I don't understand the second. Make it undesirable?
Third is wrong. Don't make reproduction expensive artificially. Reproduction is good. For the common good, it should be as cheap as possible.
Again: your first suggestion really is their only chance in the long run, and the one thing they could do that would be in both their own and the public interest.
I've got a Latitude CPi, too (brand new, 400MHz:-), but the X Server (3.3.5) doesn't recognize the NeoMagic chipset's revision number. It won't work out of the box.
It worked only after I forced it to 'NM2200' and found out somewhere deep in xfree86.org that there was no acceleration at 24bpp so _that_'s what made it so ****ing slow.
It's working great now, though. Sound too.
However, the 'Linux' link at the downloads pages is only there when you choose the Inspiron. It's gone when you go to the Latitude driver page. So the headline "Dell supports Linux on laptops" may just be slightly exaggerated.
"I am appalled at the lack of knowledge of history and international politics that the European readers of slashdot are showing. Americans are often criticised for their lack of internationalism; yet the Europeans don't even seem to have a clue about their own history."
That's quite a generalization you're making there...
For the record: I'm European and I think Marshall was indeed a great man. The freedom and stability Western Europe has enjoyed in the second half of the century are largely due to the Marshall Plan. I'm pretty sure my life would be *much* different if it had never existed.
Also, I'm amazed at the fact that most Americans have never heard of Marshall. Every high school in my country (the Netherlands) teaches about the Marshall plan in history class. It's certainly not forgotten.
Most people 'in the streets' would know about Marshall, I think. But, then again, the stupidity and capacity to forget in some people is really astounding. Like those Americans voting for Elvis Presley as the most significant person of the century...
- They provide free DNS services, but you are still able to run your own DNS servers. (A combination is also possible)
Combinations are *not* possible. I tried in vain to change the 1st nameserver but not the second, but they refused to process this. They will not host just the secondary DNS. It's all or nothing.
The web interface seems pretty cool though, and the response times for support have been great in my case.
Make an effort sometime and compare US crime rates and amounts of shooting sprees in public places to those in countries where people are fortunate enough to lack the right to carry lethal weapons around.
If I went crazy and wanted to kill a bunch of people, I wouldn't know where to get a gun, let alone some sort of automatic rifle. If Atlanta was like Amsterdam, a lot of people would not be dead today.
If/when Linux and free software on it gets more dominant, we would be less dependent on the x86 architecture, and Intel wouldn't be so powerful. Open source allows easy porting, after all.
The only thing that doesn't suck about the x86 architecture is that it's mass produced and cheap. Imagine a world where you could choose between using an x86, Alpha, MIPS, PPC, ARM, etc., solely on the basis of price/performance. The demise of clone makers such as Cyrix or IDT would not then carry the risk of Intel re-taking its stranglehold on the market.
That would be cool, in more ways than one: CPUs wouldn't get as hot, because there would be no more need to be backwards compatible with some crappy 20 year old instruction set.
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(I'm out of moderator points again, so I'll just post my support this way :-)
I don't understand the second. Make it undesirable?
Third is wrong. Don't make reproduction expensive artificially. Reproduction is good. For the common good, it should be as cheap as possible.
Again: your first suggestion really is their only chance in the long run, and the one thing they could do that would be in both their own and the public interest.
If people are online, distribution companies (music, movie, publishing industry) become unnecessary and irrelevant. The net does the distribution.
Copyright was intended to enable the spread of knowledge and art. It is now no longer needed for that, so it should be abolished.
Those who think that good music, movies and books (texts) will no longer be made when there aren't any companies that can put up megabucks are wrong.
Money is never the motivation for great art (although it may be for lots of crap we have today that we'd better be without anyway).
I've got a Latitude CPi, too (brand new, 400MHz :-), but the X Server (3.3.5) doesn't recognize the NeoMagic chipset's revision number. It won't work out of the box.
It worked only after I forced it to 'NM2200' and found out somewhere deep in xfree86.org that there was no acceleration at 24bpp so _that_'s what made it so ****ing slow.
It's working great now, though. Sound too.
However, the 'Linux' link at the downloads pages is only there when you choose the Inspiron. It's gone when you go to the Latitude driver page.
So the headline "Dell supports Linux on laptops" may just be slightly exaggerated.
"I am appalled at the lack of knowledge of history and international politics that the European readers of slashdot are showing. Americans are often criticised for their lack of internationalism; yet the Europeans don't even seem to have a clue about their own history."
That's quite a generalization you're making there...
For the record: I'm European and I think Marshall was indeed a great man. The freedom and stability Western Europe has enjoyed in the second half of the century are largely due to the Marshall Plan. I'm pretty sure my life would be *much* different if it had never existed.
Also, I'm amazed at the fact that most Americans have never heard of Marshall. Every high school in my country (the Netherlands) teaches about the Marshall plan in history class. It's certainly not forgotten.
Most people 'in the streets' would know about Marshall, I think. But, then again, the stupidity and capacity to forget in some people is really astounding. Like those Americans voting for Elvis Presley as the most significant person of the century...
- They provide free DNS services, but you are still able to run your own DNS servers. (A combination is also possible)
Combinations are *not* possible. I tried in vain to change the 1st nameserver but not the second, but they refused to process this. They will not host just the secondary DNS. It's all or nothing.
The web interface seems pretty cool though, and the response times for support have been great in my case.
You're just being silly and not thinking of the rest of the world.
:-)
Finally a story that does *not* appear in the middle of the night.
Americans sure are nuts about guns.
Make an effort sometime and compare US crime rates and amounts of shooting sprees in public places to those in countries where people are fortunate enough to lack the right to carry lethal weapons around.
If I went crazy and wanted to kill a bunch of people, I wouldn't know where to get a gun, let alone some sort of automatic rifle. If Atlanta was like Amsterdam, a lot of people would not be dead today.
If/when Linux and free software on it gets more dominant, we would be less dependent on the x86 architecture, and Intel wouldn't be so powerful. Open source allows easy porting, after all.
The only thing that doesn't suck about the x86 architecture is that it's mass produced and cheap. Imagine a world where you could choose between using an x86, Alpha, MIPS, PPC, ARM, etc., solely on the basis of price/performance. The demise of clone makers such as Cyrix or IDT would not then carry the risk of Intel re-taking its stranglehold on the market.
That would be cool, in more ways than one: CPUs wouldn't get as hot, because there would be no more need to be backwards compatible with some crappy 20 year old instruction set.
You are certainly very creative, linking these issues together.
Keep your feeble political views out of the bandwidth of people who are fortunate enough not to understand what the hell you are talking about.
Why did you go to all this trouble? A byte count is not really a fair way to assess someone's contribution.
In your valuation system Linus' role is completely trivial, for example.
I wonder what the real reason for your grudge against the FSF is.
IIRC Philips are making this stuff already ("throw-away circuitry")