Why must we make Linux mainstream? Nobody is stopping you or anybody else from working on that problem, meanwhile the people with the skills/time/determination/$ have apparently decided that this is important. If people thought that what you're talking about was important it would be worked on. The Linux community has no responsibility to make Linux usable for my grandmother, but if some company thinks they can make $ doing that, or a developer wants it bad enough, then it will happen.
I haven't done much development for the Linux community, but if I did I'd work on eyecandy for people like me way before I worked on making it work for people like you, that's the way open source works.
Ugh I just hate it when people just assume that Linux has to take over the world and that Linux developers owe something to everybody.
And the same US military research lab developed another laser weapon more than a decade ago, called the Sabre 203. This device attached beneath the barrel of a normal rifle and emitted a low-power laser light over a range of 300 metres. It was used by US forces in Somalia in 1995 but later shelved because of concerns over safety
They ducktape a "low-power laser" to a gun, and they're worried that the laser might hurt somebody?
At work I was installing windows on a Dell laptop, and the ps2 keyboard/touchpad didn't work out of the box!! I had to use a usb keyboard/mouse until I could fix the problem
Also at home I have a video cap card that doesn't work on XP (works on '98) but works great in Linx
I think a lot of people are missing the point... He's not saying you can't make money writing or especially using open source software. Of course you can, what do you think he gets paid for?
I think he's saying if you want to make great contributions to great (open source) software then your motivation probably isn't financial or career oriented. You are motivated by the software being written This is part of what makes open source software of such high caliber. The people working on it are only working on it because they want a great [webserver/kernel/GUI/etc] not because their boss looked at some marketing research and told them to write a [webserver/kernel/GUI/etc]. Money cannot buy that kind of motivation.
Open source software has nothing to do w/ the price of the software, just that the source is open.
First of all I thought the article was very interesting, When reading it I didn't see it as biased at all, it wasn't bashing any languages, and I don't understand why people are posting as if it were.
Anyway I thought it missed the point that according to the article open source software is in position to take the greatest advantage of these super hackers because they get to work in their own environments, on projects that interested them, with languages and tools and environments they choose and control, and aparently it doesn't matter much that there's no pay. I think it shows. It seems that the technical aspects of OSS are very good, but the non-technical aspects are weaknesses such as usability, documentation (the stuff geared at users that is) etc.
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wouldn't a milliard be 1/1000th of a yard?
Why must we make Linux mainstream? Nobody is stopping you or anybody else from working on that problem, meanwhile the people with the skills/time/determination/$ have apparently decided that this is important. If people thought that what you're talking about was important it would be worked on. The Linux community has no responsibility to make Linux usable for my grandmother, but if some company thinks they can make $ doing that, or a developer wants it bad enough, then it will happen.
I haven't done much development for the Linux community, but if I did I'd work on eyecandy for people like me way before I worked on making it work for people like you, that's the way open source works.
Ugh I just hate it when people just assume that Linux has to take over the world and that Linux developers owe something to everybody.
I wonder if adding the "reality" element with the 24hr cameras, etc. is really necessary.
So you're saying they shouldn't use cameras on their TV show?
And the same US military research lab developed another laser weapon more than a decade ago, called the Sabre 203. This device attached beneath the barrel of a normal rifle and emitted a low-power laser light over a range of 300 metres. It was used by US forces in Somalia in 1995 but later shelved because of concerns over safety
They ducktape a "low-power laser" to a gun, and they're worried that the laser might hurt somebody?
http://www.worldvillage.com/wv/gamezone/html/revie ws/infinity.htm
At work I was installing windows on a Dell laptop, and the ps2 keyboard/touchpad didn't work out of the box!! I had to use a usb keyboard/mouse until I could fix the problem
Also at home I have a video cap card that doesn't work on XP (works on '98) but works great in Linx
does it run Windows?
blah blah blah Linux blah blah blah
Don't worry about me, I'm safe. I don't have a virus scanner installed.
Technically, this wouldn't be digital music. Digital music is sampled at finite periods. I believe the music they are talking would be analog.
I think a lot of people are missing the point... He's not saying you can't make money writing or especially using open source software. Of course you can, what do you think he gets paid for?
I think he's saying if you want to make great contributions to great (open source) software then your motivation probably isn't financial or career oriented. You are motivated by the software being written This is part of what makes open source software of such high caliber. The people working on it are only working on it because they want a great [webserver/kernel/GUI/etc] not because their boss looked at some marketing research and told them to write a [webserver/kernel/GUI/etc]. Money cannot buy that kind of motivation.
Open source software has nothing to do w/ the price of the software, just that the source is open.
I rot13 encode all of my thoughts, because a tin hat is suspicious
are you kidding free xxx? I'll take free xxx any day!
here's mine if anybody wants to try it out, http://www.freeiPods.com/?r=8582516
that just redirects you to the real thing, doesn't help at all anybody want to start a torrent? I would, but I don't have the file or the bandwidth.
Wow, I can't believe I actually read this article
First of all I thought the article was very interesting, When reading it I didn't see it as biased at all, it wasn't bashing any languages, and I don't understand why people are posting as if it were.
Anyway I thought it missed the point that according to the article open source software is in position to take the greatest advantage of these super hackers because they get to work in their own environments, on projects that interested them, with languages and tools and environments they choose and control, and aparently it doesn't matter much that there's no pay. I think it shows. It seems that the technical aspects of OSS are very good, but the non-technical aspects are weaknesses such as usability, documentation (the stuff geared at users that is) etc.
~Jake B
Trying not to become stupid, one day at a time
I was offered drum lessons for computer repair