But in Linux, GUI OS configuration panel crashes often.
This proves you have no idea what you are talking about. What configuration tool? For what desktop? You couldn't possibley suggest that every GUI configuration tool in Linux crashes often. WPrefs has never crashed on me.
I think the point that you are missing is that no matter how good a distro gets it's still open source. Anyone can fork it. Anyone can use those features in thier distro if they were so inclined. A monopoly is not possible because the 'trade secrets' are not secrets at all.
People keep going on about their wonderful support but the fact is that these days you can get the very same thing from the likes of Dell. And that includes a direct line to highly qualified engineers who are intimately acquainted with your particular situation and are ready to send a tech or replacement hardware to your location 24 hours a day.
That has got to be a joke. Dell support is awful, and you certainly don't deal with high quality engineers. Most of them don't know their foot from their ass. It's a hassle just for them to admit that their hardware failed, nevermind ship you a new unit. I might as well be dealing with AOL support.
Slashbots have yet to legally or morally justify pirating an artist's music. But they sure hate the RIAA!
I can justify it, although I actually rarely ever download music. The artist gets next to nothing from the record companies for each cd they sell. Record companies just profit off of other people's talent (or looks, as it seems to be more important these days). Bands make much more off of live performances anyway and personally I don't really care if they have to actually perform for a living instead of collecting royalties for reproduced music. I really don't understand how anyone can feel bad for the filthy rich RIAA or filthy rich 'musicians' who make more money than they are worth in a day than an average hard working person makes in a year.
Secondly, pirating is something guys with peg legs and eye patches did on the high seas. This term has no relation to downloading music whatsoever. It's just another war cry for the 'poor' aristocracy of this country.
Soft real time? What a joke. Real time is real time. Not real time is not real time. Don't call yourself "close enough" when you are not meeting the real time expectation.
This has been gone over to death already but that is only a link to Linux and BusyBox source code. They will not open the source to 'their' applications.
Wow, you're a real piece of shit...and an idiot. Go ahead and sacrifice your liberty for security, or a false senese of it at least, but don't expect me to.
I find it amusing that one of his examples is about the US car industry and the declining numbers. The "fashionable" thing to think and say is that American cars suck, so that's what people say, and they buy foreign cars instead. The truth of the matter, what you don't hear, is that American cars are every bit as good as foreign cars. This wasn't always the case but US car makers learned their lesson in the 80's. The past ten years has shown that American car makers can make cars just as well, if not better.
Cadillac, by the way, is on the rise again. Look for them to compete with BMW's M series, and blow them away.
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I agree with a lot of what he said but I don't think scientists are any better than the lay person at picking apart taboos. "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas Kuhn details the self-righteousness that scientists often display. The only real way to change things is to let all the people who came up with the original idea die.
I'd almost agree with that. The real problem surfaced when Gates cleverly decided not to sell his OS but to license it. When the PC clones came along it was all over.
Naysay as much as you want regarding Microsoft, but the reason why they have the market share is because of the unification present
Nope. That is not even close to the reason why they have the marketshare that they have. First of all Mac has a very good unified theme but they have next to nothing in marketshare. If that's not enough to blow a hole in your argument then my next statement will. Third party apps for Windows often use themes that are not anywhere close to the Windows theme. Take Winamp for example.
Windows has their marketshare because of apps, vendor lock in, propietary formats, and a whole bunch of other things that have nothing to do with a unified look and feel.
With that said, I do think this is a step in the right direction. Hopefully one day KDE and Gnome will have unified libraries and a unified interface. I only hope for this so the community doesn't lose one desktop completely in favor of another.
That's only because an engine is relatively cool. If you introduce forced induction the engine gets much hotter and a cooler intake will produce quite a few ponies.
Let them mod me down for personal comments. The only reason I care about having an account with a decent moderation score is so I can post as much as I want and I can keep track of my posts.
Most people on these forums are highly opinionated and given the chance to mod someone down that they disagree with, most of them will do it. I too am highly opinionated, but I make an attempt to be fair when I moderate. It's unfortunate that not everyone does.
Maybe it's because you totally misunderstood the parent poster. He said:
seems odd that this port would have taken longer then, say, the port for my pda (zaurus 5500) or cygwin?
If it took longer to port konq to OSX and that has come to pass already, logic would infer that a port was already made for zaurus and cygwin. Hence it seems odd that it would take longer to port to OSX then the both of them.
So in reality this little statement:
That IS odd that they could not have ported
that to the Cygwin platform... I mean, X11
is available and all.
Wait, but isnt there already a port of KDE
to Cygwin [sourceforge.net]?
Is not informative at all. Actually it is redundant.
Dear pedantic Slashbots: If cable theft is stealing, why is MP3 downloading "infringement?" Face it; it's stealing
Because it's two totally different things you dolt. Cable theft is stealing because you are stealing a service, not content. MP3 downloading is COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. It's the way the American legal system works.
Oh yes, I'm sure Microsoft is willing to risk their windows source code because a groklaw artical said it was ok.
Um, that's not the point. The point is that even if they did use GPL code, they would not have to GPL all of their code. It's not just what groklaw says. That's the way copyrights work. If anyone knows this it is Microsoft's lawyers. Microsoft may talk about "viral licensing" but they know the real story. They just love their FUD too much to let it go.
This is like being angry that we let a burglar go to catch a rapist. Osama is not anywhere nearly the problem Saddam is. Open a history book that goes back more than three years.
Osama bin Laden killed 3000 people in the US.
Saddam Hussein killed none.
Osama has, and continues to kill people all over the world (and for a lot longer than the past 3 years, maybe you should open your history book).
Saddam has not been a threat to anyone outside of Iraq since the Gulf war over ten years ago.
It seems that we let the rapist get away to catch the burglar.
WINE is a binary loader. It is also a re-implementation of Windows DLL. That is it. 95% of WINE is a re-implementation. Install WINE and look for yourself. What little translation is going on is not anything close to emulating all of Windows. It is not an emulator.
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No I am not talking about consumer level converage.
This proves you have no idea what you are talking about. What configuration tool? For what desktop? You couldn't possibley suggest that every GUI configuration tool in Linux crashes often. WPrefs has never crashed on me.
No, I think most Americans know Ottawa exists. They do have a professional sports team.
Both of you please RTFA.
I think the point that you are missing is that no matter how good a distro gets it's still open source. Anyone can fork it. Anyone can use those features in thier distro if they were so inclined. A monopoly is not possible because the 'trade secrets' are not secrets at all.
It's not as funny as people running a crappy, graphical, single user OS, like Windows, as a server.
That has got to be a joke. Dell support is awful, and you certainly don't deal with high quality engineers. Most of them don't know their foot from their ass. It's a hassle just for them to admit that their hardware failed, nevermind ship you a new unit. I might as well be dealing with AOL support.
I can justify it, although I actually rarely ever download music. The artist gets next to nothing from the record companies for each cd they sell. Record companies just profit off of other people's talent (or looks, as it seems to be more important these days). Bands make much more off of live performances anyway and personally I don't really care if they have to actually perform for a living instead of collecting royalties for reproduced music. I really don't understand how anyone can feel bad for the filthy rich RIAA or filthy rich 'musicians' who make more money than they are worth in a day than an average hard working person makes in a year. Secondly, pirating is something guys with peg legs and eye patches did on the high seas. This term has no relation to downloading music whatsoever. It's just another war cry for the 'poor' aristocracy of this country.
Oh...so you mean something like this.
This has been gone over to death already but that is only a link to Linux and BusyBox source code. They will not open the source to 'their' applications.
Wow, you're a real piece of shit...and an idiot. Go ahead and sacrifice your liberty for security, or a false senese of it at least, but don't expect me to.
Cadillac, by the way, is on the rise again. Look for them to compete with BMW's M series, and blow them away.
I agree with a lot of what he said but I don't think scientists are any better than the lay person at picking apart taboos. "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" by Thomas Kuhn details the self-righteousness that scientists often display. The only real way to change things is to let all the people who came up with the original idea die.
I'd almost agree with that. The real problem surfaced when Gates cleverly decided not to sell his OS but to license it. When the PC clones came along it was all over.
Nope. That is not even close to the reason why they have the marketshare that they have. First of all Mac has a very good unified theme but they have next to nothing in marketshare. If that's not enough to blow a hole in your argument then my next statement will. Third party apps for Windows often use themes that are not anywhere close to the Windows theme. Take Winamp for example.
Windows has their marketshare because of apps, vendor lock in, propietary formats, and a whole bunch of other things that have nothing to do with a unified look and feel.
With that said, I do think this is a step in the right direction. Hopefully one day KDE and Gnome will have unified libraries and a unified interface. I only hope for this so the community doesn't lose one desktop completely in favor of another.
That's only because an engine is relatively cool. If you introduce forced induction the engine gets much hotter and a cooler intake will produce quite a few ponies.
But he didn't say that. He said:
I should cool my VW with liquid nitrogen so that I can run the engine faster
Most people on these forums are highly opinionated and given the chance to mod someone down that they disagree with, most of them will do it. I too am highly opinionated, but I make an attempt to be fair when I moderate. It's unfortunate that not everyone does.
seems odd that this port would have taken longer then, say, the port for my pda (zaurus 5500) or cygwin?
If it took longer to port konq to OSX and that has come to pass already, logic would infer that a port was already made for zaurus and cygwin. Hence it seems odd that it would take longer to port to OSX then the both of them.
So in reality this little statement:
That IS odd that they could not have ported that to the Cygwin platform... I mean, X11 is available and all.
Wait, but isnt there already a port of KDE to Cygwin [sourceforge.net]?
Is not informative at all. Actually it is redundant.
Because it's two totally different things you dolt. Cable theft is stealing because you are stealing a service, not content. MP3 downloading is COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT. It's the way the American legal system works.
True, they have enough crap code of their own to last them until the end of the millenium.
Um, that's not the point. The point is that even if they did use GPL code, they would not have to GPL all of their code. It's not just what groklaw says. That's the way copyrights work. If anyone knows this it is Microsoft's lawyers. Microsoft may talk about "viral licensing" but they know the real story. They just love their FUD too much to let it go.
What about the thousands the US slaughtered during the war and afterward? Or the thousands the US killed with sanctions? How is that any better?
Osama bin Laden killed 3000 people in the US.
Saddam Hussein killed none.
Osama has, and continues to kill people all over the world (and for a lot longer than the past 3 years, maybe you should open your history book).
Saddam has not been a threat to anyone outside of Iraq since the Gulf war over ten years ago.
It seems that we let the rapist get away to catch the burglar.
WINE is a binary loader. It is also a re-implementation of Windows DLL. That is it. 95% of WINE is a re-implementation. Install WINE and look for yourself. What little translation is going on is not anything close to emulating all of Windows. It is not an emulator.