I think KDE team should implement a beginner/advanced profile.
I think all OS/desktops meant for mass consumption should, Windows especially. What would be so difficult about adding beginner/advanced/expert options?
There's and easy way to confirm or dispute the contention. Read the damn article. But since that's too troublesome for the moderators, enjoy some choice cut'n'paste:
I know this is wrong, but in one respect I was happy to learn earlier this month about the discovery of a significant security hole in the Jaguar and Panther...
I was tired of the "We use Macs because they don't get attacked by viruses and hackers" refrain from Mac nuts.
I generally counter with what is apparently a secret carefully hidden from Mac zealots:...
But the mindlessly superior retort is always the same....
Given this recent development, my question is, "Will you be stuffing that superior attitude in your crow or eating it separately, sir?"
Those quotes alone comprise half the first few paragraphs. See, that wasn't too hard, was it?
First, what coalition? Second, catching Osama achieves nothing. Another Osama will pop up, and his followers will be driven by the fire of the first Osama the Martyr. The US capture of bin Laden will swell the ranks of al Queda. Great victory? Through his acts America is in greater danger now than when Bush took office, as are your civil liberties.
That's an interesting perspective. Gulf War 1 was a coalition action sanctioned by the UN to counter Iraq's aggression against Kuwait. Gulf War 2 was a unilateral action by the US and the Brits against the express wishes of those same coalition members because of the lack of any agression, or any solid evidence of the capacity, on Iraq's part. I may be wrong but I don't recall the UN sanctioned this latest offensive.
Difficult though it is for some to deal with, the US didn't 'own' this war and any right to continue it is questionable. Even at that, it's irrelevant because they had no cause.
This is a home, Hammond stuff is ugly. Go Middle Atlantic rack enclosures. Much of the line is designed for home theatre use and looks great. They also manufacture a wide assortment of fill panels, rack-mount shelves and drawers for parts, modems etc. Racks are available in wood, laminate, black metal finishes with or without glass doors, etc.
Me, I use an Ikea hi-fi roll around pushed into a closet..
It's pretty obvious they chose the term Lindows to suggest "as easy to use as Windows" and not to trick...who?..ESL students? into buying a computer pre-installed from Best Buy.
And the original blues artists who formed the core of modern rock American music drew from traditional and religious music and unfunded. Held down and marginalized by a segregated society in fact, a triple whammy. Wait a minute, religious, traditional and folk music were written without protections too. Jazz and swing? So now we have more examples of great and original music genres without the 'benefit' of draconian copyright protection applied to listeners instead of publishers. Is it today's (Fruedian slip, accidentally typed "toady's" first time) corporately sanctioned governement protected Spice Girls / Britney / 98 Degrees pap we can thank to copyright? Music cartels are interested in protecting product, not music. I'd trade any day.
Not as far as I understand. Downloading is legal but sharing is still an IP violation, which shows just how insane this legislation is. The sooner the next federal election kicks Sheila Copps' fat ass out our government the sooner we return to some semblance of normalcy.
The problem is basing a business model on something trivial and nearly free to re-produce. The only way "the copyright holder" then "gets to dictate where those copies go and who must pay for them" is through harsh laws and draconian penalties . The time will come when society re-examines the cost/benefit equation of protecting this business model at such measures.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that the tape industry killed the vinyl industry regardless.
No problem. Tape had nothing to do with it, vinyl died when record companies unilaterally refused to press any more vinyl. Hundreds of millions of turntables were left without a future. CDs required re-purchasing your collection, were much easier to ship, didn't have the return rates of vinyl and record companies knew the manufacturing cost per unit would soon drop dramatically. CDs killed vinyl.
The expectation that you will receive the copyright of other work in exchange for your copyright is not financial incentive according to the law.
Not sure where the grandparent post got the notion the GPL entails transfer of copyright, but it doesn't. It requires an open license to freely modify and release a copyrighted work when that work is based on prior GPL code. Both authors retain their copyright ownership, the GPL is only a license.
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Bittorrent uploads as well as downloads. Uploads are illegal in Canada.
One of the characteristics of emergencies is being unexpected. Otherwise a response is planned in advance and it isn't an emergency. I'm on call 24/7, I can't set my phone to vibrate and see a movie because theatres don't have the cajones to boot people being distruptive?
What kind of monster is it that is expecting some important call about some life threatening situation...and still goes to the theater....
Doctors? What if the life-threatening situation occurs at the theater, like a heart attack? Jam away but it's only a matter of time before someone gets rightfully sued for blocking communication. I'm surprised the cell carriers aren't doing it already.
We're seeing usage and adoption here because it's free.
Doesn't that answer your question? The rest of your post is flatly contradicted by the articles, education is the Brazilian government's primary goal with its cafes and all governments mentioned intend to roll out Linux on a larger scale. People who could never afford access to computers now have it and governments are adopting OSS. What did you mean by 'win'?
Microsoft's foreign price reductions will bite them in the ass. American companies and individuals will start asking why they're forced to pay $100 + per seat while those outside Microsoft's native land get away with less than half that. They'll likely be forced to reduce domestic pricing too and it's a question whether their business model can support that. A friend who works in Redmond recently told me the company is become increasingly tight-fisted internally, to the point where this $50 billion in the bank corp no longer buys donuts once a week for developers and that it cheaper for employees to buy some MS product retail than through their employee discounts.
Simple, man is able to transend the limitations of natural procreation. Natural mutations are random within tightly determined limits. There's be less worry if you demonstrated the offspring of jellyfish humping tomato plants in the wild.
Your link is to a short blurb about the mi2g study, the same company which tried to warn the US government of a pending cyber attack in the fourth dimension. The most cursory Google search unearths enough negative press about mi2g to disuade the most rabid True Believers, yet here you are using them to bolster your convictions about Linux security. Your depiction of Linux users is typical fantasy bordering on bigotry and I've never seen a single positive thing from you about Linux or OSS software, yet you continue to describe Linux users as religious believers. And here once again you appear to equate the comprimise of a single box with the global infrastucture damage of a Code Red or "I Love You". Hypocrisy indeed.
No, when a particular model of 3Com NIC had autonegotiation issues with Cisco routers, we jumped to Intel NICs by the hundreds. I like some Realtek product but the NICs I've tried were horrible. One was in a FreeBSD home server and it was a champion at hesitating transfers while generating error messages. The same thing might occur in Windows, without the error messages it's be taken for network congestion.
We use on-board ACL 650 sound for commercial use and it's fine, much better than being forced to load Creative's nasty software (circa Audigy 1, haven't tried the 2.) The motherboards we select use Intel integrated NICs, vastly superior to the typical Realtek-level junk found in so many machines. Modems, you have a point, integrated video however has its uses. The desktop demands in a corporate environment are typically meagre. Integrated handles the task fine and has the added benefits of reduced noise, heat and cost, plus increased reliability (no GPU fan) and generally better stability since the GPU and MB were designed as one.
If AutoCAD or UT2003 aren't part of the design spec, motherboard integration makes a great deal of sense.
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It's the branding Slashdot Marketing Wizards keep asserting Linux needs to succeed.
I think all OS/desktops meant for mass consumption should, Windows especially. What would be so difficult about adding beginner/advanced/expert options?
"Fair Use" doesn't apply to commercial vendors. End-user only.
I know this is wrong, but in one respect I was happy to learn earlier this month about the discovery of a significant security hole in the Jaguar and Panther...
I was tired of the "We use Macs because they don't get attacked by viruses and hackers" refrain from Mac nuts.
I generally counter with what is apparently a secret carefully hidden from Mac zealots:...
But the mindlessly superior retort is always the same....
Given this recent development, my question is, "Will you be stuffing that superior attitude in your crow or eating it separately, sir?"
Those quotes alone comprise half the first few paragraphs. See, that wasn't too hard, was it?
Would Americans stop fighting an invasion if Bush was captured? Why believe Iraqis are any different?
First, what coalition? Second, catching Osama achieves nothing. Another Osama will pop up, and his followers will be driven by the fire of the first Osama the Martyr. The US capture of bin Laden will swell the ranks of al Queda. Great victory? Through his acts America is in greater danger now than when Bush took office, as are your civil liberties.
Difficult though it is for some to deal with, the US didn't 'own' this war and any right to continue it is questionable. Even at that, it's irrelevant because they had no cause.
Me, I use an Ikea hi-fi roll around pushed into a closet..
That'll work if you're not worried about mounting any gear in it. Standard rack spacing is 19", not any enclosure will work.
It's pretty obvious they chose the term Lindows to suggest "as easy to use as Windows" and not to trick ...who?..ESL students? into buying a computer pre-installed from Best Buy.
And the original blues artists who formed the core of modern rock American music drew from traditional and religious music and unfunded. Held down and marginalized by a segregated society in fact, a triple whammy. Wait a minute, religious, traditional and folk music were written without protections too. Jazz and swing? So now we have more examples of great and original music genres without the 'benefit' of draconian copyright protection applied to listeners instead of publishers. Is it today's (Fruedian slip, accidentally typed "toady's" first time) corporately sanctioned governement protected Spice Girls / Britney / 98 Degrees pap we can thank to copyright? Music cartels are interested in protecting product, not music. I'd trade any day.
Not as far as I understand. Downloading is legal but sharing is still an IP violation, which shows just how insane this legislation is. The sooner the next federal election kicks Sheila Copps' fat ass out our government the sooner we return to some semblance of normalcy.
The problem is basing a business model on something trivial and nearly free to re-produce. The only way "the copyright holder" then "gets to dictate where those copies go and who must pay for them" is through harsh laws and draconian penalties . The time will come when society re-examines the cost/benefit equation of protecting this business model at such measures.
No problem. Tape had nothing to do with it, vinyl died when record companies unilaterally refused to press any more vinyl. Hundreds of millions of turntables were left without a future. CDs required re-purchasing your collection, were much easier to ship, didn't have the return rates of vinyl and record companies knew the manufacturing cost per unit would soon drop dramatically. CDs killed vinyl.
Not sure where the grandparent post got the notion the GPL entails transfer of copyright, but it doesn't. It requires an open license to freely modify and release a copyrighted work when that work is based on prior GPL code. Both authors retain their copyright ownership, the GPL is only a license.
Bittorrent uploads as well as downloads. Uploads are illegal in Canada.
One of the characteristics of emergencies is being unexpected. Otherwise a response is planned in advance and it isn't an emergency. I'm on call 24/7, I can't set my phone to vibrate and see a movie because theatres don't have the cajones to boot people being distruptive?
Doctors? What if the life-threatening situation occurs at the theater, like a heart attack? Jam away but it's only a matter of time before someone gets rightfully sued for blocking communication. I'm surprised the cell carriers aren't doing it already.
Linux news written for people with such a low level of technical knowledge is good news. Interest in Linux is expanding beyond the realm of geeks.
Doesn't that answer your question? The rest of your post is flatly contradicted by the articles, education is the Brazilian government's primary goal with its cafes and all governments mentioned intend to roll out Linux on a larger scale. People who could never afford access to computers now have it and governments are adopting OSS. What did you mean by 'win'?
Microsoft's foreign price reductions will bite them in the ass. American companies and individuals will start asking why they're forced to pay $100 + per seat while those outside Microsoft's native land get away with less than half that. They'll likely be forced to reduce domestic pricing too and it's a question whether their business model can support that. A friend who works in Redmond recently told me the company is become increasingly tight-fisted internally, to the point where this $50 billion in the bank corp no longer buys donuts once a week for developers and that it cheaper for employees to buy some MS product retail than through their employee discounts.
Simple, man is able to transend the limitations of natural procreation. Natural mutations are random within tightly determined limits. There's be less worry if you demonstrated the offspring of jellyfish humping tomato plants in the wild.
Your link is to a short blurb about the mi2g study, the same company which tried to warn the US government of a pending cyber attack in the fourth dimension. The most cursory Google search unearths enough negative press about mi2g to disuade the most rabid True Believers, yet here you are using them to bolster your convictions about Linux security. Your depiction of Linux users is typical fantasy bordering on bigotry and I've never seen a single positive thing from you about Linux or OSS software, yet you continue to describe Linux users as religious believers. And here once again you appear to equate the comprimise of a single box with the global infrastucture damage of a Code Red or "I Love You". Hypocrisy indeed.
No, when a particular model of 3Com NIC had autonegotiation issues with Cisco routers, we jumped to Intel NICs by the hundreds. I like some Realtek product but the NICs I've tried were horrible. One was in a FreeBSD home server and it was a champion at hesitating transfers while generating error messages. The same thing might occur in Windows, without the error messages it's be taken for network congestion.
If AutoCAD or UT2003 aren't part of the design spec, motherboard integration makes a great deal of sense.