People keep talking about an OS battle. In a war you don't spread your troops evenly accros the battlefield...you concentrate your forces (development rescources) on specific targets (a standard GUI)
Wouldn't it be easier to have a more powerful standard GUI for all the people new to Linux? With the power of Linux, that we all know and love, you could do what you wanted to the desktop after you got used to it. Surely there has to be ways of changing configurations so the GUI could fit your needs, whatever they may be.
A standard GUI would make it easier for programs to be made. A standard GUI would make support easier. A standard GUI would be more secure, because there'd be only one program to keep security checks on.
Obviously, a standard INTERFACE wouldn't be right for everyone. Making your computer do exactly what you want it to do, is one big reason why linux is so good. But if everyone is using the same GUI, users could keep it from becomming a bloated piece of crap like Windows. We wouldn't let it become that. We would make it so configurable that it could become what ever you want it to be, without having the problems of software incompatibilities.
It may not be *HIGH_PROFILE* but it would be easier to enforce for the GPL licence. A mod is something that is very specific. It's not like taking code from one program and putting it into something unrelated. You can't use code from Quake and make a mod for Commander Keen. This is something that you can pin-down to a specific program, for a specific purpose. This is what is needed to give the GPL something to stand on. A cut and dried example of someone using open-source code for thier own gain. Others can use the program (the mod), but they can't see the code to know what the program is doing.
Some people use wordprocessors for *business*. The Big man upstairs doesn't care what program you used to type up his reports. He just wants them to look good to clients and the stock holders... If theres a tool that makes it easier for someone to put that 87 page document into 2 columns and then reformat it around the bar graphs, that saves time and therefore money because one person can do *all* the work. That's why we need fancy schmancy word processors.
Think about it, hyper-strong special forces teams. No limits on the amount of wieght a GI can cary. (within reason of course) There's got to be some type of weapons they could use. (ultra battle axe anyone) We better make sure this doesn't get out, like the nuclear stuff did.
China has more people in its army than the US does in the whole country. Imagine what a billion super-soldiers could do.
Anything that saves or even just protects the lives of US service men and women should be used in times of war. One soldier's life should be enough to make 'cyber warfare' a viable tactical advantage. If a downed computer system keeps the enemy (whoever that may be) from shooting bullets, then I'm all for it.
OK, lets say nothing black-hole-ish happens. Then the scientists would know a little more about the big-bang. What if a black-hole does form? Ooohhh Myyyy Goooood!!!!!!!!! Then fwoop it doesn't matter anymore does it. Why? Well, everyone on earth would almost instantly be compressed into an infinitly small space. We're all dead and then nothing would matter anymore anyways....
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Wouldn't it be easier to have a more powerful standard GUI for all the people new to Linux? With the power of Linux, that we all know and love, you could do what you wanted to the desktop after you got used to it. Surely there has to be ways of changing configurations so the GUI could fit your needs, whatever they may be.
A standard GUI would make it easier for programs to be made. A standard GUI would make support easier. A standard GUI would be more secure, because there'd be only one program to keep security checks on.
Obviously, a standard INTERFACE wouldn't be right for everyone. Making your computer do exactly what you want it to do, is one big reason why linux is so good. But if everyone is using the same GUI, users could keep it from becomming a bloated piece of crap like Windows. We wouldn't let it become that. We would make it so configurable that it could become what ever you want it to be, without having the problems of software incompatibilities.
It may not be *HIGH_PROFILE* but it would be easier to enforce for the GPL licence. A mod is something that is very specific. It's not like taking code from one program and putting it into something unrelated. You can't use code from Quake and make a mod for Commander Keen. This is something that you can pin-down to a specific program, for a specific purpose. This is what is needed to give the GPL something to stand on. A cut and dried example of someone using open-source code for thier own gain. Others can use the program (the mod), but they can't see the code to know what the program is doing.
Some people use wordprocessors for *business*. The Big man upstairs doesn't care what program you used to type up his reports. He just wants them to look good to clients and the stock holders... If theres a tool that makes it easier for someone to put that 87 page document into 2 columns and then reformat it around the bar graphs, that saves time and therefore money because one person can do *all* the work. That's why we need fancy schmancy word processors.
In the literary world I think his post is known as a parody or sarcasm.
China has more people in its army than the US does in the whole country. Imagine what a billion super-soldiers could do.
Anything that saves or even just protects the lives of US service men and women should be used in times of war. One soldier's life should be enough to make 'cyber warfare' a viable tactical advantage. If a downed computer system keeps the enemy (whoever that may be) from shooting bullets, then I'm all for it.
OK, lets say nothing black-hole-ish happens. Then the scientists would know a little more about the big-bang.
What if a black-hole does form? Ooohhh Myyyy Goooood!!!!!!!!! Then fwoop it doesn't matter anymore does it. Why? Well, everyone on earth would almost instantly be compressed into an infinitly small space. We're all dead and then nothing would matter anymore anyways....
What is an RC5 key? What's it for? What's it do? Good or Bad? Any other info you can give to help out a newbie would be greatly apreciated.
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