Mod parent up!!
Is it me, or does your average/. moderator have absolutely no discernable sense of humour? WTF is wrong with these people?? You know -- it's humourless bozos like these that give us geeks a bad name.
...In other news, China and Bill Gates have agreed on a China-oriented version of the popular Windows operating system -- it will be called 'Microsoft Tiananmen'. They've already agreed on the slogan. 'Microsoft Tiananmen' New and Improved -- now with fewer human rights!
Yes, Bladerunner was undeniably superb -- this from a guy that had already brought us "Alien", and was later to bring out "Thelma and Louise" -- both excellent films, but entirely different genres. And then he produces "Gladiator"... even with his track record of greatness, can we ever forgive him for this travesty?
Talk about delusions of grandeur... the arrogance of this individual! I could understand it if he was upset by organizations that were saying they used an OSI-approved licence, when they clearly didn't, but that's not it -- this person is assuming the role of arbiter supreme of what constitutes an OS licence. It's people like him that the corporate world shake their heads at, thinking "Sheesh -- them Open Source geeks are a bunch of whackos".
This is a very serious development -- we are now entering the age of the censored internet (at least in the West). Today it's pirated movies, tomorrow AT & T will loan their technology to the DHS, and then it's any page with the word 'Communism" or "Islam" in it.
I suspect the next big advertising point for rival providers will be the unfettered-ness of their service.
Remember when gopher was the sh&t -- when Joe Public didn't know dick about teh interwebs? Remember confusing a family member when you mentioned that you emailed so-and-so? You see, the net's like a drunken whore -- you take her out of her intended environment (i.e., researchy places) and let her loose, and she just ends up doing everyone and everything. It's about time we took her back. We didn't have any stinkin' censorship problems back in '87, now did we? We need to send a message to all those techno-weenies out there -- "If you can't look after it properly, we're takin' it back, got it?"
I've been thinking about this for quite a while -- why hasn't anyone brought out an OS that's designed for modern hardware, but has nothing but speed in mind. I mean -- I want a GUI and all, but nothing slower than fluxbox. Isn't there a niche for shipping an OS that wrings every last drop of thrust from yer box while maintaining a semi-pretty user interface via wmii or something?
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... with Xorg 7.3, KDE 3.5.6, GNOME 2.18, and version 2.6.21... and many more numbers! More numbers than ever before. If it's numbers you want, you've come to the right distro!
Thank you/. for my (almost) daily '2-minute hate'... although am I the only one who thinks we are in danger of making an Orwellian Emmanuel Goldstein-type character out of McBride? I mean, it's all just business litigation, right?
As soon as Intel have driven the OLPC out of the market, they will hatch some limp reason why their own product will no longer ship. These piddling margins don't interest the evil that is Intel -- so they'll kill that end of the market in order to preserve their margins up the other end. It's about time we boycotted these bastards.
TFA comes from the Daily Mail -- anyone who's from (or has been to) the UK will know what a filthy right-wing propagandist rag this so-called newspaper is. No over-hyped alarmist knee-jerk fabrication is too low for these people and their neo-nazi readership.
...'cos after the initial bubble of nerds (with spare cash), whatever business they'll get with Ubuntu will be low-key. I think this is a 'sit-back-and-see-what-happens' scenario for Dell, or rather a 'sit-back-and-see-what-happens-and-hope-this-ventu re-didn't-involve-too-much-cash-in-the-first-place ' scenario.
The entire premise of the system stinks of corruption: it is indefensible the idea of a blanket tax on media because some people use them for piracy -- I don't -- I do not go around illegally copying material -- but my government thinks I do, and decides to tax me for it. I'm sorry -- this is pure BS. How did we get such an idiot government?
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Mod parent up!! Is it me, or does your average /. moderator have absolutely no discernable sense of humour? WTF is wrong with these people?? You know -- it's humourless bozos like these that give us geeks a bad name.
I don't know about you, but I'm unimpressed that the Germans seem quite happy to goose-step all over intellectual property law.
God Bless George Bush and America... and all the assets I have there.
...except it's more expensive.
...In other news, China and Bill Gates have agreed on a China-oriented version of the popular Windows operating system -- it will be called 'Microsoft Tiananmen'. They've already agreed on the slogan. 'Microsoft Tiananmen' New and Improved -- now with fewer human rights!
Yes, Bladerunner was undeniably superb -- this from a guy that had already brought us "Alien", and was later to bring out "Thelma and Louise" -- both excellent films, but entirely different genres. And then he produces "Gladiator"... even with his track record of greatness, can we ever forgive him for this travesty?
I hear there's plenty of positions for open-source development at firms like TiVo, Cisco, et al... but they mostly involve bending over.
Talk about delusions of grandeur... the arrogance of this individual! I could understand it if he was upset by organizations that were saying they used an OSI-approved licence, when they clearly didn't, but that's not it -- this person is assuming the role of arbiter supreme of what constitutes an OS licence. It's people like him that the corporate world shake their heads at, thinking "Sheesh -- them Open Source geeks are a bunch of whackos".
This is a very serious development -- we are now entering the age of the censored internet (at least in the West). Today it's pirated movies, tomorrow AT & T will loan their technology to the DHS, and then it's any page with the word 'Communism" or "Islam" in it. I suspect the next big advertising point for rival providers will be the unfettered-ness of their service.
Every single day, the same routine, the same faces, the same surroundings, the same conversations... or I could leave IT and sign up for this!
Errm... wasn't that, like, Gandhi who said that? (Apart from the profit bit).
I'm glad that there are still F/OSS companies out there that value common sense over greed.
Finally a town I can look normal in!
$10 says it's a bug on the lens.
Remember when gopher was the sh&t -- when Joe Public didn't know dick about teh interwebs? Remember confusing a family member when you mentioned that you emailed so-and-so? You see, the net's like a drunken whore -- you take her out of her intended environment (i.e., researchy places) and let her loose, and she just ends up doing everyone and everything. It's about time we took her back. We didn't have any stinkin' censorship problems back in '87, now did we? We need to send a message to all those techno-weenies out there -- "If you can't look after it properly, we're takin' it back, got it?"
I've been thinking about this for quite a while -- why hasn't anyone brought out an OS that's designed for modern hardware, but has nothing but speed in mind. I mean -- I want a GUI and all, but nothing slower than fluxbox. Isn't there a niche for shipping an OS that wrings every last drop of thrust from yer box while maintaining a semi-pretty user interface via wmii or something?
... with Xorg 7.3, KDE 3.5.6, GNOME 2.18, and version 2.6.21... and many more numbers! More numbers than ever before. If it's numbers you want, you've come to the right distro!
Thank you /. for my (almost) daily '2-minute hate'... although am I the only one who thinks we are in danger of making an Orwellian Emmanuel Goldstein-type character out of McBride? I mean, it's all just business litigation, right?
As soon as Intel have driven the OLPC out of the market, they will hatch some limp reason why their own product will no longer ship. These piddling margins don't interest the evil that is Intel -- so they'll kill that end of the market in order to preserve their margins up the other end. It's about time we boycotted these bastards.
TFA comes from the Daily Mail -- anyone who's from (or has been to) the UK will know what a filthy right-wing propagandist rag this so-called newspaper is. No over-hyped alarmist knee-jerk fabrication is too low for these people and their neo-nazi readership.
...'cos after the initial bubble of nerds (with spare cash), whatever business they'll get with Ubuntu will be low-key. I think this is a 'sit-back-and-see-what-happens' scenario for Dell, or rather a 'sit-back-and-see-what-happens-and-hope-this-ventu re-didn't-involve-too-much-cash-in-the-first-place ' scenario.
Just think of all the Microsoft patents these kids can now infringe!
Most excellent. Mod this consumer up, I say!
The entire premise of the system stinks of corruption: it is indefensible the idea of a blanket tax on media because some people use them for piracy -- I don't -- I do not go around illegally copying material -- but my government thinks I do, and decides to tax me for it. I'm sorry -- this is pure BS. How did we get such an idiot government?
Mod parent up. Nicely sarcastic. I like yer style. ;-)