It would be interesting to find out what diseases are the most common in what environments, statistically, and see if there's a connection between cancer an "social status" or something. I guess we should know about something like this nowadays.
"Why? There is a huge investment in XFree86 in things like drivers. It would take *ages* to implement all of that again."
C'mon, dude... KDE and Gnome wouldn't be a reality today if their developers had thought back then: "Well, Windows/Motif/CDE/MacOS GUIs are a huge investment... why reinventing the wheel?".
"It seems a little dirty that RH has decided that they want to use the community to provide Fedora -- to maintain this 'farmiliarity' -- but not do it in house."
Linux kernel, window managers, GNU tools.... the origins of RedHat were not developed inhouse, either.
I don't think they are doing what you say, though (maybe there are some inhouse developers in Fedora), but if they do, they wouldn't be the only ones.
Anyway, I never liked Red Hat. I use Slackware at home, it runs almost smoothly, and I'm quite happy with it.
"We feel that changing our name will let our spyware program be installed undetected by annoying ad removal tools in users' computers, and create confusion in the bunch of users who learned to recognize and avoid Gator".
"And then in three months, it'll show up on peoples' resumes. And business cards."
It's no different from the fact that many people use big companies' logos in their resumes, business cards, websites or advertisment, to show that they are experts in the products such companies offer (or other titles like "Eng." or "MSCP"). Some of those people are a "fiasco", and cautious employers, buyers, contractors, etc, know that.
So the problem is people misusing the hacker logo, not the logo as such.
I don't think I'll put a hacker logo in my resume; but it will be cool to wear a t-shirt with the logo on it, and have friends ask about its meaning (or even better, to receive greetings from fellow hackers when walking down the streets!!).
I think tiny PCs are a great idea, but why aren't they more popular? I don't think motherboard makers from this side of the Atlantic (or Pacific?) didn't know about it before. Maybe there's a catch, besides the upgrade issues, like shorter lives, or something?
Or is it that they are recent stuff? (I learned about their existence earlier this year).
"Here's a suggestion (offered free) to the tablet makers: why not support Linux on these tablets?"
Yeah. Well, actually Linux is supported; but the idea remains. I guess it's not a new idea to review the tablet UI, to check what's the good and the bad, and then to improve its functionality. If this is not happening, it should. Now!
Tablet PC's objectives should be revisited, too... maybe they weren't considered useful because they tried to (clumsily) copy a desktop (or even a laptop) functionality. I guess they would be the PERFECT solution to a problem... I don't know yet;-) (salesmen gadget? some sector in education?).
"Personally, no software SHOULD be released until it's ready."
You can always wait until the reviews, or even the project site, say that the application is stable. I do that.
But sometimes I find really cool projects which would be a torture to wait for them to be stable; you just want to try them out IN THE VERY MOMENT you learn they exist. Screenshots, manuals and readmes are not enough.
And, of course, developers could use the feedback, bug reports and fixes, which is the whole point of open source.
Ok, so I'll just say some friends in Oslo, Norway, a few families in Copenhaguen, Denmark, two friends in Madrid, Spain and one family in Tenerife, Canary Islands waste perfectly good food.
Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean to be offensive; I had the time of my life in Europe. My impressions will remain, though, because it's an example of cultural differences. I guess people from other cultures would be shocked wif they learned how we waste perfectly good food by not eating our dogs. And I have some scandinavian friends who came here and laughed at us because we didn't like their "licorish" candy. I didn't see their reaction as offensive.
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It would be interesting to find out what diseases are the most common in what environments, statistically, and see if there's a connection between cancer an "social status" or something. I guess we should know about something like this nowadays.
"Why? There is a huge investment in XFree86 in things like drivers. It would take *ages* to implement all of that again."
C'mon, dude... KDE and Gnome wouldn't be a reality today if their developers had thought back then: "Well, Windows/Motif/CDE/MacOS GUIs are a huge investment... why reinventing the wheel?".
MTV "Yao?" (Yet Another One????)
"It seems a little dirty that RH has decided that they want to use the community to provide Fedora -- to maintain this 'farmiliarity' -- but not do it in house."
Linux kernel, window managers, GNU tools.... the origins of RedHat were not developed inhouse, either.
I don't think they are doing what you say, though (maybe there are some inhouse developers in Fedora), but if they do, they wouldn't be the only ones.
Anyway, I never liked Red Hat. I use Slackware at home, it runs almost smoothly, and I'm quite happy with it.
...and connect it to to a wireless mike, so I can scare my mother-in-law the hell out of my house!!!
"Feed me, you sinner"
It should be two evil forces like the Aliens and the Predators.
So that would be something like:
"Michael Jackson vs. Microsoft"
"Verisign vs. ICANN" (oh, wait!)
"Country Music vs. Pop"
"Barney vs. Teletubbies"
MIT Music is down?????
I don't wanna go back to FM Radio or listening to CDs!!
Which means "cute".
Just like clippy and that freaking dog in the XP search dialog.
Literally, though, "Monada" means "Something done by a monkey".
"The first thing I would think of when seeing MSH is MicroSoft Hell, not Microsoft Shell"
If thought you were goint to write Microsoft SH*t, but that would be ambiguous, or redundant, or too broad or....
"We feel that changing our name will let our spyware program be installed undetected by annoying ad removal tools in users' computers, and create confusion in the bunch of users who learned to recognize and avoid Gator".
She used to read my mail without my consent.
I don't know how will NVU do, but Mozilla Composer generates pretty decent HTML code.
"thank you lindows for making linux more accessable to those who are fed up with windows"
This looks like posted by a Lindows employee (or CEO?)
A penguin and a daemon playing frisbee (with the shape of the OSI logo), and an image is captured when the frisbee breaks through a closed window.
Eh? Eh?
No?
Ok.
"And then in three months, it'll show up on peoples' resumes. And business cards."
It's no different from the fact that many people use big companies' logos in their resumes, business cards, websites or advertisment, to show that they are experts in the products such companies offer (or other titles like "Eng." or "MSCP"). Some of those people are a "fiasco", and cautious employers, buyers, contractors, etc, know that.
So the problem is people misusing the hacker logo, not the logo as such.
I don't think I'll put a hacker logo in my resume; but it will be cool to wear a t-shirt with the logo on it, and have friends ask about its meaning (or even better, to receive greetings from fellow hackers when walking down the streets!!).
I guess you can write perfectly every single human language on earth.
Maybe the poster has a point, or maybe not, but don't pick on him just based on his effort to communicate on a foreign language.
Let's advertise "I (love) X10" T-Shirts using pop-unders in google..!
Anyone?
Why does Linux dev-community reluctantly ignore Commodore 64s???
They will say anything in order to increase sales.
But yeah, I didn't expect them to say that either.
I think tiny PCs are a great idea, but why aren't they more popular? I don't think motherboard makers from this side of the Atlantic (or Pacific?) didn't know about it before. Maybe there's a catch, besides the upgrade issues, like shorter lives, or something?
Or is it that they are recent stuff? (I learned about their existence earlier this year).
Cheers!
"Here's a suggestion (offered free) to the tablet makers: why not support Linux on these tablets?"
;-) (salesmen gadget? some sector in education?).
Yeah. Well, actually Linux is supported; but the idea remains. I guess it's not a new idea to review the tablet UI, to check what's the good and the bad, and then to improve its functionality. If this is not happening, it should. Now!
Tablet PC's objectives should be revisited, too... maybe they weren't considered useful because they tried to (clumsily) copy a desktop (or even a laptop) functionality. I guess they would be the PERFECT solution to a problem... I don't know yet
This is another of many chances for Open Source.
Here is a med GUI example in action.. it's my grandpa's heart monitor plugged into his chest:
http://heartson3000.med/patient_id=84355359094
Once you are there, please leave a "get well" message.
XD
"Personally, no software SHOULD be released until it's ready."
You can always wait until the reviews, or even the project site, say that the application is stable. I do that.
But sometimes I find really cool projects which would be a torture to wait for them to be stable; you just want to try them out IN THE VERY MOMENT you learn they exist. Screenshots, manuals and readmes are not enough.
And, of course, developers could use the feedback, bug reports and fixes, which is the whole point of open source.
Don't know about the database, but Firebird is also the name of Mozilla's new browser component.
Ok, so I'll just say some friends in Oslo, Norway, a few families in Copenhaguen, Denmark, two friends in Madrid, Spain and one family in Tenerife, Canary Islands waste perfectly good food.
Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean to be offensive; I had the time of my life in Europe. My impressions will remain, though, because it's an example of cultural differences. I guess people from other cultures would be shocked wif they learned how we waste perfectly good food by not eating our dogs. And I have some scandinavian friends who came here and laughed at us because we didn't like their "licorish" candy. I didn't see their reaction as offensive.