Well, seeing the price tag and it being a tenancy, it's better to buy a platform somewhere in international waters, and declare independence.
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1) get together with other geeks 2) make a joint offer for sealand ownership, each one pays a little share. 3) get sealand 4) enact legislation which is impossible anywhere else because of WTO, like: no patent on software, only copyright. No stupid patents on anything. There is something that can be done for censorship, to free scientific research hampered by stupid lawsuits, lots of possibilities. 5) Open embassies wherever a geek need a safe place to develop his ideas without fears of lawsuits. An embassy is territory of sealand too. SSH provides no data sent to sealand and other embassies violates any international law as it's just encrypted blobs there. 6) Profit for all humanity.
Being used to eat proper spaghetti alla pummarola, I took the liberty of call an exorcist to take care of your insanity. He refused to see you, though.
It's not. BTW, at work i prefer to access our SSL web app using a 400 mhz ubuntu spare box instead of the 3ghz windows workstation as the former is more responsive. Workstation is probably borked after one year of installation and running a handful of non-pirate apps, with av and firewall for the whole subnet. If they won't go with linux next time we have to upgrade i'll push for macs.
1) outlaw damage to subhuman bots. 2) build lots of subhuman bots 3) now who has money for bots has one more way to keep people... er... disposable human resources under control. 4) Profit!!!
So, you accuse me of being so convolute to come out with"well thought-out" FUD, while at the same time you have a blind faith in politicians that can never hurt their nephews in any way (I agree, if you consider that in a polluted, resource starved and patented future the nephews of the rich can afford to survive, yours and mine will have a harder time)
You'd better have a more consistent attitude towards people you don't know. Anyway this is not relevant: let's wait and see what happens once vista has spread.
We have always been free to create our own.doc on our own pc and we will always be, even in tightly DRMed future. And we will always be free to read it and to send it to approved platforms if we keep into the programmed upgrade cycle. The problems a media distributor can have are different than that, though.
> But seriously, you're absolutely correct that Vista won't screw with non-DRM'd media.
If you ain't got a time machine, i suggest you to say "isn't currently screwing" instead. There's no guarantee whatsoever that MS or Apple or the PC hardware makers won't start considering all non-DRM media as pirate. Of course free market won't let them get away with that, but legislation to protect us from terrorists and pornographers can deal with that detail too.
If you can access google and gmail, doesn't the google cache work, too? If so just type "site:slashdot.org" first result is, gasp, slashdot home, click cached link, get site home updated last 30 december. Some other sites are newer, some not, but you have enough material to satisfy your geekitude.
> Though I understand some European sparkling whites have their own special appellations.
I dunno about the rest of Europe, in Italy the local sparkling whites' producers are very proud of their denominations, those wines get often preferred to champagne even on important occasions, especially in rural environments where wine is more of a religion than a beverage.
Seen decent resolution (1024x600) ogg-theora clips being decoded without a dropped frame on my humble 667mhz powerpc laptop. Ogg was conceived with streaming in mind. Server software runs well under linux. I see no reason why an organization like the friggin' EU can't set up a server for oggs... unless there's a lack of viewers. But then, don't come up with silly excuses.
If you buy a "preloaded PC" with linux you don't need an admin. Only thing to do is the periodic update, ubuntu and probably other distros pop up a notice when updates are available IIRC. I guess driver issues are tackled by the manufacturer.
With windows, if you don't know what defrag, scinandisk, viruses, spyware are, the pc needs to se an admin in a matter of a couple months.
With windows, hot-plugging the same device in a different usb port is a problem.
Even firewalls are more intrusive in windows, vs the arno stateful iptables firewall script i use. Unless it's the reportedly sometimes ineffective windows personal firewall.
Win users are still defragging HD, rebooting for sw update and installation, rebooting twice after a serious crash, deal with a global flat text file called the registry, have sw complaining if it's run unprivileged, can't automatically have all the installed software being updated, have to deal with different keyboard shortcuts in different languages (OSX gnome kde seem way more unified), office has noobish usability issues.
Some of those things has been available on mac and linux for more than 10 years. Vista will change some of that, when all important apps are compatible with it, which has not yet happened. Interoperability issues with free software and standard formats is vital for microsoft strategy so windows is likely be always behind everybody else there forever.
In the meantime linux and osx get things like ZFS.
> Nobody had the foresight to keep the original plans and now we have to start over.
Well, considering that at the time such plans were *Vital* for the space race undergoing with russians, which had implications for the arms race, and that it happened less than 40 years ago, it really seems NASA behaviour promotes the faked moon landing theory. Incredible.
I agree: better not to leave credit card numbers around, checking your bills becomes easier and you save lots of time and hassles. Using virtual cards is longer, but it's well spent for increased safety.
I always boot from live cd before doing any banking online btw.
If you stay away from the auto updaters and read the changelogs, you will never have a broken system.
You will anyway if your hw/sw configuration triggers a undiscovered/unfixed bug. IMHO it's better to have the "fire and forget" capability available with many linux package managers and read up where the downloaded packages are stored (/var/cache/apt/archives/ on debian derived). If you have a broken package, chances are you have still on your HD the earlier version and you just need reading the docs on how to revert back to it.
My guess is that he mentioned that he went to church so that people here don't think he's some loser that has nothing better to do than wait for some hundred-MB download to complete. Especially on Christmas Eve. Of course we all know he didn't recite his prayers but mumbled some arcane sounding countdown of megabytes instead:)
As already commented "Forbidden planet", 1956, was very accurate in rendering the behaviour of a robot. Obedient, firm in denying access until overridden. Better not talk about SciFi and computers until you have seen this movie:)
Apart your understating the damage caused by monopolistic practices in IT, apart the deployment scenarios where lack of multimedia capabilities is a plus (whenever you want your employees to use the LAN and net to gather useful info instead of animated thingies singing merry xmas and installing spyware) Linux does already have multimedia capability and currently enough momentum to quickly implement whatever Open and Standard format. So IMHO time would better be spent on producing multimedia in open format vs. playing catch up to whatever format marketing divisions come up with to keep their territory marked. Of course the people able to produce multimedia are different from those working on linux, mostly.
> But the better they get at copying the Windows look and feel, the less reason there is to switch.
I think the opposite is true. Non geek users don't want to be bothered with unfamiliar environments. Geeks hopefully know the UI variety and adaptability of linux UIs.
When forced to upgrade XP at work i'll suggest trying out kde with the most xp-like look before shelling out $$$ to run vista on old hardware, i won't show them a fancy compiz desktop.
Etch does not rip windows GUI, first because it is not tight to a particular GUI, only presenting some optional steps to newbies so that they start with a complete system. Also, IIRC kde default theme is not windows like. I cannot speak for experience since my latest install was from woody, then started tracking sid.
TFA suggest the default desktop was gnome, that improves on macOS.
Personally i go for xfce and customize windowbar buttons for improved usability: close button on the left, all others to the right, which makes harder to close windows by accident. As a bonus the default cursor is black, which contrasts more on white document windows.
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Well, seeing the price tag and it being a tenancy, it's better to buy a platform somewhere in international waters, and declare independence.
Or:
1) get together with other geeks
2) make a joint offer for sealand ownership, each one pays a little share.
3) get sealand
4) enact legislation which is impossible anywhere else because of WTO, like: no patent on software, only copyright. No stupid patents on anything. There is something that can be done for censorship, to free scientific research hampered by stupid lawsuits, lots of possibilities.
5) Open embassies wherever a geek need a safe place to develop his ideas without fears of lawsuits. An embassy is territory of sealand too. SSH provides no data sent to sealand and other embassies violates any international law as it's just encrypted blobs there.
6) Profit for all humanity.
What do you think?
Being used to eat proper spaghetti alla pummarola, I took the liberty of call an exorcist to take care of your insanity. He refused to see you, though.
Mod parent up.
> Is OpenOffice.org that bad on Linux?
It's not. BTW, at work i prefer to access our SSL web app using a 400 mhz ubuntu spare box instead of the 3ghz windows workstation as the former is more responsive. Workstation is probably borked after one year of installation and running a handful of non-pirate apps, with av and firewall for the whole subnet. If they won't go with linux next time we have to upgrade i'll push for macs.
1) outlaw damage to subhuman bots.
2) build lots of subhuman bots
3) now who has money for bots has one more way to keep people... er... disposable human resources under control.
4) Profit!!!
So, you accuse me of being so convolute to come out with"well thought-out" FUD, while at the same time you have a blind faith in politicians that can never hurt their nephews in any way (I agree, if you consider that in a polluted, resource starved and patented future the nephews of the rich can afford to survive, yours and mine will have a harder time)
You'd better have a more consistent attitude towards people you don't know. Anyway this is not relevant: let's wait and see what happens once vista has spread.
We have always been free to create our own .doc on our own pc and we will always be, even in tightly DRMed future. And we will always be free to read it and to send it to approved platforms if we keep into the programmed upgrade cycle. The problems a media distributor can have are different than that, though.
in fascist America, airport checks YOU!
> But seriously, you're absolutely correct that Vista won't screw with non-DRM'd media.
If you ain't got a time machine, i suggest you to say "isn't currently screwing" instead. There's no guarantee whatsoever that MS or Apple or the PC hardware makers won't start considering all non-DRM media as pirate. Of course free market won't let them get away with that, but legislation to protect us from terrorists and pornographers can deal with that detail too.
If you can access google and gmail, doesn't the google cache work, too? If so just type "site:slashdot.org" first result is, gasp, slashdot home, click cached link, get site home updated last 30 december. Some other sites are newer, some not, but you have enough material to satisfy your geekitude.
> Though I understand some European sparkling whites have their own special appellations.
I dunno about the rest of Europe, in Italy the local sparkling whites' producers are very proud of their denominations, those wines get often preferred to champagne even on important occasions, especially in rural environments where wine is more of a religion than a beverage.
Then, it's all a matter of taste.
Seen decent resolution (1024x600) ogg-theora clips being decoded without a dropped frame on my humble 667mhz powerpc laptop. Ogg was conceived with streaming in mind. Server software runs well under linux. I see no reason why an organization like the friggin' EU can't set up a server for oggs... unless there's a lack of viewers. But then, don't come up with silly excuses.
If you buy a "preloaded PC" with linux you don't need an admin. Only thing to do is the periodic update, ubuntu and probably other distros pop up a notice when updates are available IIRC. I guess driver issues are tackled by the manufacturer.
With windows, if you don't know what defrag, scinandisk, viruses, spyware are, the pc needs to se an admin in a matter of a couple months.
With windows, hot-plugging the same device in a different usb port is a problem.
Even firewalls are more intrusive in windows, vs the arno stateful iptables firewall script i use. Unless it's the reportedly sometimes ineffective windows personal firewall.
So who need more administration?
Win users are still defragging HD, rebooting for sw update and installation, rebooting twice after a serious crash, deal with a global flat text file called the registry, have sw complaining if it's run unprivileged, can't automatically have all the installed software being updated, have to deal with different keyboard shortcuts in different languages (OSX gnome kde seem way more unified), office has noobish usability issues.
Some of those things has been available on mac and linux for more than 10 years. Vista will change some of that, when all important apps are compatible with it, which has not yet happened. Interoperability issues with free software and standard formats is vital for microsoft strategy so windows is likely be always behind everybody else there forever.
In the meantime linux and osx get things like ZFS.
> Nobody had the foresight to keep the original plans and now we have to start over.
Well, considering that at the time such plans were *Vital* for the space race undergoing with russians, which had implications for the arms race, and that it happened less than 40 years ago, it really seems NASA behaviour promotes the faked moon landing theory. Incredible.
I agree: better not to leave credit card numbers around, checking your bills becomes easier and you save lots of time and hassles. Using virtual cards is longer, but it's well spent for increased safety.
I always boot from live cd before doing any banking online btw.
If you stay away from the auto updaters and read the changelogs, you will never have a broken system.
You will anyway if your hw/sw configuration triggers a undiscovered/unfixed bug. IMHO it's better to have the "fire and forget" capability available with many linux package managers and read up where the downloaded packages are stored (/var/cache/apt/archives/ on debian derived). If you have a broken package, chances are you have still on your HD the earlier version and you just need reading the docs on how to revert back to it.
The playstation 3.
As already commented "Forbidden planet", 1956, was very accurate in rendering the behaviour of a robot. Obedient, firm in denying access until overridden. Better not talk about SciFi and computers until you have seen this movie :)
Apart your understating the damage caused by monopolistic practices in IT, apart the deployment scenarios where lack of multimedia capabilities is a plus (whenever you want your employees to use the LAN and net to gather useful info instead of animated thingies singing merry xmas and installing spyware) Linux does already have multimedia capability and currently enough momentum to quickly implement whatever Open and Standard format. So IMHO time would better be spent on producing multimedia in open format vs. playing catch up to whatever format marketing divisions come up with to keep their territory marked. Of course the people able to produce multimedia are different from those working on linux, mostly.
> But the better they get at copying the Windows look and feel, the less reason there is to switch.
I think the opposite is true. Non geek users don't want to be bothered with unfamiliar environments. Geeks hopefully know the UI variety and adaptability of linux UIs.
When forced to upgrade XP at work i'll suggest trying out kde with the most xp-like look before shelling out $$$ to run vista on old hardware, i won't show them a fancy compiz desktop.
Etch does not rip windows GUI, first because it is not tight to a particular GUI, only presenting some optional steps to newbies so that they start with a complete system. Also, IIRC kde default theme is not windows like.
I cannot speak for experience since my latest install was from woody, then started tracking sid.
TFA suggest the default desktop was gnome, that improves on macOS.
Personally i go for xfce and customize windowbar buttons for improved usability: close button on the left, all others to the right, which makes harder to close windows by accident. As a bonus the default cursor is black, which contrasts more on white document windows.
>You mean you'd rather have one of those bathroom fixture-lookin' Apples that just exude indecisiveness and shallow fashion obsession?
>Taste is in the eye of the beholder.
Indeed.
And vision is in his mouth.