That's not true. I was recently over in China and I got an opportunity to speak with some kids ranging from 10 to 14 years old. Their biggest fear is using an operating system that may not fairly compensate the owners of the patents it uses. Though young, they understand the meaning of respecting large companies.
Keep in mind though, that they started from nothing to broadband. Not from POTS to broadband. The same goes for cell phones in China. The test of which country can do better will be in 20 years or so when this technology is mature and the next form of communication takes off.
The US is usually slower in adopting new technology than developing countries is because we are upgrading while they are just getting started. We have to piggy back new technology on to old technology while they can learn from our mistakes and do it the right way the first time around.
Patents aren't inherently bad. If you develop the solution to a specific problem, you should be protected from someone stealing it and profiting off of it.
The problem, however, is in the system that grants patents. It seems that patents for pretty trivial stuff is being granted (double-click??). And the only way to really enforce a patent is to go to court and sue somebody if they steal your idea. So what happens when a big company patents a solution to a problem that's been in the public domain for years and that they didn't even come up with? They get to bring people who haven't done wrong to court. Since they have lots of money to pay for the litigation, it doesn't hurt them nearly as much as the unworthy patent helped them. Large companies are able to use the system to accomplish exactly what it was intended to prevent.
Yeah, but how many people know how to upgrade their kernel. Gentoo users are used to compiling a new kernel and it's no big deal. However, other distros are usually late to offer patches. I could never get a vanilla kernel compile working on Mandrake 10. So some people will be affected for quite some time. This once again highlights the fact that when Linux users are affected by a bug, a simple stop at a website driven updater (think windows update) will not patch them.
Another trick is to set the camera on self timer mode. This will prevent that little shift that happens when you press the shutter release. However, having those shutter release cables will also work, but even the cheapest digital cameras have a self timer mode available.
How do we not know Microsoft isn't behind this? They could easily throw something in a Windows Update that could randomly crash Firefox. I'm running Firefox in Linux and I haven't had too much trouble. I think it crashed once or twice.
Wouldn't this be an easy and effective way for Microsoft to squash it's competition?
It also sounds like the world is coming to an end in 8 days if you listen to the crazy guy shouting on the street corner. I'll take both with a grain of salt.
I'm not sure. I think a more important question is GNU. Is it Unix? Is LAME an MP3 encoder? Damn, this is why linux stuff is so difficult. The project names are just a bunch of arbitrarily chosen letters.
That is a very interesting perspective on things. I've never thought about that, but now that you bring it up, it makes sense. I have memories of Bill Gates just saying how good his software was, but never how bad the competition was. Seeing those videos floating around on the Internet certainly highlights the point that Ballmer is bat shit crazy. I don't think he is, but I think that some of the things he says about his competition show he's either lying or just doesn't get it.
The most important thing is to know your enemy. Ballmer doesn't seem to know his enemy. They could adapt their business model. Hell, they could even do what red hat does and go open source but charge for service.
Instead of trying to break into every other market, they should just stick with that they've made money on, but shift it towards service and away from licensing. I think they can make a lot more money in operating systems and office suites than digital cable services.
No there isn't, to my knowledge. You can downloaded the stages using bittorrent and either burn them to a CD or store them on another partition. The stages themselves aren't particularly large files (relative to several CDs like other distros), so it wouldn't be that much help anyway.
Before all the dumb jokes start, here's what this means:
If you want to install Gentoo for the first time, you can download a bunch of precompiled packages and complete an installation in a few hours or so, probably less.
If you already have Gentoo on your system, this won't mean much since you can update the everything by with the command(s) "#emerge sync; emerge -uDp world"
This does not mean everyone with Gentoo is going to be compiling for days. You're still stuck with us for a while.
I don't know if it will bring down Gaim. It could help make it more popular, but popular in a bad way. I think in order for lots of people to understand how well open source software can be, compared to what they're used to now, they have to be introduced to it slowly.
Take Firefox, for example. This browser works on different platforms and it kicks IE's ass. It's starting to get popular. Then I think once people get the idea that open source is good, they'll look over to OpenOffice. However, that won't happen until there is near perfect.doc compatibility. So give that a little while and it's definitely possible. During the same time span, people could start using Gaim realizing it's better than AIM.
All these programs show that OSS is "good stuff" to lots of people. But if Gaim gets a stigma of being another shady P2P client, then it could to hurt that image.
And if people like just these three programs I mentioned, then the switch to Linux isn't much of a big deal since they can use the same programs.
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Well, yeah! Have you ever heard of someone drowning in lava? I don't think so, pal.
I'm waiting for the one where Linux smokes pot for the first time and realizes drugs are for fools.
He's just a front for a large group of hackers. He's talented, but he doesn't just sit around and do all this by himself.
That's not true. I was recently over in China and I got an opportunity to speak with some kids ranging from 10 to 14 years old. Their biggest fear is using an operating system that may not fairly compensate the owners of the patents it uses. Though young, they understand the meaning of respecting large companies.
Hitler had "action" and "energy"
Keep in mind though, that they started from nothing to broadband. Not from POTS to broadband. The same goes for cell phones in China. The test of which country can do better will be in 20 years or so when this technology is mature and the next form of communication takes off.
The US is usually slower in adopting new technology than developing countries is because we are upgrading while they are just getting started. We have to piggy back new technology on to old technology while they can learn from our mistakes and do it the right way the first time around.
Patents aren't inherently bad. If you develop the solution to a specific problem, you should be protected from someone stealing it and profiting off of it.
The problem, however, is in the system that grants patents. It seems that patents for pretty trivial stuff is being granted (double-click??). And the only way to really enforce a patent is to go to court and sue somebody if they steal your idea. So what happens when a big company patents a solution to a problem that's been in the public domain for years and that they didn't even come up with? They get to bring people who haven't done wrong to court. Since they have lots of money to pay for the litigation, it doesn't hurt them nearly as much as the unworthy patent helped them. Large companies are able to use the system to accomplish exactly what it was intended to prevent.
Yeah, but how many people know how to upgrade their kernel. Gentoo users are used to compiling a new kernel and it's no big deal. However, other distros are usually late to offer patches. I could never get a vanilla kernel compile working on Mandrake 10. So some people will be affected for quite some time. This once again highlights the fact that when Linux users are affected by a bug, a simple stop at a website driven updater (think windows update) will not patch them.
Another trick is to set the camera on self timer mode. This will prevent that little shift that happens when you press the shutter release. However, having those shutter release cables will also work, but even the cheapest digital cameras have a self timer mode available.
How do we not know Microsoft isn't behind this? They could easily throw something in a Windows Update that could randomly crash Firefox. I'm running Firefox in Linux and I haven't had too much trouble. I think it crashed once or twice.
Wouldn't this be an easy and effective way for Microsoft to squash it's competition?
so I guess seconds should be represented as floats instead of ints?
It also sounds like the world is coming to an end in 8 days if you listen to the crazy guy shouting on the street corner. I'll take both with a grain of salt.
I'm not sure. I think a more important question is GNU. Is it Unix? Is LAME an MP3 encoder? Damn, this is why linux stuff is so difficult. The project names are just a bunch of arbitrarily chosen letters.
I'm pretty sure they'd only have to contribute the modified and improved wine code back up. Anything else they do on their own, they can keep.
That is a very interesting perspective on things. I've never thought about that, but now that you bring it up, it makes sense. I have memories of Bill Gates just saying how good his software was, but never how bad the competition was. Seeing those videos floating around on the Internet certainly highlights the point that Ballmer is bat shit crazy. I don't think he is, but I think that some of the things he says about his competition show he's either lying or just doesn't get it.
The most important thing is to know your enemy. Ballmer doesn't seem to know his enemy. They could adapt their business model. Hell, they could even do what red hat does and go open source but charge for service.
Instead of trying to break into every other market, they should just stick with that they've made money on, but shift it towards service and away from licensing. I think they can make a lot more money in operating systems and office suites than digital cable services.
How many times does this have to be brought up? NVIDIA can't release all the information because they don't own it.
64 kb is all you really need anyway. What do people do with 1Gb drives?
Yeah, that's another way of doing it. I've just always done --pretend, so I'm used to it.
No there isn't, to my knowledge. You can downloaded the stages using bittorrent and either burn them to a CD or store them on another partition. The stages themselves aren't particularly large files (relative to several CDs like other distros), so it wouldn't be that much help anyway.
slight correction:
"emerge -uDp world"
will show you what you can update,
"emerge -uD world"
will actually update packages
Before all the dumb jokes start, here's what this means:
If you want to install Gentoo for the first time, you can download a bunch of precompiled packages and complete an installation in a few hours or so, probably less.
If you already have Gentoo on your system, this won't mean much since you can update the everything by with the command(s) "#emerge sync; emerge -uDp world"
This does not mean everyone with Gentoo is going to be compiling for days. You're still stuck with us for a while.
I don't know if it will bring down Gaim. It could help make it more popular, but popular in a bad way. I think in order for lots of people to understand how well open source software can be, compared to what they're used to now, they have to be introduced to it slowly.
.doc compatibility. So give that a little while and it's definitely possible. During the same time span, people could start using Gaim realizing it's better than AIM.
Take Firefox, for example. This browser works on different platforms and it kicks IE's ass. It's starting to get popular. Then I think once people get the idea that open source is good, they'll look over to OpenOffice. However, that won't happen until there is near perfect
All these programs show that OSS is "good stuff" to lots of people. But if Gaim gets a stigma of being another shady P2P client, then it could to hurt that image.
And if people like just these three programs I mentioned, then the switch to Linux isn't much of a big deal since they can use the same programs.
This is a South Park reference.
I knew someone was going to bring that up. Once I clicked "submit," I realized this was begging for bad jokes.
Everything Microsoft works on now a days is another "sounds like..." it seems. Usually it's from Apple, so this is no surprise.
I can't think of the last "cool" thing they came up with. Can anyone think of something useful they developed first in the past five years?