Every cell phone company does this at first. The RAZR was Cingular only to begin with, the Chocolate is still Verizon only (last I checked). Apple just figured out a way to lock it down a bit more.
You raise a rather valid point. Linus himself will tell you his position in the kernel development is basically, will this patch go in, won't it. From my understanding of the whole situation, Sun's position is more involved than Linus even. They actually write a whole bunch of stuff themselves and decide to put it in, along with other stuff that other people write out. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it seems to me that Sun is doing more to further OS development than Linus.
That being said, watch as I get modded down massively.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't the fault lie with the previous owner? He's the first link in the profit chain, he sold the site to make money, therefore he broke the license it was released under.
Gentoo can do what you want, if you know what you're doing, so can LFS and other source distros. It's just what you need really, lets you skip anything you don't need and put only what you want.
The problem then arises that things such as education, parks, police, and anything else that isn't quite so important to the general public goes down hill, or at least that's what would happen here "in the colonies."
The general public has a tendency to not want to spend money on anything that doesn't directly effect them, so they won't care if the police department looses its funding unless they've recently been robbed, they won't care about the money going to schools unless they currently have or plan on having kids in the immediate future, they won't care about the parks unless they live by them. This would only pose more problems in the long run unless the general public suddenly becomes smart, which I don't think can happen.
As the T-shirt reads, "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
This is actually kinda common, Mythbusters disappoints me rather often because they decide to use poor statistics or don't test scientifically enough. A good example of this would be the episode with the sniper shootout, where they tried to shoot through the other sniper's scope.
They admitted from the beginning that it was an extremely close range for a sniper. They decided to move the rifles closer together in order to guarantee that the shots would be accurate. Now as they moved the rifles closer, they caused more damage to the other scope. Wouldn't it make sense, therefore, that it's possible for the rifle to be more likely to pierce straight through if they were farther apart?
FTA:
which consists of 6 flatscreen monitors of common size put together and probably supposed to be used as an enhanced display. Great speech from a guy who can't count past 6!
Is there a difference between tweaking and tinkering? On my Gentoo Box, I have had it running for nearly a year now, and I still am tweaking it, but I consider that to be tinkering. I like finding new things to do to try and make it better (or, as it turns out, worse usually) and figure out how I fixed/destroyed it.
On my iBook, I do a reinstall about every 3-4 months or so, just cause I have so much shit I need to sort through and decide if it's even worth holding on to or not (more often than not, not). When I do this, it takes me about half an hour to tweak it. All my programs are close at hand, the most time consuming part is installing things like DP, ProTools, X11 (now I do that in the reinstall process) Disc Warrior, and sometimes Toast (depends on if I can find my copy of it or not). Usually that's easily within half an hour. I also copy my user's library and whatnot over. Never much more than 10 minutes for that.
So short answer, for Linux for me, I'm never done, for a Mac, 30 minutes most.
Oh, I realize that that isn't plagarization, but I also realize that that would show up as such (from what has been explained to me about TurnItIn and such). They cross reference different essays in their collection to see if the same phrases show up in them and the more often the same phrases show up, the great percentage of the paper is plagiarized. I understand that coming to the same sentence does not equal plagiarizing, but these programs are designed in such a way that they misinterpret two very similar sentences that may have come out of the two separate creators minds as one plagiarizing the other. Please, do correct me if I have misunderstood these wonderful systems.
RTFA. It points out how, as essays keep getting added and added, eventually every sentence talking about George Washington will have been used in one paper or another, therefore, no paper will ever be non-plagiarized by TurnItIn.com's standards.
For example if I were to write a paper about Lincoln freeing the slaves, it might go something like "Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation which freed the slaves." Googling that exact phrase gives off 7 hits. Now did I plagiarize that, or was it my own work? If you go with TurnItIn's standards, I'm pretty sure that would be marked as a plagiarized phrase. Does that sound right?
Furthermore, if they know how to use Google, they could easily search that in quotes and find that exact phrase as well. Thus, term papers need to die, or at the very least become less crucial. I know I have yet to have a paper that counted for my entire grade. I would like one, but only because my university doesn't use TurnItIn or anything of the sort...yet.
Having it based on Kubuntu actually worries me quite a bit. I have installed Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu, and the only one I have ever seen have any serious problems was Kubuntu. Ubuntu has been running for months on a completely non-tech savvy individual's computer, Xubuntu for about the same on a semi-savvy individual, and Kubuntu...Well Kubuntu crapped out on a semi-savvy individual after 2 months. I don't know if this is just my experiences coming through, but I've noticed a few others mentioning this difference as well. So I'd be glad to have something that's KDE based that I can recommend to anyone, but if it's Kubuntu based, I'm very weary.
Amarok is by far my favorite "jukebox" program. There are only two things it doesn't have that iTunes does and those are the jukebox look (coverflow) and the APE (air port express) integration. Now, you mentioned OS X. Amarok is a great program, and when it's finally ported to Qt4, I will no longer use iTunes unless I have to. Here is a guide for getting Amarok running in OS X, and here is one to get it running "natively". There's a bit of a conversation as to an.app package for it.
Classic really didn't work all that well. (IMHO) It was a horrible memory hog and, frankly, rather annoying. If you get an Macintel and Parallels, you'll find they have a nice little seemingly transparent version of the virtual machine working too. It's pretty cool, but it doesn't work great by any means. This being said, I'm sure you could do that with ReactOS, so there's a semi-answer to your semi-reply to the grandparent's post.
If you don't like your job, want to be on welfare, or already know who you're going to work for next, go for it...
Who knows, maybe they'll even listen!
I'd have to say this is a great business move, especially if the major media really picks up on stories like this. After all, if they can sue anyone who makes a mix tape and distributes it without the label's consent, then they can effectively prevent rap and hip hop from being made by anyone outside of the RIAA.
Gotta love how the music industry has become just that, an industry.
Whatever the proper name of it, it sucks. There's next to no improvement over standard XP. That being said, Vista is supposed to have massive improvements. I don't know about any of that though, suse, ubuntu, debian, gentoo, pretty much all the regular distros you hear of have a 64-bit variant and most if not all work well. The beauty of the current 64-bit processors though is you can always run 32-bit code as well. So why not get a 64-bit proc?
Interesting because I know someone at my university who will probably buy this game. He commented about playing fable and how he doesn't take the evil branch because, "I don't think going to heaven and saying 'Hey God, I like killing people in a video game,' is a good idea." But you know, killing them in a game where he's doing it in God's name certainly is!
First of all, how many people do you know that first of all would go through the trouble of getting tased just to get one belief out there? Second of all, how many people do you know that actually expect to get videoed just because they're shouting their beliefs in the library? Third, how many "morons" do you know that become "rich" because they saying what they felt was true so they were tased by police 5 times? Furthermore, he was tased while on the ground being told if he didn't get up he'd be tased again!
According to an article by Silja J.A. Talvi, "People who have experienced the effect of a Taser typically liken it to a debilitating, full-body seizure, complete with mental disorientation and loss of control over bodily functions."
So next time you think you're going to be wise and bitch about how people can make so much money off of such an easy thing, try it before you do it!
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You know what is also funny? It's easy to say good things about a large company because they have a lot of resources and can accomplish a lot for the consumer. Stand back, I'm about to say something that will ensure this post hits rock bottom on the karma: Microsoft has done good things for computing. And you know what? So has Apple. I've used products of both of them to varying levels of success in my past--and that in and of itself is something.
This goes back to simple capitalistic theory, with competition being good for the consumer. Two major corporations in control of the vast majority of the market, fighting to make the better product.
This is an unusual viewpoint here on slashdot, but honestly, so long as they stick to bettering each other through competition rather than belittling each other, I'm all for it. When one company decides to launch whole hearted smear campaigns rather than improve their product, or, even worse, decides it's more cost effective to buy out the competition, that's where I get worried, and in honesty, most major corporations have done one, if not both.
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Every cell phone company does this at first. The RAZR was Cingular only to begin with, the Chocolate is still Verizon only (last I checked). Apple just figured out a way to lock it down a bit more.
You raise a rather valid point. Linus himself will tell you his position in the kernel development is basically, will this patch go in, won't it. From my understanding of the whole situation, Sun's position is more involved than Linus even. They actually write a whole bunch of stuff themselves and decide to put it in, along with other stuff that other people write out. Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it seems to me that Sun is doing more to further OS development than Linus.
That being said, watch as I get modded down massively.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't the fault lie with the previous owner? He's the first link in the profit chain, he sold the site to make money, therefore he broke the license it was released under.
Gentoo can do what you want, if you know what you're doing, so can LFS and other source distros. It's just what you need really, lets you skip anything you don't need and put only what you want.
The problem then arises that things such as education, parks, police, and anything else that isn't quite so important to the general public goes down hill, or at least that's what would happen here "in the colonies."
The general public has a tendency to not want to spend money on anything that doesn't directly effect them, so they won't care if the police department looses its funding unless they've recently been robbed, they won't care about the money going to schools unless they currently have or plan on having kids in the immediate future, they won't care about the parks unless they live by them. This would only pose more problems in the long run unless the general public suddenly becomes smart, which I don't think can happen.
As the T-shirt reads, "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
This is actually kinda common, Mythbusters disappoints me rather often because they decide to use poor statistics or don't test scientifically enough. A good example of this would be the episode with the sniper shootout, where they tried to shoot through the other sniper's scope.
They admitted from the beginning that it was an extremely close range for a sniper. They decided to move the rifles closer together in order to guarantee that the shots would be accurate. Now as they moved the rifles closer, they caused more damage to the other scope. Wouldn't it make sense, therefore, that it's possible for the rifle to be more likely to pierce straight through if they were farther apart?
It's things like that that bug me about the show.
which consists of 6 flatscreen monitors of common size put together and probably supposed to be used as an enhanced display.
Great speech from a guy who can't count past 6!
Is there a difference between tweaking and tinkering? On my Gentoo Box, I have had it running for nearly a year now, and I still am tweaking it, but I consider that to be tinkering. I like finding new things to do to try and make it better (or, as it turns out, worse usually) and figure out how I fixed/destroyed it.
On my iBook, I do a reinstall about every 3-4 months or so, just cause I have so much shit I need to sort through and decide if it's even worth holding on to or not (more often than not, not). When I do this, it takes me about half an hour to tweak it. All my programs are close at hand, the most time consuming part is installing things like DP, ProTools, X11 (now I do that in the reinstall process) Disc Warrior, and sometimes Toast (depends on if I can find my copy of it or not). Usually that's easily within half an hour. I also copy my user's library and whatnot over. Never much more than 10 minutes for that.
So short answer, for Linux for me, I'm never done, for a Mac, 30 minutes most.
Oh, I realize that that isn't plagarization, but I also realize that that would show up as such (from what has been explained to me about TurnItIn and such). They cross reference different essays in their collection to see if the same phrases show up in them and the more often the same phrases show up, the great percentage of the paper is plagiarized. I understand that coming to the same sentence does not equal plagiarizing, but these programs are designed in such a way that they misinterpret two very similar sentences that may have come out of the two separate creators minds as one plagiarizing the other. Please, do correct me if I have misunderstood these wonderful systems.
RTFA. It points out how, as essays keep getting added and added, eventually every sentence talking about George Washington will have been used in one paper or another, therefore, no paper will ever be non-plagiarized by TurnItIn.com's standards.
For example if I were to write a paper about Lincoln freeing the slaves, it might go something like "Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation which freed the slaves." Googling that exact phrase gives off 7 hits. Now did I plagiarize that, or was it my own work? If you go with TurnItIn's standards, I'm pretty sure that would be marked as a plagiarized phrase. Does that sound right?
Furthermore, if they know how to use Google, they could easily search that in quotes and find that exact phrase as well. Thus, term papers need to die, or at the very least become less crucial. I know I have yet to have a paper that counted for my entire grade. I would like one, but only because my university doesn't use TurnItIn or anything of the sort...yet.
That's kinda the impression I got using it. I love KDE, but Kubuntu just felt wrong.
It's always good to have a grammar freak around. Thanks for the correction.
Having it based on Kubuntu actually worries me quite a bit. I have installed Ubuntu, Kubuntu, and Xubuntu, and the only one I have ever seen have any serious problems was Kubuntu. Ubuntu has been running for months on a completely non-tech savvy individual's computer, Xubuntu for about the same on a semi-savvy individual, and Kubuntu...Well Kubuntu crapped out on a semi-savvy individual after 2 months. I don't know if this is just my experiences coming through, but I've noticed a few others mentioning this difference as well. So I'd be glad to have something that's KDE based that I can recommend to anyone, but if it's Kubuntu based, I'm very weary.
Amarok is by far my favorite "jukebox" program. There are only two things it doesn't have that iTunes does and those are the jukebox look (coverflow) and the APE (air port express) integration. Now, you mentioned OS X. Amarok is a great program, and when it's finally ported to Qt4, I will no longer use iTunes unless I have to. Here is a guide for getting Amarok running in OS X, and here is one to get it running "natively". There's a bit of a conversation as to an .app package for it.
Classic really didn't work all that well. (IMHO) It was a horrible memory hog and, frankly, rather annoying. If you get an Macintel and Parallels, you'll find they have a nice little seemingly transparent version of the virtual machine working too. It's pretty cool, but it doesn't work great by any means. This being said, I'm sure you could do that with ReactOS, so there's a semi-answer to your semi-reply to the grandparent's post.
and rape them
If you don't like your job, want to be on welfare, or already know who you're going to work for next, go for it... Who knows, maybe they'll even listen!
How long will it take to get Linux on this thing!?
I'd have to say this is a great business move, especially if the major media really picks up on stories like this. After all, if they can sue anyone who makes a mix tape and distributes it without the label's consent, then they can effectively prevent rap and hip hop from being made by anyone outside of the RIAA.
Gotta love how the music industry has become just that, an industry.
All you and your moving to the Northern Hemisphere!
Whatever the proper name of it, it sucks. There's next to no improvement over standard XP. That being said, Vista is supposed to have massive improvements. I don't know about any of that though, suse, ubuntu, debian, gentoo, pretty much all the regular distros you hear of have a 64-bit variant and most if not all work well. The beauty of the current 64-bit processors though is you can always run 32-bit code as well. So why not get a 64-bit proc?
Interesting because I know someone at my university who will probably buy this game. He commented about playing fable and how he doesn't take the evil branch because, "I don't think going to heaven and saying 'Hey God, I like killing people in a video game,' is a good idea." But you know, killing them in a game where he's doing it in God's name certainly is!
Hmmmm. Middle of finals week. Is it really worth it? I'll do it, I might even stay up all night before that final anyway!
Best usage of I've ever seen.
I really shouldn't even bother, but here goes:
First of all, how many people do you know that first of all would go through the trouble of getting tased just to get one belief out there? Second of all, how many people do you know that actually expect to get videoed just because they're shouting their beliefs in the library? Third, how many "morons" do you know that become "rich" because they saying what they felt was true so they were tased by police 5 times? Furthermore, he was tased while on the ground being told if he didn't get up he'd be tased again!
According to an article by Silja J.A. Talvi, "People who have experienced the effect of a Taser typically liken it to a debilitating, full-body seizure, complete with mental disorientation and loss of control over bodily functions."
So next time you think you're going to be wise and bitch about how people can make so much money off of such an easy thing, try it before you do it!
This is an unusual viewpoint here on slashdot, but honestly, so long as they stick to bettering each other through competition rather than belittling each other, I'm all for it. When one company decides to launch whole hearted smear campaigns rather than improve their product, or, even worse, decides it's more cost effective to buy out the competition, that's where I get worried, and in honesty, most major corporations have done one, if not both.