I agree. Not neccessarily that Windows is the best quality software available, but that you should buy what is best suited to get the job done. And in many times, Linux is NOT the answer. Looking at the probable average computer experience of a civil servant workforce, something like Linux is probably above their heads.
HOWEVER, if someone were to sit down and write a specific application (CivilServant 2000) for that community, and distribute it as an application under linux, that takes into account the userbase, then it might be useful. Especially one that turned a linux desktop into a CivilServant terminal, like those computerized cash registers you see.
Read Age of Spirtual Machines, by Kurzweil. After reading this book and looking at his facts and figures, I believe sincerly that we'll see simulated sentient software in the next 10-20 years.
Of course, we've all got to agree on what sentient is.... Which he also makes a good point about in the book.
From the article:
"They ought to seriously address this issue of intellectual property. They certainly aren't allowing students to copy books in the university library."
Um, when's the last time they were at a University library? Most of the ones I've been to have banks of photo copiers and charge you to use them. (Which could be construed as copyright violation right there) Better yet, some have copy facilities that you drop off items at and wait for the copies to be made.
Is this a practice that doesn't occur any longer? (been a while since I've been to a college library)
Don't we have these now? I call mine a "computer".
(And mine has better processor stats...:)
Vulgrin the MAD
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This article is completely correct. Digital rights are being destroyed because a very, very large percentage of the population doesn't even know whats going on. Then you have another large percentage who know something is going on, but don't understand how it would ever affect them, so they just dismiss it. Then you have another percentage who might read/. every day, post about how f'ed up the world is, get pissed off every time they think their rights are affected, but NEVER ACT ON IT.
How many people who continually bitch about the loss of rights ever contact their congressperson? (email or otherwise) How many here are signed up for the email ACLU action alerts? How many dontate to or support the EFF?
And even if you can't do these simple things, educate everyone you meet. Your friends, your neighbors, your co-workers. Get THEM fired up and help them understand what is going on and how THEIR personal freedom is going to be affected once the lawyers are done.
Normal people think these are just Geek issues and don't understand that we are talking about the systematic destruction of freedom. Educate them, and spell out the possible future if these rulings go unchecked. Sure, it might be DeCSS now, but it could be a lot worse later. Precendent is a very BAD thing.
Doesn't matter if he copied the site. All you have to do is bring it up on/. and watch his site go down, his ISP pull the plug, his dog run away, and his woman leave him, and his beer goes flat.
Just like a good ole country song.
Actually, this does bring up a really good point: Its kind of sad that anything that gets posted up here, because we think its cool, or we think its news, ends up getting killed due to everyone slashdotting it.:) Kind of like a "We think you're cool! Now lets just burn your hard drive up trying to fulfill 1,000,000 web requests.:)
Heh, so would DODLinux replace the common linux commands with their own? "kill" would become "military police action" and "grep" would become a "intensive investigation of magnetic contents to achieve a postive result" AKA IIMCAPR.
I'm really confused about this whole "blacklash on slashdot" recently. People complaining that news items don't fit THEIR ideals for "news for nerds" or that Slashdot occasionally posts something that is wrong.
First off, we "Nerds" are a pretty diverse group. Therefore your idea of "news" may not be the same as my idea of "news." If you are that pissed off about it, then DON'T READ THE TOPIC, let alone reply to it. It always amazes me how out of the way people go to make themselves and others around them miserable.
Second, tell me if I'm wrong, but Slashdot is NOT an associated press. They produce news items based on submitted postings and interesting tidbits that they find. So if anyone is to blame on the content, blame yourselves. And if you don't go as far to submit a story to/. then don't complain about the content. If you want the content to be more "nerdy" then submit something./. is NOT CNN, it is a COMMUNITY. I don't go to/. because I think they've checked all of the facts. (face it, even major world-wide news organizations cannot check their facts first, and if you think differently, why don't you try it out?)
Of course, I'm being a hypocrite just by posting this, but I gotta vent my frustrations that have been building up for the past month. Sorry.
This is cool and all, but this is another area of technology that might suffer the "build it first, and consider the effects later."
I mean, this has been a central theme in many movies, like Terminator and the Matrix, where AI takes over and starts building it's own Legion of Doom.
Now everyone will say, but they aren't sophisticated robots. They don't tote heavy caliber guns around and aren't built to replace humans. But things like this sneak up on us. You think you're building some cute little Pokemon, and the next thing you know you're stuck in a concentration camp.
I would propose that researchers in the fields of AI take great pains to protect the world from their research, should any great "spark" happen to transform some mild mannered Weather predictor system into a global war beast. AIs should be developed in restrained environments that aren't connected to the outside world networks. AIs should conform strictly to the Three Laws of Robotics, as proposed by the late Dr. Asimov. Data should be fed in via proxy systems that don't allow the AI to get at it on its own. AIs should DEFINITELY not be hooked up to any major automated manufacturing equipment, no matter how benign, unless they are self contained behind strict security.
This could have some amazing uses, such as dropping off an AI on a deserted planet with a few gazillion nanobots to perform large scale terraforming, and so on, but make sure they don't terraform us if one of them happens to get smart and escape.
Interesting stuff, but very creepy.
Vulgrin the MAD
Just because you can do it digitally, doesn't mean you SHOULD do it that way. Special Effects are just that, EFFECTS. They are not characters, they are not personalities, no matter how good your animators are or how fast your rendering farm is.
This'll piss a lot of SW fans off, but I was very disappointed with Ep1 and don't feel that Lucas is a good director at all. He's lost his art of story-telling and can't direct worth a piss. (not compared to Spielberg anyway)
Star Wars ep4,5,6 are legends because they were brand new ideas when they came out, and they have aged in our memories like fine wines. We all have nostalgic memories of seeing these films in the theatres for the first time, many of us barely able to see over the seats. (I remember standing on my seat throughout Empire) But in this age of Titanic and Toy Story, our kids won't be looking back on Ep1, 2, and 3 with the same eye. To them, its just another two hours of visual crack, soon to be replaced by the next flavor of the month.
Bah. Gimme a director and film crew that is starving and barely making a living. THEY make good movies because they NEED to. George Lucas is fat, unimaginative and so full of himself he won't need to eat until ep3 is on DVD. (shall we bet on 2025?)
"Oh My god! They killed Star Wars! Those Bastards"
Vulgrin the MAD
Ok, maybe not, but I believe that language will "merge" into one big language eventually, greatly sped by the Internet. It won't be pure english, but will probably be greatly influenced by it.
Besides, I've always hated the fact that it is said that American's speak English. We speak American. (Which is a far cry from English, in some people's cases.)
Based on their website at http://www.weil.com/weil/
You can find loads of peoples emails to send complaints to. You could probably even extrapolate the author's email address by looking at their email addy structure.
To further prove my point, this was in the GameSpy news this morning:
More From Wombat Games - by Cassandra
As we reported earlier today, Wombat Games, developers of the massively-multiplayer online game Dark Zion, have closed their doors. I received the following response from Rick Delashmit, one of the founders who formerly worked on UO and UO: 2nd Age, to my email dated July 31st:
Hi Tina,
Sorry about the delay getting back to you, but I wanted to wait until we had our official announcement up. Essentially what happened is that we'd exhausted the list of traditional publishers for the game, and everyone is either only interested in completed games, or is unwilling to take the risk of a game with so many unproven design elements (or in other words, they want clones of already successful games). We were getting tired of doing contract work to support the company through the development of the game, especially given that it would apparantly have to continue until the game was nearly completed based on what publishers were looking for, so we decided to close up shop. Most of us at least will be trying to stay in the online game industry and hopefully we can influence other games to move in the same directions we were headed, if not quite as quickly.
-Rick
All members of Wombat are now seeking employment elsewhere, so if you are interested in hiring them and/or know of someone who is hiring, you can get their contact information from
Vulgrin again:
Publishers are killing their own industry. Support your indy studios!:)
If you haven't seen it already (or if it hasn't been posted here) check out GarageGames.com They are a group, founded by many Dynamix game designers, who are looking to cultivate the untapped masses of Independant Game Studios. Being an "indy" myself, I'm very pleased to see this.
I don't think gaming is dead because the people aren't buying, I think gaming is dead because the publishers are killing it. Game publishers are notorious for "sticking" with safe concepts and ultimately flogging them to death. As a result they don't give many game shops a chance with genre-creating games, thus stagnating the market and making people tired of playing "just another Doom Clone on graphics crack."
Think about it. Would "The Sims" have been published if Will Wright hadn't already had a name for himself? (and the money and contacts to make it happen?) No. His ideas would have been discarded because they don't contain the words "Frag" or "300 giga-polygons a nanosecond".
This is a real threat to the gaming industry, and a hotly debated topic in the development circles. Hopefully with GarageGames and their ilk, we'll start seeing a lot more new concepts, some good, some bad, from the teeming masses of under appreciated indy studios.
This was another benefit of being at Otakon this year, Boa, the band that performs the theme song was also there. (Some of the band were even on our floor of the hotel, woohoo!) Definitely a great band that I hope doesn't get trashed when the debut in the states next year. Here's their official website. Root for them when they release here in Q1 next year... they are a great band and great people.
(And no, I don't represent the band. I'm only a groupie.:)
I'd like to see this go even further where computers placed around your home can pick up on your mood, and play the appropriate background music.
I can definitely see this happening in a few years...
vulgrin the MAD
Where have you been the last 20 years? Don Bluth has done everything from Secret of Nimh, Dragon's Lair and Space Ace through Fivel (sp) and Land Before Time. (Not to mention a slew of others.)
I'm kind of surprised why people thought Titan A.E. was going to be a Heavy Metal style movie... just look at his list of films... nearly all children's movies.
Personally, I liked it. Probably because I went into it for fun and not to think I was getting the best movie of the century. Thats a big problem now days. Everyone expects the next Ben Hur, the next Godfather, or the next Star Wars. Give it up, and enjoy the movies for what they are... and when an occasional gem comes around, see it a few more times.
Sheesh, people in this country feel like they have to be entertained 100% of the time and complain loudly when the next drop of lithium isn't as potent as the last drop. Just ride the ride folks.
Millions of cell phone users won't stop using them, instead they'll file a class action lawsuit against cell phone manufacterers for $837 Trillion dollars and the lawyers will begin buying islands in the pacific rim.
But what do you do about this? Take away all of the DEA's powers? Make everything go in front of a judge? Think of what that will do for red-tape.
I'm not defending them at all, but you have to think of alternatives to give them the tools they need to solve their task. Either that or legalize all drugs and have the country turn into a cesspool.
My 2 cents. Any unused currency can be returned for a full refund within 30 days.
If you really want to be private then you need to follow these simple steps:
1. Don't communicate. No phone, no internet, no speaking, hell, don't even blink your eyes.
2. Don't go anywhere. People can see where you're at.
3. Don't shed any skin/hair/bodily fluid. People can look at your genetic code and engineer a biotoxin that can only make YOU sterile. (Which shouldn't matter if you follow this rule anyway, as you can't spill bodily fluid.)
4. Don't touch ANYTHING, as then they can get your fingerprint.
5. Stop living. This is the only surefire way to rid mortals of keeping tabs on you. (Except for the U.S. Census, which has a tendancy to count graveyards in their polls, but no on listens to them anyway.)
The point is, you are safe nowhere as long as you exist. Why anyone would be SURPRISED that we are all being spied on all of the time is beyond me. I mean what the hell do you think all of those satillites are for? Weather Forecasting?! PSHAW!
Use slashdot to publicly ridicule and warn against any company that makes these claims, but doesn't actually follow through.
People who buy hardware or software need to do a little bit of research first and make sure that others are able to use it.
OR, another idea would be a centralized database that allows everyone to put up information they have about hardware / software compatibility, as well as reviews and comments. (If anyone is actually interested in doing this, let me know at vulgrin@yahoo.com... as I might be interested in helping.)
9.5 times out of 10, the mainstream media talks out their ass. Why anyone in THIS crowd hasn't figured that out yet is beyond me. (You are all a pretty smart bunch, c'mon, its the media)
As long as everyone keeps pushing what Linux can do, and keeps adapting it to their needs, it will continue. Will it have 75% of the desktop market share? Probably not, but who the hell cares? As long as the O/S that we all love is still being put to use, and that we can continue to tinker with it, who the hell cares what Windows is doing?
Hell, just look at the Amiga crowd. Their O/S is in hibernation, yet they still make it do cool stuff. At least without having a central company in charge of Linux makes it a lot more likely that it will be here in 20 years.
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I agree. Not neccessarily that Windows is the best quality software available, but that you should buy what is best suited to get the job done. And in many times, Linux is NOT the answer. Looking at the probable average computer experience of a civil servant workforce, something like Linux is probably above their heads.
HOWEVER, if someone were to sit down and write a specific application (CivilServant 2000) for that community, and distribute it as an application under linux, that takes into account the userbase, then it might be useful. Especially one that turned a linux desktop into a CivilServant terminal, like those computerized cash registers you see.
My 2 pesos
Read Age of Spirtual Machines, by Kurzweil. After reading this book and looking at his facts and figures, I believe sincerly that we'll see simulated sentient software in the next 10-20 years.
Of course, we've all got to agree on what sentient is.... Which he also makes a good point about in the book.
Awesome book. Changed my whole outlook. Read it!
Vulgirn
From the article:
"They ought to seriously address this issue of intellectual property. They certainly aren't allowing students to copy books in the university library."
Um, when's the last time they were at a University library? Most of the ones I've been to have banks of photo copiers and charge you to use them. (Which could be construed as copyright violation right there) Better yet, some have copy facilities that you drop off items at and wait for the copies to be made.
Is this a practice that doesn't occur any longer? (been a while since I've been to a college library)
Vulgrin the MAD
Don't we have these now? I call mine a "computer".
:)
(And mine has better processor stats...
Vulgrin the MAD
...nothing will get better.
/. every day, post about how f'ed up the world is, get pissed off every time they think their rights are affected, but NEVER ACT ON IT.
This article is completely correct. Digital rights are being destroyed because a very, very large percentage of the population doesn't even know whats going on. Then you have another large percentage who know something is going on, but don't understand how it would ever affect them, so they just dismiss it. Then you have another percentage who might read
How many people who continually bitch about the loss of rights ever contact their congressperson? (email or otherwise) How many here are signed up for the email ACLU action alerts? How many dontate to or support the EFF?
And even if you can't do these simple things, educate everyone you meet. Your friends, your neighbors, your co-workers. Get THEM fired up and help them understand what is going on and how THEIR personal freedom is going to be affected once the lawyers are done.
Normal people think these are just Geek issues and don't understand that we are talking about the systematic destruction of freedom. Educate them, and spell out the possible future if these rulings go unchecked. Sure, it might be DeCSS now, but it could be a lot worse later. Precendent is a very BAD thing.
Doesn't matter if he copied the site. All you have to do is bring it up on /. and watch his site go down, his ISP pull the plug, his dog run away, and his woman leave him, and his beer goes flat.
:) Kind of like a "We think you're cool! Now lets just burn your hard drive up trying to fulfill 1,000,000 web requests. :)
Just like a good ole country song.
Actually, this does bring up a really good point: Its kind of sad that anything that gets posted up here, because we think its cool, or we think its news, ends up getting killed due to everyone slashdotting it.
Vulgrin the MAD
Heh, so would DODLinux replace the common linux commands with their own? "kill" would become "military police action" and "grep" would become a "intensive investigation of magnetic contents to achieve a postive result" AKA IIMCAPR.
Vulgrin the MAD
I'm really confused about this whole "blacklash on slashdot" recently. People complaining that news items don't fit THEIR ideals for "news for nerds" or that Slashdot occasionally posts something that is wrong.
/. then don't complain about the content. If you want the content to be more "nerdy" then submit something. /. is NOT CNN, it is a COMMUNITY. I don't go to /. because I think they've checked all of the facts. (face it, even major world-wide news organizations cannot check their facts first, and if you think differently, why don't you try it out?)
First off, we "Nerds" are a pretty diverse group. Therefore your idea of "news" may not be the same as my idea of "news." If you are that pissed off about it, then DON'T READ THE TOPIC, let alone reply to it. It always amazes me how out of the way people go to make themselves and others around them miserable.
Second, tell me if I'm wrong, but Slashdot is NOT an associated press. They produce news items based on submitted postings and interesting tidbits that they find. So if anyone is to blame on the content, blame yourselves. And if you don't go as far to submit a story to
Of course, I'm being a hypocrite just by posting this, but I gotta vent my frustrations that have been building up for the past month. Sorry.
Vulgrin the MAD
Actually, quite a few "real" news organizations DID print that he was ousted. Just another point that the media is quite full of flaws and mis-truths.
Perhaps posters should check "THEIR" facts before replying.
Vulgrin the MAD
This is cool and all, but this is another area of technology that might suffer the "build it first, and consider the effects later."
I mean, this has been a central theme in many movies, like Terminator and the Matrix, where AI takes over and starts building it's own Legion of Doom.
Now everyone will say, but they aren't sophisticated robots. They don't tote heavy caliber guns around and aren't built to replace humans. But things like this sneak up on us. You think you're building some cute little Pokemon, and the next thing you know you're stuck in a concentration camp.
I would propose that researchers in the fields of AI take great pains to protect the world from their research, should any great "spark" happen to transform some mild mannered Weather predictor system into a global war beast. AIs should be developed in restrained environments that aren't connected to the outside world networks. AIs should conform strictly to the Three Laws of Robotics, as proposed by the late Dr. Asimov. Data should be fed in via proxy systems that don't allow the AI to get at it on its own. AIs should DEFINITELY not be hooked up to any major automated manufacturing equipment, no matter how benign, unless they are self contained behind strict security.
This could have some amazing uses, such as dropping off an AI on a deserted planet with a few gazillion nanobots to perform large scale terraforming, and so on, but make sure they don't terraform us if one of them happens to get smart and escape.
Interesting stuff, but very creepy.
Vulgrin the MAD
Just because you can do it digitally, doesn't mean you SHOULD do it that way. Special Effects are just that, EFFECTS. They are not characters, they are not personalities, no matter how good your animators are or how fast your rendering farm is.
This'll piss a lot of SW fans off, but I was very disappointed with Ep1 and don't feel that Lucas is a good director at all. He's lost his art of story-telling and can't direct worth a piss. (not compared to Spielberg anyway)
Star Wars ep4,5,6 are legends because they were brand new ideas when they came out, and they have aged in our memories like fine wines. We all have nostalgic memories of seeing these films in the theatres for the first time, many of us barely able to see over the seats. (I remember standing on my seat throughout Empire) But in this age of Titanic and Toy Story, our kids won't be looking back on Ep1, 2, and 3 with the same eye. To them, its just another two hours of visual crack, soon to be replaced by the next flavor of the month.
Bah. Gimme a director and film crew that is starving and barely making a living. THEY make good movies because they NEED to. George Lucas is fat, unimaginative and so full of himself he won't need to eat until ep3 is on DVD. (shall we bet on 2025?)
"Oh My god! They killed Star Wars! Those Bastards"
Vulgrin the MAD
Ok, maybe not, but I believe that language will "merge" into one big language eventually, greatly sped by the Internet. It won't be pure english, but will probably be greatly influenced by it.
Besides, I've always hated the fact that it is said that American's speak English. We speak American. (Which is a far cry from English, in some people's cases.)
Vulgrin the MAD
Based on their website at http://www.weil.com/weil/
You can find loads of peoples emails to send complaints to. You could probably even extrapolate the author's email address by looking at their email addy structure.
Tell them how misguided they are.
Vulgrin the MAD
To further prove my point, this was in the GameSpy news this morning:
:)
More From Wombat Games - by Cassandra
As we reported earlier today, Wombat Games, developers of the massively-multiplayer online game Dark Zion, have closed their doors. I received the following response from Rick Delashmit, one of the founders who formerly worked on UO and UO: 2nd Age, to my email dated July 31st:
Hi Tina,
Sorry about the delay getting back to you, but I wanted to wait until we had our official announcement up. Essentially what happened is that we'd exhausted the list of traditional publishers for the game, and everyone is either only interested in completed games, or is unwilling to take the risk of a game with so many unproven design elements (or in other words, they want clones of already successful games). We were getting tired of doing contract work to support the company through the development of the game, especially given that it would apparantly have to continue until the game was nearly completed based on what publishers were looking for, so we decided to close up shop. Most of us at least will be trying to stay in the online game industry and hopefully we can influence other games to move in the same directions we were headed, if not quite as quickly.
-Rick
All members of Wombat are now seeking employment elsewhere, so if you are interested in hiring them and/or know of someone who is hiring, you can get their contact information from
Vulgrin again:
Publishers are killing their own industry. Support your indy studios!
V
If you haven't seen it already (or if it hasn't been posted here) check out GarageGames.com They are a group, founded by many Dynamix game designers, who are looking to cultivate the untapped masses of Independant Game Studios. Being an "indy" myself, I'm very pleased to see this.
.sig is a Porsche.
I don't think gaming is dead because the people aren't buying, I think gaming is dead because the publishers are killing it. Game publishers are notorious for "sticking" with safe concepts and ultimately flogging them to death. As a result they don't give many game shops a chance with genre-creating games, thus stagnating the market and making people tired of playing "just another Doom Clone on graphics crack."
Think about it. Would "The Sims" have been published if Will Wright hadn't already had a name for himself? (and the money and contacts to make it happen?) No. His ideas would have been discarded because they don't contain the words "Frag" or "300 giga-polygons a nanosecond".
This is a real threat to the gaming industry, and a hotly debated topic in the development circles. Hopefully with GarageGames and their ilk, we'll start seeing a lot more new concepts, some good, some bad, from the teeming masses of under appreciated indy studios.
My other
Vulgrin the MAD
This was another benefit of being at Otakon this year, Boa, the band that performs the theme song was also there. (Some of the band were even on our floor of the hotel, woohoo!) Definitely a great band that I hope doesn't get trashed when the debut in the states next year. Here's their official website. Root for them when they release here in Q1 next year... they are a great band and great people.
:)
(And no, I don't represent the band. I'm only a groupie.
I'd like to see this go even further where computers placed around your home can pick up on your mood, and play the appropriate background music. I can definitely see this happening in a few years... vulgrin the MAD
Where have you been the last 20 years? Don Bluth has done everything from Secret of Nimh, Dragon's Lair and Space Ace through Fivel (sp) and Land Before Time. (Not to mention a slew of others.)
I'm kind of surprised why people thought Titan A.E. was going to be a Heavy Metal style movie... just look at his list of films... nearly all children's movies.
Personally, I liked it. Probably because I went into it for fun and not to think I was getting the best movie of the century. Thats a big problem now days. Everyone expects the next Ben Hur, the next Godfather, or the next Star Wars. Give it up, and enjoy the movies for what they are... and when an occasional gem comes around, see it a few more times.
Sheesh, people in this country feel like they have to be entertained 100% of the time and complain loudly when the next drop of lithium isn't as potent as the last drop. Just ride the ride folks.
Millions of cell phone users won't stop using them, instead they'll file a class action lawsuit against cell phone manufacterers for $837 Trillion dollars and the lawyers will begin buying islands in the pacific rim.
v
Again, I don't agree with the DEA or anything but:
Imagine if they HADN'T been doing what they have been doing for so long. Would it be better or worse?
Its a completely pointless question, that I don't personally agree with, but I'm trying to look at both sides.
Vulgrin the MAD
Ok, well said.
But what do you do about this? Take away all of the DEA's powers? Make everything go in front of a judge? Think of what that will do for red-tape.
I'm not defending them at all, but you have to think of alternatives to give them the tools they need to solve their task. Either that or legalize all drugs and have the country turn into a cesspool.
My 2 cents. Any unused currency can be returned for a full refund within 30 days.
Vulgrin the MAD
If you really want to be private then you need to follow these simple steps:
1. Don't communicate. No phone, no internet, no speaking, hell, don't even blink your eyes.
2. Don't go anywhere. People can see where you're at.
3. Don't shed any skin/hair/bodily fluid. People can look at your genetic code and engineer a biotoxin that can only make YOU sterile. (Which shouldn't matter if you follow this rule anyway, as you can't spill bodily fluid.)
4. Don't touch ANYTHING, as then they can get your fingerprint.
5. Stop living. This is the only surefire way to rid mortals of keeping tabs on you. (Except for the U.S. Census, which has a tendancy to count graveyards in their polls, but no on listens to them anyway.)
The point is, you are safe nowhere as long as you exist. Why anyone would be SURPRISED that we are all being spied on all of the time is beyond me. I mean what the hell do you think all of those satillites are for? Weather Forecasting?! PSHAW!
Vulgrin the MAD
Use slashdot to publicly ridicule and warn against any company that makes these claims, but doesn't actually follow through.
People who buy hardware or software need to do a little bit of research first and make sure that others are able to use it.
OR, another idea would be a centralized database that allows everyone to put up information they have about hardware / software compatibility, as well as reviews and comments. (If anyone is actually interested in doing this, let me know at vulgrin@yahoo.com... as I might be interested in helping.)
Vulgrin
9.5 times out of 10, the mainstream media talks out their ass. Why anyone in THIS crowd hasn't figured that out yet is beyond me. (You are all a pretty smart bunch, c'mon, its the media)
As long as everyone keeps pushing what Linux can do, and keeps adapting it to their needs, it will continue. Will it have 75% of the desktop market share? Probably not, but who the hell cares? As long as the O/S that we all love is still being put to use, and that we can continue to tinker with it, who the hell cares what Windows is doing?
Hell, just look at the Amiga crowd. Their O/S is in hibernation, yet they still make it do cool stuff. At least without having a central company in charge of Linux makes it a lot more likely that it will be here in 20 years.
D
I don't know about you all, but I call this 4th of July. :)
Of course, there could still be a press release.