You do raise some very interesting points here, but i'm a bit worried about one of them: "I think this will only succeed if the people who now work on Linux (i.e. program on the kernel, window managers and other key system items) change their focus from the "all knowing geek who wants to control every freaking byte of his system" towards the more mainstream average kinda user, who needs/wants help along the way."
Making it easier to use is (IMHO) a good goal, but do we really want to lose the very customisability(?) that we love and that people are switching to linux for?
I consider myself a patriotic Australian, but lately...well, we suck.
We've got a stupid internet censorship regime that (AFAIK) has not actually affected the availability of a single site, but made us look like morons in front of the rest of the world.
Australian governments taking cues from Australian corporations to screw up the introduction of digital TV.
And don't forget, our government's immense desire to destroy all forms of organised labour and the environment.
My fellow Australians...we're doing something wrong!
This is one of those technologies, like SDMI and CSS that do nothing to advantage us, the consumer, but gives all the cards to the big entertainment corporations. One by one our freedoms have been taken away, but now they have reached the stage where they want to control what we do in our own homes, on our own computers. Can you imagine not being able to copy your own files around, even between hard disks in the same computer? This is one of those things that must be faught and faught until it is dead and buried.
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Other races are as racist if not more so than Whites, especially when its not directed at Whites.
"Other races" are not racist, stupid individuals are.
it has to run as root because (i think) it adjusts the ttl (time-to-live) value for each successive packet. on linux this is a privileged operation -> you have to run it as root.
...(in australia) everyone's phone number is eight digits, with two digit area codes. nice and simple, with room enough for a hundred million people in each area, plenty big enough for the forseeable future.
moderators:this is quite offtopic, but i see this often enough that i have to comment on it somewhere....
Slashdotters have a clue; the same can't be said of the RIAA
the RIAA is an association. associations don't have views. associationss aren't 'clueless'. the people who run it (presumably the ceo's of the record companies) can be clueless or have views. i'm sure there's a whole bunch of people in the RIAA who realise how stupid the whole thing is, but it's the few people at the top who decide these things.
on a side note, do you seriously believe that the people in charge are that stupid? IAN associated in any way with the bunch of assholes, but i think it's far more likely that they're playing for time, trying to come up with a way to maintain their monopoly, than actually being quite this dumb.
of course, sometimes if it looks like a moron, acts like a moron and smells like a moron, it really is a moron.
Umm. No. No, it's not. It's beside the point anyway, because the heat of the reactor is contained by a magnetic field. You see, it has
to be that way - people don't react well to temperatures found on the surface of the Sun.
Um...no. While the heat produced by the reactor may be contained and converted into electricity, eventually all of that electricity will be turned back into heat again, warming the Earth...Basic thermodynamics, mate.
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You do raise some very interesting points here, but i'm a bit worried about one of them:
"I think this will only succeed if the people who now work on Linux (i.e. program on the kernel, window managers and other key system items) change their focus from the "all knowing geek who wants to control every freaking byte of his system" towards the more mainstream average kinda user, who needs/wants help along the way."
Making it easier to use is (IMHO) a good goal, but do we really want to lose the very customisability(?) that we love and that people are switching to linux for?
I consider myself a patriotic Australian, but lately...well, we suck.
We've got a stupid internet censorship regime that (AFAIK) has not actually affected the availability of a single site, but made us look like morons in front of the rest of the world.
Australian governments taking cues from Australian corporations to screw up the introduction of digital TV.
And don't forget, our government's immense desire to destroy all forms of organised labour and the environment.
My fellow Australians...we're doing something wrong!
This is one of those technologies, like SDMI and CSS that do nothing to advantage us, the consumer, but gives all the cards to the big entertainment corporations. One by one our freedoms have been taken away, but now they have reached the stage where they want to control what we do in our own homes, on our own computers. Can you imagine not being able to copy your own files around, even between hard disks in the same computer? This is one of those things that must be faught and faught until it is dead and buried.
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Other races are as racist if not more so than Whites, especially when its not directed at Whites.
"Other races" are not racist, stupid individuals are.
that nearly every poster so far has assumed that the 'child prodigy' is a male?
it has to run as root because (i think) it adjusts the ttl (time-to-live) value for each successive packet. on linux this is a privileged operation -> you have to run it as root.
If 750GHz is a factor of 10 increase on current tech, where the hell is my 75GHz CPU?
...(in australia) everyone's phone number is eight digits, with two digit area codes. nice and simple, with room enough for a hundred million people in each area, plenty big enough for the forseeable future.
Slashdotters have a clue; the same can't be said of the RIAA
the RIAA is an association. associations don't have views. associationss aren't 'clueless'. the people who run it (presumably the ceo's of the record companies) can be clueless or have views. i'm sure there's a whole bunch of people in the RIAA who realise how stupid the whole thing is, but it's the few people at the top who decide these things.
on a side note, do you seriously believe that the people in charge are that stupid? IAN associated in any way with the bunch of assholes, but i think it's far more likely that they're playing for time, trying to come up with a way to maintain their monopoly, than actually being quite this dumb.
of course, sometimes if it looks like a moron, acts like a moron and smells like a moron, it really is a moron.
Um...no. While the heat produced by the reactor may be contained and converted into electricity, eventually all of that electricity will be turned back into heat again, warming the Earth...Basic thermodynamics, mate.