Um, a 500-page paperback isn't really that big. The Schroedinger's Cat trilogy paperback is over 500 pages and not much more than an inch thick. It wasn't at all difficult to handle.
If you have never been able to finish a 500 page book, you are not well-read.
Also, last time I checked, both KDE and Windows XP had taskbar grouping which does roughly the same thing. (Although I don't remember the feature you're talking about.)
1. biff has been called biff since time immemorial. Every OS has illogical or obtuse application names -- hell, what's the difference between "Finder", "Chooser", and "Sherlock"? 2. Who's "you guys?" The development team of the Linux kernel? Every Linux user? I certainly don't want to lose my choice to use the Ion window manager and the naim instant messaging client and the Mozilla browser just because of some ill-advised quest for market share. 3. OS X has what, 4, 5 percent of the market? 4. Let's not even get into the i-apps on OS X. How is that any better than G or K or X or E-everything? 5. Firefox is Firefox, not Linux. The prefs are in different menu locations because of different conventions on the different platforms. Firefox already looks and feels too much like a Windows application on Linux. 6. Many distributions have graphical interfaces for manipulating system settings. All of the prominent desktop environments have settings dialogs as well. This shouldn't and doesn't prevent me from using a distribution (Slackware) that relies on directly editing configuration files. 7. When Windows has even the slightest amount of consistency in terms of preference windows (or, hell, file choosers), you may have a point. 8. Actually, you still wouldn't. KDE and GNOME applications both have perfectly good reasons to maintain consistency within themselves. Fans of GNOME don't want the clutter of KDE, and fans of KDE don't want the stark minimalism of GNOME. I don't want either. 9. Some people work on eye candy. Some don't. People work on what they want to. 10. Again, let me reiterate: I don't give a flying fuck what the PC manufacturers take notice of. As long as Slackware works fine on my machine, I'm perfectly content. "World domination" is not a goal. There's no valid reason that Linux should be prominent over any other free (as in freedom) operating system. Choice is good. 11. Finally: Enlightenment users are currently a minority of Linux users. You can't use a specific complaint about the former to damn the latter.
The point is that it's not really that much better than the aforementioned PDFs. On one hand, you have a browser plugin. On the other hand, you have a browser upgrade that may require an OS upgrade as well. Six of one, half dozen of the other.
" The Free Software Foundation follows the rule that we cannot install any proprietary program on our computers except temporarily for the specific purpose of writing a free replacement for that very program. Aside from that, we feel there is no possible excuse for installing a proprietary program.
For example, we felt justified in installing Unix on our computer in the 1980s, because we were using it to write a free replacement for Unix. Nowadays, since free operating systems are available, the excuse is no longer applicable; we have eliminated all our non-free operating systems, and any new computer we install must run a completely free operating system." (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#Pro prietarySoftware)
The FSF doesn't seem to condone or support unauthorized copying and use of proprietary software, considering that it's still proprietary software. If there is a free alternative, there is absolutely no excuse to use proprietary software, whether or not you pay for it.
Hell, I'll extend that remark. I see more consciousness evident in a 6-month-old cat than a 6-month-old human anytime. Same with most animals, really, even ones who develop relatively slowly (elephants, for example). The reason for this is mostly because humans are born rather immature.
Regardless, one needs to be very careful in defining consciousness.
Actually, first you have to show that non-human animals are not conscious for a given definition of consciousness. You'd also have to take into account newborn children and the seriously mentally disabled -- are they conscious or not?
As far as I can tell, there is more going on in the head of a 2-year-old cat than a 6-month-old human.
"Under Capitalism, almost everyone ends up with more pie every year."
Except in times of depression, of course. And in hyperinflationary periods. Or when the median wage is stagnant or dropping. Or in most third-world companies under colonial industrialism.
The actual truth is that socialism does not prevent growth. The socialist nations of Europe aren't in depression; hell, even the Soviet Union experienced continual economic growth. The fact that socialist economies grow more slowly than capitalist ones is only an issue from the capitalist standpoint that economic growth is an absolute good.
Socialism, on the other hand, is a belief that economic growth must take second seat to the material security and personal freedom of each person. (I do not accept Stalinism, Maoism, etc. as socialist.) It's interesting to me that capitalism is defended in terms of overall prosperity rather than individual prosperity, considering that socialism is always accused of valuing the group over the individual.
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Um, a 500-page paperback isn't really that big. The Schroedinger's Cat trilogy paperback is over 500 pages and not much more than an inch thick. It wasn't at all difficult to handle.
If you have never been able to finish a 500 page book, you are not well-read.
Linspire produces non-free software, which is directly counter to the Debian project's goals. I don't know about Xandros.
1972, actually. Last time I checked, Greenpeace was non-violent and always has been.
Of course, if you consider civil disobedience to be "criminal eco-terrorism", then I might see where you're coming from.
Twain attributed it to Benjamin Disraeli, actually.
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_v._Microsoft
Also, last time I checked, both KDE and Windows XP had taskbar grouping which does roughly the same thing. (Although I don't remember the feature you're talking about.)
1. biff has been called biff since time immemorial. Every OS has illogical or obtuse application names -- hell, what's the difference between "Finder", "Chooser", and "Sherlock"?
2. Who's "you guys?" The development team of the Linux kernel? Every Linux user? I certainly don't want to lose my choice to use the Ion window manager and the naim instant messaging client and the Mozilla browser just because of some ill-advised quest for market share.
3. OS X has what, 4, 5 percent of the market?
4. Let's not even get into the i-apps on OS X. How is that any better than G or K or X or E-everything?
5. Firefox is Firefox, not Linux. The prefs are in different menu locations because of different conventions on the different platforms. Firefox already looks and feels too much like a Windows application on Linux.
6. Many distributions have graphical interfaces for manipulating system settings. All of the prominent desktop environments have settings dialogs as well. This shouldn't and doesn't prevent me from using a distribution (Slackware) that relies on directly editing configuration files.
7. When Windows has even the slightest amount of consistency in terms of preference windows (or, hell, file choosers), you may have a point.
8. Actually, you still wouldn't. KDE and GNOME applications both have perfectly good reasons to maintain consistency within themselves. Fans of GNOME don't want the clutter of KDE, and fans of KDE don't want the stark minimalism of GNOME. I don't want either.
9. Some people work on eye candy. Some don't. People work on what they want to.
10. Again, let me reiterate: I don't give a flying fuck what the PC manufacturers take notice of. As long as Slackware works fine on my machine, I'm perfectly content. "World domination" is not a goal. There's no valid reason that Linux should be prominent over any other free (as in freedom) operating system. Choice is good.
11. Finally: Enlightenment users are currently a minority of Linux users. You can't use a specific complaint about the former to damn the latter.
Are you trying to make some sort of actual point, or are you expecting people to assume the inane worst?
Sid is always unstable. The new testing codename is Etch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Memory
They're related but different.
You are. The above poster was referring to virtual memory, not swap.
A few points:
1. Internet2 isn't a separate network. It's just a high-speed subset of the Internet. There is only one Internet, and IP is its protocol.
2. Do you really think that Bush is even aware of Internet2, much less that he was making a reference to it?
3. I don't recall any media reference to the "internets" statement. Every joke I've heard about it has been online.
It's not free software yet. There's the sticking point.
The point is that it's not really that much better than the aforementioned PDFs. On one hand, you have a browser plugin. On the other hand, you have a browser upgrade that may require an OS upgrade as well. Six of one, half dozen of the other.
Um. No problem? I'd say there's about a half-trillion problems with the military-industrial complex.
Of all the areas you could use as an example of lack of graft, you used the US military?
" The Free Software Foundation follows the rule that we cannot install any proprietary program on our computers except temporarily for the specific purpose of writing a free replacement for that very program. Aside from that, we feel there is no possible excuse for installing a proprietary program.
o prietarySoftware)
For example, we felt justified in installing Unix on our computer in the 1980s, because we were using it to write a free replacement for Unix. Nowadays, since free operating systems are available, the excuse is no longer applicable; we have eliminated all our non-free operating systems, and any new computer we install must run a completely free operating system." (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#Pr
The FSF doesn't seem to condone or support unauthorized copying and use of proprietary software, considering that it's still proprietary software. If there is a free alternative, there is absolutely no excuse to use proprietary software, whether or not you pay for it.
Or less.
Hell, I'll extend that remark. I see more consciousness evident in a 6-month-old cat than a 6-month-old human anytime. Same with most animals, really, even ones who develop relatively slowly (elephants, for example). The reason for this is mostly because humans are born rather immature.
Regardless, one needs to be very careful in defining consciousness.
Actually, first you have to show that non-human animals are not conscious for a given definition of consciousness. You'd also have to take into account newborn children and the seriously mentally disabled -- are they conscious or not?
As far as I can tell, there is more going on in the head of a 2-year-old cat than a 6-month-old human.
+1 Funny, use of word "Muslimism"
Also: there's been a religion based on sci-fi books for decades.
"Under Capitalism, almost everyone ends up with more pie every year."
Except in times of depression, of course. And in hyperinflationary periods. Or when the median wage is stagnant or dropping. Or in most third-world companies under colonial industrialism.
The actual truth is that socialism does not prevent growth. The socialist nations of Europe aren't in depression; hell, even the Soviet Union experienced continual economic growth. The fact that socialist economies grow more slowly than capitalist ones is only an issue from the capitalist standpoint that economic growth is an absolute good.
Socialism, on the other hand, is a belief that economic growth must take second seat to the material security and personal freedom of each person. (I do not accept Stalinism, Maoism, etc. as socialist.) It's interesting to me that capitalism is defended in terms of overall prosperity rather than individual prosperity, considering that socialism is always accused of valuing the group over the individual.
Why do you respect Eric Raymond? He certainly doesn't deserve any respect.
So you're about as credible as a Catholic priest telling us that Mother Church is going to fix that pesky pedophilia issue.
The main difference is that there's a lot more indoctrination at Microsoft, as far as I can tell.
"Sex Tips for Geeks" can make a strong man cry and have terrible nightmares of a hairy gnome talking about the clitoris.
Brrrr. Creepy.
It's called "possession with intent to distribute." And it's criminal law. The ruling applies to civil law.
"With enough buyers and sellers" is the issue. Most markets in modern industry are oligopolic, and they have been for decades.
Of course, American democracy is oligopolic too.