Just dont't sell it to Joe. I think Linux and most OSS is great. And I would love if everybody was using something Linux compatible. But do they really have to know it?
Linux,GNU and whatever other OSS you have are great semi-manufactured articles but Joe just dont care, he wants the final product.
How about adding a clause (or writing a new license) to GPL? along these lines:
For companies "You are allowed to compile/execute the parts of this code provided you have atleast one person hired to work fulltime improving the code as you see fit."
Could people PLEASE stop addressing this kind of problems to Linux. Linux has NOTHING to do with these "problems" it's solely a packaging problem, which is the role of the distributer to get right.
It is ridiculous to compare Linux and MS-Windows. What MS-Windows and Linux are you comparing, the latest? That would be MS-Windows XP Pro and Linux-2.4.21 ?
Now, I guess you are referring to a generic distribution which is the sum of all distributions you have seen. Problem is that "Generic Linux 1.0" is a freak. It an absolutely idiotic way of doing an OS, we ALL agree on that one. That is also why nobody has made "Generic Linux 1.0" (not counting LFS).
Now I haven't seen RedHat lately. so I can be wrong. but I guess that if you compare RedHat and MS-Windows you are mostly wrong.
I am surprised that MoodLogic hasn't been mentioned. It is a neat little program that connects to a database mp3 song information. Based on that information and some input of your mood and or song preference it finds other mp3's on your disk that you should like.
As others has suggested, randomly downloading mp3's from users who got what you like is a great way of building up a library of mp3, then you let MoodLogic do the searching for you.
By the way, I found this program when I was searching for a good solution to give all my mp3's the correct name (I hate downloading Moonlight sonata by Mozart), MoodLogic will organize and correct names/id3-tags too.
"ayone that can read English" actually doesn't. People just dont have a good argument for wasting time in investigating alternatives for OS'es when they think what they've got is ok.
I recently spoke to the manager of the computer department in my company. I got irretated when he uppgraded perfectly good hardware because of the windowsslowdownovertime issue. Asked him if he would concider RedHat and told him that a RedHat workstation probably could run for years without maintainence if configured correctly.
He said that he rather stayed with something he coudld trust. As far as he was conserned MS would still be here in ten years. Which was more than he could way for linux...
Anyway given the recent turns of MS I'm starting to doubt they'll last ten years...
Actually she can. If it is a legal copy of the corporate edition (Minor change that enables you to install it with just a key), no activation needed. By the way those keys checked are from warez versions of the corporte edition.
After reading that second link: Isn't this "DRL" a HUGE security problem.
What could the l33t h4x0r of the day use it for? Lets say you could specify rules in this DRL to delete all documents containing the word "invoice". Bye bye economic stability.
The "consensus" of the Gentoo user base is that "Gentoo is a hard distribution, and so the installation should be hard too." What rot!
Gentoo, as you say, wants the users to learn the ins an outs of a GNU/Linux system. Nothing, however, is stopping you from implementing a Gentoo based distribution with ease of use and usability in mind. After you have coded the install GUI, you could start setting the default KDE and GNOME setups and make an emerge-wrapper for packages to add correct menuitems.
The main reason I use tabs is that it lets me group windows in diffrent tasks. Keep a/. in one group, and all pr0n in an other, and work related in a third.
The quick cntext switch is great, just click the work one when the boss comes...
Seriously, it seems to me that programs is fighting for taskbar space now a days. MSOffice had all new documents in diffrent windows, and showed up on the task bar as diffrent applications. Now they group them (as KDE) in a taskbar menu. And mozilla started with tabs.
Its a simple problem with a simple solution!! Just and another tab in the WM and assign it to the current application.
ACtually I would say, not only does he not cost the company money, they actually gain money from him.
The really expensive software packages is probalby only bought by companies. Lets say 3D-studio MAX. This kid d/l a pirated 3D studio MAX 4 ($3495). He spends a year or two learning the program an makeing some kewl 'l33t logos for som warez group.
Few year later he decide to work with 3d modelling. What program does he know? 3D-stuidio! So he gets his company to buy a copy for him. Probalby he has already taught some friends the prog too and told a bunch of people what a great program it is.
And for MSWindows, for each user pirating WIndows that's one less user spreading the "disease" Linux, and one more user requiering a Windows desktop at work.
As I understand it: the cable should have no resistance and no capacitance so that the amplifier has total control of where and when to stop the membranes movement.
This is a cheap DIY project.
I've done some math on the "equal length" thing of cables. For each kilometer in different length you'll have to move the speaker with the longer cable 1 cm towards your listening position...
In my opinion, the biggest problem facing the open source movement is that someone has to figure out how, in a world where people are unwilling to pay for a good product, we're going to feed our families.
It's quite easy actually.
As the industy has faild utterly to convince people that ones and zeroes could possibly be worth money, stop selling said ones and zeroez. Sell the time for aranging them instead.
When I download and install KDE I'm also becomming a member of the KDE user community. The user community depends on KDE developers to deliver a usable product. The same community should pay those devolpers, as in hire programmers. So when I becom a member I pay a members fee that goes to the KDE developers. That fee gives me quality code, frequent updates and bug fixes and community support when I have problems.
KDE might be a bad example, but you get my drift. The ones and zeroes are worth squat without the developers and community.
All programmers, stop selling your code, sell your time.
I frequently downloads share-/demoware and I have a practice of always cracking the software before I even run it. This is not because I'm a cheap lousy bastard, I'am but it is not becaus of that.
I want to give the program a fair trial and get the most out of it before I decide if its good or not. If I cant find a crack I won't even bother, I just find another program.
Then I face another problem, if I like the program I'm to lazy to get around paying for it. Windows Commander is such a program. I've been using it for years and it is well worth the $20, but I'm a lazy bastard...
Here are my tips:
Popups, banners and other anoying things, are just that: anoying. This will lower the score on the program. Crippeling of the porgram won't even let me test it. Skip all those. Just give me some friendly reminders in a few descreet places.
Paying should be a one click thing.
Windows has this Add/Remove program feature, how about extending this to Add/Remove/Pay. I just fire upp that app, check the programs I like to pay for and click apply. The rest is automatic.
The only copyprotection needed is that the program refuses to install without this kind of payment handling app.
As copyprotections will be cracked anyway, it's enough with one app handling the protection.
Come to think about it, that would be a killer app to write, a copyprotection/paymeny handler.
I'm running gentoo atm on my laptop, nice and clean. For servers I must say gentoo is good. No service is started without you telling them to: secure.
With the command emerge --update --world every package you have installed is upgraded. Works nice. Put it in cron.
And no etc files are overwritten so to add new features to them you run the nice script etc-update and just answer the questions. This could be better...
Over all, gentoo is a nice dist but needs some development before all tools are at their best.
Well, I wouldn't call the reactions slow... 4 million tonnes per second converted to radiation, and thats just the excess mass from the hydrogen to helium fusion... rather a very large amount of hydrogen to burn (total solar mass 2E30 kg)
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Just dont't sell it to Joe.
I think Linux and most OSS is great. And I would love if everybody was using something Linux compatible. But do they really have to know it?
Linux,GNU and whatever other OSS you have are great semi-manufactured articles but Joe just dont care, he wants the final product.
How about adding a clause (or writing a new license) to GPL?
along these lines:
For companies
"You are allowed to compile/execute the parts of this code provided you have atleast one person hired to work fulltime improving the code as you see fit."
Am I the only one thinking Civ1 had/has better graphics than any of the other Civ games?
The bad in engeneering humans lies in the diffrence between what is considered desireable features.
Imagine a future where generations have erased our gather/hunter legacy and replaced it wiht genes fit for a computergeek.
Now imagine that future exposed to a great change where those old genetic features will again be essential for our existance.
I would be very interested in seeing your proofs for that claim.
I'm a firm beliver of that too, but I can't seem to find any evidence supporting this hypthesis.
...an even larger laughing stock.
I honestly thought you didn't know you where...
Could people PLEASE stop addressing this kind of problems to Linux. Linux has NOTHING to do with these "problems" it's solely a packaging problem, which is the role of the distributer to get right.
It is ridiculous to compare Linux and MS-Windows. What MS-Windows and Linux are you comparing, the latest?
That would be MS-Windows XP Pro and Linux-2.4.21 ?
Now, I guess you are referring to a generic distribution which is the sum of all distributions you have seen. Problem is that "Generic Linux 1.0" is a freak. It an absolutely idiotic way of doing an OS, we ALL agree on that one. That is also why nobody has made "Generic Linux 1.0" (not counting LFS).
Now I haven't seen RedHat lately. so I can be wrong. but I guess that if you compare RedHat and MS-Windows you are mostly wrong.
I am surprised that MoodLogic hasn't been mentioned. It is a neat little program that connects to a database mp3 song information. Based on that information and some input of your mood and or song preference it finds other mp3's on your disk that you should like.
As others has suggested, randomly downloading mp3's from users who got what you like is a great way of building up a library of mp3, then you let MoodLogic do the searching for you.
By the way, I found this program when I was searching for a good solution to give all my mp3's the correct name (I hate downloading Moonlight sonata by Mozart), MoodLogic will organize and correct names/id3-tags too.
Does anyone know of a similar solution for Linux?
Just a little hint: With a population of 284,796,887 (2001) USA counts for about 4,5% of the world population (6,251,583,683 today).
"ayone that can read English" actually doesn't. People just dont have a good argument for wasting time in investigating alternatives for OS'es when they think what they've got is ok.
I recently spoke to the manager of the computer department in my company. I got irretated when he uppgraded perfectly good hardware because of the windowsslowdownovertime issue. Asked him if he would concider RedHat and told him that a RedHat workstation probably could run for years without maintainence if configured correctly.
He said that he rather stayed with something he coudld trust. As far as he was conserned MS would still be here in ten years. Which was more than he could way for linux...
Anyway given the recent turns of MS I'm starting to doubt they'll last ten years...
Actually she can. If it is a legal copy of the corporate edition (Minor change that enables you to install it with just a key), no activation needed.
By the way those keys checked are from warez versions of the corporte edition.
After reading that second link: Isn't this "DRL" a HUGE security problem.
What could the l33t h4x0r of the day use it for?
Lets say you could specify rules in this DRL to delete all documents containing the word "invoice".
Bye bye economic stability.
I LIVE IN THE US: Salt Lake City, Utah. Come get me. Muwahahaha!
The "consensus" of the Gentoo user base is that "Gentoo is a hard distribution, and so the installation should be hard too." What rot!
Gentoo, as you say, wants the users to learn the ins an outs of a GNU/Linux system. Nothing, however, is stopping you from implementing a Gentoo based distribution with ease of use and usability in mind. After you have coded the install GUI, you could start setting the default KDE and GNOME setups and make an emerge-wrapper for packages to add correct menuitems.
The main reason I use tabs is that it lets me group windows in diffrent tasks. Keep a /. in one group, and all pr0n in an other, and work related in a third.
The quick cntext switch is great, just click the work one when the boss comes...
Seriously, it seems to me that programs is fighting for taskbar space now a days. MSOffice had all new documents in diffrent windows, and showed up on the task bar as diffrent applications. Now they group them (as KDE) in a taskbar menu. And mozilla started with tabs.
Its a simple problem with a simple solution!! Just and another tab in the WM and assign it to the current application.
When will people learn?..
Heard somewhere that braincells are only supposed to live about 120 years.
Hopefully you wouldn't have to say that many things, the human vocabulary is often larger then the "possible" combinations of a keyboard and mouse.
k .
A comment like "Insert a five iteration for-loop" would be quicker thant typing:
"for(int i=0;i5;i++){}"
As "Move the most recent ten office documents to my folder", would be quicker than clickettyclickettyclickclick-click/home/user/clic
ACtually I would say, not only does he not cost the company money, they actually gain money from him.
The really expensive software packages is probalby only bought by companies.
Lets say 3D-studio MAX. This kid d/l a pirated 3D studio MAX 4 ($3495). He spends a year or two learning the program an makeing some kewl 'l33t logos for som warez group.
Few year later he decide to work with 3d modelling. What program does he know? 3D-stuidio! So he gets his company to buy a copy for him.
Probalby he has already taught some friends the prog too and told a bunch of people what a great program it is.
And for MSWindows, for each user pirating WIndows that's one less user spreading the "disease" Linux, and one more user requiering a Windows desktop at work.
How about (Score: 5, Insightful)?
The guy (unknowingly mabey) has a point:
The first Image is entertainment, the second is horror, yet they show the same things...
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As I understand it: the cable should have no resistance and no capacitance so that the amplifier has total control of where and when to stop the membranes movement.
This is a cheap DIY project.
I've done some math on the "equal length" thing of cables. For each kilometer in different length you'll have to move the speaker with the longer cable 1 cm towards your listening position...
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In my opinion, the biggest problem facing the open source movement is that someone has to figure out how, in a world where people are unwilling to pay for a good product, we're going to feed our families.
It's quite easy actually.
As the industy has faild utterly to convince people that ones and zeroes could possibly be worth money, stop selling said ones and zeroez. Sell the time for aranging them instead.
When I download and install KDE I'm also becomming a member of the KDE user community. The user community depends on KDE developers to deliver a usable product. The same community should pay those devolpers, as in hire programmers.
So when I becom a member I pay a members fee that goes to the KDE developers. That fee gives me quality code, frequent updates and bug fixes and community support when I have problems.
KDE might be a bad example, but you get my drift. The ones and zeroes are worth squat without the developers and community.
All programmers, stop selling your code, sell your time.
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I frequently downloads share-/demoware and I have a practice of always cracking the software before I even run it.
This is not because I'm a cheap lousy bastard, I'am but it is not becaus of that.
I want to give the program a fair trial and get the most out of it before I decide if its good or not. If I cant find a crack I won't even bother, I just find another program.
Then I face another problem, if I like the program I'm to lazy to get around paying for it.
Windows Commander is such a program. I've been using it for years and it is well worth the $20,
but I'm a lazy bastard...
Here are my tips:
Popups, banners and other anoying things, are just that: anoying. This will lower the score on the program.
Crippeling of the porgram won't even let me test it.
Skip all those. Just give me some friendly reminders in a few descreet places.
Paying should be a one click thing.
Windows has this Add/Remove program feature, how about extending this to Add/Remove/Pay.
I just fire upp that app, check the programs I like to pay for and click apply. The rest is automatic.
The only copyprotection needed is that the program refuses to install without this kind of payment handling app.
As copyprotections will be cracked anyway, it's enough with one app handling the protection.
Come to think about it, that would be a killer app to write, a copyprotection/paymeny handler.
Time to fire upp those C skills.
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If someone needs/wants software for some specific task he/she has three choices.
A. Write the software.
B. Hire someone to do it.
C. Find an already written program.
In case A you have the source, and can make any demands you want to pass it on.
In case B you AND the developer has the source both could sell copies if you wanted to (NDA's would regulate this) or sell binaries.
In case C you find a program and download it.
In any case the original author got paid.
All the other crap about copyprotection and warez and stuff is just silly.
I'm running gentoo atm on my laptop, nice and clean.
For servers I must say gentoo is good. No service is started without you telling them to: secure.
With the command emerge --update --world every package you have installed is upgraded. Works nice. Put it in cron.
And no etc files are overwritten so to add new features to them you run the nice script etc-update and just answer the questions.
This could be better...
Over all, gentoo is a nice dist but needs some development before all tools are at their best.
Well, I wouldn't call the reactions slow... 4 million tonnes per second converted to radiation, and thats just the excess mass from the hydrogen to helium fusion... rather a very large amount of hydrogen to burn (total solar mass 2E30 kg)