lets not get carried away with forcing the hand of mother nature. There are ecological repurcussions that would be disastrous if such a thing were to happen. I know that it is a novel idea and pretty humorous, but I am afraid that someone might take a post like this seriously. www.ishmael.org --------------------------------------------
I am not an electrical engineer, but how impractical would it be to start an open source hardware movement? Linux and the GPL were created because someone got sick of having to use software that was created for the sole purpose of making money. This has lead to a new revolution in the way that some people are looking at software development. Why not start a similar movement in hardware. I know that hardware is much harder to build, as far as manufacturing, but Linux was started on a lot of donated machines.....why not get some donated manufacturing equipment??? Just an idea, but why not make the entire computer market and Open Source market. No body likes disassembling and porting (not normal people anyway:P), so get rid of it. I don't know if there is anything out there like this if so I would be interested hearing about it. --------------------------------------------
An intelligent first post - what is this, Slashdot.org or something? There is no such thing as an intelligent first post.
I am thinking about sueing my parents for having 10 fingers just like me. This is a ridiculous lawsuit and should be thrown out of court for being beyond frivilous -- more like STUPID. ----------------------------------------- ---
Maybe now we will see more M$ banner ads on Slashdot
BAWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! No really, congratulations guys. I have no concerns that you will SELL OUT TO THE MAN. Damn the man. Long live Slashdot.
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A-f'n-MEN Im with this guy. I read the report, I got pissed off, now I want to win. The race is not over, the buzzer didn't sound, the fat lady is taking a nap people, she hasn't even warmed up. I am willing to bet that there will be some sort of a patch out by the end of next week fixing some of the problems. Those that are more complex will be out in the next stable kernel release. Instead of reading all of these articles, you people should be coding.;) We'll put our heads down and start running again and the next time that we run these tests we will stick our heads up and see where we are. --------------------------------------------
It is no surprise to see an AC posting such an article. I think that it was just a couple of days ago when I saw some of the stuff that was posted on Mindcrafts site (linked to by/.) where people were bad-mouthing them because of the tests. It is posts like this that give the Linux community a bad name. It is one thing to call a foul, but it is another to act like a immature jerk and start bad mouthing a test that was conducted in a much more controlled environment. I think that ZD would have learned from Mindcrafts mistakes and corrected (most) of them. They are people too, and they DO make mistakes. Linux is not perfect, yes it is better than anything that has come out of Redmond...but it still has some maturation. Not unlike some of the people who post here. A true sign of maturity within the Linux Community would be to accept the loss _GRACEFULLY_ and go out and build a better OS. Then the next time that there is a test we can go out and show eveyone who is best instead of sitting on the sidelines pointing our fingers at the referees. Take the loss, no matter how hard that it is, and make what you feel so strongly about BETTER. Bitching about it ain't gonna build a better OS. --------------------------------------------
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lets not get carried away with forcing the hand of mother nature. There are ecological repurcussions that would be disastrous if such a thing were to happen. I know that it is a novel idea and pretty humorous, but I am afraid that someone might take a post like this seriously.
www.ishmael.org
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I am not an electrical engineer, but how impractical would it be to start an open source hardware movement? Linux and the GPL were created because someone got sick of having to use software that was created for the sole purpose of making money. This has lead to a new revolution in the way that some people are looking at software development. Why not start a similar movement in hardware. I know that hardware is much harder to build, as far as manufacturing, but Linux was started on a lot of donated machines.....why not get some donated manufacturing equipment??? Just an idea, but why not make the entire computer market and Open Source market. No body likes disassembling and porting (not normal people anyway :P), so get rid of it. I don't know if there is anything out there like this if so I would be interested hearing about it.
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An intelligent first post - what is this, Slashdot.org or something? There is no such thing as an intelligent first post.
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I am thinking about sueing my parents for having 10 fingers just like me. This is a ridiculous lawsuit and should be thrown out of court for being beyond frivilous -- more like STUPID.
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Maybe now we will see more M$ banner ads on Slashdot
BAWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
No really, congratulations guys. I have no concerns that you will SELL OUT TO THE MAN. Damn the man. Long live Slashdot.
Can I still keep my login name? I kinda like it.
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It really doesn't matter how you say it, as long as you use it ;)
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A-f'n-MEN Im with this guy. I read the report, I got pissed off, now I want to win. The race is not over, the buzzer didn't sound, the fat lady is taking a nap people, she hasn't even warmed up. I am willing to bet that there will be some sort of a patch out by the end of next week fixing some of the problems. Those that are more complex will be out in the next stable kernel release. Instead of reading all of these articles, you people should be coding. ;) We'll put our heads down and start running again and the next time that we run these tests we will stick our heads up and see where we are.
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It is no surprise to see an AC posting such an article. I think that it was just a couple of days ago when I saw some of the stuff that was posted on Mindcrafts site (linked to by /.) where people were bad-mouthing them because of the tests. It is posts like this that give the Linux community a bad name. It is one thing to call a foul, but it is another to act like a immature jerk and start bad mouthing a test that was conducted in a much more controlled environment. I think that ZD would have learned from Mindcrafts mistakes and corrected (most) of them. They are people too, and they DO make mistakes. Linux is not perfect, yes it is better than anything that has come out of Redmond...but it still has some maturation. Not unlike some of the people who post here. A true sign of maturity within the Linux Community would be to accept the loss _GRACEFULLY_ and go out and build a better OS. Then the next time that there is a test we can go out and show eveyone who is best instead of sitting on the sidelines pointing our fingers at the referees. Take the loss, no matter how hard that it is, and make what you feel so strongly about BETTER. Bitching about it ain't gonna build a better OS.
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