as they get older. Think back to a time when you were half your age you are now, aren't there some things you thought were right (or wrong) that you have since changed your mind on?
I know I have. I used to, for example, think welfare served a good and noble purpose. Not anymore.
You have somewhat of a point. The point however, is that makers like Dell, Samsung, Acer, etc have enough $$$ sitting in the banks to start writing their own drivers, and then approach companies like Adobe and strike up a partnership. "You write for X new OS, we put your software on our PCs"
Sure it's a gamble, but it beats slowly withering on the vine.
Potentially, but if you get enough people through, say kickstarter, (or some other crowd-sourcing site) to cough up enough dough, then bring that was of cash to Adobe and say "here is a million dollars, port PhotoShop to RedHat Linux" then maybe you'll have some adoption. Money talks, everything else is a dream
Applications. You want marketshare? Get real-world professional applications (Adobe alone would entice me) on board with your OS, otherwise you're simply dreaming.
Linux on the desktop was never even a remote reality for anyone sane enough to consider. Apple didn't kill it (for the same reason Windows, or BeOS, or OS/2 didn't), lack of professional applications did
Be bold, tell MS to piss off as the exclusive OS maker, and make new gear for a new OS.
Yes it came be done, BeOS for example, made by a handful of people, did things that no OS could for years.
Had any large PC maker had the balls to stand up to MS and supported it, think where it could have been by now. This is what we need, new thinking, new vision, MS is dragging (or holding) that down.
So go on HP, try it Dell, take the plunge Acer, be innovative Samsung, let go of the MS teat and see what you can accomplish.
Sounds like PeterB on arstechnica, excpet PB can't post one sentence free of profanity. He only got the mod role there on the forums by whining and crying about it. Knowledgeable, sure, but a complete asshole as well
We all agree on that, but I have to wonder where this is coming from? I don't mean from the (R) fellow, but where the money trail leads to. Maybe because I'm tired, but I can't think of who stands to monitarily benefit from this. Google? FBI? What's the point...?
Somewhere in the insane ramblings of the original Kim was the comment that no great breakthrough can come without great struggle.
Couple this ideology with the total worship of self-reliance and you can see where this is going: NK is too proud to ask for food from outsides (it would defeat their total self-reliance) even though it needs it, instead it rattles the sabre and makes threats, then 'agrees' to back down if the West will provide food.
Wash, rinse, repeat. It all comes together if you keep the first fact in mind. This is the way of NK and will be until the gov't is removed from power.
They were arrogant, and their digital products reflected this. The DCS line of Pro cameras were hugely expensive with some pretty severe limitations, and their consumer line was a joke. Rather than correcting that, they ignored the digital market and at the same time couldn't pick a new direction to go with their existing strengths and in the end, pissed it all away. Even now, they have no clue what they want to be, an ink and printer 'giant'? Give me a break.
Stop doing businees in and with China, entirely. Bring manufacturing and jobs back to your home country/state and improve your own damn economy./radical concept I know.
Off topic completely but I have a small photo blog (http://plaguedbethyangel.blogspot.com/ if anyone cares) and on the back-end I can see what browsers were used to visit my site, and iceweasel is one of those that has a non-zero percentage of visits. Always wondered what it was, figured it was something included in an obscure distro of Linux. Now I know better. So thanks for visiting all you iceweasel users!
I have photographed the Green Bank Radiotelescope a few times, that place is *massive*, pictures don't do it justice, I mean it's really friggin' big.
Best I can show is this pic I took of the area
http://plaguedbethyangel.blogspot.com/2011/10/closer.html
I love it made the news (the GBR, not my pics) today
Amen to that! I've driven Italian sports cars for the past 22 years and hitting the 100mph+ mark is easily done and *very* controllable. Topped 135 in my old Alfa 164 once, smooth ride.
Slashdot Mirror
If this "research" will qualify for the Ig-Noble awards next year.
as they get older. Think back to a time when you were half your age you are now, aren't there some things you thought were right (or wrong) that you have since changed your mind on?
I know I have. I used to, for example, think welfare served a good and noble purpose. Not anymore.
The US will be "punished" because of this, despite the fact the emerging 3rd world has a pass on pollution because of past environmental treaties.
You watch, our taxes will go up again, so corporations can "clean up their act" (and pass the cost onto us)
You have somewhat of a point. The point however, is that makers like Dell, Samsung, Acer, etc have enough $$$ sitting in the banks to start writing their own drivers, and then approach companies like Adobe and strike up a partnership. "You write for X new OS, we put your software on our PCs"
Sure it's a gamble, but it beats slowly withering on the vine.
Potentially, but if you get enough people through, say kickstarter, (or some other crowd-sourcing site) to cough up enough dough, then bring that was of cash to Adobe and say "here is a million dollars, port PhotoShop to RedHat Linux" then maybe you'll have some adoption.
Money talks, everything else is a dream
Applications.
You want marketshare? Get real-world professional applications (Adobe alone would entice me) on board with your OS, otherwise you're simply dreaming.
Linux on the desktop was never even a remote reality for anyone sane enough to consider. Apple didn't kill it (for the same reason Windows, or BeOS, or OS/2 didn't), lack of professional applications did
Be bold, tell MS to piss off as the exclusive OS maker, and make new gear for a new OS.
Yes it came be done, BeOS for example, made by a handful of people, did things that no OS could for years.
Had any large PC maker had the balls to stand up to MS and supported it, think where it could have been by now.
This is what we need, new thinking, new vision, MS is dragging (or holding) that down.
So go on HP, try it Dell, take the plunge Acer, be innovative Samsung, let go of the MS teat and see what you can accomplish.
To see my enemies buried. After that, I don't care.
It's got two things going for it
(a) it's a manual
(b) it's a TVR
(for those that don't get (b), you really have to know what you are doing to start one, look up Top Gear for more info)
Joylent (green) is no long made of people? ...sorry, couldn't resist
Sounds like PeterB on arstechnica, excpet PB can't post one sentence free of profanity. He only got the mod role there on the forums by whining and crying about it. Knowledgeable, sure, but a complete asshole as well
Very accessible, minimal (or none) profanity and sex, very funny (Jed the Dead) and insightful (Nor Crystal Tears)
ADF all the way.
something was named Icarus, it went down in flames.
We all agree on that, but I have to wonder where this is coming from? I don't mean from the (R) fellow, but where the money trail leads to. Maybe because I'm tired, but I can't think of who stands to monitarily benefit from this. Google? FBI? What's the point...?
Nitpick mode on:
It's not 'poisonous', it's 'venomous'
Somewhere in the insane ramblings of the original Kim was the comment that no great breakthrough can come without great struggle.
Couple this ideology with the total worship of self-reliance and you can see where this is going:
NK is too proud to ask for food from outsides (it would defeat their total self-reliance) even though it needs it, instead it rattles the sabre and makes threats, then 'agrees' to back down if the West will provide food.
Wash, rinse, repeat. It all comes together if you keep the first fact in mind. This is the way of NK and will be until the gov't is removed from power.
They were arrogant, and their digital products reflected this. The DCS line of Pro cameras were hugely expensive with some pretty severe limitations, and their consumer line was a joke.
Rather than correcting that, they ignored the digital market and at the same time couldn't pick a new direction to go with their existing strengths and in the end, pissed it all away. Even now, they have no clue what they want to be, an ink and printer 'giant'? Give me a break.
Threaten them (the US) with calling in all the outstanding monitary loans it owes. You know, "sign this, or become the next Greece" sort of thing.
Stop doing businees in and with China, entirely. /radical concept I know.
Bring manufacturing and jobs back to your home country/state and improve your own damn economy.
Iceweasel-
Off topic completely but I have a small photo blog (http://plaguedbethyangel.blogspot.com/ if anyone cares) and on the back-end I can see what browsers were used to visit my site, and iceweasel is one of those that has a non-zero percentage of visits. Always wondered what it was, figured it was something included in an obscure distro of Linux. Now I know better. So thanks for visiting all you iceweasel users!
(end off topic post)
Is a case against some Dell folks for massive insider trading scam.
Wanna take a whild guess as to who gets more jail time?
TVs "just worked"?
You turned them on, flipped tot he station you wanted, and away you went.
I can't imagine a "smart" TV now. Gotta update the thing like an xbox360 before you can watch it? TVs that crash and require rebooting?
Where's the advance here?
What if all teh stuff on G+ is private, will it show search results for that anyway?
Seems to me, that with the wrong permissions set, it would be easy to find out information that was supposed to be private.
Or am I mis-thinking this?
I have photographed the Green Bank Radiotelescope a few times, that place is *massive*, pictures don't do it justice, I mean it's really friggin' big. Best I can show is this pic I took of the area http://plaguedbethyangel.blogspot.com/2011/10/closer.html I love it made the news (the GBR, not my pics) today
Amen to that! I've driven Italian sports cars for the past 22 years and hitting the 100mph+ mark is easily done and *very* controllable.
Topped 135 in my old Alfa 164 once, smooth ride.