But on the desktop I don't think anyone is full time Linux only. Even the Linux users all have a windows or apple machine. do you really want to go with this? as it happens i do own an imac, which of course has a gnu/linux distribution on it. installing gnu/linux was actually the first thing i did when i got it, i never even booted osx once. my company laptop got the same fate.
losing out on the advantages of linux? by using OSX you lose out on the most important advantage of gnu/linux and free software: you actually own the software, you don't just license it.
the philosophical difference between software released under a free license and proprietary software is massive. as for the technical difference, well that is something you can of course never know, seeing as you can only know what free software technically is.
i don't see why he should pick up your mortgage. you got yourself into this mess of being totally dependent on the whims of a convicted monopolist. you can get yourself out of it.
if i install a modern linux distribution, i can have an industrial strength mail server/dns/webserver, a 3d-graphic workstation and a development platform for almost every language, all remotely monitorable and controllable up and running within 30 minutes.
everything we do has moral repercussions. if you sanction microsoft, what sort of message is that you are giving others? that it is okay to be dependent and be unable to know what your computer is doing? You can also trust free software not to spy on you.
in other words, just by asking the question you demonstrate that you either don't know what free software is about or do not regard these goals as good.
where i live, the price of a packet of pasta has gone up from 29c to 55c in one year. maybe the riaa should sue my supermarket for depriving them of revenue.
this is strange. in tfa it says:
The Irish market for sound recordings suffered a decline in total sales form 146m in 2001 to 102m last year, a fall of 30%, and a substantial portion of that decline was due to illegal peer-to-peer downloading services and the increasing availability of broadband internet access here, he said. i wonder what dvd recordings did at the same time? is it possible that the average person has a certain budget for entertainment and just spends the money buying what they want? maybe the record companies should instead consider suing the film companies.
if i consider the films i've downloaded, i can't say i've watched many of them more than once. and with most of them, i'd have been pretty annoyed had i spend money on them.
the idea of a fingerprint reader on a laptop is pretty strange. the box is covered with your fingerprints anyway. it must be a lot easier to crack than a password.
the problem would be that cars are marketed as being vehicles of freedom. you have your own car and it's yours and you're like some cowboy or member of the a-team wandering the highways righting wrongs and smoking marlboro. if cars drove themselves, that would end.
maybe i should say something to 2. i don't view mac users with skepticism because macs are different. i view mac users with skepticism because macs are the same. the same boring hardware and the same proprietary approach to software. looking at macs i can't find one important thing that makes them superior to windows vista pcs.
linux is family. maybe it goes wrong every now and then. maybe it has some rough edges. but it's ours. we built it and we will continue to build it, just trying to make a better operating system and sharing it to make a better world.
i find complaints about the GPL being viral somewhat amusing, seeing as it is invariably closed-source software which is viral and forces everybody else to buy it if they want to interact with it. the GPL however produces free software which everybody can interact with as they wish.
exactly that is my point. if you want to develop for the iphone, you have to spend a large amount of money on a particular computer. on the other hand, if you want to develop for javaME any computer will do. cash outlay is here an important factor because not everybody who bought an iphone is rich. for me it would not be justifiable. i have other things i can spend my money on and porting all the software i have already written in java to some other language so it can run on a chip that was specifically designed to run java is not high on my priority list.
my point being why did you choose cad, where linux has traditionally been weak, and did not regard a market where linux dominates and powerful 3d graphics are a must? my post was designed to answer the question as to why nvidia would invest a lot of time and money in linux drivers by pointing out, that asking for cad software that only runs on linux is besides the point.
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this reminds me of my favorite maths joke:
what's yellow, complete and normed?
a bananach space.
losing out on the advantages of linux? by using OSX you lose out on the most important advantage of gnu/linux and free software: you actually own the software, you don't just license it.
the philosophical difference between software released under a free license and proprietary software is massive. as for the technical difference, well that is something you can of course never know, seeing as you can only know what free software technically is.
i don't see why he should pick up your mortgage. you got yourself into this mess of being totally dependent on the whims of a convicted monopolist. you can get yourself out of it.
cosmetic?
if i install a modern linux distribution, i can have an industrial strength mail server/dns/webserver, a 3d-graphic workstation and a development platform for almost every language, all remotely monitorable and controllable up and running within 30 minutes.
well the main reason has to be one of morality.
everything we do has moral repercussions. if you sanction microsoft, what sort of message is that you are giving others? that it is okay to be dependent and be unable to know what your computer is doing? You can also trust free software not to spy on you.
in other words, just by asking the question you demonstrate that you either don't know what free software is about or do not regard these goals as good.
an excellent point.
where i live, the price of a packet of pasta has gone up from 29c to 55c in one year. maybe the riaa should sue my supermarket for depriving them of revenue.
if i consider the films i've downloaded, i can't say i've watched many of them more than once. and with most of them, i'd have been pretty annoyed had i spend money on them.
i don't think anybody likes the current situation apart from lawyers and microsoft.
that just about sums it up.
it does beg the question why they began doing it.
you mean you want a gui even for settings you will probably only make once? that explains why windows is so horribly bloated and slow.
if the eu doesn't buy products from ms they will save far more money than they could possibly make by enforcing the law,
the idea of a fingerprint reader on a laptop is pretty strange. the box is covered with your fingerprints anyway. it must be a lot easier to crack than a password.
the problem would be that cars are marketed as being vehicles of freedom. you have your own car and it's yours and you're like some cowboy or member of the a-team wandering the highways righting wrongs and smoking marlboro. if cars drove themselves, that would end.
maybe i should say something to 2. i don't view mac users with skepticism because macs are different. i view mac users with skepticism because macs are the same. the same boring hardware and the same proprietary approach to software. looking at macs i can't find one important thing that makes them superior to windows vista pcs.
absolutely.
linux is family. maybe it goes wrong every now and then. maybe it has some rough edges. but it's ours. we built it and we will continue to build it, just trying to make a better operating system and sharing it to make a better world.
i find complaints about the GPL being viral somewhat amusing, seeing as it is invariably closed-source software which is viral and forces everybody else to buy it if they want to interact with it. the GPL however produces free software which everybody can interact with as they wish.
exactly that is my point. if you want to develop for the iphone, you have to spend a large amount of money on a particular computer. on the other hand, if you want to develop for javaME any computer will do. cash outlay is here an important factor because not everybody who bought an iphone is rich. for me it would not be justifiable. i have other things i can spend my money on and porting all the software i have already written in java to some other language so it can run on a chip that was specifically designed to run java is not high on my priority list.
because developing for the iphone requires the outlay of buying a whole operating system while developing for javaME does not?
the difference being that it doesn't cost you anything to install and use linux
my point being why did you choose cad, where linux has traditionally been weak, and did not regard a market where linux dominates and powerful 3d graphics are a must? my post was designed to answer the question as to why nvidia would invest a lot of time and money in linux drivers by pointing out, that asking for cad software that only runs on linux is besides the point.
90% of hollywood runs maya under red hat for special effect work
well slashdot is also user generated content.
what i tend to do is look out for certain authors and read their stuff.