This report seems like MS sponsored FUD to me. Apart from that, I just want to bitch and moan about those people who say "Linux isn't ready for the Desktop." I've run a fully functional Linux desktop for the past 5 years and I know plenty others who have done the same. Linux has been ready for the desktop for quite some time, whether YOU are ready for the Linux desktop is another matter.
Nonsense yourself, learn what R&D means... so free software has commercial developers researching and developing it's software? That's really nice of them to go ahead and develop the software for us.
Here's some examples of "free" software and how they were innovative...
sendmail - Ever heard of email? Thank sendmail. Open source, free software. I geuss outlook express is commercial innovation right?
The WorldWideWeb browser - Tim Berners-Lee's first implementation of a web browser. I see you read slashdot. You can thank open source innovation for making that possible. You can thank commercial cloning of open source for IE crash on an input statement.
Those are just two of thousands, I just chose the most widely used. Yes some open Source progs are clones of commercial ones, but the reverse is just as true.
You need too emerge sync bro.. the ebuild is in/usr/portage/x11-misc/karamba, but it's masked (at laest for me) as of right now. I just forced it and it seems to work fine though..
I wasn't impressed by the screen shots, and the features seem pretty weak in general, but the one thing I did like was the parental controls. Is there anything like this for Linux? I just implemented a bash script in about 30 seconds that did this. It simply changes the users login shell from/bin/false to/bin/bash between two given periods. Pretty basic, I know, but I really like the idea of parental controls within the OS, limiting time spent and what not.
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Winmodems are designed to use M$ Windows system calls to offload processing power from the hardware to the CPU. Same with Winprinters. This is why they have "Win" in the name. Why the hell should there be a law against this? I can still buy any REAL modem and it will work flawlessly with Linux. If your hardware doesn't work with Linux, get hardware that does. Start checking the HCL before you go to Best Buy.
I've seen other people choose HL too. For me it was in an area with the mutant shark things where you have to jump over some slippery broken metal walkways. I fell in the water, got attacked by one of the sharks, and made it out with like almost no health. I stood there for five minutes contemplating if I should go or turn back, and then stood for another five contemplating if I should actually be playing a game that made me feel like that.
Funny you should say that.. I try to replace all my games' soundtracks with Deftones:) Playing a heated game of Q3 to "Elite" is an intense experience:)
The game itself wasn't very entertaining but you'd go around forever without seeing Jason and then you would go into a room and he would be there stabbing you.. not very scary, but REALLY startling. I had to put the game down because of it.. ( and not cuz it sucked!)
" People with actual lives use Mandrake or Red Hat. People with l33t tendancies but an aversion to work use Gentoo. People who want to learn stuff use LFS."
This is a blatant troll. Please tell me we have at leat a few moderators with some critical thinking skills. It makes no sense. "Linux is for people who want to work, but Linux is for lazy people who think they are l33t." is all it amounts to. If you modded this up, you're an idiot.
So was it previously illegal? AKAIK, there are no laws against war driving, so while they may have protected this right, they didn't legalize it. Definately a step in the right direction, though.. it's so infrequent that we see lawmakers making laws to PROTECT our freedoms rather than remove them.
The answer to your question in easily inferable.Because they made the original decision to go with a one button mouse, the OS and Apps were developed around this construct. We still use a one button mouse with a Mac simply because that is how Macs were designed.
When the mouse was new people weren't used to using them, and Apple feared that more than one button would confuse people. It would be more familiar to do it like a keyboard where you have one key, but holding down a modifier key you can switch the functionality of they key. Apple went with this design simply for familiarity in concepts..
Ok, Balmer, let's see the actual innovation that your customers are seeing, that just isn't within the open source community. What is your answer to User Mode Linux? Nothing. You have nothing. Can I mount and reconfigure an ISO on the fly without special software with Windows? No.
Q: What can I do with MS that I can't do with Linux? A: Nothing.
Q: What can I do with Linux that I can't do with MS? A: A hell of alot.
Disagreed, completely and totally. Open Source projects are a labor of love, usually formulated with innovationm in the first place. Take things like UML (User Mode Linux).. that's innocation. Where's the Windows inside Windows security features? When xomeone starts an Open soure app, it's usually because they have an idea what they want a program to do, and nothing currently does it. Being paid doesn't make you more innovative, but being inspired does.
I'm a gentoo user and I play tons of games on my box. It's probably easier for a gentoo user to get a gaming system up and going because WineX is in the portage tree. There are also a ton of games and game servers in the portage tree including quake,q2,q3, ut2k3, and servers for them. Don't forget Gentoo is the distro that releases a live boot cd with the nvidia drivers and UT2k3 demo on it. People who say Linux isn't for games, just don't know how.
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This report seems like MS sponsored FUD to me. Apart from that, I just want to bitch and moan about those people who say "Linux isn't ready for the Desktop." I've run a fully functional Linux desktop for the past 5 years and I know plenty others who have done the same. Linux has been ready for the desktop for quite some time, whether YOU are ready for the Linux desktop is another matter.
Just FYI, rather than rebuilding from scratch you can just let portage know you installed it by using the --inject option with emerge.
Nonsense yourself, learn what R&D means... so free software has commercial developers researching and developing it's software? That's really nice of them to go ahead and develop the software for us.
Here's some examples of "free" software and how they were innovative...
sendmail - Ever heard of email? Thank sendmail. Open source, free software. I geuss outlook express is commercial innovation right?
The WorldWideWeb browser - Tim Berners-Lee's first implementation of a web browser. I see you read slashdot. You can thank open source innovation for making that possible. You can thank commercial cloning of open source for IE crash on an input statement.
Those are just two of thousands, I just chose the most widely used. Yes some open Source progs are clones of commercial ones, but the reverse is just as true.
You need too emerge sync bro.. the ebuild is in /usr/portage/x11-misc/karamba, but it's masked (at laest for me) as of right now. I just forced it and it seems to work fine though..
Then don't whine when your OS is obsoleted every 6 months and you have to pay to be anywhere near current.
I wasn't impressed by the screen shots, and the features seem pretty weak in general, but the one thing I did like was the parental controls. Is there anything like this for Linux? I just implemented a bash script in about 30 seconds that did this. It simply changes the users login shell from /bin/false to /bin/bash between two given periods. Pretty basic, I know, but I really like the idea of parental controls within the OS, limiting time spent and what not.
Winmodems are designed to use M$ Windows system calls to offload processing power from the hardware to the CPU. Same with Winprinters. This is why they have "Win" in the name. Why the hell should there be a law against this? I can still buy any REAL modem and it will work flawlessly with Linux. If your hardware doesn't work with Linux, get hardware that does. Start checking the HCL before you go to Best Buy.
M$ will keep pumping you for money as long as you keep shelling it out. Maybe now would be a good time for you to look into one of the alternatives.
I've seen other people choose HL too. For me it was in an area with the mutant shark things where you have to jump over some slippery broken metal walkways. I fell in the water, got attacked by one of the sharks, and made it out with like almost no health. I stood there for five minutes contemplating if I should go or turn back, and then stood for another five contemplating if I should actually be playing a game that made me feel like that.
Funny you should say that.. I try to replace all my games' soundtracks with Deftones :) Playing a heated game of Q3 to "Elite" is an intense experience :)
The game itself wasn't very entertaining but you'd go around forever without seeing Jason and then you would go into a room and he would be there stabbing you.. not very scary, but REALLY startling. I had to put the game down because of it.. ( and not cuz it sucked!)
As of 8:42 PM CT www.riaa.org could not be reached via Cox cable or Sprint's 3G network. I suspect a ddos in progress.
Maybe if I just keep on trying to ping it...
So you answered a rhetorical question. Everyone thinks you are stupid for answering rhetorical questions. Is that hard to understand?
But it's only abvailable on the internet on some channel called Kazaa. I forget which station that is, but they play really cool stuff!
I just moved to a new high school and was wondering what the best way to ensure I get beat up on a daily basis was.
" People with actual lives use Mandrake or Red Hat. People with l33t tendancies but an aversion to work use Gentoo. People who want to learn stuff use LFS."
This is a blatant troll. Please tell me we have at leat a few moderators with some critical thinking skills. It makes no sense. "Linux is for people who want to work, but Linux is for lazy people who think they are l33t." is all it amounts to. If you modded this up, you're an idiot.
That's just the old "Get some priorities" troll. Don't bother responding to trolls like this. In fact, why bother responding to AC at all?
So was it previously illegal? AKAIK, there are no laws against war driving, so while they may have protected this right, they didn't legalize it. Definately a step in the right direction, though.. it's so infrequent that we see lawmakers making laws to PROTECT our freedoms rather than remove them.
The answer to your question in easily inferable.Because they made the original decision to go with a one button mouse, the OS and Apps were developed around this construct. We still use a one button mouse with a Mac simply because that is how Macs were designed.
When the mouse was new people weren't used to using them, and Apple feared that more than one button would confuse people. It would be more familiar to do it like a keyboard where you have one key, but holding down a modifier key you can switch the functionality of they key. Apple went with this design simply for familiarity in concepts..
Ok, Balmer, let's see the actual innovation that your customers are seeing, that just isn't within the open source community. What is your answer to User Mode Linux? Nothing. You have nothing. Can I mount and reconfigure an ISO on the fly without special software with Windows? No.
Q: What can I do with MS that I can't do with Linux?
A: Nothing.
Q: What can I do with Linux that I can't do with MS?
A: A hell of alot.
Disagreed, completely and totally. Open Source projects are a labor of love, usually formulated with innovationm in the first place. Take things like UML (User Mode Linux).. that's innocation. Where's the Windows inside Windows security features? When xomeone starts an Open soure app, it's usually because they have an idea what they want a program to do, and nothing currently does it. Being paid doesn't make you more innovative, but being inspired does.
Right. Bow down to the DMCA and rid any traces of DeCSS you come across. SHouldn't be writing about stuff that might get you in trouble,...
I'm a gentoo user and I play tons of games on my box. It's probably easier for a gentoo user to get a gaming system up and going because WineX is in the portage tree. There are also a ton of games and game servers in the portage tree including quake,q2,q3, ut2k3, and servers for them. Don't forget Gentoo is the distro that releases a live boot cd with the nvidia drivers and UT2k3 demo on it. People who say Linux isn't for games, just don't know how.
Yes I know, I keep calling it that mistakenly, I blame the sea.
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