Yeah, kinda' like now you can say you're using "Windows". I thought the whole point of Linux was choice...?
I'm all for choice, but it's obviously both a curse and a blessing. You can have any flavour you like, but that means that the mindshare about what flavour is worth using gets diluted.
Maybe people wouldn't be so confused/worried about switching to Linux if they didn't have to consider the distro wars.
People with a lot less technical knowledge already "refill" things.
Gas-Station monkeys refill propane tanks. People refill Zippo lighters. In fact, there are even Curling Irons that take butane paks for generating heat. If rednecks and women (excuse the generalization) can refil their tools, why can't geeks?
Actually, that isn't a race condition at all. If would be an infinite loop. Of course, when the people start dying, you would have effectively inserted a "break" after step 3.
Of course, you might have been "pun"-ing on "race condition" with regard to peoples' hearts racing. In which case, I apologize.
I guess we just need to start up an Open Source TV station. It can be run/produced strictly by volunteers. Best of all, the programming is available in "source" form, so you can copy/redistribute/modify it without penalty.
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(we actually are just about the only country actually actively trying to influence peace in that region)
You're kidding right? Just about the only country trying to influence peace? What about Canada? WHat about Britain? The US's idea of influencing peace is to deal arms evenly around an area to make sure no one can uprise enough to take a big enough peace of the pie to be happy.
Oh yeah, and feel free to mod me down for trolling if you don't like my opinion. We can always use more heads in the sand.
The reason for the lockdown isn't to try and restrict people from screwing things up.
Although IT can be faced with lots of problems from people who screw up their systems by trying to use programs that aren't supported, there are other more political issues.
1) Productivity. I'm sure my company would love to stop people from VNCing, ICQing, MP3ing,/.ing etc.
2) Legality. Your company doesn't want you using pirated software, or software that the company may have some licenses for, but not enough for everyone and there mom to have Photoshop installed.
The desktop environment my company uses doesn't lock the registry down or anything, but periodically polls a server to see if all the installed software that is recognized, is accounted for. It apparently has the ability to uninstall software that isn't recognized, but they have (thankfully) not turned this "feature" on.
Maybe now people will have to put a little more effort into their hardware reviews now.
Everyone and their mom can do a review with Quake 3 and report claiming to know what they're talking about. Reviewers will now have to come up with their own benchmarking tools to convince end-users of the validity of their benchmarks.
Even though it is underhanded of ATI, it'll all work out in the end. Sort of a "can't fool all of the people all of the time."
Please release the specs and documentation associated with the products you've discontinued. For example, the Intel Pocket PC Camera [linux.com], along with your other webcams
This is actually a really good point. I've wondered myself why companies that no longer sell/support a product don't just open it up wide. THis goes for software as well as hardware specs. Is there really that much competitive IP tied up in a discontinued product that they can't let it out?
By releasing the specs of a hardware device, or publishing the source for a device driver or video game, are companies really going to be giving away that much? (Oh no! They'll see how wonderful our coding style guideline is!)
If people need to be sysadmins or recompile kernals to do music on Linux, it just won't happen.
OT perhaps, but I think this goes without saying for much, if not all of the things Linux aims to do as well, or better than Windows since the entry point still requires too large a learning curve.
Long, ambiguous to parse sentences are my friends.
For you 'merkins out there, as long as you own the copyright on the information you "hide" in pictures, wouldn't it be illegal for people to circumvent the protection you used to hide it (i.e. steganography etc)..
Unless of course they have a warrant, or the US government implements some more 1984 laws.
Yeah right - and in a similar light, the low cost and high quality of digital video cameras everywhere will have people producing free movies that rival Hollywood quality.
Gets me to thinking though. Is it a parallel scenario that game-designers seem to just wanna push the eye-candy envelope ignoring aspects of gameplay, as Hollywoord has abandoned thoughtful movies to cranking out dick-flicks, chic-flicks and teen/highschool/first-lay movies?
I wonder how well it will all hold together during the launch.
Half of the crap I build in lego falls apart when I bring it anywhere to show someone. I can't imaging making something that would withstand the rumbling/g-forces etc. of take-off.
There's only a few comments in here right now, but the sentiment seems to be:
"I'm speechless. THis sort of thing shouldn't happen. Give the guy his due credit. Now let's move on."
If it really *had* been done in Windows, and someone found out, I bet people here would be screaming for blood, waving the evil empire flag, and talking about how only an MS employee would do such a thing.
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Did anybody else find it strange that a child "growing up in Japan" played "cowboys and Indians?"
I'm all for choice, but it's obviously both a curse and a blessing. You can have any flavour you like, but that means that the mindshare about what flavour is worth using gets diluted.
Maybe people wouldn't be so confused/worried about switching to Linux if they didn't have to consider the distro wars.
People with a lot less technical knowledge already "refill" things.
Gas-Station monkeys refill propane tanks. People refill Zippo lighters. In fact, there are even Curling Irons that take butane paks for generating heat. If rednecks and women (excuse the generalization) can refil their tools, why can't geeks?
Actually, that isn't a race condition at all. If would be an infinite loop. Of course, when the people start dying, you would have effectively inserted a "break" after step 3.
Of course, you might have been "pun"-ing on "race condition" with regard to peoples' hearts racing. In which case, I apologize.
Far as I know:
Taiwan = Mandarin
Mainland China = Mandarin
HongKong = Cantonese
Toronto = Cantonese
I guess we just need to start up an Open Source TV station. It can be run/produced strictly by volunteers. Best of all, the programming is available in "source" form, so you can copy/redistribute/modify it without penalty.
You're kidding right? Just about the only country trying to influence peace? What about Canada? WHat about Britain? The US's idea of influencing peace is to deal arms evenly around an area to make sure no one can uprise enough to take a big enough peace of the pie to be happy.
Oh yeah, and feel free to mod me down for trolling if you don't like my opinion. We can always use more heads in the sand.
The reason for the lockdown isn't to try and restrict people from screwing things up.
/.ing etc.
Although IT can be faced with lots of problems from people who screw up their systems by trying to use programs that aren't supported, there are other more political issues.
1) Productivity. I'm sure my company would love to stop people from VNCing, ICQing, MP3ing,
2) Legality. Your company doesn't want you using pirated software, or software that the company may have some licenses for, but not enough for everyone and there mom to have Photoshop installed.
The desktop environment my company uses doesn't lock the registry down or anything, but periodically polls a server to see if all the installed software that is recognized, is accounted for. It apparently has the ability to uninstall software that isn't recognized, but they have (thankfully) not turned this "feature" on.
Maybe now people will have to put a little more effort into their hardware reviews now.
Everyone and their mom can do a review with Quake 3 and report claiming to know what they're talking about. Reviewers will now have to come up with their own benchmarking tools to convince end-users of the validity of their benchmarks.
Even though it is underhanded of ATI, it'll all work out in the end. Sort of a "can't fool all of the people all of the time."
Dear Intel,
Please release the specs and documentation associated with the products you've discontinued. For example, the Intel Pocket PC Camera [linux.com], along with your other webcams
This is actually a really good point. I've wondered myself why companies that no longer sell/support a product don't just open it up wide. THis goes for software as well as hardware specs. Is there really that much competitive IP tied up in a discontinued product that they can't let it out?
By releasing the specs of a hardware device, or publishing the source for a device driver or video game, are companies really going to be giving away that much? (Oh no! They'll see how wonderful our coding style guideline is!)
If people need to be sysadmins or recompile kernals to do music on Linux, it just won't happen.
OT perhaps, but I think this goes without saying for much, if not all of the things Linux aims to do as well, or better than Windows since the entry point still requires too large a learning curve.
Long, ambiguous to parse sentences are my friends.
I'm sure the steg detection site scraper was adhering to the web server "robot" policy.
_cough_
Unless of course they have a warrant, or the US government implements some more 1984 laws.
Yeah right - and in a similar light, the low cost and high quality of digital video cameras everywhere will have people producing free movies that rival Hollywood quality.
Gets me to thinking though. Is it a parallel scenario that game-designers seem to just wanna push the eye-candy envelope ignoring aspects of gameplay, as Hollywoord has abandoned thoughtful movies to cranking out dick-flicks, chic-flicks and teen/highschool/first-lay movies?
If so - god help us.
mod this up. If nothing else, Gates should be commended for bringing computers to the masses. Like it or lump it.
You can't get something for nothing - true.
How about this.
The water tank resides on the _top_ of the car. And you use the potential energy of the stored water to drive the electrolysis.
Heck, you then use the buoyant hydrogen bubbles to turn another turbine to power even more electrolysis!
Patent Pending.
(pending the invention of really tall cars)
I wonder how well it will all hold together during the launch.
Half of the crap I build in lego falls apart when I bring it anywhere to show someone. I can't imaging making something that would withstand the rumbling/g-forces etc. of take-off.
Even cooler (no pun intended) - does this get us any closer to phase-shift cloaking devices?
How ironic - your president is doing the same thing.
Surprising of course since Taco has of course thought of all the other great ideas ever imagined.
I thought MS != Innovation ?
Will you be allowed to bring these on planes?
There's only a few comments in here right now, but the sentiment seems to be:
"I'm speechless. THis sort of thing shouldn't happen. Give the guy his due credit. Now let's move on."
If it really *had* been done in Windows, and someone found out, I bet people here would be screaming for blood, waving the evil empire flag, and talking about how only an MS employee would do such a thing.
Crow is good for you.
They also use the (non) word "orientate" in their description.
I hate that almost as much as "that being said."
I must be half asleep still, I read that as
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