After months of hard work I finally bring Debian/Ubuntu/Xandros/[derivativus infinitum] users a computer program that will not only download the latest RoR development packages for you, it will also notify you of new versions when they become available later.
Moreso, all the packages I provide are registered in a special database so that should you choose to remove the below packages, you can do so with ease using a GUI button or the command line!
Please download the following code into your computer terminal and compile it by hitting ENTER (one-key compile for convenience).
Do you really want an America that tells the world to go rot?
Is this not part of the problem, the default assumption that the world would "go to rot" without America policing it? I'm sure some would argue their local ills are precisely because of America policing it, whether directly or indirectly. Should America also be policed, or doesn't it need it?
As for China being a threat, the U.S is so dependent on that nation now that it's a little bit late to consider it on such simplistic terms; America is one of China's biggest customers, not the other way around. America inadvertently funds Chinese economic growth with nearly every computer, calculator, fridge and pair of shoes purchased. Do you really think that communism is a real threat these days?
I suggest you read a good financial newspaper. Politics is changing - it's increasingly a function and a symptom of macroeconomic change: nations operate more and more as geo-strategic and administrative frameworks to compete for broader coroporate interest, many of which are multinational and many of which are deeply tied into local infrastructure. Seen in this light China has long since 'defeated' the U.S. Reagan has gone now and I suggest you let his wild fantasies die with him.
I would be surprised if China even needs to lift a rifle, let alone engage in imperial expansion to continue its rapid growth. Like it or not, Chinese production is so far up the supply chain of the West they don't need to be a 'super power'. They've 'beaten' us through our consumption habits and by offering production margins first world corporations simply can't ignore.
These days, the biggest threat is not from invasion and occupation, but from global guerilla warfare, also known as terrorism. The weapons we spend all our money on - submarines, fighter jets and all that high tech robotic crap - is almost useless against all that.
Worse, the sheer expenditure on 'defense' in America indirectly encourages the terrorist response. The more the U.S exerts geo-strategic authority over foreign nations, the more "our guns are bigger than yours" fear propagating down-wind, the more terrorism the U.S will see. The more trade embargos, the more military bases, the more punitive measures to reduce nuclear and/or military power elsewhere but not on the home front, the more furtive and rigorous the resistance against the U.S.
Fighting terrorism directly is pouring water on burning oil. The victim of terrorism is - generally speaking - intended to be politically and/or emotionally linked to what the terrorist sees as the source of their troubles. That's the cause, the 'message' of terrorism.
I sincerely doubt any terrorist wants to "kill everyone", leave that for depressed teenagers. Terrorists usually want more power, a return to prior power, the end of an occupation or freedom of movement in a 'free market' (an end to trade embargos). In the case of anti-US terrorism, they probably feel they are fighting a gigantic geo-strategic and economic machine that has historically exerted power over them, so reducing their options in many areas. The U.S is the target of so much terrorism because it plays nastily and such with a hard-hand abroad. So, terrorists play very unfairly back, resorting to all sorts of horrific and unquestionably sickening measures in turn.
To think that terrorists are just some rabid suicidal maniacs that fantasise about putting holes in the buildings and people to "exert terror" for the fun or fear of it is a grave misunderstanding I think. Blame your current Government for designing that misunderstanding.Terrorists seem to believe they are messengers, speaking for desperate people in extremely harsh situations elsewhere. Only a terrible mess, bleak maldistributions of power, will produce these animal responses. No, I don't think terrorism is a valid 'reponse' in any case at all. History tells that many do however.
A sorry fact, for much of the world America is perhaps the scariest, least trusted country on Earth. Many countries are shit-scared and/or angry with America and they don't like that feeling. Few Americans have the slightest idea what their Government gets upto abroad. Until America learns to back-off and stop being so economically and geo-strategically aggressive, it will sadly continue to experience hard times on the home front.
Americans can change that with their vote - if it still counts.
Unfortunately it is and always will be Microsoft leading the way, Mono & Co lagging behind. Nothing will change that.
Of course "Mono & Co" will always be lagging behind.. What, you expect the re-implementation to come before the original? Regardless, is a lag of 21 days really a dealbreaker here? You didn't buy Vista the day it was released did you? Lighten up on the blanket defeatism, sheesh. It's not War and Peace.
As a desktop Linux user of many years, I couldn't care if Satan himself made an open-source, open-standards competitor to Flash(ism): I'd gladly use it and encourage it's distribution.
I agree, this matter of the X server crashing is long due for a fix: the next version of Ubuntu is shipping with the so-called 'Unbreakable X' which proports to do away with this woe entirely.
Alternatively of course you could just buy your next machine with Ubuntu pre-installed - perhaps that would make for a fairer comparison against other OS's where user-friendliness is concerned.
In order to complete a degree in graphic design, engineering, game development or architecture (for instance) you are commonly expected to do homework (at home) using expensive proprietary software. Even at educational discounts (if you're lucky enough to have them) the costs are simply absurd on the average student budget: far outweighing that of books and in some cases the annual course fees themselves. An 'Interactive Media' degree at a university I teach at has students developing accredited projects in Lightwave, 3DSMax, Director, Flash, Final Cut Pro, Maya, Rhino, Illustrator and Photoshop, MaxMSP - to name just a few - in the first two years of study. That's a bus-load of money supposedly going from student to software vendor.
The argument that the industry in which the student expects to work is itself dependent on this proprietary software - and that students must study such proprietary tools to be employable - is beside the point: it dos not absolve the given educational institution of responsibility in this case. It's an unwritten rule, a nudge and a wink from teacher to student that to learn a given software it is the student's responsibility to aquire it at any cost.
No links forthcoming to back up the claim that "Linux isn't taking more ground"?
Frankly the statistics vary greatly. IDC said in 2004 that Linux market share exceeded that of OS/X. Other research focusses on hit counts to their sites and generate statistics as vaired as the content and readership demographic. We can conclude that Linux seems very popular amongst webdevelopers. Independent statisticians place Linux and OS/X at about the same on the desktop while IDC's own competitor says Linux sales are at less than 1% of other operating systems.
Given 'market share' is often mistaken for actual install base (very few home users pay for Linux) a more reliable means of counting is perhaps provided by reading package repository server logs. ">Here's one case of that in action regarding a distribution very popular amongst this so called 'average user'.
It's tricky without the benefit of more probabistically centric records like those of Google's Zeitgeist anymore.
This is exactly the reason Linux isn't taking more ground.
How do you know it's not? Because you don't see advertisements for Linux in the subway? Where are the graphs representing stasis? Did you hear that from someone else and decide to believe it or did you decide to believe it because you couldn't find information to prove otherwise?
And the fact that if you want to use any programs on linux you usually have to compile the source yourself.
Eh?
Very few would compile software today unless they're a developer or an enthusiastic user following the bleeding edge. Modern package management really works. There are 16000 packages in an Ubuntu/Debian distribution. Is all that software just there for archiving purposes? Some 8 million Ubuntu users can't be wrong. Shuttleworth got those stats from individual machines downloading binaries from the Ubuntu repositories. I mention Ubuntu as it is being used by 'average users'. At the time of that interview there were 6 million XBOX 360 users - just to put it in perspective. Linux is doing just fine.
And the fact that there are no human interface designers working on the linux project.
Again comes a vacuous bellow from under the bridge. There are many people focussed on usability some of which are trained user interface designers.
I think it'd be a neat idea if you tried Linux one day.
more than a little bit skeptical of the plaintiff's motives
Eh? Why does anyone sue? To hurt the defendant's feelings? Would the plaintiffs be happy if the Judge said "fair enough" and somehow awarded them MBP's with better screens? Of course not.
Suing is an entrepreneurs game. It has nothing to do with fairness or seeking 'justice'; it's a legally endorsed playground for funny money using rhetoric, blackmail, stock-bruising and good old-fashioned acting to turn over a cool sum in a hurry. You 'build' a case, attract media attention to make the defendant hurt and sell it in court. The jury might as well be potential investors.
The fact that the MBP screens may be a bit shabby compared to some other portables is completely beside the point. I doubt the plaintiffs even care.
What's the difference between including it in the base installation, and installing it automatically when the user clicks on a file?
The difference is that 1 click. User intervention is the point at which the responsibility can be shifted from the distributer to user. At the point of clicking she/he is making a choice - supposedly educated - to use software considered illegal and/or patent encumbered in some countries (largely America).
If it was fully automated - eg the moment you install Ubuntu it sucked down the codecs and installs them without you knowing it - that would put Ubuntu it in very different legal standing and they might as well be breaking the law and just shipping those codecs with the CD ISO. It may seem semantic but there is quite a gulf between both methods, at least where the law is concerned.
In Ubuntu 7.04 you just have to click on an MP3, AVI etc and a popup will ask you if you to let the system automatically download and install the appropriate codecs. Once installed, a media player associated with that mime will appear and play the given file.
With this being so streamlined I don't see why they should ship with $POPULAR_CODEC_OF_THE_DAY. While AFAIK Windows machines can play MP3's OOTB, DIVX codecs (for instance) don't ship with Windows on Dell. Why should it with their Linux offering?
I'm a Linux user of many years and can answer that question as easily as you can.
Unsettling as it may sound, there is obviously not (yet) enough demand. It is not their job to push an OS onto people. They are not in the business of creating new markets; they are meeting popular demand. Of course they are feeding the status quo - Linux is beside their point.
participants noted a growing similarity in methods between open source and proprietary software development.
Considering the point at which the given software is released is necessary when comparing both software development approaches.
It isn't rare for an Open Source project to be entirely developed behind closed doors before its first appearance on the 'market'. This approach is typical of larger companies, like RH and IBM (which can afford an extensive internal testing roadmap) and doesn't at all imply that the software is closed source in itself.
Once finished such software is released under an open license after which point it is continued to be developed in collaboration with the community; particularly in areas relating to bug-squashing and building interoperability with applications not considered important at the time it went to market.
Is the development of such software then considered 'open' or 'closed'? I think it's hard to generalise.
yeah, no MIDI editor = useless for me and almost every musician I know.
Then why not use a MIDI Editor instead? Saying Ardour itself is useless because it doesn't have a MIDI editor is silly. Many people find Ardour extremely useful precisely for the reason it does what it says it good at, very well. It records digital audio, provides multiple means to to arrange it in tracks, provides an effects chain for manipulating how tracks or portions of these tracks sound and produce a single mastered track as a result.
MIDI is a messaging protocol, originally designed to provide an interface between hardware and digits, used for the triggering of events, some of which may or may not result in audible sounds, some of which - in turn - may be generated live or be samples on disk.
Saying Ardour is completely useless because it doesn't have a MIDI editor is like complaining about your love life being miserable after chosing to marry a crustacean. You people are weird.
Right, so having no MIDI editor makes it - in your own words - "useless for anything but the most basic recording".
Many people like to use a DAW to record, arrange, mix and produce music. Protools didn't have a MIDI editor yet for years it was an industry standard. What do you use a DAW for exactly? MIDI arrangement? Seems like an odd dealbreaker to me.
I note that even more popular than Ardour 2 on linux is Ardour 2 on Mac OSX.
Eh? Ardour has only just been ported to the Mac. Many people have been running Ardour on Linux for years.
Regardless, I wouldn't want to run a DAW used for production on an Aqua, Gnome or KDE desktop environment. The ideal is a low-latency Linux kernel, an RME Hammerfall and a light WM/DE like Fluxbox or XFCE - that's before we start talking about the metal (fast IDE transfer, RAM and PCI (or firewire) bus speeds).
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After months of hard work I finally bring Debian/Ubuntu/Xandros/[derivativus infinitum] users a computer program that will not only download the latest RoR development packages for you, it will also notify you of new versions when they become available later.
Moreso, all the packages I provide are registered in a special database so that should you choose to remove the below packages, you can do so with ease using a GUI button or the command line!
Please download the following code into your computer terminal and compile it by hitting ENTER (one-key compile for convenience).
sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get install rails ruby rubygems libruby1.8-extras mysql libncurses-ruby openssl libzlib-ruby
The above program is licensed under the "Why Make It Harder Than It Needs 2B License". Please use this link to make a donation to my project.
As for China being a threat, the U.S is so dependent on that nation now that it's a little bit late to consider it on such simplistic terms; America is one of China's biggest customers, not the other way around. America inadvertently funds Chinese economic growth with nearly every computer, calculator, fridge and pair of shoes purchased. Do you really think that communism is a real threat these days?
I suggest you read a good financial newspaper. Politics is changing - it's increasingly a function and a symptom of macroeconomic change: nations operate more and more as geo-strategic and administrative frameworks to compete for broader coroporate interest, many of which are multinational and many of which are deeply tied into local infrastructure. Seen in this light China has long since 'defeated' the U.S. Reagan has gone now and I suggest you let his wild fantasies die with him.
I would be surprised if China even needs to lift a rifle, let alone engage in imperial expansion to continue its rapid growth. Like it or not, Chinese production is so far up the supply chain of the West they don't need to be a 'super power'. They've 'beaten' us through our consumption habits and by offering production margins first world corporations simply can't ignore.
Fighting terrorism directly is pouring water on burning oil. The victim of terrorism is - generally speaking - intended to be politically and/or emotionally linked to what the terrorist sees as the source of their troubles. That's the cause, the 'message' of terrorism.
I sincerely doubt any terrorist wants to "kill everyone", leave that for depressed teenagers. Terrorists usually want more power, a return to prior power, the end of an occupation or freedom of movement in a 'free market' (an end to trade embargos). In the case of anti-US terrorism, they probably feel they are fighting a gigantic geo-strategic and economic machine that has historically exerted power over them, so reducing their options in many areas. The U.S is the target of so much terrorism because it plays nastily and such with a hard-hand abroad. So, terrorists play very unfairly back, resorting to all sorts of horrific and unquestionably sickening measures in turn.
To think that terrorists are just some rabid suicidal maniacs that fantasise about putting holes in the buildings and people to "exert terror" for the fun or fear of it is a grave misunderstanding I think. Blame your current Government for designing that misunderstanding.Terrorists seem to believe they are messengers, speaking for desperate people in extremely harsh situations elsewhere. Only a terrible mess, bleak maldistributions of power, will produce these animal responses. No, I don't think terrorism is a valid 'reponse' in any case at all. History tells that many do however.
A sorry fact, for much of the world America is perhaps the scariest, least trusted country on Earth. Many countries are shit-scared and/or angry with America and they don't like that feeling. Few Americans have the slightest idea what their Government gets upto abroad. Until America learns to back-off and stop being so economically and geo-strategically aggressive, it will sadly continue to experience hard times on the home front.
Americans can change that with their vote - if it still counts.
Even better!
Keep up the fine work.
As a desktop Linux user of many years, I couldn't care if Satan himself made an open-source, open-standards competitor to Flash(ism): I'd gladly use it and encourage it's distribution.
Congrats to Miguel & Co.
I agree, this matter of the X server crashing is long due for a fix: the next version of Ubuntu is shipping with the so-called 'Unbreakable X' which proports to do away with this woe entirely.
Alternatively of course you could just buy your next machine with Ubuntu pre-installed - perhaps that would make for a fairer comparison against other OS's where user-friendliness is concerned.
..and the new Intel Macs were supposed to be four-to-seven times faster than a 1.7GHz PPC and have 4 hours battery life.
I think I might just wait for the first few 100k sales before I look at the next 'comparison chart' from Apple Corp..
In order to complete a degree in graphic design, engineering, game development or architecture (for instance) you are commonly expected to do homework (at home) using expensive proprietary software. Even at educational discounts (if you're lucky enough to have them) the costs are simply absurd on the average student budget: far outweighing that of books and in some cases the annual course fees themselves. An 'Interactive Media' degree at a university I teach at has students developing accredited projects in Lightwave, 3DSMax, Director, Flash, Final Cut Pro, Maya, Rhino, Illustrator and Photoshop, MaxMSP - to name just a few - in the first two years of study. That's a bus-load of money supposedly going from student to software vendor.
The argument that the industry in which the student expects to work is itself dependent on this proprietary software - and that students must study such proprietary tools to be employable - is beside the point: it dos not absolve the given educational institution of responsibility in this case. It's an unwritten rule, a nudge and a wink from teacher to student that to learn a given software it is the student's responsibility to aquire it at any cost.
Oops, here's that broken link (Shuttleworth talking about how he found Ubuntu had some 8 million users by collating repository logs).
No links forthcoming to back up the claim that "Linux isn't taking more ground"?
Frankly the statistics vary greatly. IDC said in 2004 that Linux market share exceeded that of OS/X. Other research focusses on hit counts to their sites and generate statistics as vaired as the content and readership demographic. We can conclude that Linux seems very popular amongst web developers. Independent statisticians place Linux and OS/X at about the same on the desktop while IDC's own competitor says Linux sales are at less than 1% of other operating systems.
Given 'market share' is often mistaken for actual install base (very few home users pay for Linux) a more reliable means of counting is perhaps provided by reading package repository server logs. ">Here's one case of that in action regarding a distribution very popular amongst this so called 'average user'.
It's tricky without the benefit of more probabistically centric records like those of Google's Zeitgeist anymore.
No one said they're evil. Where did you read that bit?
Also worth asking where does this "confiscation of said profits" go? Who gets it again? Cool, now you get it.
A link or two would be nice.
Very few would compile software today unless they're a developer or an enthusiastic user following the bleeding edge. Modern package management really works. There are 16000 packages in an Ubuntu/Debian distribution. Is all that software just there for archiving purposes? Some 8 million Ubuntu users can't be wrong. Shuttleworth got those stats from individual machines downloading binaries from the Ubuntu repositories. I mention Ubuntu as it is being used by 'average users'. At the time of that interview there were 6 million XBOX 360 users - just to put it in perspective. Linux is doing just fine.
Again comes a vacuous bellow from under the bridge. There are many people focussed on usability some of which are trained user interface designers.
I think it'd be a neat idea if you tried Linux one day.
Suing is an entrepreneurs game. It has nothing to do with fairness or seeking 'justice'; it's a legally endorsed playground for funny money using rhetoric, blackmail, stock-bruising and good old-fashioned acting to turn over a cool sum in a hurry. You 'build' a case, attract media attention to make the defendant hurt and sell it in court. The jury might as well be potential investors.
The fact that the MBP screens may be a bit shabby compared to some other portables is completely beside the point. I doubt the plaintiffs even care.
If it was fully automated - eg the moment you install Ubuntu it sucked down the codecs and installs them without you knowing it - that would put Ubuntu it in very different legal standing and they might as well be breaking the law and just shipping those codecs with the CD ISO. It may seem semantic but there is quite a gulf between both methods, at least where the law is concerned.
In Ubuntu 7.04 you just have to click on an MP3, AVI etc and a popup will ask you if you to let the system automatically download and install the appropriate codecs. Once installed, a media player associated with that mime will appear and play the given file.
With this being so streamlined I don't see why they should ship with $POPULAR_CODEC_OF_THE_DAY. While AFAIK Windows machines can play MP3's OOTB, DIVX codecs (for instance) don't ship with Windows on Dell. Why should it with their Linux offering?
I'm a Linux user of many years and can answer that question as easily as you can.
Unsettling as it may sound, there is obviously not (yet) enough demand. It is not their job to push an OS onto people. They are not in the business of creating new markets; they are meeting popular demand. Of course they are feeding the status quo - Linux is beside their point.
Thankyou, your file has been updated.
It isn't rare for an Open Source project to be entirely developed behind closed doors before its first appearance on the 'market'. This approach is typical of larger companies, like RH and IBM (which can afford an extensive internal testing roadmap) and doesn't at all imply that the software is closed source in itself.
Once finished such software is released under an open license after which point it is continued to be developed in collaboration with the community; particularly in areas relating to bug-squashing and building interoperability with applications not considered important at the time it went to market.
Is the development of such software then considered 'open' or 'closed'? I think it's hard to generalise.
"Class of 2005":
Carla, Brian and Phil: IP Lawyers
Dental surgeons 'Be' and 'Mole'
'Tone-toke': Astrophysicist
Messy Mel: Brain surgeon
'Liz': Senator
Wufus: Neurologist
Lighten up Millersville, sheesh
MIDI is a messaging protocol, originally designed to provide an interface between hardware and digits, used for the triggering of events, some of which may or may not result in audible sounds, some of which - in turn - may be generated live or be samples on disk.
Saying Ardour is completely useless because it doesn't have a MIDI editor is like complaining about your love life being miserable after chosing to marry a crustacean. You people are weird.
Right, so having no MIDI editor makes it - in your own words - "useless for anything but the most basic recording".
Many people like to use a DAW to record, arrange, mix and produce music. Protools didn't have a MIDI editor yet for years it was an industry standard. What do you use a DAW for exactly? MIDI arrangement? Seems like an odd dealbreaker to me.
Regardless, I wouldn't want to run a DAW used for production on an Aqua, Gnome or KDE desktop environment. The ideal is a low-latency Linux kernel, an RME Hammerfall and a light WM/DE like Fluxbox or XFCE - that's before we start talking about the metal (fast IDE transfer, RAM and PCI (or firewire) bus speeds).
While Ubuntu Studio looks super, I think these guys have the right idea.