Actually I was just saying that they should release a GPL version since Linux is WAY more popular and run on WAY more systems than Solaris will ever be and maybe if they had a kernel driver available someone might actually give a fuck about ZFS. Since they don't you'll see people doing these stupid license work arounds when they *need* to use it (who knows why) and everyone else will continue not to care.
Not really sure what your rant was about, I stopped reading when I got to "Free" because you'd obviously missed the point. For the recond I think BSD is more "free" but that GPL does a better job of expanding freedom and is better. But we weren't talking about GPL vs BSD. We were talking about if anyone gives a fuck about ZFS, though I think you missed that part.
Because you can use ZFS on Linux now? Unless you could do that before. I don't use it so I don't know.
It'd be news if Sun would do The Right Thing(tm) and dual license it under the GPL. Though they'd probably go GPL3 and screw everything up just as much.
Seems to me that PS3 is doing pretty well. It's outselling 360 in Japan and selling about even here in the States. All that at a price tag that's basically twice as high. Of course 360 is selling about as well as the original xbox. So while it isn't exactly something to brag about, I wouldn't count Sony out yet. They've definitely got a good shot at being the dominant "HD" console this generation, and who knows how it'll be doing against Wii 3 or 4 years from now. Though I wouldn't put it past Sony to blow the chance that they have now since it won't be there forever and microsoft still has the chance to turn their fortunes around, too.
I guess I was just being redundant and agreeing with you. I'm not sure how much Bluray is going to matter for the "console wars" but it definitely has a better chance of giving Sony a boost than microsoft with their HD-DVD drive, especially in light of Disney (they sell a ton, regardless of quality) backing it exclusively and Blockbuster recently dropping HD-DVD at most of their stores.
Sony is actually in a very similar situation to Nintendo right now. It's totally their game to lose. The only difference is that it's a slightly different game given that the market today for HD consoles seems significantly smaller than for Wii. That and they aren't selling a billion consoles a day.
I don't know dude, "Playstation" kind of became synonymous with playing video games the way "Nintendo" was in the late 80s and early 90s. Plus they did sell 100 million of each of their consoles.
Of course, "xbox" is in a lot of circles the generic term for playing video games now and they've sold pretty horribly.
That's a pretty funny domain he's got there. Could he really not have found a better quality image of the Daikatana logo though? That shit's got more artifacts than the future site of a Mexican Walmart.
I'd rather we just ride it out until 2008 and get the democrat who wins then to sign the international war crimes treaty and ship these bastards off to The Hague.
None of them would want to come here if we stopped signing "free trade" agreements that allow our big corporations to move their jobs south of the border and pay the natives pennies on the dollar. Maybe you should stop supporting the assholes who make these deals so that you won't be up all night worrying about losing your minimum wage job to a Mexican, you dipshit.
Not sure what problems there would have been with KDE being based on Qt, other than it looking awesome. If you're referring to the FUD that just won't die about Qt having license incompatibility with GPL that wouldn't have been an issue since Qt licensed under the GPL well ahead of the release of Ubuntu.
The only real disadvantage I can see with going the KDE route is that there are a few apps that lack serious KDE-native alternatives to what exists for gnome (meaning gtk with the stupid file dialogs and all the bugs). I'm mostly thinking of GIMP. Though it's been stopped dead on usability for years and actually seems to be regressing so I'm not even sure it's worth mentioning. Think I'd rather hold my breath for a Linux-native port of Photoshop than for the GIMP developers to get serious about making it what it should be.
They use the argument about "believing" in global warming to get uncurious people with limited or no scientific education to question the reality. This is done because there is no credible case to make against the existence of global warming, and it's primarily or wholey man-made causes.
Some culture-specific information is not associated with any particular source. It is "common knowledge." As such, learning of this type of information generally bypasses critical analysis. A prototypical example is that of word meanings. Everyone uses the word "dog" to refer to dogs, so children easily learn that this is what they are called. Other examples include belief in germs and electricity. Their existence is generally assumed in day-to-day conversation and is not marked as uncertain; nobody says that they "believe in electricity." Hence even children and adults with little scientific background believe that these invisible entities really exist, a topic explored in detail by Paul Harris and his colleagues.
What they need is some kind of a lottery that gives out seats on an ejection panel. There will be a different one for each question asked. Maybe 100 people on each panel. When the candidates give their answers the panel votes on if they gave a complete answer (though theoretically not if the voter approves of the answer) and then for each candidate that fails three times they're dropped through a hole in the floor. What's in the hole will increase in painfulness in each successive debate. So the first debate it'll just be another floor, second it'll be like a 12 foot drop to a regular floor that someone might twist an ankle falling onto, and so on. I propose that the final debate have a 50 foot drop onto spikes in a pool of water filled with leeches and piranha. But not just regular piranha, these ones will have head-mounted lasers.
Of course there will need to be some research done into how to get fair and accurate panels. Most likely it'd require educated and informed voters, which is the one thing we lack most in the United States.
Maybe I'm just too sarcastic and ironic, but the funniest things often seem to be the most insightful... or maybe it's just so sad you have to laugh to keep from crying.
I think they stopped having funny effect karma because the "In Soviet Russia..." trolls were all at Excellent.
No, I insist that it seems easy to replace. If this is the case, then why hasn't someone done it? If it isn't the case, why not because it seems pretty fucking easy compared to a lot of things that are done?
There are already much better email clients and calendars that are at least as good, if not better. So why haven't they been integrated with a server platform similar (or at least comparable) to exchange? One would think that it would be a huge deal for a number of Linux vendors to supply an alternative since there isn't much else for any business use that you can't do just fine on Linux.
Being unable to win and being wrong are two completely different things. When you're a big company you settle out of court because you're wrong. When you're little you settle because you can't win. Which do you think this is?
Not that I particularly care. Exactly zero of these companies are major players in the Linux distribution game and I agree, it'll be news when Redhat and Ubuntu jump ship. But it'll be OVER when Pat sells out Slackware.
Pixel32 is pretty crappy on Linux. Beyond the look & feel being completely off and the Photoshop-like interface being a hassle to use since it doesn't respond to sloppy focus, it's also got a distinctly unstable feel to it... sort of like windows. I'd rather run Photoshop in WINE than deal with it.
The problem with the floating palettes in GIMP is mostly because you're using it on windows. If you use it on a Linux with focus follows mouse it's actually pretty nice. I'd say it's a huge improvement in that area over Photoshop. Not that GIMP isn't lacking in other areas, including but not limited to the interface, but the floating palettes most definitely isn't one of them. You're just running it on an inferior platform that it wasn't really designed (as much as GIMP is actually "designed") for.
The amount of paint.net suckling going on here makes me wonder how many of you guys are being paid off by microsoft, though maybe there really are more microsoft fanbois in the world than the quality of their products should warrant.
Who ever said there was an alternative? I just said it doesn't seem like it'd be that hard (relative to things that people are making) and that the front-end isn't that great. The only thing that I could see stopping people is that they don't think there's any way to break into the market. But even that doesn't tend to stop them from trying to compete, or at least clone as open source so why isn't there a serious alternative? Given how successful it's been for microsoft you'd at least think miguel de icaza would have had a go at making a b-rate copy by now.
Why would I use it for personal email? I don't run windows. I don't know how we got to the point where the only measure of the quality of a computer interface is how easily a complete idiot "gets it" on the first sit down, but it's probably the single biggest contributor to the lack of real progress in computer application interfaces.
The only real point you made was saying that outlook in combination with exchange/active directory can be a pretty powerful tool, and that actually doesn't address my comment at all. Actually you kind of backed me up by pointing out that outlook is pretty simple (people "just get it"), and thus easily copied and improved upon. You also didn't address the point that I was making implicitly, which is that the outlook interface, in addition to being simple and easy to duplicate (in form as well as function), is extremely clunky.
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Actually I was just saying that they should release a GPL version since Linux is WAY more popular and run on WAY more systems than Solaris will ever be and maybe if they had a kernel driver available someone might actually give a fuck about ZFS. Since they don't you'll see people doing these stupid license work arounds when they *need* to use it (who knows why) and everyone else will continue not to care.
Not really sure what your rant was about, I stopped reading when I got to "Free" because you'd obviously missed the point. For the recond I think BSD is more "free" but that GPL does a better job of expanding freedom and is better. But we weren't talking about GPL vs BSD. We were talking about if anyone gives a fuck about ZFS, though I think you missed that part.
Because you can use ZFS on Linux now? Unless you could do that before. I don't use it so I don't know.
It'd be news if Sun would do The Right Thing(tm) and dual license it under the GPL. Though they'd probably go GPL3 and screw everything up just as much.
Seems to me that PS3 is doing pretty well. It's outselling 360 in Japan and selling about even here in the States. All that at a price tag that's basically twice as high. Of course 360 is selling about as well as the original xbox. So while it isn't exactly something to brag about, I wouldn't count Sony out yet. They've definitely got a good shot at being the dominant "HD" console this generation, and who knows how it'll be doing against Wii 3 or 4 years from now. Though I wouldn't put it past Sony to blow the chance that they have now since it won't be there forever and microsoft still has the chance to turn their fortunes around, too.
I guess I was just being redundant and agreeing with you. I'm not sure how much Bluray is going to matter for the "console wars" but it definitely has a better chance of giving Sony a boost than microsoft with their HD-DVD drive, especially in light of Disney (they sell a ton, regardless of quality) backing it exclusively and Blockbuster recently dropping HD-DVD at most of their stores.
Sony is actually in a very similar situation to Nintendo right now. It's totally their game to lose. The only difference is that it's a slightly different game given that the market today for HD consoles seems significantly smaller than for Wii. That and they aren't selling a billion consoles a day.
I don't know dude, "Playstation" kind of became synonymous with playing video games the way "Nintendo" was in the late 80s and early 90s. Plus they did sell 100 million of each of their consoles.
Of course, "xbox" is in a lot of circles the generic term for playing video games now and they've sold pretty horribly.
You meant inferior, but I'll forgive you since I know you're using a mac and the keyboard has all the keys in funny places.
That's a pretty funny domain he's got there. Could he really not have found a better quality image of the Daikatana logo though? That shit's got more artifacts than the future site of a Mexican Walmart.
I'd rather we just ride it out until 2008 and get the democrat who wins then to sign the international war crimes treaty and ship these bastards off to The Hague.
Well they have to throw away their OS media so they can drop $130 on the yearly 0.1 update.
Probably the same way that they text and talk in the car right now: while they're driving.
None of them would want to come here if we stopped signing "free trade" agreements that allow our big corporations to move their jobs south of the border and pay the natives pennies on the dollar. Maybe you should stop supporting the assholes who make these deals so that you won't be up all night worrying about losing your minimum wage job to a Mexican, you dipshit.
Not sure what problems there would have been with KDE being based on Qt, other than it looking awesome. If you're referring to the FUD that just won't die about Qt having license incompatibility with GPL that wouldn't have been an issue since Qt licensed under the GPL well ahead of the release of Ubuntu.
The only real disadvantage I can see with going the KDE route is that there are a few apps that lack serious KDE-native alternatives to what exists for gnome (meaning gtk with the stupid file dialogs and all the bugs). I'm mostly thinking of GIMP. Though it's been stopped dead on usability for years and actually seems to be regressing so I'm not even sure it's worth mentioning. Think I'd rather hold my breath for a Linux-native port of Photoshop than for the GIMP developers to get serious about making it what it should be.
I agree he's a smart guy, which is why I'm having so much trouble figuring out why he picked gnome over KDE for Ubuntu.
Religion is hurting the world even more than whaling, and helping it a lot less too. Can we get rid of it, too?
This passage from Why Do Some People Resist Science?, By Paul Bloom and Deena Skolnick Weisberg, pretty much sums it up.
What they need is some kind of a lottery that gives out seats on an ejection panel. There will be a different one for each question asked. Maybe 100 people on each panel. When the candidates give their answers the panel votes on if they gave a complete answer (though theoretically not if the voter approves of the answer) and then for each candidate that fails three times they're dropped through a hole in the floor. What's in the hole will increase in painfulness in each successive debate. So the first debate it'll just be another floor, second it'll be like a 12 foot drop to a regular floor that someone might twist an ankle falling onto, and so on. I propose that the final debate have a 50 foot drop onto spikes in a pool of water filled with leeches and piranha. But not just regular piranha, these ones will have head-mounted lasers.
Of course there will need to be some research done into how to get fair and accurate panels. Most likely it'd require educated and informed voters, which is the one thing we lack most in the United States.
You guys are nuts. Morrowind was great!
Maybe I'm just too sarcastic and ironic, but the funniest things often seem to be the most insightful... or maybe it's just so sad you have to laugh to keep from crying.
I think they stopped having funny effect karma because the "In Soviet Russia..." trolls were all at Excellent.
Why not, most americans think that's how the universe was created. So it only makes sense that computers run on magic, too.
No, I insist that it seems easy to replace. If this is the case, then why hasn't someone done it? If it isn't the case, why not because it seems pretty fucking easy compared to a lot of things that are done?
There are already much better email clients and calendars that are at least as good, if not better. So why haven't they been integrated with a server platform similar (or at least comparable) to exchange? One would think that it would be a huge deal for a number of Linux vendors to supply an alternative since there isn't much else for any business use that you can't do just fine on Linux.
You know, he kind of has some good ideas and seems like a pretty bright guy. So can anyone please explain why he picked gnome for the default desktop?
Being unable to win and being wrong are two completely different things. When you're a big company you settle out of court because you're wrong. When you're little you settle because you can't win. Which do you think this is?
Not that I particularly care. Exactly zero of these companies are major players in the Linux distribution game and I agree, it'll be news when Redhat and Ubuntu jump ship. But it'll be OVER when Pat sells out Slackware.
Pixel32 is pretty crappy on Linux. Beyond the look & feel being completely off and the Photoshop-like interface being a hassle to use since it doesn't respond to sloppy focus, it's also got a distinctly unstable feel to it... sort of like windows. I'd rather run Photoshop in WINE than deal with it.
The problem with the floating palettes in GIMP is mostly because you're using it on windows. If you use it on a Linux with focus follows mouse it's actually pretty nice. I'd say it's a huge improvement in that area over Photoshop. Not that GIMP isn't lacking in other areas, including but not limited to the interface, but the floating palettes most definitely isn't one of them. You're just running it on an inferior platform that it wasn't really designed (as much as GIMP is actually "designed") for.
The amount of paint.net suckling going on here makes me wonder how many of you guys are being paid off by microsoft, though maybe there really are more microsoft fanbois in the world than the quality of their products should warrant.
Who ever said there was an alternative? I just said it doesn't seem like it'd be that hard (relative to things that people are making) and that the front-end isn't that great. The only thing that I could see stopping people is that they don't think there's any way to break into the market. But even that doesn't tend to stop them from trying to compete, or at least clone as open source so why isn't there a serious alternative? Given how successful it's been for microsoft you'd at least think miguel de icaza would have had a go at making a b-rate copy by now.
Why would I use it for personal email? I don't run windows. I don't know how we got to the point where the only measure of the quality of a computer interface is how easily a complete idiot "gets it" on the first sit down, but it's probably the single biggest contributor to the lack of real progress in computer application interfaces.
The only real point you made was saying that outlook in combination with exchange/active directory can be a pretty powerful tool, and that actually doesn't address my comment at all. Actually you kind of backed me up by pointing out that outlook is pretty simple (people "just get it"), and thus easily copied and improved upon. You also didn't address the point that I was making implicitly, which is that the outlook interface, in addition to being simple and easy to duplicate (in form as well as function), is extremely clunky.