This is the first "In Soviet Russia..." joke I've ever thought was funny. We need to harness this guy's talent. If there was only a way to link many thoughts together in a system. Like a cluster of thinkers...
At my school we have a few "Sun" labs. They are sparc computers running solaris. The hardware and software is made by Sun. I'll admit that I don't know if solaris runs on top of unix or is based off unix, but you could see how they "sell unix" in, what I guess is, a loose sense.
Sun sells unix. Linux is a free clone of Unix. Why would anyone expect Sun likes Linux.
They tried to make their own distro of Linux and that doesn't seem to be going anywhere. I guess Sun just has to be more competitive and work harder to get support contracts away from redhat.
This is another example of how copy protection does little to stop piracy, but pisses off honest customers for no reason. I'm sure if a crack isn't already up, it will be soon. It's the same situation with Windows activation. The customers who bought the software honestly deal with the hassles while the people who downloaded it illegally won't have to worry. It's like the audio CDs that restrict use on windows machines, but downloading MP3s lets you do whatever you want. It's like paying for songs off music distribution services gives you a product that is more restrictive than if you went on Kazaa and downloaded it.
One of these companies arguments against piracy is that you get a better experience if you're honest and buy the product. However, for these protection schemes, I fail to see how things are made easier or better.
But IBM is still a company. They may stand behind open source and believe in it's potential and power. However, they are still a company with shareholders and responsibilities. If something unforseeable happened in the near future and open source software didn't have the potential for them to make billions a year on it, wouldn't they adapt too?
I filled it out. It wasn't much. They just ask some basic questions and any positives and negatives you have about gentoo.
For the purpose of discussion, my favorite aspect of gentoo is portage. I had a hard time thinking about anything negative. Most problems I've had aren't from Gentoo, but other packages giving me headaches. I run KDE because I like the desktop environment as opposed to a bare bones window manager that requires more tinkering to get it working as easily. Well, that's my experience anyway. So I'd rather have KDE make the desktop use easier, not make that up to the distro like Mandrake, Fedora, and SuSE do.
Instead of buying a tv card, just buy a small telelvision! Run some cable and do it the right way. Why go though the trouble of this when you'll end up saving money doing it the old fashion way.
Not a bad idea, but laptops don't like to be left on 24 hours a day. I would know. I have a dell inspiron 8200 and I keep this thing running all the time. I'm also on my third hard drive. I just keep the operating systems and programs on the laptop drive and all other data is on the external firewire drive. If you could get a USB drive that was powered by the laptop, that might be a safer solution.
This is a good power saving alternative to a huge desktop, but I wouldn't trust my data to a laptop hard drive.
I used this screen at work. It's beautiful. 1600x1200 resolution and it's very crisp. It also has a great viewing angle so it doesn't turn black when you're not looking dead on. I have a similar display on my dell laptop, though much smaller. It also can rotate 90 degrees if you like to work vertically.
Oh, and no I am not going to get a domain and link this review to it.
For windows and office, they have a market dominance and their goals should be to keep that. They may be "losing billions" to piracy, but that's all imaginary numbers because they assume people would pay for it if they couldn't pirate it. If someone is pirating it and they get scared, they have two options. One is to fork over hundreds for a real license, or try linux. If they try out linux and like it, then Microsoft is worse than when they starting this scare campaign.
Microsoft should keep to the goals of keeping everyone addicted to their software so they can't switch to something free.
I'm not condoning piracy, it's immoral and wrong. But Microsoft's strategy should be to keep people hooked, not get every last bit of revenue on their golden goose. Their biggest fear should be the one guy who switches to linux, not the five people that are using a copy they downloaded off the Internet.
Well it's not going to take over the world. But for a small amount of people (myself included) it be prefered. I don't think their intentions were ever to make it the number one linux distro. But I think it will stay alive for a while as distros keep trying to struggle with required packages and bloat.
You're completely missing the point. If you don't need the package to boot, then it's not on there. If you want it, then compile it and put it on there. I don't want packages that someone thinks I should have but not needed. If I want them, I'll emerge them.
I don't know why that haven't ported it over either. Even if they started like Macromedia to make it "wine compatible" that would be a start.
Since they make their software available for mac and windows, they must make most of the underlying code somewhat platform independent. How much would it cost to make their interface gtk or qt?
Photoshop under crossover works great. I've heard premier doesn't work though. But I don't use that program. I'm surprised you haven't recieved 10 replies asking you if you've ever heard of The GIMP.
No, it's not an alternative. Nothing beats photoshop.
Newer televisions have a built-in menu system that recieves the information from the cable company. I had it working for comcast and a dinky local cable company so I guess it's pretty common. I'm not talking about digital converter boxes, I'm talking about a built in menu.
Well, if you're going to migrate before longhorn comes out, I suggest you wait for Mandrake 15.1. I have a feeling that's going to be a good distro. Then again, SuSE 14.5 should be good too. I hope kernel 4.6.8.1 is going to be all it's cracked up to be though.
It's not, but you'll be going from digital to analog with noise back to digital and then compressed. You'll lose quality. What will end up happening is most people will either buy the music off online music distributors or keep downloading the DRM free songs from P2P.
I doubt if the sanctions were removed the kids would be fed. Saddam was stealing billions from the oil for food (backwards?) program.
The war was justified. Just because it wasn't in and out like everyone hoped doesn't make it a failure. Lots of Americans lost their lives, and we should focus on remembering them, not preaching that they died for nothing simply because a lot of them died.
Where did you get that 100-200 years from?? That seems a few millenia too short. I saw a special on the Discovery channel that said it would take thousands of years.
Also, how would this be paid for? Transport billions of people to Mars because a big rock is coming? I'd rather spend the money tracking these rocks and exploding a device to set them on another course.
This is exactly what I was thinking when I read the article. If I have to wear some tag to help protect thousands of kids from getting lost or being kidnapped then by all means. This is about child safety, not tracking people to help the gestapo.
My only concern is if a child is abducted, the abductor can just remove the wristband and throw the police off for a while and buy some time.
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This is the first "In Soviet Russia..." joke I've ever thought was funny. We need to harness this guy's talent. If there was only a way to link many thoughts together in a system. Like a cluster of thinkers...
At my school we have a few "Sun" labs. They are sparc computers running solaris. The hardware and software is made by Sun. I'll admit that I don't know if solaris runs on top of unix or is based off unix, but you could see how they "sell unix" in, what I guess is, a loose sense.
Sun sells unix. Linux is a free clone of Unix. Why would anyone expect Sun likes Linux.
They tried to make their own distro of Linux and that doesn't seem to be going anywhere. I guess Sun just has to be more competitive and work harder to get support contracts away from redhat.
Exactly. Once kazaa lite was gone, I wouldn't trust my computer to that spyware garbage. Using Apollon on linux works out well though.
This is another example of how copy protection does little to stop piracy, but pisses off honest customers for no reason. I'm sure if a crack isn't already up, it will be soon. It's the same situation with Windows activation. The customers who bought the software honestly deal with the hassles while the people who downloaded it illegally won't have to worry. It's like the audio CDs that restrict use on windows machines, but downloading MP3s lets you do whatever you want. It's like paying for songs off music distribution services gives you a product that is more restrictive than if you went on Kazaa and downloaded it.
One of these companies arguments against piracy is that you get a better experience if you're honest and buy the product. However, for these protection schemes, I fail to see how things are made easier or better.
And when people complain how much a pain Samba can be to set up can now realize at least we're not sharing with the whole world.
Not to be a dick, but Microsoft, wtf?
But IBM is still a company. They may stand behind open source and believe in it's potential and power. However, they are still a company with shareholders and responsibilities. If something unforseeable happened in the near future and open source software didn't have the potential for them to make billions a year on it, wouldn't they adapt too?
I filled it out. It wasn't much. They just ask some basic questions and any positives and negatives you have about gentoo.
For the purpose of discussion, my favorite aspect of gentoo is portage. I had a hard time thinking about anything negative. Most problems I've had aren't from Gentoo, but other packages giving me headaches. I run KDE because I like the desktop environment as opposed to a bare bones window manager that requires more tinkering to get it working as easily. Well, that's my experience anyway. So I'd rather have KDE make the desktop use easier, not make that up to the distro like Mandrake, Fedora, and SuSE do.
Yes it will. And the third post will point out it's a dupe.
Nothing to see here; move along.
Instead of buying a tv card, just buy a small telelvision! Run some cable and do it the right way. Why go though the trouble of this when you'll end up saving money doing it the old fashion way.
Not a bad idea, but laptops don't like to be left on 24 hours a day. I would know. I have a dell inspiron 8200 and I keep this thing running all the time. I'm also on my third hard drive. I just keep the operating systems and programs on the laptop drive and all other data is on the external firewire drive. If you could get a USB drive that was powered by the laptop, that might be a safer solution.
This is a good power saving alternative to a huge desktop, but I wouldn't trust my data to a laptop hard drive.
I used this screen at work. It's beautiful. 1600x1200 resolution and it's very crisp. It also has a great viewing angle so it doesn't turn black when you're not looking dead on. I have a similar display on my dell laptop, though much smaller. It also can rotate 90 degrees if you like to work vertically.
Oh, and no I am not going to get a domain and link this review to it.
Um, you know you could have just formatted the hard drive instead of throwing it away right?
For windows and office, they have a market dominance and their goals should be to keep that. They may be "losing billions" to piracy, but that's all imaginary numbers because they assume people would pay for it if they couldn't pirate it. If someone is pirating it and they get scared, they have two options. One is to fork over hundreds for a real license, or try linux. If they try out linux and like it, then Microsoft is worse than when they starting this scare campaign.
Microsoft should keep to the goals of keeping everyone addicted to their software so they can't switch to something free.
I'm not condoning piracy, it's immoral and wrong. But Microsoft's strategy should be to keep people hooked, not get every last bit of revenue on their golden goose. Their biggest fear should be the one guy who switches to linux, not the five people that are using a copy they downloaded off the Internet.
Well it's not going to take over the world. But for a small amount of people (myself included) it be prefered. I don't think their intentions were ever to make it the number one linux distro. But I think it will stay alive for a while as distros keep trying to struggle with required packages and bloat.
You're completely missing the point. If you don't need the package to boot, then it's not on there. If you want it, then compile it and put it on there. I don't want packages that someone thinks I should have but not needed. If I want them, I'll emerge them.
I don't know why that haven't ported it over either. Even if they started like Macromedia to make it "wine compatible" that would be a start.
Since they make their software available for mac and windows, they must make most of the underlying code somewhat platform independent. How much would it cost to make their interface gtk or qt?
Photoshop under crossover works great. I've heard premier doesn't work though. But I don't use that program. I'm surprised you haven't recieved 10 replies asking you if you've ever heard of The GIMP.
No, it's not an alternative. Nothing beats photoshop.
Newer televisions have a built-in menu system that recieves the information from the cable company. I had it working for comcast and a dinky local cable company so I guess it's pretty common. I'm not talking about digital converter boxes, I'm talking about a built in menu.
Well, if you're going to migrate before longhorn comes out, I suggest you wait for Mandrake 15.1. I have a feeling that's going to be a good distro. Then again, SuSE 14.5 should be good too. I hope kernel 4.6.8.1 is going to be all it's cracked up to be though.
It's not, but you'll be going from digital to analog with noise back to digital and then compressed. You'll lose quality. What will end up happening is most people will either buy the music off online music distributors or keep downloading the DRM free songs from P2P.
They won't! Nobody upgrades! They buy a new computer and it's already installed.
I doubt if the sanctions were removed the kids would be fed. Saddam was stealing billions from the oil for food (backwards?) program.
The war was justified. Just because it wasn't in and out like everyone hoped doesn't make it a failure. Lots of Americans lost their lives, and we should focus on remembering them, not preaching that they died for nothing simply because a lot of them died.
Where did you get that 100-200 years from?? That seems a few millenia too short. I saw a special on the Discovery channel that said it would take thousands of years.
Also, how would this be paid for? Transport billions of people to Mars because a big rock is coming? I'd rather spend the money tracking these rocks and exploding a device to set them on another course.
This is exactly what I was thinking when I read the article. If I have to wear some tag to help protect thousands of kids from getting lost or being kidnapped then by all means. This is about child safety, not tracking people to help the gestapo.
My only concern is if a child is abducted, the abductor can just remove the wristband and throw the police off for a while and buy some time.