I didn't buy a license. I got legitimate! I moved to GIMP!
I tried GIMP. Even the new 2.6 doesn't work with 16 never mind 24 bit colour depths. However CinePaint can work with 32 bits per colour channel. GIMP doesn't work with CYMK either. Ah apparently there are plugins for CYMK. My problem is that CinePaint requires X11 to run on Macs but I wasn't able to get it to work. So what I want to do is install Ubuntu on my Mac to try CinePaint. I'd like to get a book on it but though there are books for GIMP, one was reviewed on/. a few weeks ago, I haven't found one for CinePaint.
If CinePaint won't do what I want I may end up getting Photoshop CS.
I am not a socialist, not even a market socialist, whatever that is. I believe in free trade, private (real) property, and voluntary exchanges. I put real in parentheses because I oppose imaginary Intellectual Property, IP, like patents. They may of been useful at one tyme but now they hinder progress.
Your definition would seriously disappoint market socialists like Sam Bowles or Ben Tucker.
I don't know who either one is, I don't recall ever hearing of either one, so I don't care.
NT for Alpha had a x86 emulator so you could run your 99,9% non-Alpha NT applications.
With FX!32 I was only able to get one commercial app to run on my Alpha running NT4. I was however able to get most of the Free/shareware software I tried to install to work.
4: Folks around Linux still cannot understand that in the software world, choice while good, breeds confusion. On this very point Bill Gates stated it bluntly while referring to UNIX.
And how many choices does Microsoft offer with Vista? Though not as many as there are Linux distros and other Unices MS has 4 versions of Vista.
Who gained out of this confusion? Microsoft.
The thing about choices is that a person can choose what they want. Of course many Windows users wouldn't know how to choice a Linux distro.
And, Windows has the overwhelming advantage it always did : it has an enormous existing software library that still dwarfs that of Linux.
Actually I think Linux has more software it can run than Windows does but Windows has more commercial software. Windows can only run software ported to Windows, Linux can run Linux as well as some Windows software. Even Adobe CS4 and MS Office 2007 runs in Linux though they may be a bitch to get working.
Mac OS X has both beat, it can run Linux and Windows besides OS X software.
99% of what makes Linux inferior to Windows is the lack of drivers that are not written with the x86 ISA + Windows OS in mind.
In the case of machines running Windows Mobile or pre-installed Linux, the manufacturer makes sure that drivers for the included hardware are installed on the machine. Or are you talking about things like CUPS?
I'm not sure what you mean, if CUPS is inferior or not, but the only problem I've had with it was I couldn't figure how to get my printer working right on my Linux PC using USB. I've used 3 printers on my Mac though, OS X uses CUPS too, without a problem.
NetBooks are toys, and in the current economic climate, toys are not something people are inclined to buy lots of.
People who look at netbooks as cheap laptops are more likely to buy one in this economy. And it appears from comments by people returning netbooks, that that's how some people look at them.
They're consumer electronics devices, suitable for web surfing & email. Basically, like a modern phone, with a bigger screen & keyboard.
While true many who get one will want it to do more than just web surfing and checking email. I wouldn't be surprised at all if most people look at them as cheap laptops. My brother-in-law knows a bit more about computers than many others but he asked me to check out the ASUS EeePC Target had in store. He wanted to know if he could use it as a laptop.
Thanks for the link. I see where TFA linked to says "The customer will get their netbook sent to their home and they imagine to find something like a Microsoft desktop, but they see a brown Ubuntu version."
The article also mentions that: "Not only are people overwhelmingly buying Windows, but those that try Linux are often returning it," wrote Leblanc, noting that the United Kingdom's Car phone Warehouse dropped Linux-based netbooks after seeing return rates as high as 20%."
Dell netbooks with Linux has the same rate of return as netbooks with Windows.
You're right Adam Smith didn't use "capitalism", it was first used after him. He did however use "capital" to mean money, means of production, and the goods and services offered. Now it was Milton Friedman who emphasized free markets and Ludwig von Mises free trade. Smith did oppose monopolies though, and didn't like patents. He called patents a necessary evil. Government's in the US though have granted a lot of monopolies, including those telco and cableco monopolies and broadcasting monopolies.
You did people a disservice by linking to Amazon instead of to the Project Gutenberg editions of the book.
First I didn't think to check with Project Gutenberg, but I will now. Oh, I can't it doesn't list the book I looked for, so back to Amazon for the book "The Theory of Moral Sentiments". Next, not everyone can read an entire book online, not easily at least. If I read more than a couple of pages on a monitor I will get bad headaches. Just reading most of the posts on/. I have to shift my gaze frequently or my eyes will hurt. And there are others who suffer the same thing. Now because both books are in the public domain anyone can print either or both books themselves. Amazon shows a lot of editions of "The Theory of Moral Sentiments". I would spend more downloading and printing most books than what buying one from Amazon would cost.
More people should read it.
I'd add other books, such as the afore mentioned "The Theory of Moral Sentiments".
I've got 16Mb down service wit Comcast, and if they gave me 100Mb, I don't think it would make that much of a difference, since I can almost never find sources that will provide me with enough content to fill that pipe. Even torrents with hundreds of seeders never get that high.
Yea, and nobody will ever need more than 640K RAM.
If the capacity is there it will be used. Maybe not right away but someone will come up with something that can use it.
indeed however I wonder just how much of that cost was due to overly restrictive regulations and not the failings of nuclear power its self.
China, France, India, and Russia do not have those "overly restrictive regulations" yet nuclear isn't profit without subsidies and other government assistance in those countries either.
And you have to keep in mind how insular the telecoms and cable companies are in comparison to how the Japanese counterparts are. The majority of their systems are gov't sanctioned, driven and funded.
US companies are also government sanctioned and funded. They are given the right to use rights of way and have been given hundreds of billions of dollar to build out broadband. Instead they used the money to pad their bottom lines.
It costs more than $20 to simply run coax from my street to my house - that $20 number is silly.
From what I understand, if someone who reads this knows I'm wrong let me know, running new cable isn't needed to increase the speed of cable. What is needed is for DOCSIS 3.0 equipment to be installed in the central office and a DOCSIS 3.0 modem. These should cost more than $20 I'd imagine but they shouldn't cost too much.
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Isn't that how deals with the devil always work?
With the devil, if you're lucky you get to be a Ghost Rider.
Falcon
if they say you must be verifiably unemployed, they have to check with the (or each) state's unemployment benefits division.
A prior poster said you have to include your previous employer/supervisor and the company will check with them.
Falcon
I didn't buy a license. I got legitimate! I moved to GIMP!
I tried GIMP. Even the new 2.6 doesn't work with 16 never mind 24 bit colour depths. However CinePaint can work with 32 bits per colour channel. GIMP doesn't work with CYMK either. Ah apparently there are plugins for CYMK. My problem is that CinePaint requires X11 to run on Macs but I wasn't able to get it to work. So what I want to do is install Ubuntu on my Mac to try CinePaint. I'd like to get a book on it but though there are books for GIMP, one was reviewed on /. a few weeks ago, I haven't found one for CinePaint.
If CinePaint won't do what I want I may end up getting Photoshop CS.
Falcon
I am not a socialist, not even a market socialist, whatever that is. I believe in free trade, private (real) property, and voluntary exchanges. I put real in parentheses because I oppose imaginary Intellectual Property, IP, like patents. They may of been useful at one tyme but now they hinder progress.
Your definition would seriously disappoint market socialists like Sam Bowles or Ben Tucker.
I don't know who either one is, I don't recall ever hearing of either one, so I don't care.
Falcon
NT for Alpha had a x86 emulator so you could run your 99,9% non-Alpha NT applications.
With FX!32 I was only able to get one commercial app to run on my Alpha running NT4. I was however able to get most of the Free/shareware software I tried to install to work.
Falcon
4: Folks around Linux still cannot understand that in the software world, choice while good, breeds confusion. On this very point Bill Gates stated it bluntly while referring to UNIX.
And how many choices does Microsoft offer with Vista? Though not as many as there are Linux distros and other Unices MS has 4 versions of Vista.
Who gained out of this confusion? Microsoft.
The thing about choices is that a person can choose what they want. Of course many Windows users wouldn't know how to choice a Linux distro.
Falcon
And, Windows has the overwhelming advantage it always did : it has an enormous existing software library that still dwarfs that of Linux.
Actually I think Linux has more software it can run than Windows does but Windows has more commercial software. Windows can only run software ported to Windows, Linux can run Linux as well as some Windows software. Even Adobe CS4 and MS Office 2007 runs in Linux though they may be a bitch to get working.
Mac OS X has both beat, it can run Linux and Windows besides OS X software.
Falcon
OK, that explains why you define Capitalism as Free-Market Capitalism only.
No, I use capitalism as a voluntary exchange. A free market is included in that though. I am a member of 2 coops, and I include that as well.
You are into Mises/Austrian "economics."
Actually I don't know that I am, I don't know much more about it than what I posted earlier.
The Theory of Moral Sentiments is classic. Smith was a great empirical philosopher.
Another author I should have included as recommended reading is Thomas Paine, especially his "Common Sense" and "Rights of Man". I'd also include the book "Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution".
Falcon
99% of what makes Linux inferior to Windows is the lack of drivers that are not written with the x86 ISA + Windows OS in mind.
In the case of machines running Windows Mobile or pre-installed Linux, the manufacturer makes sure that drivers for the included hardware are installed on the machine. Or are you talking about things like CUPS?
I'm not sure what you mean, if CUPS is inferior or not, but the only problem I've had with it was I couldn't figure how to get my printer working right on my Linux PC using USB. I've used 3 printers on my Mac though, OS X uses CUPS too, without a problem.
Falcon
I didn't read it before. If I had I wouldn't have bothered to reply.
Falcon
Wait till the end of the month and give the jaunty (ubuntu 9.04) "netbook remix" a try.
I'm waiting for it to come out so I can install it on my MacBook Pro.
Falcon
Clearly all computers sold with linux should include the price of a windows license to combat piracy.
This may be in jest but I bought a new PC with Linux installed to get away from MS.
Falcon
NetBooks are toys, and in the current economic climate, toys are not something people are inclined to buy lots of.
People who look at netbooks as cheap laptops are more likely to buy one in this economy. And it appears from comments by people returning netbooks, that that's how some people look at them.
Falcon
They're consumer electronics devices, suitable for web surfing & email. Basically, like a modern phone, with a bigger screen & keyboard.
While true many who get one will want it to do more than just web surfing and checking email. I wouldn't be surprised at all if most people look at them as cheap laptops. My brother-in-law knows a bit more about computers than many others but he asked me to check out the ASUS EeePC Target had in store. He wanted to know if he could use it as a laptop.
Falcon
LingNoi says: It also burned a lot of companies with the high rate of return on Linux laptops.
Lehk228 says: do you have any evidence of this?
Cheapy says: http://blog.laptopmag.com/ubuntu-confirms-linux-netbook-returns-higher-than-anticpated
Thanks for the link. I see where TFA linked to says "The customer will get their netbook sent to their home and they imagine to find something like a Microsoft desktop, but they see a brown Ubuntu version."
Falcon
The article also mentions that: "Not only are people overwhelmingly buying Windows, but those that try Linux are often returning it," wrote Leblanc, noting that the United Kingdom's Car phone Warehouse dropped Linux-based netbooks after seeing return rates as high as 20%."
Dell netbooks with Linux has the same rate of return as netbooks with Windows.
Falcon
Good chips but FX!32 wasn't so good. Given enough tyme DEC may of improved it though.
Falcon
TFA title leaves something out, 96% of the netbooks in the US run Windows. Worldwide Linux runs 25% of the netbooks.
Falcon
Smith did not define capitalism
You're right Adam Smith didn't use "capitalism", it was first used after him. He did however use "capital" to mean money, means of production, and the goods and services offered. Now it was Milton Friedman who emphasized free markets and Ludwig von Mises free trade. Smith did oppose monopolies though, and didn't like patents. He called patents a necessary evil. Government's in the US though have granted a lot of monopolies, including those telco and cableco monopolies and broadcasting monopolies.
You did people a disservice by linking to Amazon instead of to the Project Gutenberg editions of the book.
First I didn't think to check with Project Gutenberg, but I will now. Oh, I can't it doesn't list the book I looked for, so back to Amazon for the book "The Theory of Moral Sentiments". Next, not everyone can read an entire book online, not easily at least. If I read more than a couple of pages on a monitor I will get bad headaches. Just reading most of the posts on /. I have to shift my gaze frequently or my eyes will hurt. And there are others who suffer the same thing. Now because both books are in the public domain anyone can print either or both books themselves. Amazon shows a lot of editions of "The Theory of Moral Sentiments". I would spend more downloading and printing most books than what buying one from Amazon would cost.
More people should read it.
I'd add other books, such as the afore mentioned "The Theory of Moral Sentiments".
I've got 16Mb down service wit Comcast, and if they gave me 100Mb, I don't think it would make that much of a difference, since I can almost never find sources that will provide me with enough content to fill that pipe. Even torrents with hundreds of seeders never get that high.
Yea, and nobody will ever need more than 640K RAM.
If the capacity is there it will be used. Maybe not right away but someone will come up with something that can use it.
Falcon
indeed however I wonder just how much of that cost was due to overly restrictive regulations and not the failings of nuclear power its self.
China, France, India, and Russia do not have those "overly restrictive regulations" yet nuclear isn't profit without subsidies and other government assistance in those countries either.
Falcon
And you have to keep in mind how insular the telecoms and cable companies are in comparison to how the Japanese counterparts are. The majority of their systems are gov't sanctioned, driven and funded.
US companies are also government sanctioned and funded. They are given the right to use rights of way and have been given hundreds of billions of dollar to build out broadband. Instead they used the money to pad their bottom lines.
Falcon
It costs more than $20 to simply run coax from my street to my house - that $20 number is silly.
From what I understand, if someone who reads this knows I'm wrong let me know, running new cable isn't needed to increase the speed of cable. What is needed is for DOCSIS 3.0 equipment to be installed in the central office and a DOCSIS 3.0 modem. These should cost more than $20 I'd imagine but they shouldn't cost too much.
Falcon
They will probably provide 50Mbit service also. They will charge $300 for 50Mbit.
That is not capitalism, that is corporatism and a monopoly. Under capitalism Comcast would have competition.
Falcon
The only time it gets expensive is when relying on old outdated technology, like the very old T1/T3 technologies
From what I've been told, while newer technologies can deliver faster speeds the speed is not guaranteed but it is guaranteed with T1s.
Falcon