You sound mighty sure of yourself for someone who writes XP software.;)
Let's take these FUD-esque statements one at a time. I've just booted my laptop to Kubuntu so I can walk through this.
Changing the screen resolution.
Right click on the background, select "Configure Desktop", click "Display", select your screen resolution from the drop-down.
Configuring display/mouse/keyboard drivers.
Configuring the display drivers we may have just covered. If you're thinking about editing your xconfig files, I've never had to Kubuntu. It's not like The Old Days anymore.
My keyboard and mouse worked out of the box. I can plugin in a USB mouse at any time and the system picks it up uses it. However, if you want to tweak the keyboard or mouse, click your "System" icon in the task bar, select the "Settings" entry. Select "Peripherals". You'll see both "keyboard" and "mouse" in the dialog. Tweak away.
Configuring a network
From the System/Settings dialog we were just in... clck "Internet and Networking". You can add network interfaces, configure the proxy, set up your wireless networks, configure Samba, etc and so forth.
Installing a printer
Back to the "Peripherals" screen. Click the "Printers" button.
I think you're comment about the menu items is related to the people who wrote the package you've installed, not the people who wrote the operating system.
Kubuntu is drop dead easy to use. You can still open a shell and go crazy (if you know how), but you don't have to anymore.
btw, they just released a new preview of their next version. They claim to have improved the Control Panel (kcontrol). I'm downloading it now to see what they've done.
C'mon now. One of the most important open source projects in the world? I suppose that assumes that MS Office is one of the most important programs (suite...whatever) in the world? For real?
YES!
The office suite is the one application that keeps people on Windows! My brother is a lawyer and would love to move his entire staff over to an open source suite (just for financial reasons) but he has to be 100% compatible.
When the office suite becomes a commodity, you'll see more defections.
They are (generally) going after people who can't afford to fight...
I wonder how much it would affect the strategy is large numbers of objectors banded together to create a massive defense fund. Retain a few lawyers and offer to defend anyone who is accused.
Ah, you must be thinking of religion.
Scientific ideas change all the time.
I know a few scientists who may say this in private, but in public they are ~very~ sure every they have idea is right. Scientists as a lot are the most arrogant people I've ever worked around.
When I see the "quality" of/. comments, especially compared to just a year or ago, I realize it's populated with the younger generation, but things like this confirm it.
It's not flamebait, you just don't remember it happening. I wasn't referring to Windows itself.
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-935994.html/Microsoft accidentally sent the virulent Nimda worm to South Korean developers when it distributed Korean-language versions of Visual Studio.Net
It doesn't MS is evil, it means they are human. Any company that ships tons of software will ~eventually~ make a mistake.
With an RSS reader tracking your blogs, websites or news sites (like Google or CNN), you don't have to visit every site and look for new content. Your RSS reader just shows you the new stuff.
Podcasting is exactly the same. You podcasting client tracks a large number of sites and lets you know when something new is published.
Most of the people I know that are into podcasting have long commutes and they use the car time to catch up on various topics. Not a bad use of time... but I live 5 miles from work. I don't know when I'd find time to listen to a wide variety of audio tracks.
Could this event be the one that shows people how much Podcasting can replace traditional broadcasting? A critical mass moment showing the established media types how effect Podcasting can be? Or creating enough content for force more organization to the content (like a newspaper or a TV newscast)?
Turning a large group of professionals loose with a medium like this would make me very nervous if I owned a TV station!:)
Someone asked on the ruby-talk mailing list about the status of the Ruby.NET compiler from the Google Summer of Code. I hadn't heard that
there was a grant for such a beast from Google so, of course, I googled it
and found this:
blah blah blah, if the person "stealing" the movie/music/software would never purchase it then its not stealing
This is referred to as situational ethics. While operating in this mode, you can do or steal anything you like as long as you have an excuse.
Let's examine the sentence... if the theif wouldn't have bought it anyway, it's not stealing. Wow... Perhaps it's not a lost sale, but it is stealing.
Remember, stealing is a legal definition, not a personal one. You can disagree with it all day long and you haven't changed anything.
Here's a question for ya... the enjoyment and entertainment you receive watching these videos, listening to these songs... (I know, it's hip to pretend you don't like it cuz it's popular, but you ~did~ download it.) So that enjoyment you recieved, where did that come from? From the hard work of the artists, crews, etc? Should they be paid for that work?
Then arrest them, and allow hollywood to sue them for actual damages done (not theoretical damages over people who may have theoretically bought a movie). How much money/physical goods did Hollywood have, that was then taken away by the filesharers? Allow them to be reimbursed for that.
When we catch shoplifters we don't just ask them to pay for the stuff they stole right? When you catch someone in your house stealing your stereo, do you just ask them to pay for it?
Stealing content online feels anonymous and somehow ~okay~. But it's not. It isn't civil disobedience. It's illegal and it's wrong. The penalties will exceed the cost of the unsold movie ticket to help impress upon people that it's a Bad Thing to get caught stealing.
Now, if they could just do something about those CDs...
If they would put Firefox, OpenOffice, and other nifty open source software in the extra space on those CDs, people would keep them around instead of throwing them in the trash.
AOL would end up getting tons of great press, it would help their reputation, and they'd get more customers just from the CDs that would be in circulation!
What's the point anyway? There are already dozens of jabber servers available that are potentially more extensible.
Who is funding and maintaining all those IM servers? Looks like Google might start doing this for free! Just like GMail.
The Gaim developers (and all the other IM clients) are always having to catch up to the latest protocol changes. With Google in the playing field, there might actually be a stable IM protocol standard. Changes to the protocol might be announced...
Actually I think CherryPy and Zope have been around a while before Ruby on Rails
You are correct, but neither have the ease of use and the speed of application development that Rails has. Given this development however, I'd be surprised if someone isn't hammering out a Rails-esque framework for Python as we speak!:)
Exactly, and Microsoft Windows has perhaps 20 times the volume on day zero. In a legitimate (still selling above cost) price war Microsoft would win easily
You don't have to beat Microsoft and win (your words, not mine) to make a great deal of money.
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Let's take these FUD-esque statements one at a time. I've just booted my laptop to Kubuntu so I can walk through this.
Changing the screen resolution.
Right click on the background, select "Configure Desktop", click "Display", select your screen resolution from the drop-down.
Configuring display/mouse/keyboard drivers.
Configuring the display drivers we may have just covered. If you're thinking about editing your xconfig files, I've never had to Kubuntu. It's not like The Old Days anymore.
My keyboard and mouse worked out of the box. I can plugin in a USB mouse at any time and the system picks it up uses it. However, if you want to tweak the keyboard or mouse, click your "System" icon in the task bar, select the "Settings" entry. Select "Peripherals". You'll see both "keyboard" and "mouse" in the dialog. Tweak away.
Configuring a network
From the System/Settings dialog we were just in... clck "Internet and Networking". You can add network interfaces, configure the proxy, set up your wireless networks, configure Samba, etc and so forth.
Installing a printer
Back to the "Peripherals" screen. Click the "Printers" button.
I think you're comment about the menu items is related to the people who wrote the package you've installed, not the people who wrote the operating system.
Kubuntu is drop dead easy to use. You can still open a shell and go crazy (if you know how), but you don't have to anymore.
btw, they just released a new preview of their next version. They claim to have improved the Control Panel (kcontrol). I'm downloading it now to see what they've done.
My brother is typical of the people I know... he's not as important as ~your~ brother, naturally! ;)
YES!
The office suite is the one application that keeps people on Windows! My brother is a lawyer and would love to move his entire staff over to an open source suite (just for financial reasons) but he has to be 100% compatible.
When the office suite becomes a commodity, you'll see more defections.
I wonder how much it would affect the strategy is large numbers of objectors banded together to create a massive defense fund. Retain a few lawyers and offer to defend anyone who is accused.
Copying something once it's made is a lot cheaper than figuring out how to make it in the first place.
So we're going to freely share it with everyone we agree with.
This marks the end of any relevance the GPL has. I wonder what will replace it?
I know a few scientists who may say this in private, but in public they are ~very~ sure every they have idea is right. Scientists as a lot are the most arrogant people I've ever worked around.
And I work with software developers! ;)
Honest honey! I don't know where ~those~ pictures came from!!! Honey?? Let me back in the house....
When I see the "quality" of /. comments, especially compared to just a year or ago, I realize it's populated with the younger generation, but things like this confirm it.
It's not flamebait, you just don't remember it happening. I wasn't referring to Windows itself.
Here are a few examples:
http://www.idg.co.nz/cw.nsf/0/CC256D400014E76CCC25 6A3A00806895?OpenDocument&Type=Column&More=Virus/ Microsoft makes the virus news section too, with confirmation that it shipped some hotfixes infected with the rather nasty (but old and well-detected by antivirus software) FunLove virus
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-935994.html/ Microsoft accidentally sent the virulent Nimda worm to South Korean developers when it distributed Korean-language versions of Visual Studio .Net
It doesn't MS is evil, it means they are human. Any company that ships tons of software will ~eventually~ make a mistake.
Today it's Creative's turn.
When you run Windows, you must run anti-virus ~all~ the time!
Podcasting is exactly the same. You podcasting client tracks a large number of sites and lets you know when something new is published.
Most of the people I know that are into podcasting have long commutes and they use the car time to catch up on various topics. Not a bad use of time... but I live 5 miles from work. I don't know when I'd find time to listen to a wide variety of audio tracks.
Given that my box is a dual Opteron w/2 gigs of memory, it's gotta be the adds! Someone redo them! I hate them!
Turning a large group of professionals loose with a medium like this would make me very nervous if I owned a TV station! :)
Honestly, I know a few people who simply love the MS IDEs. I know others who don't.
It seems to have more to do with the way ~your~ mind works. I think it's okay if we don't have the same favorite color, ice cream or IDE.
From the Ruby newsgroup:
"Phil Tomson" wrote in message news:...
Someone asked on the ruby-talk mailing list about the status of the Ruby.NET compiler from the Google Summer of Code. I hadn't heard that there was a grant for such a beast from Google so, of course, I googled it and found this:
http://jaen.saul.ee/
This is referred to as situational ethics. While operating in this mode, you can do or steal anything you like as long as you have an excuse.
Let's examine the sentence... if the theif wouldn't have bought it anyway, it's not stealing. Wow... Perhaps it's not a lost sale, but it is stealing.
Remember, stealing is a legal definition, not a personal one. You can disagree with it all day long and you haven't changed anything.
Here's a question for ya... the enjoyment and entertainment you receive watching these videos, listening to these songs... (I know, it's hip to pretend you don't like it cuz it's popular, but you ~did~ download it.) So that enjoyment you recieved, where did that come from? From the hard work of the artists, crews, etc? Should they be paid for that work?
When we catch shoplifters we don't just ask them to pay for the stuff they stole right? When you catch someone in your house stealing your stereo, do you just ask them to pay for it?
Stealing content online feels anonymous and somehow ~okay~. But it's not. It isn't civil disobedience. It's illegal and it's wrong. The penalties will exceed the cost of the unsold movie ticket to help impress upon people that it's a Bad Thing to get caught stealing.
And it's most certainly not anonymous.
If they would put Firefox, OpenOffice, and other nifty open source software in the extra space on those CDs, people would keep them around instead of throwing them in the trash.
AOL would end up getting tons of great press, it would help their reputation, and they'd get more customers just from the CDs that would be in circulation!
Who is funding and maintaining all those IM servers? Looks like Google might start doing this for free! Just like GMail.
The Gaim developers (and all the other IM clients) are always having to catch up to the latest protocol changes. With Google in the playing field, there might actually be a stable IM protocol standard. Changes to the protocol might be announced...
This all looks like a good move to me.
Key words? "Sounds like".
I've seen to many vapour-ware press releases. Just because they have a demo doesn't mean much. Let's see when they start shipping in quantity.
And just Intel. We've all seen it from MS, AMD, etc... it's a marketing thing.
btw, your home page link (http://www.jaredcam.net/ goes to the default Apache greeting instead of a real page. FYI...
You are correct, but neither have the ease of use and the speed of application development that Rails has. Given this development however, I'd be surprised if someone isn't hammering out a Rails-esque framework for Python as we speak! :)
Good for you! That's following the scientific method! Keep that mind closed up tight! ;)
You don't have to beat Microsoft and win (your words, not mine) to make a great deal of money.