Personally, I like the ability to launch a text editor for 'small' documents without waiting for 300 DLLs to load, or a splash screen, or 50 million freakin options that I'll never have a use for.
I think what you're looking for is vim under linux. Unless you are addicted to point-n-click, in which case I will sipmly sympathize and move on...
Some would argue that linux was in a usable and stable state in the 1.2.x series. 2.0.x was really a milestone, although that series lagged on for quite a while (due to lackluster 2.1.x development).
You also have to realize that Linux actually means GNU/linux, and the gnu project really started around 1984. So you could argue that in 1994 linux 1.2.x + GNU operating system was the final product, the linux kernel being the last piece.
I was adressing CmdrTaco. yes, I know about the threshold variable. Why does CmdrTaco complaign about bitching and moaning on his own website? Maybe he's in a bitch'n'moan mood himself...
I think what you are saying is obvious. People should do their homework before making a hardware investment. Failure to do otherwise is your own damned fault.
I dont think this adresses CmdrTaco's piece however. CmdrTaco is complaining about users acting like idiots and destroying civility in our online community. He even complains about his own friggin site!! Well, I got one word for CmdrTaco and he might not like it
Censorship
Kur05hin has implemented censorship and a no-Anonymous-Coward policy. Guess what, it seems to be working.
CmdrTaco brought up the linuxusb web site. If linux-usb wants to have a corperate friendly exterior, then it should censor its talkback posts to only relevant posts. The best way to encourage trolls and flame-festers is to give them a soapbox in a very public place. I think it's time we learned to deal realisticly with our immaturity problem. 50% of web users are probably under 21 (that's my guess). Complaining about immaturity doesn't do shit to get it out of my face. It's time to face up to the facts and start censoring our public forums (where appropriate).
If someone has a better idea let me know. I'm not totally facist about this. I'm pretty open to any option that will work.
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Could someone please explain to me what Godel, Escher, Bach is all about? I've heard about it, but I would like to know what the theme or main point of it is. Thanks.
Assuming you run redhat, your distro comes with the public key. With Ximian it comes with red carpet. There is usually a file.rpm.sign file that contains the private key signature.
Yes it is. If you have a jvm that follows spec, and you have java code that follows spec, you have WORA. Sorry I dont see your nit picking as a valid criticism of java. I see it as a valid criticism of certain java implementations. Most noticablely microsofts.
Java is as "Write once, run anywhere" as perl,.doc, vb, delphi, etc.
i.e. IT REQUIRES SUPPORT FROM THE OS. I sure as hell can write a perl script that wont run on your computer just by using an obscure CPAN module. I can view.doc on any machine that supports the.doc format, assuming you didn't write it using asinine.doc features... I hope you're not trying to say java *isn't* write once, run anywhere, while C#/.NET *is*. That would be a farce. And besides there is no multiple C#/.NET to test this on.
Look Satan has hired the pope to do some work for him!! We should all throw our money at satan now because he has hired the pope! Maybe Satan isn't so bad after all!!! I'm really starting to love this satan guy.
The problem with your rationale is that go-gnome.org, from which the data is piped from, could be hijacked or otherwise tampered with. At least with RPM they are GPG (or pgp, not sure) signed by redhat themselves, (and by ximian through red carpet). Debian doesn't have this but I imagine it's in development.
Facts to be gleaned, piping a url with wget through to a root shell is stupid stupid stupid. But then again, this is the same security model of Windoes 9x and Windows XP-Home edition. Go figure.
Actually the doctrine of fair use goes against what you are saying. You do have the right to copy copyrighted materials for your own personal use, and for other purposes (as long as you didn't click on a click-through license *cough*). The courts have upheld these rights for over a century. Get with the times. Certainly you dont have the right to copy a cd to mp3 format and distribute arbitrary number of copies on the internet under current law - but everyone knows this.
Of course the UK is very backward in this respect.
Tony Blair, the fighter for the working man and the underclass, is selling his government lock, stock and barrel to Microsoft for some paltry campaign contributions. Fucking Tony Blair. You Brits have no clue. Demand Software Equality in government.
When software becomes ubiquitous, APIs become like laws. And it looks like Tony Blair wants Microsoft to write them. Oh but the labour party will get a few million! Maybe it's worth it! To the poor, moron underclass it might very well be. Serfs have been the tool of dictators for millenia. Looks like not much is changing.
I am all for personal liberties. I used to think the Republican party stood up for them (Thank god Scalia does!) but Im not so sure anymore. I never beleived the democratic party stood for such lofty goals. How could they? Their entire electorate are poor, slovenly morons (more or less). What do they care about copyright? If the big corperate media companies, that are so predictably liberal, give the DNC a few million, what do they have against writing their wishes into laws? It's irrelevant to them, because it has no demgodgic value either way, and the millions of bucks is sure nice to have.
Hopefully "developer of proprietary, mass-distributed software" will also be obsolete in a few decades. Certainly this bogus Subscription Model of distribution is gonna push that outcome, as will all the great Free software in existence.
You also have to realize that they dont have many competitors. Pixar, Sony, and that's about it (I think). So if they did release their tools they'd risk dilluting their market, not to mention that they probably have significant innovative techniques that their competitors dont have.
Hey, maybe you can help me. I've got a dual boot 333MHz machine running Win98 and Mandrake 8.0/Gnome 1.4 and StarOffice on both. The same machine runs most windows apps and browsing between 3-5 times faster than Linux
Dont run gnome 1.4. Maybe you dont realize this, but Gnome1.4 was designed for 800Mhz cpu with 256MB of ram. Recent versions have improved that slightly, but it's certainly not gonna run well at all on a 333Mhz cpu. I assume by 3x slower you mean launch times. If you've got Gnome1.4 taking up 90% of your ram, of course your start up times are gonna turn to shit. Lets face it, you haven't really researched the linux platform well, if you think your choice is optimal or appropriate. But that's ok.
Of course, when subscriptions happen you wont be able to pirate all your MS software. I think the first rule of drug dealing is: the first few times are always free. (beside the point and not relevant, but the second rule is probably: Always keep them waiting!! Ugh!).
I think it's fair to say that Open Office, more than any other piece of desktop free software, is pushing Linux/Free Software onto the corperate desktop. It's hard to beleive that the recent announcement from Ford Motor Company about its long term goal to move to completely Open Source desktop was motived by Gnome Office or KOffice. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if Ford had in mind Windowmaker + Open Office on old pentium 166 - 300 machines. It sure beats buying Pentium IV's to run the new-fangled XP suite of bloatware.
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Cool. Does most gtk software port over to windows easily? I know gimp is ported. Maybe we can subvert MS on their own operating system. Interesting.
- Personally, I like the ability to launch a text editor for 'small' documents without waiting for 300 DLLs to load, or a splash screen, or 50 million freakin options that I'll never have a use for.
I think what you're looking for is vim under linux. Unless you are addicted to point-n-click, in which case I will sipmly sympathize and move on...Some would argue that linux was in a usable and stable state in the 1.2.x series. 2.0.x was really a milestone, although that series lagged on for quite a while (due to lackluster 2.1.x development).
You also have to realize that Linux actually means GNU/linux, and the gnu project really started around 1984. So you could argue that in 1994 linux 1.2.x + GNU operating system was the final product, the linux kernel being the last piece.
I was adressing CmdrTaco. yes, I know about the threshold variable. Why does CmdrTaco complaign about bitching and moaning on his own website? Maybe he's in a bitch'n'moan mood himself...
I think what you are saying is obvious. People should do their homework before making a hardware investment. Failure to do otherwise is your own damned fault.
I dont think this adresses CmdrTaco's piece however. CmdrTaco is complaining about users acting like idiots and destroying civility in our online community. He even complains about his own friggin site!! Well, I got one word for CmdrTaco and he might not like it
Censorship
Kur05hin has implemented censorship and a no-Anonymous-Coward policy. Guess what, it seems to be working.
CmdrTaco brought up the linuxusb web site. If linux-usb wants to have a corperate friendly exterior, then it should censor its talkback posts to only relevant posts. The best way to encourage trolls and flame-festers is to give them a soapbox in a very public place. I think it's time we learned to deal realisticly with our immaturity problem. 50% of web users are probably under 21 (that's my guess). Complaining about immaturity doesn't do shit to get it out of my face. It's time to face up to the facts and start censoring our public forums (where appropriate).
If someone has a better idea let me know. I'm not totally facist about this. I'm pretty open to any option that will work.
Could someone please explain to me what Godel, Escher, Bach is all about? I've heard about it, but I would like to know what the theme or main point of it is. Thanks.
(hehehe)
The first step in boycotting Adobe should be to come up with a l33t humorous mangling of their trademarks.
adobe = adoobey
acrobat = acr0wfat
Illustrator = Illustrangler
You still haven't given a detailed example.
I'm waiting...
Assuming you run redhat, your distro comes with the public key. With Ximian it comes with red carpet. There is usually a file.rpm.sign file that contains the private key signature.
Yes it is. If you have a jvm that follows spec, and you have java code that follows spec, you have WORA. Sorry I dont see your nit picking as a valid criticism of java. I see it as a valid criticism of certain java implementations. Most noticablely microsofts.
Yes. That's why I said debian doesn't use pgp or GPG currently, whereas redhat and ximian do, with their official rpm's.
Java is as "Write once, run anywhere" as perl, .doc, vb, delphi, etc.
.doc on any machine that supports the .doc format, assuming you didn't write it using asinine .doc features... I hope you're not trying to say java *isn't* write once, run anywhere, while C#/.NET *is*. That would be a farce. And besides there is no multiple C#/.NET to test this on.
i.e. IT REQUIRES SUPPORT FROM THE OS. I sure as hell can write a perl script that wont run on your computer just by using an obscure CPAN module. I can view
Look Satan has hired the pope to do some work for him!! We should all throw our money at satan now because he has hired the pope! Maybe Satan isn't so bad after all!!! I'm really starting to love this satan guy.
(yes. I am being sarcastic)
The problem with your rationale is that go-gnome.org, from which the data is piped from, could be hijacked or otherwise tampered with. At least with RPM they are GPG (or pgp, not sure) signed by redhat themselves, (and by ximian through red carpet). Debian doesn't have this but I imagine it's in development.
Facts to be gleaned, piping a url with wget through to a root shell is stupid stupid stupid. But then again, this is the same security model of Windoes 9x and Windows XP-Home edition. Go figure.
Actually the doctrine of fair use goes against what you are saying. You do have the right to copy copyrighted materials for your own personal use, and for other purposes (as long as you didn't click on a click-through license *cough*). The courts have upheld these rights for over a century. Get with the times. Certainly you dont have the right to copy a cd to mp3 format and distribute arbitrary number of copies on the internet under current law - but everyone knows this.
Of course the UK is very backward in this respect.
Tony Blair, the fighter for the working man and the underclass, is selling his government lock, stock and barrel to Microsoft for some paltry campaign contributions. Fucking Tony Blair. You Brits have no clue. Demand Software Equality in government.
When software becomes ubiquitous, APIs become like laws. And it looks like Tony Blair wants Microsoft to write them. Oh but the labour party will get a few million! Maybe it's worth it! To the poor, moron underclass it might very well be. Serfs have been the tool of dictators for millenia. Looks like not much is changing.
Damn, stop scaring me.
I am all for personal liberties. I used to think the Republican party stood up for them (Thank god Scalia does!) but Im not so sure anymore. I never beleived the democratic party stood for such lofty goals. How could they? Their entire electorate are poor, slovenly morons (more or less). What do they care about copyright? If the big corperate media companies, that are so predictably liberal, give the DNC a few million, what do they have against writing their wishes into laws? It's irrelevant to them, because it has no demgodgic value either way, and the millions of bucks is sure nice to have.
Hopefully "developer of proprietary, mass-distributed software" will also be obsolete in a few decades. Certainly this bogus Subscription Model of distribution is gonna push that outcome, as will all the great Free software in existence.
Their competition already has tools.
You also have to realize that they dont have many competitors. Pixar, Sony, and that's about it (I think). So if they did release their tools they'd risk dilluting their market, not to mention that they probably have significant innovative techniques that their competitors dont have.
MP3's do suck, but the article didn't compare or contrast MP3's to other formats. It compared MP3-pro. Big difference.
That said, I haven't heard mp3 pro or wma, so I cant comment on the substance of the matter.
Yes. I have a link for you. Basicly, Ford says that it's a long term goal of theirs to move to an Open Source desktop.
Article on Ford's announcement.
- Hey, maybe you can help me. I've got a dual boot 333MHz machine running Win98 and Mandrake 8.0/Gnome 1.4 and StarOffice on both. The same machine runs most windows apps and browsing between 3-5 times faster than Linux
Dont run gnome 1.4. Maybe you dont realize this, but Gnome1.4 was designed for 800Mhz cpu with 256MB of ram. Recent versions have improved that slightly, but it's certainly not gonna run well at all on a 333Mhz cpu. I assume by 3x slower you mean launch times. If you've got Gnome1.4 taking up 90% of your ram, of course your start up times are gonna turn to shit. Lets face it, you haven't really researched the linux platform well, if you think your choice is optimal or appropriate. But that's ok.Of course, when subscriptions happen you wont be able to pirate all your MS software. I think the first rule of drug dealing is: the first few times are always free. (beside the point and not relevant, but the second rule is probably: Always keep them waiting!! Ugh!).
I think it's fair to say that Open Office, more than any other piece of desktop free software, is pushing Linux/Free Software onto the corperate desktop. It's hard to beleive that the recent announcement from Ford Motor Company about its long term goal to move to completely Open Source desktop was motived by Gnome Office or KOffice. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised if Ford had in mind Windowmaker + Open Office on old pentium 166 - 300 machines. It sure beats buying Pentium IV's to run the new-fangled XP suite of bloatware.
I'm sorry :) I know how it's spelled. I was typing fast. My left hand got ahead my right. I promise it wont happen again.