First of all, Linux is doing quite well from servers to cell phones. What you're complaining about is GUIs that run on top of X, both of which do not rely on Linux for their existence. GNOME and KDE may have issues, but those issues don't involve Linux at all.
And with regard to desktop environments, I used XFCE 4: it's relatively small, lightweight, and not resource intensive. OTOH I use my XBox 360 and PS3 for gaming.
Pretty much. So I wonder when IBM is going to come out with their Superbowl commercial depicting Apple as Big Brother and IBM as the one setting the masses free?
I agree. I put Cyanogenmod on my HTC Aria, and things just work better now. One thing I like is being able to turn off individual radios instead of the all or nothing of just plain airplane mode.
For the longest time, people here were complaining about how "unlimited" wasn't really unlimited, how it was false advertising, etc. Now ISPs/wireless carriers get rid of the "unlimited" option, explicitly state what the caps are, and people are still complaining about not having "unlimited".
Are you saying that plumbing is nonproductive? The GP might not be discussing the price of legal services, but their value.
Then GP didn't define what "nonproductive work" means. Legal services can be valuable or not depending on the situation and the people involved. I'm sure they were very valuable to OJ Simpson.
solicit prices for plumbing work from different plumbers
How is a plumber nonproductive? Or am I missing the sarcasm tags?
The same way that a lawyer is nonproductive: they don't physically produce anything. Since the person I was replying to didn't define "nonproductive", I didn't either until now.
Well, it'll be nice to see as many doctors as in Cuba, and paid similarly.
Lawyers/"business"?
I don't really think there's a medicine gold rush. The time it takes to finally get to a real job (7-11+ years after college depending on specialty) puts a damper on that. Not to mention the number of medical schools there are in this country. They're difficult to establish.
It's hard to put value on nonproductive work.
Depends on the work. For example, solicit prices for plumbing work from different plumbers and you should get a good idea of what that work should cost.
Is this an appropriate response to online harassment, or a threat to free speech?
There should be consequences to being an asshole. Glad this guy found that out too. As someone who's gone through high school in this country, I don't feel bad about that guy at all.
The problem with "GNU/Linux" is that it's just too cumbersome a term to use. The OS should really be called by its distribution name (eg. Debian, Slackware, gNewSense, etc.).
Consider that OS from Apple that most people who buy Macs use. Do you call it XNU? Darwin? Darwin/XNU? No. It's called Mac OS X.
Or how about that new OS from Microsoft that's run on the majority of computers. Is it called Windows NT Executive? MinWin?MinWin/Windows NT Executive? No. It's called Windows 7.
Android barely qualifies as a form of "Linux." Yes, it uses a Linux kernel, but the fact is largely incidental - there's no real technical reason that Android couldn't be built on BSD or even WinCE if Google or an OEM wanted it. It isn't close to POSIX-compatible, it only runs "managed" (VM-based) apps, and it isn't even open-source as of 3.0.
What are you even talking about? Here's the problem when referring to "Linux" as the system rather than using the term to refer to the kernel. Take Debian for example. Is it "Linux"? What if you replace the kernel with the FreeBSD kernel, does that still qualify or not? A much better way to describe these systems is by the distribution name, and the second best way is to describe them by the core system itself. So, for example, Debian 6.0, Slackware, and Gentoo are GNU systems that is usually running on top of the Linux kernel.
Uh, excuse me? We still produce a shitload of products here: cars, airplanes, helicoptors, agricultural products, oil, drugs, chemicals, etc. All the stuff you mentioned doesn't even compare with what I just listed.
I had one back in high school. Back then TI-85 was all the rage. Only a handful of us were l33t enough for the HP 48G (which was the same price as the TI-85). It was neat playing Columns on the device. None of the TI-85 users back then had anything comparable. The thing also could do 3D graphs, which was a pretty neat trick. Alas, mine broke a few years later, right about the time I didn't need it anymore.
Killing business before it even starts. The US is probably the most unfriendly country in the world to start a business in. Then you wonder why there's no growth.
''Based on a number of inputs, we believe Intel is also vying for Apple's foundry business,'' said Gus Richard, an analyst with Piper Jaffray & Co., in a new report.
Intel may not be necessarily designing the chips. Apple could have gone with any other foundry such as TSMC, GlobalFoundries, etc.
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First of all, Linux is doing quite well from servers to cell phones. What you're complaining about is GUIs that run on top of X, both of which do not rely on Linux for their existence. GNOME and KDE may have issues, but those issues don't involve Linux at all.
And with regard to desktop environments, I used XFCE 4: it's relatively small, lightweight, and not resource intensive. OTOH I use my XBox 360 and PS3 for gaming.
Pretty much. So I wonder when IBM is going to come out with their Superbowl commercial depicting Apple as Big Brother and IBM as the one setting the masses free?
I agree. I put Cyanogenmod on my HTC Aria, and things just work better now. One thing I like is being able to turn off individual radios instead of the all or nothing of just plain airplane mode.
For the longest time, people here were complaining about how "unlimited" wasn't really unlimited, how it was false advertising, etc. Now ISPs/wireless carriers get rid of the "unlimited" option, explicitly state what the caps are, and people are still complaining about not having "unlimited".
But higher latency. Must not be that great to play Counter Strike over donkey-net.
Or maybe they'll like the fact that they were utilized in attacking Sony.
So Amazon brought down Sony, but their banning yaori. Are they good or evil???
Are you saying that plumbing is nonproductive? The GP might not be discussing the price of legal services, but their value.
Then GP didn't define what "nonproductive work" means. Legal services can be valuable or not depending on the situation and the people involved. I'm sure they were very valuable to OJ Simpson.
solicit prices for plumbing work from different plumbers
How is a plumber nonproductive? Or am I missing the sarcasm tags?
The same way that a lawyer is nonproductive: they don't physically produce anything. Since the person I was replying to didn't define "nonproductive", I didn't either until now.
I look forward to the law/medicine gold rush.
Well, it'll be nice to see as many doctors as in Cuba, and paid similarly.
Lawyers/"business"?
I don't really think there's a medicine gold rush. The time it takes to finally get to a real job (7-11+ years after college depending on specialty) puts a damper on that. Not to mention the number of medical schools there are in this country. They're difficult to establish.
It's hard to put value on nonproductive work.
Depends on the work. For example, solicit prices for plumbing work from different plumbers and you should get a good idea of what that work should cost.
Usually, but some states have criminal defamation laws. However, there have only been a few people sent to jail under these.
Libel is not protected speech.
Libel is not protected free speech.
Actually, this would fall under libel, but the point still stands.
Is this an appropriate response to online harassment, or a threat to free speech?
There should be consequences to being an asshole. Glad this guy found that out too. As someone who's gone through high school in this country, I don't feel bad about that guy at all.
The problem with "GNU/Linux" is that it's just too cumbersome a term to use. The OS should really be called by its distribution name (eg. Debian, Slackware, gNewSense, etc.).
Consider that OS from Apple that most people who buy Macs use. Do you call it XNU? Darwin? Darwin/XNU? No. It's called Mac OS X.
Or how about that new OS from Microsoft that's run on the majority of computers. Is it called Windows NT Executive? MinWin?MinWin/Windows NT Executive? No. It's called Windows 7.
The best minds of our generation are occupied finding the best ways to leverage advertising revenue.
I don't see a problem with that as long as that's what they like/want to do.
Android barely qualifies as a form of "Linux." Yes, it uses a Linux kernel, but the fact is largely incidental - there's no real technical reason that Android couldn't be built on BSD or even WinCE if Google or an OEM wanted it. It isn't close to POSIX-compatible, it only runs "managed" (VM-based) apps, and it isn't even open-source as of 3.0.
What are you even talking about? Here's the problem when referring to "Linux" as the system rather than using the term to refer to the kernel. Take Debian for example. Is it "Linux"? What if you replace the kernel with the FreeBSD kernel, does that still qualify or not? A much better way to describe these systems is by the distribution name, and the second best way is to describe them by the core system itself. So, for example, Debian 6.0, Slackware, and Gentoo are GNU systems that is usually running on top of the Linux kernel.
Uh, excuse me? We still produce a shitload of products here: cars, airplanes, helicoptors, agricultural products, oil, drugs, chemicals, etc. All the stuff you mentioned doesn't even compare with what I just listed.
I had one back in high school. Back then TI-85 was all the rage. Only a handful of us were l33t enough for the HP 48G (which was the same price as the TI-85). It was neat playing Columns on the device. None of the TI-85 users back then had anything comparable. The thing also could do 3D graphs, which was a pretty neat trick. Alas, mine broke a few years later, right about the time I didn't need it anymore.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
And then we can just use one guy to oversee the entire operation. And if he dies, we just replace him with another clone...
They may be correlated, but they're not the same thing.
Power=rate at which work is performed
Heat=energy transfer from one place to another
Killing business before it even starts. The US is probably the most unfriendly country in the world to start a business in. Then you wonder why there's no growth.
Blatant falsehood. We're the third best country to start a business in.
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''Based on a number of inputs, we believe Intel is also vying for Apple's foundry business,'' said Gus Richard, an analyst with Piper Jaffray & Co., in a new report.
Intel may not be necessarily designing the chips. Apple could have gone with any other foundry such as TSMC, GlobalFoundries, etc.