I'm really for anything that helps wrestle proprietary control settings away from the major carriers.
Yup, you can expect Apple to fairly license proprietary control settings in a reasonable and non discriminate manner and help level the playing field in the cell phone market!
Are you on crack? You've clearly never used linux.
that's four entire windowing libraries and widget sets loaded into memory
Four windowing libraries/widgets sets? Care to name them?
including libraries from two different desktop environments.
All the apps you mention are not tied to a "desktop environment". You don't need libraries from any desktop environments to run them (were you dropped on your head as a child?)
Linux apps could be D&D install already - all they have to do is statically compile.
Noone in the linux world wants OS X style bloat tho' (I mean, running FF, MS Office and Illustrator concurrently appears to require 4GB of ram unless you want an almost constant beach ball).
I'm pretty sure that what we refer to as "global warming" shouldn't have a huge impact on tropical glaciers. During both glacial and interglacial periods the significant temperature changes were in subtropical and especially arctic areas - tropical areas saw very little change.
You haven't thought that through.
Even tho' tropical areas are likely to see a smaller temperature difference than a sub tropical or artic, they're also much more sensitive to said change. According to Real Climate's Tropical Glacier Retreat Page:
Generally speaking, lower glaciers which extend below the elevation where above-freezing air temperatures occur, are more sensitive to temperature. [Kaser and Osmaston 2002] calculate that such tropical glaciers are even more temperature-sensitive than midlatitude glaciers. A warming of 1 degree C is sufficient to raise the equilibrium line (below which net ablation occurs) by fully 300 meters. As we've already seen, warming is by no means unimportant to the 20th century retreat of the Lewis glacier (Mt. Kenya) in E. Africa. In other cases, the role of warming is yet more clear.
But there are also glaciers nearby that are advancing instead of receding.
Can you back up that statement with a link, or did you just pull some highly speculative piece of bullshit out of your ass?
So the question to ask is: How many tropical glaciers are advancing or staying the same instead of receding? The report does not say, so it is impossible to draw any global conclusions.
Fucking retarded. TFA talked about other glaciers & a few seconds research would have lead you to Tropical Glacier Retreat analysis.
Throughout the Tropics, glaciers are in retreat. Well-documented examples include Quelccaya [Thompson, et al. 1993], Huascaran [Byers, 2000; Kaser and Osmaston,2002], Zongo and Chacaltaya [Francou,et al 2003; Wagnon et al. 1999] in S. America; and the Lewis, Rwenzori and Kilimanjaro (more properly, Kibo) glaciers in East Africa [Hastenrath, 1984; Kaser and Osmaston, 2002]. There have been indications of widespread retreat of Himalayan glaciers, including Dasuopu in the subtropics, but a quantitative understanding of this region must await peer-reviewed analysis of the recently completed 46000-glacier Chinese Glacier Inventory.
In short, you don't have a fucking clue what you're talking about.
Rote says yes, and that 'Second Life users are a unique audience, in that, they are first adopters. It is a smaller community, but I would argue it is a more influential community.'
Yeeesh! Smug SL user & lame* presidential candidate stories rolled into one! Thanks slashdot:-)
Second life is great to show your "internet savvy", coz the mainstream press (newsites, tv, legacy print, etc) can report on your 'internet presence' with impressive pics of a 3d world.
Second life is not great for the direct influence it has on the American public.
*the story, not the candidate, dunno about him.
PS. A comment on the linked article said Obama also had a SL presence. But with no backing evidence. Anyone on SL want to confirm/deny this for us?
PPS. Did anyone else think the photo of the author of the linked article looked 'shopped?
Well, it's a very big thing when the CEO of the company that makes the #1 music player and download service in the world comes out against DRM.....And another to actually sell DRM free music (as Yahoo have)
If you'd read the thread you're responding to, you'd know the discussion was about running OS X on a vm on non-apple hardware. The EULA says you can't do that.
What do you get if you cross an open source development consortium with an organisation that promotes free standards? Answer: You get a Linux advocacy group. Or so it seems.
ODSL & FSG were misnamed - ODSL employees worked on linux and the FSG worked on the linux standard base.
It's natural for the union between them to be called "the linux something".
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I'm really for anything that helps wrestle proprietary control settings away from the major carriers.
Yup, you can expect Apple to fairly license proprietary control settings in a reasonable and non discriminate manner and help level the playing field in the cell phone market!
Thanks Apple for giving us more choice!
Incorrect. The consumers are the orifices in the telco / phone maker / customer relationship. Everyone gets to screw them.
Anyway, let's hope the iPhone enjoys more success than the last Apple/Cingular deal mentioned in the article:
Hahahahahahaha!
I notice when you post to global warming stories that you never link to anything backing your POV.
Why? Because your posts are utter bullshit.
You know, like the increase in ocean ice in the south
Please link to an article discussing the increase in antartic ocean ice along with its implications for climate change.
Are you on crack? You've clearly never used linux.
that's four entire windowing libraries and widget sets loaded into memory
Four windowing libraries/widgets sets? Care to name them?
including libraries from two different desktop environments.
All the apps you mention are not tied to a "desktop environment". You don't need libraries from any desktop environments to run them (were you dropped on your head as a child?)
But wait, if you run Firefox, OpenOffice, GIMP, and KIllustrator on OS X, it requires *5* entire windowing libraries.
:-)
Hahahahaha, Indeed
But, you should make that six libraries! (You forgot cocoa).
Waaaah! Waaah! Waaaah!
Linux apps could be D&D install already - all they have to do is statically compile.
Noone in the linux world wants OS X style bloat tho' (I mean, running FF, MS Office and Illustrator concurrently appears to require 4GB of ram unless you want an almost constant beach ball).
Piracy IS theft.
Well, that settles it! OCG of Slashdot say piracy IS theft. The capitalisation of "is" proves it.
Thanks OCG!
If only OS X users would stop whining about OS X in linux stories, the world would be a better place.
Seriously, being able to read a linux story without inevitable, (innaccurate & irrelevant) OS X comparisons would rock.
You haven't thought that through.
Even tho' tropical areas are likely to see a smaller temperature difference than a sub tropical or artic, they're also much more sensitive to said change. According to Real Climate's Tropical Glacier Retreat Page:
Can you back up that statement with a link, or did you just pull some highly speculative piece of bullshit out of your ass?
So the question to ask is: How many tropical glaciers are advancing or staying the same instead of receding? The report does not say, so it is impossible to draw any global conclusions.
Fucking retarded. TFA talked about other glaciers & a few seconds research would have lead you to Tropical Glacier Retreat analysis.In short, you don't have a fucking clue what you're talking about.
f Apple had listened to him in the past they'd either be another PC manufacutrer
But Apple is a PC manufacturer! What do you think they make super computers? or bog standard intel based computers?
Thanks for proving my point beyond any doubt.
Absolutely!
I have no response one liners like the above and "You should consider not thinking, you aren't good at it".
Your wit & intellect are only exceeded by your charm. I'm sure I'm only proving your point again here tho'.
You should consider not thinking, you aren't good at it.
So, I'm not good at not thinking.
Do you think I'm great or merely good at thinking?
the great support for Ogg on Linux PCs into a discussion about MP3 players,
I believe the poster bought up ogg support because you were to think to understand what "tied to" means in the context of DRM'd digital music files.
Your joke wasn't particularly funny when you take into account the AC mentioned his music player supported oggs.
Ogg vorbis must be the least interoperable format in existence, playing only on amost immeasurably small number of players.
Hmmmmmmn, in practicability terms, I'd agree with that.
It's an extremely interoperable format, but that doesn't matter a damn if noone's implementing it.
I'm not the AC OP. I like the idea of oggs, but want practical interoperability. For that, there is no substitute for mp3.
Rote says yes, and that 'Second Life users are a unique audience, in that, they are first adopters. It is a smaller community, but I would argue it is a more influential community.'
:-)
Yeeesh! Smug SL user & lame* presidential candidate stories rolled into one! Thanks slashdot
Second life is great to show your "internet savvy", coz the mainstream press (newsites, tv, legacy print, etc) can report on your 'internet presence' with impressive pics of a 3d world.
Second life is not great for the direct influence it has on the American public.
*the story, not the candidate, dunno about him.
PS. A comment on the linked article said Obama also had a SL presence. But with no backing evidence. Anyone on SL want to confirm/deny this for us?
PPS. Did anyone else think the photo of the author of the linked article looked 'shopped?
And here's a youtube video of Everyone Votes (I linked to the shortest of many, many everyone votes vids on youtube).
Well, it's a very big thing when the CEO of the company that makes the #1 music player and download service in the world comes out against DRM.....And another to actually sell DRM free music (as Yahoo have)
:-)
There! Fixed that for you
AC: Oh, and just in case you are wondering, my portable music player supports Ogg Vorbis as well...
LT: And dragging along your PC when jogging helps with the exercise.
Idiot. What part of 'portable music player' don't you understand?
B) The EULA doesn't say you can't.
If you'd read the thread you're responding to, you'd know the discussion was about running OS X on a vm on non-apple hardware. The EULA says you can't do that.
Starting to catch up yet? I doubt it.
More like, people who are using anything provided at someone else's expense are in no position to bitch about others doing the same thing.
Absolutely! I could not agree with you more!
These people should be grateful for any scraps we choose to throw them!
You sir, have hit the nail right on the head. Thank you for your insight.
Hahahahahahaha!
:-D
That is without a doubt the funniest analogy I've ever read on slashdot
Oh, absolutely!
There is no reason to expect something useful or educational from a public library.
People who can't afford computers do not deserve to use them.
I couldn't agree with what you're saying more!!!!
It's natural for the union between them to be called "the linux something".
And by the EULA. What's your point?
The point is you do not have to accept the EULA to use the OSX, thus you are free to install OS X on a VM.
Have you read even read the thread you're responding to?