Now THAT'S an advantage of glasses that people often forget. It's nice to always have a layer of tough polycarbonate (or whatever glasses are made from now) protecting your squishy, delicate visual system at all times.
Dude, I want sunglasses. I have never worn sunglasses before. Then I can have optical protection, and look cool like all the other kids that beat me up in high school.
I WAN'T MacOS software, it's user friendliness, simplicity, consistency and excelent graphical core with all that eye candy on my x86 machine. Without a loss of speed. Clear enough?
And I WANT a Ferrari Testarossa that gets 40 miles to the gallon. AND I want laser beams on the hood! Clear enough?
Because really, software patents are the mechanism by which governments crack down on their citizens. Absolutely.
No, but it sets a broad ranging precedent. You fail to see the big picture.
Oh and the European legislation certainly is stealthy, except for it being widely covered in news stories, well, kind of like this one. So you're spot on once again.
Really? Care to take a short walk outside (assuming you're Euro) and ask some people on the street what they think of software patents? Widely covered, indeed.
And ALL software patents are evil. Not just the stupid ones, but the ones in which actual non-obvious invention is ocurring.
"Grouped taskbar icons" is not anymore an invention than the unique shade of pink Crayola uses for its "mauvelous" crayon.
Slashdot groupthink gives you +5 Insightful!
Godzilla shows up, pretty much everyone gets concerned, and you call that "groupthink." It's no wonder you protected your karma with the AC post.
Please learn from our mistakes. Don't let stealth legislation ramrod you into 1984. It starts with patents and ends with your freedom. Don't let this opportunity slip by.
If you're a democracy, then you're a constituent, and your opinion matters, as long as it's heard. E-mail works good, but snail mail works better. Better than all of that, however, is a phone call.
That's a pretty cogent reason to upgrade from 2.6.3, as I have been having probs with sound. Still, if you already have 2.6.5, 2.6.7 may be an unnecessary upgrade.
Now, once they put out a fix for that 20-line shell exploit, I imagine everyone will have a good reason to upgrade.
I love how everybody who asks "Why is this important?" gets modded down as a troll. This just fuels the argument that Slashdot is full of elitist pricks.
1. Post inflammatory comment calling everyone "pricks". 2. Claim martyrdom because your valid point was modded down. 3. ??? 4. KARMA!
Those of use still running P3-500's on old mobo's don't have very many compelling reasons to upgrade from 2.6.3.
If in doubt, don't upgrade unless you need new support for essential hardware or need to cover a security vulnerability. I leanred that after b0rking several systems trying to keep my kernel perpetually updated.
They are simply a customer, licensing Unix System V, just like every other commercial Unix vendor out there.
Maybe you missed the news flash, but Sun also happens to have been a major contributor to SCO's legal war chest, and continues to be an antagonistic purveyor of anti-FOSS FUD.
If you want to put every company that supports SCO on your little commie shit-list because they're funding the destruction of Linux, you might as well put IBM (AIX), HP (HP-UX), SGI (Irix) on there too.
Yes, I'm aware those companies have proprietary Unices, since I do, in fact, have a clue. Let me clue you in: if I was anti-commercial-Unix, I'd be railing against IBM, HP and SGI. The fact that I did not mention those companies should have told you something. I'll spell it out for you, anyway: IBM, HP, and SGI didn't join MS in propping up SCO as an opportunity to regain lost ground in Unix marketshare. Their attitude towards open-source can also be described as cynical at best, and use FUD to stave off their own impending obsolescence.
All three of those companies you listed also happen to make a substantial profit from Linux, and their futures are tied inextricabley to the FOSS movement.
If the pirates are trying to install SP2, then they already have Windows installed. That means MS has already got their marketshare boost, and need not worry about actually supporting the pirate.
After all, do you really think all those pirates are going to say, "Darn you, Microsoft!" and go install Gentoo?
You're kidding me. Was anyone really confused by the use of 'Hindu' instead of 'Hindi'? This correction was unnecessary and only for the intention of self-aggrandizement, which seems to be a problem with most corrective posts on/.
Now, since this post is highly OT, let's burn some karma!
It's harder to get LKML devs to look at problems with 'tainted' kernels. Maybe the driver devs were hoping to get the LKML guys to do their debugging for them.
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Now THAT'S an advantage of glasses that people often forget. It's nice to always have a layer of tough polycarbonate (or whatever glasses are made from now) protecting your squishy, delicate visual system at all times.
Dude, I want sunglasses. I have never worn sunglasses before. Then I can have optical protection, and look cool like all the other kids that beat me up in high school.
We're already here.
NASA uses the same computers aboard Apollo 11 to host their web-site.
I'm sorry, but the Republicans in the US have repeatedly shown that they put big business before the little guy.
... I'm just waiting for the revolution.
Then perhaps Fritz Hollings is the man for you. After all, democrats are always looking out for the consumer, right?
Maybe I'm too old and cynical
Not cynical enough; there's no such thing as a revolution.
I WAN'T MacOS software, it's user friendliness, simplicity, consistency and excelent graphical core with all that eye candy on my x86 machine. Without a loss of speed. Clear enough?
And I WANT a Ferrari Testarossa that gets 40 miles to the gallon. AND I want laser beams on the hood! Clear enough?
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What the crap did I just type?!?
Because really, software patents are the mechanism by which governments crack down on their citizens. Absolutely.
No, but it sets a broad ranging precedent. You fail to see the big picture.
Oh and the European legislation certainly is stealthy, except for it being widely covered in news stories, well, kind of like this one. So you're spot on once again.
Really? Care to take a short walk outside (assuming you're Euro) and ask some people on the street what they think of software patents? Widely covered, indeed.
And ALL software patents are evil. Not just the stupid ones, but the ones in which actual non-obvious invention is ocurring.
"Grouped taskbar icons" is not anymore an invention than the unique shade of pink Crayola uses for its "mauvelous" crayon.
Slashdot groupthink gives you +5 Insightful!
Godzilla shows up, pretty much everyone gets concerned, and you call that "groupthink." It's no wonder you protected your karma with the AC post.
Please learn from our mistakes. Don't let stealth legislation ramrod you into 1984. It starts with patents and ends with your freedom. Don't let this opportunity slip by.
If you're a democracy, then you're a constituent, and your opinion matters, as long as it's heard. E-mail works good, but snail mail works better. Better than all of that, however, is a phone call.
Huh? You can't just ignore the GNU stuff just because it's on Windows.
Fair enough. Just remember though, that by your very argument, the folks that made Windows truly useable are the folks that develop GNU/Linux.
So I gotta ask, why use the imitation when you can use the real thing?
...as if it was still useful at speeds above 3GHz.
Amen, brother. And let's not forget the whole RAM debacle. Some of those silly nay-sayers are still carping on about needing more than 640K of memory.
People just need to learn to run ONE application at a time, like any other normal, rational human being! Sheesh, the GUI business has ruined you kids.
That's a pretty cogent reason to upgrade from 2.6.3, as I have been having probs with sound. Still, if you already have 2.6.5, 2.6.7 may be an unnecessary upgrade.
Now, once they put out a fix for that 20-line shell exploit, I imagine everyone will have a good reason to upgrade.
I love how everybody who asks "Why is this important?" gets modded down as a troll. This just fuels the argument that Slashdot is full of elitist pricks.
1. Post inflammatory comment calling everyone "pricks".
2. Claim martyrdom because your valid point was modded down.
3. ???
4. KARMA!
Those of use still running P3-500's on old mobo's don't have very many compelling reasons to upgrade from 2.6.3.
If in doubt, don't upgrade unless you need new support for essential hardware or need to cover a security vulnerability. I leanred that after b0rking several systems trying to keep my kernel perpetually updated.
Don't underestimate towels.
Mod parent up. There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.
They are simply a customer, licensing Unix System V, just like every other commercial Unix vendor out there.
Maybe you missed the news flash, but Sun also happens to have been a major contributor to SCO's legal war chest, and continues to be an antagonistic purveyor of anti-FOSS FUD.
If you want to put every company that supports SCO on your little commie shit-list because they're funding the destruction of Linux, you might as well put IBM (AIX), HP (HP-UX), SGI (Irix) on there too.
Yes, I'm aware those companies have proprietary Unices, since I do, in fact, have a clue. Let me clue you in: if I was anti-commercial-Unix, I'd be railing against IBM, HP and SGI. The fact that I did not mention those companies should have told you something. I'll spell it out for you, anyway: IBM, HP, and SGI didn't join MS in propping up SCO as an opportunity to regain lost ground in Unix marketshare. Their attitude towards open-source can also be described as cynical at best, and use FUD to stave off their own impending obsolescence.
All three of those companies you listed also happen to make a substantial profit from Linux, and their futures are tied inextricabley to the FOSS movement.
You sleep with dogs, you wake up with fleas.
Can't say it could happen to a more deserving company.
If the pirates are trying to install SP2, then they already have Windows installed. That means MS has already got their marketshare boost, and need not worry about actually supporting the pirate.
After all, do you really think all those pirates are going to say, "Darn you, Microsoft!" and go install Gentoo?
I think not.
I think it's great that Microsoft likes to support pro-Linux magazines and web sites.
And thanks to Mozilla, I don't even see the ads. It's like OSDN is getting free money.
Wake me up when we plant a flag on Jupiter.
All we need now is a BSOD joke and I'd swear that everytime I read Slashdot it induces a timewarp back to 1998.
How about:
In Soviet Russia, Windows imagines a beowulf cluster of YOU!
Now take it! All my karma! Just burn in front of my eyes!
You're kidding me. Was anyone really confused by the use of 'Hindu' instead of 'Hindi'? This correction was unnecessary and only for the intention of self-aggrandizement, which seems to be a problem with most corrective posts on /.
Now, since this post is highly OT, let's burn some karma!
I think I've gone beyond 'geek'.
I feel dirty.
It's ok. Some people read sci-fi written by William Shatner. Others but his music album.
There, don't we feel better, now?
...but i'll take a shitload of fuel to power a city.
Just when Hometown, USA needs him most, the Poopsmith will be there to save the day.
Let's hear it for the Poopsmith!
It's harder to get LKML devs to look at problems with 'tainted' kernels. Maybe the driver devs were hoping to get the LKML guys to do their debugging for them.
Where are the plans???
Wouldn't that phrase be more appropriate if the article were titled, "Build Your Own Death Star?"
Ok... time for me to go home to my... nobody.