> 2: Drastically undercutting your opponents prices in a new market by leveraging profits from a different market to support it can be seen as anti-competitive
umm but that happens every time VC or banks are involved, money has no memory.
Your objection has deep implications: google can do it? yes; if you cannot, competition is not possible; if you cannot, corporations are more privileged than lesser enterprises. No democracy tolerates that explicitly... unfortunately they cave in to powerful interests and subject both your startup and google to regulations. Google has lawyers and funds so you either give up, get bought or resort to credit: you have losr control, checkmate.
But they don't try everything in their power. They don't try to make their product the best possible thing for the consumer at the most appropriate price. If they did, very few people would have ever considered to choose the FOSS path. They tried with FUD and who knows what other deals, instead.
But ogg theora, a clean room implementation of a video codec, is just 10-20% less efficient than the closed h264. Are we sure that the barriers erected with excessive IP protection (silly patents) are worth the differential in innovation? Internet explorer was good when fighting netscape, frozen when dominant, better adhering to standards when competition started defeating it...
Or worse they may switch from close to open and back every few years, for the vendors` and consultants` joy. The argument about choice is the coolest: you want a wider choice of targets so you shoot yourself in the foot, right?
retraining is inevitable with proprietary software, too, only it`s perceived as inevitable. Office07 and vista needed retraining. Changing laptop brand means a different crop of preinstalled utilities. win8 has an announced new GUI. Once in FOSS land, the personalization of user experience is almost never a goal.
While I agree on your reply to the OSX basher, I tried back in the day to run FOSS packages on OSX, felt like a second class citizen. Less choice, older versions. Admittedly that was quite some years ago. Some years ago it was actually easier to install linux on a mac (the airport and radeon cards I used have very good FOSS powerpc drivers), but IMHO the time you spend installing linux is recouped by having the same OS and applications in all your boxes. Unless you ditch OSX for xnu-darwin, you still are tied to apple decisions about sw upgrades and compatibility, too.
a targeted attack would have been feasible on linux too, surely you can get a 0day if you are an important entity. I'd still run critical infrastructure on an OS that I can freely modify, deploy, tailor to specific needs, so windows is out of the question.
> You think a CFL is less efficient in cold weather because it puts out less waste heat? No I think that the efficiency of CFL vs bulb does not consider the heat, nor the difference in manufacturing costs and materials and recycling (i meant the process, not the mere act of collection of used units).
If after all of that CFL represent an improvement so much the better.
s/supply/repackaging an improved and differentiated version/
Anyway judging Canonical is irrelevant, they are free to do what they want and you are free to follow them or follow others or fork. Your document aren't hostages of canonical choices. That's the good thing of FOSS.
In the winter the old incandescent lamp has an efficiency nearing 100% because you use its heat too. Why should anybody tell me to use CFL, harder to manufacture and dispose of and in this case less efficient?
A state wants to preserve environment? Then just factor in the environmental impact of stuff, and add it as tax or whatever. If using something hurts the environment make us pay in advance for the damage. It's a big paradigm shift, but the alternative of half assed measures or fake measures like carbon credits will just continue the current trend which isn't looking very good. And if you care for people factor in the social impact of low wages. Then, with high prices for transport and country exploiting their people having their stuff taxed, we will have finally fair competition, and may the best win.
If somebody is going to use money as a mean of control, it must make it powerful...by making it scarce. Making it scarce for everybody is not a good idea, better to have a bunch of selected kapos getting rich in proportion to their effectiveness at milking their subjects. People with enough money and time to grow up culturally and to get interested in social issues are the real enemies of such a highly hypothetical system which can't be formed because we are in a society where conspiracies never happen. Oh wait.
mint has released a debian based release. Crunchbang has switched to a Debian Squeeze base. gNewSense plans to switch to debian.
I think it happens because ubuntu tries too hard to be unique. Get back to "simply" be more polished even if less universal than debian, and love will be back.
If they look at visual effects then Dragon's Lair should be a must. Gameplay was crap, and it lasted like two years in the arcades, while lady pacman lasted 7x as much. So... are you sure effects are a good metric? The art in videogames lies in the interaction between man and machine abilities. Playability, creativity in the rules. Let's forget for a moment about atari sega or namco: producers like Williams and Gottlieb came up with more original stuff between '80 and '83 than the entire videogame industry in the past two decades.
A secondary but equally important aspect is indeed visual effects, but in the contest of the tech advancements at the time. Asteroids black and white running on a 1mhz processor is an achievement, a 2d neo geo game with huge sprites or a 3d one is most probably irrelevant. Same thing for simulation accuracy: one must try the original Atari's Hard drivin' cabinet before opening mouth about how good are racing games made decades later.
One of the pluses for getting linux desktops instead of windows in my place is that they work with most printers out of the box. Professional printers/copiers are usually easier to interface, they can act as smb or ftp hosts to send scanned docs. Of course I think they have sound reasons to switch back, I think that their tech staff will not be happy to think again in terms of AV licenses and driver hunt on websites.... wish them better luck next time.
- Pizza boy! deliver this to Smith family, 123, main st. - Ok, let me look up where the Smith family lives.
This is retarded, puts one or few entities in control of all web traffic, as the currently central nature of DNS wasn't bad enough, wastes TONS of energy and computing power for an unnecessary step, and another ton when people who just paid for a domain/site ask the web master/registrar why they type mysite.com and sh*t shows up instead of the proper site.
Of course that's likely one of the main reasons why google undertook the chrome project, so they are not going to back down.
UI changes are menacing firefox too, but that one should be more skinnable, I don't mind if it's 10% slower, heck i don't mind if it's 300% slower.
This is a different matter and acceptable as position. But you start from negating the trinity a priori, then go on rationalizing about its function, IMHO. Nevermind. Anyway Catholics are not based on the Bible only but on the traditions expressed by their church too: that guy Jesus said the Scripture can't be broken but he also didn't leave any written stuff. So it all boils down to trust some guys to be rightful followers, vs. false prophets.
In the past digging a hole in the ground and get water to drink was commonplace, while we now depend on a system for basic survival. The point is not to verify if such system works better of worse: the bigger it is, the higher the amount of coordination needed to exert democratic control of it.
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> 2: Drastically undercutting your opponents prices in a new market by leveraging profits from a different market to support it can be seen as anti-competitive
umm but that happens every time VC or banks are involved, money has no memory.
Your objection has deep implications: google can do it? yes; if you cannot, competition is not possible; if you cannot, corporations are more privileged than lesser enterprises. No democracy tolerates that explicitly... unfortunately they cave in to powerful interests and subject both your startup and google to regulations. Google has lawyers and funds so you either give up, get bought or resort to credit: you have losr control, checkmate.
But they don't try everything in their power. They don't try to make their product the best possible thing for the consumer at the most appropriate price. If they did, very few people would have ever considered to choose the FOSS path. They tried with FUD and who knows what other deals, instead.
double plus LOL
But ogg theora, a clean room implementation of a video codec, is just 10-20% less efficient than the closed h264. Are we sure that the barriers erected with excessive IP protection (silly patents) are worth the differential in innovation?
Internet explorer was good when fighting netscape, frozen when dominant, better adhering to standards when competition started defeating it...
Or worse they may switch from close to open and back every few years, for the vendors` and consultants` joy.
The argument about choice is the coolest: you want a wider choice of targets so you shoot yourself in the foot, right?
retraining is inevitable with proprietary software, too, only it`s perceived as inevitable. Office07 and vista needed retraining. Changing laptop brand means a different crop of preinstalled utilities. win8 has an announced new GUI.
Once in FOSS land, the personalization of user experience is almost never a goal.
China will do what all the others did: cheat on IP when at disadvantage, demand it to be enforced when they have a net gain.
Mod parent sadly up.
> hackers who want to do different things to the console than what Sony intended
and: purchasers who want to do what was advertised by sony at purchase, i.e. run linux
and I don`t give a rat`s ass about what sony intends, I expect to own what I buy.
While I agree on your reply to the OSX basher, I tried back in the day to run FOSS packages on OSX, felt like a second class citizen. Less choice, older versions. Admittedly that was quite some years ago.
Some years ago it was actually easier to install linux on a mac (the airport and radeon cards I used have very good FOSS powerpc drivers), but IMHO the time you spend installing linux is recouped by having the same OS and applications in all your boxes. Unless you ditch OSX for xnu-darwin, you still are tied to apple decisions about sw upgrades and compatibility, too.
Tolkien who?
a targeted attack would have been feasible on linux too, surely you can get a 0day if you are an important entity.
I'd still run critical infrastructure on an OS that I can freely modify, deploy, tailor to specific needs, so windows is out of the question.
I wonder if I advocated heating the whole house with electricity somewhere.
> You think a CFL is less efficient in cold weather because it puts out less waste heat?
No I think that the efficiency of CFL vs bulb does not consider the heat, nor the difference in manufacturing costs and materials and recycling (i meant the process, not the mere act of collection of used units).
If after all of that CFL represent an improvement so much the better.
s/supply/repackaging an improved and differentiated version/
Anyway judging Canonical is irrelevant, they are free to do what they want and you are free to follow them or follow others or fork. Your document aren't hostages of canonical choices. That's the good thing of FOSS.
In the winter the old incandescent lamp has an efficiency nearing 100% because you use its heat too.
Why should anybody tell me to use CFL, harder to manufacture and dispose of and in this case less efficient?
A state wants to preserve environment? Then just factor in the environmental impact of stuff, and add it as tax or whatever. If using something hurts the environment make us pay in advance for the damage. It's a big paradigm shift, but the alternative of half assed measures or fake measures like carbon credits will just continue the current trend which isn't looking very good.
And if you care for people factor in the social impact of low wages. Then, with high prices for transport and country exploiting their people having their stuff taxed, we will have finally fair competition, and may the best win.
If somebody is going to use money as a mean of control, it must make it powerful...by making it scarce. Making it scarce for everybody is not a good idea, better to have a bunch of selected kapos getting rich in proportion to their effectiveness at milking their subjects. People with enough money and time to grow up culturally and to get interested in social issues are the real enemies of such a highly hypothetical system which can't be formed because we are in a society where conspiracies never happen. Oh wait.
mint has released a debian based release.
Crunchbang has switched to a Debian Squeeze base.
gNewSense plans to switch to debian.
I think it happens because ubuntu tries too hard to be unique. Get back to "simply" be more polished even if less universal than debian, and love will be back.
> Apple uses the exact same software (CUPS) to print that Linux does, right? In fact it's Apple's software
Almost: CUPS was only recently "bought" by Apple (being GPL they cannot really buy it).
If they look at visual effects then Dragon's Lair should be a must. Gameplay was crap, and it lasted like two years in the arcades, while lady pacman lasted 7x as much. So... are you sure effects are a good metric?
The art in videogames lies in the interaction between man and machine abilities. Playability, creativity in the rules.
Let's forget for a moment about atari sega or namco: producers like Williams and Gottlieb came up with more original stuff between '80 and '83 than the entire videogame industry in the past two decades.
A secondary but equally important aspect is indeed visual effects, but in the contest of the tech advancements at the time.
Asteroids black and white running on a 1mhz processor is an achievement, a 2d neo geo game with huge sprites or a 3d one is most probably irrelevant.
Same thing for simulation accuracy: one must try the original Atari's Hard drivin' cabinet before opening mouth about how good are racing games made decades later.
One of the pluses for getting linux desktops instead of windows in my place is that they work with most printers out of the box. Professional printers/copiers are usually easier to interface, they can act as smb or ftp hosts to send scanned docs.
Of course I think they have sound reasons to switch back, I think that their tech staff will not be happy to think again in terms of AV licenses and driver hunt on websites.... wish them better luck next time.
- Pizza boy! deliver this to Smith family, 123, main st.
- Ok, let me look up where the Smith family lives.
This is retarded, puts one or few entities in control of all web traffic, as the currently central nature of DNS wasn't bad enough, wastes TONS of energy and computing power for an unnecessary step, and another ton when people who just paid for a domain/site ask the web master/registrar why they type mysite.com and sh*t shows up instead of the proper site.
Of course that's likely one of the main reasons why google undertook the chrome project, so they are not going to back down.
UI changes are menacing firefox too, but that one should be more skinnable, I don't mind if it's 10% slower, heck i don't mind if it's 300% slower.
This is a different matter and acceptable as position. But you start from negating the trinity a priori, then go on rationalizing about its function, IMHO. Nevermind.
Anyway Catholics are not based on the Bible only but on the traditions expressed by their church too: that guy Jesus said the Scripture can't be broken but he also didn't leave any written stuff. So it all boils down to trust some guys to be rightful followers, vs. false prophets.
In the past digging a hole in the ground and get water to drink was commonplace, while we now depend on a system for basic survival. The point is not to verify if such system works better of worse: the bigger it is, the higher the amount of coordination needed to exert democratic control of it.