What's the profit motive in proving that human activity (ie. the economy) is causing climate change? Doesn't it make more sense that the money talking would be from the oil companies, who have a vested interest in continued consumption of fossil fuels?
It really sounds like you don't know what you're talking about. Did you read any of the articles in the peer reviewed publications covered by the study?
I mean, that many people can't just invent scientific research. If their methodology is sound (and it's not plausible for that many to get published in peer-reviewed magazines without sound methodology) then maybe it means something?
p.s. I think it means that we all need to change our lifestyles just a little: stop driving cars and start buying local products is my suggestion.
Most of my friends and family have celebrated materialistically simple christmas' these last few years. We've been inspired by some of the same ideas found on this excellent site about Buy Nothing Christmas.
I had already been thinking about giving some of my loved ones open source software on CD-R's for Christmas. But just the other day a group of us got together and decided we'll put on a Free Store (take what you need, bring what you don't) on Buy Nothing Day. One of the things we're going to give away is CD-R's with Linux.
I was planning on the Ubuntu live cd. When i used the release candidate live cd, it also had some of the contents of the OpenCD. That way, even if they don't decide to install Linux, they still get the Gimp and OpenOffice etc.
Xandros probably had some very good reasons when they decided to leave GNOME out of their distro.
Having two desktop environments is confusing to people who aren't used to all the choices that open source software offers. And those are exactly the people in the Xandros target market. My father started using computers after he turned 50. He's used Xandros since 1.0, and had Corel Linux before that.
Now that he's been using Linux for a few years, he installs GNOME libraries on his own so that he can use GNOME applications. But when he first started out, having one desktop environment, and having one kind of each application was enough.
My mother on the other hand, still uses Windows. She's had Windows 98 installed since 1998, and now has a start menu that is two times as long as the screen. She gets perplexed by all the options. If i were to install Linux for her, it would probably be Xandros or something else that is simple (as opposed to having lots of options).
Xandros customers also have access to Xandros message boards. On them users and a few Xandros employees help each other with support issues. If someone heard that Gaim is better than Kopete and wanted to try it out, i'm willing to bet they could get the help they needed.
But if it's a person's first time on a new desktop, they'll likely get confused by the difference between KDE and GNOME applications, and wonder which of the three or four instant messaging programs they should use.
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It really sounds like you don't know what you're talking about. Did you read any of the articles in the peer reviewed publications covered by the study?
I mean, that many people can't just invent scientific research. If their methodology is sound (and it's not plausible for that many to get published in peer-reviewed magazines without sound methodology) then maybe it means something?
p.s. I think it means that we all need to change our lifestyles just a little: stop driving cars and start buying local products is my suggestion.
I had already been thinking about giving some of my loved ones open source software on CD-R's for Christmas. But just the other day a group of us got together and decided we'll put on a Free Store (take what you need, bring what you don't) on Buy Nothing Day. One of the things we're going to give away is CD-R's with Linux.
I was planning on the Ubuntu live cd. When i used the release candidate live cd, it also had some of the contents of the OpenCD. That way, even if they don't decide to install Linux, they still get the Gimp and OpenOffice etc.
Having two desktop environments is confusing to people who aren't used to all the choices that open source software offers. And those are exactly the people in the Xandros target market. My father started using computers after he turned 50. He's used Xandros since 1.0, and had Corel Linux before that.
Now that he's been using Linux for a few years, he installs GNOME libraries on his own so that he can use GNOME applications. But when he first started out, having one desktop environment, and having one kind of each application was enough.
My mother on the other hand, still uses Windows. She's had Windows 98 installed since 1998, and now has a start menu that is two times as long as the screen. She gets perplexed by all the options. If i were to install Linux for her, it would probably be Xandros or something else that is simple (as opposed to having lots of options).
Xandros customers also have access to Xandros message boards. On them users and a few Xandros employees help each other with support issues. If someone heard that Gaim is better than Kopete and wanted to try it out, i'm willing to bet they could get the help they needed.
But if it's a person's first time on a new desktop, they'll likely get confused by the difference between KDE and GNOME applications, and wonder which of the three or four instant messaging programs they should use.
Jeremy McNaughton