I have been trying to use parts of KDE4 in my 8.04 and they are much farther from finish than Firefox. Firefox just works. I can't say the same about Kate (kate-kde4 package). I had to install 3.5 alongside it so I could work.
"As usual with Ubuntu they seem happy to ship whatever state it's in on the official launch date."
Sure that's why we had 6.06. Oh. Wait!
They got ff3b5 in because it's good enough. I have been using it for a couple weeks and I can vouch for it. As for unusable parts, they did not include the KDE4 environment because it is, as of right now, very shaky.
But it demands an explanation far more tortuous than I am able to build right now.
It goes something on the lines that the licenses Ubuntu is distributed under allow you to download, copy and share (that's the part with torrents - you download _and_ share at the same time) as long as you don't violate them. And the copyright part is what makes the licenses enforceable: because you can't get, copy and redistribute unless you honor the licenses and doing any of those without honoring them would be a copyright violation.
Unless you are a small kid going to school, your opinion doesn't count. If Sugar isn't for you, then install something else. It's not like the XO is DRM'ed and you can't install anything else.
If you want Puppy Linux, by all means do it. But, unless you are a trained educator, you shouldn't be the one who decides what experience the kids should have.
I don't know. I found this book deeply sad. It's probably because I became a father for the second time just before reading the book and I identified with the rebellious folks who decided to live in an island.
It's a book about change and the inevitable loss that comes with it.
If anyone is reading this, it's highly recommended.
"We will not kill all the enemy. We will not kill most of the enemy"
Let's face it: this unjust war's most durable consequence will be to stir anti-American feelings among radicals all over the world. If now you are fighting wars to defend yourselves against radical Muslims (and there is a huge "if" about the real reasons for this specific war), just wait for the backslash that will, inevitably, come.
This planet is becoming an increasingly bad place to inhabit. Too bad we have little option.
Actually, their job is to protect the interests of the country. Sometimes, that may involve invading a country or helping in someone else's war. Making the military fight an unjustified war to further private industry interests is beyond appalling.
But, most certainly, it is NOT the job of any part of the government to influence public opinion. This meddling compromises the very heart of a democracy, which is a properly informed population.
And, please, don't anybody else even begin saying the US is a republic and that it somehow precludes it being a democracy.
There will always be radicals. Some chose to blow people up, others blow themselves up and others become radical vegans and join PETA protests.
Most people know eating meat derives from a system based on the industrial production and killing of animals and it's not... well... nice to them. It's much more acceptable to be cruel to plants and eat their unborn children;-).
That said, I would stop all my natural meat consumption on moral grounds as soon as a viable alternative becomes available.
They win either way. If international standard organizations are discredited, Microsoft is more or less free to dictate their own "standards" and claim they are legitimate ones.
I would even risk to say they win _more_ by discrediting ISO than by winning approval on one and only one standard.
"In other words, all Microsoft has to do is open a hardware division of PCs they build that run Windows and they instantly have the moral high ground on more or less everything?"
Not a moral high ground, but if they stopped selling OSs for other computer makers, they would be in a far worse position regarding their power to abuse monopolies.
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I always thought BSD is the very current definition of what Unix is.
I love to say all the money spent in Microsoft products creates a lot of jobs in Redmond.
Bangalore is more likely, but ruins the punchline.
It's replacing a closed monopoly-abusing mono-culture with an open, free competing mono-culture.
I assume it's a vast improvement.
Let's go one step at a time.
Erm... I don't know what you are talking about.
I have used 6.06, 6.10. 7.04. 7.10 and now 8.04 and I can tell you 6.06 was, while unremarkable, quite stable.
And exactly how hard is to get a dev kit to unlock the boot process?
I have been trying to use parts of KDE4 in my 8.04 and they are much farther from finish than Firefox. Firefox just works. I can't say the same about Kate (kate-kde4 package). I had to install 3.5 alongside it so I could work.
"As usual with Ubuntu they seem happy to ship whatever state it's in on the official launch date."
Sure that's why we had 6.06. Oh. Wait!
They got ff3b5 in because it's good enough. I have been using it for a couple weeks and I can vouch for it. As for unusable parts, they did not include the KDE4 environment because it is, as of right now, very shaky.
Actually, it's not.
But it demands an explanation far more tortuous than I am able to build right now.
It goes something on the lines that the licenses Ubuntu is distributed under allow you to download, copy and share (that's the part with torrents - you download _and_ share at the same time) as long as you don't violate them. And the copyright part is what makes the licenses enforceable: because you can't get, copy and redistribute unless you honor the licenses and doing any of those without honoring them would be a copyright violation.
Unless you are a small kid going to school, your opinion doesn't count. If Sugar isn't for you, then install something else. It's not like the XO is DRM'ed and you can't install anything else.
If you want Puppy Linux, by all means do it. But, unless you are a trained educator, you shouldn't be the one who decides what experience the kids should have.
Sugar seems fine for them for now.
"I am one of those handicapped people who can not search Google or lookup on Wikipedia"
Funny. Very funny.
I for one welcome our overlord-joke-generator overlord-bots.
I don't know. I found this book deeply sad. It's probably because I became a father for the second time just before reading the book and I identified with the rebellious folks who decided to live in an island.
It's a book about change and the inevitable loss that comes with it.
If anyone is reading this, it's highly recommended.
This kind of processor is right at home in embedded applications. A new storage product or a new and vastly improved AppleTV may be coming.
;-)
Either that or a new Macintosh LC
"We will not kill all the enemy. We will not kill most of the enemy"
Let's face it: this unjust war's most durable consequence will be to stir anti-American feelings among radicals all over the world. If now you are fighting wars to defend yourselves against radical Muslims (and there is a huge "if" about the real reasons for this specific war), just wait for the backslash that will, inevitably, come.
This planet is becoming an increasingly bad place to inhabit. Too bad we have little option.
Actually, their job is to protect the interests of the country. Sometimes, that may involve invading a country or helping in someone else's war. Making the military fight an unjustified war to further private industry interests is beyond appalling.
But, most certainly, it is NOT the job of any part of the government to influence public opinion. This meddling compromises the very heart of a democracy, which is a properly informed population.
And, please, don't anybody else even begin saying the US is a republic and that it somehow precludes it being a democracy.
George? Is that you?
Arthur Clarke had a very nice short story about it.
There will always be radicals. Some chose to blow people up, others blow themselves up and others become radical vegans and join PETA protests.
;-).
Most people know eating meat derives from a system based on the industrial production and killing of animals and it's not... well... nice to them. It's much more acceptable to be cruel to plants and eat their unborn children
That said, I would stop all my natural meat consumption on moral grounds as soon as a viable alternative becomes available.
"Control is an illusion, order our comforting lie. From chaos, through chaos, into chaos we fly"
Likes the tagline. Where is it from?
You know... People may not realize, but this is one really brilliant solution.
They win either way. If international standard organizations are discredited, Microsoft is more or less free to dictate their own "standards" and claim they are legitimate ones.
I would even risk to say they win _more_ by discrediting ISO than by winning approval on one and only one standard.
Couldn't we mine the coconuts for nuclear fuel? ;-)
That would create a whole new meaning to the term "biofuel".
Yes, but that part of bouncing ideas off your colleagues and teachers is priceless.
You can't get that by teaching yourself.
Thanks.
The idea of a furry purring vehicle was somewhat disturbing.
"In other words, all Microsoft has to do is open a hardware division of PCs they build that run Windows and they instantly have the moral high ground on more or less everything?"
Not a moral high ground, but if they stopped selling OSs for other computer makers, they would be in a far worse position regarding their power to abuse monopolies.