Although I fully support any effort Google puts into widespread usage of *nix systems, there are a couple organisations that are way ahead of you (and Google) when it comes to your three points: freedesktop.org has already been and continues to standardise the desktop frontends and backends so that your desktop environments will work great together and not even your typical Windows user would get confused by it. Then there is KDE who have made such huge advancements in your fancy-shmancy integration and synergy that I'd be more worried for Apple that they won't be the holder of the "fanciest desktop environment as perceived by the general public" award anymore. Of course, there is GNOME, and although it's become a very good desktop environment for beginners to computers or those who just want things to work, it does have many artificial limitations in how you can control it, so I recommend KDE to those who want any sort of control over their GUIs.
Just wanted to mention that your "mod parent up" post turned into something far more insightful than the parent, so congrats on breaking/. tradition!:P
Most X's in words like XForms, XHTML, XML, etc., all mean "eXtensible" or even a shortened term for "XML". Extendability is a Good Thing apparently, so we should embrace that. Besides, with the new onslaught of Java programmers and Sun's nice usage of XML in so many areas, I'm sure it'll catch on soon enough.
But copyright infringement is not a criminal offence; it's a civil offence. The FBI can sue you as well, but that still doesn't make it a criminal offence...
If they were public domain, then anyone could make digital versions of it and distribute it around. Digital copies can last forever if you're using an open standard (i.e. fully available specifications and whatnot), so that problem gets solved rather easily. Of course, Disney et al. could digitally restore their old stuff, charge for copies, but the actual content would be public domain. Just because something is public domain doesn't mean you can't charge for it.
Uh, Google shares are at about $400 (less than $0.50 stddev when I just checked) a piece; good luck getting pocket cash to buy that. I've got some stock money to spend, but I don't know if spending an asswad of money on GOOG is worth the investment right now (as opposed to its original publication).
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What kind of sysadmin are you!? Phase 5 is Unreal Tournament! Or Counter-Strike if you're feeling masochistic.
I dunno; GOOG's up about $32 since the last time I checked about a week or so ago. I think they're doing just fine. :)
Although I fully support any effort Google puts into widespread usage of *nix systems, there are a couple organisations that are way ahead of you (and Google) when it comes to your three points: freedesktop.org has already been and continues to standardise the desktop frontends and backends so that your desktop environments will work great together and not even your typical Windows user would get confused by it. Then there is KDE who have made such huge advancements in your fancy-shmancy integration and synergy that I'd be more worried for Apple that they won't be the holder of the "fanciest desktop environment as perceived by the general public" award anymore. Of course, there is GNOME, and although it's become a very good desktop environment for beginners to computers or those who just want things to work, it does have many artificial limitations in how you can control it, so I recommend KDE to those who want any sort of control over their GUIs.
He said he'd Fucking Kill® Google; get your facts straight. :P
Just wanted to mention that your "mod parent up" post turned into something far more insightful than the parent, so congrats on breaking /. tradition! :P
You could've just said that the "admin" group is basically who's in the sudoers file...
You mean boot into superuser and modify users from there? What a novel idea...
There are several replacements for WYSIWYG editors that work several orders of magnitude better.
By the way, Photoshop is good for actual real-life photo editting and manipulations; GIMP works just as well when dealing with almost anything else.
No respect for the most useful port, 22! Go SSH!
I also enjoy port 21 for non-secure FTP, but that's just me.
Most X's in words like XForms, XHTML, XML, etc., all mean "eXtensible" or even a shortened term for "XML". Extendability is a Good Thing apparently, so we should embrace that. Besides, with the new onslaught of Java programmers and Sun's nice usage of XML in so many areas, I'm sure it'll catch on soon enough.
Here's a good place to start. Firefox has full Gopher support.
I thought that was a given already...
Neither Linux nor Xorg are GPL3'd, so there's no worries there for the FUDders. Linux is GPL2 and Xorg goes under the old Xfree86 license.
If Spam Assassin was made by the Russian Mafia or something, that'd make sense...
But copyright infringement is not a criminal offence; it's a civil offence. The FBI can sue you as well, but that still doesn't make it a criminal offence...
If they were public domain, then anyone could make digital versions of it and distribute it around. Digital copies can last forever if you're using an open standard (i.e. fully available specifications and whatnot), so that problem gets solved rather easily. Of course, Disney et al. could digitally restore their old stuff, charge for copies, but the actual content would be public domain. Just because something is public domain doesn't mean you can't charge for it.
Uh, Google shares are at about $400 (less than $0.50 stddev when I just checked) a piece; good luck getting pocket cash to buy that. I've got some stock money to spend, but I don't know if spending an asswad of money on GOOG is worth the investment right now (as opposed to its original publication).
Xbox's CPU is an x86 architecture. Tell me that hasn't been around for at least 20 years...
Well, for now, we have corporate giants like IBM to protect Free software from over-zealous patent whores.
Can't forget that many of Linksys products are running on Free software (GPL). That's a plus (for security even)...
is: Third person singular present indicative of be.
From dictionary.com. Good enough definition...
be: To exist in actuality; have life or reality.
Catalytic hydrogenation to remove gas from x-ray tube cooling oil
:P
I don't know about you, but that looks to be something pretty neat to patent. I like the patent number they got, too.
Re:One of the mistakes found: (Score:1)
by GodGell (897123) Alter Relationship on Sun 22 Jan 12:43PM (#14533675)
I think Slashdot did an okay job there...
You do know that you spelled "sentence" wrong, right?