Stallman does, and always has, define freedom as that which most benefits him. He is or was a programmer and he demands the freedom to program and modify the software and devices he uses. Which is great for him.
But how can the freedom to choose not include the freedom for people to choose an Apple style 'walled garden'? I am absolutely certain that Stallman doesn't know what I want better than I do.
Further, if you don't buy any Apple products, how can you be effected by Apple? Apart from your not being able to buy a tablet that apes an ipad in countries that don't allow products to ape one another. Also other than getting angry enough to click reply on every Apple/Jobs story.
In a capitalist system the expenditure of every dollar inflects and alters the value and trajectory of all other dollars. One could also point out that dollars given to Apple in some (not small) part go directly to lobbying governments and fighting absurd legal trench warfare to convince countries to "not allow products to ape one another".
I find it astonishing after so many years of reading Slashdot that so many readers fail to grasp the way in which computers and IT are utterly in the grip of the capitalist mode of production, and resort to abstractions about "letting the people do what they want" instead of facing the unpleasant truth of an ever-more-pervasive curtailment of technological freedom. Stallman may be impolitic, is certainly eccentric, but he has firm principles, and sticks to them, while Gates, Jobs, et al. have only capital (including the human capital of their apologists, the cynical and the easily duped.) To put it another way, free software is for the ages, while the accomplishments of capitalist IT will last only until your MacBook breaks, your Windows is no longer supported, your Google is tool of the government, and the next crisis erupts.
Is total startup time. By that I mean the time it takes your browser to start AND render your start page. Just by
my own anecdotal experience, IE 6 and Mozilla 1.2a
each take ~6 seconds to startup and load google.com, and this
is without QuickStart enabled. On the same machine, Phoenix takes ~4 seconds to load and render google.
All on my P2 400 with 384 MB RAM. This isn't much, but take into account that IE is definitely loading faster, so
Mozilla and Phoenix are making that time up with zippy rendering. Just my two cents.
You know, Cg may seem attractive, but game developers who really know their stuff will probably stick to assembly. Or, alternatively, use Cg in parts a a game but use assembly where it counts.
me: I swear! I didn't say anything!
editors: We heard otherwise...
me: I didn't say anything about a beowolf cluster!
editors: But you were THINKING it!
me: AHHHHHHHGGGGGGGG!!!
Well, as I used to be REALLY into SW Expanded Universe, I can tell you that Luke's calling Owen "uncle" is akin to a boy calling his dad's best friend "Uncle Jimmy". Owen is Obi-Wan Kenobi's half brother, he sent Luke to live their after he sent Leia to Alderann.
Funny you should say that. I love my old Presario to death, honestly. The good old PII 350 with a GeForce2 MX and 512 RAM is my primary machine, I've had it for five years, and I'm still satisfied. I even dual boot Win2k and Mandrake 8.1 on the 8 gig HDD, still adore the thing. We all have different experiences with PCs.
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And there are some people at UNC that would love to chat with them over a friendly game of football;-)
I find it offensive that you generalize the entire south as being puritanical. It's ignorant to criticize by region. Go ahead, talk about radical evangelists, but don't rip on the south with no basis in fact.
Pretty obvious troll, but i'll bite. Fanatacal cults and religous sects are encouraging mass suicide. We are trying to convince people to use a more stable OS. It's called MARKETING, and it seems to be something trolls like you always complain that Linux people lack no skill in. Don't complain when you see it at work.
Am I the only one that has thought of how this may be the way to wrangle society away from their dependency on television? I for one would watch less TV if I were paying per-view. Which is not to say I'm for PPV television, but their might be at least a silver lining should it become a reality.
This is definitely plus for all the AMD buffs out there. Also good for the company. Provided this becomes a little cheaper, this and the Hammer could really give a boost to AMD's market share.
Would you really go so far as to compare RMS to a terrorist? This man is a revolutionary, and should be treated as so. Check out http://www.stallman.org. RMS is possibly the world's biggest activist, and many of his causes are worthwhile. He certainly isn't a saint, but don't take ordinary criticism to the level of flaming this man who has done so many wonderful things for OSS
that breaks the camels back for me. Though I am a devoted GNOME user, I use a P2 with 64 MB of ram, and you can imagine the sloth of Nautilus on that kind of machine. I LOVE Konquerer though, and have been looking for a good opportunity to switch to KDE. Pending on finding out more about 3.0's performance on lower end machines, I think I may convert.
P.S. Has anyone tried KDE 3 on a PC thats ~350 MHz?
To suggest that the GPL is a rather trivial piece of work is obsurd. Stallman was the only one that wrote a liscence with provisions to prevent hijacking by proprietary technology. And it's not just Linux. Though you could argue the code for the Linux kernel might be the same under say the BSD or X11 liscence, theres no doubt Linux would be a shadow of it's former self if it weren't for the GNU project and other GPL software endeavors.
This is a good time for a next generation cooling system, as AMD's hammer chip will almost definitely require advanced cooling techniques to operate at safe levels.
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Same concept.
Stallman does, and always has, define freedom as that which most benefits him. He is or was a programmer and he demands the freedom to program and modify the software and devices he uses. Which is great for him.
But how can the freedom to choose not include the freedom for people to choose an Apple style 'walled garden'? I am absolutely certain that Stallman doesn't know what I want better than I do.
Further, if you don't buy any Apple products, how can you be effected by Apple? Apart from your not being able to buy a tablet that apes an ipad in countries that don't allow products to ape one another. Also other than getting angry enough to click reply on every Apple/Jobs story.
In a capitalist system the expenditure of every dollar inflects and alters the value and trajectory of all other dollars. One could also point out that dollars given to Apple in some (not small) part go directly to lobbying governments and fighting absurd legal trench warfare to convince countries to "not allow products to ape one another". I find it astonishing after so many years of reading Slashdot that so many readers fail to grasp the way in which computers and IT are utterly in the grip of the capitalist mode of production, and resort to abstractions about "letting the people do what they want" instead of facing the unpleasant truth of an ever-more-pervasive curtailment of technological freedom. Stallman may be impolitic, is certainly eccentric, but he has firm principles, and sticks to them, while Gates, Jobs, et al. have only capital (including the human capital of their apologists, the cynical and the easily duped.) To put it another way, free software is for the ages, while the accomplishments of capitalist IT will last only until your MacBook breaks, your Windows is no longer supported, your Google is tool of the government, and the next crisis erupts.
Is total startup time. By that I mean the time it takes your browser to start AND render your start page. Just by
my own anecdotal experience, IE 6 and Mozilla 1.2a each take ~6 seconds to startup and load google.com, and this
is without QuickStart enabled. On the same machine, Phoenix takes ~4 seconds to load and render google.
All on my P2 400 with 384 MB RAM. This isn't much, but take into account that IE is definitely loading faster, so
Mozilla and Phoenix are making that time up with zippy rendering. Just my two cents.
You know, Cg may seem attractive, but game developers who really know their stuff will probably stick to assembly. Or, alternatively, use Cg in parts a a game but use assembly where it counts.
Read the article. The chip is a 1.6 GHz P4 NORTHWOOD. Not Williamette
me: I swear! I didn't say anything! editors: We heard otherwise... me: I didn't say anything about a beowolf cluster! editors: But you were THINKING it! me: AHHHHHHHGGGGGGGG!!!
Well, as I used to be REALLY into SW Expanded Universe, I can tell you that Luke's calling Owen "uncle" is akin to a boy calling his dad's best friend "Uncle Jimmy". Owen is Obi-Wan Kenobi's half brother, he sent Luke to live their after he sent Leia to Alderann.
Funny you should say that. I love my old Presario to death, honestly. The good old PII 350 with a GeForce2 MX and 512 RAM is my primary machine, I've had it for five years, and I'm still satisfied. I even dual boot Win2k and Mandrake 8.1 on the 8 gig HDD, still adore the thing. We all have different experiences with PCs.
And there are some people at UNC that would love to chat with them over a friendly game of football ;-)
SuSE DOES provide ISOs. Just not for i386 CPUs. You can get them for PPC, SPARC, and Alpha though. :-)
I find it offensive that you generalize the entire south as being puritanical. It's ignorant to criticize by region. Go ahead, talk about radical evangelists, but don't rip on the south with no basis in fact.
BTW, the Puritans were in Massachusetts!
oops. lack skill in**** We are all human, after all.
Pretty obvious troll, but i'll bite. Fanatacal cults and religous sects are encouraging mass suicide. We are trying to convince people to use a more stable OS. It's called MARKETING, and it seems to be something trolls like you always complain that Linux people lack no skill in. Don't complain when you see it at work.
Just be glad it's not a goatse.cX-Box. Of course that's probably gotten more hits than PS2 and X-Box have console sales combined :-0
BTW, it's the GNU General Public Licence
Am I the only one that has thought of how this may be the way to wrangle society away from their dependency on television? I for one would watch less TV if I were paying per-view. Which is not to say I'm for PPV television, but their might be at least a silver lining should it become a reality.
This is definitely plus for all the AMD buffs out there. Also good for the company. Provided this becomes a little cheaper, this and the Hammer could really give a boost to AMD's market share.
The name's Captain Smooth buddy.
Would you really go so far as to compare RMS to a terrorist? This man is a revolutionary, and should be treated as so. Check out http://www.stallman.org. RMS is possibly the world's biggest activist, and many of his causes are worthwhile. He certainly isn't a saint, but don't take ordinary criticism to the level of flaming this man who has done so many wonderful things for OSS
that breaks the camels back for me. Though I am a devoted GNOME user, I use a P2 with 64 MB of ram, and you can imagine the sloth of Nautilus on that kind of machine. I LOVE Konquerer though, and have been looking for a good opportunity to switch to KDE. Pending on finding out more about 3.0's performance on lower end machines, I think I may convert.
P.S. Has anyone tried KDE 3 on a PC thats ~350 MHz?
To suggest that the GPL is a rather trivial piece of work is obsurd. Stallman was the only one that wrote a liscence with provisions to prevent hijacking by proprietary technology. And it's not just Linux. Though you could argue the code for the Linux kernel might be the same under say the BSD or X11 liscence, theres no doubt Linux would be a shadow of it's former self if it weren't for the GNU project and other GPL software endeavors.
This is a good time for a next generation cooling system, as AMD's hammer chip will almost definitely require advanced cooling techniques to operate at safe levels.