f you had total control of a franchise like Star Wars(TM), you could do pretty much what you damn well wanted to do. At least Lucas is giving us the first three episodes (and don't flame me on how PM sucked...it was the first part to a story that we already know how it ends...no movie would have satisfied everyone).
Tell me why did people go for that? Seems that it really would spoil the end and just cheapen the movie. Suppose you know that every fairy tail ends with people "living happily ever after" (yeah right); dosn't this in some way cheapen the fairy tail? I would have been quite entrigued if for example you don't implicetly know that Darth Vader is really this Anakin person. In fact from that movie only you can imply that in fact he will be quite the model of good and truth. At any rate his approach is flawed because basic human logic and memory can cheapen the whole thing. I guess the only thing that really makes it is the fact that it uses a lot of computin' thingees
I think the worst thing about her bill was not the internet access problem, but her talk of banning people of the opposite sex from dorm rooms. I don't know what puritanistic students she talked to ("we are only responding to the requests of students"), but I can't see this being received well by anyone on campus.
Well I hate to say it but I think that the vast majority of these people are either Mormons or Strict fundamentalist sects of christianity or maybe Muslums of some sort. People having sex is not really that bad in terms of bring dowm the world or anything. People just don't think it a good idea. They just don't like picturing anything like that happening.
I little way to defeat this is to use disguises and such. Have people wear sexually neutral clothing and just disguise your voice a little. Corny yes but it might work.
Wow, this is just what will be needed to ensure that our graduating college students are well-prepared for taking direction from "superior" individuals/corporations/governments rather than being able to think for themselves. What is this, 8th grade? 9th grade? *When* is this? 1955? 1957? INTERNET FILTERS?? I thought we were finally getting past this stuff. Guess not.
Well I say that if they decide to put internet filters on that people should make sure that the sysadmin gets a little "review". Meaning that any slight infraction of the code and the syadmin should be booted out of a job. If they don't set an example then I guess everyone else can do what they want. Just connect via your isp or something and use they service via the university's initial network.
Four years is not that long . . . enjoy your mental prison camp!
And I thought that college was supposed to make a person liberal. When does life stop being a prison camp. We now have life being crappy from K-12 now we have life being crappy for 4 more years if you want to go to college. All I can say to this is ***************DOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH!!!!*****.
Actually, this reminds me of an art exhibit that a student made at UCSB last year. She took hard-core porn that she found on the internet and used photoshop to place the images into popular advertisements that were scanned in from magazines. You know that RCA ad with the two dogs sitting in front of the TV? You couldn't imagine the filth they were watching. Anyway, I'm betting that her art work material-gathering research would have been banned under this bill. Censorship stinks.
Interesting what exactly was the message? That television was bad/degrading? I however agree that censorship does indeed suck.
I have one question: Exactly what are students with high speed connections supposed to use their bandwidth for now?
"Oh no! They used Redhat's distro, and removed reference to Redhat in the installer". The GPL allows that, no?
As long as you give out the full source code then all is forgiven. On a minor note could someone create say an obfusicated version of the source code for release and then release the code so that it would take just a little longer to get ahold of?
"They changed nothing in KDE." That's bad? I never change KDE either... It'd suck if every distro decided that KDE should have a different color scheme, and/or resize the icons a couple pixels larger or smaller.
One of the things I like best about something new is it's look. I can pretend that I am using win95 to a degree with modern window managers. Part of setting yourself above the rest is to give a good reason that anyone should use you and that means? Making things different in some way.
With all the bantering recently about how awful they are, of course no one's going to give them a fair shake. I hate to say it, but so far as the LinuxOne saga goes, I'd just as rather wait for a ZDNet review of their distro than read one from a "Linux" website.
Well for what it's worth I think that at least some analysis on the situation by an "average" person instead of an editor of a column of some internet publication is a nice thing. Would you have even the slightest curiousity about that neighbor of yours if someone came up to you and said that perhaps he was a wanted felon? Don't tell me you wouldn't even bother to take a close look at him?
The Linux sites have already declared Redhat, Caldera, Debian, SuSe and Mandrake the winners and LinuxOne to be the loser.
Simple first impressions are the most important for anyone and everything. If I have a new car from a Ford dealership break down on my first week of use I would not be in the mood to buy any more Fords in the future. All of the other distributions (even the Newest Mandrake) are more tested than one that isn't. We can safely assume that linuxone is in fact that terribly good or at least not terribly well tested from this even slightly opinionated information.
I really do hope that they do well on their IPO and use that money to become a "real" Linux company that everyone will love to hate.
In the meantime everyone will hate them more and more. This will cause the company to eventually go broke or the founder to magically escape^H^H^H^H^H^H vacation in the Cayman Islands for 7 years or so.
Actually, when that ticker says LINX and the market notification of IPO pops up, it is highly likely that a number of non-techies are going to shove a lot of dollars into it real fast.
I for one would not do any such thing and I would not be considered an expert in the stock market. Maybe if perhaps other people have already invested in the stock then people see a pattern they might just go along with the rest of the people. In fact if you want to make a quick and dirty buck try this some time. Just buy into any startup company wait for a short while or until you thing that the price of stock has increased enough and then sell. Bingo instant increase and said little crappy company may enjoy it's downfall.
Never underestimate the intelligence of the average day trader, nor that of your average stock broker.
Well I guess that means that me without any formal business training can do any of those tasks because they do not require talent right? I live in a world where if people do something wrong then they suffer for it. Usually in the form of unemployment of some sort.
Hey, it says Linux, right? So it must be good...
With all the FUD that MS puts out you would think that the average person would not think this way. Oh well...
what do you know about repackageing an existing product? the bottled water people have been doing it for years! just run tap water across sand into cool shaped plastic bottles! call it "good for you" and sell the heck out of it!
Why does there have to be extensive research on this topic? Is the use of repackaging to be encouraged in the least? I really would say that it is not. There is some scientific basis for what people actually say. For instince the FDA has a few little rules that basically say that you have to have truthful packaging and such. Now I assume that if you were to test the product (in this case the bottled water) against "standard" tap water for many people the bottled water just might be slightly cleaner because of their process. Now does that mean that it will improve your life in any significant way? No.
I agree that the market will decide. I get tired of all the anti-capitalist/. readers that bitch about how some corporation is tainting some intellectually pure technology. None of us would have the luxury of even reading this - if we did not live in a market driven world.
What people really don't like (myself included) is that people can make insane ammounts of money from something that is inferior. If it was good I would say that they deserve all the money (maybe). However seriously if you did half-assed work at your professional job how long would you be employed? Unless you know hypnotism not a very long time.
Well, I guess there is a bad side to open source. We can't stop someone from taking a product, modifying it for the worse and then selling it.
I don't think it's terribly bad. It just has a positive factor in feedback for other attempts. If they see how badly linuxone fails then they will not be tempted to do something this stupid again.
I beg to differ. Games can still be works of art, look at Soul Calibur. Less than a year ago, no one could have ever thought it was going to turn into the almost perfect game it is. If you compare it to the arcade version, it's almost unbelievable what Namco pulled off. The major difference between having one person or 100 people working on a gmae is scope. You can have a 7 disc Role Playing game full of story and intrugue, instead of a repeating shooter, which is what most games worked on by one person seem to be. I'm sorry, but games are very much still works of art from time to time, you just have to dig through all of the "me too" crap to find that one game.
Wow interesting! Can you name the game for me? I thought that FFVIII was the longest game with 4 discs as an RPG however maybe I was wrong.
I am really not going with the dreamcast until it proves itself to me and my wallet. I made a little bit of a mistake in getting an n64 and I really regret it. They have a number of games but either they fall into one of 2 categories.
1. Stupid little games that I call "cartoonie" games. Meaning that they have little cartoon characters that run around and the entire world it done with the rules of cartoons and no real intricate human plot development.
2. Good games that are interesting but are either extremely hard or are just limited because they only have that one cartrage on it. Actual voice clips are rare and are usually extremely primitive if they are there. One exception to this would be Shadow Man. That game is actually quite close to what I like. Still a little difficult but getting all of the really nice elements of things.
Ya, I know this is a tad over dramatic, but despite the technology pouring out of every orifice around my room, SMB won the hearts of us all.
From a psychological perspective you could say that our inate human need to look at different things is what motivates the above. Mario is not around really then it comes into the picture via your emulator and then people are interested because it's something new and different from their immediate experience.
It depends on what they are trying to do. I have seen some games that looked really great but were ither too complex to be fun, or had no point. Teams seem to get off target and base the game too heavily on "but it looks cool" rather than "this is cool to play" I still like mario brothers, that game rocks! It definately pushed the limits of gaming when it was released, but they did it in a really well-organized fashion. Using technology to supplement an idea is good, but using an idea to show technology usually turns out badly.
An example of this idea I think would be the release of Tomb Raider III. Maybe I have half a brain but didn't the movement just suck a little even with the analog control stick for the playstation? And it seemed that there was always some little pit of nasty spikes or some insanely hard puzzle to solve just to get anywhere.
My question why make it so that I have to take out paper and pencil and do come complex mathmetical analysis on the situation or delve deeply into human motivation to win a game now? Why do people feel that taking out real cheat codes is in the best interests of the gammer?
I agree that mario was interesting in many ways. I think that Mario64 was just a cheap knock off and a first demo/test of what the N64 could really do and not a really good game in terms of actual content or ideas or even graphics (can you say obvious 3d graphics primitives).
Games used to have style. Games used to have Panache. It is hard to describe exactly how it was, but these days, most games are really just rehashes of other games. Nineteen different versions of "Doom". Thirty different versions of "Warcraft". Very, very few are really, truly original.
I actually have played some of these games. I can tell you that not all of them were so interesting. I can show you games that are absolutely garbage and probably not worth the media that they were stored on. While I am sure some of these games were original they most ceternally not good.
When I started gaming, back in 1983 or so, nearly all games were as original the Warcrafts or the Dooms. Or so it seemed.
In the beginning of all things everything is original then it becomes boring and tired. I am glad that people now are doing all this "boring" stuff now because if this were 1983 I sure as hell wouldn't be able to get any games.
Even if the US sets this kind of precedent it still won't affect the web as a whole - many sites would move to servers and ISPs abroad, in countries where this kind of thing is allowed. This sort of thing would require every country in the world to agree, and then any country opting out could make a fortune hosting these sites. I believe that a lot of the online casino sites are hosted in the Cayman Islands where laws are a lot less strict than in the US.
Unfortunately this leaves little mom n' pop web sites out of business. I can't even get my own server let alone get it hosted abroad in any sence.
By upholding the injunction against an ISP for the actions of a subscriber, the court effectively changed ISPs from communication conduits into content providers. I realize that this is a preliminary injunction, but if it stands, the spirit of the Web is in trouble.
One court case is hardly going to change the face of the internet unless it is directly from the supreme court. Plus the internet is hardly just a US thing. I guess if you really want to you could just leave the US and go somewhere else; however the price for connectivity in other places would most likely be a hell of a lot more expensive and more unavaible.
Today, I am responsible for the content of my web site, and the buck stops here. If my ISP becomes co-responsible, what is going to happen to the personal website? What about controversial websites, that some find offensive? What about Free (speech) Software websites that some deep-pocketed lawyer-laden business finds offensive.
Removing personal web sites would effectively kill what people are wanting the internet to become. Why bother to have things like a T-1 or a DSL line if you can't publish something. Controversial web sites are a little bit of a problem. Ok for example I have some content I thought I would like to put on a web site. The only problem is that the content is slightly pornographic is there a place that offers maybe free webhosting for pages that has almost anything on it? (well except kiddie porn). You really can't find too many (as far as I have seen) because it is controversial in nature.
The concept of businesses killing things that are free would be a little silly. I am sure that Americans the world over probably don't like communism. However there are several over 1 billion of them in the world in China. Does this mean that communism is in trouble? Probably not for at least 50+ years at the rate we are going. If what I say is not verbally offensive then I have little reason to worry. Publishing code on the internet is not an offensive action. Just because a rich business man decides he dosn't like it dosn't mean that I will not have some means to publish my code.
In the worst case, the Web becomes the realm of the dotcom, and those who brought it into being are banned, or at the very least, tightly leashed and censored by litigation fearing ISPs.
That is nearly impossible like I said in the earlier part of my post. If you kill individual web pages you kill the web. You kill the reason that people even try to have any pride in the web. People want to at least have some crappy web page on the internet and say to mom/dad/friend "Yup that's my little page and everyone can see it" kind of bragging rights. I am sure that people just loved the good old days when publishing was for only about 1% of people but that was taken out of their hands years ago.
I was once an enthuastic supporter of dos back when it was a viable os. When I saw the freedos project I was quite interested in getting it to work for me in some way. However what turned me off fight from the start was that development seemed a bit; how shall I put this: slow. I have since moved to linux and still run a partition that relies on MSDOS for some things.
Will development increase in capacity, and have you met your goals? I have also read your documentation and you implied that a 32 bit extension to the dos package was at some future time going to be implimented at some future date; you also said that if people didn't like what you had they could move to linux. My related question is when will you be able to impliment these features (32 bit) to your dos project.
There are always ways to get around GUIs but they are usually not easy. All it takes is some knowledge about what the config file looks like and then you can edit it.
If you think this is the case look at all win32 api documentation then tell me about it. Generally the user interface in windows is more idiot proof than most (except the mac). However it does not mean that any idiot could do anything they want from the OS in an idiot proof manner. What must be stated is that if all you want is to play games then you can easily do this in liunx in an idiot proof manner. However if you want to do something complex in a simple manner you may be stretching it. Any OS that tried to do something complex in an idiot proof wawy usually fails because of the complexity or because of lacking flexibility.
Since Corel is based upon Debian I think that the various config methods (notibly debconf and things related to apt) are the norm. Corel I believe has added some of their stuff for the install and probably improved the apt front end greatly with some form of gui or something.
I use debian and am a little partial to debconf which does a great deal of the important setup information for many packages. This was reventle (about a month ago) given its own package and can have various levels of importance with regard to prompts. However your best bet is linuconf or maybe a gnome app (sorry can't think of the name because I only used it once) which allowed for editing system files and such.
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f you had total control of a franchise like Star Wars(TM), you could do pretty much what you damn well wanted to do. At least Lucas is giving us the first three episodes (and don't flame me on how PM sucked...it was the first part
to a story that we already know how it ends...no movie would have satisfied everyone).
Tell me why did people go for that? Seems that it really would spoil the end and just cheapen the movie. Suppose you know that every fairy tail ends with people "living happily ever after" (yeah right); dosn't this in some way cheapen the fairy tail? I would have been quite entrigued if for example you don't implicetly know that Darth Vader is really this Anakin person. In fact from that movie only you can imply that in fact he will be quite the model of good and truth. At any rate his approach is flawed because basic human logic and memory can cheapen the whole thing. I guess the only thing that really makes it is the fact that it uses a lot of computin' thingees
and you thought pr0n was bad.. look at her pic!
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http://www.azleg.state.az.us/images/jmcgrath.gif
*gagging myself with an egg beater*
Anyone willing to spend some time doing "creative" enhancements to that little ol' photo. Maybe there's a larger version or perhaps a full body one.
I think the worst thing about her bill was not the internet access problem, but her talk of banning people of the opposite sex from dorm rooms. I don't know what puritanistic students she talked to ("we are only responding to the
requests of students"), but I can't see this being received well by anyone on campus.
Well I hate to say it but I think that the vast majority of these people are either Mormons or Strict fundamentalist sects of christianity or maybe Muslums of some sort. People having sex is not really that bad in terms of bring dowm the world or anything. People just don't think it a good idea. They just don't like picturing anything like that happening.
I little way to defeat this is to use disguises and such. Have people wear sexually neutral clothing and just disguise your voice a little. Corny yes but it might work.
Wow, this is just what will be needed to ensure that our graduating college students are well-prepared for taking direction from "superior" individuals/corporations/governments rather than being able to think for themselves. What is
this, 8th grade? 9th grade? *When* is this? 1955? 1957? INTERNET FILTERS?? I thought we were finally getting past this stuff. Guess not.
Well I say that if they decide to put internet filters on that people should make sure that the sysadmin gets a little "review". Meaning that any slight infraction of the code and the syadmin should be booted out of a job. If they don't set an example then I guess everyone else can do what they want. Just connect via your isp or something and use they service via the university's initial network.
Four years is not that long . . . enjoy your mental prison camp!
And I thought that college was supposed to make a person liberal. When does life stop being a prison camp. We now have life being crappy from K-12 now we have life being crappy for 4 more years if you want to go to college. All I can say to this is ***************DOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHH!!!!*****.
Actually, this reminds me of an art exhibit that a student made at UCSB last year. She took hard-core porn that she found on the internet and used photoshop to place the images into popular advertisements that were scanned in from
magazines. You know that RCA ad with the two dogs sitting in front of the TV? You couldn't imagine the filth they were watching. Anyway, I'm betting that her art work material-gathering research would have been banned under
this bill. Censorship stinks.
Interesting what exactly was the message? That television was bad/degrading? I however agree that censorship does indeed suck.
I have one question: Exactly what are students with high speed connections supposed to use their bandwidth for now?
Downloading the linux kernel and slashdot silly!
Maybe but did I miss something but when did slashdot officially anounce -2 level moderation?
"Oh no! They used Redhat's distro, and removed reference to Redhat in the installer". The GPL allows that, no?
As long as you give out the full source code then all is forgiven. On a minor note could someone create say an obfusicated version of the source code for release and then release the code so that it would take just a little longer to get ahold of?
"They changed nothing in KDE." That's bad? I never change KDE either... It'd suck if every distro decided that KDE should have a different color scheme, and/or resize the icons a couple pixels larger or smaller.
One of the things I like best about something new is it's look. I can pretend that I am using win95 to a degree with modern window managers. Part of setting yourself above the rest is to give a good reason that anyone should use you and that means? Making things different in some way.
With all the bantering recently about how awful they are, of course no one's going to give them a fair shake. I hate to say it, but so far as the LinuxOne saga goes, I'd just as rather wait for a ZDNet review of their distro than read one
from a "Linux" website.
Well for what it's worth I think that at least some analysis on the situation by an "average" person instead of an editor of a column of some internet publication is a nice thing. Would you have even the slightest curiousity about that neighbor of yours if someone came up to you and said that perhaps he was a wanted felon? Don't tell me you wouldn't even bother to take a close look at him?
The Linux sites have already declared Redhat, Caldera, Debian, SuSe and Mandrake the winners and LinuxOne to be the loser.
Simple first impressions are the most important for anyone and everything. If I have a new car from a Ford dealership break down on my first week of use I would not be in the mood to buy any more Fords in the future. All of the other distributions (even the Newest Mandrake) are more tested than one that isn't. We can safely assume that linuxone is in fact that terribly good or at least not terribly well tested from this even slightly opinionated information.
I really do hope that they do well on their IPO and use that money to become a "real" Linux company that everyone will love to hate.
In the meantime everyone will hate them more and more. This will cause the company to eventually go broke or the founder to magically escape^H^H^H^H^H^H vacation in the Cayman Islands for 7 years or so.
Actually, when that ticker says LINX and the market notification of IPO pops up, it is highly likely that a number of non-techies are going to shove a lot of dollars into it real fast.
...
I for one would not do any such thing and I would not be considered an expert in the stock market. Maybe if perhaps other people have already invested in the stock then people see a pattern they might just go along with the rest of the people. In fact if you want to make a quick and dirty buck try this some time. Just buy into any startup company wait for a short while or until you thing that the price of stock has increased enough and then sell. Bingo instant increase and said little crappy company may enjoy it's downfall.
Never underestimate the intelligence of the average day trader, nor that of your average stock broker.
Well I guess that means that me without any formal business training can do any of those tasks because they do not require talent right? I live in a world where if people do something wrong then they suffer for it. Usually in the form of unemployment of some sort.
Hey, it says Linux, right? So it must be good
With all the FUD that MS puts out you would think that the average person would not think this way. Oh well...
what do you know about repackageing an existing product? the bottled water people have been doing it for years! just run tap water across sand into cool shaped plastic bottles! call it "good for you" and sell the heck out of it!
Why does there have to be extensive research on this topic? Is the use of repackaging to be encouraged in the least? I really would say that it is not. There is some scientific basis for what people actually say. For instince the FDA has a few little rules that basically say that you have to have truthful packaging and such. Now I assume that if you were to test the product (in this case the bottled water) against "standard" tap water for many people the bottled water just might be slightly cleaner because of their process. Now does that mean that it will improve your life in any significant way? No.
I agree that the market will decide. I get tired of all the anti-capitalist /. readers that bitch about how some corporation is tainting some intellectually pure technology. None of us would have the luxury of even reading this - if we did
not live in a market driven world.
What people really don't like (myself included) is that people can make insane ammounts of money from something that is inferior. If it was good I would say that they deserve all the money (maybe). However seriously if you did half-assed work at your professional job how long would you be employed? Unless you know hypnotism not a very long time.
Well, I guess there is a bad side to open source. We can't stop someone from taking a product, modifying it for the worse and then selling it.
I don't think it's terribly bad. It just has a positive factor in feedback for other attempts. If they see how badly linuxone fails then they will not be tempted to do something this stupid again.
I beg to differ. Games can still be works of art, look at Soul Calibur. Less than a year ago, no one could have ever thought it was going to turn into the almost perfect game it is. If you compare it to the arcade version, it's almost
unbelievable what Namco pulled off. The major difference between having one person or 100 people working on a gmae is scope. You can have a 7 disc Role Playing game full of story and intrugue, instead of a repeating shooter,
which is what most games worked on by one person seem to be. I'm sorry, but games are very much still works of art from time to time, you just have to dig through all of the "me too" crap to find that one game.
Wow interesting! Can you name the game for me? I thought that FFVIII was the longest game with 4 discs as an RPG however maybe I was wrong.
I am really not going with the dreamcast until it proves itself to me and my wallet. I made a little bit of a mistake in getting an n64 and I really regret it. They have a number of games but either they fall into one of 2 categories.
1. Stupid little games that I call "cartoonie" games. Meaning that they have little cartoon characters that run around and the entire world it done with the rules of cartoons and no real intricate human plot development.
2. Good games that are interesting but are either extremely hard or are just limited because they only have that one cartrage on it. Actual voice clips are rare and are usually extremely primitive if they are there. One exception to this would be Shadow Man. That game is actually quite close to what I like. Still a little difficult but getting all of the really nice elements of things.
Ya, I know this is a tad over dramatic, but despite the technology pouring out of every orifice around my room, SMB won the hearts of us all.
From a psychological perspective you could say that our inate human need to look at different things is what motivates the above. Mario is not around really then it comes into the picture via your emulator and then people are interested because it's something new and different from their immediate experience.
It depends on what they are trying to do. I have seen some games that looked really great but were ither too complex to be fun, or had no point. Teams seem to get off target and base the game too heavily on "but it looks cool" rather
than "this is cool to play" I still like mario brothers, that game rocks! It definately pushed the limits of gaming when it was released, but they did it in a really well-organized fashion. Using technology to supplement an idea is good,
but using an idea to show technology usually turns out badly.
An example of this idea I think would be the release of Tomb Raider III. Maybe I have half a brain but didn't the movement just suck a little even with the analog control stick for the playstation? And it seemed that there was always some little pit of nasty spikes or some insanely hard puzzle to solve just to get anywhere.
My question why make it so that I have to take out paper and pencil and do come complex mathmetical analysis on the situation or delve deeply into human motivation to win a game now? Why do people feel that taking out real cheat codes is in the best interests of the gammer?
I agree that mario was interesting in many ways. I think that Mario64 was just a cheap knock off and a first demo/test of what the N64 could really do and not a really good game in terms of actual content or ideas or even graphics (can you say obvious 3d graphics primitives).
Games used to have style. Games used to have Panache. It is hard to describe exactly how it was, but these days, most games are really just rehashes of other games. Nineteen different versions of "Doom". Thirty different versions of
"Warcraft". Very, very few are really, truly original.
I actually have played some of these games. I can tell you that not all of them were so interesting. I can show you games that are absolutely garbage and probably not worth the media that they were stored on. While I am sure some of these games were original they most ceternally not good.
When I started gaming, back in 1983 or so, nearly all games were as original the Warcrafts or the Dooms. Or so it seemed.
In the beginning of all things everything is original then it becomes boring and tired. I am glad that people now are doing all this "boring" stuff now because if this were 1983 I sure as hell wouldn't be able to get any games.
Even if the US sets this kind of precedent it still won't affect the web as a whole - many sites would move to servers and ISPs abroad, in countries where this kind of thing is allowed. This sort of thing would require every country in
the world to agree, and then any country opting out could make a fortune hosting these sites. I believe that a lot of the online casino sites are hosted in the Cayman Islands where laws are a lot less strict than in the US.
Unfortunately this leaves little mom n' pop web sites out of business. I can't even get my own server let alone get it hosted abroad in any sence.
By upholding the injunction against an ISP for the actions of a subscriber, the court effectively changed ISPs from communication conduits into content providers. I realize that this is a preliminary injunction, but if it stands, the spirit
of the Web is in trouble.
One court case is hardly going to change the face of the internet unless it is directly from the supreme court. Plus the internet is hardly just a US thing. I guess if you really want to you could just leave the US and go somewhere else; however the price for connectivity in other places would most likely be a hell of a lot more expensive and more unavaible.
Today, I am responsible for the content of my web site, and the buck stops here. If my ISP becomes co-responsible, what is going to happen to the personal website? What about controversial websites, that some find offensive? What
about Free (speech) Software websites that some deep-pocketed lawyer-laden business finds offensive.
Removing personal web sites would effectively kill what people are wanting the internet to become. Why bother to have things like a T-1 or a DSL line if you can't publish something. Controversial web sites are a little bit of a problem. Ok for example I have some content I thought I would like to put on a web site. The only problem is that the content is slightly pornographic is there a place that offers maybe free webhosting for pages that has almost anything on it? (well except kiddie porn). You really can't find too many (as far as I have seen) because it is controversial in nature.
The concept of businesses killing things that are free would be a little silly. I am sure that Americans the world over probably don't like communism. However there are several over 1 billion of them in the world in China. Does this mean that communism is in trouble? Probably not for at least 50+ years at the rate we are going. If what I say is not verbally offensive then I have little reason to worry. Publishing code on the internet is not an offensive action. Just because a rich business man decides he dosn't like it dosn't mean that I will not have some means to publish my code.
In the worst case, the Web becomes the realm of the dotcom, and those who brought it into being are banned, or at the very least, tightly leashed and censored by litigation fearing ISPs.
That is nearly impossible like I said in the earlier part of my post. If you kill individual web pages you kill the web. You kill the reason that people even try to have any pride in the web. People want to at least have some crappy web page on the internet and say to mom/dad/friend "Yup that's my little page and everyone can see it" kind of bragging rights. I am sure that people just loved the good old days when publishing was for only about 1% of people but that was taken out of their hands years ago.
I was once an enthuastic supporter of dos back when it was a viable os. When I saw the freedos project I was quite interested in getting it to work for me in some way. However what turned me off fight from the start was that development seemed a bit; how shall I put this: slow. I have since moved to linux and still run a partition that relies on MSDOS for some things.
Will development increase in capacity, and have you met your goals? I have also read your documentation and you implied that a 32 bit extension to the dos package was at some future time going to be implimented at some future date; you also said that if people didn't like what you had they could move to linux. My related question is when will you be able to impliment these features (32 bit) to your dos project.
There are always ways to get around GUIs but they are usually not easy. All it takes is some knowledge about what the config file looks like and then you can edit it.
All these add are gui *front ends*. Meaning that nothing changes. Thank you.
If you think this is the case look at all win32 api documentation then tell me about it. Generally the user interface in windows is more idiot proof than most (except the mac). However it does not mean that any idiot could do anything they want from the OS in an idiot proof manner.
What must be stated is that if all you want is to play games then you can easily do this in liunx in an idiot proof manner. However if you want to do something complex in a simple manner you may be stretching it. Any OS that tried to do something complex in an idiot proof wawy usually fails because of the complexity or because of lacking flexibility.
Since Corel is based upon Debian I think that the various config methods (notibly debconf and things related to apt) are the norm.
Corel I believe has added some of their stuff for the install and probably improved the apt front end greatly with some form of gui or something.
I use debian and am a little partial to debconf which does a great deal of the important setup information for many packages. This was reventle (about a month ago) given its own package and can have various levels of importance with regard to prompts.
However your best bet is linuconf or maybe a gnome app (sorry can't think of the name because I only used it once)
which allowed for editing system files and such.
They were never entirely killed off. They released Novel 5 a while back.