WTF? talk about egomania... it's just an OS, nothing more and nothing less. you boot it, and run APPLICATIONS on it. it only manages/provides your computer's resources for your applications to use. the only reason that vista has ridiculous system requirements is to sustain itself.
A while back I was invited to a FLOSS convention in an Arab country where RMS was a speaker. So he shows up, as usual, wearing his red shirt with sandals ( he was even bare foot at one point as I recall). So he does the usual speech, what freedoms the GPL guarantees, why patents are bad, and bashes Microsoft along the way.
He finishes and we all leave. On the way out I overhear two people speaking to each other, from the looks of it one is a big shot political personality, probably a minister, and his secretary. The minister was wearing a suit that probably costs more than the income of a couple of families for a whole year in that country. The conversation goes like this:
Minister: So who's this guy again? Secretary: Sir "Seedy in Arabic", this is the American guy that made the company called "Lie-nooks" and he is challenging Microsoft. Minister: Hmmm, well from the looks of it he's not doing so well...
I just chuckled and moved along. Thing is even the LUG members over there, who had a speech to give, were all wearing suits which is sensible since it was a highly government sponsored event and they didn't want to look like a bunch of slackers.
The sad part is that the minister would have been more convinced if RMS was wearing a suit, I can't even imagine RMS in a suit, and looking like a marketting puppet from a mega-corporation from the states.
ADSL is pretty much popular in Amman (the capital of Jordan), although the 1024k is expensive so most people stick to 128k:( here's a price list from wanadoo http://www.wanadoo.jo/globalADSL.php keep in mind that the overall income of Jordanians is low compared to western countries.
Fact check, bozo:
Neither Afghanistan nor Pakistan are Arab countries, they are not even in the Middle East, so what the hell does your comment have to do with anything? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_world
or which laptop runs linux better? i'm not kidding. what i have noticed that centrino laptops have a much better support of linux than amd laptops. and that would definetly put amd in a bad position, for me at least.
when you get a centrino laptop you get the intel wifi card, which is pretty much supported. you also get an intel video card, which AFAIK runs 3d with open source drivers (can someone confirm this?).
on the other hand you've got an amd laptop with different brands of wifi cards, which range between having totally open source drivers or shitty proprietory like broadcom (you gotta use ndiswrapper). and you're stuck with either nvidia/ati/sis video card which aren't open source friendly.
i am currently in the market for a laptop. i do believe that as an architecture/performance/price amd64 is better, however i'd be stuck with a pain in the ass laptop to configure to run linux. i'd rather pay more money for a fully functioning laptop than having to rely on ndiswrapper and buggy closed sourced video drivers.
running knoppix on a centrino laptop of a friend successfully configured everything, even chromium ran without a hitch (thats why i assumed 3d worked with open source drivers). which was cool showing off to the guy that everything worked without the hassle of installing drivers
i'll be getting an acer centrino laptop, BECAUSE IT COMES WITH LINUX NOT WINDOWS XP. fyi acer in the middle east have been bundling linux with pcs, a distro called linpus (kinky name), for a while now. although i'm pretty sure that 99.9999999% of the population reinstall a pirated xp:-(
black people just recently got their freedom, NOT!
that's ironic coming from a country that sells itself as having "freedom loving, everyone is equal" philosophy!
maybe Colin Powel and Condi Rice should set their oppressed people free before invading other sovereign country, and proclaiming that other countries aren't as free as the good old Soviet America!
since nobody mentioned this yet...
i'm thinking of getting a new cell phone, i have an old siemens c45 which served me great for the last 3 years, since i did like the siemens brand (i got used to it) i had a look at their latest offerings.
i found the siemens cx70 to be a good replacement, being thorough i downloaded the manual, and skimmed the contents until i got to a part which says DRM! apparently it has a DRM chip in, which might not allow you to share melodies/pictures/java apps. this is annoying! i didn't know that they already have these chips everywhere these days!
i got pissed off and started to google around, apparently most new phones (if not all) have these chips inside. so basically i'm paying for this chip to be a cop inside my phone that can deny my of some things...
what could this mean? i am a programmer, so if i decide to program on java midp there's a chance that my phone will refuse to run it!?
i'm all aware that there are business/people who make money/living out of this (four billion dollars, WOW) but what's next? your microwave oven will bitch if use a non licenesed brand of food! or maybe they can put them in PCs so that only authorized software runs... oh wait, that already exists http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html
so now i'm seriously considering just changing the battery & cover of my OLD non-DRM cell phone! am i right, or am i being just paranoid?
here's the an excerpt from the manual:
well i just tried to copy that part, aparently even the pdf is protected! why the hell would you do that for? here's the manual http://communications.siemens.com/cds/frontdoor/0, 2241,hq_en_0_63510_rArNrNrNrN_variation%253A-5_pag eType%253Amanuals_imagePos%253A0,00.html#content
doesn't that mean that any gps device manufacturer would have to pay licene fee to M$?
damn... i should hurry up and patent the cartesian coordinates before it's too late! don't worry i'll open up the patent for OSS;-)
... or the proper sanctioning of the mouthpiece of an oppressive regime?
that would be the American oppressive regime, right?
talking about mouthpieces, shouldn't FOX news be taken down as well?
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Don't Tase Me, Bro!
Oops, I meant in Europe Pepsi mutates you!
I guess no one cares! RIP...
when you squeeze Win2000 users? Blood?
An Iraqi man was denied the right to board an airplane because he was wearing a t-shirt with the words "We Will Not Be Silent." http://raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com/2006/08/back-f rom-mideast.html
They try it out on you, same position, same participants. If you scream in agony, your fucked! If you scream in pleasure, then you fucked as well :)
WTF? talk about egomania... it's just an OS, nothing more and nothing less. you boot it, and run APPLICATIONS on it. it only manages/provides your computer's resources for your applications to use.
the only reason that vista has ridiculous system requirements is to sustain itself.
"Something that was almost a chicken"
howcome this phrase reminds me of KFC?
iptables -A OUTPUT -d google.com -j DROP
A while back I was invited to a FLOSS convention in an Arab country where RMS was a speaker. So he shows up, as usual, wearing his red shirt with sandals ( he was even bare foot at one point as I recall). So he does the usual speech, what freedoms the GPL guarantees, why patents are bad, and bashes Microsoft along the way.
He finishes and we all leave. On the way out I overhear two people speaking to each other, from the looks of it one is a big shot political personality, probably a minister, and his secretary. The minister was wearing a suit that probably costs more than the income of a couple of families for a whole year in that country. The conversation goes like this:
Minister: So who's this guy again?
Secretary: Sir "Seedy in Arabic", this is the American guy that made the company called "Lie-nooks" and he is challenging Microsoft.
Minister: Hmmm, well from the looks of it he's not doing so well...
I just chuckled and moved along. Thing is even the LUG members over there, who had a speech to give, were all wearing suits which is sensible since it was a highly government sponsored event and they didn't want to look like a bunch of slackers.
The sad part is that the minister would have been more convinced if RMS was wearing a suit, I can't even imagine RMS in a suit, and looking like a marketting puppet from a mega-corporation from the states.
ADSL is pretty much popular in Amman (the capital of Jordan), although the 1024k is expensive so most people stick to 128k :( here's a price list from wanadoo http://www.wanadoo.jo/globalADSL.php
keep in mind that the overall income of Jordanians is low compared to western countries.
Fact check, bozo: Neither Afghanistan nor Pakistan are Arab countries, they are not even in the Middle East, so what the hell does your comment have to do with anything?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_world
or which laptop runs linux better? i'm not kidding. what i have noticed that centrino laptops have a much better support of linux than amd laptops. and that would definetly put amd in a bad position, for me at least.
:-(
when you get a centrino laptop you get the intel wifi card, which is pretty much supported. you also get an intel video card, which AFAIK runs 3d with open source drivers (can someone confirm this?).
on the other hand you've got an amd laptop with different brands of wifi cards, which range between having totally open source drivers or shitty proprietory like broadcom (you gotta use ndiswrapper). and you're stuck with either nvidia/ati/sis video card which aren't open source friendly.
i am currently in the market for a laptop. i do believe that as an architecture/performance/price amd64 is better, however i'd be stuck with a pain in the ass laptop to configure to run linux. i'd rather pay more money for a fully functioning laptop than having to rely on ndiswrapper and buggy closed sourced video drivers.
running knoppix on a centrino laptop of a friend successfully configured everything, even chromium ran without a hitch (thats why i assumed 3d worked with open source drivers). which was cool showing off to the guy that everything worked without the hassle of installing drivers
i'll be getting an acer centrino laptop, BECAUSE IT COMES WITH LINUX NOT WINDOWS XP. fyi acer in the middle east have been bundling linux with pcs, a distro called linpus (kinky name), for a while now. although i'm pretty sure that 99.9999999% of the population reinstall a pirated xp
black people just recently got their freedom, NOT!
that's ironic coming from a country that sells itself as having "freedom loving, everyone is equal" philosophy!
maybe Colin Powel and Condi Rice should set their oppressed people free before invading other sovereign country, and proclaiming that other countries aren't as free as the good old Soviet America!
windows?
you thought i was gonna say linux, heheh! no seriously, could this run windows?
btw, did anyone notice that the official site http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/ doesn't even show the official intel logo, weird!?
Nabaztag means rabbit in Armenian
now that we have open source bacteria, i guess ballmer was right when he said "linux is a cancer..."
but does it run Windows?
Like we didn't know that already!t ml
http://www.squarefree.com/pornzilla/why-firefox.h
who gave linus the mac for free? could it be the dark side of the force? ;-)
if you can't beat them, bribe them to join you!? just kidding
since nobody mentioned this yet..., 2241,hq_en_0_63510_rArNrNrNrN_variation%253A-5_pag eType%253Amanuals_imagePos%253A0,00.html#content
i'm thinking of getting a new cell phone, i have an old siemens c45 which served me great for the last 3 years, since i did like the siemens brand (i got used to it) i had a look at their latest offerings.
i found the siemens cx70 to be a good replacement, being thorough i downloaded the manual, and skimmed the contents until i got to a part which says DRM! apparently it has a DRM chip in, which might not allow you to share melodies/pictures/java apps. this is annoying! i didn't know that they already have these chips everywhere these days!
i got pissed off and started to google around, apparently most new phones (if not all) have these chips inside. so basically i'm paying for this chip to be a cop inside my phone that can deny my of some things...
what could this mean? i am a programmer, so if i decide to program on java midp there's a chance that my phone will refuse to run it!?
i'm all aware that there are business/people who make money/living out of this (four billion dollars, WOW) but what's next? your microwave oven will bitch if use a non licenesed brand of food! or maybe they can put them in PCs so that only authorized software runs... oh wait, that already exists http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html
so now i'm seriously considering just changing the battery & cover of my OLD non-DRM cell phone! am i right, or am i being just paranoid?
here's the an excerpt from the manual:
well i just tried to copy that part, aparently even the pdf is protected! why the hell would you do that for? here's the manual http://communications.siemens.com/cds/frontdoor/0
Glad I am running windows95! oh, wait...
doesn't that mean that any gps device manufacturer would have to pay licene fee to M$? damn... i should hurry up and patent the cartesian coordinates before it's too late! don't worry i'll open up the patent for OSS ;-)
goatse?
... or the proper sanctioning of the mouthpiece of an oppressive regime? that would be the American oppressive regime, right?
talking about mouthpieces, shouldn't FOX news be taken down as well?