If you carefully select fewer than a dozen on-topic keywords, Google does seem to respect them. I have had success getting pages listed on terms that are not in the page's text but are in the keywords meta tag. Google also seems to be very good at detecting keyword spam, though, so tread carefully.
Amen, if Peachtree and Quicken were on Linux, and maybe AutoCAD,...what business would need Vista for much of anything? Bring on the proprietary apps alongside the free ones!
Isn't that what he said at the end of every episode of ST:TNG?
"Set course and N-Gage."
Meanwhile, all these years I thought he was talking about his model train layout.
The once-common floppy disk drive seeks track-to-track at 3 milliseconds. A system seven times faster will feel like when you traded your floppy disk for that first hard drive. Zow!
Grammar check, people! "Firmware" is a collective noun, like "clothing." You have one piece of clothing, two pieces of clothing. In this case, it is used in the collective sense, so it should be:
customizable with third party firmware.
Nonsense! If I write a song, under what law could I possibly have involuntarily and unknowingly entered a contract? That is theft, and clearly impossible.
Or are you saying Microsoft has rights to any software I write, too? That Disney has rights to any screenplays I write?
Dear Ferrari, I bought a brand new Ferrari last year and this year you have a new model available, but I'm still stuck paying for the old one! Waaah!... what a bunch of spoilt little brats some apple users must be.
He might have been carrying a driver's license, but we do not have identity papers in this country. You are under no obligation to use your driver's license, should you happen to have one, for anything but driving a motor vehicle; and certainly not to show it to anyone other than a police officer and only when you are driving.
Amen to that! PC-DOS 2.0 on 180K floppy disks seemed like a step in the right direction. Why, there was even support for those fancy double-sided floppies! Subdirectories! Pipes (of a mangled sort)! Redirection! There was even a way to set your command-switch character to '-' instead of '/'! Yes, you could type: 'dir -w' for a wide listing... But then they never went any further, never changed the underlying CP/M-ness of the thing... I had almost forgotten.
The vast majority of computer users are not system administrators. For them, having someone -- whether it's the company administrator down the hall, or Google somewhere out there -- shepherd their data is a great reassurance.
99% of people don't host their own websites, so they depend on someone else to do it. Would Stallman say it's bad for those people to give that person or hosting company control over their data?
I am 42, had a computer since '77 but never had cable. My parents are in their 80s and never had cable.
I can't believe anyone would pay $500 or $1000 a year to watch television. Put it another way, cut the Pay TV bill and in twenty years you get a free car!
Mom and dad bought a digital decoder box but it's a huge pain with yet another remote control and umpteen volume controls that all fight each other. What a pointless disaster.
As a philosophical matter, this proves you can make a fully functional, fully featured distro without even one bit of proprietary software.
As a practical matter, if you try this distro and find you can do everything you care to do, except 'n' percent, then you know that you only depend on proprietary software for '100-n' percent. As 'n' approaches zero, Microsoft and its ilk become ever less important to the world.
Hmm, don't you just mean "contains firmware"...? You don't have "a software" or "a clothing" -- you have a piece of software, or a piece of clothing... "firmware" is likewise plural.
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If you carefully select fewer than a dozen on-topic keywords, Google does seem to respect them. I have had success getting pages listed on terms that are not in the page's text but are in the keywords meta tag. Google also seems to be very good at detecting keyword spam, though, so tread carefully.
Amen, if Peachtree and Quicken were on Linux, and maybe AutoCAD, ...what business would need Vista for much of anything? Bring on the proprietary apps alongside the free ones!
Slashdot doesn't have a special case for posts like this, which should get moderator points added for being offtopic.
Just because it's [allegedly] a consensus doesn't mean it's correct.
see also: Global Warming
number-sign octothorpe ...
They better be careful with that logo, it looks suspiciously like the AT&T "Deathstar."
Um... no? Anyone at a house or an office with a land-line can answer it. Who can answer my cellphone when it's in my briefcase that I left in the car?
Isn't that what he said at the end of every episode of ST:TNG? "Set course and N-Gage." Meanwhile, all these years I thought he was talking about his model train layout.
You were making a good point until you resorted to profanity, which shot you right down from the sky. Such a shame.
My favorite console, for look and feel and touch, was always the VT05.
The once-common floppy disk drive seeks track-to-track at 3 milliseconds. A system seven times faster will feel like when you traded your floppy disk for that first hard drive. Zow!
Grammar check, people! "Firmware" is a collective noun, like "clothing." You have one piece of clothing, two pieces of clothing. In this case, it is used in the collective sense, so it should be: customizable with third party firmware.
you misspelled "Banksy"
Nonsense! If I write a song, under what law could I possibly have involuntarily and unknowingly entered a contract? That is theft, and clearly impossible.
Or are you saying Microsoft has rights to any software I write, too? That Disney has rights to any screenplays I write?
Prove it.
Dear Ferrari, I bought a brand new Ferrari last year and this year you have a new model available, but I'm still stuck paying for the old one! Waaah! ... what a bunch of spoilt little brats some apple users must be.
He might have been carrying a driver's license, but we do not have identity papers in this country. You are under no obligation to use your driver's license, should you happen to have one, for anything but driving a motor vehicle; and certainly not to show it to anyone other than a police officer and only when you are driving.
Why shouldn't you tip a fly, if he gives good service? Honestly.
Amen to that! PC-DOS 2.0 on 180K floppy disks seemed like a step in the right direction. Why, there was even support for those fancy double-sided floppies! Subdirectories! Pipes (of a mangled sort)! Redirection! There was even a way to set your command-switch character to '-' instead of '/'! Yes, you could type: 'dir -w' for a wide listing... But then they never went any further, never changed the underlying CP/M-ness of the thing... I had almost forgotten.
There's also this Side-by-side quick-reference chart for (emacs/vi) users stuck with (vi/emacs).
It's all because of SUV drivers and people who refuse to recycle.
Michael Moore documentary at a theatre near you soon!
The vast majority of computer users are not system administrators. For them, having someone -- whether it's the company administrator down the hall, or Google somewhere out there -- shepherd their data is a great reassurance.
99% of people don't host their own websites, so they depend on someone else to do it. Would Stallman say it's bad for those people to give that person or hosting company control over their data?
I am 42, had a computer since '77 but never had cable. My parents are in their 80s and never had cable.
I can't believe anyone would pay $500 or $1000 a year to watch television. Put it another way, cut the Pay TV bill and in twenty years you get a free car!
Mom and dad bought a digital decoder box but it's a huge pain with yet another remote control and umpteen volume controls that all fight each other. What a pointless disaster.
As a philosophical matter, this proves you can make a fully functional, fully featured distro without even one bit of proprietary software.
As a practical matter, if you try this distro and find you can do everything you care to do, except 'n' percent, then you know that you only depend on proprietary software for '100-n' percent. As 'n' approaches zero, Microsoft and its ilk become ever less important to the world.
Amazingly enough, thousands of years ago they must have also had a leader who was simultaneously a bumbling idiot and an evil genius.
We know this because Weather doesn't exist since those secret Tinfoil Weather Control Satellites turned it into Climate Change.
... a memory chip... that contains a firmware
Hmm, don't you just mean "contains firmware"...? You don't have "a software" or "a clothing" -- you have a piece of software, or a piece of clothing... "firmware" is likewise plural.
Excellent point, though.