What you describe is a more troublesome problem than that of community fora being payware. it happened to a dutch/. clone, tweakers.net. Basically they translated/.s and made themselves quite a name in the process, then when they had a significant following of sycophants, they made it payware. I don't this as big of an issue as what you describe. Any sycophants who are happy to pay are free to do so. The problem of gpl violation and un-orthodox practices is more worrysome. The most visible one at this point is to my knowledge YellowDog's reluctance to release the code of their linux-on-ipod installer code. You can buy it but there is no cvs or sourcecode repository that I know of.
*please correct me if I am wrong!!*
anyway, it sucks but if every website was a ship, the captain's word is law and primate under god....
sure Desktop search systems.. but can you please direct me to one as fast, complete and efficient as Spotlight? One that is as transparent and easy to implement throughout the platform? Please don't forget to publish the API as well.
Thanks
Pity, I haven't got my copy yet. Can't wait... Spotlight will definetly change everything.. I wish we had this functionality on our windows network. Usually colleagues have a habit of making emssy files and storing things all over the shop, if we could search on meta data that would really help. From what I can tell so far, spotlight means you no longer care where things are, they simply exist and the context becomes the "path"... Truly innovating and definetly worth my money.
The 840 person model is for charter flights..(aka easy-stelios-jet) you wait till Branson and the likes (virgin-atlantic) suit theirs up for 400 people with hot-tubs and discos on board! I heard someone saying there is a crazy Lebanese businessman who wants a flying, tax-free casino on one of these puppies! ROFL!! Les jeux sont faits!
And I am sure when fitted with modern engines these aircraft would not be in violation of noise emissions enforced on most western airports.. furthermore, they may actually end up consuming a normal amount of fuel then too.. Nope, Russian Aircraft are great for the Military and the UN.. they don't care how much it all costs in the end or who is bothered..
I agree for the most part. Especially as the current situation is such that (K)ubuntu appears to be taking care of the debian desktop market, perhaps the debian core group could really focus on updating the core aspects and server side. Of course a ppc installer that supports firewire disk installs is always a sure way to get me interested;) (and no, I don't want YellowShnog on an Ipod)
Me's gonna pop my 5$ in the pot for Debian, and you?
f a user is presented with Linux first....then Windows has no real advantage.....or attraction, provided the user is able to do what they want to do on Linux....and these days the answer to that is YES for many users.
I agree, yet I am a proponent of standardisation and that would mean that allt he distro's maintain a common standard for dealing with packages and dependancies. Currently the *flavourisation* in Linuxland is doing what it did to Unix, albeit cheaper.. Software vendors typically only support one or a few flavours.. You'll find a Solaris binary an AIX binary a BSD binary etc... I fear that this will happen on Linux. Sure most apps will work on all distro's with or without some hacking (OpenOffice) and others may need work (Oracle)...
I must admit this problem has been improved upon dramatically, there are more repositories which are better maintained. but just consider having a Novell Suse machine and a RedHat Enterprise Desktop, for a *hacker* these systems could be considered to be compatible but for userland... nope.. and of course there are loads of tools but still the procedure is non-trivial and is more invasive than maintaining an application on two OSX machines or 2 Windows XP machines for that matter.
This is NOT an anti-Linux troll-thread, I am a linux user myself, these points are merely because I see a problem when considering what consists a "linux platform"!! So please maintain the argument in that spirit.
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What you describe is a more troublesome problem than that of community fora being payware. it happened to a dutch /. clone, tweakers.net. Basically they translated /.s and made themselves quite a name in the process, then when they had a significant following of sycophants, they made it payware. I don't this as big of an issue as what you describe. Any sycophants who are happy to pay are free to do so. The problem of gpl violation and un-orthodox practices is more worrysome. The most visible one at this point is to my knowledge YellowDog's reluctance to release the code of their linux-on-ipod installer code. You can buy it but there is no cvs or sourcecode repository that I know of.
*please correct me if I am wrong!!*
anyway, it sucks but if every website was a ship, the captain's word is law and primate under god....
... it got patented...
sure Desktop search systems.. but can you please direct me to one as fast, complete and efficient as Spotlight? One that is as transparent and easy to implement throughout the platform? Please don't forget to publish the API as well. Thanks
Well you sound logical but why then do airports disallow aircraft based on manufacturer sighting noise and pollution as the reason?
Pity, I haven't got my copy yet. Can't wait... Spotlight will definetly change everything.. I wish we had this functionality on our windows network. Usually colleagues have a habit of making emssy files and storing things all over the shop, if we could search on meta data that would really help. From what I can tell so far, spotlight means you no longer care where things are, they simply exist and the context becomes the "path"... Truly innovating and definetly worth my money.
yep... and Jobs hangs out at a gay bar in San Jose...
c'mon folks move along..
A'ight! ROFL!
well it beats airmarshall Carlin bitching about getting on the plane eh?
The 840 person model is for charter flights..(aka easy-stelios-jet) you wait till Branson and the likes (virgin-atlantic) suit theirs up for 400 people with hot-tubs and discos on board! I heard someone saying there is a crazy Lebanese businessman who wants a flying, tax-free casino on one of these puppies! ROFL!! Les jeux sont faits!
Why heck, it's almost big enough for his ranch...
and of course the world is waiting for noisy, polluting aircraft that are built in places with no workforce regulations or social standards..
And I am sure when fitted with modern engines these aircraft would not be in violation of noise emissions enforced on most western airports.. furthermore, they may actually end up consuming a normal amount of fuel then too.. Nope, Russian Aircraft are great for the Military and the UN.. they don't care how much it all costs in the end or who is bothered..
considering that it is built in 5 different countries and then shipped in parts to Toulouse, I am not sure which local economy you are talking about..
Man I usually turn to attrition.org's going postal for a laugh but this is wild!
ROFL!!!
before and after the "steal underpants" options?
I agree for the most part. Especially as the current situation is such that (K)ubuntu appears to be taking care of the debian desktop market, perhaps the debian core group could really focus on updating the core aspects and server side. Of course a ppc installer that supports firewire disk installs is always a sure way to get me interested ;) (and no, I don't want YellowShnog on an Ipod)
Me's gonna pop my 5$ in the pot for Debian, and you?
*it manager*
Who are you?
*john cleese*
I am Arthur King of the Backups!
*it manager*
well I didn't vote for you..
*travan sales man*
oi! come back'ere! It's just a flesh wound!
you've got to be kidding... someone inside is fucking them up.. haven't checked my mail but the status of my order is still not sent..
Why pirate the movies when real life is just as exciting..
corrupt cops, big industry interests, the justice department gets involved, maybe the feds, why heck where's Jack Bauer?
Nuu keee Pung!!
Get thee to a nunnery!
I thought they suffered from..
Developers
Developers
Developers
Developers
Interesting because in essence, every distro is a fork... It's almost an industry term to be "mandraked"..
People, move along now, this is a jest from Robertson to get our attention and start up a yes-no debate.. fugeddabatit...
I must admit this problem has been improved upon dramatically, there are more repositories which are better maintained. but just consider having a Novell Suse machine and a RedHat Enterprise Desktop, for a *hacker* these systems could be considered to be compatible but for userland... nope.. and of course there are loads of tools but still the procedure is non-trivial and is more invasive than maintaining an application on two OSX machines or 2 Windows XP machines for that matter.
This is NOT an anti-Linux troll-thread, I am a linux user myself, these points are merely because I see a problem when considering what consists a "linux platform"!! So please maintain the argument in that spirit.
ROFL!