Dumbing down movies "for the Americans" is just a crock of shit. It's a crock of shit that "too smart for you" Hollywood types seem to, for the most part, sincerely believe in. It's not necessarily true. The Lord of The Rings movies by Peter Jackson did not recreate the books 100%, but did recreate a "faithful" version. It did pretty well in the box office last I heard. You can satisfy the geeks (the fans) and have your broad audience, too.
This is got to be the dumbest thing I've heard (read?). It's completely fine to run non-GPL stuff on top of a GPL OS; the GPL would pose no problems whatsoever. I mean think about, you can run Half-Life on Linux and Half-Life isn't GPLed.
This is of course considering you aren't trying to bind to a GPLed library -- that's a different story and one that shouldn't be necessary.
This should be flamebait... but I'll munch on it just a bit. The first amendment grants you freedom of speech and expression to the degree that it does not hurt and/or overstep the freedoms of another. I.e. slander. In theory, someone could accidentally come across content that goes against their views/religion/beliefs, when they have the right to have those views/religion/beliefs preserved.
Well, unless you know every single, goddamn patch to look up on Microsoft's site you'd HAVE to use IE to patch your system. And don't tell me to just go to SP2 and it'll be all good, because there's been even newer security patches. Oh, and as a single user, I don't have an IT department to cover me.
It's still a DDOS -- just not maybe in the technical sense. It's definitely ethically questionable. In this case it's something everything can hate, spam. Though, what if this leads to a "wild west" activism on the Internet.
What if a bunch of pro-lifers decide to "voluntarily" take down any site that is pro-choice (i.e. Planned Parenthood or even hospitals that perform them). Do we really want that?
Um... if they're developing Kylin to rid of foreign, invading OSes, wouldn't that include Linux? Of course, I can see them adopting Linux in the short run, but wanting to dump it ASAP. Even that is questionable. Although, Kylin kinda smells funny... like vapor... ware
This article is classic of how most people treat Linux. It doesn't seem like he's kept up with any of the advances or tries too hard. A lot of articles, especially the ones that get the most media coverage, are just like this. "Linux is hard," "I'm fine with Windows," "I don't want to read," Laziness and lack of brain usage...
As a new systems administrator over at a law firm and a real estate firm, I get some of the dumbest questions. For example, I recently asked one of the users what version of Windows they use and the response I got was "Microsoft Windows Office XP". So would you guess Windows XP? You'd be wrong; it was Windows 2000 with a copy of Office XP. I mean jeez... that information is available when the computer starts up... And Microsoft's glorious "integration" and "innovation" seems to effectively confuse people.
Maybe if people read the manual... oh wait... no one does! No one will! Any idiot can start to sort-of use Windows within minutes and that's exactly why they do! When it comes to computers a lot people are just dumb, lazy or both! We're talking successful lawyers here...
Granted, some of the smarter lawyers can pick up Linux without a problem. Some of the smarter college peers (ya, I'm a college kid) can pick up Linux quickly. For example, my girlfriend (complete non-techie) used Linux on my laptop just fine when I got rid of Windows (got it back for some games). Yet, Linux requires half a brain and some effort to use, but that's its problems. Most people try to use computers as a cludgeon. Some distro of Linux has to cater to the mass idiots, and I've yet to find one. I maybe fine with Debian, but most sure as hell aren't. I honestly believe that even an "idiot-fied" Linux would be better then Windows. That or change people's way of dealing with computers, which I imagine will be much harder. Hopefully, the new realease of SimplyMEPIS or Yoper will offer me some hope.
It's cheaper to launch nearer the equator (ideally, right on the equator) since the earth at the equator can provide an additional thrust for rockets, in addition to what bhmcintosh mentioned (Florida is a peninsula, etc.).
We don't need no vector graphics, what's wrong with bitmapped GUI's? Actually, there is (was?) an open source alternative to vector based graphics long before Microsoft thought up this feature. It was available as the Pico GUI project. I just recently browsed their site, so it may just be down or... dead -- in which case there's always Google's cache. It's also still on SourceForge and freshmeat. It was originally meant for handhelds, but was supposed to expand onto the desktop.
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Dumbing down movies "for the Americans" is just a crock of shit. It's a crock of shit that "too smart for you" Hollywood types seem to, for the most part, sincerely believe in. It's not necessarily true. The Lord of The Rings movies by Peter Jackson did not recreate the books 100%, but did recreate a "faithful" version. It did pretty well in the box office last I heard. You can satisfy the geeks (the fans) and have your broad audience, too.
This is got to be the dumbest thing I've heard (read?). It's completely fine to run non-GPL stuff on top of a GPL OS; the GPL would pose no problems whatsoever. I mean think about, you can run Half-Life on Linux and Half-Life isn't GPLed.
This is of course considering you aren't trying to bind to a GPLed library -- that's a different story and one that shouldn't be necessary.
This should be flamebait... but I'll munch on it just a bit. The first amendment grants you freedom of speech and expression to the degree that it does not hurt and/or overstep the freedoms of another. I.e. slander. In theory, someone could accidentally come across content that goes against their views/religion/beliefs, when they have the right to have those views/religion/beliefs preserved.
It's called a software firewall.
What if a bunch of pro-lifers decide to "voluntarily" take down any site that is pro-choice (i.e. Planned Parenthood or even hospitals that perform them). Do we really want that?
Um... if they're developing Kylin to rid of foreign, invading OSes, wouldn't that include Linux? Of course, I can see them adopting Linux in the short run, but wanting to dump it ASAP. Even that is questionable. Although, Kylin kinda smells funny... like vapor... ware
This article is classic of how most people treat Linux. It doesn't seem like he's kept up with any of the advances or tries too hard. A lot of articles, especially the ones that get the most media coverage, are just like this. "Linux is hard," "I'm fine with Windows," "I don't want to read," Laziness and lack of brain usage...
As a new systems administrator over at a law firm and a real estate firm, I get some of the dumbest questions. For example, I recently asked one of the users what version of Windows they use and the response I got was "Microsoft Windows Office XP". So would you guess Windows XP? You'd be wrong; it was Windows 2000 with a copy of Office XP. I mean jeez... that information is available when the computer starts up... And Microsoft's glorious "integration" and "innovation" seems to effectively confuse people.
Maybe if people read the manual... oh wait... no one does! No one will! Any idiot can start to sort-of use Windows within minutes and that's exactly why they do! When it comes to computers a lot people are just dumb, lazy or both! We're talking successful lawyers here...
Granted, some of the smarter lawyers can pick up Linux without a problem. Some of the smarter college peers (ya, I'm a college kid) can pick up Linux quickly. For example, my girlfriend (complete non-techie) used Linux on my laptop just fine when I got rid of Windows (got it back for some games). Yet, Linux requires half a brain and some effort to use, but that's its problems. Most people try to use computers as a cludgeon. Some distro of Linux has to cater to the mass idiots, and I've yet to find one. I maybe fine with Debian, but most sure as hell aren't. I honestly believe that even an "idiot-fied" Linux would be better then Windows. That or change people's way of dealing with computers, which I imagine will be much harder. Hopefully, the new realease of SimplyMEPIS or Yoper will offer me some hope.
It's cheaper to launch nearer the equator (ideally, right on the equator) since the earth at the equator can provide an additional thrust for rockets, in addition to what bhmcintosh mentioned (Florida is a peninsula, etc.).
We don't need no vector graphics, what's wrong with bitmapped GUI's?
Actually, there is (was?) an open source alternative to vector based graphics long before Microsoft thought up this feature. It was available as the Pico GUI project. I just recently browsed their site, so it may just be down or... dead -- in which case there's always Google's cache. It's also still on SourceForge and freshmeat. It was originally meant for handhelds, but was supposed to expand onto the desktop.