People that use Linux don't like to pay for software or deal with adware and shareware, so they have free second rate versions instead.
Where is your proof? How can you generalize that all users of Linux are freeloaders? I myself use Linux and I gladly pay for my Slackware CDs even though I can get them free off of an FTP site. I also donate to various project. I'd pay for all my games that I play.
How is Apache second rate to IIS? Infact, a of a lot of OS X is free software that's been bundled together. Hell, the core of OS X(Darwin) is opened sourced. Apache, Samba, GCC, and other tools and programs are bundled with OS X. So, going by what your saying, OS X must be second rate.
Don't make generalization about people. It's not nice, and for the most part are not true.
Who cares about the drivers, just give out the specs and the community can write their own drivers. The current excuse is both ATI and nVidia feel is that if they did that, the other company might steal the technology. What I don't understand with that reasoning is, wouldn't it be obvious if they did, and wouldn't they be fearful to even think about looking at them, since if they do they might taint their reputation and loose marketshare?
However, ATI atleast releases the specs to hardware that is no longer of value to them, I think it's currently 8500 and before. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I myself don't care what license the drivers are, I'm not a coder, and I wouldn't be able to anything with them anyway. Sure XDirectFB would be fun to play with for awhile, but I can survive without it. Xorg's next release is suppose to have compositing features anyway.
IIRC, the Clinton Administration was planning on throwing the book at Micrsoft, it wasn't until the Bush Administration was appointed by the Supreme Court, did the government loose intrest in pursuing the case and just all of a sudden wanted to settle.
It's Microsoft's choice to sell the X-Box and the media extender at the price is does. It's also my choice not to buy any of the games, and just to buy the X-Box and use it as a Linux machine, I see nothing immoral about it. I bought the hardware. They didn't license the hardware to me, there was no contract signed saying I wouldn't mod the box. I own the hardware, it's mine to do with as I wish.
Not only that an Excursion is the biggest pain to find a parking space in a city like area. I remember I was in Hoboken, NJ and there was this lady trying to find a parking space on the Main Street, in an Exursion. I must have saw here pass by atleast 10 times ( I guess she had to go fill up after that because she was low on gas).
That brings up a question, how many people does the FBI catch looking at child porn? Must not be a whole lot. When you think about there must be atleast a few million sick perverted minds out there. With the introduction of P2P it must make it even harder, because if your not downloading kiddie porn from the FBI(and why they would have it would be beyond me, that would mean they too are breaking the law), you couldn't get caught. So unless your caught in the act, there its very likely you won't get caught because most ISPs I know don't keep DHCP logs very long. Usually the people who get caught get caught because they were buying it and the FBI raided the seller or they admit to it. It must be like the RIAA suing P2P users, only a small amount gets caught.
Well, since they're somewhat chummy with the artists, they could allow the RIAA the rights to copy the music for that purpose.
It doesn't matter how chummy they are with the artists, the artists don't own the copyrights to the music they wrote. The music company the signed a deal with does. In each and every one of those contracts has a work-for-hire clause in them. The RIAA is the lobby and legal team for every one of it's members. That's their purpose.
It wasn't difficult but everytime I'd try an do an FTP install it was slow, very slow and I've tried different FTPs. It would take me about 2 hours to install when it would take 15 minutes tops to do a ISO install.
I think it's the Personal Edition, the FTP gives you Professional, but with the proprietary stuff left out. I wonder though if you can use an ftp to get extra packages that aren't included in this.
The differences is that there is always a confirmation dialog box that asks you if you want to install it(I'm pretty sure you can turn that off though, but then it's your fault if you get hit with spyware), it just won't install all by itself. It also will tell you it's unsigned and I don't think spyware will ever be signed.
Not really, just about any newbie distro (Fedora, Mandrake, SuSE), pushes pre-compiled kernels to usesrs so all they have to do is update the system, and reboot. If they were compiling their own kernel well they should know what do to do.
Just put these dickhead spammers in jail for 5-10 years for causing so much disruption and cost to the world.
Good you want them in jail, you can pay for them, but don't foot the bill on me. Jail is for dangerous criminals, that murder and rape people, all spammers need are heavy fines like perhaps 10 million USD when they get caught. Jails are overcrowed as is, I don't think adding spammers to them is helping the situation.
I read that in the next release there will be compositing implemented, right now though, there isn't much difference but some packages in X.org are updated that aren't in XFree 4.4. Xorg is the future, it's an X server that is actually put under an OPEN development model and patches are accepted, where XFree was not.
Vector graphics is where is going to be, screen size won't matter with vector graphics, as icons with stay in proportion with your resolution(such as svg which is a part of Cairo).
Once these technologies mature a bit, it will give Microsoft a run for their money. Xorg should have compositing by the summer(so I read), Xfixes and Xdamage are already part of it. Good bye David Dawes and your old XFree86.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that the 1.1 license is incompatible with the BSD license, and since NetBSD is under that license there is no problem, it may change later on to use Xorg and I'm sure it will because no operating system is really using XFree 4.4.
As for Slackware, I think they were going to change to Xorg anyway, but I think they weren't in a hurry to but the users speed up the change.
Companies purchase JDS by paying US$100 per year for each employee in the company--regardless of how many actually use the software.
So lets say I have 100,000 employees in my company and only 10 use JDS, but yet I still have to shell out 10 million a year. I think Sun will be hard pressed to find companies that will actually buy into a licensing scheme like that. I mean, I thought Sun's goal is to make money not to loose it and this isn't going to make them any money.
Yeah, I know of similar instances, a professor was found plagerizing many years later after he got his Ph.D when a student did research on him. He was fired, his Ph.D was invalidated, and all the student he taught had to retake that class or their degrees would also be nullified. That guy was probably sued for millions by his students.
I'd like to know all of the schools he went to before college, because no one should go to these schools because they obviously don't teach their students that plagiarism is wrong. It's common sense that you shouldn't copy.
The author of the works that he copied should sue this guy for copyright infringement. That will show him.
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Bah, this reminded me off some sad news about James Doohan, he's suffering from Alzeheimer's
People that use Linux don't like to pay for software or deal with adware and shareware, so they have free second rate versions instead.
Where is your proof? How can you generalize that all users of Linux are freeloaders? I myself use Linux and I gladly pay for my Slackware CDs even though I can get them free off of an FTP site. I also donate to various project. I'd pay for all my games that I play.
How is Apache second rate to IIS? Infact, a of a lot of OS X is free software that's been bundled together. Hell, the core of OS X(Darwin) is opened sourced. Apache, Samba, GCC, and other tools and programs are bundled with OS X. So, going by what your saying, OS X must be second rate.
Don't make generalization about people. It's not nice, and for the most part are not true.
Who cares about the drivers, just give out the specs and the community can write their own drivers. The current excuse is both ATI and nVidia feel is that if they did that, the other company might steal the technology. What I don't understand with that reasoning is, wouldn't it be obvious if they did, and wouldn't they be fearful to even think about looking at them, since if they do they might taint their reputation and loose marketshare?
However, ATI atleast releases the specs to hardware that is no longer of value to them, I think it's currently 8500 and before. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I myself don't care what license the drivers are, I'm not a coder, and I wouldn't be able to anything with them anyway. Sure XDirectFB would be fun to play with for awhile, but I can survive without it. Xorg's next release is suppose to have compositing features anyway.
IIRC, the Clinton Administration was planning on throwing the book at Micrsoft, it wasn't until the Bush Administration was appointed by the Supreme Court, did the government loose intrest in pursuing the case and just all of a sudden wanted to settle.
It's Microsoft's choice to sell the X-Box and the media extender at the price is does. It's also my choice not to buy any of the games, and just to buy the X-Box and use it as a Linux machine, I see nothing immoral about it. I bought the hardware. They didn't license the hardware to me, there was no contract signed saying I wouldn't mod the box. I own the hardware, it's mine to do with as I wish.
Not only that an Excursion is the biggest pain to find a parking space in a city like area. I remember I was in Hoboken, NJ and there was this lady trying to find a parking space on the Main Street, in an Exursion. I must have saw here pass by atleast 10 times ( I guess she had to go fill up after that because she was low on gas).
That brings up a question, how many people does the FBI catch looking at child porn? Must not be a whole lot. When you think about there must be atleast a few million sick perverted minds out there. With the introduction of P2P it must make it even harder, because if your not downloading kiddie porn from the FBI(and why they would have it would be beyond me, that would mean they too are breaking the law), you couldn't get caught. So unless your caught in the act, there its very likely you won't get caught because most ISPs I know don't keep DHCP logs very long. Usually the people who get caught get caught because they were buying it and the FBI raided the seller or they admit to it. It must be like the RIAA suing P2P users, only a small amount gets caught.
Last I check that was only if you picked KDE if you didn't it's only a one CD install.
It's a joke, BSD stands for Berkeley Software Distribution, and as we know "it's dying" (not really though).
Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing
Am I to take that this project will also be dying?
Well, since they're somewhat chummy with the artists, they could allow the RIAA the rights to copy the music for that purpose.
It doesn't matter how chummy they are with the artists, the artists don't own the copyrights to the music they wrote. The music company the signed a deal with does. In each and every one of those contracts has a work-for-hire clause in them. The RIAA is the lobby and legal team for every one of it's members. That's their purpose.
I wonder how long they keep those logs for? I'm a Comcast user, but I don't use Kazaa or anything similar. I 'm just curious to know though.
It wasn't difficult but everytime I'd try an do an FTP install it was slow, very slow and I've tried different FTPs. It would take me about 2 hours to install when it would take 15 minutes tops to do a ISO install.
I think it's the Personal Edition, the FTP gives you Professional, but with the proprietary stuff left out. I wonder though if you can use an ftp to get extra packages that aren't included in this.
The differences is that there is always a confirmation dialog box that asks you if you want to install it(I'm pretty sure you can turn that off though, but then it's your fault if you get hit with spyware), it just won't install all by itself. It also will tell you it's unsigned and I don't think spyware will ever be signed.
When you can bring an inflatable church along too.
Not really, just about any newbie distro (Fedora, Mandrake, SuSE), pushes pre-compiled kernels to usesrs so all they have to do is update the system, and reboot. If they were compiling their own kernel well they should know what do to do.
Just put these dickhead spammers in jail for 5-10 years for causing so much disruption and cost to the world.
Good you want them in jail, you can pay for them, but don't foot the bill on me. Jail is for dangerous criminals, that murder and rape people, all spammers need are heavy fines like perhaps 10 million USD when they get caught. Jails are overcrowed as is, I don't think adding spammers to them is helping the situation.
I read that in the next release there will be compositing implemented, right now though, there isn't much difference but some packages in X.org are updated that aren't in XFree 4.4. Xorg is the future, it's an X server that is actually put under an OPEN development model and patches are accepted, where XFree was not.
Not only that but they kept switching it's time slot so no one knew when it was on, and it could not develop a large enough fan base.
Vector graphics is where is going to be, screen size won't matter with vector graphics, as icons with stay in proportion with your resolution(such as svg which is a part of Cairo).
Once these technologies mature a bit, it will give Microsoft a run for their money. Xorg should have compositing by the summer(so I read), Xfixes and Xdamage are already part of it. Good bye David Dawes and your old XFree86.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think that the 1.1 license is incompatible with the BSD license, and since NetBSD is under that license there is no problem, it may change later on to use Xorg and I'm sure it will because no operating system is really using XFree 4.4.
As for Slackware, I think they were going to change to Xorg anyway, but I think they weren't in a hurry to but the users speed up the change.
Companies purchase JDS by paying US$100 per year for each employee in the company--regardless of how many actually use the software.
So lets say I have 100,000 employees in my company and only 10 use JDS, but yet I still have to shell out 10 million a year. I think Sun will be hard pressed to find companies that will actually buy into a licensing scheme like that. I mean, I thought Sun's goal is to make money not to loose it and this isn't going to make them any money.
Yeah, I know of similar instances, a professor was found plagerizing many years later after he got his Ph.D when a student did research on him. He was fired, his Ph.D was invalidated, and all the student he taught had to retake that class or their degrees would also be nullified. That guy was probably sued for millions by his students.
I'd like to know all of the schools he went to before college, because no one should go to these schools because they obviously don't teach their students that plagiarism is wrong. It's common sense that you shouldn't copy.
The author of the works that he copied should sue this guy for copyright infringement. That will show him.