The OS is user friendly. The CLI is much more user friendly than anything from M$. And that's what counts for me because, if used frequently, a CLI is much more efficient than a GUI.
There is no such thing as "GNU open source software". If it's GNU it's Free Software. It's like talking about motorized transport when you mean the car.
> I would imagine that many of those currently placing mines are those actively involved in > conflicts looking for a cheap way to do some damage. Not the U.S. military. (I could be wrong but I doubt it)
You are. The most recent US use of land mines was in Afghanistan. If you don't remember, they dropped not only yellow food packages but also bombs that would disintegrate into a large amount of small yellow -- land mines.
BWT I don't think this laser based anti-mine waepon really is news. I bet they are already researching on how to make their own mines resistant against such a weapon (in case someone evil gets it). It's just another turn in the armament race.
And those who laugh lodest is the PR department of M$. I actually can even hear them ROTFL in Redmont over here in germany - they have already eaten up all carpets.
> [...] none of which you actually bought and hence M$ doesn't get anything out of it.
You really think that? Didn't you give them something for the Xbox? Even if they lose some bucks on each Xbox it's a gain for them because they have already invested in the development and hardware/contracets they bought.
The more you sell, the less you lose. That is the rule of mass production.
And even if M$ loses money on each xbox they sell, they will gain because they lose less than not selling them at all. And they have already invested in the development and bought hardware or contracts.
Last but not least they won't sell them that cheap for a long time. In fact, as hardware gets cheaper by the day they just don't have to decrease their prices for some time to get into the profit zone.
So buying Xboxes to run Linux you must be fscking stupid or incredibly greedy.
> also I was going to buy the Linux PS2 add on for $200, but why buy that when I can buy a Xbox for the same price?
Because you don't have to sell your freedom. By buying XBoxes you are helping M$ - but they won't help you when they have extended their monopoly to the console market.
> Also don't you want to screw Microsoft? In order for Microsoft to make any money (or to break even for that matter) they need to sell something like 30 games per xbox user. (They get about $5 per game) Why? Because they are selling the XBox for less than is costs to make.
And why do you think they do it? They act like drug dealers trying to take over a market. As soon as they have crashed their opponents they will increase the price. OTOH once you have a wiXBox you are much more likely to buy a game for it, even if you usually run Linux on it. And finally M$ won't discount Xbox-Linux users from their XBox sales numbers but they will advertise increased XBox sales.
So in the long run the Linux on XBox project will hurt Linux/Free Software and not M$. The only thing that would hurt M$ would be a cheap XBox clone - apart from buying other hardware of course.
> It's pretty obvious that a trashed economy leads to disillusionment and a Government change, and since the Government controls the military, why not use it if it makes the voters happy - what they hay!
After all it's also a good opportunity to get rid of some atomic waste, ie depleted uranium.
Sh**, one time you forget to preview it's messed up. POT should be the default anyway.
> There is nothing preventing Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake, Debian, et. al. from creating their own RPM/deb wrapper utility that will take a binary tarball and install it onto their respective distribution, perhaps even parsing the list of required libraries and versions and mapping it to their dependency resolution mechanisms anyway.
Parsing the dependencies from the readme? ROTLFBTC
There is already a wrapper that will take an LSB (RPM, DEB,...) package and install it into different distributions. So we are already a step further from your suggestion.
And packaging in LSB (RPMv3) format just adds dependency information in a defined and machine readable format to a cpio archive. So this has no disatvantages over packaging with tar. > perhaps even parsing the list of required libraries and versions and mapping it to their dependency resolution mechanisms anyway.
> There is nothing preventing Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake, Debian, et. al. from creating their own RPM/deb wrapper utility that will take a binary tarball and install it onto their respective distribution, perhaps even parsing the list of required libraries and versions and mapping it to their dependency resolution mechanisms anyway.
Parsing the dependencies from the readme? ROTLFBTC
There is already a wrapper that will take an LSB (RPM, DEB,...) package and install it into different distributions. So we are already a step further from your suggestion. And packaging in LSB (RPMv3) format just adds dependency information in a defined and machine readable format to a cpio archive. So this has no disatvantages over packaging with tar.
> perhaps even parsing the list of required libraries and versions and mapping it to their dependency resolution mechanisms anyway.
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The OS is user friendly. The CLI is much more user friendly than anything from M$. And that's what counts for me because, if used frequently, a CLI is much more efficient than a GUI.
There is no such thing as "GNU open source software". If it's GNU it's Free Software.
It's like talking about motorized transport when you mean the car.
M$ no longer supports Windos NT, so there will be no NT7 to hit earth.
Finally they joined the losers:
"Windows 2000 users include [...], Arthur Andersen & Company"
> What's up with a national ID card? We've had such a thing for YEARS here in Spain.
And as we all know it completely eradicated terrorism there.
Is it to be sent to a harem?
> I just found the "Wine Party Fund" - did you know they accept beer donations for parties?
That's really strange. I'd have expected them to accept wine donations.
Yeah, just what I thought. Imagine you talk to someone about going to the library to get volume 9 ...
No, like the computer and the television the airplane was invented in germany. The americans just plugged a motor on, lazy as ever.
> I would imagine that many of those currently placing mines are those actively involved in
> conflicts looking for a cheap way to do some damage. Not the U.S. military. (I could be wrong but I doubt it)
You are. The most recent US use of land mines was in Afghanistan. If you don't remember, they dropped not only yellow food packages but also bombs that would disintegrate into a large amount of small yellow -- land mines.
BWT I don't think this laser based anti-mine waepon really is news. I bet they are already researching on how to make their own mines resistant against such a weapon (in case someone evil gets it). It's just another turn in the armament race.
... thought you'd just spread it across the countries where you fight wars or somesuch
And those who laugh lodest is the PR department of M$. I actually can even hear them ROTFL in Redmont over here in germany - they have already eaten up all carpets.
> [...] none of which you actually bought and hence M$ doesn't get anything out of it.
You really think that? Didn't you give them something for the Xbox? Even if they lose some bucks on each Xbox it's a gain for them because they have already invested in the development and hardware/contracets they bought.
M$ loses only if they DON'T sell Xboxes.
Just don't buy Xboxes then.
The more you sell, the less you lose. That is the rule of mass production.
And even if M$ loses money on each xbox they sell, they will gain because they lose less than not selling them at all. And they have already invested in the development and bought hardware or contracts.
Last but not least they won't sell them that cheap for a long time. In fact, as hardware gets cheaper by the day they just don't have to decrease their prices for some time to get into the profit zone.
So buying Xboxes to run Linux you must be fscking stupid or incredibly greedy.
> also I was going to buy the Linux PS2 add on for $200, but why buy that when I can buy a Xbox for the same price?
Because you don't have to sell your freedom. By buying XBoxes you are helping M$ - but they won't help you when they have extended their monopoly to the console market.
> Also don't you want to screw Microsoft? In order for Microsoft to make any money (or to break even for that matter) they need to sell something like 30 games per xbox user. (They get about $5 per game) Why? Because they are selling the XBox for less than is costs to make.
And why do you think they do it? They act like drug dealers trying to take over a market. As soon as they have crashed their opponents they will increase the price. OTOH once you have a wiXBox you are much more likely to buy a game for it, even if you usually run Linux on it. And finally M$ won't discount Xbox-Linux users from their XBox sales numbers but they will advertise increased XBox sales.
So in the long run the Linux on XBox project will hurt Linux/Free Software and not M$. The only thing that would hurt M$ would be a cheap XBox clone - apart from buying other hardware of course.
Not before we agree on measuring velocity in furlongs per fortnight.
I think the redundancy is with the article. There isn't anything really new to it in the first post.
> It's pretty obvious that a trashed economy leads to disillusionment and a Government change, and since the Government controls the military, why not use it if it makes the voters happy - what they hay!
After all it's also a good opportunity to get rid of some atomic waste, ie depleted uranium.
The correlation between energy consumption and GDP has been proven a myth in the last 30 years.
Hint: airconditioning uninsulated garages in California doesn't improve your GDP very much.
M$ "natural" keyboards look like you have put them on your stove when it was hot, and you need Billy-Boys hands to use them -- I can't.
The original apple ergonomic keyboard (where M$ got the idea from) at least had an adjustable angle and no oversized keys.
Sh**, one time you forget to preview it's messed up. POT should be the default anyway.
...) package and install it into different distributions. So we are already a step further from your suggestion.
> There is nothing preventing Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake, Debian, et. al. from creating their own RPM/deb wrapper utility that will take a binary tarball and install it onto their respective distribution, perhaps even parsing the list of required libraries and versions and mapping it to their dependency resolution mechanisms anyway.
Parsing the dependencies from the readme? ROTLFBTC
There is already a wrapper that will take an LSB (RPM, DEB,
And packaging in LSB (RPMv3) format just adds dependency information in a defined and machine readable format to a cpio archive. So this has no disatvantages over packaging with tar. > perhaps even parsing the list of required libraries and versions and mapping it to their dependency resolution mechanisms anyway.
> There is nothing preventing Red Hat, Suse, Mandrake, Debian, et. al. from creating their own RPM/deb wrapper utility that will take a binary tarball and install it onto their respective distribution, perhaps even parsing the list of required libraries and versions and mapping it to their dependency resolution mechanisms anyway. Parsing the dependencies from the readme? ROTLFBTC There is already a wrapper that will take an LSB (RPM, DEB, ...) package and install it into different distributions. So we are already a step further from your suggestion. And packaging in LSB (RPMv3) format just adds dependency information in a defined and machine readable format to a cpio archive. So this has no disatvantages over packaging with tar.
> perhaps even parsing the list of required libraries and versions and mapping it to their dependency resolution mechanisms anyway.
So I found the forward slash. It is the shifted 7. I tried to shift it once more using both shift keys but that didn't work.