The big one is will it run out of the box, right now the way compatability between distros and even versions of the same distro work the odds are against it. The would probably have to ship a game with a spare cd containing all the variations on the binaries needed just to work on most of the mainstream distros.
Different binaries? Linux is Linux is Linux (binary compatible, since it's the same kernel no matter what versions)
Maybe different packages (like rpm) but that's just because you want it as a package. Use an installer (nvidia) and it's solved.
The conclusion, just how in Windows you use an installer to do things, so can you in Linux.
So if I want to write a driver myself I can't?
I have to mail the devs for every little playtoy kernel module I make?
Or.. when I made a kernel module for fun to control a LCD screen to learn the 2.6 layout and gave it to a friend? He has to recompile his kernel to get rid of this whitelist?
No.. that'd be too much trouble and too much power for the dev team.
The idea of a blacklist works, not like it wouldn't be compiled out of existance using patches by people who didn't care.
I'd like to suggest a different kind of blacklist, one which still allows the module to load but automatically sets it's license internally to non-GPL (yeah.. if you use GPL only symbols it would die on the spot, probably taking your computer with it, so there'd have to be a check in for those and then reject it) If it's all fine load it and set the kernel to tainted.
GPL-only symbols I'm still not comfortable with personally. I think everyone should have acess to the API, no matter what. If they want closed source it's ok, they should be allowed to. Not sure if I want my kernel to dissalow something that would help me.
PGP encrypt everything, and only give your public key to a few people.
Or just upload it to a keyserver if you like, I'm sure none of those servers go to the lenght of searching for your PGP key.. downloading it.. adding it to a keychain, and decrypting your email.
Linux just has a very vocal minority that drives everyone insane. It's the same with Windows zelots but they don't come up as often as Linux ones. Some of them even scare me on occasion with how radical they are, and I use Linux exclusivly (meets my needs)
Try taking a look at linuxquestions.org for interesting points on Linux and help. You'll note almost all the users are nice friendly people.
Please don't group everyone who uses Linux in the zealot category, we aren't. Most of us are nice people willing to contribute, and just to have fun.
1. Poorly written/Buggy application or server software (Office Suites, Web Servers, Mail Servers, etc...)
A faulty application should not bring down your OS. It is the OS' fault if it dies. Even if it's written badly.. or if it's misconfigured (2).
Maybe #3 has some merit.. bad OS settings, but what settings can you set up in Windows that would crash it?
4. Underpowered hardware (overclocked CPUs or just plain slow/older machines, not enough RAM, etc..)
Even if it's slow, that isn't an excuse for it crashing.
5. Inappropriate hardware (Using a Gateway brand desktop PC as a Domain Controller) non-ECC RAM, etc..
The first example is ridiculous, it should not fail just because it's under too much stress.
If my OS dies because of a program that I ran as a normal user or a MS driver I just installed (You'd be surprised.. or.. maybe you wouldn't be?) it's the OS's fault.
Please let this be an end to the: "[Outlook/Apache/other server/other program/other game] locked my computer.. it's no Windows' fault" It is, nothing short of loading a junk driver that's malicious (and you do need admin for that I beleive) or.. an error in the OS should crash it ( barring hardware and with sane settings *read, sane, not optimum.. sane*)
As a sidenote, I use Linux at home, I use Windows XP at school and I repair all sorts of Windows computers. The most damage I've ever seen software and hardware wise has been by techsupport people (A+, et al. certified support)
It's very true on the linux side.
UNIX was born as a timesharing system and was very extensivly used in dumb clients. That's why everything works using pipes and sockets and why all programs are separate packages (so that you can pick and choose what you need for those clients)
I started to beleive this argument, that Windows doesn't crash anymore.
I haven't used Windows more then 10 minutes in a long while, so hearing all this news almost convinced me.
That's until a week ago when I started to repair computers again. It is more stable then it used to be, but that argument is just as valid as before.
I still have people who develop on Windows and just people who use Windows (joe user) looking at my Linux box and saying wow. uptime at over a month now.. and last one was me cleaning and flipping the switch on my powerbar by mistake.
Drivers for non-mainstream windows software (yes.. those provided by MS) are just as bad as I remember them. Trying my scanner with the newest windows drivers (XP SP1) still crashes everything. Downloading windows updates in certain orders (XP SP1) still leads to horribly unstable systems)
So yeah.. you might be lucky and it works for you, but it's just as unstable.
(BTW: It crashes but we'll make a cluster so that noone can see that is the reason why Linux users use this argument. It's not a solution, it's paramount to telling someone to just press the on button again when their computer stops working. )
Question is.. why pay so much money to make a base on the moon simply to shoot down space stations? Why not invest in something worthwile? like going to Mars.
Very few countries have access to space, and even fewer can field sattelites on their own. To destroy a sattelite you can probably use a much (orders of magnitude) cheaper Atlas or Redstone missle if it really becomes a problem. You can do the same with space stations, it takes very little to make something like that collapse under pressure (a few perforations here and there)
I don't think there's much of a military use for the moon. What use it could serve is to in a way claim the moon under the banner of the US. Being the first there could guarantee a huge chunk of it (prime realeastate). From what I remember the moon is in the same situation as Antarctica, which would make that a valid point.
Umm.... I never knew they had specialists? And an MCSE (which is a joke) along with an MCDST which is another joke, coupled with the MS Office Specialist make you look stupid.
Just... the fact that you mentioned MS Office as a qualification makes you look bad.
People really need to start using the word specialist most strictly.
And.. TYPEING LIKE THIS doesn't make you look any smarter. The.. '????'s don't help either.
100% Facts.. neat. I'd love to see which company made these reports, a link? thanks Any company that could make reports 100% accurate has got to be by far the richest in the world.
Reliable companies with tried and tested products, or that bedroom coder Thorwalds who publicly admits that he is in fact A HACKER???
And.. that was your ultimate descent from normal respectable (kind of) person, to idiot (no offence intended)
Try to spell the man's name right at least, it's Trovalds, and he likes to be called Linus rather than his last name.
Which are these reliable companies you speak of? I'm really curious, last I checked MS was lying about as fast as it could (you can't even say it never lied)
Tried and tested? That's good, if they would actually fix the bugs.
And.. bedroom coder? The man worked for Transmetra with a very serious job, and has a Comp. Sci. degree.
The reference to the entire hacker thing.. was kind of pointless too. (You'd have to put up your definition of the word before you'd receive a proper critique of all that)
However, there is a group of software developers in the United States, and other parts of the world, that do not believe in the approach to copyright protection mandated by Congress. In the past 20 years, the Free Software Foundation and others in the Open Source software movement have set out to actively and intentionally undermine the U.S. and European systems of copyrights and patents.
He has a very deep misunderstanding of the GPL.
The GPL is based entirely on copyright laws. GPL does not equal free, and free, public domain, is also protected under the law.
Just how MS/(any company) can put a near draconian licence agreement (EULA) so can the authors of the programs. Those authors choose to make their code free, and ask for others to keep it free. The companies keep it hidden, and don't allow anyone to peek at it.
Not very different. If the FSF removes copyright laws, then the GPL itself becomes usless. Noone's lobbying against copyright laws (sane copyright laws would nice nice though). Software patents, are a hot topic (personally against) but have nothing to do with the validity of the GPL or the credibility of the FSF.
Remember Darl.. no copyright laws, no GPL. Go copyright laws! down with SCO.
I do find one thing very funny. They accuse the FSF of beeing against copyright laws, but when they don't like the laws they voilate them blatantly. Ironic isn't it?
The new Linux kernel, it's dubbed "stoned beaver"
You don't read Linus' advisories when he releases a new kernel? *gasps*
I still like the old "greasy weasel" name, that's just me though.
Most of my family died in camps like that too. Yeah.. slavery is bad. I think we can all agree on this. But that reference to the word slave has nothing to do with actual slavery as you understand it. Look it up in Webster.
I for one have never been offended by the word slave, and don't plan on it. They are just words, and I'm sure harddrives don't have feelings. I hate all this political correctness. It's so pointless, and makes the language sound cluttered.
Master/Slave has been around for ages, and no it's not meant to be offensive. Noone I've ever explained that to has ever been offended, and that's while running my own computer repair buisness.
You'd certantly be dissapointed in me if I where your child then.
I'll freely admit I've watched porn before.. and I have helped people circumvent things like that before.
And.. yes.. I'm a normal teenager. No I don't go around shooting people, and I don't do drugs. I get good marks, and am generally considered responsible.
I've always had the freedom to do whatever I want to on my computer, and even when I have been seen with porn, I just got a good laugh out of it.
Nothing special.
Not.. not half. Not even close.
Try google my friend 108,000,000 results for porn from what.. 3,307,998,701 pages...
I know google makes sure to not display similar results more then once.. but you can't tell me from 108 million you will get to 1.6 billion pages, because noone will beleive you.
You don't have to be a tyrranical parent to raise a good child. Quite the opposite.
As a kid of 16 myself, and an honour student, probably a geek too, I agree. Except for the drugs part, I don't intend to ever try that. I appreciate the freedom I get, and the fact that I can do anything on my computer that I want to (I have control of root anyway, so no way to check, heh) Noone's ever tried to check, and I think this has made me more responsible then having someone over my shoulder telling me to not do things.
And yes.. I have been caught by a parent walking into my room while I was watching porn, and I don't think it's abnormal for kids my age to do it (quite the opposite) I have lived in a household in which I had my internet access logged at the gateway. I can tell you it's quite annoying. Though.. it's very simple to circumvent. Use a p2p program if you really want restricted files.:)
The trend I've seen is this:
Parents that are strict on rules tend to break their own rules a lot and go back on their word. This is definitely not the right message to send to a kid. Usually prompts the kids to lie a lot, and to be careless.
Parents which allow their kids more freedom, but expect a lot (like the previous poster pointed out) usually instill responsibility. I just feel bad doing certain things... so I don't do them, not because there is a rule against it.
I do! Every time a friend comes over and they see my 3 computers working togeather.. and my 1.8Ghz forwarding X to my 400Mhz.. they love it.
Some of them are in the middle of switching for good. I've never been frustrated with their price or activation;), lol
Though I'm happy I don't have to use Windows again.. it was great for it's time, MS made some great programs, but that's all in the past.
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I didn't like the movie at all, mostly because of 3 reasons. There where others too though.
1. The machines keep their promises. Why? I'd just say, "Nice, Neo's dead... kill the humans now" What do they have to gain from the peace now that Neo is gone and he did his part?
2. The swarms of things flying all over. Why did they fly in packs so they can be hit all the time? If they dispersed how it's logical they would have been more effective in killing those APUs. None of them managed to notice the missles very easily. If they are such advanced machines could they not figure out "Oh.. missles, let's go after what shot them" And with all those thousands of machines noone saw those people with the rocket launchers? None of them shot at the resuply people? Well.. not quite true... one or two did, but still. Anyone knows that you want to go for the resuply lines first. I have more complaints about the machines.. but i'll stop there:)
3. Why did they not keep EMPs? I mean... Zion put them all on ships. why not put say... 30 of them inside the dome.. and just keep detonating emps once in a while to kill the drones. Whatever is left.. they could have kept all their ships back and destroyed, or those APU things could have handeled them. Why did they waste all their ships?
Just 3 major observations.. there are more. like that entire huge gate, it was held by 1 chain.... that's not really plausible.
I've brought that argument up so many times in religion class.. (I go to a catholic school.. let's just say it's not a popular argument:)) Every time it just gets avoided. But.. if you compare the two arguments, use Occam's razor. What's simpler? A universe defined by simple (albeit not understood laws) that can be quantified in mathematics? Or an infinitely complex and powerful beeing, that can't be predicted, or expressed in math.
No.. if you don't want licence problems use BSD. It doesn't make you release the source code.
I really dom't get what these people are thinking?
Let's uphold the rights of MS.. but when it comes to upholding the licence of something that is much less restrictive we can bash it?
I have that:) I wanted to buy a new one, but under Linux the newest games work fine for me. Even with very high graphics enabled. No point. Oldest hardware... A 25Mhz Intel 486SX.. with 8Mb of ram..
And with this.. Kazza is going to go the way of Napster. We still have Direct Connect, Bittorrent, Gnutella.. and a few others. Use mldonkey, you get to use more then one network at a time, just have to remember to disable kazza when this all starts.
Not giving a person 5000000 for something like that? How about giving 50 people who are smart.. but can't afford university a chance? How about giving them a life that they wouldn't have been able to afford? Or donating it to help the kids in Africa.. or anything that's mildly useful? Seems to me like this is just the recursive pattern in our society "Let's make the rich, richer" Sure.. some of these people aren't rich, but they sure aren't starving. I'm sure if they've been noticed by this foundation that they are preety well off. Whoever runs this.. think of what your money could do in the hands of people who really need it.
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The big one is will it run out of the box, right now the way compatability between distros and even versions of the same distro work the odds are against it. The would probably have to ship a game with a spare cd containing all the variations on the binaries needed just to work on most of the mainstream distros. Different binaries? Linux is Linux is Linux (binary compatible, since it's the same kernel no matter what versions) Maybe different packages (like rpm) but that's just because you want it as a package. Use an installer (nvidia) and it's solved. The conclusion, just how in Windows you use an installer to do things, so can you in Linux.
So if I want to write a driver myself I can't? I have to mail the devs for every little playtoy kernel module I make? Or.. when I made a kernel module for fun to control a LCD screen to learn the 2.6 layout and gave it to a friend? He has to recompile his kernel to get rid of this whitelist? No.. that'd be too much trouble and too much power for the dev team. The idea of a blacklist works, not like it wouldn't be compiled out of existance using patches by people who didn't care. I'd like to suggest a different kind of blacklist, one which still allows the module to load but automatically sets it's license internally to non-GPL (yeah.. if you use GPL only symbols it would die on the spot, probably taking your computer with it, so there'd have to be a check in for those and then reject it) If it's all fine load it and set the kernel to tainted. GPL-only symbols I'm still not comfortable with personally. I think everyone should have acess to the API, no matter what. If they want closed source it's ok, they should be allowed to. Not sure if I want my kernel to dissalow something that would help me.
PGP encrypt everything, and only give your public key to a few people.
Or just upload it to a keyserver if you like, I'm sure none of those servers go to the lenght of searching for your PGP key.. downloading it.. adding it to a keychain, and decrypting your email.
Linux just has a very vocal minority that drives everyone insane. It's the same with Windows zelots but they don't come up as often as Linux ones. Some of them even scare me on occasion with how radical they are, and I use Linux exclusivly (meets my needs)
Try taking a look at linuxquestions.org for interesting points on Linux and help. You'll note almost all the users are nice friendly people.
Please don't group everyone who uses Linux in the zealot category, we aren't. Most of us are nice people willing to contribute, and just to have fun.
1. Poorly written/Buggy application or server software (Office Suites, Web Servers, Mail Servers, etc...)
A faulty application should not bring down your OS. It is the OS' fault if it dies. Even if it's written badly.. or if it's misconfigured (2).
Maybe #3 has some merit.. bad OS settings, but what settings can you set up in Windows that would crash it?
4. Underpowered hardware (overclocked CPUs or just plain slow/older machines, not enough RAM, etc..)
Even if it's slow, that isn't an excuse for it crashing.
5. Inappropriate hardware (Using a Gateway brand desktop PC as a Domain Controller) non-ECC RAM, etc..
The first example is ridiculous, it should not fail just because it's under too much stress.
If my OS dies because of a program that I ran as a normal user or a MS driver I just installed (You'd be surprised.. or.. maybe you wouldn't be?) it's the OS's fault.
Please let this be an end to the: "[Outlook/Apache/other server/other program/other game] locked my computer.. it's no Windows' fault" It is, nothing short of loading a junk driver that's malicious (and you do need admin for that I beleive) or.. an error in the OS should crash it ( barring hardware and with sane settings *read, sane, not optimum.. sane*)
As a sidenote, I use Linux at home, I use Windows XP at school and I repair all sorts of Windows computers. The most damage I've ever seen software and hardware wise has been by techsupport people (A+, et al. certified support)
It's very true on the linux side. UNIX was born as a timesharing system and was very extensivly used in dumb clients. That's why everything works using pipes and sockets and why all programs are separate packages (so that you can pick and choose what you need for those clients)
I started to beleive this argument, that Windows doesn't crash anymore.
I haven't used Windows more then 10 minutes in a long while, so hearing all this news almost convinced me.
That's until a week ago when I started to repair computers again. It is more stable then it used to be, but that argument is just as valid as before.
I still have people who develop on Windows and just people who use Windows (joe user) looking at my Linux box and saying wow. uptime at over a month now.. and last one was me cleaning and flipping the switch on my powerbar by mistake.
Drivers for non-mainstream windows software (yes.. those provided by MS) are just as bad as I remember them. Trying my scanner with the newest windows drivers (XP SP1) still crashes everything. Downloading windows updates in certain orders (XP SP1) still leads to horribly unstable systems)
So yeah.. you might be lucky and it works for you, but it's just as unstable.
(BTW: It crashes but we'll make a cluster so that noone can see that is the reason why Linux users use this argument. It's not a solution, it's paramount to telling someone to just press the on button again when their computer stops working. )
Question is.. why pay so much money to make a base on the moon simply to shoot down space stations? Why not invest in something worthwile? like going to Mars.
Very few countries have access to space, and even fewer can field sattelites on their own. To destroy a sattelite you can probably use a much (orders of magnitude) cheaper Atlas or Redstone missle if it really becomes a problem. You can do the same with space stations, it takes very little to make something like that collapse under pressure (a few perforations here and there)
I don't think there's much of a military use for the moon. What use it could serve is to in a way claim the moon under the banner of the US.
Being the first there could guarantee a huge chunk of it (prime realeastate). From what I remember the moon is in the same situation as Antarctica, which would make that a valid point.
And let's not forget it'll be running hurd.
Don't run it with sudo,
Add the user you run it with to the portage group, you will be able to run emerge without any special root permissions.
MS Office Specialist
Umm.... I never knew they had specialists?
And an MCSE (which is a joke) along with an MCDST which is another joke, coupled with the MS Office Specialist make you look stupid.
Just... the fact that you mentioned MS Office as a qualification makes you look bad.
People really need to start using the word specialist most strictly.
And.. TYPEING LIKE THIS doesn't make you look any smarter. The.. '????'s don't help either.
100% Facts.. neat. I'd love to see which company made these reports, a link? thanks
Any company that could make reports 100% accurate has got to be by far the richest in the world.
Reliable companies with tried and tested products, or that bedroom coder Thorwalds who publicly admits that he is in fact A HACKER???
And.. that was your ultimate descent from normal respectable (kind of) person, to idiot (no offence intended)
Try to spell the man's name right at least, it's Trovalds, and he likes to be called Linus rather than his last name.
Which are these reliable companies you speak of? I'm really curious, last I checked MS was lying about as fast as it could (you can't even say it never lied)
Tried and tested? That's good, if they would actually fix the bugs.
And.. bedroom coder? The man worked for Transmetra with a very serious job, and has a Comp. Sci. degree.
The reference to the entire hacker thing.. was kind of pointless too. (You'd have to put up your definition of the word before you'd receive a proper critique of all that)
However, there is a group of software developers in the United States, and other parts of the world, that do not believe in the approach to copyright protection mandated by Congress. In the past 20 years, the Free Software Foundation and others in the Open Source software movement have set out to actively and intentionally undermine the U.S. and European systems of copyrights and patents.
He has a very deep misunderstanding of the GPL. The GPL is based entirely on copyright laws. GPL does not equal free, and free, public domain, is also protected under the law.
Just how MS/(any company) can put a near draconian licence agreement (EULA) so can the authors of the programs. Those authors choose to make their code free, and ask for others to keep it free. The companies keep it hidden, and don't allow anyone to peek at it.
Not very different. If the FSF removes copyright laws, then the GPL itself becomes usless. Noone's lobbying against copyright laws (sane copyright laws would nice nice though). Software patents, are a hot topic (personally against) but have nothing to do with the validity of the GPL or the credibility of the FSF.
Remember Darl.. no copyright laws, no GPL. Go copyright laws! down with SCO.
I do find one thing very funny. They accuse the FSF of beeing against copyright laws, but when they don't like the laws they voilate them blatantly. Ironic isn't it?
The new Linux kernel, it's dubbed "stoned beaver" You don't read Linus' advisories when he releases a new kernel? *gasps* I still like the old "greasy weasel" name, that's just me though.
Most of my family died in camps like that too. Yeah.. slavery is bad. I think we can all agree on this. But that reference to the word slave has nothing to do with actual slavery as you understand it. Look it up in Webster.
I for one have never been offended by the word slave, and don't plan on it. They are just words, and I'm sure harddrives don't have feelings. I hate all this political correctness. It's so pointless, and makes the language sound cluttered.
Master/Slave has been around for ages, and no it's not meant to be offensive. Noone I've ever explained that to has ever been offended, and that's while running my own computer repair buisness.
You forgot something :)
p2p programs like kazza
Try logging all of those?
Or.. email?
or usenet?
I think I've made my point :)
You'd certantly be dissapointed in me if I where your child then. I'll freely admit I've watched porn before.. and I have helped people circumvent things like that before. And.. yes.. I'm a normal teenager. No I don't go around shooting people, and I don't do drugs. I get good marks, and am generally considered responsible. I've always had the freedom to do whatever I want to on my computer, and even when I have been seen with porn, I just got a good laugh out of it. Nothing special. Not.. not half. Not even close. Try google my friend 108,000,000 results for porn from what.. 3,307,998,701 pages... I know google makes sure to not display similar results more then once.. but you can't tell me from 108 million you will get to 1.6 billion pages, because noone will beleive you. You don't have to be a tyrranical parent to raise a good child. Quite the opposite.
As a kid of 16 myself, and an honour student, probably a geek too, I agree.
:)
Except for the drugs part, I don't intend to ever try that. I appreciate the freedom I get, and the fact that I can do anything on my computer that I want to (I have control of root anyway, so no way to check, heh)
Noone's ever tried to check, and I think this has made me more responsible then having someone over my shoulder telling me to not do things.
And yes.. I have been caught by a parent walking into my room while I was watching porn, and I don't think it's abnormal for kids my age to do it (quite the opposite)
I have lived in a household in which I had my internet access logged at the gateway. I can tell you it's quite annoying. Though.. it's very simple to circumvent. Use a p2p program if you really want restricted files.
The trend I've seen is this:
Parents that are strict on rules tend to break
their own rules a lot and go back on their word. This is definitely not the right message to send to a kid. Usually prompts the kids to lie a lot, and to be careless.
Parents which allow their kids more freedom, but expect a lot (like the previous poster pointed out) usually instill responsibility. I just feel bad doing certain things... so I don't do them, not because there is a rule against it.
I do!
;), lol
Every time a friend comes over and they see my 3 computers working togeather.. and my 1.8Ghz forwarding X to my 400Mhz.. they love it.
Some of them are in the middle of switching for good. I've never been frustrated with their price or activation
Though I'm happy I don't have to use Windows again.. it was great for it's time, MS made some great programs, but that's all in the past.
I didn't like the movie at all, mostly because of 3 reasons. There where others too though. 1. The machines keep their promises. Why? I'd just say, "Nice, Neo's dead... kill the humans now" What do they have to gain from the peace now that Neo is gone and he did his part? 2. The swarms of things flying all over. Why did they fly in packs so they can be hit all the time? If they dispersed how it's logical they would have been more effective in killing those APUs. None of them managed to notice the missles very easily. If they are such advanced machines could they not figure out "Oh.. missles, let's go after what shot them" And with all those thousands of machines noone saw those people with the rocket launchers? None of them shot at the resuply people? Well.. not quite true... one or two did, but still. Anyone knows that you want to go for the resuply lines first. I have more complaints about the machines.. but i'll stop there :)
3. Why did they not keep EMPs? I mean... Zion put them all on ships. why not put say... 30 of them inside the dome.. and just keep detonating emps once in a while to kill the drones. Whatever is left.. they could have kept all their ships back and destroyed, or those APU things could have handeled them. Why did they waste all their ships?
Just 3 major observations.. there are more. like that entire huge gate, it was held by 1 chain.... that's not really plausible.
I've brought that argument up so many times in religion class.. (I go to a catholic school.. let's just say it's not a popular argument :))
:)
Every time it just gets avoided.
But.. if you compare the two arguments, use Occam's razor. What's simpler? A universe defined by simple (albeit not understood laws) that can be quantified in mathematics? Or an infinitely complex and powerful beeing, that can't be predicted, or expressed in math.
Some people do have problems with it
No.. if you don't want licence problems use BSD. It doesn't make you release the source code. I really dom't get what these people are thinking? Let's uphold the rights of MS.. but when it comes to upholding the licence of something that is much less restrictive we can bash it?
I have that :)
I wanted to buy a new one, but under Linux the newest games work fine for me. Even with very high graphics enabled. No point.
Oldest hardware...
A 25Mhz Intel 486SX.. with 8Mb of ram..
And with this.. Kazza is going to go the way of Napster.
We still have Direct Connect, Bittorrent, Gnutella.. and a few others. Use mldonkey, you get to use more then one network at a time, just have to remember to disable kazza when this all starts.
Not giving a person 5000000 for something like that?
How about giving 50 people who are smart.. but can't afford university a chance? How about giving them a life that they wouldn't have been able to afford?
Or donating it to help the kids in Africa.. or anything that's mildly useful?
Seems to me like this is just the recursive pattern in our society "Let's make the rich, richer" Sure.. some of these people aren't rich, but they sure aren't starving. I'm sure if they've been noticed by this foundation that they are preety well off.
Whoever runs this.. think of what your money could do in the hands of people who really need it.
This all begs the question.. is there any place to submit patches? Heh, some of the linux code could use some reworking.