Everybody knows that when you travel in time, your arrival at your destination is heralded by strong winds, electric storms, and thunder. Don't believe me? Refer to these:
My Lenovo R60 stock machine runs perfectly on the Gutsy Live DVD, although I haven't tried the fingerprint reader. Hell, I don't use it even under XP. What I really hate is Gnome - makes me feel really bound down, and why the hell don't they have a "Run Command" option?
Doesn't that make it 3 kinds of people? Are you also implying the other nine have nine different ways to be sick to death of it? Is it a postulate or a theorem?
I was recently telling my colleagues (working at a wind turbine manufacturer) that we needn't worry that our turbines are 'not running' all over the globe. We'll just use cows and pulleys to generate some power.
We will also cultivate edible plants for biodiesel. Cow dung would be used as more biofuel. Of course, we will have to deduct the methane from their belches and flatulence for calculating carbon credits.
And for the customers who cannot afford large (MW class) wind turbines, we will offer them (along with kW class turbines) some goat-powered generation as well.
I have nurtured these ideas for almost a decade. I am so glad somebody is trying to put them to practice.
Oh, and cows / bulls have traditionally been yoked to grinding stones in oil mills, so no new stuff, really. Those stupid animals keep moving in the rut all day long. Their keepers tie bells to their necks and only check on them if the ringing stops.
Please, somebody ask why the animals don't just shake their head to make the bells ring!
*I'll* give you a hint - it starts with a U, and ends in SERS.
Of all computer users, Indians must be some of the most clueless. I know this having tried to solve computing problems for my fellow citizens for a whole decade.
We have (branded) desktops and laptops available with Linux preloaded. People purchase them and just install XP over it (an HP retailer told me this just 15 days back). Assemblers don't care and offer systems with XP preloaded, for 'free'.
Heck, the users are so dumb most of the time, they can't even use XP or Win 98 properly. And kiddies only want games.
Microsoft is only starting an anti-piracy campaign now because it has found a new business model with Vista - and it does not rely on the ubiquitousness of the OS for maintaining monopoly.
VLC does not carry anybody's patent license. At least to the extent that any are being infringed in your country. Plus, it has been written largely in France, not the US.
Yes, nothing better than tea in the morning, with a plate of your . I hate apples in the morning, though. Any fruit, that is.
But the best part of breakfast is the dunking...ultra-sweet, cream-filled biscuits. Enough sugar and carbohydrate punch to get me to the office.
Somehow, the cost factors and convenience of fiddling with the system is very attractive to Indians. Don't like to take too much pains to contribute back though.
Many have been wondering about this. It is plain, warped economics that is to blame. Do however see the Pune Linux Users Group. There are many like them, and all is not lost.
There used to be some excellent local distros too which died off since there was no quick (as in 1-2 years) revenue models
If you mean PCQLinux or LiFY, they started off as ripoffs and faded into irrelevance as the availability of free major distro CDs and higher bandwidth grew. You have to maintain a distro and make it bug-free to make it popular.
The prostration starts with rampant piracy and ubiquitousness of Windows and Office. Then there is a whole bunch of idiots developing everything on Visual Studio (again, mostly pirated).
Microsoft indulges in heavy influence peddling by donating to schools, states' education programs etc. by one or other means. Their motto is to catch 'em young.
The media is mostly bought off with huge spends on Microsoft ads, and journalists hardly know the difference between Free Software, Open Source and their own hindsides. (If it weren't for the FSF India chapter, which is based in a state dominated by Communist parties, software patents would have crept in unnoticed when the Indian polity prostrated to the US' WTO hegemony in IPRs.)
Corporates will be corporates, and choose that which gives them the quickest advantage. Profits always beat ideology, or if I rephrase it, profits are the best ideology. If Microsoft gives the most integrated solutions with widespread support, they will naturally not want to squander their resources on experiments.
Still, it is a good sign that sane voices within various State and Central govt. bodies are being heard. Southern states are more open to FOSS, Gujarat also seems to be heading that way, but Maharashtra, which is the new IT destination seems to be leaning towards Microsoft due to the aforesaid lobbying.
Perhaps Vista and its strict DRM/License enforcement will turn more people away from free software to Free software, within a year or two. More eye-candy introduced to Linux with Compiz and Beryl will certainly help, I believe. Now we need more games and driver support for 3D in Linux. Oh, and a unified package installation system.
I remember the exact wordings in the post above from from another discussion on computers in movies, about 2-3 back. If you can't demonstrate novelty by writing something new, how can you expect Hollywood, of all places, to do it for you?
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Everybody knows that when you travel in time, your arrival at your destination is heralded by strong winds, electric storms, and thunder. Don't believe me? Refer to these:
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No rational car driver, sane bird or other sentient being would want to pass through that!
What is the smallest size of space rock that can aspire to have some space debris orbiting around it, either as ring or as rock?
This no troll, just curious question.
Somebody please trademark "Intellectual Property"! We'd certainly like to hear less of it.
My Lenovo R60 stock machine runs perfectly on the Gutsy Live DVD, although I haven't tried the fingerprint reader. Hell, I don't use it even under XP. What I really hate is Gnome - makes me feel really bound down, and why the hell don't they have a "Run Command" option?
Netgear just has a nice-sounding name. Their hardware has usually been found to suck.
1. Union Carbide
2. Monsanto
3. British East India Company. Well, not exactly modern, but known.
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Doesn't that make it 3 kinds of people? Are you also implying the other nine have nine different ways to be sick to death of it? Is it a postulate or a theorem?
Um, 'cause they don't read slashdot?
I was recently telling my colleagues (working at a wind turbine manufacturer) that we needn't worry that our turbines are 'not running' all over the globe. We'll just use cows and pulleys to generate some power.
We will also cultivate edible plants for biodiesel. Cow dung would be used as more biofuel. Of course, we will have to deduct the methane from their belches and flatulence for calculating carbon credits.
And for the customers who cannot afford large (MW class) wind turbines, we will offer them (along with kW class turbines) some goat-powered generation as well.
I have nurtured these ideas for almost a decade. I am so glad somebody is trying to put them to practice.
Oh, and cows / bulls have traditionally been yoked to grinding stones in oil mills, so no new stuff, really. Those stupid animals keep moving in the rut all day long. Their keepers tie bells to their necks and only check on them if the ringing stops.
Please, somebody ask why the animals don't just shake their head to make the bells ring!
That would be the best example of hypocrisy at its worst. But why are you so supportive of him, hmm?
*I'll* give you a hint - it starts with a U, and ends in SERS.
Of all computer users, Indians must be some of the most clueless. I know this having tried to solve computing problems for my fellow citizens for a whole decade.
We have (branded) desktops and laptops available with Linux preloaded. People purchase them and just install XP over it (an HP retailer told me this just 15 days back). Assemblers don't care and offer systems with XP preloaded, for 'free'.
Heck, the users are so dumb most of the time, they can't even use XP or Win 98 properly. And kiddies only want games.
Microsoft is only starting an anti-piracy campaign now because it has found a new business model with Vista - and it does not rely on the ubiquitousness of the OS for maintaining monopoly.
WHY, why, why did you have to go and say it first?!?!?
"Mata" means mother in Sanskritic languages, including Marathi, which has another word for it: Aaee. Um, that's it.
VLC does not carry anybody's patent license. At least to the extent that any are being infringed in your country. Plus, it has been written largely in France, not the US.
I meant "with a plate of your {favourite regional variety of bread}".
Yes, nothing better than tea in the morning, with a plate of your . I hate apples in the morning, though. Any fruit, that is. But the best part of breakfast is the dunking...ultra-sweet, cream-filled biscuits. Enough sugar and carbohydrate punch to get me to the office.
I'd love to see one, but it would have to be incredibly tiny, or sail in an incredibly large navel, no?
Have you thought of the Fucking(TM) Costs?
TROLL
Or was that deliberate? I *should* preview before submit.
> "grammer enligthned"
Spahling ignorant?
Many have been wondering about this. It is plain, warped economics that is to blame. Do however see the Pune Linux Users Group. There are many like them, and all is not lost.
If you mean PCQLinux or LiFY, they started off as ripoffs and faded into irrelevance as the availability of free major distro CDs and higher bandwidth grew. You have to maintain a distro and make it bug-free to make it popular.
The prostration starts with rampant piracy and ubiquitousness of Windows and Office. Then there is a whole bunch of idiots developing everything on Visual Studio (again, mostly pirated).
Microsoft indulges in heavy influence peddling by donating to schools, states' education programs etc. by one or other means. Their motto is to catch 'em young.
The media is mostly bought off with huge spends on Microsoft ads, and journalists hardly know the difference between Free Software, Open Source and their own hindsides. (If it weren't for the FSF India chapter, which is based in a state dominated by Communist parties, software patents would have crept in unnoticed when the Indian polity prostrated to the US' WTO hegemony in IPRs.)
Corporates will be corporates, and choose that which gives them the quickest advantage. Profits always beat ideology, or if I rephrase it, profits are the best ideology. If Microsoft gives the most integrated solutions with widespread support, they will naturally not want to squander their resources on experiments.
Still, it is a good sign that sane voices within various State and Central govt. bodies are being heard. Southern states are more open to FOSS, Gujarat also seems to be heading that way, but Maharashtra, which is the new IT destination seems to be leaning towards Microsoft due to the aforesaid lobbying.
Perhaps Vista and its strict DRM/License enforcement will turn more people away from free software to Free software, within a year or two. More eye-candy introduced to Linux with Compiz and Beryl will certainly help, I believe. Now we need more games and driver support for 3D in Linux. Oh, and a unified package installation system.
Wishful thinking, I know.
I remember the exact wordings in the post above from from another discussion on computers in movies, about 2-3 back. If you can't demonstrate novelty by writing something new, how can you expect Hollywood, of all places, to do it for you?