I still remember last time Total didn't want to properly shutdown an oil platform they had in the Northern Sea, Total gas stations started blowing up in Germany and elsewhere.
Needless to say they changed their mind after the first couple of them blew up.
So if she makes a mistake and wrongly verbally accuses someone of plotting to kill her this is bad. Yet if someone else makes a mistake and wrongly kills a person, maiming another, while also accusing them of plotting to kill someone else, you think the killer has the moral high ground?
She got the usual mistake, that open source software was communism. Like Marx said:
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs!
But that is *not* the open source motto. This quote from Saint-Simon captures the essence:
Each according to his capacity! Each capacity according to its works!
A pure meritocracy of the able, not communism of the masses.
Combine it with the free market provided by open source, which enables both universal competition and the ability for coopetition and you have pure free market capitalism.
The capital of the open source market can be tangible (money, beer, chocolate, hardware, etc) or intangible (code, patches, bug reports, feature requests, documentation, help, etc).
Idle rants from Eugenia are not capital. They are just hot air.
How about if they considered it and found it wasn't worth their effort? You are saying the developers should implement a feature on their own dime only because she claims it is useful?
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I find it to be the opposite. See girls in school for example. They compete more than boys do. Most geeks could care less about competing. If you know you are good, you don't need to prove it to anyone.:-D
If it was to run a server-side app, I need more reliability. So I need a shorter list. Let us say, cut it to two. That would make it between Fedora Core and SuSE. Then roll the dice.
The large corporations are not happy with getting money from selling products or services in an open market anymore. They want a license to print money.
They are doing this by trying to apply patents and copyrights nearly universally (remember HP trying to apply the DMCA to printer cartridges?). Next thing you know, auto parts will have anti-circumvention devices and special lock codes so only a licensed auto-mechanic can repair them. Then you have DVD region codes (which HP seems to want to include now in printers too), which are nothing more than pure vendor lock-in so they can charge different prices at different places as they please giving no alternative.
This is Neo-Feudalism. Make no mistake about it. The barons are the corporate leaders (many of the Japanese corporate leaders used to come from Samurai families, so for them I suppose this is going back to the old times). Hopefully we can revert it by peaceful means before it sinks in.
GConf is basically just that. But I am not certain XML is the best choice. I would prefer a simpler syntax, like the old Windows.ini format or just a sequence of commands, one command per line.
If you wanted easy to use, you would probably use a Mac instead of Windows anyway.
The ideal no hassle computer should be just like an appliance. You buy it. You plug it in. You use it. You do not install software, search for drivers, upgrade things, etc. The problem is at that point it ceases to be a general purpose computer. You must draw a line in the sand someplace.
DVHS is not new, you could get one in Japan ages ago. It will ultimately die vs the compact disc formats + hard disk combo. The discs take less storage space, require less hassle to store in a way that will make them last a reasonable amount of time, etc.
SVHS and DVHS never picked up because the increase in functionality did not match the price markup.
Don't try to pick the absolutely best distro for you. The effort involved in doing that is not worth the gains.
Here is a list: Fedora Core, SuSE, Gentoo, Debian, Mandrake. There are 5 distros in that list. Roll some dice to pick one. If you get a 6, roll the dice again.
Any of these will do. Really. You can do a multi-variable analysis to help you optimize your selection better. But the more fitness you demand, the more time you will waste.
Just pick one of the leading distros (which means more people will have come into the problems before you, and that they probably have been fixed by now) and stick with it. Problem solved.
I would really hate to go shopping with the author of the article.
Just pick a distro you get used to and stick to it. I have used Red Hat since about version 6.0 and now use Red Hat's Fedora Core 3... which is basically the latest iteration of the same thing. I also picked GNOME, and never use KDE for anything. I also do not bother to personalize my system any more. Means I do not need to go throught all the trouble of personalizing again next time I upgrade.
Personalizing your desktop is usually a bad idea, especially if you switch computers often (which I did).
Just pick a distro, try not to personalize your setup, and upgrade every year or six months.
Not everyone has the same needs. Some people use Windows to turn their PC into a game console to play Doom 3, but others will spend their time playing Minesweeper or Solitarie. Guess what... any Linux desktop has those small games and a dozen more.
If you use your computer for web browsing, e-mail and the occasional small game or odd letter, Linux is just fine. If he has to actually maintain that person's PC anyway, it is easier to do that with Linux than with Windows XP Home or something like that.
Some of that stuff I agree with, but others have been fixed a long time ago (think years). Fonts on Linux have been good for over a year now. Just get any of the Fedora releases for example. Regarding the UI, it is not a Windows 3.1 feel. At best you can say GNOME or KDE look as good as Windows 2000.
Windows filename extensions are overrated and stupid VMS like legacy crapolla. I do agree that short meaningless file names are stupid UNIX legacy crapolla and that using '.' to hide files is silly however. An attribute bit would do the same thing. We are not in the 70s anymore and computers have a lot of hardware resources at their disposal now.
Regarding registry vs many small flat text files, I prefer the many small flat text files. The only problem is that there is no consistent way to organize them. You have '/etc' and '~/.*' but that is definitively not good enough.
The industry was much different back then. Which is why there was more variety where now there is almost none. I see current Open Source games closer to how game development used to be in the 80s.
If you are going to add Homeworld just because it is 3D and it has some extra polish, then I would add Xpilot to the list of Open Source games. I have not played the Sims so I cannot comment. But there were a-life games before that. For example, Creatures or Tamagotchi.
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Needless to say they changed their mind after the first couple of them blew up.
Wacky Norse.
Luxembourg is smaller...
How did you think the military manages to make everyone fight for the unit, while treating the men like dirt?
Congratulations. You now have a police state.
Gimme a break.
For your information, it is possible to do HTTP uploads, as well as downloads. How did you think form information was received by a web server?
How about the Italian Secret Service guy which got shot by the U.S. troops? Forgot about that?
Actually, it isn't. It produces plenty of false positives.
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs!
But that is *not* the open source motto. This quote from Saint-Simon captures the essence:
Each according to his capacity! Each capacity according to its works!
A pure meritocracy of the able, not communism of the masses.
Combine it with the free market provided by open source, which enables both universal competition and the ability for coopetition and you have pure free market capitalism.
The capital of the open source market can be tangible (money, beer, chocolate, hardware, etc) or intangible (code, patches, bug reports, feature requests, documentation, help, etc).
Idle rants from Eugenia are not capital. They are just hot air.
They did say "that's a bad idea, and here's why", but she proceded to mail-bomb them with her bitching regardless.
How about if they considered it and found it wasn't worth their effort? You are saying the developers should implement a feature on their own dime only because she claims it is useful?
I find it to be the opposite. See girls in school for example. They compete more than boys do. Most geeks could care less about competing. If you know you are good, you don't need to prove it to anyone. :-D
The point is, you do not need to do a multi-variable analysis for everything.
They are doing this by trying to apply patents and copyrights nearly universally (remember HP trying to apply the DMCA to printer cartridges?). Next thing you know, auto parts will have anti-circumvention devices and special lock codes so only a licensed auto-mechanic can repair them. Then you have DVD region codes (which HP seems to want to include now in printers too), which are nothing more than pure vendor lock-in so they can charge different prices at different places as they please giving no alternative.
This is Neo-Feudalism. Make no mistake about it. The barons are the corporate leaders (many of the Japanese corporate leaders used to come from Samurai families, so for them I suppose this is going back to the old times). Hopefully we can revert it by peaceful means before it sinks in.
Superbly annoying you mean, nearly everyone thinks the Internet is the World Wide Web.
GConf is basically just that. But I am not certain XML is the best choice. I would prefer a simpler syntax, like the old Windows .ini format or just a sequence of commands, one command per line.
The ideal no hassle computer should be just like an appliance. You buy it. You plug it in. You use it. You do not install software, search for drivers, upgrade things, etc. The problem is at that point it ceases to be a general purpose computer. You must draw a line in the sand someplace.
DVHS is not new, you could get one in Japan ages ago. It will ultimately die vs the compact disc formats + hard disk combo. The discs take less storage space, require less hassle to store in a way that will make them last a reasonable amount of time, etc.
SVHS and DVHS never picked up because the increase in functionality did not match the price markup.
People just do not want tapes anymore.
Here is a list: Fedora Core, SuSE, Gentoo, Debian, Mandrake. There are 5 distros in that list. Roll some dice to pick one. If you get a 6, roll the dice again.
Any of these will do. Really. You can do a multi-variable analysis to help you optimize your selection better. But the more fitness you demand, the more time you will waste.
Just pick one of the leading distros (which means more people will have come into the problems before you, and that they probably have been fixed by now) and stick with it. Problem solved.
I would really hate to go shopping with the author of the article.
Now where is my consulting fee?
I doubt Adobe will be in Mac OS X for the long run. They have tilted towards Windows lately as Apple started to encroach on their turf.
Personalizing your desktop is usually a bad idea, especially if you switch computers often (which I did).
Just pick a distro, try not to personalize your setup, and upgrade every year or six months.
If you use your computer for web browsing, e-mail and the occasional small game or odd letter, Linux is just fine. If he has to actually maintain that person's PC anyway, it is easier to do that with Linux than with Windows XP Home or something like that.
First switch them to Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, plus Openoffice.org, X-Chat, Gaim, etc. After you get that, replacing the OS is easier.
Windows filename extensions are overrated and stupid VMS like legacy crapolla. I do agree that short meaningless file names are stupid UNIX legacy crapolla and that using '.' to hide files is silly however. An attribute bit would do the same thing. We are not in the 70s anymore and computers have a lot of hardware resources at their disposal now.
Regarding registry vs many small flat text files, I prefer the many small flat text files. The only problem is that there is no consistent way to organize them. You have '/etc' and '~/.*' but that is definitively not good enough.
The industry was much different back then. Which is why there was more variety where now there is almost none. I see current Open Source games closer to how game development used to be in the 80s.
If you are going to add Homeworld just because it is 3D and it has some extra polish, then I would add Xpilot to the list of Open Source games. I have not played the Sims so I cannot comment. But there were a-life games before that. For example, Creatures or Tamagotchi.