After all, most of us have some sort of numbers assigned to us. Several phone numbers, credit card numbers, etc. Now, I'm really getting tired of remembering my 3-4 phone numbers, plus my several email addresses. Add to that my ICQ.
A single number for everything would solve that problem. Now... just have to keep the spammers out.
Get Slackware, install all relevant libraries out there.
Then, decide what kinda software you want, go out there, and grab the source, and compile from source. Nothing easier than that. If something dosen't compile, at least u know it wun work on ur comp, and u're missing something.
I agree whole-heartedly. The choice most of us make is not between free or non-free software most of the time. It's between good software which work, and those that don't. It's the reason that I switched to Linux in the first place.
Let's face it, everyone of us is different. I prefer C++, I like to have my choice of window managers. Why do we have to standardize everything? Where is the freedom of choice if there's nothing to choose from besides the default? Why can't GNOME and KDE exist side by side? After all, each have their own strengths, and weaknesses, and I believe they can learn from each other. Even the older window managers have their own strengths. FVWM is small, small enough and light enought that I use it sometimes when I'm running things dat require lots of ram and processor time.
Let's just give everyone the choice to develop in the language they like, in the way they like. It's a good thing Qt is going to be GPLed... then we won't have to listen to the "Qt is not free" argument ever again, and developers don't have to face the headache of licence problems, which, in my opinion, is just a hinderance to the whole cause of free software.
Why a Quake server? Why isn't the universe just created by a God to solve the ultimate question of life? Or mebbe to find the ultimate question. After all, we all know the answer is 42.
Well, besides in our combustion engines, the only other time nature produces nitrogen dioxide is during lightning. Otherwise, nitrogen is pretty much inert.
Agreed totally. It's in fact, theoretically impossible to achieve 100% efficiency. Still 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. Now, we're still at the question of where the energy is going to come from, and how much we actually need.
What's going to be the main source of electricity production in 50 yrs time? Nuclear? Solar? Wind? The only viable means for large scale production of electricity in the present, besides petroleum, and other fossil fuel, is nuclear, which has been deemed environmentally unfriendly, and is facing resistance in some countries. Solar can't produce enough to satisfy the amount we need in the present. So, what's left?
Well, if they're using suing as a tactic to stall their competitors, they have lost whatever respect I had for them. In this age of suing, we can just wonder who will be next.
The best thing about this.... is that we can all drown ourselves in nostalgia. I'm just waiting to take out all my old projects, old hecks and demos and see how they'll compile.
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After all, most of us have some sort of numbers assigned to us. Several phone numbers, credit card numbers, etc. Now, I'm really getting tired of remembering my 3-4 phone numbers, plus my several email addresses. Add to that my ICQ.
A single number for everything would solve that problem. Now... just have to keep the spammers out.
And thanks for all the humour.
Get Slackware, install all relevant libraries out there.
Then, decide what kinda software you want, go out there, and grab the source, and compile from source. Nothing easier than that. If something dosen't compile, at least u know it wun work on ur comp, and u're missing something.
I agree whole-heartedly. The choice most of us make is not between free or non-free software most of the time. It's between good software which work, and those that don't. It's the reason that I switched to Linux in the first place.
Let's face it, everyone of us is different. I prefer C++, I like to have my choice of window managers. Why do we have to standardize everything? Where is the freedom of choice if there's nothing to choose from besides the default? Why can't GNOME and KDE exist side by side? After all, each have their own strengths, and weaknesses, and I believe they can learn from each other. Even the older window managers have their own strengths. FVWM is small, small enough and light enought that I use it sometimes when I'm running things dat require lots of ram and processor time.
Let's just give everyone the choice to develop in the language they like, in the way they like. It's a good thing Qt is going to be GPLed... then we won't have to listen to the "Qt is not free" argument ever again, and developers don't have to face the headache of licence problems, which, in my opinion, is just a hinderance to the whole cause of free software.
Why a Quake server? Why isn't the universe just created by a God to solve the ultimate question of life? Or mebbe to find the ultimate question. After all, we all know the answer is 42.
Well, besides in our combustion engines, the only other time nature produces nitrogen dioxide is during lightning. Otherwise, nitrogen is pretty much inert.
Agreed totally. It's in fact, theoretically impossible to achieve 100% efficiency. Still 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. Now, we're still at the question of where the energy is going to come from, and how much we actually need.
What's going to be the main source of electricity production in 50 yrs time? Nuclear? Solar? Wind? The only viable means for large scale production of electricity in the present, besides petroleum, and other fossil fuel, is nuclear, which has been deemed environmentally unfriendly, and is facing resistance in some countries. Solar can't produce enough to satisfy the amount we need in the present. So, what's left?
Well, if they're using suing as a tactic to stall their competitors, they have lost whatever respect I had for them. In this age of suing, we can just wonder who will be next.
The best thing about this.... is that we can all drown ourselves in nostalgia. I'm just waiting to take out all my old projects, old hecks and demos and see how they'll compile.