Ubuntu in their kernel applies patches for instance that include code to write to Sony Memory Stick Duo cards. It isn't in the mainline kernel, and sadly I haven't seen another distro include these patches. So hardware support for that is distro specific. I haven't touched Gentoo in years, but they had distro specific patches that added support for certain Promise cards.
Sometimes a specific distro develops patches themselves for specific hardware support. The Eee PC has distro specific patches for the hardware on the Asus Eee PC.
I'm sorry. Who is the drooling moron?
Don't throw around insults when the facts don't support you.
I read about a fork of Xorg a year or two ago that sounded really interesting, but haven't heard anything since. I wonder if Google is using it. I think I read about it on Phoronix but the name escapes me. Anyone?
Actually it is just Chrome or Linux. On my Windows box, 95% of the software on the box isn't made by Microsoft. I don't call it Adobe/Windows or Firefox/Windows or Blizzard/Windows, etc. That is ridiculous. Windows is the name of the OS, just as Linux is the commonly used name for Linux, even though Linux is technically only the kernel.
RMS claims he isn't all about ego, but he draws logos where Tux is small and the GNU logo is huge, and he insists that GNU be put before Linux. His argument is based on ego rather than logic and I refuse to buy in.
I would contend taking an Office 2000/2003 user and placing them infront of Office 2007 would require extensive training, where as migrating to OOo is the easier move.
I thought I read in some interviews when Richard Garriot was first developing games, and starting to code them in assembly, that companies were exceedingly impressed with what he was able to accomplish with limited computing power back in the day. They begged him to write a spreadsheet.
As someone who loathes their business practices, I think over the years, MS Office has turned into a very good product. And MS does have a few very good products.
The biggest problem I think they face is that with little serious competition, a lot of the spit and polish never gets addressed. Daily I come across a stupid usability issue that I wish they'd fix. But since they don't listen to direct feedback all that much, it likely will never be fixed.
OS X prides themselves on usability and polish, and people are starting to pay a premium for it. Or in the Linux world, I can fire up bugzilla, or email a dev. Heck, I can just open SVN and submit a patch myself.
They need someone to challenge them more in the Office marketplace, and then they might put out a better product.
Even worse, we sell lingerie aimed at tweens, and market teenagers as sex symbols while watching "To Catch a Predator" and decrying men sleeping with teenages are vile scum. There is a weird double-standard here.
When Kevin Smith wrote a column saying he wasn't interested in the then 16-year old Brittany Spears, and how he felt it was wrong to market teenagers as sex symbols, he got hate mail saying every healthy man on the planet wants to sleep with young teenagers.
I think society doesn't want to make this a bigger issue because they can't deal with it consistently or coherently. Instead they pass laws forbidding sex offenders from living in their towns, adding additional punishment for crimes already punished. The Supreme Court actually ruled that neither ex posto facto nor double jeopardy apply. So apparently pedophiles don't get Constitutional rights.
Statistically they are the most likely to repeat offend. So clearly, we're not dealing with the issue in any successful or meaningful way.
As a parent of a three-year old, I largely agree with your sentiment. However, should we demand psych treatment for people who enjoy BDSM? What about furries?
Where exactly do you intend to draw the line with acceptable fetishes that demand medical treatment, and ones that don't?
I'm not sure humans control the fetishes they enjoy, but almost rather they simply discover them.
I don't think we have a very good understanding of how the brain operates in this capacity, so I'm not sure we even have the capability to treat pedophiles aside from chemical castration.
One could argue that the basis for that decision is that if there are no real children, and there is no real pornography, then no one was victimized, and thusly no crime was committed. That hasn't stopped people from throwing around accusations of "child pornography" when people write Harry Potter fan-fic. If the underlying issue here is the exploitation of children, you could argue no children were exploited here.
I've spent a whopping two weeks in Europe. And I'm not suggesting that racism is extremely prevalent there, or more prevalent that anywhere else. I'm suggesting it isn't completely absent.
You can't suggest that one part of the world is racist, and that others aren't because racism is a human condition.
That is merely what I was trying to express.
As far as racism vs xenophobia, racism is judgment on the basis of race. Race is a group of humans based upon a number of factors, such as common ancestry, or living in the same geographical area.
The racism I encountered wasn't fear of all outsiders, but rather targeted racism towards Americans.
Hatred/stereotyping of Americans cannot be construed as racism, because Americans are not a race.
Definition of race:
1 A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics. 2 A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race. 3 A genealogical line; a lineage. 4 Humans considered as a group.
Its futbol, not football.
Spelling is different in different countries. For instance, England's Premier League spells football as football. As a native English speaker, football is the correct spelling for me. Don't attempt to correct a pedant when you are wrong.
I am quite certain you were no refused service for being an american.
You are making an assumption here, and you are wrong. I was refused service before I spoke a word. I was as well dressed as anyone in the place. And even though the bistro appeared to be run by Italians, I was in England. So I speak the language.
And, by the way, American is a proper noun, and thusly capitalized, like French, which you also failed to capitalize. You seriously shouldn't try to point out spelling mistakes.
...then I'm glad that judgement and stereotyping are human condition. Let's face it, so are you.
You misspelled judgment there, and failed to comprehend what I wrote. I am not glad for racism. I make a conscious effort to combat it.
I was having a discussion on a forum when a French individual was berating all Americans for being racist, while I was watching the news about race riots in France.
You feel that stereotyping people by race protects you from being raped or murdered. I would contend that is a rather ugly form of racism to assume that one race is more likely to rape or murder than another. Arguably classism applies here, that crime is higher in poorer classes, but that is not to say that the rich are above crime. Nor are most races.
My family adopted a Native American girl, and a Pakistani boy. I live in the predominately Mexican part of town out of choice. I love the taquerias, and the cost of houses are much cheaper. It is a lie to suggest all men were born equal. But I believe why should try to treat all men as equal.
I don't respond to ACs normally, especially those that troll, but I should clarify here.
In England, in an Italian bistro I was told as soon as I walked in with my wife and two friends that there were no tables available for us, despite seeing an almost empty restaurant. We hadn't opened our mouths. We were well dressed. A manager saw what happened, chastised the host and had us seated. But the waitress ignored us all night, and we spent over two hours basically waiting for pasta and drinks while everyone around us was served.
I spoke to my wife's British family about the incident, and they said Italians, French, etc. can spot Americans often by their shoes or jeans. They know what isn't designer, and what Americans wear.
In a related note, when I was in Cannes, I needed to use a toilet. Every business I went to told me they had no toilets. I went to a tourist information kiosk, and was told the entire town had no toilets, and I had to walk out of town, and go to the beach. Again, I was dressed nice. I walked into a casino, and was immediately escorted out before I said a word. They wanted to know why I was trying to walk into their casino when I apparently didn't look like a customer they wanted.
Another tourist center informed me there was a public toilet immediately around the corner, which I knew to be a lie. I said I had just come from there, and they told me to leave the tourist center.
And this was during the middle of the Cannes film festival when presumably there were tons of Americans present. Maybe I didn't look rich enough, or maybe it was simply that I was American.
Later that day, I was waiting for a small train holding my two-year old daughter. When the train arrived, someone shoved me quite hard to push me out of the way. I fell over a stone fountain next to me, twisted my knee, and was holding my daughter up so she didn't hit the stone.
I quite literally cried out in pain, and couldn't get up. No one apologized, or offered to help me up. They just got on the train and ignored me.
In context, he kept suggesting to me that all Americans fit the stereotypes of southern rednecks, and he kept quoting the fact that Americans held slaves, and that some Americans fought a war to protect slavery.
I countered that we are the only country to arguably fight a war to end slavery. Either way, he was adamant that Swedes never had slaves, when in fact, they did. American slave-owners in the South sometimes allowed their slaves to earn money and buy their way out of slavery as well, so the American slave concept wasn't completely removed from the concept of a serf. Especially given that many serfs lived their entire lives in servitude with no real hope of escaping their situation.
I also countered that his hatred and stereotyping for all Americans could be construed as racism. He was adamant that he wasn't racist, but rather that all Americans were horrible, evil, Imperialists with no education or respect for human life.
In talking to other Europeans they tell me that their perception is that America is a very racist country, and that Europeans aren't racist. Which I find odd, because in England I hear a lot of anti-French sentiments, and vice-versa. I was refused service in a restaurant for being American, and racist epithets are common at soccer/football matches in Europe, where as that behavior isn't tolerated in American stadiums.
My point is that judgment and stereotyping is a very human condition. Sadly, it comes quite naturally, and I think it requires conscious effort to combat racism and cast aside racist judgments.
I'm sincerely curious how prevalent these things are in Japanese culture. If these are the small oddities that exist on the fringe, as opposed to cultural staples, then honestly I'm not sure it is different from American culture.
I recall when Newt Gingrich was trying to kill the National Endowment for the Arts, he pointed to an artist who got a $150 grant from the government and bought a fish tank that he filled with urine, and an upside down cross. What if a Japanese tourist came over that day, saw the item in the news and said "apparently this is American culture, for the government to sponsor blasphemous artwork submerged in urine."
We judge societies by contrast, the things that seem most different from what we accept as normal. But sometimes the extremes on the fringe are what stand out the most.
Should we suggest all Canadians are brutes because they club baby seals? In reality, it would be unfair because Canadians are characteristically polite.
In all fairness, racism is a human condition prevalent in many cultures. I remember a Swedish gentleman suggesting that Swedes have never been racist. So I pointed him to a history book, and the term serf from the fact that they took slaves from other lands they conquered.
It was preachy, pedantic, and not once did I laugh during the whole film. I bought if for me, watched it once, and was sorely disappointed. But my daughter watches it at least once a day currently.
I really wanted to like Wall-E. I get the story they are trying to tell. I think it was a bold move to make a movie with so little dialogue. At the end of the day, it just really bored me.
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Have you tried a build of KDE 4.3 trunk?
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Medias/images/iso/KDE4-UNSTABLE-Live.i686-1.2.95-Build2.1.iso
Honestly, give it a spin for a day or two. I loathed KDE 4.0 and 4.1, and I'm starting to come around.
Does Google spend money on the Summer of Code? Do they profit directly from it?
Do they hire guys like Andrew Morton and tell him his entire job is to work on Linux at Linus' discretion?
Is Google's entire company built upon Linux?
Ubuntu in their kernel applies patches for instance that include code to write to Sony Memory Stick Duo cards. It isn't in the mainline kernel, and sadly I haven't seen another distro include these patches. So hardware support for that is distro specific. I haven't touched Gentoo in years, but they had distro specific patches that added support for certain Promise cards.
Sometimes a specific distro develops patches themselves for specific hardware support. The Eee PC has distro specific patches for the hardware on the Asus Eee PC.
I'm sorry. Who is the drooling moron?
Don't throw around insults when the facts don't support you.
I read about a fork of Xorg a year or two ago that sounded really interesting, but haven't heard anything since. I wonder if Google is using it. I think I read about it on Phoronix but the name escapes me. Anyone?
Actually it is just Chrome or Linux. On my Windows box, 95% of the software on the box isn't made by Microsoft. I don't call it Adobe/Windows or Firefox/Windows or Blizzard/Windows, etc. That is ridiculous. Windows is the name of the OS, just as Linux is the commonly used name for Linux, even though Linux is technically only the kernel.
RMS claims he isn't all about ego, but he draws logos where Tux is small and the GNU logo is huge, and he insists that GNU be put before Linux. His argument is based on ego rather than logic and I refuse to buy in.
It is open source. You'll be able to download it and install it as you like, whether or not Google packages it or not.
KDE is far from a MS clone, and offers vastly more innovation that what MS is offering at the moment.
There is also a backlash in the KDE community when anyone suggests implementing or copying a MS feature.
Have you even used KDE?
Evermore looks like it might be based off of OpenOffice 1, like IBM Lotus Symphony was.
I would contend taking an Office 2000/2003 user and placing them infront of Office 2007 would require extensive training, where as migrating to OOo is the easier move.
I gave it to my mother and she can just use it.
I thought I read in some interviews when Richard Garriot was first developing games, and starting to code them in assembly, that companies were exceedingly impressed with what he was able to accomplish with limited computing power back in the day. They begged him to write a spreadsheet.
As someone who loathes their business practices, I think over the years, MS Office has turned into a very good product. And MS does have a few very good products.
The biggest problem I think they face is that with little serious competition, a lot of the spit and polish never gets addressed. Daily I come across a stupid usability issue that I wish they'd fix. But since they don't listen to direct feedback all that much, it likely will never be fixed.
OS X prides themselves on usability and polish, and people are starting to pay a premium for it. Or in the Linux world, I can fire up bugzilla, or email a dev. Heck, I can just open SVN and submit a patch myself.
They need someone to challenge them more in the Office marketplace, and then they might put out a better product.
Mod parent up, please.
What exactly is deviant and what exactly is normal?
Society used to decry oral sex as deviant. The Uniform Code of Military Justice lists oral sex specifically as a deviant act.
Even worse, we sell lingerie aimed at tweens, and market teenagers as sex symbols while watching "To Catch a Predator" and decrying men sleeping with teenages are vile scum. There is a weird double-standard here.
When Kevin Smith wrote a column saying he wasn't interested in the then 16-year old Brittany Spears, and how he felt it was wrong to market teenagers as sex symbols, he got hate mail saying every healthy man on the planet wants to sleep with young teenagers.
I think society doesn't want to make this a bigger issue because they can't deal with it consistently or coherently. Instead they pass laws forbidding sex offenders from living in their towns, adding additional punishment for crimes already punished. The Supreme Court actually ruled that neither ex posto facto nor double jeopardy apply. So apparently pedophiles don't get Constitutional rights.
Statistically they are the most likely to repeat offend. So clearly, we're not dealing with the issue in any successful or meaningful way.
As a parent of a three-year old, I largely agree with your sentiment. However, should we demand psych treatment for people who enjoy BDSM? What about furries?
Where exactly do you intend to draw the line with acceptable fetishes that demand medical treatment, and ones that don't?
I'm not sure humans control the fetishes they enjoy, but almost rather they simply discover them.
I don't think we have a very good understanding of how the brain operates in this capacity, so I'm not sure we even have the capability to treat pedophiles aside from chemical castration.
One could argue that the basis for that decision is that if there are no real children, and there is no real pornography, then no one was victimized, and thusly no crime was committed. That hasn't stopped people from throwing around accusations of "child pornography" when people write Harry Potter fan-fic. If the underlying issue here is the exploitation of children, you could argue no children were exploited here.
I've spent a whopping two weeks in Europe. And I'm not suggesting that racism is extremely prevalent there, or more prevalent that anywhere else. I'm suggesting it isn't completely absent.
You can't suggest that one part of the world is racist, and that others aren't because racism is a human condition.
That is merely what I was trying to express.
As far as racism vs xenophobia, racism is judgment on the basis of race. Race is a group of humans based upon a number of factors, such as common ancestry, or living in the same geographical area.
The racism I encountered wasn't fear of all outsiders, but rather targeted racism towards Americans.
Hatred/stereotyping of Americans cannot be construed as racism, because Americans are not a race.
Definition of race:
1 A local geographic or global human population distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted physical characteristics.
2 A group of people united or classified together on the basis of common history, nationality, or geographic distribution: the German race.
3 A genealogical line; a lineage.
4 Humans considered as a group.
Its futbol, not football.
Spelling is different in different countries. For instance, England's Premier League spells football as football. As a native English speaker, football is the correct spelling for me. Don't attempt to correct a pedant when you are wrong.
I am quite certain you were no refused service for being an american.
You are making an assumption here, and you are wrong. I was refused service before I spoke a word. I was as well dressed as anyone in the place. And even though the bistro appeared to be run by Italians, I was in England. So I speak the language.
And, by the way, American is a proper noun, and thusly capitalized, like French, which you also failed to capitalize. You seriously shouldn't try to point out spelling mistakes.
...then I'm glad that judgement and stereotyping are human condition. Let's face it, so are you.
You misspelled judgment there, and failed to comprehend what I wrote. I am not glad for racism. I make a conscious effort to combat it.
I was having a discussion on a forum when a French individual was berating all Americans for being racist, while I was watching the news about race riots in France.
You feel that stereotyping people by race protects you from being raped or murdered. I would contend that is a rather ugly form of racism to assume that one race is more likely to rape or murder than another. Arguably classism applies here, that crime is higher in poorer classes, but that is not to say that the rich are above crime. Nor are most races.
My family adopted a Native American girl, and a Pakistani boy. I live in the predominately Mexican part of town out of choice. I love the taquerias, and the cost of houses are much cheaper. It is a lie to suggest all men were born equal. But I believe why should try to treat all men as equal.
I don't respond to ACs normally, especially those that troll, but I should clarify here.
In England, in an Italian bistro I was told as soon as I walked in with my wife and two friends that there were no tables available for us, despite seeing an almost empty restaurant. We hadn't opened our mouths. We were well dressed. A manager saw what happened, chastised the host and had us seated. But the waitress ignored us all night, and we spent over two hours basically waiting for pasta and drinks while everyone around us was served.
I spoke to my wife's British family about the incident, and they said Italians, French, etc. can spot Americans often by their shoes or jeans. They know what isn't designer, and what Americans wear.
In a related note, when I was in Cannes, I needed to use a toilet. Every business I went to told me they had no toilets. I went to a tourist information kiosk, and was told the entire town had no toilets, and I had to walk out of town, and go to the beach. Again, I was dressed nice. I walked into a casino, and was immediately escorted out before I said a word. They wanted to know why I was trying to walk into their casino when I apparently didn't look like a customer they wanted.
Another tourist center informed me there was a public toilet immediately around the corner, which I knew to be a lie. I said I had just come from there, and they told me to leave the tourist center.
And this was during the middle of the Cannes film festival when presumably there were tons of Americans present. Maybe I didn't look rich enough, or maybe it was simply that I was American.
Later that day, I was waiting for a small train holding my two-year old daughter. When the train arrived, someone shoved me quite hard to push me out of the way. I fell over a stone fountain next to me, twisted my knee, and was holding my daughter up so she didn't hit the stone.
I quite literally cried out in pain, and couldn't get up. No one apologized, or offered to help me up. They just got on the train and ignored me.
I never intend to go back there again.
In context, he kept suggesting to me that all Americans fit the stereotypes of southern rednecks, and he kept quoting the fact that Americans held slaves, and that some Americans fought a war to protect slavery.
I countered that we are the only country to arguably fight a war to end slavery. Either way, he was adamant that Swedes never had slaves, when in fact, they did. American slave-owners in the South sometimes allowed their slaves to earn money and buy their way out of slavery as well, so the American slave concept wasn't completely removed from the concept of a serf. Especially given that many serfs lived their entire lives in servitude with no real hope of escaping their situation.
I also countered that his hatred and stereotyping for all Americans could be construed as racism. He was adamant that he wasn't racist, but rather that all Americans were horrible, evil, Imperialists with no education or respect for human life.
In talking to other Europeans they tell me that their perception is that America is a very racist country, and that Europeans aren't racist. Which I find odd, because in England I hear a lot of anti-French sentiments, and vice-versa. I was refused service in a restaurant for being American, and racist epithets are common at soccer/football matches in Europe, where as that behavior isn't tolerated in American stadiums.
My point is that judgment and stereotyping is a very human condition. Sadly, it comes quite naturally, and I think it requires conscious effort to combat racism and cast aside racist judgments.
I'm sincerely curious how prevalent these things are in Japanese culture. If these are the small oddities that exist on the fringe, as opposed to cultural staples, then honestly I'm not sure it is different from American culture.
I recall when Newt Gingrich was trying to kill the National Endowment for the Arts, he pointed to an artist who got a $150 grant from the government and bought a fish tank that he filled with urine, and an upside down cross. What if a Japanese tourist came over that day, saw the item in the news and said "apparently this is American culture, for the government to sponsor blasphemous artwork submerged in urine."
We judge societies by contrast, the things that seem most different from what we accept as normal. But sometimes the extremes on the fringe are what stand out the most.
Should we suggest all Canadians are brutes because they club baby seals? In reality, it would be unfair because Canadians are characteristically polite.
In all fairness, racism is a human condition prevalent in many cultures. I remember a Swedish gentleman suggesting that Swedes have never been racist. So I pointed him to a history book, and the term serf from the fact that they took slaves from other lands they conquered.
Wake me when there is a Qt4 fork of Chromium, or a version of Rekonq that implements Chrome's separate process model.
It was preachy, pedantic, and not once did I laugh during the whole film. I bought if for me, watched it once, and was sorely disappointed. But my daughter watches it at least once a day currently.
I really wanted to like Wall-E. I get the story they are trying to tell. I think it was a bold move to make a movie with so little dialogue. At the end of the day, it just really bored me.
Ratatouille and Wall-E were films aimed at adults more than kids, and arguably two of their worst films.