the OS only has to do 4 things remember, file, memory, device and process management. I don't remember anything about having to provide or manage a friendly GUI. That is the job of the distribution.
Redhat already makes a version tailored for Oracle, so how about a simple redhat distro - provide the basics just like MS and Apple do - include a filemanager/gui of redhat's choice (probably nautilus/gnome), one email program, one good text editor, one office suite, an media player (mp3, mpeg, etc), a DVD player, half a dozen solitaire games etc.
also include a single config app which (while needing root access) will let you config everything in a 'wizard-like' fashion
Provide a manual explaining how to use these apps and you are home and hosed.
While your at it, why not Redhat for Secretaries, Redhat for Gamers, Redhat for Web Designers, Redhat for my mother who only sends 2 emails a month (okay that was silly), Redhat for Journalists, Redhat for.... you get my point.
Basically they would all be the same but would have a few different apps in each. --
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
that the extent of your freedom should end before you can enfringe on my freedom, just as your freedom to swing your fist ends just before my nose. --
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
what is the intent of people making these themes. Are they trying to sell them? How or what is Apple losing?
I don't see this as being any different from Paramount sueing Star Trek fans for writing fan fiction.
If they are selling their themes or a program using it as its GUI then fair enough. Otherwise I don't know. --
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
This is true but doesn't make it right when you have homeless and jobless people in your country. --
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
lets see $10 per month per napster user, 50% to napster 50% to BMG. BMG continues to pay artists under its label the usual paulty sum.
How about if you download songs that you like that you like and will keep and listen to often you try to contact the artist and send them $10. You probably can't reach major artists like Ms Spears and co, but as far as independant artists are concerned if they thought that even 10% of the people who download their songs would pay $10 for a cd's worth of song(lenght not file size) I'm sure they would make it possible.
Of course BMG and other big labels will try to prevent this of course because it cuts them out of the picture. But then isn't that the lesson that napster is teaching us. Not that people want something for nothing. We already knew that. But that distribution of anything which can be digitally recorded doesn't need a middleman anymore. We can do it ourselves, and they don't like that. --
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
I wish we'd stop spending (tax-payers) money on more interesting ways to kill each other.
" You don't have to look too far to see the 'bigger-dick' foreign policy plan in action. It goes something like 'what?!? they have bigger dicks?!?! BOMB THEM!!!' And of course the bullets and the bombs and the rockets are all shaped like dicks too. I don't quite understand that part yet, but it is part of the equation."
Apologies to George Carlin. --
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
1 : M$ gains OS monopoly.
2 : M$ uses monopoly to monopolise applications
3 : DOJ threatens to break up M$ so they can't abuse the OS monopoly
4 : M$ creates.NET a software 'platform' so you create applications for it and not the OS
Just like before M$'s programmers will have access to undocumented features to ensure that M$ Office etc will run better than anyone elses.
Welcome to your new monopoly.
--
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
companies interests =! quality software
companies interests = spitting out product on time
They are also not used to the idea of community ownership of something. They think Linus owns Linux so he can stop them doing something with it. I guess they are also scared of forking for the same reason why they want only one windowmanager and desktop - it just makes things easier for them - less work, easier to make money.
--
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
Haven't we proved that prohibition doesn't work. fact of the matter is 'some' people are always going to have these feelings (be it pedo, homosexual, beastial or psychotic or whatever) and making it illegal to even think or write or paint about it means that they will simply go underground. Everyone has a darkside and a safe, consensual means to deal with these emotions is the only long term solution.
Making something illegal doesn't make it go away, nor does it make so called sick people better. Just like taking guns away won't stop people killing each other, but dealing with the issues which made them want to kill eachother just might find a solution. --
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
" it will have to be from a very small cluster of stars near us, which might have been formed near the same time after the big bang, such that planets capable of supporting life would have all started the evolution timer at the same point. "
But how close would depend on the size of the universe, and assuming the universe exists in a vacuum and exploded outward then wouldn't 'life at the same stage' be in a sort of shell (think electron orbits).
Actually, looking for stars about the same age in galaxies about the same age. or in the same 'shell'.
By the way is there any collective noun for galaxies? (don't you dare say universe)
--
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
thanks for the errata, I knew as soon as I typed it that the quicktime example was flawed but I didn't want to just pick on one company and couldn't think of another one. And the lack of a linux quicktime player is still a sore point for me. -------------------------
The most important thing to have is open specifications for file formats - the basis for what most of us do with a computer.
For example so apple can't force you to use MacOS* in order to see quicktime movies, or so M$ can't force you to run Win*/Office* to read word docs.
This inevitabily leads to better software because companies can't reply on your dependance, you could use the adobe quicktime player if you wanted so if apple wants to keep their customers they have to improve their software to compete, not prevent competition in order to compete.
movies based on these sf novels don't really seem to pan out. You always lose a lot of the details which make the novels so thought provoking and always spend crap loads on FX so you can drag the average punter in.
Fans of the novel go away thinking what a waste (the book was way better), Joe Average Citizen leaves thinking that was boring, and those who go to see it becuase they heard the book was so good go away thinking that it was no big deal (that clarke guy mustn't be such a great writer).
"I find it ironic that Microsoft, of all companies, is complaining about "insufficient competition".
Not that strange when you realise that M$ is always interested in new companies starting up that they can lock into a NT based system and sell crappy software to.
as an mutt and linux only user I have been kicked in the balls by the fact that others use windows. My email was unavailable last night and my net access sucked the big choade (as they say here).
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the OS only has to do 4 things remember, file, memory, device and process management. I don't remember anything about having to provide or manage a friendly GUI. That is the job of the distribution.
.... you get my point.
Redhat already makes a version tailored for Oracle, so how about a simple redhat distro - provide the basics just like MS and Apple do - include a filemanager/gui of redhat's choice (probably nautilus/gnome), one email program, one good text editor, one office suite, an media player (mp3, mpeg, etc), a DVD player, half a dozen solitaire games etc.
also include a single config app which (while needing root access) will let you config everything in a 'wizard-like' fashion
Provide a manual explaining how to use these apps and you are home and hosed.
While your at it, why not Redhat for Secretaries, Redhat for Gamers, Redhat for Web Designers, Redhat for my mother who only sends 2 emails a month (okay that was silly), Redhat for Journalists, Redhat for
Basically they would all be the same but would have a few different apps in each.
--
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
that the extent of your freedom should end before you can enfringe on my freedom, just as your freedom to swing your fist ends just before my nose.
--
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
that should read ' so law-biding citizens can't use it'
--
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
quick outlaw it so law-abiding citizens start using it
what a croc
--
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
what is the intent of people making these themes. Are they trying to sell them? How or what is Apple losing?
I don't see this as being any different from Paramount sueing Star Trek fans for writing fan fiction.
If they are selling their themes or a program using it as its GUI then fair enough. Otherwise I don't know.
--
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
This is true but doesn't make it right when you have homeless and jobless people in your country.
--
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
lets see $10 per month per napster user, 50% to napster 50% to BMG. BMG continues to pay artists under its label the usual paulty sum.
How about if you download songs that you like that you like and will keep and listen to often you try to contact the artist and send them $10. You probably can't reach major artists like Ms Spears and co, but as far as independant artists are concerned if they thought that even 10% of the people who download their songs would pay $10 for a cd's worth of song(lenght not file size) I'm sure they would make it possible.
Of course BMG and other big labels will try to prevent this of course because it cuts them out of the picture. But then isn't that the lesson that napster is teaching us. Not that people want something for nothing. We already knew that. But that distribution of anything which can be digitally recorded doesn't need a middleman anymore. We can do it ourselves, and they don't like that.
--
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
lies lies its all lies, don't listen to him children. ;-)
--
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
I wish we'd stop spending (tax-payers) money on more interesting ways to kill each other.
" You don't have to look too far to see the 'bigger-dick' foreign policy plan in action. It goes something like 'what?!? they have bigger dicks?!?! BOMB THEM!!!' And of course the bullets and the bombs and the rockets are all shaped like dicks too. I don't quite understand that part yet, but it is part of the equation."
Apologies to George Carlin.
--
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
Follow the bouncing ball people.
.NET a software 'platform' so you create applications for it and not the OS
1 : M$ gains OS monopoly.
2 : M$ uses monopoly to monopolise applications
3 : DOJ threatens to break up M$ so they can't abuse the OS monopoly
4 : M$ creates
Just like before M$'s programmers will have access to undocumented features to ensure that M$ Office etc will run better than anyone elses.
Welcome to your new monopoly.
--
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
companies interests =! quality software
companies interests = spitting out product on time
They are also not used to the idea of community ownership of something. They think Linus owns Linux so he can stop them doing something with it. I guess they are also scared of forking for the same reason why they want only one windowmanager and desktop - it just makes things easier for them - less work, easier to make money.
--
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
Haven't we proved that prohibition doesn't work. fact of the matter is 'some' people are always going to have these feelings (be it pedo, homosexual, beastial or psychotic or whatever) and making it illegal to even think or write or paint about it means that they will simply go underground. Everyone has a darkside and a safe, consensual means to deal with these emotions is the only long term solution.
Making something illegal doesn't make it go away, nor does it make so called sick people better. Just like taking guns away won't stop people killing each other, but dealing with the issues which made them want to kill eachother just might find a solution.
--
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
" it will have to be from a very small cluster of stars near us, which might have been formed near the same time after the big bang, such that planets capable of supporting life would have all started the evolution timer at the same point. "
But how close would depend on the size of the universe, and assuming the universe exists in a vacuum and exploded outward then wouldn't 'life at the same stage' be in a sort of shell (think electron orbits).
Actually, looking for stars about the same age in galaxies about the same age. or in the same 'shell'.
By the way is there any collective noun for galaxies? (don't you dare say universe)
--
Steve Jobs: We're better than you are.
Bill Gates: That doesn't matter.
thanks for the errata, I knew as soon as I typed it that the quicktime example was flawed but I didn't want to just pick on one company and couldn't think of another one. And the lack of a linux quicktime player is still a sore point for me.
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The most important thing to have is open specifications for file formats - the basis for what most of us do with a computer.
For example so apple can't force you to use MacOS* in order to see quicktime movies, or so M$ can't force you to run Win*/Office* to read word docs.
This inevitabily leads to better software because companies can't reply on your dependance, you could use the adobe quicktime player if you wanted so if apple wants to keep their customers they have to improve their software to compete, not prevent competition in order to compete.
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Its been a little while since I read it but doesn't the book end without any revelations about Rama at all? Apart from the everything in 3's thing.
So how will they end the movie to satisfy Joe A Citizen
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movies based on these sf novels don't really seem to pan out. You always lose a lot of the details which make the novels so thought provoking and always spend crap loads on FX so you can drag the average punter in.
Fans of the novel go away thinking what a waste (the book was way better), Joe Average Citizen leaves thinking that was boring, and those who go to see it becuase they heard the book was so good go away thinking that it was no big deal (that clarke guy mustn't be such a great writer).
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"I find it ironic that Microsoft, of all companies, is complaining about "insufficient competition".
Not that strange when you realise that M$ is always interested in new companies starting up that they can lock into a NT based system and sell crappy software to.
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as an mutt and linux only user I have been kicked in the balls by the fact that others use windows. My email was unavailable last night and my net access sucked the big choade (as they say here).