I don't know about that. You might want to check w/ SCO. Granted, their stock has risen a tad the last few days, but all in all, they are the laughing stock of the tech/lega-world right now.
Well shoot,
I guess this is really going to upset those backwood bumpkins that created these new-fangled computers and decided to use these terms just for the purposes of offending the black people.
I think that what the Gnome group is trying to do is create a set of "default" programs that things work around. In a way, it's a little M$ of them, but I think it's a good idea to make things easier for the average joe, and have things just "work". I bet that you could argue GAIM is more popular than Jabber seeing as how it was on that list of programs that people voted for to goto some computer show a month or two back. Evolution was on their as well. Mozilla, the same. Yes, there are alternatives to all of these, and on one person probably could list all of em off. If you get a "standard set" of programs to work, that makes it very easy for the non-technically inclined, or someone who just doesn't care. For the people who want to, they can always do what they've always done: use their programs of choice, and configure it to do whatever they want, and spend the time googling for some little script or program off in yonder that will make things work for those that have chosen to do things a little different than the "standard." They are not taking away anyones choice of what to do in Gnome, but just to make things easier for those people who don't want the hassle. And in doing so, there comes a time where you just have to pick what apps you want to use and where you want to spend your time as a developer.
Get the GARNOME script. Its as simple as going to the gnome-desktop directory and tryping make install
that's not solving the problem. telling someone to "go here and type..." is too much. make it clickable. the one thing that I have yet to figure out about Linux is why nothing just "works". Usually it does. But there are times where it would just be really really nice if instead of me having to go create a symbolic link somewhere, or add a line to my path, if the program just went and did it for me. Everyone always says though, "if you don't like it, change it", but I don't know how to code in perl, python, C, or whatever things are written in. It's just frustrating at times for things to be harder than they should be. I really don't see how hard some things are. In a way, it's just a half-assed approach. If someone doesn't like it, too bad, they can leave. I OTHO think that it would be great if instead of being elitist about Linux, welcome anyone and everyone that comes and try to make their stay as wonderful as possible. Here's a real example. I bought MatLab to install in linux. After the install is done, the user has to go edit some text file that describes the location of the cdrom drive, and the default web-browser, etc. It seems as if these values are already stored somewhere in Linux. I mean, Linux should know the location of your cd-drive. Why can't the line be edited for you automatically after the installer gets the location from the OS on its own? It's the tiny things like that that make linux un-userfriendly.
The GPL is in violent collision with the DMCA. That's why Linux guys are opposed to the DMCA. Something has got to give.
You've got to be fucking kidding me.
I thought Darl was asinine before, but this is just ridiculous.
Linux people are not the only people against the DMCA Darl! The reason people oppose it is because it infringes upon our rights and every Tom-Dick-and Jackass Corporation in America is trying to invoke the DMCA for things that it shouldn't be invoked for. It's akin to people filing for patents on such things as "one click shopping", etc.
But the average user won't know what they can/can't use. It's hard to keeep up w/ all this tech info. People will realize that MS makes a version now, they will go "oh, finally something from Microsoft. So this must work with windows" while thinking that iTMS works only on Mac, b/c that is from Apple. Microsoft does a very good, yet illegal, job at taking advantage of people's stupidity and ignorance.
Another way in which it violates is that Microsoft will probably undercut their competition. We've already heard from Apple that they don't make much on the music. If apple made, let's say, $0.50 per song, that'd be quite a bit. I bet apple only make $0.10-0.15 a song, if that. Now Microsoft comes in, lowers their price to gain a foothold in the market. They are "able" to do it b/c of their vast financial resources, but no one else can compete. They will be using their monopoly to an unfair advantage
As well as the fact that for the time being, the selection at these online stores is severly limited and the quality of the files are sub-par. The needing to get windows or OSX just complicates things further. Maybe Job's will see the light and release iTunes for Linux, though I bet that'll happen when Apple overtakes linux for the #2 OS spot.
I'm 21 now, but my mom and I always had an understanding about everything. She trusted me completely and wholly. I didn't have a curfew, but I did need to be in by a reasonable hour, and I knew what a reasonable hour was. I'll admit I was pretty sheltered, but I don't think it was a bad thing. I've turned out pretty damn decent. I've never done drugs. My first underage drink where my parents weren't present was a shot of whiskey @ age 20 1/2. My mom always told me that she had earned the right (through 30 hours of labor) to buy me my first legal drink. I didn't smoke cigarettes. One of my friends did, and I couldn't stand the damn smoke. It was nothing but trust between my mom and I.
Now the flipside.
One of friends had parents that were extremely strict. Sometimes I think he made them out to be stricter than they really were, but they were strict nonetheless. He wasn't allowed to see PG-13 movies until he was 16, and the site had to pass the muster of the opinions that were presented on the American Bishops Movie Review site or something like that. He couldn't stay out past 10PM any nite of the week. His parents didn't trust him at all. And in a way, rightly so. This guy lies like none I've ever seen. He's lied to my face, and I knew he was lying when he would try to pass off his bullshit. I became extremely good and knowing what he said was wrong, and decipherying exactly what the truth was from his lies. Needless to say, this individual is not someone I associate with anymore due to the fact that his lies have become more than they are worth, aside from the fact that his lies have hurt people that I care about.
It's almost a vicious circle. If you don't trust your kids, and you enforce extermely strict rules, they will, unquestionably, break them and lie about breaking them. You as a parent know they are lying, so you will squeeze tighter, and they will lie more.
I agree with the way my mom did it. She kept rules and order (she was a H.S. teacher for crying-out-loud). But, she also made sure we understood them, and she gave us freedom. She taught us right from wrong. She never took the "do as i say, not as i do" approach. People are afraid of disciplining their children for fear that they will turn out to be these hellraisers. I feel that the major problem is that people just aren't being parents to their children. If you instill good morals in your children, trust them, yet at the same time have rules and regulations, you will be just fine.
I have thought about the whole firewall, proxy thing for when I have kids. I think that putting the computer in a public place is the very first step. Heck, I think it'd be more fun that way when I play Doom XIII against my kids and I can give em a hard time from across the room. Do i intend on setting up a firewall and blocking certain websites, along with employing logging. Aboslutely. It's more about the approach you take to it than the fact you are doing it that will make the difference. As previous individuals have mentioned, if you discuss the matters with them instead of instantly grounding them or yelling at them, you will not have problems. But, as others have also mentioned, being that I own the connection, anything and everything downloaded, etc., comes back to me. I'd be the one in trouble . If my kid looks up underage pr0n, we've got a serious issue on my hands if the FBI comes a'knockin. Likewise, I'll restrict MP3'z and Warez. It just isn't worth the possible risk to me.
From everything I've read, it seems that the EU are pretty much inglorious bastards when it comes to this kinda stuff. They basically say, too bad, so sad, STFU this kinda stuff. Basically, they will be less likely to "bow" to Microsoft than an American court. Also, I bet they see Microsoft as American and therefore would prefer a European option to take hold.
How does this address the "threat" of comcording, since this is normally done post-release.
When they say "pre-release" they mean pre-DVD release, not pre-theatre release. This would cover everything from theater recordings, to leaked DVD rips, and video store screeners.
It's not uncommon nowadays for "actresses" to want to be called "actors" that way there is no differentiation between their male counterparts. It's one of those stupid, silly, little political correctness things.
I know I've lost cd's before by either beign misplaced, whatever. But now, I'm going to have these little paper-thin devices the size of my thumbnail floating around? Yeah right, I'd lose those before I got a chance to walk out of the store.
I agree, multimedia playback in mplayer and xmms has been absolutely flawless.
The only thing that confounds the hell out of me is how a simple thing such as the redhat-config-packages got screwed up. I mean, c'mon, that is something that I would consider one humongous boneheaded move.
I wouldn't begin to get worried if I was Adobe. Don't get me wrong, the GIMP is good and all, but free software will also be looked down upon as being "inferior." If you take a class at university and they teach photoshop b/c it is what the industry uses, you now have to go learn yet another software program (the gimp). When you goto work, your puter will probably have photoshop on it, and everyone you are collaborating with are using the same program. It's now just a little easier to use photoshop. It's very difficult to overtake photoshop, and the GIMP still does some things that are funky that I haven't been able to figure out how to get them to stop. I have no clue why the drawing area always has little dashed lines. I think the way that cutting/pasting/layering is done in the GIMP is sub-par and confusing. I am willing to deal with it though, but most people just want something that "works" and Photoshop "works" pretty damn well.
Linus lives in California. As far as whether or not he's a citizen or not, that I'm not aware of.
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I saw this in PopSci about a month or two ago.
Personally, I think this is friggin awesome!!!!!
But, it's also dangerous as hell. You think it's hard to see a motorcycle, or hell, even a car in your blind spot? How about someone on a vehicle who's helment (if they so chose to wear one) would probably not even get higher than the side window of car. You'd be sideswiped before you got five minutes from your house.
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I don't know about that. You might want to check w/ SCO. Granted, their stock has risen a tad the last few days, but all in all, they are the laughing stock of the tech/lega-world right now.
"A company that will go to the ends of the earth for its people will find it can hire them for about 10% of the cost of americans"
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Well shoot,
I guess this is really going to upset those backwood bumpkins that created these new-fangled computers and decided to use these terms just for the purposes of offending the black people.
Yes, that is a MatLab specific problem, but it is, from what I have seen, a trend among Linux, Gnome, GNU, whatever you want to call em, applications
I think that what the Gnome group is trying to do is create a set of "default" programs that things work around. In a way, it's a little M$ of them, but I think it's a good idea to make things easier for the average joe, and have things just "work". I bet that you could argue GAIM is more popular than Jabber seeing as how it was on that list of programs that people voted for to goto some computer show a month or two back. Evolution was on their as well. Mozilla, the same. Yes, there are alternatives to all of these, and on one person probably could list all of em off. If you get a "standard set" of programs to work, that makes it very easy for the non-technically inclined, or someone who just doesn't care. For the people who want to, they can always do what they've always done: use their programs of choice, and configure it to do whatever they want, and spend the time googling for some little script or program off in yonder that will make things work for those that have chosen to do things a little different than the "standard." They are not taking away anyones choice of what to do in Gnome, but just to make things easier for those people who don't want the hassle. And in doing so, there comes a time where you just have to pick what apps you want to use and where you want to spend your time as a developer.
that's not solving the problem. telling someone to "go here and type..." is too much. make it clickable. the one thing that I have yet to figure out about Linux is why nothing just "works". Usually it does. But there are times where it would just be really really nice if instead of me having to go create a symbolic link somewhere, or add a line to my path, if the program just went and did it for me. Everyone always says though, "if you don't like it, change it", but I don't know how to code in perl, python, C, or whatever things are written in. It's just frustrating at times for things to be harder than they should be. I really don't see how hard some things are. In a way, it's just a half-assed approach. If someone doesn't like it, too bad, they can leave. I OTHO think that it would be great if instead of being elitist about Linux, welcome anyone and everyone that comes and try to make their stay as wonderful as possible. Here's a real example. I bought MatLab to install in linux. After the install is done, the user has to go edit some text file that describes the location of the cdrom drive, and the default web-browser, etc. It seems as if these values are already stored somewhere in Linux. I mean, Linux should know the location of your cd-drive. Why can't the line be edited for you automatically after the installer gets the location from the OS on its own? It's the tiny things like that that make linux un-userfriendly.
Seems that their server went down. I guess this means the northeast will be experiencing another blackout.
Blackouts by ./ Must be a first
My bad...i didn't RTFA...only 512 processors so take all numbers and divide by 6
3000 Processirs @ $1399 ~ $4.2 million
So that's where SCO was planning on getting its money for Linux. It all makes sense now
IANAL, but it seems as if doing so, and it being publicly known at least, would be illegal. Anyone have any info?
I thought Darl was asinine before, but this is just ridiculous.
Linux people are not the only people against the DMCA Darl! The reason people oppose it is because it infringes upon our rights and every Tom-Dick-and Jackass Corporation in America is trying to invoke the DMCA for things that it shouldn't be invoked for. It's akin to people filing for patents on such things as "one click shopping", etc.
But the average user won't know what they can/can't use. It's hard to keeep up w/ all this tech info. People will realize that MS makes a version now, they will go "oh, finally something from Microsoft. So this must work with windows" while thinking that iTMS works only on Mac, b/c that is from Apple. Microsoft does a very good, yet illegal, job at taking advantage of people's stupidity and ignorance.
Another way in which it violates is that Microsoft will probably undercut their competition. We've already heard from Apple that they don't make much on the music. If apple made, let's say, $0.50 per song, that'd be quite a bit. I bet apple only make $0.10-0.15 a song, if that. Now Microsoft comes in, lowers their price to gain a foothold in the market. They are "able" to do it b/c of their vast financial resources, but no one else can compete. They will be using their monopoly to an unfair advantage
As well as the fact that for the time being, the selection at these online stores is severly limited and the quality of the files are sub-par. The needing to get windows or OSX just complicates things further. Maybe Job's will see the light and release iTunes for Linux, though I bet that'll happen when Apple overtakes linux for the #2 OS spot.
Now the flipside.
One of friends had parents that were extremely strict. Sometimes I think he made them out to be stricter than they really were, but they were strict nonetheless. He wasn't allowed to see PG-13 movies until he was 16, and the site had to pass the muster of the opinions that were presented on the American Bishops Movie Review site or something like that. He couldn't stay out past 10PM any nite of the week. His parents didn't trust him at all. And in a way, rightly so. This guy lies like none I've ever seen. He's lied to my face, and I knew he was lying when he would try to pass off his bullshit. I became extremely good and knowing what he said was wrong, and decipherying exactly what the truth was from his lies. Needless to say, this individual is not someone I associate with anymore due to the fact that his lies have become more than they are worth, aside from the fact that his lies have hurt people that I care about.
It's almost a vicious circle. If you don't trust your kids, and you enforce extermely strict rules, they will, unquestionably, break them and lie about breaking them. You as a parent know they are lying, so you will squeeze tighter, and they will lie more.
I agree with the way my mom did it. She kept rules and order (she was a H.S. teacher for crying-out-loud). But, she also made sure we understood them, and she gave us freedom. She taught us right from wrong. She never took the "do as i say, not as i do" approach. People are afraid of disciplining their children for fear that they will turn out to be these hellraisers. I feel that the major problem is that people just aren't being parents to their children. If you instill good morals in your children, trust them, yet at the same time have rules and regulations, you will be just fine.
I have thought about the whole firewall, proxy thing for when I have kids. I think that putting the computer in a public place is the very first step. Heck, I think it'd be more fun that way when I play Doom XIII against my kids and I can give em a hard time from across the room. Do i intend on setting up a firewall and blocking certain websites, along with employing logging. Aboslutely. It's more about the approach you take to it than the fact you are doing it that will make the difference. As previous individuals have mentioned, if you discuss the matters with them instead of instantly grounding them or yelling at them, you will not have problems. But, as others have also mentioned, being that I own the connection, anything and everything downloaded, etc., comes back to me. I'd be the one in trouble . If my kid looks up underage pr0n, we've got a serious issue on my hands if the FBI comes a'knockin. Likewise, I'll restrict MP3'z and Warez. It just isn't worth the possible risk to me.
it's not as big, but www.dmusic.com has quite a selection.
From everything I've read, it seems that the EU are pretty much inglorious bastards when it comes to this kinda stuff. They basically say, too bad, so sad, STFU this kinda stuff. Basically, they will be less likely to "bow" to Microsoft than an American court. Also, I bet they see Microsoft as American and therefore would prefer a European option to take hold.
How does this address the "threat" of comcording, since this is normally done post-release. When they say "pre-release" they mean pre-DVD release, not pre-theatre release. This would cover everything from theater recordings, to leaked DVD rips, and video store screeners.
It's not uncommon nowadays for "actresses" to want to be called "actors" that way there is no differentiation between their male counterparts. It's one of those stupid, silly, little political correctness things.
I guess it's time to actually go steal the music from the stores instead of online.
I know I've lost cd's before by either beign misplaced, whatever. But now, I'm going to have these little paper-thin devices the size of my thumbnail floating around? Yeah right, I'd lose those before I got a chance to walk out of the store.
The only thing that confounds the hell out of me is how a simple thing such as the redhat-config-packages got screwed up. I mean, c'mon, that is something that I would consider one humongous boneheaded move.
I wouldn't begin to get worried if I was Adobe. Don't get me wrong, the GIMP is good and all, but free software will also be looked down upon as being "inferior." If you take a class at university and they teach photoshop b/c it is what the industry uses, you now have to go learn yet another software program (the gimp). When you goto work, your puter will probably have photoshop on it, and everyone you are collaborating with are using the same program. It's now just a little easier to use photoshop. It's very difficult to overtake photoshop, and the GIMP still does some things that are funky that I haven't been able to figure out how to get them to stop. I have no clue why the drawing area always has little dashed lines. I think the way that cutting/pasting/layering is done in the GIMP is sub-par and confusing. I am willing to deal with it though, but most people just want something that "works" and Photoshop "works" pretty damn well.
Linus lives in California. As far as whether or not he's a citizen or not, that I'm not aware of.
I saw this in PopSci about a month or two ago. Personally, I think this is friggin awesome!!!!! But, it's also dangerous as hell. You think it's hard to see a motorcycle, or hell, even a car in your blind spot? How about someone on a vehicle who's helment (if they so chose to wear one) would probably not even get higher than the side window of car. You'd be sideswiped before you got five minutes from your house.