I believe it is. Also it seems they failed to mention that the laptops haven't reached the $100 price point yet and will start at $150, and that Libya is paying $250 million total for all the laptops and infrastructure.
It really doesn't make any sense. The original article also says he obtained the copy of Windows through MSDN, so is Microsoft the shady vendor that gave him an illegal copy of Windows? (Or do I not understand how MSDN works.)
Pre-SP2 Windows XP connects automatically to nearby wireless networks, but SP2 should fix that. Unless you have a specific reason not to get it, I would highly recommend it.
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL No, you can fork the GPL, you just can't call it the GNU GPL and can't include the preamble without permission. That seems pretty reasonable. You wouldn't want a bunch of incompatible licenses all called the GNU GPL.
I'm sorry, but I had to reply to this. "Joe Average" is not using Opera (at least not on his computer). The kinds of people that do use Opera are probably going to want either a decent bittorrent client or no bittorrent client at all.
ads = more downloads = more money (google searchbox) Then Mozilla can fix memory issues and the Mac port, having more money than they started with. This is not just patting
themselves on the back.
Since when is a Intel Mac a $20 thrift store pc. It might be in several years, but I believe the grandparent was asking why someone would want to run Linux on an Intel Mac now.
The search bar keeps its own history, so if it was all you used you would be ok. The keyboard shortcut to focus it is ctl-k, conveniently right next to ctl-l.
You see, with SuperFetch you can a USB 2.0-based flash drive as a fetch buffer between your RAM and your hard disk. Let me spell that out for you. Vista will put part of your running application on a device that can be kicked off, knocked out, or that your dog can carry away as a chew toy. Do you see the problem here? Me too!
I don't know how you got modded insightful. I personally agree with the grandparent, but it really doesn't matter, because Vista is not out to the public yet and it could really be anything.
No. If the U.S. wanted to put sanctions on China, they would not allow companies to trade there or make big factories there. They only are blocking internet companies. Why? Maybe because the U.S. government doesn't like Google after they refused to send their search logs...
Trying the old "i 'accidentally' made a mistake in my original post let me fix it and get double the karma" trick, eh? Yeah, we're on to you.:)
because +4 Funny is worth a lot of karma...
I hope you are kiddding about Wine, because I don't know why anyone would want firefox on Wine and Norton and Ad-Aware really won't have much use in Wine either. The only thing that would be cool to run on Wine is Google Earth, and that is available as a separate download anyways.
As far as OpenOffice, it was probably because it is a 90MB download.
Does it actually matter if people use video on video iPods? They likely do not cost Apple much more to make and cost consumers the same price. It is just a feature they had to add to stay competitive with current and future devices from other companies. So they get more "technogeeks" who would otherwise choose another mp3 player that has video and more consumers that just compare features and try to make an informed decision. Where is the problem?
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I believe it is. Also it seems they failed to mention that the laptops haven't reached the $100 price point yet and will start at $150, and that Libya is paying $250 million total for all the laptops and infrastructure.
Congress already can pass laws that are illegal. That is what checks and balances are for.
Students are told that using their own work multiple times is also plagiarism.
Yeah, but can you play Flash 9 videos on Linux or even Flash 8? Does it work on x64, in an x64 browser?
It really doesn't make any sense. The original article also says he obtained the copy of Windows through MSDN, so is Microsoft the shady vendor that gave him an illegal copy of Windows? (Or do I not understand how MSDN works.)
Pre-SP2 Windows XP connects automatically to nearby wireless networks, but SP2 should fix that. Unless you have a specific reason not to get it, I would highly recommend it.
Why should someone going around connecting to random wireless connections expect them to get to "the internet"?
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL
No, you can fork the GPL, you just can't call it the GNU GPL and can't include the preamble without permission. That seems pretty reasonable. You wouldn't want a bunch of incompatible licenses all called the GNU GPL.
I'm sorry, but I had to reply to this. "Joe Average" is not using Opera (at least not on his computer). The kinds of people that do use Opera are probably going to want either a decent bittorrent client or no bittorrent client at all.
I have "/. " set as a keyword for slashdot in firefox, and I still sometimes manage to misspell it "./".
ads = more downloads = more money (google searchbox)
Then Mozilla can fix memory issues and the Mac port, having more money than they started with. This is not just patting
themselves on the back.
Since when is a Intel Mac a $20 thrift store pc. It might be in several years, but I believe the grandparent was asking why someone would want to run Linux on an Intel Mac now.
The search bar keeps its own history, so if it was all you used you would be ok. The keyboard shortcut to focus it is ctl-k, conveniently right next to ctl-l.
I don't know how you got modded insightful. I personally agree with the grandparent, but it really doesn't matter, because Vista is not out to the public yet and it could really be anything.
No. If the U.S. wanted to put sanctions on China, they would not allow companies to trade there or make big factories there. They only are blocking internet companies. Why? Maybe because the U.S. government doesn't like Google after they refused to send their search logs...
Trying the old "i 'accidentally' made a mistake in my original post let me fix it and get double the karma" trick, eh? Yeah, we're on to you. :)
because +4 Funny is worth a lot of karma...
So you are saying in ten years you expect Intel to be dead, but still no good games for Linux or Mac??
You don't really care who managed to get the MacBook, you just want to know where you can find one, don't you?
As far as OpenOffice, it was probably because it is a 90MB download.
You can order a Dell without an OS. At least in the US.
You can, but it costs more than the same computer with Windows.
That would be the first page...
This might be helpful to some people, but it can hardly be called a review. It is just a list of specs. It doesn't even have benchmarks.
I don't know about the rest of the world, but all of the Slashdot crowd will hear about this as it will be duped at least once.
How can you possibly say we are a police state when we indirectly vote for people that arbitrarily appoint people who make our decisions?
Does it actually matter if people use video on video iPods? They likely do not cost Apple much more to make and cost consumers the same price. It is just a feature they had to add to stay competitive with current and future devices from other companies. So they get more "technogeeks" who would otherwise choose another mp3 player that has video and more consumers that just compare features and try to make an informed decision. Where is the problem?