Patents have legitimate uses, but there's only one real way to fix the US patent system. Severe penalties for overturned patents. Like public beatings, plus fines until bankruptcy for anybody whose patent is overturned in subsequent rulings. Just imagine how fast the patent system would grind to a halt if every poorly researched, obvious, or otherwise frivolous patent were subject to this type of retribution. Particularly, imagine the beatings Jeff Bezos alone would receive.
While we're not open sourcing all of Palm OS, we do expect to open source some of our code, and will actively seek to invest in the open source community through code contributions and other means.
I think this means that Palm will become easier to sync to linux. Perhaps Palm will even begin to openly document its sync protocols?
We look forward to contributing code to the Linux platform under its existing licenses. We believe that PalmSource's expertise in building great mobile solutions can help make Linux even more compelling than it is now. The Palm OS layer written for use on Linux will be designed to be portable to any suitable mobile Linux distribution, and we'll expose Linux APIs under the Palm OS layer.So anything capable of running Linux will also be PalmOS-compatible. Nice:)
no, see, it's like this: the spammers WANT massive amounts of traffic, and are willing to spend a lot to get it. At least that's what I have understood from the numbers in my inbox.. So you could say that Lycos is doing everybody a favor by releasing the screensaver. Free traffic. Lots of happiness for everybody.
no one who ever uses a high capacity digital music player (remember back when we called them MP3 players?) will ever go BACK to a low capacity sub 100 song player
I wouldn't give up my flash player's ability to go jogging with me, and the battery life is about 5 times better than the 3rd-gen iPod (I haven't tried the Mini, which is probably better - certainly can't be worse). I'd take this Jens player over any iPod. Apple's style doesn't interest me (and I suspect a fair amount of other people feel the same way) if it comes with too many penalties:
iTunes, (try it on a PC) the dock (don't know about the Mini), (or buy an extra cable here) unacceptable battery life, moving parts, no ogg vorbis, too damned big. Plus there's no radio, no voice recording unless you spend a lot more and plug in an extra piece, no line-in recording w/real-time encoding.
There's a market for iPod, but this Jens player is another beast entirely. People will buy it. Apple hasn't 'drawn a line in the sand' at all, except for mini-hard drive players. The iPod is not for everybody.
yeah, and battery life won't suck like the iPod. Seriously, how can Apple sell the things with only 6 useful hours in a charge??? Pretty: yes. Useless: also yes. This Jen MP3 player looks like a pimp. Wish they'd sell 'em in Canada.
7zip lacks multi-part archiving with error recovery volumes, or any other kind of error recovery information, so I use WinRAR instead. You get what you pay for with WinRAR.
UserLinux is more of a cherry on top of the Debian repository than an actual distro. You need the debian install CD to install, then you download a few parts from UserLinux that all have dependencies in the normal debian tree.
Calling UserLinux a distro is like calling LitePC a version of Windows. It's not really a distro, yet.
I've been unable to duplicate your feat. Could you tell me where to find this GUI, and which distro you use? I've been looking for this feature everywhere, and only been able to find some (apparently conflicting) instructions in help forums, having to do with editing an xfree config file. I've already toasted X so many times that I'd rather not do it again, since the only way I know how to fix it is to reinstall. I can't seem to find a 'restore' feature anywhere. The deal is that I don't have the time to dink around with figuring out Xfree. I just want to use the system, not diddle around with it endlessly. My distro is (currently) Libranet 2.8.1, upgraded from Libranet's archives (basically Debian Sarge, I think), but otherwise stock. Replies welcome.
hey, I think that Linux makes a sucky desktop for normal users. Does your distro detect 5-button mice? Mine doesn't either. Can't choose one during install. I have to manually edit xfree config files to get it working. That's not user-friendly, I think. Can't copy/paste pictures or even a lot of text, because X's crappy clipboard only does ASCII. That's kinda gay, but I live with it because I know it will someday work, and my OS is free. Normal users don't seem to care about whether things will work 'someday' - they want them right away. I think Windows has had a working clipboard since 1995. Another thing: automounting sucks. It doesn't even work in Mandrake, WhiteBox or Libranet (my three standards) so I'm guessing it doesn't work right in most other distros either. Show me one that does, and that has five-button support, and that's got a universal clipboard that's not toolkit-dependent, and I'll agree with you that Linux is desktop-ready.
Until then, no dice. It's ready for me, but not for the masses.
It would be much cooler if the lights would be intelligent enough to make traffic flow FASTER, instead of slower. Obviously, these mutts didn't think of that, and it's soooo much easier to fuck things up than it is to fix them, so obviously they chose the lesser route.
I think the new lights suck, and I sure hope they don't come to my neighborhood.
I use Libranet 2.8.1, and apt won't put links on my desktop, programs menu, or anywhere else I can find 'em. Of course, if I used GNOME all the time, those links would be there but then I'd pay the performance penalty (which is, btw, quite high on my p3 laptop). Also, things are installed in different locations than, for example, on your Red Hat, SuSE, or whatever you've got. When I install updates, apt sometimes asks me whether I want to keep a script file that might have been installed by a script, another user, or debian installer. If I answer no, the update fails - but, the fun part is, there's no way to tell that unless you screw up a couple times.
I could solve the first problem by getting rid of IceWM (the default WM), fixing the installer script (not bloody likely, it's supposed to work automatically), or popping up a (look out now!) terminal, 'which mozilla-firefox' and then finding the startup script myself. Then I have to tell the system whether I want to run it directly, or in a terminal. I don't think my grandpa knows what a terminal is, and he sure as heck won't know what a script is. I don't even trust the guy to set up his own email.
apt is nice for you and me, but not for the 90 percenters.
And, one final thing, recompiling the kernel might not be so tough, but getting it to WORK often is. Most people don't even know who makes their processor (yeh, easy to guess, but still..) much less which chipset they have and which drivers to load as modules or patched in. My latest machine doesn't even have linux support for some pieces, and the others have kernel patches available from asus which depend on a certain kernel being present. It's not as easy as you make it sound.
wow, you're one lucky dude. I'm still waiting for RAID & NIC support on my new machine (p4p800 mobo). It turns out that the only 'drivers' I can get are actually just kernel patches designed to work on the plain 2.4.something kernel, and will backfire anywhere else. Binaries would be nice, but I'd settle for patches that work.
Xfree's high latency has turned me off from using any of those beautiful window managers regularly ("yeah, but the throughput is high" - doesn't quite cut it) and there's not even any consistent cut/paste between the different programs I use. Windows 95 came out almost ten years ago, and their clipboard works nicely. I would have thought that somebody, somewhere, with the skills and know-how, would have to scratch that particular itch by now. But, uh, seems not to be... And Linux DMA support is pretty spotty IME, which means that all my video work gets done at half-speed or less.
You mention that you have your choice of window managers, but I don't see that as such a great thing. I mean, when IceWM goofs it's nice sometimes to fire up GNOME and try something new, but my clipboard still doesn't work properly because there's so much fragmentation among the window managers. Half-assed cooperation (term used loosely) between KDE/GNOME is highly superficial from this user's point of view. I like what Apple's done with their UNIX, and I think that basically the great hope for Linux on the desktop is to emulate that kind of system. I'm really, really hoping that coalition of Japan/Korea/China sees the same things I do, and brings something like that to Linux, 'cuz we really need it.
My distro is Libranet, btw, and it kicks much ass on most everything 'cept Slack. Yep.
i don't see why this is not a worthwhile virus. it's clearly got nothing to do wiht free software! AFAIK (and IANAscummyL), this virus isn't open source at all. Looks like the subversive proprietary guys are at it again, eh;)
I am a homosexual. I bought an Apple computer because of its well earned reputation for being "the" gay computer. Since I have become an Apple owner, I have been exposed to a whole new world of gay friends. It is really a pleasure to meet and compute with other homos such as myself. I plan on using my new Apple computer as a way to entice and recruit young schoolboys into the homosexual lifestyle; it would be so helpful if you could produce more software which would appeal to young boys. Thanks in advance.
I think he's talking about the ridiculous proposition of paying for distorted, crippled music - paying, please observe, at the current rate for pristine CD-quality music on CD, yet lacking the CD itself, and the attendant artwork, lyrics, etc. that one would generally receive with purchase of the original CD.
I pity those who pay for WMA-garbled music and think they're getting a deal. I pity them further if they live in Canada, where downloading music for free is still legal. Here's how I see it: if you like the music enough, and care about quality enough, you'll get the CD. If you like the music and don't particularly care about quality, then you can either pay for it and download from the WMA-vendors (rather dumb, IMHO) or P2P it. Here in Canada we pay the royalties up front when we buy recordable media or portable music players. Downloading copyrighted content was ruled to be completely legal. As somebody who doesn't download much music, I've overpaid royalties on hundreds of CD-R's that I've used for my personal data - I've paid and received nothing at all in exchange.
Your American recording industry association is the reason that Canadians pay an extra 29% for recordable media. Legally, that's about forty steps closer to theft than any amount of copyright infringement could ever be.
I totally forgot what kinda list this is, so I'm listing my favourite things. I doubt that most people ever need VirtualDub, but it sure is handy. But even more essential: a real web browser! Try Firebird (free) or Opera (speedy). If you're running Windows you're doubly in luck, because Ad Muncher is the best thing going. I can't even force myself to internet on my Linux install anymore after installing this little gem. For $15 it's the best deal in the world. I'm serious, it even makes IE almost tolerable unless you're a tabs fiend.
My list: 1 Ad Muncher probably deserves all five spots, but gets the first one instead 2 Firebird. Best free app extant. 3 Any text editor. I like UltraEdit (except for hexediting), but OmniEdit's free and has syntax highlighting and has a lot of cool features 4 Nero Burning ROM kicks much ass. 5 VirtualDub is possibly the coolest encoding tool I've got, even though I use Vegas for sequencing my video. Fast, solid, with some nice filters.
DIShonourable mention goes to ZoneAlarm for diddling more machines than I can count.
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..AND the food they eat. The article mentions bread in particular.
Patents have legitimate uses, but there's only one real way to fix the US patent system.
Severe penalties for overturned patents. Like public beatings, plus fines until bankruptcy for anybody whose patent is overturned in subsequent rulings.
Just imagine how fast the patent system would grind to a halt if every poorly researched, obvious, or otherwise frivolous patent were subject to this type of retribution.
Particularly, imagine the beatings Jeff Bezos alone would receive.
While we're not open sourcing all of Palm OS, we do expect to open source some of our code, and will actively seek to invest in the open source community through code contributions and other means.
:)
I think this means that Palm will become easier to sync to linux. Perhaps Palm will even begin to openly document its sync protocols?
We look forward to contributing code to the Linux platform under its existing licenses. We believe that PalmSource's expertise in building great mobile solutions can help make Linux even more compelling than it is now. The Palm OS layer written for use on Linux will be designed to be portable to any suitable mobile Linux distribution, and we'll expose Linux APIs under the Palm OS layer.So anything capable of running Linux will also be PalmOS-compatible. Nice
yes, they're all a bunch of cripples.
I feel a little guilty reading this.. it's like watching a retard fight the gimp.
naw, look at how well popups do! the ROI is infinitesimal, yet popups (apparently ;) still exist!
The advertisers decrease the pay-per-ad instead.
Anybody sending out bulk unsolicited emails is a spammer, and that's the line drawn here. I don;t think it's too hard to figure out.
The screensaver users are collectively giving spammers what they need.
no, see, it's like this: the spammers WANT massive amounts of traffic, and are willing to spend a lot to get it. At least that's what I have understood from the numbers in my inbox..
So you could say that Lycos is doing everybody a favor by releasing the screensaver. Free traffic. Lots of happiness for everybody.
It's been done.
I'd take this Jens player over any iPod. Apple's style doesn't interest me (and I suspect a fair amount of other people feel the same way) if it comes with too many penalties:
iTunes, (try it on a PC)
the dock (don't know about the Mini), (or buy an extra cable here)
unacceptable battery life,
moving parts,
no ogg vorbis,
too damned big.
Plus there's no radio, no voice recording unless you spend a lot more and plug in an extra piece, no line-in recording w/real-time encoding.
There's a market for iPod, but this Jens player is another beast entirely. People will buy it. Apple hasn't 'drawn a line in the sand' at all, except for mini-hard drive players.
The iPod is not for everybody.
yeah, and battery life won't suck like the iPod. Seriously, how can Apple sell the things with only 6 useful hours in a charge??? Pretty: yes. Useless: also yes.
This Jen MP3 player looks like a pimp. Wish they'd sell 'em in Canada.
7zip lacks multi-part archiving with error recovery volumes, or any other kind of error recovery information, so I use WinRAR instead. You get what you pay for with WinRAR.
WinRAR
Ad Muncher
Opera
Foobar2000
Paint Shop Pro
the current Kazaa Lite variant of my choice
OO.o
That's all I ask of my Windows machine.
Might be OT, but I'll trade anybody for my nearly unused HP-48G. :)
Email jollyleprechaun@yahoo.com to trade through ebay.
Everything works. It's a good deal, actually (auction is not actually mine, but similar).
Comes w/soft case, orig. box, both manuals, batteries, NO MODS to orig. hardware
goodbye karma
UserLinux is more of a cherry on top of the Debian repository than an actual distro. You need the debian install CD to install, then you download a few parts from UserLinux that all have dependencies in the normal debian tree.
Calling UserLinux a distro is like calling LitePC a version of Windows.
It's not really a distro, yet.
I've been unable to duplicate your feat. Could you tell me where to find this GUI, and which distro you use? I've been looking for this feature everywhere, and only been able to find some (apparently conflicting) instructions in help forums, having to do with editing an xfree config file. I've already toasted X so many times that I'd rather not do it again, since the only way I know how to fix it is to reinstall. I can't seem to find a 'restore' feature anywhere.
The deal is that I don't have the time to dink around with figuring out Xfree. I just want to use the system, not diddle around with it endlessly. My distro is (currently) Libranet 2.8.1, upgraded from Libranet's archives (basically Debian Sarge, I think), but otherwise stock. Replies welcome.
hey, I think that Linux makes a sucky desktop for normal users.
Does your distro detect 5-button mice? Mine doesn't either. Can't choose one during install. I have to manually edit xfree config files to get it working. That's not user-friendly, I think.
Can't copy/paste pictures or even a lot of text, because X's crappy clipboard only does ASCII. That's kinda gay, but I live with it because I know it will someday work, and my OS is free. Normal users don't seem to care about whether things will work 'someday' - they want them right away. I think Windows has had a working clipboard since 1995.
Another thing: automounting sucks. It doesn't even work in Mandrake, WhiteBox or Libranet (my three standards) so I'm guessing it doesn't work right in most other distros either. Show me one that does, and that has five-button support, and that's got a universal clipboard that's not toolkit-dependent, and I'll agree with you that Linux is desktop-ready.
Until then, no dice. It's ready for me, but not for the masses.
I think it's incredibly funny that the only people who get burnt by this DMCA are the people who actually pay for music online.
It would be much cooler if the lights would be intelligent enough to make traffic flow FASTER, instead of slower.
Obviously, these mutts didn't think of that, and it's soooo much easier to fuck things up than it is to fix them, so obviously they chose the lesser route.
I think the new lights suck, and I sure hope they don't come to my neighborhood.
I use Libranet 2.8.1, and apt won't put links on my desktop, programs menu, or anywhere else I can find 'em. Of course, if I used GNOME all the time, those links would be there but then I'd pay the performance penalty (which is, btw, quite high on my p3 laptop).
Also, things are installed in different locations than, for example, on your Red Hat, SuSE, or whatever you've got.
When I install updates, apt sometimes asks me whether I want to keep a script file that might have been installed by a script, another user, or debian installer. If I answer no, the update fails - but, the fun part is, there's no way to tell that unless you screw up a couple times.
I could solve the first problem by getting rid of IceWM (the default WM), fixing the installer script (not bloody likely, it's supposed to work automatically), or popping up a (look out now!) terminal, 'which mozilla-firefox' and then finding the startup script myself. Then I have to tell the system whether I want to run it directly, or in a terminal. I don't think my grandpa knows what a terminal is, and he sure as heck won't know what a script is. I don't even trust the guy to set up his own email.
apt is nice for you and me, but not for the 90 percenters.
And, one final thing, recompiling the kernel might not be so tough, but getting it to WORK often is. Most people don't even know who makes their processor (yeh, easy to guess, but still..) much less which chipset they have and which drivers to load as modules or patched in. My latest machine doesn't even have linux support for some pieces, and the others have kernel patches available from asus which depend on a certain kernel being present. It's not as easy as you make it sound.
wow, you're one lucky dude. I'm still waiting for RAID & NIC support on my new machine (p4p800 mobo). It turns out that the only 'drivers' I can get are actually just kernel patches designed to work on the plain 2.4.something kernel, and will backfire anywhere else. Binaries would be nice, but I'd settle for patches that work.
Xfree's high latency has turned me off from using any of those beautiful window managers regularly ("yeah, but the throughput is high" - doesn't quite cut it) and there's not even any consistent cut/paste between the different programs I use. Windows 95 came out almost ten years ago, and their clipboard works nicely. I would have thought that somebody, somewhere, with the skills and know-how, would have to scratch that particular itch by now. But, uh, seems not to be...
And Linux DMA support is pretty spotty IME, which means that all my video work gets done at half-speed or less.
You mention that you have your choice of window managers, but I don't see that as such a great thing. I mean, when IceWM goofs it's nice sometimes to fire up GNOME and try something new, but my clipboard still doesn't work properly because there's so much fragmentation among the window managers. Half-assed cooperation (term used loosely) between KDE/GNOME is highly superficial from this user's point of view.
I like what Apple's done with their UNIX, and I think that basically the great hope for Linux on the desktop is to emulate that kind of system.
I'm really, really hoping that coalition of Japan/Korea/China sees the same things I do, and brings something like that to Linux, 'cuz we really need it.
My distro is Libranet, btw, and it kicks much ass on most everything 'cept Slack. Yep.
i don't see why this is not a worthwhile virus. it's clearly got nothing to do wiht free software! AFAIK (and IANAscummyL), this virus isn't open source at all. Looks like the subversive proprietary guys are at it again, eh ;)
you're wrong, there are spoilers. looks like George Lucas himself spoiled it.
on a scale of 'phantom plot' to 'a new hope' expect another zero.
truly, this person understands the Mac ideal
ps: ianat, etc. etc.
I think he's talking about the ridiculous proposition of paying for distorted, crippled music - paying, please observe, at the current rate for pristine CD-quality music on CD, yet lacking the CD itself, and the attendant artwork, lyrics, etc. that one would generally receive with purchase of the original CD.
I pity those who pay for WMA-garbled music and think they're getting a deal. I pity them further if they live in Canada, where downloading music for free is still legal.
Here's how I see it: if you like the music enough, and care about quality enough, you'll get the CD. If you like the music and don't particularly care about quality, then you can either pay for it and download from the WMA-vendors (rather dumb, IMHO) or P2P it.
Here in Canada we pay the royalties up front when we buy recordable media or portable music players. Downloading copyrighted content was ruled to be completely legal. As somebody who doesn't download much music, I've overpaid royalties on hundreds of CD-R's that I've used for my personal data - I've paid and received nothing at all in exchange.
Your American recording industry association is the reason that Canadians pay an extra 29% for recordable media. Legally, that's about forty steps closer to theft than any amount of copyright infringement could ever be.
I totally forgot what kinda list this is, so I'm listing my favourite things. I doubt that most people ever need VirtualDub, but it sure is handy. But even more essential: a real web browser! Try Firebird (free) or Opera (speedy).
If you're running Windows you're doubly in luck, because Ad Muncher is the best thing going. I can't even force myself to internet on my Linux install anymore after installing this little gem. For $15 it's the best deal in the world. I'm serious, it even makes IE almost tolerable unless you're a tabs fiend.
My list:
1 Ad Muncher probably deserves all five spots, but gets the first one instead
2 Firebird. Best free app extant.
3 Any text editor. I like UltraEdit (except for hexediting), but OmniEdit's free and has syntax highlighting and has a lot of cool features
4 Nero Burning ROM kicks much ass.
5 VirtualDub is possibly the coolest encoding tool I've got, even though I use Vegas for sequencing my video. Fast, solid, with some nice filters.
DIShonourable mention goes to ZoneAlarm for diddling more machines than I can count.
In this spirit, I've submitted a patch to fix the "flavor" patch. Kick some Yankee a$$ oh yeah!1