I scored higher on my ACT than my younger brother did, and now he's making a lot more money than I am, and paid less for his education. Who's the fool?
I'm actually not too jealous of him, as I wouldn't want to do what he does, but being "smarter" doesn't mean that you're better.
I don't agree with software or business method patents in general (or genetics for that matter), but this is a hell of a lot better than BS patents being passed through and then someone having to pay through every orifice for having transgressed on a bogus patent. It's a stop-gap as far as I'm concerned. We can still fight the good fight against them, but until then, this is the best step we can take. Fixing one may make it more powerful, but it may also marginalize it enough with prior art that it becomes irrelevant instead of the "one click" type crap. If you're in an out of control car, the first step is taking your foot off the gas, not stepping on the brake.
Alcohol 52%. Great stuff. You can actually use Daemon Tools if you want, too. I do the same thing... it makes it quieter, too, since my laptop's DVD drive doesn't need to spin up.
By them accepting your signed application and putting it through, I'd think that would be as much acceptance as anyone could manage. They have to have had the last look at it before it was approved, and if they didn't read the contract, that's their problem.
Two words: file dialog. As soon as Gnome fixes that bastardization, I'll consider looking at it again. But when it's still a pain in the ass to save files from Firefox, I don't even want to think about a full GTK based system.
Huh. Personally (and I think many people think like I do), I "trust" Open Source software a lot more to do what I'm expecting it to do, and allow me to fiddle with it. Shareware, I don't even install because it'll probably hose something in my system and not perform as advertised. I really don't want open source software to become diluted because of people co-opting and perverting the term. The concept may predate the label, but the electronic world was a LOT smaller back then, and you could trust people more. Just like Mayberry vs. Metropolis. Aunt Bea didn't have to worry about someone else selling pies with her name in Mayberry, but if she moved to Metropolis, someone somewhere would start selling "Aunt Bea's Pies", and if she didn't protect her name, their preservative laden crap would start being equated with her pies. Which just ain't right. Hence, what OSI is doing.
"Where do you want to go today?" Let's let the market sort it out, free-for-all with trademarks, source code and everything. Because that's worked for us SO well in the past.
If OSI enforces "Open Source" to mean "I can see the source with no unknown strings attached", I'm all for it. Otherwise you get all kinds of crap riders with Open Source, so it will no longer be a meaningful phrase (see "dilution of trademark"). Do you really want the words "Open Source" to mean nothing? The same kind of connotation as "Shareware"?
Would you rather have nothing happen, and have the term "Open Source" be synonymous with "shareware" and the like? You can't ever have a guarantee that everything will work out perfectly, but that's no excuse to not try to do the right thing, to protect what's good.
Where do people get this mentality? It seems to be something common in my generation, much to my chagrin. And this is even with everyone getting an "A" for effort... oh, wait. Probably because of that. Never mind:)
1) Do not buy a laptop, they are built to self destruct with heat.
Damn... it must be my imagination that my 2.16GHz Core 2 Duo based laptop (even has a GeForce Go 7600 in it) has run heavy renders for over 24 hours continuously without any heat problems. Get a properly built laptop, and you don't have problems. Things have changed in the 8 years since you last looked at hardware.
Give me a fucking break, some people are so god damned clueless...
I'll second that. I got a Compal HGL30 rebrand (I think it's a PowerPro 8:14) from them, and it runs Kubuntu great, bluetooth and wireless both work, all the little function keys like web and email even work. I highly recommend the Compal brand, especially as sold by PowerNotebooks.
How so? If you want the benefits and bootstrapping of someone else's free code, play by the GPL's rules. Otherwise, write it yourself. It's not that hard of a concept. You get something for free to start with, but have to give your changes away for free too, or you just write something completely closed, but you have to write it end to end.
Very good, actually. I installed Ubuntu 7.04 X86-64, it detected my 1280x800 laptop screen with the nv driver by default, and just did "apt-get install nvidia-glx" and it upgraded properly to the accelerated drivers, never needed to tweak xorg.conf. I did, because I wanted to enable the extensions needed to run Beryl, but the base configuration even into generic 3D support was very straightforward, and didn't even need the command line if I had wanted to use Adept or Synaptic.
We should ban the Bible while we're at it, encouraging rape and stoning people to death. How about "Old Yeller"? I mean, shooting dogs HAS to be animal cruelty, and we can't be seen supporting that. And "To Kill a Mockingbird", because there's violence in there, too. None of those books are necessary.
How about you stop being a fucking pussy, and take some responsibility for the degradation of society by being perpetually afraid of everything and expecting the "government" to protect you from your own shadow? Games don't create violence. They simply reflect society's values, as all art does. Violence is inevitable when people are more willing to be a victim than to do something proactive to stop antisocial behavior. Start telling people that their kid is a brat, and that they're a jackass. Maybe if they hear it enough, they'll start to believe it.
Brand new? That won't happen until Linux has a larger market share.
But for installing? I stuck StarCraft in the other day, double-clicked "setup.exe", and it installed and ran perfectly under Wine. Nothing at all harder than Windows about it.
I also have Doom3 running natively. It had pretty clear instructions on how to do it... not quite stick the disc in and click setup, more like download the installer from the website (since it doesn't ship on the disc) and then copy a few files over manually. Really, nothing too difficult, and it was all quite documented.
Linux isn't quite the "click and run" you paint Windows to be, but then again, if you've ever had a LAN party, you'd realize that Windows isn't quite the click and run you paint it to be, either.
Yeah. How many times are those things overdiagnosed though? Sometimes s kid doesn't have ADHD, they're just an annoying little unmanageable twit that needs to be taught responsibility.
But they don't run RPC services listening to the world running with administrator privileges on OSX/Linux, unless you configure it that way. The problem is that with Windows, the hurdles are exceptionally low. With Linux/OSX, they're higher. Not insurmountable, but more than trivially annoying, which will severely limit the impact and expansion of a botnet. And if you don't have enough bots, you don't have much of a net, so the whole thing just falls apart.
I understand that Linux and OSX don't offer perfect security. But it's still a hell of a lot harder to get around it than it is on Windows.
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There might even have 4 if he's a boy.
I scored higher on my ACT than my younger brother did, and now he's making a lot more money than I am, and paid less for his education. Who's the fool?
I'm actually not too jealous of him, as I wouldn't want to do what he does, but being "smarter" doesn't mean that you're better.
Great! Just what we're looking for... make it not worth filing for software patents.
I don't agree with software or business method patents in general (or genetics for that matter), but this is a hell of a lot better than BS patents being passed through and then someone having to pay through every orifice for having transgressed on a bogus patent. It's a stop-gap as far as I'm concerned. We can still fight the good fight against them, but until then, this is the best step we can take. Fixing one may make it more powerful, but it may also marginalize it enough with prior art that it becomes irrelevant instead of the "one click" type crap. If you're in an out of control car, the first step is taking your foot off the gas, not stepping on the brake.
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Alcohol 52%. Great stuff. You can actually use Daemon Tools if you want, too. I do the same thing... it makes it quieter, too, since my laptop's DVD drive doesn't need to spin up.
By them accepting your signed application and putting it through, I'd think that would be as much acceptance as anyone could manage. They have to have had the last look at it before it was approved, and if they didn't read the contract, that's their problem.
Of course, IANAL. I think logically, not legally.
Two words: file dialog. As soon as Gnome fixes that bastardization, I'll consider looking at it again. But when it's still a pain in the ass to save files from Firefox, I don't even want to think about a full GTK based system.
Huh. Personally (and I think many people think like I do), I "trust" Open Source software a lot more to do what I'm expecting it to do, and allow me to fiddle with it. Shareware, I don't even install because it'll probably hose something in my system and not perform as advertised. I really don't want open source software to become diluted because of people co-opting and perverting the term. The concept may predate the label, but the electronic world was a LOT smaller back then, and you could trust people more. Just like Mayberry vs. Metropolis. Aunt Bea didn't have to worry about someone else selling pies with her name in Mayberry, but if she moved to Metropolis, someone somewhere would start selling "Aunt Bea's Pies", and if she didn't protect her name, their preservative laden crap would start being equated with her pies. Which just ain't right. Hence, what OSI is doing.
"Where do you want to go today?" Let's let the market sort it out, free-for-all with trademarks, source code and everything. Because that's worked for us SO well in the past. If OSI enforces "Open Source" to mean "I can see the source with no unknown strings attached", I'm all for it. Otherwise you get all kinds of crap riders with Open Source, so it will no longer be a meaningful phrase (see "dilution of trademark"). Do you really want the words "Open Source" to mean nothing? The same kind of connotation as "Shareware"?
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Would you rather have nothing happen, and have the term "Open Source" be synonymous with "shareware" and the like? You can't ever have a guarantee that everything will work out perfectly, but that's no excuse to not try to do the right thing, to protect what's good.
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Where do people get this mentality? It seems to be something common in my generation, much to my chagrin. And this is even with everyone getting an "A" for effort... oh, wait. Probably because of that. Never mind
I'll second that. I got a Compal HGL30 rebrand (I think it's a PowerPro 8:14) from them, and it runs Kubuntu great, bluetooth and wireless both work, all the little function keys like web and email even work. I highly recommend the Compal brand, especially as sold by PowerNotebooks.
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Have fun reading!
Those "multicore monstrosities" are really quite elegant inside, they just have an x86 interface. I think you speak of what you do not know.
How so? If you want the benefits and bootstrapping of someone else's free code, play by the GPL's rules. Otherwise, write it yourself. It's not that hard of a concept. You get something for free to start with, but have to give your changes away for free too, or you just write something completely closed, but you have to write it end to end.
It's also one of the greatest strengths, cf. number of viruses on free software vs. "monoculture" systems.
Very good, actually. I installed Ubuntu 7.04 X86-64, it detected my 1280x800 laptop screen with the nv driver by default, and just did "apt-get install nvidia-glx" and it upgraded properly to the accelerated drivers, never needed to tweak xorg.conf. I did, because I wanted to enable the extensions needed to run Beryl, but the base configuration even into generic 3D support was very straightforward, and didn't even need the command line if I had wanted to use Adept or Synaptic.
We should ban the Bible while we're at it, encouraging rape and stoning people to death. How about "Old Yeller"? I mean, shooting dogs HAS to be animal cruelty, and we can't be seen supporting that. And "To Kill a Mockingbird", because there's violence in there, too. None of those books are necessary.
How about you stop being a fucking pussy, and take some responsibility for the degradation of society by being perpetually afraid of everything and expecting the "government" to protect you from your own shadow? Games don't create violence. They simply reflect society's values, as all art does. Violence is inevitable when people are more willing to be a victim than to do something proactive to stop antisocial behavior. Start telling people that their kid is a brat, and that they're a jackass. Maybe if they hear it enough, they'll start to believe it.
Brand new? That won't happen until Linux has a larger market share.
But for installing? I stuck StarCraft in the other day, double-clicked "setup.exe", and it installed and ran perfectly under Wine. Nothing at all harder than Windows about it.
I also have Doom3 running natively. It had pretty clear instructions on how to do it... not quite stick the disc in and click setup, more like download the installer from the website (since it doesn't ship on the disc) and then copy a few files over manually. Really, nothing too difficult, and it was all quite documented.
Linux isn't quite the "click and run" you paint Windows to be, but then again, if you've ever had a LAN party, you'd realize that Windows isn't quite the click and run you paint it to be, either.
Ok, try again, but this time use a few more verbs and proper conjugations. It almost made sense there.
"You are not your fucking khakis."
Yeah. How many times are those things overdiagnosed though? Sometimes s kid doesn't have ADHD, they're just an annoying little unmanageable twit that needs to be taught responsibility.
But they don't run RPC services listening to the world running with administrator privileges on OSX/Linux, unless you configure it that way. The problem is that with Windows, the hurdles are exceptionally low. With Linux/OSX, they're higher. Not insurmountable, but more than trivially annoying, which will severely limit the impact and expansion of a botnet. And if you don't have enough bots, you don't have much of a net, so the whole thing just falls apart.
I understand that Linux and OSX don't offer perfect security. But it's still a hell of a lot harder to get around it than it is on Windows.