It's basically the same move SCO pulled. Make huge infringement claims, but refuse to be specific. SCO never was able to show anything in the code, since they had pursued a copyright angle. Not to mention the way they kept dancing around it and saying different things in different courts. MS is smarter than that, playing a patent angle. But eventually they too are going to have to be specific about what infringes, and show why it infringes.
I'm pretty sure these types have no problem with e.g. Habitat for Humanity. As long as they can take a tax write-off for their contributions. Maybe they should try and outlaw that too. In a more general way, I kinda pity those who cannot value anything without dollar signs attached.
IMHO as a "grown-up" myself, the best video games include the simple ones: Pac-Man and Galaxis at the local Pizza Hut for a quarter. Either that or some BASIC on a console hooked up to your TV.
Ya know what? I remember when AltaVista, Yahoo, and HotBot were too big. AOL was too. Notice how the advertisers always find someplace else to go, they always go to whatever the latest hot new thing is. So no, I don't think there's anything new to see here.
I think its more important to realize that Firefox isn't tied to the underlying OS as much as IE is. That alone can make a huge difference. Combine that with Mozilla's relative transparency, and Firefox seems to be the better choice overall, despite plugin vulns. And I'm pretty sure that the plugin vulns could be contained by Firefox if the plugin vendors won't fix their stuff.
I guess I'm the only one. I did just fine with NS Navigator 4.72 on slackware, on a 486 with dialup no less, back in 1998. I had *no* crashes due to netscape, although X was somewhat of a bitch at times.
In other words, you want a business-class, leased line. So do I. After checking around, my cable provider actually has this, starting at $250 per month over existing copper.
It would be nice, but most of the For Profit software companies don't seem interested in getting along. They're competing.
As for myself, I don't think Linux needs world domination on the desktop, it does need interoperability though. Because interoperability (through truly open standards) is what gives people choice. That said, I would be happy with 20-30% Linux and/or Ooo on the desktop.
By "truly open standards, I don't mean the OOXML farce that was pulled through the ISO. Rather I mean something like the internet RFC's. Royalty-free, unencumbered, fully laid-out specs that anyone can follow.
You may have something there. I haven't considered myself to be a gamer since the Atari 800. Most of the games I play are found in the major distro repositories. When I do play, I like it to be fairly brainless and easy to pick up. No network connection required, no huge configuration, not necessary to personalize the characters, etc. The most intense game I play, which requires thinking, is chess. The most character game I play is Farmville -- and I *wish* there was a native linux port with offline play modes. I would actually pay for that even if it was closed source.
Otherwise I like things like tetris and asteroids.
I doubt it. My 75-year old step mother recently bought a wii so she could play bowling. It seems she was quite active in a local bowling league till her health started to go.
Seconded. I *strongly* prefer the old style where you could see what the original moderation was, and decide if it was "fair" or "unfair". And then click the "Metamoderate" button at the bottom of the page. The new system leaves me in the dark and wondering if it is effective, wondering what the results are.
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Actually, I check things daily. It would be pretty hard to get root from my home dir anyway, given things like selinux and apparmor, and just plain good sense. There are other ways also to lock things down so that not even root can do much without physical access and a boot disk.
I'm very interested in the new make target. Specifically, "make localmodconfig". It seems that this new target will check your current.config, and also check whatever modules are currently loaded. It then creates a new config file which only builds the modules you are currently using. This could be a great time and space saving, as opposed to building everything and the kitchen sink as distros tend to do. It gives you a fairly easy and sane way to truly tweak your kernel to fit your box, or script it to fit a whole bunch of non-similar boxes.
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Funny thing, that is *exactly* what SCO and Novell/SuSE are suing each other over right now. The trial starts Mar. 8
It's basically the same move SCO pulled. Make huge infringement claims, but refuse to be specific. SCO never was able to show anything in the code, since they had pursued a copyright angle. Not to mention the way they kept dancing around it and saying different things in different courts. MS is smarter than that, playing a patent angle. But eventually they too are going to have to be specific about what infringes, and show why it infringes.
I'm pretty sure these types have no problem with e.g. Habitat for Humanity. As long as they can take a tax write-off for their contributions. Maybe they should try and outlaw that too. In a more general way, I kinda pity those who cannot value anything without dollar signs attached.
IMHO as a "grown-up" myself, the best video games include the simple ones: Pac-Man and Galaxis at the local Pizza Hut for a quarter. Either that or some BASIC on a console hooked up to your TV.
Ya know what? I remember when AltaVista, Yahoo, and HotBot were too big. AOL was too. Notice how the advertisers always find someplace else to go, they always go to whatever the latest hot new thing is. So no, I don't think there's anything new to see here.
I think its more important to realize that Firefox isn't tied to the underlying OS as much as IE is. That alone can make a huge difference. Combine that with Mozilla's relative transparency, and Firefox seems to be the better choice overall, despite plugin vulns. And I'm pretty sure that the plugin vulns could be contained by Firefox if the plugin vendors won't fix their stuff.
Well, I only read "National Enquirer" for the articles, so... it's possible.
I guess I'm the only one. I did just fine with NS Navigator 4.72 on slackware, on a 486 with dialup no less, back in 1998. I had *no* crashes due to netscape, although X was somewhat of a bitch at times.
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In other words, you want a business-class, leased line. So do I. After checking around, my cable provider actually has this, starting at $250 per month over existing copper.
It would be nice, but most of the For Profit software companies don't seem interested in getting along. They're competing.
As for myself, I don't think Linux needs world domination on the desktop, it does need interoperability though. Because interoperability (through truly open standards) is what gives people choice. That said, I would be happy with 20-30% Linux and/or Ooo on the desktop.
By "truly open standards, I don't mean the OOXML farce that was pulled through the ISO. Rather I mean something like the internet RFC's. Royalty-free, unencumbered, fully laid-out specs that anyone can follow.
it would sell if you had interactive pr0n games...
No, I've lost count of the people who bought wii's. What is noteworthy about this is that a total non-gamer bought it and likes it.
You may have something there. I haven't considered myself to be a gamer since the Atari 800. Most of the games I play are found in the major distro repositories. When I do play, I like it to be fairly brainless and easy to pick up. No network connection required, no huge configuration, not necessary to personalize the characters, etc. The most intense game I play, which requires thinking, is chess. The most character game I play is Farmville -- and I *wish* there was a native linux port with offline play modes. I would actually pay for that even if it was closed source. Otherwise I like things like tetris and asteroids.
I doubt it. My 75-year old step mother recently bought a wii so she could play bowling. It seems she was quite active in a local bowling league till her health started to go.
Ah, I just can't do it. Can somebody else say it?
We could always discuss something else if you prefer.
Here we go again, clumsily trying to do the interoperability dance. It reminds me of deja vu all over again...
Seconded. I *strongly* prefer the old style where you could see what the original moderation was, and decide if it was "fair" or "unfair". And then click the "Metamoderate" button at the bottom of the page. The new system leaves me in the dark and wondering if it is effective, wondering what the results are.
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Does an IBM 7090 put me in the minority? I learned some fundamental concepts on one of those... a *long* time ago.
Actually, I check things daily. It would be pretty hard to get root from my home dir anyway, given things like selinux and apparmor, and just plain good sense. There are other ways also to lock things down so that not even root can do much without physical access and a boot disk.
There is. You can simply install it into $HOME/username/bin. That way, the worst that could happen is it trashes your home dir.
Ya know, I still play pacman and chess just fine with no box and no network required. Plenty of fun too, especially chess against human opponents.
I'm very interested in the new make target. Specifically, "make localmodconfig". It seems that this new target will check your current .config, and also check whatever modules are currently loaded. It then creates a new config file which only builds the modules you are currently using. This could be a great time and space saving, as opposed to building everything and the kitchen sink as distros tend to do. It gives you a fairly easy and sane way to truly tweak your kernel to fit your box, or script it to fit a whole bunch of non-similar boxes.