Porting. The only reason I keep Windows around is to port software to it. It's also the only reason I have a Mac. 95% of my home computer use is on FreeBSD and KDE. I've thought about switching totally to the Mac, but would never consider switching to Windows.
There is nothing preventing a business owner from just picking up the phone and calling the congresspeople who represent the business's district. Just like any other citizen.
That's what lobbying is! You just hire someone to do it for you. Congressmen don't read your emails, don't answer your snail mail, and you're lucky if the secretary at the other end of the phone is actually writing down the message like she's pretending to. To get the ear of a congressmen you need someone who knows the system. That's a lobbyist.
My employer is currently lobbying congress. This is because I work for a foreign company and the recent Dubai ports "scandal" is causing a lot of backlash bills against foreign owned companies. The jobs of 50,000+ domestic employees are at stake, and so we're lobbying. How evil of us.
Since we still have a culture of secrecy, and it's still dominant, this is one's still up in the air.
"The next generation of processors will be clockless"
Wow, Slashdot just released a story about a clockless processor. It might not be the next generation of desktop processors, but it still might mark the beginning of a trend for deeply embedded processors.
"Intel will ride its new Merced processor to profit
I don't know which processor the Merced it, but I do know that Intel is still the 800 pound gorilla of PC CPUs.
"Y2K will be a bigger pain in the butt than most people think"
Considering the massive pain people went through to validate their software BEFORE 01/01/2000, I would say he was absolutely correct in this regard. And since I did have to fix a couple of related bugs AFTER 01/01/2000, when I expected a zero pain in the butt, he was doubly correct.
"The stock market will continue to rise"
Except for a market correction at the peak of the bubble, he was correct. The market is continuing to rise.
It was nice when you weren't automatically assigned the role of conspirator just because you didn't believe in a conspiracy.
I shouldn't have to provide definitive proof against a conspiracy in order to engage in this discussion. But until I prove the negative, I'm considered a "substance-free objection-for-its-sake" poster. Until I can prove that a Microsoft/Abramoff/Republican conspiracy to destroy Free Software does not exist, I'm just a ratfucker.
I am seeing some astroturfing from the pro-software-patent camp around this speech
So in other words, if we don't believe in the big Microsoft/Abramoff/Republican conspiracy, then we're astroturfing? I think your paranoia is eating away at your rationality.
Sadly, only the Democrats seem inclined to do anything about unethical lobbying, and sadly, only are because they happen to be the party out of power. I fully expect the roles to reverse when the Dems get a few more members in congress.
But not all lobbying is bad, even if backed by corporate money. Businesses do have a legitimate interest in getting their concerns before congress, and if a lobbyist is the only way to do it, then that's what they have to do. We wouldn't need lobbying in a fair world, but this isn't a fair world.
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I can access my mail account with my ISP using any browser on the planet. That's because my ISP isn't Google. Otherwise I would have to *install* a second browser, like Firefox, to get to it.
He didn't demand an apology to the FSF (which would have been stupid, since KDE never used any FSF code), but he did say that KDE had to apologize to anyone else whose license they might have violated.
When the KDE project finally stopped violating the GPL
The KDE project NEVER violated the GPL. You can't violate the license if you are the licensor. You can't violate your own license. After a code audit, it turned out there were only two non-native GPL sources in KDE. One didn't link to Qt, and the other was a tiny rarely used utility that rewritten as soon as the issue reared its head. Everything else was contributed.
The controversy wasn't that KDE violated the GPL, the controversy was that KDE didn't give proper permission (by not including an license exception) for third parties to redistribute KDE.
I consider it well. It tells me a lot about the motives of RMS and the FSF. When Qt was "free to use", it wasn't good enough. When the KDE Free Qt Foundation guaranteed that Qt would always be free to use, it wasn't good enough. When Qt was released under an approved Open Source license, it wasn't good enough. Even when it was finally released under the GPL, RMS STILL DEMANDED AN APOLOGY!
3. While we're at it, what is it with the donate-but-with-strings-attached attitude these days?
Plain old fashioned bigotry. It's one thing not to donate to OpenBSD because you don't use it, but it crosses the boundaries of bad taste when they get mad at OTHER people for donating. If you're pissed that the money is going to OpenBSD because it isn't Linux, or under the GPL, then you're a bigot. If you're pissed because you think Mozilla should only help "your community", then you're a bigot.
There is no difference. If the money was earmarked for OpenSSH, then money that would otherwise go towards OpenSSH would now go towards OpenBSD. You're donation to OpenSSH only frees up money to go towards OpenBSD.
You guys are worrying too much that OpenBSD might benefit. It's rather petty of you.
It is just me, or does it seem that this project is much more interested in publicity than in actually producing cheap computers? If it were all about cheap computers for poor nations, just publish the specs and be done with it. Or just collect and ship used throwaway computers overseas. Instead I get the sense that more effort is being spent promoting Negroponte as a wonderful humanitarian than is being spent actually helping the poor.
I never have this problem in OSX Mail. I just close the window when I'm done reading my current mail. The app is still running in the background, but there is no window to pop up. I get a audible ding when new mail arrives. Opening up a new window is instant.
This isn't like Outlook, where you have to keep it running minimized because it takes so damned long to start, and there's no other way to alert you to new mail.
I've had absolutely no problems building mplayer. None at all. The only thing I've ever had problems with was with a perl upgrade late last year. But that was only because I didn't read the UPDATING notice like I should have.
Go with both. You don't have to dual boot, you can triple boot. It's not like you're spending money on them or anything.
p.s. Unlike Windows and Linux, BSD systems want their own primary partition to boot from. So when you're partitioning your drive, make sure you've got a primary, not extended, partition for DesktopBSD.
Yes, it sure it hard to drop a pretend gun. But that still doesn't make it the cops fault for wasting the idiot. Neither is it Bush's fault for citing WMD's as *one* justification for invasion.
I brought up the pretend gun because I know of several cases where this happened. In all cases the liberals treated the cops just like they're treating Bush.
No I don't, because I didn't bother to tape all the broadcasts from 1991. However I distinctly remember SCUD missiles being used. Weren't many of these armed with chemical payloads? They might not have been, but that's not what was being reported at the time. SOMETHING caused the Gulf War Syndrome. My assumption was always chemical residue from destroyed SCUDS.
In any case, it the idea that Saddam never had WMDs is flat out wrong. That's my point.
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Porting. The only reason I keep Windows around is to port software to it. It's also the only reason I have a Mac. 95% of my home computer use is on FreeBSD and KDE. I've thought about switching totally to the Mac, but would never consider switching to Windows.
Three quarters of your list is stuff just to get rid of Windows annoyances. You make a very good argument to stick with the Mac.
There is nothing preventing a business owner from just picking up the phone and calling the congresspeople who represent the business's district. Just like any other citizen.
That's what lobbying is! You just hire someone to do it for you. Congressmen don't read your emails, don't answer your snail mail, and you're lucky if the secretary at the other end of the phone is actually writing down the message like she's pretending to. To get the ear of a congressmen you need someone who knows the system. That's a lobbyist.
My employer is currently lobbying congress. This is because I work for a foreign company and the recent Dubai ports "scandal" is causing a lot of backlash bills against foreign owned companies. The jobs of 50,000+ domestic employees are at stake, and so we're lobbying. How evil of us.
Amazingly, some of those predictions are true!
"Apple's future lies in computer-like devices"
iPod.
"Ending the culture of secrecy doesn't matter"
Since we still have a culture of secrecy, and it's still dominant, this is one's still up in the air.
"The next generation of processors will be clockless"
Wow, Slashdot just released a story about a clockless processor. It might not be the next generation of desktop processors, but it still might mark the beginning of a trend for deeply embedded processors.
"Intel will ride its new Merced processor to profit
I don't know which processor the Merced it, but I do know that Intel is still the 800 pound gorilla of PC CPUs.
"Y2K will be a bigger pain in the butt than most people think"
Considering the massive pain people went through to validate their software BEFORE 01/01/2000, I would say he was absolutely correct in this regard. And since I did have to fix a couple of related bugs AFTER 01/01/2000, when I expected a zero pain in the butt, he was doubly correct.
"The stock market will continue to rise"
Except for a market correction at the peak of the bubble, he was correct. The market is continuing to rise.
It was nice when we could just have a discussion.
It was nice when you weren't automatically assigned the role of conspirator just because you didn't believe in a conspiracy.
I shouldn't have to provide definitive proof against a conspiracy in order to engage in this discussion. But until I prove the negative, I'm considered a "substance-free objection-for-its-sake" poster. Until I can prove that a Microsoft/Abramoff/Republican conspiracy to destroy Free Software does not exist, I'm just a ratfucker.
I am seeing some astroturfing from the pro-software-patent camp around this speech
So in other words, if we don't believe in the big Microsoft/Abramoff/Republican conspiracy, then we're astroturfing? I think your paranoia is eating away at your rationality.
Sadly, only the Democrats seem inclined to do anything about unethical lobbying, and sadly, only are because they happen to be the party out of power. I fully expect the roles to reverse when the Dems get a few more members in congress.
But not all lobbying is bad, even if backed by corporate money. Businesses do have a legitimate interest in getting their concerns before congress, and if a lobbyist is the only way to do it, then that's what they have to do. We wouldn't need lobbying in a fair world, but this isn't a fair world.
I can access my mail account with my ISP using any browser on the planet. That's because my ISP isn't Google. Otherwise I would have to *install* a second browser, like Firefox, to get to it.
Stallman did nothing of the sort.
He didn't demand an apology to the FSF (which would have been stupid, since KDE never used any FSF code), but he did say that KDE had to apologize to anyone else whose license they might have violated.
When the KDE project finally stopped violating the GPL
The KDE project NEVER violated the GPL. You can't violate the license if you are the licensor. You can't violate your own license. After a code audit, it turned out there were only two non-native GPL sources in KDE. One didn't link to Qt, and the other was a tiny rarely used utility that rewritten as soon as the issue reared its head. Everything else was contributed.
The controversy wasn't that KDE violated the GPL, the controversy was that KDE didn't give proper permission (by not including an license exception) for third parties to redistribute KDE.
GPL violations against FSF code
There was NEVER any FSF code in KDE!
Actually it was Slashdot raising the publicity by running a story on this every other day.
p.s. I do have side with Bill Gates on this one, only because the idea of computer without network or persistant storage sounds pretty useless.
Consider the KDE fiasco.
I consider it well. It tells me a lot about the motives of RMS and the FSF. When Qt was "free to use", it wasn't good enough. When the KDE Free Qt Foundation guaranteed that Qt would always be free to use, it wasn't good enough. When Qt was released under an approved Open Source license, it wasn't good enough. Even when it was finally released under the GPL, RMS STILL DEMANDED AN APOLOGY!
3. While we're at it, what is it with the donate-but-with-strings-attached attitude these days?
Plain old fashioned bigotry. It's one thing not to donate to OpenBSD because you don't use it, but it crosses the boundaries of bad taste when they get mad at OTHER people for donating. If you're pissed that the money is going to OpenBSD because it isn't Linux, or under the GPL, then you're a bigot. If you're pissed because you think Mozilla should only help "your community", then you're a bigot.
This is like donating to the EFF, then finding out that the money was redirected to PETA. That's just plain offensive.
EFF and PETA are political organizations with specific ideologies. Mozilla, OpenBSD and OpenSSH are apolitical volunteer SOFTWARE PROJECTS! Sheesh.
There is no difference. If the money was earmarked for OpenSSH, then money that would otherwise go towards OpenSSH would now go towards OpenBSD. You're donation to OpenSSH only frees up money to go towards OpenBSD.
You guys are worrying too much that OpenBSD might benefit. It's rather petty of you.
It is just me, or does it seem that this project is much more interested in publicity than in actually producing cheap computers? If it were all about cheap computers for poor nations, just publish the specs and be done with it. Or just collect and ship used throwaway computers overseas. Instead I get the sense that more effort is being spent promoting Negroponte as a wonderful humanitarian than is being spent actually helping the poor.
April Fools was yesterday. Today CowboyNeal goes off on a search for real news, only to find yesterday's fake stories. He then posts it on Slashdot.
Never believe any Slashdot story on April 1st... or April 2nd.
Apple sells rackmount servers. I predict that at least some of them are being used in business.
I never have this problem in OSX Mail. I just close the window when I'm done reading my current mail. The app is still running in the background, but there is no window to pop up. I get a audible ding when new mail arrives. Opening up a new window is instant.
This isn't like Outlook, where you have to keep it running minimized because it takes so damned long to start, and there's no other way to alert you to new mail.
I've had absolutely no problems building mplayer. None at all. The only thing I've ever had problems with was with a perl upgrade late last year. But that was only because I didn't read the UPDATING notice like I should have.
This democracy thing is so wonderful, I can't understand why anyone would be interested in more than one candidate. :-)
Do you use portupgrade? It's soooo much better than the plain vanilla pkg tools.
Go with both. You don't have to dual boot, you can triple boot. It's not like you're spending money on them or anything.
p.s. Unlike Windows and Linux, BSD systems want their own primary partition to boot from. So when you're partitioning your drive, make sure you've got a primary, not extended, partition for DesktopBSD.
You can get precompiled packages of OO.org. Save yourself eight hours of compiling and download it from http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/
Yes, it sure it hard to drop a pretend gun. But that still doesn't make it the cops fault for wasting the idiot. Neither is it Bush's fault for citing WMD's as *one* justification for invasion.
I brought up the pretend gun because I know of several cases where this happened. In all cases the liberals treated the cops just like they're treating Bush.
do you have a rebuttal cite?
No I don't, because I didn't bother to tape all the broadcasts from 1991. However I distinctly remember SCUD missiles being used. Weren't many of these armed with chemical payloads? They might not have been, but that's not what was being reported at the time. SOMETHING caused the Gulf War Syndrome. My assumption was always chemical residue from destroyed SCUDS.
In any case, it the idea that Saddam never had WMDs is flat out wrong. That's my point.