There are lot of companies, which actually kinda see huge connection between doing good and getting profit. If it wasn't so, there won't be PR, there won't be ads, there won't be customer psyhology courses, Bs for different marketing types, etc. It is all connected and it comes back.
Problem is different. It is not ethical versus material. It is long term versus short term. It pays back to be good in long term, for sure. But in short term, sometimes it doesn't.
And it all boils down to "stupid" human survival instinct - it wants all now, it wants very strong guarantee now. Not tomorrow, not even after one hour. If human just acts, not thinks, it will choose short term survival as it's primary goal.
p.s. "stupid" in brackets means - I don't know how to solve it, it's natural and if people live like that, who am I to judge.
Negroponte believes that Intel does it just because they are afraid of competition. They actually DON'T compete, because Classmate PC is horrid afterthought, without any intelectual and engineer input, just thrown together box and just because OLPC has AMD! They are different classes, OLPC has been tested and engineered to survive harsh situations, Classmate PC is just a small laptop without any moving parts, but nothing else.
Negroponte can forbid Intel sell their boxes? No! Can Negroponte ask for them to actually deliver what they promised? Yes! Intel promised to streamline OLPC and Classmate PC, create OLPC XO-2 with Intel tech, not try to block OLPC sales for now, and lot of other things which they actually NOT delivered. Instead of that, sales person from Intel slammed OLPC behind the back of OLPC to OLPC customer, while being on board of OLPC!
I just wander who "capitalist dreamer" mod you up. Because you actually have NO clue what you are talking about. Check facts please before be so very elitist about corporations.
Just for technical details, Ubuntu uses GNOME-VFS (Soon to be replaced with GFS) library for connecting to network stuff. However, not all apps uses it, so if you want to use Mplayer, or something else, it won't work. It should work with Totem.
But OS X has it's share of problems with networking (OS X Samba doesn't mix well with Win2k3, for example, FTP is read only) for sure. But it is not that they don't improve it release after release.
Disclaimer: I have been using OS X and Ubuntu on *daily support basis*, so I know what I am talking about.
In short, they are different beasts. OS X is nice, but it is black box, and in the end you will loath it. As any other OS, it has lot of bugs, including VERY annoying ones which you can't fix even with having support contract with Apple and Adobe. It will bite many people and I bet lot of people will regret their jumping on OS X ship. Apple will also experience bigger problems with dealing of bugs when user and app base will grow, as it does already now. However, Apple and OS X strenght is integration. I wish Apple the best, I just wish they would not be so annoyingly similar to Microsoft as they were in last year - all standard stuff, supporting OOXML, closing DAAP, etc.
For Linux, problems are two - user base and apps. Linux is capable of working for lot of people, however, vendors still doesn't see too much financial initiative to hook off from Microsoft, just because if they will sell Linux OEM, they will have problems with OEM price for Windows. If there will be OEM base - which I think will come, thanks to Ubuntu and Dell, there will be ports of Adobe CS and other, very specialised stuff.
So, for now, Apple is sold better than Linux desktop solutions. It could be true. However, I think it is not the end of desktop of Linux. For me, it's only now getting in shape that I have no shame to show to others.
According to news, 150 000 would be more correct number.
But nice try buddy to paint everyone who wants to solve world problems without involving big fat corporations a Socialist. As Linus said, that if Socialist means to do good things to people, then yeah, we are Socialists.
I think saying that Intel has put some work into project would be overestemate, because they joined only last autumn. OLPC has been in development much much longer and I highly doubt that it will somehow impact technical stuff. It can impact financial side, but I hope some more honest player can roll in.
There was some Slashdot article which informed that "G1G1" was colosal success. They finished it just because they don't have infrastructure and resources for this, but nevertheless, in aprox. 2 months they sold enormous count of boxes.
Could be this continued? Definitely. They just need resources to manage that.
OLPC final version was just released and I bet lot of countries look at first adopters to decide later. So calling OLPC not a success is too soon, I think.
For me, they already succeeded to prove that such program has a market. How it will end, depends not only on OLPC team, but more or less insight in governments around the world.
Honestly, it is much better for OLPC that Intel is open about their intends than just allowing them to party and doing nothing, while acting against OLPC.
Yeah, mesh network, tickless kernel, sun readable screen, full solution of activities instead of some half-backed OS with Windows style interface...It won't change, yeah, right.
Because it suits with ohh so well started OLPC smearing campaign? It is getting old, period. And I don't care what actual facts are. All I see is two possible scenarios - there are bunch of over jealous geeks who thinks that truth with opinion is better truth than facts OR it is fully paid campaign against OLPC, to smear it's aims, to smear it's creators.
I simply choose to believe OLC team rather than article submitter who can't right even summary somehow objectively.
Someone from OLPC team wants to commercialize on OLPC inventions? Rock'n'roll to that person who will do it! Rock'n'roll to those people who helped to invent them. It will revolutionarize laptop and even desktop market. They are so longing to have some shakedown.
Disclaimer: I am GNOME user for eight years, but I recommend KDE for powerusers. Thanks God that we have choice.
Problem is very simple - KDE guys don't guarantee that KDE 3.5 will be supported next 3 years (which is obvious - KDE 4 is just around the corner and all development efforts will be channelled to it), but KDE 4 won't be useful until end of next year (basis is there, but lot of stuff must be ported). So it is kinda dumb situation. However, Kubuntu 8.04 WILL be released, it just won't be 3 years supported, aka LTS, but tradicionally 18 months, which is half of that time. After that, Kubuntu 8.10 release will contain KDE 4 at it's best.
So - not kinda cool that there won't be LTS for KDE, but still - there will be release.
p.s. it is a little bit sad that rather fine article summary contains somehow weak attempt to cause flamewar. Yes, KDE is popular, but also is GNOME - I know lot of KDE fanboys has problems to admit that (ohh, and it is similar with GNOME fanboys to admit that KDE is desktop of choice for many people, of course).
Man, Russia now has hole army of Wikipedia editors to edit USSR, Russia, USSR bloody history articles. It was common sense in ninetees that USSR was bad. Utterly, ugly bad. Guess what. It is not anymore, according to articles. Of course, if you will read "Talk" pages, you will discover, that there are special army of nuts who works like advocates of some serial killer - deny everything, spin facts, NEVER back down to opponent.
You meant Ubuntu 7.10? Because it has Wine (installed by several clicks trough Add/Remove...), and it works out of box. Office 2003, World of Warcraft (Yes, I have account, and yes, I play it everyday), uTorrent... You name it.
But I gotta tell you, I still prefer the voiceover. Although they fixed the "dead air" when Roy dies and Deckard just stares stupidly (sans voiceover), there is still too much lost without the voiceover. We really have no clue WHY Roy tried to kill Deckard, then saved him.
I think you nailed it, but for opposite reasons. In my opinion, this is why no-voice-over version works so beautifully. Some movies should not be understandable at first glance. It creates interesting dilemma, so watcher should make their own decisions. Was Deckard replicant and Roy knew/felt it? Was Roy "too human" and therefore all his menace and destructive emotions? It creates complex thoughts and doesn't give simple answers. I like it, because I think aim of true art is to make people think while being entertained.
Well, I can't agree with you. First version I have seen was without narration, and it works PERFECTLY. Heck, it gives even some credit to Ford, which has really good face fractions to show us emotions. It really feels like piece of art and message is rather clear.
Ohhh, of course, there are differences between watching this movie in cinema, with all noisy and stupid people around who don't give a clue what's going on, they just need some cheap sex shot, and watching it in your room, in a dark, with significant other one.
How strange it would be, Blade Runner feels like old Solaris - it is about future, yet it is very intimate.
PDF _is_ open standard. Maybe read article once again and see that Adobe here means only and only their already bloated Acrobat Reader. And I don't see any other efficient way to kill it for once and for all.
After seen FoxIt Reader, I will never touch Adobe Acrobat installation again. Thanks God, both GNU/Linux distros and OS X has sane default readers, in Linux Evince now comes with advanced features, a must form support, and other thingies.
And there is why you should carefully read PJ article again: It's all what was stay about. SCO hoped that they will go to bankruptcy court and say, well, let's sell our assents and IP (All unresolved court cases are automatically stayed in such scenario). BUT Novell said "Hey, you can't do that, judge still have to decide if it's really your money and IP!" and filled motion to lift the stay. Bankruptcy court judge said "Yes, this objection is reasonable" and lifted the stay.
As Utah court case goes, it seems after that nothing will be left to buy for Microsoft or anyone else, because SCO won't have any IP (as previously was already claimed) and they won't have any money. Period, end of story.
It is just a little sad that IBM layers will miss a practice on SCO target. Well, you can't have everything, can you.
I think that strong standing of Novell and IBM is also clear that Microsoft won't have easy ride here. And Microsoft doesn't win all cases it takes on.
You saddened me, but only because you are completely right. As human being it is hard for me to watch that people allow themselves to "encode" paranoia message in their brains, just because then they are better consumers, less trouble makers, etc.
Interesting question is - why? When visionaries and pioneers in politics where replaced by rightous selfish short-sighted and what's worst, stupid junkbags (not everywhere, not all the time, but it is close)?
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Bullshit.
There are lot of companies, which actually kinda see huge connection between doing good and getting profit. If it wasn't so, there won't be PR, there won't be ads, there won't be customer psyhology courses, Bs for different marketing types, etc. It is all connected and it comes back.
Problem is different. It is not ethical versus material. It is long term versus short term. It pays back to be good in long term, for sure. But in short term, sometimes it doesn't.
And it all boils down to "stupid" human survival instinct - it wants all now, it wants very strong guarantee now. Not tomorrow, not even after one hour. If human just acts, not thinks, it will choose short term survival as it's primary goal.
p.s. "stupid" in brackets means - I don't know how to solve it, it's natural and if people live like that, who am I to judge.
Negroponte believes that Intel does it just because they are afraid of competition. They actually DON'T compete, because Classmate PC is horrid afterthought, without any intelectual and engineer input, just thrown together box and just because OLPC has AMD! They are different classes, OLPC has been tested and engineered to survive harsh situations, Classmate PC is just a small laptop without any moving parts, but nothing else.
Negroponte can forbid Intel sell their boxes? No! Can Negroponte ask for them to actually deliver what they promised? Yes! Intel promised to streamline OLPC and Classmate PC, create OLPC XO-2 with Intel tech, not try to block OLPC sales for now, and lot of other things which they actually NOT delivered. Instead of that, sales person from Intel slammed OLPC behind the back of OLPC to OLPC customer, while being on board of OLPC!
I just wander who "capitalist dreamer" mod you up. Because you actually have NO clue what you are talking about. Check facts please before be so very elitist about corporations.
Just for technical details, Ubuntu uses GNOME-VFS (Soon to be replaced with GFS) library for connecting to network stuff. However, not all apps uses it, so if you want to use Mplayer, or something else, it won't work. It should work with Totem.
But OS X has it's share of problems with networking (OS X Samba doesn't mix well with Win2k3, for example, FTP is read only) for sure. But it is not that they don't improve it release after release.
He actually meant reliability, not that its not possible.
and yes, OS X ftp client is STILL read only. What a hell is that?
Office XP/2003 runs rather flawlessly on my Ubuntu 7.10, with native Wine.
Disclaimer: I have been using OS X and Ubuntu on *daily support basis*, so I know what I am talking about.
In short, they are different beasts. OS X is nice, but it is black box, and in the end you will loath it. As any other OS, it has lot of bugs, including VERY annoying ones which you can't fix even with having support contract with Apple and Adobe. It will bite many people and I bet lot of people will regret their jumping on OS X ship. Apple will also experience bigger problems with dealing of bugs when user and app base will grow, as it does already now. However, Apple and OS X strenght is integration. I wish Apple the best, I just wish they would not be so annoyingly similar to Microsoft as they were in last year - all standard stuff, supporting OOXML, closing DAAP, etc.
For Linux, problems are two - user base and apps. Linux is capable of working for lot of people, however, vendors still doesn't see too much financial initiative to hook off from Microsoft, just because if they will sell Linux OEM, they will have problems with OEM price for Windows. If there will be OEM base - which I think will come, thanks to Ubuntu and Dell, there will be ports of Adobe CS and other, very specialised stuff.
So, for now, Apple is sold better than Linux desktop solutions. It could be true. However, I think it is not the end of desktop of Linux. For me, it's only now getting in shape that I have no shame to show to others.
According to news, 150 000 would be more correct number.
But nice try buddy to paint everyone who wants to solve world problems without involving big fat corporations a Socialist. As Linus said, that if Socialist means to do good things to people, then yeah, we are Socialists.
I think saying that Intel has put some work into project would be overestemate, because they joined only last autumn. OLPC has been in development much much longer and I highly doubt that it will somehow impact technical stuff. It can impact financial side, but I hope some more honest player can roll in.
There was some Slashdot article which informed that "G1G1" was colosal success. They finished it just because they don't have infrastructure and resources for this, but nevertheless, in aprox. 2 months they sold enormous count of boxes.
Could be this continued? Definitely. They just need resources to manage that.
OLPC final version was just released and I bet lot of countries look at first adopters to decide later. So calling OLPC not a success is too soon, I think.
For me, they already succeeded to prove that such program has a market. How it will end, depends not only on OLPC team, but more or less insight in governments around the world.
Honestly, it is much better for OLPC that Intel is open about their intends than just allowing them to party and doing nothing, while acting against OLPC.
Just my two cents,
Peter.
Yeah, mesh network, tickless kernel, sun readable screen, full solution of activities instead of some half-backed OS with Windows style interface...It won't change, yeah, right.
Because it suits with ohh so well started OLPC smearing campaign? It is getting old, period. And I don't care what actual facts are. All I see is two possible scenarios - there are bunch of over jealous geeks who thinks that truth with opinion is better truth than facts OR it is fully paid campaign against OLPC, to smear it's aims, to smear it's creators.
I simply choose to believe OLC team rather than article submitter who can't right even summary somehow objectively.
Someone from OLPC team wants to commercialize on OLPC inventions? Rock'n'roll to that person who will do it! Rock'n'roll to those people who helped to invent them. It will revolutionarize laptop and even desktop market. They are so longing to have some shakedown.
Disclaimer: I am GNOME user for eight years, but I recommend KDE for powerusers. Thanks God that we have choice.
Problem is very simple - KDE guys don't guarantee that KDE 3.5 will be supported next 3 years (which is obvious - KDE 4 is just around the corner and all development efforts will be channelled to it), but KDE 4 won't be useful until end of next year (basis is there, but lot of stuff must be ported). So it is kinda dumb situation. However, Kubuntu 8.04 WILL be released, it just won't be 3 years supported, aka LTS, but tradicionally 18 months, which is half of that time. After that, Kubuntu 8.10 release will contain KDE 4 at it's best.
So - not kinda cool that there won't be LTS for KDE, but still - there will be release.
p.s. it is a little bit sad that rather fine article summary contains somehow weak attempt to cause flamewar. Yes, KDE is popular, but also is GNOME - I know lot of KDE fanboys has problems to admit that (ohh, and it is similar with GNOME fanboys to admit that KDE is desktop of choice for many people, of course).
Hahah, I think this is 4 year old, as I remember :)
:D
Owns
Man, Russia now has hole army of Wikipedia editors to edit USSR, Russia, USSR bloody history articles. It was common sense in ninetees that USSR was bad. Utterly, ugly bad. Guess what. It is not anymore, according to articles. Of course, if you will read "Talk" pages, you will discover, that there are special army of nuts who works like advocates of some serial killer - deny everything, spin facts, NEVER back down to opponent.
You meant Ubuntu 7.10? Because it has Wine (installed by several clicks trough Add/Remove...), and it works out of box. Office 2003, World of Warcraft (Yes, I have account, and yes, I play it everyday), uTorrent... You name it.
I think you nailed it, but for opposite reasons. In my opinion, this is why no-voice-over version works so beautifully. Some movies should not be understandable at first glance. It creates interesting dilemma, so watcher should make their own decisions. Was Deckard replicant and Roy knew/felt it? Was Roy "too human" and therefore all his menace and destructive emotions? It creates complex thoughts and doesn't give simple answers. I like it, because I think aim of true art is to make people think while being entertained.
Well, I can't agree with you. First version I have seen was without narration, and it works PERFECTLY. Heck, it gives even some credit to Ford, which has really good face fractions to show us emotions. It really feels like piece of art and message is rather clear.
Ohhh, of course, there are differences between watching this movie in cinema, with all noisy and stupid people around who don't give a clue what's going on, they just need some cheap sex shot, and watching it in your room, in a dark, with significant other one.
How strange it would be, Blade Runner feels like old Solaris - it is about future, yet it is very intimate.
OpenOffice.org allows you to create PDF with forms.
Evince and other popper depencies now support filling forms and saving them as PDFs.
user@ubuntubox:~$ stfu
:)
This server is going down for shutdown NOW!
There comes my new signature!
Why not? Microsoft is big. Someone would like to try such tactics, even to be unknown to leadership of MS.
But of course, it was intended. More I read about this issue, it is well orchestrated PR shit to steal spotlight of OLPC actual release and success.
PDF _is_ open standard. Maybe read article once again and see that Adobe here means only and only their already bloated Acrobat Reader. And I don't see any other efficient way to kill it for once and for all.
After seen FoxIt Reader, I will never touch Adobe Acrobat installation again. Thanks God, both GNU/Linux distros and OS X has sane default readers, in Linux Evince now comes with advanced features, a must form support, and other thingies.
And there is why you should carefully read PJ article again: It's all what was stay about. SCO hoped that they will go to bankruptcy court and say, well, let's sell our assents and IP (All unresolved court cases are automatically stayed in such scenario). BUT Novell said "Hey, you can't do that, judge still have to decide if it's really your money and IP!" and filled motion to lift the stay. Bankruptcy court judge said "Yes, this objection is reasonable" and lifted the stay.
As Utah court case goes, it seems after that nothing will be left to buy for Microsoft or anyone else, because SCO won't have any IP (as previously was already claimed) and they won't have any money. Period, end of story.
It is just a little sad that IBM layers will miss a practice on SCO target. Well, you can't have everything, can you.
I think that strong standing of Novell and IBM is also clear that Microsoft won't have easy ride here. And Microsoft doesn't win all cases it takes on.
You saddened me, but only because you are completely right. As human being it is hard for me to watch that people allow themselves to "encode" paranoia message in their brains, just because then they are better consumers, less trouble makers, etc.
Interesting question is - why? When visionaries and pioneers in politics where replaced by rightous selfish short-sighted and what's worst, stupid junkbags (not everywhere, not all the time, but it is close)?