You are forgeting the fact that the cheapest dual 1Ghz G4 cost 2,999.00 U$ and that is only for hardware and OS. Ad at least 459.95 U$ for the Office v. X for Mac that your Mom would like to use and you get ~3,300.00 U$ box. Well i don't know your Mom but mine would newer go for it. But on the other hand my Mom is very happy with her Linux box running "buggy GNOME" and so am I.
It's obvious that people at M$ are involved in testing games because they lose concentration, get angry easily and have trouble associating with others.
Well you can run Xconfigurator which will create a basic XF86Config file that you can fine tune later. It will allow you to choose multiple resolutions and depth (just select all resolutions you want to use). But if you are using nvidia drivers after that you should change your/etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file in the way you did it when installing drivers. Control+alt++ and control+alt+- should work just fine now.
The fact is that we don't know what Palladium with his hardware implementation will do. We are all just speculating. The expo with M$ will be a good place to ask them about it. The question is also who will certify the software that will be allowed to run on such hardware. I doubt that it will be M$. They are not authorized to give such certificates.
I don't see why Linux would not be certified. After all pirated software is no issue in GNU/Linux world. We don't break any licenses using our software. If they force DRM on mp3's that's ok.
GNU/Linux is a legitimate, legal OS. US Department of Defense is using it. German Parliament is using it... M$ can not just say that they don't approve it. I'm sure, that every OS will be certified and will be able to boot on such architecture. The Linux counter estimates that there are 18 million Linux users. Do you think M$ can say to all of us that we will have to use Windows in 2-4 years? And even if they can do you think we will change their minds by throwing rotten eggs at them on the expo? No, i don't see them as a threat they are just competition.
Yes they have balls to show up on the expo but we will have to show more balls in dealing with them on a professional basis and not to look at them with hate in our eyes despite the facts what they already did or will do to us.
If you take away a person's ability to make money from his art-- by reducing the economic value of an electronic copy of that art to zero-- you're removing one of the key motives to make that sort of art in the first place.
And i thought being an artist has something to do with the inner need of expressing your soul.
A starving artist may write poetry, but he'll never make...
Ever heard of Vincent Van Gogh?
The real point is that we are not speaking about the art here but about entertainment and entertainment is a business. All this steps are not made because "our poor artist" are hungry (look at Britney how skinny the poor girl is. She looks like she didn't had a good meal for ages) it is because their business lost 5%! And imagine the hard times this "artists" are going trough when they earn only 9,5 million $ instead of usual 10. Must be something like:
Producer: Sorry Britney, we lost 5 % this year.
Britney: What? But how? I've done everything you said.
Producer: Yes, but those pirates...
Britney: But that means that i will have to eat and show myself once per month in this filthy, cheap 5 star restaurants. What about my reputation?
Producer: I know. I'm sorry...
I am not saying that it is ok to copy mp3's. I am just saying that they don't have to many arguments that would persuade us to support them.
"...why we should welcome the poster-child of proprietary software to a GNU/Linux show."
Because we are open and free comunity! Let's show them (M$) that we are diferent then they are and don't exclude them or think of them as a threat which they are not. Why they would not be welcome? They will come to "our" house so let us behave like good hosts. Let them show that we can live with them if they can live with us. If they will insult us just show them the way out but let's not insult them for no reason.
Respect your enemies and newer underestimate them.
"...real corporation and not some unwashed hippies and commies."
Dear Sir!
I, as an unwashed communist hippie, am really happy for the fact that i do not fit into distinguished comunity of which You and Your beloved corporation are part.
Well you are responsible for your property. And your computer is your property. Like your friend can not grow marihuana in your garden or your pimpin friend can not turn your house into a brothel. You can not say "i didn't know" and walk away. YOU are responsible of what is hapening in your garden, house or on your computer. You are admin on your computer. You saw the changes and did not remove them so you agreed to EULA even if your cat pressed enter during installation.
300 broken dependencies? I gues that's what you get trying to install MSOffice.rpm. I mean windoze users use dependencies as a reason to spit on Linux but when they need to install vbrunXX.dll and fawk_knows_what.dll its just normal.
...edit XFree86-config... yes that's a tough one. It's real hard to open your text editor and change what you dont like. Oops sorry i forgot you actually have to use a keybord it's not point and click.
...linux breaks after you install it for someone... Well i wouldn't want YOU to install Linux for me 'cos i doubt that you are able to solve those 300 dependencies.
...it's all your fault, and they'll bitch forever about how crap linux is. When windows breaks they just reboot and carry on.
That just proves that Linux crashes are anusual and they are right to blame YOU. Everybody knows windows crash nothing new there.
I doubt that you can fix a bug also but the diference is that even if you knew how to write a patch to a M$ product you couldn't but you can for Linux. So with M$ product all your knowledge is useless and that could be a start of frustration.
Call me paranoid but i get a litle woried where this world is going to. I wonder what will be next. Some sort of ear implants that will disable you hearing music if you didn't pay for?
Legalyzing DoS attacks for big corporations is madness. The next news will be: M$ will DoS everyone who doesn't use Windows. "Dear Sir, by checking our logs we found out that you downloaded an Linux ISO. We will check your HD tomorow and if it is not removed we will be forced to destroy your computer."
I mean there must be milions of people who are downloading and sharing MP3's. You DoS 100000 of them and they get pissed this corporations will have a hard time staying connected to the internet. You'll have a hard time anouncing and selling new CD's on your web site. It will be an interesting war. On one side the big corporations with their advanced technology on the other side milions of angry users fighting for their freedom. It will be even more ineteresting if this will be Americas law only. The rest of the world could say: from 5 pm to 8 pm every day we'll split American servers and share our MP3's.
Violence will only brig out more violence and i wonder where all this violence will stop.
I don't download or share MP3's. I listen to shoutcasts so i'm not directly indagered but when i hear something like this it makes me go mad. Inernet is changing from free place into a jail in wich only big corporations can be happy. Nobody can stop theft an robberies in real world and corporations will fail stoping it on the internet to. They can only make life harder for many users of the internet. But remember that those same users are your customers and you need them. For me it's much easyer to stop buying CD's and listening to MP3's than take all this shit from you. Hell if you want to treat us like this you can even take the whole fawkin internet an shove it up your fat corporative arse then you can live in your perfect world browsing the internet alone.
If I were a conspiracy buff I'd think that MS created the security problems so that they could point to the "insecure internet" and offer some solution that benefits only them.
Nah, you are wrong. It benefits a lot of companies. If you want to stay virus free buy antivirus software. If you dont like intrusions buy a firewall product. If you want windows to look nice buy windowblinds. If you want a usable shell buy a shell replacement and dont even think of getting Litestep 'cos its free and takes explorer out of the shell making a system more stable so nobody will buy some sort of system mechanic anymore. No, no such thing! We will make sure that you can't install it on our next OS.
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...in my eyes is stil LiteStep.
The richest man is not the one who has the most but the one who needs the least.
That would be Bill Clinton. Bush is a gay who's father buyed the elections so the real Texas man would stop making fun of him.
Seams like MS sucks either way.
You should give Scribus a try.
That's why you can choose from over 400 diferent GTK themes.
If she turns into the METEOR GIRL Hollywood will probably sue her for copyright violation.
You are forgeting the fact that the cheapest dual 1Ghz G4 cost 2,999.00 U$ and that is only for hardware and OS. Ad at least 459.95 U$ for the Office v. X for Mac that your Mom would like to use and you get ~3,300.00 U$ box. Well i don't know your Mom but mine would newer go for it. But on the other hand my Mom is very happy with her Linux box running "buggy GNOME" and so am I.
It's obvious that people at M$ are involved in testing games because they lose concentration, get angry easily and have trouble associating with others.
No, they might even invented them
Well you can run Xconfigurator which will create a basic XF86Config file that you can fine tune later. It will allow you to choose multiple resolutions and depth (just select all resolutions you want to use). But if you are using nvidia drivers after that you should change your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file in the way you did it when installing drivers. Control+alt++ and control+alt+- should work just fine now.
The fact is that we don't know what Palladium with his hardware implementation will do. We are all just speculating. The expo with M$ will be a good place to ask them about it. The question is also who will certify the software that will be allowed to run on such hardware. I doubt that it will be M$. They are not authorized to give such certificates.
I don't see why Linux would not be certified. After all pirated software is no issue in GNU/Linux world. We don't break any licenses using our software. If they force DRM on mp3's that's ok.
GNU/Linux is a legitimate, legal OS. US Department of Defense is using it. German Parliament is using it... M$ can not just say that they don't approve it. I'm sure, that every OS will be certified and will be able to boot on such architecture. The Linux counter estimates that there are 18 million Linux users. Do you think M$ can say to all of us that we will have to use Windows in 2-4 years? And even if they can do you think we will change their minds by throwing rotten eggs at them on the expo? No, i don't see them as a threat they are just competition.
Yes they have balls to show up on the expo but we will have to show more balls in dealing with them on a professional basis and not to look at them with hate in our eyes despite the facts what they already did or will do to us.
That means yes but you can read all about it here.
And i thought being an artist has something to do with the inner need of expressing your soul.
Ever heard of Vincent Van Gogh?
The real point is that we are not speaking about the art here but about entertainment and entertainment is a business. All this steps are not made because "our poor artist" are hungry (look at Britney how skinny the poor girl is. She looks like she didn't had a good meal for ages) it is because their business lost 5%! And imagine the hard times this "artists" are going trough when they earn only 9,5 million $ instead of usual 10. Must be something like:
Producer: Sorry Britney, we lost 5 % this year.
Britney: What? But how? I've done everything you said.
Producer: Yes, but those pirates...
Britney: But that means that i will have to eat and show myself once per month in this filthy, cheap 5 star restaurants. What about my reputation?
Producer: I know. I'm sorry...
I am not saying that it is ok to copy mp3's. I am just saying that they don't have to many arguments that would persuade us to support them.
Because we are open and free comunity! Let's show them (M$) that we are diferent then they are and don't exclude them or think of them as a threat which they are not. Why they would not be welcome? They will come to "our" house so let us behave like good hosts. Let them show that we can live with them if they can live with us. If they will insult us just show them the way out but let's not insult them for no reason.
Respect your enemies and newer underestimate them.
Dear Sir!
I, as an unwashed communist hippie, am really happy for the fact that i do not fit into distinguished comunity of which You and Your beloved corporation are part.
Nah, it's Lokigames =O)
And someone wanted to convince me that there is no money to be made with free software.
Well you are responsible for your property. And your computer is your property. Like your friend can not grow marihuana in your garden or your pimpin friend can not turn your house into a brothel. You can not say "i didn't know" and walk away. YOU are responsible of what is hapening in your garden, house or on your computer. You are admin on your computer. You saw the changes and did not remove them so you agreed to EULA even if your cat pressed enter during installation.
300 broken dependencies? I gues that's what you get trying to install MSOffice.rpm. I mean windoze users use dependencies as a reason to spit on Linux but when they need to install vbrunXX.dll and fawk_knows_what.dll its just normal.
...edit XFree86-config... yes that's a tough one. It's real hard to open your text editor and change what you dont like. Oops sorry i forgot you actually have to use a keybord it's not point and click.
...linux breaks after you install it for someone... Well i wouldn't want YOU to install Linux for me 'cos i doubt that you are able to solve those 300 dependencies.
...it's all your fault, and they'll bitch forever about how crap linux is. When windows breaks they just reboot and carry on.
That just proves that Linux crashes are anusual and they are right to blame YOU. Everybody knows windows crash nothing new there.
I doubt that you can fix a bug also but the diference is that even if you knew how to write a patch to a M$ product you couldn't but you can for Linux. So with M$ product all your knowledge is useless and that could be a start of frustration.
Call me paranoid but i get a litle woried where this world is going to. I wonder what will be next. Some sort of ear implants that will disable you hearing music if you didn't pay for? Legalyzing DoS attacks for big corporations is madness. The next news will be: M$ will DoS everyone who doesn't use Windows. "Dear Sir, by checking our logs we found out that you downloaded an Linux ISO. We will check your HD tomorow and if it is not removed we will be forced to destroy your computer." I mean there must be milions of people who are downloading and sharing MP3's. You DoS 100000 of them and they get pissed this corporations will have a hard time staying connected to the internet. You'll have a hard time anouncing and selling new CD's on your web site. It will be an interesting war. On one side the big corporations with their advanced technology on the other side milions of angry users fighting for their freedom. It will be even more ineteresting if this will be Americas law only. The rest of the world could say: from 5 pm to 8 pm every day we'll split American servers and share our MP3's. Violence will only brig out more violence and i wonder where all this violence will stop. I don't download or share MP3's. I listen to shoutcasts so i'm not directly indagered but when i hear something like this it makes me go mad. Inernet is changing from free place into a jail in wich only big corporations can be happy. Nobody can stop theft an robberies in real world and corporations will fail stoping it on the internet to. They can only make life harder for many users of the internet. But remember that those same users are your customers and you need them. For me it's much easyer to stop buying CD's and listening to MP3's than take all this shit from you. Hell if you want to treat us like this you can even take the whole fawkin internet an shove it up your fat corporative arse then you can live in your perfect world browsing the internet alone.
So is yr dad!