As far as the movie goes, I think those who find it downscale have missed the picture, Lamarckian dynamics notwithstanding.
As far as Brawndo goes it is effing brilliant as a market wedge in a highly competitive market. Redux has someone completely brill in their top marketing group.
The drink itself? Terrific -- tastes all right and actually does boost the energy in a slow, stable, cheery sort of way. Beats Red Bull hollow.
Their Bizarro Idiocracy-inspired ad.
Their Myspace page.
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There is a lot of the point being missed. It is not that Katz' Clotho would be imposed, or automatic. It is that it would do our filtering in advance, according to our best values. I wouldn't touch a Clotho I had to use someone else's tastes in! But one I could configure might be way cool.
Why? Because the great abuse of the once free and intersting internet is the Market Monster that seeks to replace free markets of information with the machinery of artifically induced needs and wants, yammering incessantly in order to Make Share of us. I am tired of being Made Share of, for one.
I would prefer! to be able to choose what information I cared for and to receive it. My own choice would to do it in such a way that it still alowed for the unforeseen excitement of a new angle.
But knee-jerking against censorship on Katz' proposed design is a LOT premature.
Torvald and Co are quite reasonable to be very concerned about Microsoft. The history of the company is rp competitors who are now pushing daisies instead of software. DRI, case in point. The MS machinery is competivorous -- it starts salivating at the first smell. ANyone hoping to extend a business fguture into the OS space needs to be very alert, constantly, or the rug will disappear from under them mysteriously.
That said, technical excellence is the long-term guarantee of Linux survival assuming they can fend of the fangs of MS' troops. It may be with Bill a little older and the Feds a little smarter they (MS) won't get to do again what they did once.
From looking at their front page I suspect they are doing this only in order to make lots of noise so everyone will hear about their site.
It means that Linux can't replace Win9x on desktop
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Besides well-known level of M$ "technicians", "system admins" and many "programmers", the bottom line is correct (IMHO) - Linux has some road to go before it can replace Lose9x on the desktop.
I really like what Linus did to all of us (besides the kernel, of course) - he setup a very high goal to pass - the desktop. If Linux didn't have this goal it wouldn't have had much to add to what it has now (network serving? c'mon, grow up! it can do it even while you play Quake:).
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As far as the movie goes, I think those who find it downscale have missed the picture, Lamarckian dynamics notwithstanding. As far as Brawndo goes it is effing brilliant as a market wedge in a highly competitive market. Redux has someone completely brill in their top marketing group. The drink itself? Terrific -- tastes all right and actually does boost the energy in a slow, stable, cheery sort of way. Beats Red Bull hollow. Their Bizarro Idiocracy-inspired ad. Their Myspace page. A
There is a lot of the point being missed. It is not that Katz' Clotho would be imposed, or automatic. It is that it would do our filtering in advance, according to our best values. I wouldn't touch a Clotho I had to use someone else's tastes in! But one I could configure might be way cool.
Why? Because the great abuse of the once free and intersting internet is the Market Monster that seeks to replace free markets of information with the machinery of artifically induced needs and wants, yammering incessantly in order to Make Share of us. I am tired of being Made Share of, for one.
I would prefer! to be able to choose what information I cared for and to receive it. My own choice would to do it in such a way that it still alowed for the unforeseen excitement of a new angle.
But knee-jerking against censorship on Katz' proposed design is a LOT premature.
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Torvald and Co are quite reasonable to be very concerned about Microsoft. The history of the company is rp
competitors who are now pushing daisies instead of software. DRI, case in point.
The MS machinery is competivorous -- it starts salivating at the first smell. ANyone hoping to extend a business fguture into the OS space needs to be very alert, constantly, or the rug will disappear from under them mysteriously.
That said, technical excellence is the long-term guarantee of Linux survival assuming they can fend of the fangs of MS' troops. It may be with Bill a little older and the Feds a little smarter they (MS) won't get to do again what they did once.
From looking at their front page I suspect they are doing this only in order to make lots of noise so everyone will hear about their site.
Besides well-known level of M$ "technicians", "system admins" and many "programmers", the bottom line is correct (IMHO) - Linux has some road to go before it can replace Lose9x on the desktop.
:).
I really like what Linus did to all of us (besides the kernel, of course) - he setup a very high goal to pass - the desktop. If Linux didn't have this goal it wouldn't have had much to add to what it has now (network serving? c'mon, grow up! it can do it even while you play Quake