Antitrust legislation is not holding Microsoft in check. Rather, it is "intellectual property" legislation that created their near-monopoly in the first place.
the thing with linguistics jargon, like computer jargon, is that it's consistent, and if someone wants to look it up, the documentation is available.
the problem with describing the "u" and "e" as "hard" and "soft" is that it's not only vernacular, but it's being misused. the words he's looking for, to imprecisely describe vowel pronunciation, are "long" for the u and and "short" for the e -- "hard" and "soft" are used to imprecisely describe consonants.
oh well, i suppose i'll just have to console myself with all this extra untaxed cash.
Re:Do they or do they not have the source legally?
on
Zeta Goes Gold
·
· Score: 5, Insightful
It doesn't matter whether you personally have the desire or ability to patch the source. What matters is that someone does -- be it you, your neighbors, or others -- and that we all benefit from those patches. That's why open source projects have bug-report and feature-request systems -- so that users who aren't in a position to provide the changes they need can request them of others.
Yes, it would be nice to have access to the BIOS source and motherboard schematics -- just like it is nice to have access to the kernel source and to application sources. The more of these things are opened, the more freedom users will enjoy.
It is not zealotry to expect source code for an OS. Even Microsoft recognizes that universities can't study Windows to any non-trivial extent without allowing schools access through their Shared Source program.
In an OS, freedom means the ability of the user base to take action when security problems appear, to provide drivers for new hardware, and to control the configuration of the system. To be suddenly cut off from security updates on an old system, and face migration, upgrade, or compromise is not freedom. Dependence on a vendor and a proprietary OS may -- and quite often, does -- mean convenience and ease of use; it does not mean freedom.
My phone IS a call-placing, instant messaging, picture-taking, SSH-client'ing, toy. That's the reason I bought the damn thing, and I certainly don't need your sour attitude telling me to stop using it!
I work in the systems division of the general libraries of a major research university, and it's easily the most exciting and positive environment I've ever worked in. We get to work on a variety of projects, of different sizes, and based on different technologies. A lot of our developers are making a living and pursuing research interests at the same time. We regularly make open source releases, and our student employees are very skilled.
Your descriptions of incompetent management and poor priorities, honestly, are so foreign to me that I have a hard time believing you've ever worked in such an environment.
I'm skeptical that yanking a vfat-formatted usb-storage device out of the port while I'm in the middle of a write operation is going to cause a kernel panic.
I'm gonna give it a shot.
Right now I'm going to start copying a large file to my thumb drive, and once it's got 30-40mb done, I'm going to pull out.
Wait for it!
Good news, everyone! All I got was an error message from GNOME -- "I/O Error while copying file foo.avi. Would you like to continue? Skip/Cancel/Retry"
I'm gonna stick the drive back in and tell it to continue -- stay tuned!
call me once there's a laptop that's upgradable, doesn't fall apart in 3 years, and has a CRT-quality display. until then i think i'm going to keep building my systems, and carry my data on a $30 thumb drive.
Progress? It's all smoke and screenshots. There are no releases of Konqueror or Safari that pass this test. Mozilla and Microsoft might as well go ahead and announce that hey, they pass it too!
since knoppix uses a very cleverly hacked filesystem layout involving ramdisks and compressed loopback images, that probably wouldn't be the brightest idea, even if you were diligent enough to get it to work.
if you really must install knoppix, it comes with a utility to do so.
but believe me when I say the Debian Sarge installer is going to produce a cleaner, leaner installation, with about the same amount of finger-lifting.
Slashdot Mirror
Antitrust legislation is not holding Microsoft in check. Rather, it is "intellectual property" legislation that created their near-monopoly in the first place.
hell, I see more visitors running lynx than opera.
there's something opera advocates and marketers need to keep in mind --
no matter how long and loud a chihuahua barks, it will never be a great dane.
more to the point, how can we turn this into a blog???
the problem with describing the "u" and "e" as "hard" and "soft" is that it's not only vernacular, but it's being misused. the words he's looking for, to imprecisely describe vowel pronunciation, are "long" for the u and and "short" for the e -- "hard" and "soft" are used to imprecisely describe consonants.
the four phonetic segments in "SuSE" are:
Results 1 - 50 of about 531 from slashdot.org for allintitle:google. (0.19 seconds)
google by almost 14%.
paris hilton used a sidekick, not a blackberry.
take me to your dealer!
if it comes from the distributor, i want it in /usr. it *i* built it from source, i want it in /usr/local.
Iceweasal?
oh well, i suppose i'll just have to console myself with all this extra untaxed cash.
Yes, it would be nice to have access to the BIOS source and motherboard schematics -- just like it is nice to have access to the kernel source and to application sources. The more of these things are opened, the more freedom users will enjoy.
It is not zealotry to expect source code for an OS. Even Microsoft recognizes that universities can't study Windows to any non-trivial extent without allowing schools access through their Shared Source program.
In an OS, freedom means the ability of the user base to take action when security problems appear, to provide drivers for new hardware, and to control the configuration of the system. To be suddenly cut off from security updates on an old system, and face migration, upgrade, or compromise is not freedom. Dependence on a vendor and a proprietary OS may -- and quite often, does -- mean convenience and ease of use; it does not mean freedom.
My phone IS a call-placing, instant messaging, picture-taking, SSH-client'ing, toy. That's the reason I bought the damn thing, and I certainly don't need your sour attitude telling me to stop using it!
haaat triiick !
You got your LiveJournal linked on the front page of Slashdot. Now get your butt upstairs, Mom needs help with the dishes!
I work in the systems division of the general libraries of a major research university, and it's easily the most exciting and positive environment I've ever worked in. We get to work on a variety of projects, of different sizes, and based on different technologies. A lot of our developers are making a living and pursuing research interests at the same time. We regularly make open source releases, and our student employees are very skilled.
Your descriptions of incompetent management and poor priorities, honestly, are so foreign to me that I have a hard time believing you've ever worked in such an environment.
...you DO know those days were over for everyone, out of the box, two years ago, right?
well, yes -- that page calls it "Raw" and "raw", which makes sense. I'm just confused about the "RAW" nomenclature.
oh, they do. just add -me to your search terms :-)
I don't understand the question. Removable devices are why we have the 'sync' mount option.
why does the article link directly to some sort of blog?
I'm gonna give it a shot.
Right now I'm going to start copying a large file to my thumb drive, and once it's got 30-40mb done, I'm going to pull out.
Wait for it!
Good news, everyone! All I got was an error message from GNOME -- "I/O Error while copying file foo.avi. Would you like to continue? Skip/Cancel/Retry"
I'm gonna stick the drive back in and tell it to continue -- stay tuned!
Holy crap, it picked up all on its own.
Wait...
Yep, it just passed an fsck.Sony, what are you smoking???
call me once there's a laptop that's upgradable, doesn't fall apart in 3 years, and has a CRT-quality display. until then i think i'm going to keep building my systems, and carry my data on a $30 thumb drive.
ctrl+f sarah connor not found
Progress? It's all smoke and screenshots. There are no releases of Konqueror or Safari that pass this test. Mozilla and Microsoft might as well go ahead and announce that hey, they pass it too!
if you really must install knoppix, it comes with a utility to do so.
but believe me when I say the Debian Sarge installer is going to produce a cleaner, leaner installation, with about the same amount of finger-lifting.