Coming soon from Google: Google International Diplomacy!
Are you tired of endless, bureaucratic discussions with international diplomats? Well worry no more! Google will sort out all your petty squabbles for you, with no interference and just a few text based ads appended to your country's constitution.
Google International Diplomacy integrates fully with existing Google packages. Connect that red "President Phone" to Google Talk! Search for the name of a country's Prime Minister with Google Google!
Yes one of GenUX's goals is to higher Gentoo Developers
Maybe they could just get all the Gentoo hackers to stand on cardboard boxes? Sometimes, the simplest solutions are the best.Although I guess that's not a very Gentoo mentality.
Ultimately, Google are for making money. As are Microsoft. As are Apple, Novell, Red Hat, basically any for-profit organisation. Sometimes, they will do something that one perceives as noble, if only to increase turnover.
Corporations have a legal mandate to make money. It doesn't mean they can do no good, just that they are opposed to good deeds if they result in the haemorraging of cash.
Personally, I'm a big fan of the work Google do (at the moment at least). Just don't expect them to honestly set out inspirational visions for their future.
The thing is that, if everyone said "GNU/Linux", the "GNU" part doesn't remind them of the FSF, it reminds them of RMS.
Furthermore, if RMS wants people to be remembered, he should fight for everyone to be remembered, whether he agrees with their development model or not. Otherwise, he's just being hypocritical.
FOSS ideology was never about names. If Linus didn't protect his intellectual property, Microsoft and SCO could make a company called "Linux Baby Killing, Inc."
Also, trademark protection isn't new. Why don't you phone Red Hat and ask to make a RHEL based distro, still keeping all Red Hat's insignia? Or maybe try Debian, or Firefox, or anyone else. I don't understand why people have a problem with this.
I've always wondered, if you've got Acrobat on your system, would Stallman want you to call it Adobe/GNU/Linux? 'Cos I've got ATI/Adobe/Real/Lexmark/GNU/Linux in that case.
"GNU/Linux" was never about giving people credit. It was about ensuring that Stallman's work in establishing a free software community is never forgotten.
Microsoft created the term 'TCO' in the first place, IIRC. To me, its all BS. Sure, 7-11 may have found it moderately preferable to stay with Windows than to retrain staff, but that doesn't give any indication to the qualitive improvements in the standard of work, nor does it factor in long-term benefits that open source development models tend to provide. The parent also raised a fantastic point about vendor lock-in; if you use windows, Microsoft effectively owns your software.
Its interesting that you cite the GUI as a form of innovation. My first reaction was "yeah, but, like, look under the cover. Linux is way more innovative."
However, the customers that the article is talking about doesn't care about how effective pipes and sockets are in a CLI. They want their OS to look good and guide them by the hand when they try to do a task (think Clippy). I think the FOSS community could learn a lot from this approach. So long as they don't sacrifice performance where it really is important.
This episode of LUGRadio has an interview with Henrik Nielsen Omma, who maintains the OpenCD project. Its well worth a listen, particularly when he talks about his collaboration with Ubuntu.
Google will be passe the moment you can buy Google heroin. Then, as you lie wasted in the street, the needle will serve up contextualised adverts based on your personal preferences.
CSI also makes it harder to convict murderers. Firstly, forensics teams are under a lot of pressure to piece together events from not much (ever notice how on CSI they see a drop of the victim's blood and say "so John Doe did it with the axe in the dining room!"?), but juries are now harder to convince unless a strand of hair was found at the scene.
Interesting (scary?) how the media shapes our perception of crime and criminals...
An easy test for you: if someone goes around murdering people in a grizzly, macabre fashion then they are probably psychopaths. On the other hand, if they can solve complex differential equations in their heads, they're a genius.
I can imagine showing your grandparents your holiday snaps.
"And this is a very nice girl I met." "What's that in the middle?" "Oh, its just one of her pores magnified to 1000x on account of my cool new camera. It like an eagle, you know."
Yes, that's a good way of demonstrating the risks involved in space travel.
"Oh no! After he burns shit-loads of hydrogen behind him to lift him outside of the Earth's atmosphere, then goes into conditions beyond what the human body ever evolved to do, with only the prospect of a terrifyingly dangerous descent, he'll have A SLIGHTLY INCREASED RISK OF CANCER!"
You're reducing the achievements of these pioneers to something that any smoker could boast about.
Are you suggesting that someone without a job is more worthy of death than someone with a job?
The jobless aren't often in that position out of choice. Here in the UK, unemployment benefits are only payed to those who can prove that they are looking for a job. And plenty of people are on "Workseeker's Allowance". Now, some of these people may not be able to feed their family with the pittance the government pays them. So, seeing my nice, middle class house, they decide to steal some money to feed their kids.
I'm sure you see where this is going. I don't know this man. I don't like him coming into my house. So I kill him. Are you suggesting that (because I was raised in a more affluent area, and hence was given a greater chance for a job than this man) I should be given a minimal sentence, despite the fact that he's just payed with his life for stealing a bit of cash?
Rumour has it that, with the right modifications, Jack Thompson can be naked. A penis and exposed ass are both visible when this mod is applied, and the makers of Jack Thompson released him to the world in full knowledge that he can be naked.
Dear God! Won't somebody please think of the children?
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Are you tired of endless, bureaucratic discussions with international diplomats? Well worry no more! Google will sort out all your petty squabbles for you, with no interference and just a few text based ads appended to your country's constitution.
Google International Diplomacy integrates fully with existing Google packages. Connect that red "President Phone" to Google Talk! Search for the name of a country's Prime Minister with Google Google!
Maybe they could just get all the Gentoo hackers to stand on cardboard boxes? Sometimes, the simplest solutions are the best.Although I guess that's not a very Gentoo mentality.
I thought a calendar was already available for Thunderbird as a plugin.
Anyway, I only really use web-based email. I have no need for an email client. Will Sunbird still have stand-alone releases?
Adelbert does this, too.
Corporations have a legal mandate to make money. It doesn't mean they can do no good, just that they are opposed to good deeds if they result in the haemorraging of cash.
Personally, I'm a big fan of the work Google do (at the moment at least). Just don't expect them to honestly set out inspirational visions for their future.
Sorry, are you talking about Vista or Debian?
That's funny, when I read there was a "Trans-Neptunian Santa", the first thing I thought was "Man, Futurama was ahead of its time..."
One further nitpick:
-no-one has yet mentioned the UK. Why do people act like it isn't part of Europe?
However, the huge gaps between the Japanese, then the US, finally the EU launch mean that more UMD films and games are available at launch.
1/9 == "More than 10%". Buy a calculator if you need to check that out. Has UID but didn't subscribe (still proud that I'm not an AC).
Don't worry, Stallman 2.0 is being released in September.
Furthermore, if RMS wants people to be remembered, he should fight for everyone to be remembered, whether he agrees with their development model or not. Otherwise, he's just being hypocritical.
Also, trademark protection isn't new. Why don't you phone Red Hat and ask to make a RHEL based distro, still keeping all Red Hat's insignia? Or maybe try Debian, or Firefox, or anyone else. I don't understand why people have a problem with this.
"GNU/Linux" was never about giving people credit. It was about ensuring that Stallman's work in establishing a free software community is never forgotten.
Microsoft created the term 'TCO' in the first place, IIRC. To me, its all BS. Sure, 7-11 may have found it moderately preferable to stay with Windows than to retrain staff, but that doesn't give any indication to the qualitive improvements in the standard of work, nor does it factor in long-term benefits that open source development models tend to provide. The parent also raised a fantastic point about vendor lock-in; if you use windows, Microsoft effectively owns your software.
However, the customers that the article is talking about doesn't care about how effective pipes and sockets are in a CLI. They want their OS to look good and guide them by the hand when they try to do a task (think Clippy). I think the FOSS community could learn a lot from this approach. So long as they don't sacrifice performance where it really is important.
If that's what you think, then so do I!
This episode of LUGRadio has an interview with Henrik Nielsen Omma, who maintains the OpenCD project. Its well worth a listen, particularly when he talks about his collaboration with Ubuntu.
Google will be passe the moment you can buy Google heroin. Then, as you lie wasted in the street, the needle will serve up contextualised adverts based on your personal preferences.
Interesting (scary?) how the media shapes our perception of crime and criminals...
An easy test for you: if someone goes around murdering people in a grizzly, macabre fashion then they are probably psychopaths. On the other hand, if they can solve complex differential equations in their heads, they're a genius.
I can imagine showing your grandparents your holiday snaps.
"And this is a very nice girl I met."
"What's that in the middle?"
"Oh, its just one of her pores magnified to 1000x on account of my cool new camera. It like an eagle, you know."
Yes, that's a good way of demonstrating the risks involved in space travel.
"Oh no! After he burns shit-loads of hydrogen behind him to lift him outside of the Earth's atmosphere, then goes into conditions beyond what the human body ever evolved to do, with only the prospect of a terrifyingly dangerous descent, he'll have A SLIGHTLY INCREASED RISK OF CANCER!"
You're reducing the achievements of these pioneers to something that any smoker could boast about.
The jobless aren't often in that position out of choice. Here in the UK, unemployment benefits are only payed to those who can prove that they are looking for a job. And plenty of people are on "Workseeker's Allowance". Now, some of these people may not be able to feed their family with the pittance the government pays them. So, seeing my nice, middle class house, they decide to steal some money to feed their kids.
I'm sure you see where this is going. I don't know this man. I don't like him coming into my house. So I kill him. Are you suggesting that (because I was raised in a more affluent area, and hence was given a greater chance for a job than this man) I should be given a minimal sentence, despite the fact that he's just payed with his life for stealing a bit of cash?
Rumour has it that, with the right modifications, Jack Thompson can be naked. A penis and exposed ass are both visible when this mod is applied, and the makers of Jack Thompson released him to the world in full knowledge that he can be naked.
Dear God! Won't somebody please think of the children?