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If you look at this page, you'll see that for some of the features you need a non-free XFree 3.3.6 driver. Another fun detail on that page : description says : 300 to 400 EUR while it is sold for 590 EUR. But it definately is cool. Once they sell it for less than that 590 (which would buy you a nice PC WITH storage), and that non-free Xfree 3.3.6 driver thing is solved... it is a really nice box.
Because up til now... playing videofiles just plain sucked... Slow as hell. Ok, I don't have the latest hardware at my home, but that's not the problem. If I play a video file on the same hardware on whatever linux distro or Windows 98SE, MS ALWAYS wins in performance AND quality. And yes, next time i'll read the article before I start flaming.
I see posts with a +5 insightful here that are just saying that they are evil and should be burned for violating the GPL. Ehmm... whatever happened to 'innocent until proven guilty' ? I thought we had courts for that. They say they have proof, and put in on their web. So it is true then because someone with software that has a GPL license says so ? c'mon people... I agree that it is news, but it is not a conviction.
We had something like that in the Netherlands as well (the phone thing, not WiFI hotspots)... I think it was called greenpoint or kermit or whatever... it was something greenish... Can't remember really.... And neither can anyone else... It failed horribly if I recall correctly.
"I've noticed, however, that all of the times when I have personally listened to or read what he has to say, that it's pretty damn reasonable."
Well, when something sounds reasonable to you, that doesn't mean that it IS. I can think of a lot of things that we now consider utterly wrong, but people at that time have considered reasonable, for whatever reasons (be it bad education or a very charismatic person).
I am not trying to make a comparison between RMS's ideas and those facts of history.
I am just trying to make clear that when something might seem reasonable, it might not always be as reasonable as you think.
The right person can make sound everything reasonable to people who have less knowledge about a certain subject (and maybe even people who DO have enough knowledge). And just maybe there is no 1 'right' but multiple. Maybe my post here is considered a troll (and maybe rightfully), but that doesn't make my opinion wrong. My facts may be wrong, but that may be because of bad education;-)
Well, to be honoust.. I was the only one there. Not strange considering I'm the only martian left. I stay here on this beautiful red planet to draw the maps for the marsshop in the hope that soon the creatures from earth will come visit me and maybe live here. I am counting on the fact that the first couple of thousand humans will be mostly geeks. I am a regular slashdot visitor and can identify myself with the nerds. All alone with one of my 3 right hands. I was visited by a creature that originated from your planet before. Nice little chap. Very polite but not much of a conversational person. And he had wheels... do you all have wheels? On the topic of slashdot: well.. I have a karma of excellent and since I'm a huge Bill & Ted fan, that is enough for me to know about karma. I think the forum is nice, but I hate those trolls. We had trolls on this planet (ugly and mean little buggers) as well. But we threw them of the planet because they were killing our future. Just like your trolls are ruining yours. I understand that Linux is not the biggest OS on your planet. It IS on ours (well.. i'm the only one with a computer... so not that tough to win over the planet). But to many in that community are not considering that people who might think about Linux are confronted with yelling ranting and screaming people (the trolls) and are turned of of something that could be so wonderful. Never tried Windows though. That Mr. Gates person reminds me to much of the martion trolls. So if we got rid of the trolls, how come that I'm the only one left you ask? Well, some martians took control of everyones privacy and security. They decided to make all decisions for us, and life got so boring and restricted, that most of us took their own lives or started a war amongst eachother as we did not dare to fight the big evil. And that was that. I got lucky. I'm a martian geek.. I was locked up in my room with my computer for a coding session. And once I got out of my room to get some pizza (as no one was answering the phone at the pizzacave). I noticed everybody else was dead. Sad story but hey. The only one I miss is the bloke that delivered my pizza.
Or just have 2 'modes'. 1 default user mode that allows little adjustment (and most importantly... doesn't need it). And have an expert mode, which allows you to do whatever you want.
Lot's of people will start screaming otherwise that it is 'dumbed down'. Give the power to those that want the power, but provide a 'simple' setup that Joe average does not want or NEED to change.
people that want to be cremated ? What about their families deprived of the money that other families DO get because one of their dear departed decided to even take up valuable space AFTER his/her life ??? Indeed valuable... they're getting money for blocking the way for something useful put there iso rotting bodies with a leisure suite larry add above it. Just imagine the poor children: "little johnny is not getting one of those new ad^H^H nike-shirts for his birthday", "why not?", "his grandma was 'cremated'... isn't that awful? selfish old hag"
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If you look at this page, you'll see that for some of the features you need a non-free XFree 3.3.6 driver. Another fun detail on that page : description says : 300 to 400 EUR while it is sold for 590 EUR. But it definately is cool. Once they sell it for less than that 590 (which would buy you a nice PC WITH storage), and that non-free Xfree 3.3.6 driver thing is solved... it is a really nice box.
Just because someone leaves the door open doesn't mean I have the right to enter.
"Maybe Pepsi is better than Coke?"
Maybe Pepsi is ON coke ???
"simplify programming by representing programs in ways other than in the text syntax of conventional programming languages,"
Oh... you mean like Magic ?
but the whole reason Gnome was created was people didn't like KDE. KDE users use KDE cause they don't like Gnome.
So you don't like redhat... so you run something else... problem solved. You gave the answer yourself !
Because up til now... playing videofiles just plain sucked... Slow as hell. Ok, I don't have the latest hardware at my home, but that's not the problem. If I play a video file on the same hardware on whatever linux distro or Windows 98SE, MS ALWAYS wins in performance AND quality.
And yes, next time i'll read the article before I start flaming.
If you didn't go broke on the costs of your cellphone calls yet, here's your chance !!
You can find it here. One of the things mentioned is how America becomes devided about the measures taken after 9/11, and about their privacy.
a way to use the unused processor power of that gfx card to run an extra seti@home ;-)
I see posts with a +5 insightful here that are just saying that they are evil and should be burned for violating the GPL. Ehmm... whatever happened to 'innocent until proven guilty' ? I thought we had courts for that. They say they have proof, and put in on their web. So it is true then because someone with software that has a GPL license says so ? c'mon people... I agree that it is news, but it is not a conviction.
Haikus will not work
I'm using spamassassin
High rate of succes
Will Linus soon be praying that AMD and Intel switch to these babies?
I lost my Library of Congress somewhere around here... please don't step on it...
We had something like that in the Netherlands as well (the phone thing, not WiFI hotspots)... I think it was called greenpoint or kermit or whatever... it was something greenish... Can't remember really.... And neither can anyone else... It failed horribly if I recall correctly.
"I've noticed, however, that all of the times when I have personally listened to or read what he has to say, that it's pretty damn reasonable."
;-)
Well, when something sounds reasonable to you, that doesn't mean that it IS. I can think of a lot of things that we now consider utterly wrong, but people at that time have considered reasonable, for whatever reasons (be it bad education or a very charismatic person).
I am not trying to make a comparison between RMS's ideas and those facts of history. I am just trying to make clear that when something might seem reasonable, it might not always be as reasonable as you think.
The right person can make sound everything reasonable to people who have less knowledge about a certain subject (and maybe even people who DO have enough knowledge). And just maybe there is no 1 'right' but multiple. Maybe my post here is considered a troll (and maybe rightfully), but that doesn't make my opinion wrong. My facts may be wrong, but that may be because of bad education
A brand new series of Roger Scramjet !
Well, to be honoust.. I was the only one there. Not strange considering I'm the only martian left.
I stay here on this beautiful red planet to draw the maps for the marsshop in the hope that soon the creatures from earth will come visit me and maybe live here. I am counting on the fact that the first couple of thousand humans will be mostly geeks. I am a regular slashdot visitor and can identify myself with the nerds. All alone with one of my 3 right hands.
I was visited by a creature that originated from your planet before. Nice little chap. Very polite but not much of a conversational person. And he had wheels... do you all have wheels?
On the topic of slashdot: well.. I have a karma of excellent and since I'm a huge Bill & Ted fan, that is enough for me to know about karma.
I think the forum is nice, but I hate those trolls. We had trolls on this planet (ugly and mean little buggers) as well. But we threw them of the planet because they were killing our future. Just like your trolls are ruining yours. I understand that Linux is not the biggest OS on your planet. It IS on ours (well.. i'm the only one with a computer... so not that tough to win over the planet). But to many in that community are not considering that people who might think about Linux are confronted with yelling ranting and screaming people (the trolls) and are turned of of something that could be so wonderful.
Never tried Windows though. That Mr. Gates person reminds me to much of the martion trolls.
So if we got rid of the trolls, how come that I'm the only one left you ask? Well, some martians took control of everyones privacy and security. They decided to make all decisions for us, and life got so boring and restricted, that most of us took their own lives or started a war amongst eachother as we did not dare to fight the big evil. And that was that. I got lucky. I'm a martian geek.. I was locked up in my room with my computer for a coding session. And once I got out of my room to get some pizza (as no one was answering the phone at the pizzacave). I noticed everybody else was dead.
Sad story but hey. The only one I miss is the bloke that delivered my pizza.
I agree.
Or just have 2 'modes'. 1 default user mode that allows little adjustment (and most importantly... doesn't need it). And have an expert mode, which allows you to do whatever you want.
Lot's of people will start screaming otherwise that it is 'dumbed down'. Give the power to those that want the power, but provide a 'simple' setup that Joe average does not want or NEED to change.
OSX is the proof that all those people screaming that Linux on Joe Average's desktop is impossible are wrong.
If you can do is with bsd you can do it with linux as well.. (well.. for this particular case that is).
It IS possible... the question is : will it ever happen ? And secondly... do 'we' want it?
"Still, the meeting went on until almost ten."
That's when the scriptkiddies moms wanted them to be home.
Here
"We had the hardware comparison "
On non-geek meetings this would've painted a whole other picture.
"We ran into problems due to the assigned meeting place being closed at the scheduled meetup time"
/. as well ;-)
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yes mom... I'm taking care of myself... I get enough fiber...
:-)
people that want to be cremated ? What about their families deprived of the money that other families DO get because one of their dear departed decided to even take up valuable space AFTER his/her life ??? :
Indeed valuable... they're getting money for blocking the way for something useful put there iso rotting bodies with a leisure suite larry add above it.
Just imagine the poor children
"little johnny is not getting one of those new ad^H^H nike-shirts for his birthday", "why not?", "his grandma was 'cremated'... isn't that awful? selfish old hag"