Dear.net fan with mod points: If you haven't noticed, the official "I disagree" mod is troll or overrated, redundant makes no sense here, please, next time the system gives you points, try to use them correctly.
It is actually lame you are even asking this, a non-compete clause is as unacceptable as heck... Really dude, have you stopped to think that it could be used to stop you from doing even projects unrelated to this thing?
Like seriously, the distribution that comes with the eee is incredibly crippled, one thing is the interface that is kind of good, but it is impossible to install more software on it. You could manage to get more repositories but every tutorial will have the words 'at your own risk'.
They should have just picked a good distro and made an alternative that could use its repositories, I think these Linux distros included in he netbooks are so horribly, intentionally crippled that would scare even the most adventurous user. Either way, my 4G Asus eee improved a lot when I managed to install "ubuntu eee", it was upgraded from what basically was a brick to a very capable computer, I can actually program in that...
I find it interesting that you are using the suspicion with no evidence whatsoever that this guy twitter is doing multiple accounts as a way to also attack Roy. Sorry, Roy might be a lot of things, but he is very often right, and Novell's attacks on Linux are getting worse and worse, I also wish this whole stuff was plain wrong and Novell was this free software saint some of you guys seem to think it is , but it isn't.
Err, one question, how do we know exactly that they are the same guy? Right now the argument seems to be "they agree with each other, therefore they are the same person" Not a very strong one...
Isn't the required success rate much higher than that? Since 1% is quite trivial to accomplish on current captchas, for example slashdot seems to always use about the same 50 words... And those pick the pic ones are incredibly kind on randomized approaches... some even make you pick between TWO images! That's a 50% passing chance baby!
Hopefully web sites will stop using captchas, those things are getting quite ridiculous, and the worst ones are those that require me to enable javascript from a freaking random domain name... BTW, a lot of people seem to think an automated bot cannot have a javascript interpreter...
So, questions, #1 "source code available" - what license? #2: Does it need a friking installer or can I just unzip it and run (aka it doesn't mess with the registry) If it is still FLOSS and doesn't touch the registry, it would be a great choice.
You know, I've been playing doom lately, and that's quite a colorful game... Then I saw some people playing diablo 2 it is actually very colorful as well, I am glad blizz didn't waste their time pleasing a bunch of people that just remember diablo being darker than it really was...
Four minutes to be ready. It happens on windows, it also happens in gnome to an extent. You boot the OS in X minutes, but there's still a long way to go before you are actually able to do stuff on it, in the case of windows XP, you need to put your password then wait about 30 seconds until windows stops loading all the startup programs so you can actually tell it to open a text editor...
Did you know that FUD does not really mean 'disagrees with what I think'? He never said lazy languages are useless, he mentioned LISP as a language that's still being used. In my opinion lazyness is useful, so let's just wait for an imperative language to steal that feature so people can actually use it, just like what happened with the rest of functional languages' features... (I know people are gonna mod me troll for this, don't worry)
Err. I am sorry, but the only reason I bought a netbook is precisely, that they don't actually come with a freaking embedded OS that is useless. You know, I can actually run real software on it...
Who, and I seriously mean who on earth would want to install/use windows CE in a market that is already dominated by Linux AND windows XP? Really, windows CE was always this thing that didn't work, and you want it to compete with XP?
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Dear .net fan with mod points: If you haven't noticed, the official "I disagree" mod is troll or overrated, redundant makes no sense here, please, next time the system gives you points, try to use them correctly.
Only in America...
Would we need to know? ... Ok, I guess some might be looking forward for panic sex.
It is actually lame you are even asking this, a non-compete clause is as unacceptable as heck... Really dude, have you stopped to think that it could be used to stop you from doing even projects unrelated to this thing?
A license that asks you to keep the code as free as when you received it, how restrictive...
They should have just picked a good distro and made an alternative that could use its repositories, I think these Linux distros included in he netbooks are so horribly, intentionally crippled that would scare even the most adventurous user. Either way, my 4G Asus eee improved a lot when I managed to install "ubuntu eee", it was upgraded from what basically was a brick to a very capable computer, I can actually program in that...
Well, just point me how something that can only be legally used in windows is 'open' in any way.
There's the OSI, and nope you cannot use 'open source' as a hype exploiting advertisement yet not really follow it.
I find it interesting that you are using the suspicion with no evidence whatsoever that this guy twitter is doing multiple accounts as a way to also attack Roy. Sorry, Roy might be a lot of things, but he is very often right, and Novell's attacks on Linux are getting worse and worse, I also wish this whole stuff was plain wrong and Novell was this free software saint some of you guys seem to think it is , but it isn't.
Err, one question, how do we know exactly that they are the same guy? Right now the argument seems to be "they agree with each other, therefore they are the same person" Not a very strong one...
Isn't the required success rate much higher than that? Since 1% is quite trivial to accomplish on current captchas, for example slashdot seems to always use about the same 50 words... And those pick the pic ones are incredibly kind on randomized approaches... some even make you pick between TWO images! That's a 50% passing chance baby!
Hopefully web sites will stop using captchas, those things are getting quite ridiculous, and the worst ones are those that require me to enable javascript from a freaking random domain name... BTW, a lot of people seem to think an automated bot cannot have a javascript interpreter...
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That's funny, I mean, it is ironic how this reminds me of "In a world without walls you don't need Gates and windows".
So, questions, #1 "source code available" - what license? #2: Does it need a friking installer or can I just unzip it and run (aka it doesn't mess with the registry) If it is still FLOSS and doesn't touch the registry, it would be a great choice.
... as in beer.
This is a slashdot story on an article talking about another 4 new screenshots.
You know, I've been playing doom lately, and that's quite a colorful game... Then I saw some people playing diablo 2 it is actually very colorful as well, I am glad blizz didn't waste their time pleasing a bunch of people that just remember diablo being darker than it really was...
iMagine a world in which apple and not MS controlled the desktop OS market...
Four minutes to be ready. It happens on windows, it also happens in gnome to an extent. You boot the OS in X minutes, but there's still a long way to go before you are actually able to do stuff on it, in the case of windows XP, you need to put your password then wait about 30 seconds until windows stops loading all the startup programs so you can actually tell it to open a text editor...
Could this be the year of Haskell in the developer's tool box?
Did you know that FUD does not really mean 'disagrees with what I think'? He never said lazy languages are useless, he mentioned LISP as a language that's still being used. In my opinion lazyness is useful, so let's just wait for an imperative language to steal that feature so people can actually use it, just like what happened with the rest of functional languages' features... (I know people are gonna mod me troll for this, don't worry)
a) We move the Olympics year!
b) Chicago gets a new name!
Err. I am sorry, but the only reason I bought a netbook is precisely, that they don't actually come with a freaking embedded OS that is useless. You know, I can actually run real software on it...
Web developers?
Who, and I seriously mean who on earth would want to install/use windows CE in a market that is already dominated by Linux AND windows XP? Really, windows CE was always this thing that didn't work, and you want it to compete with XP?