Nope, still pretty much the same. If you install apt4rpm on SuSE it helps somewhat, but the apt repositories for SuSE are lacking compared to what's out there for other major distros.
Most of the stuff I had problems with, though, are things that I doubt would be of much interest in an office setting, though, so it might be OK to use SuSE/NDL in this case.
most $1 DVDs I've seen are very-very-cheap horror movies or action movies with "fake" movie stars (for example some guy who looks like Stallone even if you know he's not the real one).
I picked up a bunch of $2 (Cdn.) DVDs at the Army & Navy starring Dragon Lee, Bruce Li, and other imitators. Also, some good Blaxploitation flicks. All of them are hilarious to watch, though I'm not sure that's what was intended. Good fun, though.
I probably get it better than you do. What good is open source if everyone takes what they can and doesn't contribute back? What good is it without freedom? Without freedom, it's just the ability to look at other people's code. If these companies don't want to respect that freedom or respect the wishes of the copyright holder/creator, then they can do it themselves and waste their effort on duplicating what's been done already. The GPL doesn't force anything down anyone's throat. It grants the user rights on the condition that anyone else who receives the software gets those rights as well. If companies have a problem with that, then they can feel free to take from BSDL projects or make it themselves. OSS is not a free ride for them, and if that marginalizes GPL software, then so be it.
Then let them. If they don't want to play by the rules, then there's no reason why they should get a free ride by taking advantage of another person's work, unless that person says it's ok.
"But," you say, "You are already benefiting from my labor."
to which the answer is of course, that was your choice.
And it was your choice to base your labour on code with a license that required you to give back. You have no claim to the moral high ground.
Where BSD serves the selfish desires of the down stream developers, GPL serves the selfish desires of the up stream developers.
You're entirely right. Just as the upstream developers of BSD-licensed software have no right to bitch when people take their code and use it in proprietary apps, the downstream developers of GPLed software have no right to bitch about the conditions of the GPL. You don't like it, use something else. It's that simple.
There should be a law where whoever the losing side is, they pay the legal expenses of the winner. It would probably end the majority of frivolous lawsuits.
More people use OpenOffice than MS Office? I call BS. Let's see some numbers. I like OpenOffice a lot and recommend it to everyone who uses it for personal/casual use, but I doubt it's the more popular of the two.
Am I the only person on the planet who realizes that my screen saver will probably be running when I'm not at my computer, so therefore a blank screen will do just as well? I don't get why people need fancy 3D effects on their screensavers. But then, it doesn't affect me, so whatever makes you happy is fine I guess.
Looks like someone's incapable of a little reading comprehension.
If the hardware is not capable of mixing, then the fact that there is no mixing is a failing of the hardware. In most OSes, this is resolved with software mixing, which hasn't been done 100% in Linux yet. Therefore, both statements are true.
It was my understanding that a lot of that was handled in software, not hardware. Which sort of means both statements are true. It's a hardware problem usually surmounted in software, which the Linux people haven't done 100% yet.
Just FYI KillerBob, I heard the Liberals were planning on keeping Parliament in session for longer than usual to ensure the gay marriage bill goes through. That means there's a serious risk that they'll have enough time to push this through. Hopefully there will be enough dissent that their minority gov't won't be able to pass it. That's why we need to speak up now.
nintendo promised that their ENTIRE catalog would be available.
There's the catch. Nintendo's entire catalog would be available, not necessarily all the thrid-party stuff. You can probably expect every game Nintendo made or published available for Revolution, but that may not necessarily include all of Capcom's NES titles, Acclaim, Activision, etc.
Ok, I just did a quick Google search, and though they haven't reached net importer status yet, the U.S. is coming very, very close. And they do export a significant amount of food, so a lot of what's being imported is other food which is produced cheaper elsewhere or can't be produced in the United States. What I had read was much more alarmist. Still, the fact remains that 6% of the arable land may be sufficient at current consumption rates, that will not continue to be true as rates rise, and given the choice between land for energy and land for food, most people will probably choose food.
"I get so sick of this. Let all those piddling little countries make their nukes and wipe each other off the face of the earth. That'll leave the rest of us to go on enjoying our inexpensive nuclear electricity."
We'll need that electricity to keep us warm during the nuclear winter.
So what is the theoretical fastest time you could have these batteries charged? Because if it's just a few minutes, and the electrical systems in the home are not capable of it, then why not have dedicated "electricity stations" where you can recharge your car just as you would fill it with gas? I don't get why everyone who craps on the idea of the electric car immediately assumes you have to charge it from the outlet on your house or garage. How would you take your car on a road trip, then?
I can't remember where it was that I read it (natch), but I do recall reading that if all the energy the U.S. uses produced from petrochemicals were switched to biodiesel, it would only take 6% of the country's arable land to produce it from hemp at current rates of consumption. Of course, that doesn't take into account the fact that those rates increase all the time, and there's only enough arable land there to expand production without interfering with food production (of which the U.S. is now a net importer to begin with), but it's an interesting thought nonetheless.
First off, a flat tax on gasoline is not unfair. It is, effectively, a tax on the efficiency of the vehicle (the less gas you use, the less you get taxed). Also, engine displacement is not necessarily a good measure of fuel economy. Compare the Honda S2000 to, say, a new Corvette. The Corvette has twice as many cylinders, over twice the displacement, weighs a considerable amount more, and makes significantly more power, yet it has a better highway fuel economy rating and only a marginally worse city fuel economy rating compared to the S2000. There are a number of variables to be taken into account if calculating a tax based on engine selection, and displacement is a very very small factor.
"Splitting those atoms is the only sure way we have to keep our economy alive and to do so without destroying our climate."
So what happens when we hit peak uranium? There are two major uranium isotopes, only one of which is suitable for use as nuclear fuel. It's also the one that there is the least supply of. The two isotopes together can be used to create vast amounts of plutonium, but nobody considers that a viable alternative because it could mean the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The only REAL alternative is not splitting atoms, but fusing them. That technology is being developed, but it won't be ready till mid-century. When it gets here, the use of deuterium and tritium as fusion fuels will provide us with enough energy for several million years (though our lithium supplies will run out much earlier, still well beyond even our great-grandchildren's lifetimes), but we need something to sustain us till then. Fission may help as a stopgap measure, but it's no replacement for oil.
And of course all of this ignores oil as used in the production of goods, such as plastics. Processes such as thermal depolymerization may assist in this, but that's still largely unproven technology.
It's gonna be a rough couple of decades, children. Better buckle up.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that would take some mighty impressive work on Microsoft's end, since Windows and the XBox are running on completely different architectures.
Not correct. I've set up Linspire for a few people and they all use regular user accounts. The problem is that Linspire doesn't push you hard enough to create those accounts.
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Nope, still pretty much the same. If you install apt4rpm on SuSE it helps somewhat, but the apt repositories for SuSE are lacking compared to what's out there for other major distros. Most of the stuff I had problems with, though, are things that I doubt would be of much interest in an office setting, though, so it might be OK to use SuSE/NDL in this case.
most $1 DVDs I've seen are very-very-cheap horror movies or action movies with "fake" movie stars (for example some guy who looks like Stallone even if you know he's not the real one).
I picked up a bunch of $2 (Cdn.) DVDs at the Army & Navy starring Dragon Lee, Bruce Li, and other imitators. Also, some good Blaxploitation flicks. All of them are hilarious to watch, though I'm not sure that's what was intended. Good fun, though.
The same thing that gave you the right to use my code. Don't like it? Don't use my code.
I probably get it better than you do. What good is open source if everyone takes what they can and doesn't contribute back? What good is it without freedom? Without freedom, it's just the ability to look at other people's code. If these companies don't want to respect that freedom or respect the wishes of the copyright holder/creator, then they can do it themselves and waste their effort on duplicating what's been done already. The GPL doesn't force anything down anyone's throat. It grants the user rights on the condition that anyone else who receives the software gets those rights as well. If companies have a problem with that, then they can feel free to take from BSDL projects or make it themselves. OSS is not a free ride for them, and if that marginalizes GPL software, then so be it.
Then let them. If they don't want to play by the rules, then there's no reason why they should get a free ride by taking advantage of another person's work, unless that person says it's ok.
And you're the dumbass that used it.
"But," you say, "You are already benefiting from my labor."
to which the answer is of course, that was your choice.
And it was your choice to base your labour on code with a license that required you to give back. You have no claim to the moral high ground.
Where BSD serves the selfish desires of the down stream developers, GPL serves the selfish desires of the up stream developers.
You're entirely right. Just as the upstream developers of BSD-licensed software have no right to bitch when people take their code and use it in proprietary apps, the downstream developers of GPLed software have no right to bitch about the conditions of the GPL. You don't like it, use something else. It's that simple.
If you take his 10,000 lines of code, contribute another 10, and close-source everything, then who's the freeloader?
There should be a law where whoever the losing side is, they pay the legal expenses of the winner. It would probably end the majority of frivolous lawsuits.
More people use OpenOffice than MS Office? I call BS. Let's see some numbers. I like OpenOffice a lot and recommend it to everyone who uses it for personal/casual use, but I doubt it's the more popular of the two.
Am I the only person on the planet who realizes that my screen saver will probably be running when I'm not at my computer, so therefore a blank screen will do just as well? I don't get why people need fancy 3D effects on their screensavers. But then, it doesn't affect me, so whatever makes you happy is fine I guess.
Looks like someone's incapable of a little reading comprehension. If the hardware is not capable of mixing, then the fact that there is no mixing is a failing of the hardware. In most OSes, this is resolved with software mixing, which hasn't been done 100% in Linux yet. Therefore, both statements are true.
It was my understanding that a lot of that was handled in software, not hardware. Which sort of means both statements are true. It's a hardware problem usually surmounted in software, which the Linux people haven't done 100% yet.
I'm fairly certain this is regarding his own personal machine, not anything to do with the nightclub. Therefore your comment is not relevant.
Just FYI KillerBob, I heard the Liberals were planning on keeping Parliament in session for longer than usual to ensure the gay marriage bill goes through. That means there's a serious risk that they'll have enough time to push this through. Hopefully there will be enough dissent that their minority gov't won't be able to pass it. That's why we need to speak up now.
nintendo promised that their ENTIRE catalog would be available.
There's the catch. Nintendo's entire catalog would be available, not necessarily all the thrid-party stuff. You can probably expect every game Nintendo made or published available for Revolution, but that may not necessarily include all of Capcom's NES titles, Acclaim, Activision, etc.
Ok, I just did a quick Google search, and though they haven't reached net importer status yet, the U.S. is coming very, very close. And they do export a significant amount of food, so a lot of what's being imported is other food which is produced cheaper elsewhere or can't be produced in the United States. What I had read was much more alarmist. Still, the fact remains that 6% of the arable land may be sufficient at current consumption rates, that will not continue to be true as rates rise, and given the choice between land for energy and land for food, most people will probably choose food.
"I get so sick of this. Let all those piddling little countries make their nukes and wipe each other off the face of the earth. That'll leave the rest of us to go on enjoying our inexpensive nuclear electricity." We'll need that electricity to keep us warm during the nuclear winter.
So what is the theoretical fastest time you could have these batteries charged? Because if it's just a few minutes, and the electrical systems in the home are not capable of it, then why not have dedicated "electricity stations" where you can recharge your car just as you would fill it with gas? I don't get why everyone who craps on the idea of the electric car immediately assumes you have to charge it from the outlet on your house or garage. How would you take your car on a road trip, then?
I can't remember where it was that I read it (natch), but I do recall reading that if all the energy the U.S. uses produced from petrochemicals were switched to biodiesel, it would only take 6% of the country's arable land to produce it from hemp at current rates of consumption. Of course, that doesn't take into account the fact that those rates increase all the time, and there's only enough arable land there to expand production without interfering with food production (of which the U.S. is now a net importer to begin with), but it's an interesting thought nonetheless.
First off, a flat tax on gasoline is not unfair. It is, effectively, a tax on the efficiency of the vehicle (the less gas you use, the less you get taxed). Also, engine displacement is not necessarily a good measure of fuel economy. Compare the Honda S2000 to, say, a new Corvette. The Corvette has twice as many cylinders, over twice the displacement, weighs a considerable amount more, and makes significantly more power, yet it has a better highway fuel economy rating and only a marginally worse city fuel economy rating compared to the S2000. There are a number of variables to be taken into account if calculating a tax based on engine selection, and displacement is a very very small factor.
"Splitting those atoms is the only sure way we have to keep our economy alive and to do so without destroying our climate."
So what happens when we hit peak uranium? There are two major uranium isotopes, only one of which is suitable for use as nuclear fuel. It's also the one that there is the least supply of. The two isotopes together can be used to create vast amounts of plutonium, but nobody considers that a viable alternative because it could mean the proliferation of nuclear weapons. The only REAL alternative is not splitting atoms, but fusing them. That technology is being developed, but it won't be ready till mid-century. When it gets here, the use of deuterium and tritium as fusion fuels will provide us with enough energy for several million years (though our lithium supplies will run out much earlier, still well beyond even our great-grandchildren's lifetimes), but we need something to sustain us till then. Fission may help as a stopgap measure, but it's no replacement for oil.
And of course all of this ignores oil as used in the production of goods, such as plastics. Processes such as thermal depolymerization may assist in this, but that's still largely unproven technology.
It's gonna be a rough couple of decades, children. Better buckle up.
My bad, I meant the XBox 360. The original XBox uses the x86 architecture.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that would take some mighty impressive work on Microsoft's end, since Windows and the XBox are running on completely different architectures.
Not correct. I've set up Linspire for a few people and they all use regular user accounts. The problem is that Linspire doesn't push you hard enough to create those accounts.