Because they want to. They are using their resources to do something they want to do. They don't owe you anything. Open source hackers don't exist to make free software for you. They exist because they like doing it.
(I can almost hear you all gasping.)
To all of you hackers that have influenced and contributed to progams that I use: Thank you!
To all of you hackers that spend your time doing things that I find utterly useless: Have fun!
I found some old cheese thats hard and grayish. Could this be living proof that the moon is made of cheese? Looks like it to me.:-) I love hearing about this.
It is also better to generate power with the engine and use electric motors for the wheels because of torque. If you applied all the torque of such a large engine to the wheels of a stationary train, the wheels would spin and the train wouldn't move. By generating electricity, they can feed a smaller current to the motors to start out with a small torque to get the train moving and then increase.
(Imagine this post is blank. I tried to do it, but slash won't let me. It thinks it knows better than I do what I'm trying to say. No, the cat doesn't have my tongue.)
This will not kill Linux. This will Linux on x86 (or whatever platform Windows runs on). I can't imagine that Apple will go along with this. So if all the die-hard Linux users start buying Apple computers instead, the hardware vendors and retailers will feel it (they may only feel it slightly, but slightly is still money).
Bonus: If we're all using Apple hardware, we're dealing with a MUCH smaller set of hardware; less driver searching. Maybe Apple would even be helpful in writing the drivers?
tent sleeping bag ground pad plastic/tarps good water filter several pocket knives spoon paper towels toilet paper small kerosene or propane stove cooler a few good books dishsoap toothpaste toothbrush buy food along the way
Sorry guys, but sometimes its best just to leave the electronics out of it.
I will admit that installing Debian was much less trivial than Mandrake (hence 'added a graphical installer'). Once I got it running, I apt-get installed a bunch of stuff, and it was all automatically downloaded, installed, configured, entered into init.d and runlevels, and started. (I did have to run xf86config a few times, but Lindows could take care of that in the installer). Upgrading to newer versions was cake. Making new kernels on Debian is far easier than on anything else I've seen. Suse and Mandrake are more 'user friendly', but Debian is easier. Just because they're holding your hand, doesn't mean they know what they're doing.
Stability of Linux. Ease of Windows. Big software library, easy to get and they'll all install and work fine. Hey! They made a graphical installer and GUI apt front end for Debian!
But 80% are not capable of running their own servers and 95% are not willing. And could you imagine if they were? Instead of one ISP running a couple BSD servers, you've got thousands of people running unpatched IIS servers and open relays?
This seems like a money scheeme more than anything legal. I thought a good network admin would be able to tell if people are using common p2p networks. Why don't they just track down these people and charge them extra? Oh, because then if they had a list, the RIAA would make them cut them off. So why don't they impose an RIAA tax on these people. I don't mind them disciplining people doing illegal things. I just don't want them coming after me because I download gnu/linux iso's, get (legal (www.etree.org)) music from ftp servers, connect from work with ssh/vnc, and update kde3 from cvs every week. And I know there are a lot of you who do things like I do, and we're going to get hit.
Summer 2002 reading list Summer 2001 reading list^U Summer 2000 reading list^U Summer 1999 reading list^U AP English summer reading list^U Billy Bud A Patch of Blue 1 Shakespear tragedy
Animal Farm (Orwell) 1984 (Orwell) A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Haven Kimmel)(really funny) The Turk (Tom Standage) some of Terry Pratchet's Discworld series some of Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who series (crime solving cats) some of Dorothy Gilman's Mrs. Polifax series (sweet old aunt Emily joins the CIA) Take the Canoli (Sarah Vowell)
apt-get install proeng. ..oh wait, they're going to charge MONEY for this aren't they? Hopefully if a few big-name apps get people to accept buying software for linux, we'll see a lot more.
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Because they want to. They are using their resources to do something they want to do. They don't owe you anything. Open source hackers don't exist to make free software for you. They exist because they like doing it.
(I can almost hear you all gasping.)
To all of you hackers that have influenced and contributed to progams that I use: Thank you!
To all of you hackers that spend your time doing things that I find utterly useless: Have fun!
Why do you think it was grayish?
I found some old cheese thats hard and grayish. Could this be living proof that the moon is made of cheese? Looks like it to me. :-) I love hearing about this.
It is also better to generate power with the engine and use electric motors for the wheels because of torque. If you applied all the torque of such a large engine to the wheels of a stationary train, the wheels would spin and the train wouldn't move. By generating electricity, they can feed a smaller current to the motors to start out with a small torque to get the train moving and then increase.
Wasn't Cage just using a machine that spit out random notes, and it happened to spit out nothing for 4 minutes and 33 seconds?
(Imagine this post is blank. I tried to do it, but slash won't let me. It thinks it knows better than I do what I'm trying to say. No, the cat doesn't have my tongue.)
same thing they're smoking every day.
just do this in your x startup script:
exec someotherwm &
exec startkde
KDE will tell you that another wm is already running, and will let it keep running. (kde3 anyways)
"They would actually need to have a monopoly on everything, not just the desktop, for this to succeed."
Just like they would need to have a monopoly on everything to force the computer retailers to ship all computers with Windows preloaded?
This will not kill Linux. This will Linux on x86 (or whatever platform Windows runs on). I can't imagine that Apple will go along with this. So if all the die-hard Linux users start buying Apple computers instead, the hardware vendors and retailers will feel it (they may only feel it slightly, but slightly is still money).
Bonus: If we're all using Apple hardware, we're dealing with a MUCH smaller set of hardware; less driver searching. Maybe Apple would even be helpful in writing the drivers?
The corn palace is pretty lame. It used to be cool, but then they had to regulate it to death because it was a fire hazard.
Go to the Carlsbad Caverns
I went there. The signs leading up to it were interesting. Wall Drug itself was just your average overly-commercial cheesy touristy place.
tent
sleeping bag
ground pad
plastic/tarps
good water filter
several pocket knives
spoon
paper towels
toilet paper
small kerosene or propane stove
cooler
a few good books
dishsoap
toothpaste
toothbrush
buy food along the way
Sorry guys, but sometimes its best just to leave the electronics out of it.
I will admit that installing Debian was much less trivial than Mandrake (hence 'added a graphical installer'). Once I got it running, I apt-get installed a bunch of stuff, and it was all automatically downloaded, installed, configured, entered into init.d and runlevels, and started. (I did have to run xf86config a few times, but Lindows could take care of that in the installer). Upgrading to newer versions was cake. Making new kernels on Debian is far easier than on anything else I've seen. Suse and Mandrake are more 'user friendly', but Debian is easier. Just because they're holding your hand, doesn't mean they know what they're doing.
Stability of Linux.
Ease of Windows.
Big software library, easy to get and they'll all install and work fine.
Hey! They made a graphical installer and GUI apt front end for Debian!
what the?
He types the link thats in the story and works just fine, and gets modded up as informative?
Come on Moderaters, at least read the story if you're not gonna read the article first.
1) Hire someone who can write the CUPS/LPRng drivers.
2) Release them under the GPL.
3) Make your ID cards.
But 80% are not capable of running their own servers and 95% are not willing. And could you imagine if they were? Instead of one ISP running a couple BSD servers, you've got thousands of people running unpatched IIS servers and open relays?
This seems like a money scheeme more than anything legal. I thought a good network admin would be able to tell if people are using common p2p networks. Why don't they just track down these people and charge them extra? Oh, because then if they had a list, the RIAA would make them cut them off. So why don't they impose an RIAA tax on these people. I don't mind them disciplining people doing illegal things. I just don't want them coming after me because I download gnu/linux iso's, get (legal (www.etree.org)) music from ftp servers, connect from work with ssh/vnc, and update kde3 from cvs every week. And I know there are a lot of you who do things like I do, and we're going to get hit.
So sell a very expensive piece of paper. That just happens to have the password written on it.
When you make a change to a contract, both parties must sign it.
Summer 2002 reading list
Summer 2001 reading list^U
Summer 2000 reading list^U
Summer 1999 reading list^U
AP English summer reading list^U
Billy Bud
A Patch of Blue
1 Shakespear tragedy
Animal Farm (Orwell)
1984 (Orwell)
A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana (Haven Kimmel)(really funny)
The Turk (Tom Standage)
some of Terry Pratchet's Discworld series
some of Lilian Jackson Braun's The Cat Who series (crime solving cats)
some of Dorothy Gilman's Mrs. Polifax series (sweet old aunt Emily joins the CIA)
Take the Canoli (Sarah Vowell)
apt-get install proeng. . .oh wait, they're going to charge MONEY for this aren't they? Hopefully if a few big-name apps get people to accept buying software for linux, we'll see a lot more.
Minor Kernel Version Releases for Nerds. FUD that matters.