Aye! I fell in love with mouse gestures too. I even installed a general mouse gesture support for my computer, StrokeIt. http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/ I can't anymore imagine computing without mouse gestures.
And we're supposed to believe that MSN Search's results won't be skewed toward MSN Shopping and MSN Content? Google may not be perfect, but at least it's independent of the industry giants. For now anyway. In a way Google is an industry giant in itself. Its name has become a verb. They can make or kill websites on a whim, just be altering ratings. They might not have the $ to prove they're an industry giant but they certainly have the recognition and influence of a one.
Well I cannot speak for 100% of the people but here's my take on it and some solutions.
1. Problem: Packaging. There are quite a few packaging formats and when you find a cool program X there is a good chance that it's not available for your format of choice and if it is, it's few versions out of date.
1. Solution: Since source is the most used distribution format just make doubleclick/drag'n'drop compile.
2. Problem: There are a good amount of programs that are either KDE/Gnome/whatever only. It doesn't help if you can have all programs you need if you need to run KDE+Gnome+Whatever to use 'em.
2. Solution: Duh, don't use widgets that are specific to one solution.
3. Problem: GUIs. Or rather, lack of them. There are still a good amount of programs that are commandline only. Yes I am aware that all TYPES of programs are available with GUI but they're not necessarily the best of breed.
3. Solution: Write GUIs for your programs! Or, alternatively it could be possible to create a program with databases about thousands of programs that'd create GUIs for them according to instructions in the database. Text: "This program wants you to input an IP address" and a box with ___.___.___.___ in it. This might be the better solution since it doesn't require cooperation of the original programmer or forking of the program in question.
Well, no, that's not true. Sure, I can hand cash to someone annoymously but I can't (easily) send cash to someone in -say- Afghanistan. I'm sure it's possible, but you'd really have to work at it.
Ok, I'm normally a big proponent of identity freedom on the internet, but I'm having a little trouble justifying this one. I think you need to be able to trace the money trail. I just think there are too many bad uses to justify the few good ones.
How about the fact that it's no different from cash?
Here is my stoned idea. say Opera includes SVG support and can slim back down a little in download size (I remember when it would fit on a floppy of course). I just downloaded the adobe SVG plugin which was somewhere over 2 megs.
Web designers like SVG and make sites with it. Now most people wont be able to see it without a plugin.
So the website says "you need to download software to view this content", the user click ok and it installs Opera with settings defaulted to being as similar as IE as possible.
The user might never even notice, but their browser will when they are ready have lots of extra features.
Disclaimers: I would have said firebird but its considerably bigger, I remain hopefull howevere. I realise its a dodgy method of installing, almost like adware/spyware.
When they force us to install something against our better judgement/will we call it bastardly, immoral and evil.
When we're planning to force someone to install something without knowing it it's called insightful.
I'll remember your words about giving people what's best for them when agents burst into your apartment and install Oppression OS on your computer because it's best for you...
Sweden is the size of California, but has only a quarter (9 million) of the population. Yet the broadband prices are similar to Japan ($40/mo for 26/26 Mbit/s).
Comparision is not valid however. In Sweden the goverment decided that every household will get a broadband and it is subsidising businesses to get that result.
Even if I'm not a Linux user/advocate I'll still throw my spoon into the soup.
Help people use Linux! Camp the #linuxhelp in IRC network, check the message boards. Helping people is good and fullfilling thing to do, even if you don't have a (socio)political axe to grind.
It's really funny that they'd over look this stuff, since they bitch and moan about how bad IE is (and will be for another 6 years). They clearly don't understand the power of Open Source.
It's not an open source thing. It's doing stuff thing. Opera and Mozilla are kicking it in the lead, claiming that a > b will lead to a flamewar, but I think almost everyone will agree that they're close.
It's my personal opinion that these heavily socialist/pension/welfare states are stabbing themselves in the back. Though they provide many services for everyone, it makes a society that is very expensive to live in. As such, it is my understanding that it is rather rare in most european countries for a family to even have more than 1 child (2 at the most)--with these terribly low growth rates (I read that a German govt report predicted a population drop of some 20m by 2050) the only solution is to up birth rates (which isn't happening) or to increase immigration to extremely high levels. Increased immigration is changing the face of Europe to something that is not Europe (or at least not a recognizable Europe).
Your idea is flawed at the core. Yes, we can keep prices down and pensions high when we have a large working class. But as medicines become more efficient and people live longer we'd need ever growing population to support them. If we have 100 people that are supported by 120 people what's the situation at the next generation? 120 being supported by 144. 144 by 173. 173 by 207. You see where this is going. No scenario that relies on infinite explosive growth is stable.
The only real solution is to learn to cope with the situation of unchanging population.
If people would invest that in anything decent over the course of their lives, they'd be quite rich on retirement.
And if money would grow on trees we'd all be rich.
It's an unfortunate but, people are unable to plan for their own future successfully. Therefore we need stuff like that. It'd be surprised if even a considerable minority were able to plan for their retirement better then the goverment could.
When Hitler attacked soviet forces had over twice more tanks and planes, an obvious result of a military buildup. There were also the military reform after the Finno-Russo war and the creation of the buffer zone between Soviet Union and Germany (Consisting mainly from the baltic states and eastern Poland)
However, the time of the attack was a surprise, Stalin wasn't expecting invasion until '42 (And had the balcans offensive lasted a while longer, it might have postponed the offence to the next year). However, considering how large and growing military Soviet Union had at that time, it's hardly a surprise to say that Stalin was oblivious of the german threat. It could even be said that Stalin was the first person to realize it when he was backstabbed in the question about the thechoslovacian (sp?) territories!
Very interesting. It seems that some groups simply want to see the great mass of people regimented and are indifferent to the ideology used to justify the regimentation. Religious or secular, Marxist or Facist, it is all the same to them. Mussolini was, after all, a communist before he was a facist and Nazism had people who were called "beefsteak Nazis"--brown on the outside and red inside. Then there is the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939. Hitler may have intended to break it at the earliest opportunity, but Stalin seems to have been sincerely surprised when Hitler broke it.
That's just bad history. Stalin was well aware how Hitler would invade sooner or later and wrote the treaty so he'd have time to build up his military after the purges of the 30s.
This is indicative of the moral bancrupcy of these regimes.
Their supposed ideologies are the very opposite. This makes it clear to everyone that they are really the same. They rally around the flag of protecting the dictators, and supressing free speech. That is the true essence of their ideologies.
Kinda like the western world allied with Stalin during the WW2? I guess there's the definite proof that we're all morally corrupt?
Politics make strange bedmates.
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Sheesh! What has GPL got to do with being an ISP? Nothing!
Even if you follow up the principles of free software movement doesn't make you a GPL ISP. What's next? GPL ice cream?
GPL is a software licence, don't try to make it into something it's not suited for.
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Problem with apt is that most software (or at least the latest versions) are mostly available as source. Why isn't there a double-click/drag'n'drop compile?
And how well has education worked against the virus problems? the worms? the whatever?
Besides, it's easy to say that we need to educate X and it's really hard to do it. Especially if X doesn't really care. Just ask any elementary school teacher.
Kinda like how's happening with illegal p2p usage? oh wait...
If people don't think wireless security is imporant and we make a law that forces them to implement it then respect of law will suffer. Just like how it's happening with p2p. And do you really want to waste police resources to triangulate source of wifi signal? And even if they do that they'll still have to get a warrant to make sure the signal comes from the place they think it's coming. Whoops, you can't get a warrant for a crime that only has fines as a punishment. Let's put those who run unsecure wifi to jail! What a great idea!
Only way to solve this problem is to make it illegal to sell wifi equipment without auto-enabled encryption. People don't care about the issue so any attempt to force them to care will be wasted. Attempts to force them to use will just be met with contempt.
Linux distros are already at the point that DVDs are becoming full in the effort to have every program supplied with them. But do you really believe it's possible to have every imaginable program distrubuted with the distro? I don't.
What about supplying RMPs, Ports or whatever format that is the flavor of the distro? (Yes yes, Ports are *BSD packages, put your pitchforks away). That won't work either because not all programs come with those, source is still the de facto distribution format and even if other formats are available they're usually out of date.
To have precompiled packages away requires the combined (somewhat unreasonable) effort of all developers. That is the reason it can't work.
Then what?
MAKE (pun intented) compiling easier! Either drag&drop or doubleclick compiling.
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Aye! I fell in love with mouse gestures too. I even installed a general mouse gesture support for my computer, StrokeIt. http://www.tcbmi.com/strokeit/ I can't anymore imagine computing without mouse gestures.
And if you're so inclined you can record all the series and movies that are on TV.
And we're supposed to believe that MSN Search's results won't be skewed toward MSN Shopping and MSN Content? Google may not be perfect, but at least it's independent of the industry giants. For now anyway.
In a way Google is an industry giant in itself. Its name has become a verb. They can make or kill websites on a whim, just be altering ratings. They might not have the $ to prove they're an industry giant but they certainly have the recognition and influence of a one.
Well I cannot speak for 100% of the people but here's my take on it and some solutions.
1. Problem: Packaging. There are quite a few packaging formats and when you find a cool program X there is a good chance that it's not available for your format of choice and if it is, it's few versions out of date.
1. Solution: Since source is the most used distribution format just make doubleclick/drag'n'drop compile.
2. Problem: There are a good amount of programs that are either KDE/Gnome/whatever only. It doesn't help if you can have all programs you need if you need to run KDE+Gnome+Whatever to use 'em.
2. Solution: Duh, don't use widgets that are specific to one solution.
3. Problem: GUIs. Or rather, lack of them. There are still a good amount of programs that are commandline only. Yes I am aware that all TYPES of programs are available with GUI but they're not necessarily the best of breed.
3. Solution: Write GUIs for your programs! Or, alternatively it could be possible to create a program with databases about thousands of programs that'd create GUIs for them according to instructions in the database. Text: "This program wants you to input an IP address" and a box with ___.___.___.___ in it. This might be the better solution since it doesn't require cooperation of the original programmer or forking of the program in question.
Well, no, that's not true. Sure, I can hand cash to someone annoymously but I can't (easily) send cash to someone in -say- Afghanistan. I'm sure it's possible, but you'd really have to work at it.
Physical Mail?
Ok, I'm normally a big proponent of identity freedom on the internet, but I'm having a little trouble justifying this one. I think you need to be able to trace the money trail. I just think there are too many bad uses to justify the few good ones.
How about the fact that it's no different from cash?
Here is my stoned idea.
say Opera includes SVG support and can slim back down a little in download size (I remember when it would fit on a floppy of course). I just downloaded the adobe SVG plugin which was somewhere over 2 megs.
Web designers like SVG and make sites with it. Now most people wont be able to see it without a plugin.
So the website says "you need to download software to view this content", the user click ok and it installs Opera with settings defaulted to being as similar as IE as possible.
The user might never even notice, but their browser will when they are ready have lots of extra features.
Disclaimers: I would have said firebird but its considerably bigger, I remain hopefull howevere.
I realise its a dodgy method of installing, almost like adware/spyware.
When they force us to install something against our better judgement/will we call it bastardly, immoral and evil.
When we're planning to force someone to install something without knowing it it's called insightful.
I'll remember your words about giving people what's best for them when agents burst into your apartment and install Oppression OS on your computer because it's best for you...
(8) Porn censorship laws
That's what the broadband is for! duh.
Sweden is the size of California, but has only a quarter (9 million) of the population. Yet the broadband prices are similar to Japan ($40/mo for 26/26 Mbit/s).
Comparision is not valid however. In Sweden the goverment decided that every household will get a broadband and it is subsidising businesses to get that result.
Even if I'm not a Linux user/advocate I'll still throw my spoon into the soup.
Help people use Linux! Camp the #linuxhelp in IRC network, check the message boards. Helping people is good and fullfilling thing to do, even if you don't have a (socio)political axe to grind.
It's really funny that they'd over look this stuff, since they bitch and moan about how bad IE is (and will be for another 6 years). They clearly don't understand the power of Open Source.
It's not an open source thing. It's doing stuff thing. Opera and Mozilla are kicking it in the lead, claiming that a > b will lead to a flamewar, but I think almost everyone will agree that they're close.
It's my personal opinion that these heavily socialist/pension/welfare states are stabbing themselves in the back. Though they provide many services for everyone, it makes a society that is very expensive to live in. As such, it is my understanding that it is rather rare in most european countries for a family to even have more than 1 child (2 at the most)--with these terribly low growth rates (I read that a German govt report predicted a population drop of some 20m by 2050) the only solution is to up birth rates (which isn't happening) or to increase immigration to extremely high levels. Increased immigration is changing the face of Europe to something that is not Europe (or at least not a recognizable Europe).
Your idea is flawed at the core. Yes, we can keep prices down and pensions high when we have a large working class. But as medicines become more efficient and people live longer we'd need ever growing population to support them. If we have 100 people that are supported by 120 people what's the situation at the next generation? 120 being supported by 144. 144 by 173. 173 by 207. You see where this is going. No scenario that relies on infinite explosive growth is stable.
The only real solution is to learn to cope with the situation of unchanging population.
If people would invest that in anything decent over the course of their lives, they'd be quite rich on retirement.
And if money would grow on trees we'd all be rich.
It's an unfortunate but, people are unable to plan for their own future successfully. Therefore we need stuff like that. It'd be surprised if even a considerable minority were able to plan for their retirement better then the goverment could.
Even better, go for approval voting. Vote for as many candidates as you like. http://www.electionmethods.org/approved.html
Your working habbits will adapt to service us.
Resistance is feutile.
Spell checkking is futile.
Preppare to surrender your dictonaries.
When Hitler attacked soviet forces had over twice more tanks and planes, an obvious result of a military buildup. There were also the military reform after the Finno-Russo war and the creation of the buffer zone between Soviet Union and Germany (Consisting mainly from the baltic states and eastern Poland)
However, the time of the attack was a surprise, Stalin wasn't expecting invasion until '42 (And had the balcans offensive lasted a while longer, it might have postponed the offence to the next year). However, considering how large and growing military Soviet Union had at that time, it's hardly a surprise to say that Stalin was oblivious of the german threat. It could even be said that Stalin was the first person to realize it when he was backstabbed in the question about the thechoslovacian (sp?) territories!
Very interesting. It seems that some groups simply want to see the great mass of people regimented and are indifferent to the ideology used to justify the regimentation. Religious or secular, Marxist or Facist, it is all the same to them. Mussolini was, after all, a communist before he was a facist and Nazism had people who were called "beefsteak Nazis"--brown on the outside and red inside. Then there is the Hitler-Stalin pact of 1939. Hitler may have intended to break it at the earliest opportunity, but Stalin seems to have been sincerely surprised when Hitler broke it.
That's just bad history. Stalin was well aware how Hitler would invade sooner or later and wrote the treaty so he'd have time to build up his military after the purges of the 30s.
This is indicative of the moral bancrupcy of these regimes.
Their supposed ideologies are the very opposite. This makes it clear to everyone that they are really the same. They rally around the flag of protecting the dictators, and supressing free speech. That is the true essence of their ideologies.
Kinda like the western world allied with Stalin during the WW2? I guess there's the definite proof that we're all morally corrupt?
Politics make strange bedmates.
Sheesh! What has GPL got to do with being an ISP? Nothing!
Even if you follow up the principles of free software movement doesn't make you a GPL ISP. What's next? GPL ice cream?
GPL is a software licence, don't try to make it into something it's not suited for.
Problem with apt is that most software (or at least the latest versions) are mostly available as source. Why isn't there a double-click/drag'n'drop compile?
And how well has education worked against the virus problems? the worms? the whatever?
Besides, it's easy to say that we need to educate X and it's really hard to do it. Especially if X doesn't really care. Just ask any elementary school teacher.
Someone should cough up the dough and buy a neutral study.
"Do you think nonprofit copyright infrigment should be criminal? Yes/No"
That would do much to legitimize the claim that "most people dont consider filesharing a crime"
Kinda like how's happening with illegal p2p usage? oh wait...
If people don't think wireless security is imporant and we make a law that forces them to implement it then respect of law will suffer. Just like how it's happening with p2p. And do you really want to waste police resources to triangulate source of wifi signal? And even if they do that they'll still have to get a warrant to make sure the signal comes from the place they think it's coming. Whoops, you can't get a warrant for a crime that only has fines as a punishment. Let's put those who run unsecure wifi to jail! What a great idea!
Only way to solve this problem is to make it illegal to sell wifi equipment without auto-enabled encryption. People don't care about the issue so any attempt to force them to care will be wasted. Attempts to force them to use will just be met with contempt.
Those are treating the symptons, not the cause.
Linux distros are already at the point that DVDs are becoming full in the effort to have every program supplied with them. But do you really believe it's possible to have every imaginable program distrubuted with the distro? I don't.
What about supplying RMPs, Ports or whatever format that is the flavor of the distro? (Yes yes, Ports are *BSD packages, put your pitchforks away). That won't work either because not all programs come with those, source is still the de facto distribution format and even if other formats are available they're usually out of date.
To have precompiled packages away requires the combined (somewhat unreasonable) effort of all developers. That is the reason it can't work.
Then what?
MAKE (pun intented) compiling easier! Either drag&drop or doubleclick compiling.
Accidental double negative... It should be:
"There is no proof that anyone except me even reads the code"