I was referring more to home users. I agree that a few people will be scared off upon reading a disclaimer like that, but in my experience most users don't bother to read disclaimers, and for the ones that do this codec disclaimer will be in the same boat as mattress tags.
You're thinking of Ubuntu Studio, and yes I agree that it is pretty silly that they're making what is essentially Ubuntu + a few extra packages and a different theme. But at the same time, that's what is so great about Linux: anyone can make their own "version", anyone can do anything they want with it. It doesn't matter how stupid it is.
IMO Making a single "one size fits all" distro would completely defeat the purpose of Linux.
To be honest - I do have access to OpenOffice on my Linux desktop via VMWare. It's there if I need it (like all the other Windows-specific applications). But I just don't need it very often. I assume you meant Microsoft Office?
As has already been pointed out, the only thing this is going to add "bloat" to is the hard drive. This addition will take up a little extra disk space, that's it. The compiled code will still be the same, and if you don't import it the libraries won't be loaded into memory.
It's there for people who want it, and not there for everyone else.
Most Nextel cellphones (at least) have a whitelist built-in. You can have it allow only numbers in your phonebook in, everything else gets redirected to voicemail. Hopefully if someone needs to tell you something urgent, but they aren't in your phonebook, they'll have enough common sense to leave a message...
I've always been told the difficult part about driving isn't actually the "driving", it's avoiding other cars. While yes, pilots do have to do more, the flight computer _does_ do a lot of it for them, and passenger jets are never flying closely in formation so the pilot really doesn't need a good reaction time. If he dozes off for a second, would it really matter?
Also keep in mind that big planes typically have two or more pilots. Cars only have one driver.
IANAA (I am not an astronaut), but how would the shuttle be refueled? It's not a plane, it's a reentry vehicle. They strap on rockets, it goes up, then it comes back down. I don't think a shuttle is capable of doing much more than gliding on the way back to Earth.
It works with iPods apparently. I know the topic was on syncing music, but if you use a filemanager to manually copy songs over then you really don't have any need for that feature.
For anyone that doesn't sync music, and wants what is basically a GTK clone of Amarok, Exaile is a great player.
What's to stop someone from exploiting a hole in abiword anyways? It's not like if they do, it will instantly affect every usb key. This is normal OSS software being distributed.
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Shadow Chronicles just came out.
Mind you it's not a remake, but it's kind of a continuation.
Isn't Alexa considered spyware?
It baffles me how people actually look to them for information, considering how they get it.
This is completely untrue.
Many companies use GCC to compile their proprietary products. As long as they don't modify GCC, they can license things any way they want.
Clearly you don't understand how a space elevator works. :)
I was referring more to home users. I agree that a few people will be scared off upon reading a disclaimer like that, but in my experience most users don't bother to read disclaimers, and for the ones that do this codec disclaimer will be in the same boat as mattress tags.
You're thinking of Ubuntu Studio, and yes I agree that it is pretty silly that they're making what is essentially Ubuntu + a few extra packages and a different theme. But at the same time, that's what is so great about Linux: anyone can make their own "version", anyone can do anything they want with it. It doesn't matter how stupid it is.
IMO Making a single "one size fits all" distro would completely defeat the purpose of Linux.
No.
Either your link is broken again, or the Debian team was right for forking (is that what they did?) Ice Weasel.
Java 6 has improved ArrayLists, among other things. That alone is reason enough to use it.
Not sure if that second part was a joke or not, but Java 1.5 is the same as Java 5, no?
As has already been pointed out, the only thing this is going to add "bloat" to is the hard drive. This addition will take up a little extra disk space, that's it. The compiled code will still be the same, and if you don't import it the libraries won't be loaded into memory.
It's there for people who want it, and not there for everyone else.
It _is_ being added as a library, from what I can tell. If you don't import it into your program, then you won't have to worry about it.
I think you mean MPAA. This is movies, the RIAA is music.
I agree.
Ocarina of Time my ass.
Math Blaster?
Most Nextel cellphones (at least) have a whitelist built-in. You can have it allow only numbers in your phonebook in, everything else gets redirected to voicemail. Hopefully if someone needs to tell you something urgent, but they aren't in your phonebook, they'll have enough common sense to leave a message...
I've always been told the difficult part about driving isn't actually the "driving", it's avoiding other cars. While yes, pilots do have to do more, the flight computer _does_ do a lot of it for them, and passenger jets are never flying closely in formation so the pilot really doesn't need a good reaction time. If he dozes off for a second, would it really matter?
Also keep in mind that big planes typically have two or more pilots. Cars only have one driver.
IANAA (I am not an astronaut), but how would the shuttle be refueled? It's not a plane, it's a reentry vehicle. They strap on rockets, it goes up, then it comes back down. I don't think a shuttle is capable of doing much more than gliding on the way back to Earth.
Inkscape is for drawing, not photo editing.
It works with iPods apparently. I know the topic was on syncing music, but if you use a filemanager to manually copy songs over then you really don't have any need for that feature.
For anyone that doesn't sync music, and wants what is basically a GTK clone of Amarok, Exaile is a great player.
Exaile is basically Amarok for Gnome, no need to use KDE.
Who do I root for?
I would imagine he's using one of the more recent iterations, what version of OOo were you using?
I think you mixed up your prices. That, or someone slipped something into my drink.
What's to stop someone from exploiting a hole in abiword anyways? It's not like if they do, it will instantly affect every usb key. This is normal OSS software being distributed.