Lynx to http://www.a9.com/ is working for me. It's quite neat too, with text results followed by image results, etc. Try it yourself. This webpage degrades nicely:)
Linux community silently "borrows" more and more ideas from there.
We're fine right until the moment we take Clippy:P. Then, we worry.
Seriously, nothing wrong with stealing good ideas. If I had Windows 98 on my comp right now, I'd switch to running Linux-only in a heartbeat. Right now, I'm running dual... mainly cos I'm happy with XP. It's a little slow at places (but then, old comp) and it actually recognized my WinModem [TM].
There's no "religious" reason for going anti-Windows - only ideological. Relax. In war, the worst thing you can do is underestimate your opponent.
A group of hackers announced today that they have cracked the DRM on Microsoft's new online music. Upon hearing the news, Steve Ballmer responded by getting mad and punching a hole in the wall.
However, IIRC a lava lamp works with just a 40W bulb. With some of the latest CPUs throwing off >200W of heat, you might need a whole row of lava lamps on top of the machine. Maybe the entire side of the case could be filled with gloop and made into a wall of lava.
A comic strip, a Washington Post editorial, and using the Slashdot community as an example... doesn't sound like much of an argument to me. If you're saying the western world hasn't come a long, long way from how women used to be treated, I ain't buying it.
The world I know - the third world - is on its way. It's happening. We're going slowly - there's a lot of history, a lot of stereotypes, a lot of social rules to get over - but you know what? We'll get there someday. The cosmopolitan upper classes, they're *there*. The rest will take time to catch up - maybe a lot of time - but there are people working at it.
Advice to parent poster: relax. We can only change the world one person at a time. If you're in a hurry, you canalwayshelp out.
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That has got to be the freakiest thing I ever did see. Considering I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 yesterday and The Scream earlier today, that's saying something.
Apart from the points raised by other people on this thread (especially the one about EULAs being disclaimers claiming no warranty), I think what Linus was talking about was innovations from a technological point of view in the kernel, which I think is a valid point. MS comes out with Brand New NTFS(tm) and Brand New ActiveThis(tm) and ActiveThat(tm) every couple of years, as the reasons why you should upgrade to the latest Windows. Linux doesn't - it doesn't even encourage you to upgrade. The point is, rather than putting in *altogether* new features, Linus tries to maintain existing features (the standard Posix stuff) as efficiently and fast as possible. As Linus claims in his article, programs written in 1992 can still be run on the latest kernel. The whole point is that innovation with the kernel is happening behind the scenes, not in the marketing world where MS and other large software companies work.
My two cents on application usage: I think most developers are scared, because they know that if they get One Humongously Big Idea, large software companies will immediately embrace and extend them out of existance. They literally have no-one to hide behind under the open source model.
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No wonder Windows '95 was so nice and stable, huh? Happened long before the bad new days of outsourcing...
I'm asking, if somebody sues *ME* for running a piece of code called the Linux kernel 2.6.1, who defends it? Cos me, I'm switching to BeOS. I don't have the cash to fight a lawsuit by Microsoft.
To word it another way: I administer a set of computers. Will my organisation get tied up in a costly lawsuit, just because I want to use Linux rather than one of it's lower-profile brothers (*BSD)? Or even dole out the money for one of Microsoft's OS's?
So, it's not Novell, IBM, etc. who's getting sued, I am. And that bothers me.
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Lynx to http://www.a9.com/ is working for me. It's quite neat too, with text results followed by image results, etc. Try it yourself. This webpage degrades nicely :)
Never trust anyone who has to quote a song to prove his or her point.
We're fine right until the moment we take Clippy :P. Then, we worry.
Seriously, nothing wrong with stealing good ideas. If I had Windows 98 on my comp right now, I'd switch to running Linux-only in a heartbeat. Right now, I'm running dual ... mainly cos I'm happy with XP. It's a little slow at places (but then, old comp) and it actually recognized my WinModem [TM].
There's no "religious" reason for going anti-Windows - only ideological. Relax. In war, the worst thing you can do is underestimate your opponent.
If you're at all interested in astronomy, you'll *love* this program!
"F****** developers!" was his only comment.
There was a global sig of releif.
The single coolest typo I've seen on Slashdot ... ever!
Does Stephen Hawking know about this yet?
This is probably a step down frmo his exeskeleton suit though...
Now that was really below the belt.
Wow ... the iLamp ;).
The point is, you have to draw a line somewhere :P. And you're never going to satify all the people. You just call it as seems appropriate to you.
A comic strip, a Washington Post editorial, and using the Slashdot community as an example ... doesn't sound like much of an argument to me. If you're saying the western world hasn't come a long, long way from how women used to be treated, I ain't buying it.
The world I know - the third world - is on its way. It's happening. We're going slowly - there's a lot of history, a lot of stereotypes, a lot of social rules to get over - but you know what? We'll get there someday. The cosmopolitan upper classes, they're *there*. The rest will take time to catch up - maybe a lot of time - but there are people working at it.
Advice to parent poster: relax. We can only change the world one person at a time. If you're in a hurry, you can always help out.
That has got to be the freakiest thing I ever did see. Considering I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 yesterday and The Scream earlier today, that's saying something.
That is just sad. RTFA. Are people just incapable of understanding heroism anymore?
This is something too many people get caught up against. Don't change the system, change yourself!
Thank you. You just made my day :D.
Apart from the points raised by other people on this thread (especially the one about EULAs being disclaimers claiming no warranty), I think what Linus was talking about was innovations from a technological point of view in the kernel, which I think is a valid point. MS comes out with Brand New NTFS(tm) and Brand New ActiveThis(tm) and ActiveThat(tm) every couple of years, as the reasons why you should upgrade to the latest Windows. Linux doesn't - it doesn't even encourage you to upgrade. The point is, rather than putting in *altogether* new features, Linus tries to maintain existing features (the standard Posix stuff) as efficiently and fast as possible. As Linus claims in his article, programs written in 1992 can still be run on the latest kernel. The whole point is that innovation with the kernel is happening behind the scenes, not in the marketing world where MS and other large software companies work.
My two cents on application usage: I think most developers are scared, because they know that if they get One Humongously Big Idea, large software companies will immediately embrace and extend them out of existance. They literally have no-one to hide behind under the open source model.
No wonder Windows '95 was so nice and stable, huh? Happened long before the bad new days of outsourcing ...
Did you mean http://www.emailsupply.net/lists.php?
I'm asking, if somebody sues *ME* for running a piece of code called the Linux kernel 2.6.1, who defends it? Cos me, I'm switching to BeOS. I don't have the cash to fight a lawsuit by Microsoft.
To word it another way: I administer a set of computers. Will my organisation get tied up in a costly lawsuit, just because I want to use Linux rather than one of it's lower-profile brothers (*BSD)? Or even dole out the money for one of Microsoft's OS's?
So, it's not Novell, IBM, etc. who's getting sued, I am. And that bothers me.
... a certain company with the coolest remuneration packages ever? And going public soon for tons of moolah?
Code factories *will* work, but they'll only ever be bottom feeders: eating away at overpopulated markets because they're cheaper than anyone else. Companies which produce good quality, innovative products will win. But only - ONLY - if they're good at figuring out what they do best (searching, making computers nobody ever gets fired for buying, making gizmos or allowing interoperativity and catering to the bottom line).
Otherwise - guess what? - that code monkey just took your idea, wrote it for half the price, and took away all your consumers. Tough luck.
Nope, I think we're going to have to go back to SCO. Sigh.
Rushes to book http://www.agirlslifeonline.com/
Right, and maybe the dumbest guy off the street should become President of the Unit... never mind.
So *that*'s what happened to the Iraqi Information Minister!
Dude, read your f\w+ screen!
In Soviet Russia, the Open Group certifies YOU! =D