illegal (AFAIK I think it's even proved in court), but sharing them (making them available for others to download) IS.
The later one will be the next step of our local RIAA (called Buma/Stemra).
Red Hat do not distribute a GNU system. Debian do not distribute a GNU system. SuSE do not distribute a GNU system. AFAICT, no-one distributes a GNU system. Not even Debian HURD.
What all the above distribute (save Debian HURD, of course) is the Linux operating system, with an operating environment consisting of an awful lot of tools, including the GNU environment. But there's a lot additional: KDE; XFree86; Apache; Postgresql; Mozilla and more. I will grant that the base operating evironment is mostly GNU: bash, GNU ls, GNU tar, GNU this & GNU that.
But all these distribution include GNU/Emacs, and that takes up about half of them, so Stallman is right...
Ok, to sum up some of the other replies on this reaction (ok, sue me by modding redundant), and adding my own $0.02:
1. If it can't run existing X windows applications it's useless. Additionally if it can't run anywhere it's useless.
"If it can't run existing MS-Windows applications it is useless." Do you use linux also?
2. If you can't use existing XFree accelerated drivers it's useless because you're not going to make gfx card companies produce new drivers for another environment. Asking them to produce X drivers was hard enough, and some of them haven't even got that right yet.
Idem for windows versus linux graphics drivers...
3. I don't want unified toolkits because it means the entire KDE and Gnome desktop projects would need to be scrapped, unless QT and GTK can be re-created as "wrappers" to this new, unified toolkit.
Ok, but for the same reason people object to linux just because their are 2 different systems. Y tries to solve this problem...
4. It's a final year project. Sorry, but this guy's just an undergraduate student, no offense but I find it highly unlikely he can come up with something superior to X, QT and GTK (all of which this system supposedly replaces) in a year of work.
Lots of people, including me, use different middle names or initials when applying for something in writing, by snail mail or by telephone. When junk mail comes back in the mailbox, it's easy to know what company sold your information to whom, or at least which company was the initial recipient of the bogus info and which was the last.
Not quite, I do the same thing, but you still end up with a lot of spam on the e-mail addresses you publish on your web-page, and you do not change these every day by hand. This method makes it pretty much possible to see where it's from and gives you at least some cues where they're from.
I'm not sure if that's try in the US, but I think in Europe this isn't true. (please correct me if I'm wrong)
What you can do is to do further research on the patented technology and file new patents related to the already-filed patent. But this is called innovation, and that is one of the main reasons for the existence of the patent system (to encourage and protect innovation).
Some months ago, I thought the same as you: Palm being behind Sony on their hardware developments. However, the latest models, the Zire 71 and the Tungsten C have an excellent screen with great back-lighting (much better than the Tungsten T!).
Further more, they both run PalmOS 5 and are much faster using the RISC processors instead of the old 680x0 dragonball chips.
Actually, I have a difficult time choosing for either the one which is cheap (Zire 71, 300 Euro's) and has stereo sound and a basic digicam or for the one that has wifi, and a nice keyboard and is more expensive (TC, 500 Euro's)...
Once they kill off Nvidia, they will have no excuse not to release open source drivers, there'll be nobody left to copy them.
For years, NVIDIA was the number one in 3D graphics on the PC. And yet, they did not release any open source drivers as it is considered top secret business confidentiality.
The upside is that if you try to insert something that's not a string, you find out at compile time and fix the problem. Without generics, you discover such a bug when your most important customer calls your VP to tell him that the program on which his business depends just crashed with a ClassCastException.
Please, please, tell me that there exists a company where the VP knows what a ClassCastException is!
Upper management is highly sensitive for very specific "management"-style terms. Try to find and use those words to formulate your case for open source.
For example, the phrase proven technology scores high on the management-style terminology vocabulary. Show that products as Apache have a high acceptance rate (proven by statistics) and is therefore the proven technology they are looking for.
This will work a lot better than telling management technical reasons, such as that the tools supports the latest PHP, makes use of MySQL, have higher throughput and so on...
... and if you try to convince them, first take your Dilbert T-shirt off...
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To have an honest book review, you should read the full book. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to fully read a book when it sucks.
So maybe this is the reason slashdot readers review only books that rule...
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It was an apparently vanilla Fedora Cora 1.
Linux uses different distributions just to be independent (IIRC he wrote that down in his book "Just for Fun"). He used SuSe at work and Red Hat at home (or the other way around).
If you have made a real good copy of your bank note, a blind bar man might be the one person to detect your fraud.
In the Netherlands downloading .mp3s is NOT illegal (AFAIK I think it's even proved in court), but sharing them (making them available for others to download) IS.
The later one will be the next step of our local RIAA (called Buma/Stemra).
This is only valid if you travel from one of the Dutch carribean islands (For instance Curacao).
Thank you very much for this posting... NOT!
What do you think will happen when my boss finds out?
For the non-french speaking under you: Xouvert means "X open".
What all the above distribute (save Debian HURD, of course) is the Linux operating system, with an operating environment consisting of an awful lot of tools, including the GNU environment. But there's a lot additional: KDE; XFree86; Apache; Postgresql; Mozilla and more. I will grant that the base operating evironment is mostly GNU: bash, GNU ls, GNU tar, GNU this & GNU that.
But all these distribution include GNU/Emacs, and that takes up about half of them, so Stallman is right...
Read the article, he is married...
Maybe, because it sounds too much like a Korean war veteran?
Haha, great, I'm out of mod-points, so please mod-up this Cow...
1. If it can't run existing X windows applications it's useless. Additionally if it can't run anywhere it's useless.
"If it can't run existing MS-Windows applications it is useless." Do you use linux also?
2. If you can't use existing XFree accelerated drivers it's useless because you're not going to make gfx card companies produce new drivers for another environment. Asking them to produce X drivers was hard enough, and some of them haven't even got that right yet.
Idem for windows versus linux graphics drivers...
3. I don't want unified toolkits because it means the entire KDE and Gnome desktop projects would need to be scrapped, unless QT and GTK can be re-created as "wrappers" to this new, unified toolkit.
Ok, but for the same reason people object to linux just because their are 2 different systems. Y tries to solve this problem...
4. It's a final year project. Sorry, but this guy's just an undergraduate student, no offense but I find it highly unlikely he can come up with something superior to X, QT and GTK (all of which this system supposedly replaces) in a year of work.
What did Linus in his' last year ?
In other news, the estimate number of people in development, production and support of intelligent robots in the year 2030 is ... 3.5 millon people.
Not quite, I do the same thing, but you still end up with a lot of spam on the e-mail addresses you publish on your web-page, and you do not change these every day by hand. This method makes it pretty much possible to see where it's from and gives you at least some cues where they're from.
What you can do is to do further research on the patented technology and file new patents related to the already-filed patent. But this is called innovation, and that is one of the main reasons for the existence of the patent system (to encourage and protect innovation).
I hope my next O.S. won't be called "the wedding planner"...
Just for fun...
Further more, they both run PalmOS 5 and are much faster using the RISC processors instead of the old 680x0 dragonball chips.
Actually, I have a difficult time choosing for either the one which is cheap (Zire 71, 300 Euro's) and has stereo sound and a basic digicam or for the one that has wifi, and a nice keyboard and is more expensive (TC, 500 Euro's)...
I do not see green slime oozing out of the drive bay...
So for anyone out there that didn't notice, it's the NEWS for NERDS not the Slashcode comments forum for NERDS.
For years, NVIDIA was the number one in 3D graphics on the PC. And yet, they did not release any open source drivers as it is considered top secret business confidentiality.
Why do you think ATI will do otherwise?
...the fix consists of another vacuum cleaner to be attached to the card.
Please, please, tell me that there exists a company where the VP knows what a ClassCastException is!
For example, the phrase proven technology scores high on the management-style terminology vocabulary. Show that products as Apache have a high acceptance rate (proven by statistics) and is therefore the proven technology they are looking for.
This will work a lot better than telling management technical reasons, such as that the tools supports the latest PHP, makes use of MySQL, have higher throughput and so on...
... and if you try to convince them, first take your Dilbert T-shirt off...
To have an honest book review, you should read the full book. Unfortunately, it's very difficult to fully read a book when it sucks.
So maybe this is the reason slashdot readers review only books that rule...