This is only partially correct. 2 years isn't quite long enough, but you don't have to go to University. I went to college for a 4-year technologist course and found I had better hand-on experience and one-on-one training with the professors when compared to university students I met on co-op terms. University may set you up better to teach, but not as well to jump directly into the job market.
Way to subvert their attempt at coming up with funding for development. This project is maintained by a only few people, and developed mostly by only one person, who does it full-time. The actual release will be free to download, but they do the "Early Access Subscription" program to attempt to raise funds because they have over 2 million downloads a year and are still losing money just keeping the website up. This project needs our help to keep going, and it is a great project. Installing X11 and using OOo is acceptable for some, but the NeoOffice suite is all about being native - fully standardized Mac Aqua menus and no need for X11. The way to go for grandma and other mac-only users and/or newbies.
If you don't want to support the project, that's your choice, but recommending ways to circumvent their request for donations (for the alpha alone, no less) makes you look greedy, and is precisely why the main developer may not be able to continue development full-time if he can't afford to. I pay the linux distributions I use and like to show my support, and I fund open source projects I use frequently with donations of anywhere from $25-$50 to help them out, considering all they do for us.
The best advice I can give is to find an older PC (or use your current one at home) and install a distribution on it. And use it. A lot. It's so different that you may find it annoying at first, but eventually (even if/when it annoys you) you'll find windows annoys you a lot more. Also, I highly recommend an easier distribution to get into things, namely Mandriva or Kubuntu. That will ease the transition, as well as bug you less because of certain friendly similarities.
Once you're starting to get comfortable, it'll be time to switch to Gentoo, or OpenBSD.
FTFA: "There's really no reason to wait until the launch of Windows Vista to start shopping for a PC that can deliver a great Windows Vista experience or to start thinking about upgrading your current PC to windows Vista," product manager Greg Amrofell said in a telephone interview.
In other words, go out and buy a new PC for around $1000, spending around $350 for XP that comes with your new PC, without realizing you're paying that M$ tax, then buy Vista for $(God-knows, let's say $500?) in a year's time! Brilliant!
I LOVE my new mac - it has all these features AND I'm not running windows!
I'd be a rich man for every nickel I had for each night spent awake drinking pots of tea and eating boxes of KD while playing the tabletop RPG version of Shadowrun. Possibly one of the best RPGs, I couldn't have been happier or more surprised to read this article. D&D was kinda cool, but the SR dice rules always took the cake - and being based directly on William Gibson's vision of the future/the matrix, I have (for years) loathed Hollywood and Keanu Reeves thanks to SR.
I do! I guess it's back to downloading freely (and worry free) from BBS's! I wonder... couldn't the Libertarians build their own, free internet? Obviously we still need a way to connect, but there has to be a way, similar to the good old days of BBSing. Non-fascists unite!
Is anyone else out there dying for one? I just need to save... I hear Rosetta sucks but otherwise they're great - not to mention that eventually (hopefully) most apps should be native for the intel arch so Rosetta wouldn't be used anyway.
Probably stated above already - but that number is meaningless unless you look at the percentage of those vulnerabilities that were fixed within the same year! I'm sure more of these were patched within let's say a month of them being announced.
Also, just because more are announced doesn't mean there are more - just that more were found... Open Source has more eyes looking for vulnerabilities, which some may say would make it more secure to begin with!
It is so refreshing to see some Shadowrun content on slashdot. Shadowrun is so well put together and fun to play (and relatively easy to pick up). A few years after not getting to role-play I got into D&D to get my fix but hated the dice rules. They have since grown on me, but all in all I will always miss the SR dice system and the universe is so much darker and more fulfilling. Check it out if you can.
I agree. I doubt the legal services are gaining in popularity because of the DMCA and so on... it's just a more up to date method of buying music (more appropriate for the times, kinda like scientology vs christianity). I believe the ability to pirate will go on unabated despite stupid attempts like the DMCA. The winning strategy is to provide something useful and fresh.
Did China revert into an undeveloped nation without someone telling me?? I didn't know an undeveloped nation could have the best economy on the planet!
Your "food" for thought is poisonous, you dill-hole. First of all, most linux users steal nothing at all. There are many more versions of pirated windows in use than any "pirated" linux installations (because pirated linux doesn't really exist). In fact most software of any kind that is stolen is done so by windows users, and I don't blame them. After they pay for their hardware they are expected to go spend another $600 or so on software?!?!? That doesn't happen to the linux community.
Next, we have your xbox statement. I tell you why people want to do that (install linux on it) - it's just a cheap PC, NOT a "bitching gaming machine". Installing lnux on it let's you do a lot more with it. Period. EULAs are stupid, because they hope that you'll buy something then admit that you don't own it... which shouldn't happen. That's called renting, which the store never said I was doing. There is no way to review the idiotic EULA before buying, therefore it's a scam I won't be a victim of.
[oblig] So we're expecting Microsuft to design a car that doesn't crash? They can't get their operating systems to do that... who will feel safe in these damn things???
You deserve a hero cookie (and this is the first time I don't mean it sarcastically). As a proud Canadian, I am the product of, and slave to, the capitalist nature of North America. It never really bothered me until (fill in everything you said) became apparent to me. Then, earlier in life, when I felt the need to voice my opinions all the time on the internet (cough), I would go on about how I may not have any better suggestions yet, but capitalism blows. Then I realized the idea is fine - what it has become is so convoluted that there is no escape. You should be able to sell better computers to people, cheaper if you can, and at that point it becomes their computer. Like a car. Mod it, do whatever - it's yours. The software should not necessarily cost you more than what you've already paid, (your choice). Access to the internet is not a superior product - so how the hell can cheaper broadband be anti-capitalist?? Then again - maybe whatever America's new vision of capitalism is would make the title of the article right...?
Who wants to bet all they are doing is using a shitload of OSS (open source software) without telling anybody? No one has the "right" to look at their source to make sure they aren't... For all we know the whole shabang is *nix-based now, but they'll hide it all and say "Look! We don't suck anymore! Run from that free *nix trap!"
That's exactly right. The USA tried to invade, so Canadians kicked their asses back down past their own white house, ate supper in it, then burned it to the ground as a statement: Don't try that again.
I've got mixed feelings about this. From what I understand, the underlying base of the internet is completely owned by the US of A, which needs to change. This is a good step in the right direction to let each country own their own portion (including IP ranges, domains, etc) BUT then there's the whole issue of freedom and how in some countries certain things that should be free won't be...
Maybe it is closer to irrelevent in the grand desktop sceme, but I'm certain Blu-ray (and HD for that matter) will be used for data as well as movies . This means that (like DVD-ROM drives) it will make sense to have the drive in the server... and software that allows us to use the hardware, generally speaking. It can't hurt having Big Blu [sic] in our corner!
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This is only partially correct. 2 years isn't quite long enough, but you don't have to go to University. I went to college for a 4-year technologist course and found I had better hand-on experience and one-on-one training with the professors when compared to university students I met on co-op terms. University may set you up better to teach, but not as well to jump directly into the job market.
Way to subvert their attempt at coming up with funding for development. This project is maintained by a only few people, and developed mostly by only one person, who does it full-time. The actual release will be free to download, but they do the "Early Access Subscription" program to attempt to raise funds because they have over 2 million downloads a year and are still losing money just keeping the website up. This project needs our help to keep going, and it is a great project. Installing X11 and using OOo is acceptable for some, but the NeoOffice suite is all about being native - fully standardized Mac Aqua menus and no need for X11. The way to go for grandma and other mac-only users and/or newbies.
If you don't want to support the project, that's your choice, but recommending ways to circumvent their request for donations (for the alpha alone, no less) makes you look greedy, and is precisely why the main developer may not be able to continue development full-time if he can't afford to. I pay the linux distributions I use and like to show my support, and I fund open source projects I use frequently with donations of anywhere from $25-$50 to help them out, considering all they do for us.
The best advice I can give is to find an older PC (or use your current one at home) and install a distribution on it. And use it. A lot. It's so different that you may find it annoying at first, but eventually (even if/when it annoys you) you'll find windows annoys you a lot more. Also, I highly recommend an easier distribution to get into things, namely Mandriva or Kubuntu. That will ease the transition, as well as bug you less because of certain friendly similarities.
Once you're starting to get comfortable, it'll be time to switch to Gentoo, or OpenBSD.
A lot of open source stuff says "Free to download! Enjoy - but Note: This comes with no warranty / use at own risk" etc. Beat that.
FTFA: "There's really no reason to wait until the launch of Windows Vista to start shopping for a PC that can deliver a great Windows Vista experience or to start thinking about upgrading your current PC to windows Vista," product manager Greg Amrofell said in a telephone interview. In other words, go out and buy a new PC for around $1000, spending around $350 for XP that comes with your new PC, without realizing you're paying that M$ tax, then buy Vista for $(God-knows, let's say $500?) in a year's time! Brilliant! I LOVE my new mac - it has all these features AND I'm not running windows!
You won't get too far against linux with that license, buddy.
I guess no one got your joke. (for the record: I laughed)
I'd be a rich man for every nickel I had for each night spent awake drinking pots of tea and eating boxes of KD while playing the tabletop RPG version of Shadowrun. Possibly one of the best RPGs, I couldn't have been happier or more surprised to read this article. D&D was kinda cool, but the SR dice rules always took the cake - and being based directly on William Gibson's vision of the future/the matrix, I have (for years) loathed Hollywood and Keanu Reeves thanks to SR.
I do! I guess it's back to downloading freely (and worry free) from BBS's! I wonder... couldn't the Libertarians build their own, free internet? Obviously we still need a way to connect, but there has to be a way, similar to the good old days of BBSing. Non-fascists unite!
Is anyone else out there dying for one? I just need to save... I hear Rosetta sucks but otherwise they're great - not to mention that eventually (hopefully) most apps should be native for the intel arch so Rosetta wouldn't be used anyway.
Probably stated above already - but that number is meaningless unless you look at the percentage of those vulnerabilities that were fixed within the same year! I'm sure more of these were patched within let's say a month of them being announced. Also, just because more are announced doesn't mean there are more - just that more were found... Open Source has more eyes looking for vulnerabilities, which some may say would make it more secure to begin with!
It is so refreshing to see some Shadowrun content on slashdot. Shadowrun is so well put together and fun to play (and relatively easy to pick up). A few years after not getting to role-play I got into D&D to get my fix but hated the dice rules. They have since grown on me, but all in all I will always miss the SR dice system and the universe is so much darker and more fulfilling. Check it out if you can.
Yeah - financial - the D is for "dollar"
I agree. I doubt the legal services are gaining in popularity because of the DMCA and so on... it's just a more up to date method of buying music (more appropriate for the times, kinda like scientology vs christianity). I believe the ability to pirate will go on unabated despite stupid attempts like the DMCA. The winning strategy is to provide something useful and fresh.
Did China revert into an undeveloped nation without someone telling me?? I didn't know an undeveloped nation could have the best economy on the planet!
What steps might the U.S. take to attempt to counter it?
Uh, none? It isn't any of the U.S.'s business... literally!
Your "food" for thought is poisonous, you dill-hole. First of all, most linux users steal nothing at all. There are many more versions of pirated windows in use than any "pirated" linux installations (because pirated linux doesn't really exist). In fact most software of any kind that is stolen is done so by windows users, and I don't blame them. After they pay for their hardware they are expected to go spend another $600 or so on software?!?!? That doesn't happen to the linux community.
Next, we have your xbox statement. I tell you why people want to do that (install linux on it) - it's just a cheap PC, NOT a "bitching gaming machine". Installing lnux on it let's you do a lot more with it. Period. EULAs are stupid, because they hope that you'll buy something then admit that you don't own it... which shouldn't happen. That's called renting, which the store never said I was doing. There is no way to review the idiotic EULA before buying, therefore it's a scam I won't be a victim of.
And your post is FUD we won't be victims of.
[oblig] So we're expecting Microsuft to design a car that doesn't crash? They can't get their operating systems to do that... who will feel safe in these damn things???
You deserve a hero cookie (and this is the first time I don't mean it sarcastically). As a proud Canadian, I am the product of, and slave to, the capitalist nature of North America. It never really bothered me until (fill in everything you said) became apparent to me. Then, earlier in life, when I felt the need to voice my opinions all the time on the internet (cough), I would go on about how I may not have any better suggestions yet, but capitalism blows. Then I realized the idea is fine - what it has become is so convoluted that there is no escape. You should be able to sell better computers to people, cheaper if you can, and at that point it becomes their computer. Like a car. Mod it, do whatever - it's yours. The software should not necessarily cost you more than what you've already paid, (your choice). Access to the internet is not a superior product - so how the hell can cheaper broadband be anti-capitalist?? Then again - maybe whatever America's new vision of capitalism is would make the title of the article right...?
I thought it would be a HELL of a lot colder than -50, more like -150, so that's cool. Anyone want to ski the moon?
Who wants to bet all they are doing is using a shitload of OSS (open source software) without telling anybody? No one has the "right" to look at their source to make sure they aren't... For all we know the whole shabang is *nix-based now, but they'll hide it all and say "Look! We don't suck anymore! Run from that free *nix trap!"
LOL
That's exactly right. The USA tried to invade, so Canadians kicked their asses back down past their own white house, ate supper in it, then burned it to the ground as a statement:
Don't try that again.
I've got mixed feelings about this. From what I understand, the underlying base of the internet is completely owned by the US of A, which needs to change. This is a good step in the right direction to let each country own their own portion (including IP ranges, domains, etc) BUT then there's the whole issue of freedom and how in some countries certain things that should be free won't be...
Maybe it is closer to irrelevent in the grand desktop sceme, but I'm certain Blu-ray (and HD for that matter) will be used for data as well as movies . This means that (like DVD-ROM drives) it will make sense to have the drive in the server... and software that allows us to use the hardware, generally speaking. It can't hurt having Big Blu [sic] in our corner!
Dell is backing Blu-ray... RTA