Personally, given the choice, I'll take Linux or if pressed, FreeBSD every time. I value my time and my freedom -- so that leaves Windows and OS X out. I can do things in Linux far faster (for example, I do not use a GUI with icons, they are a simplified abstraction designed for new computer users and are a waste of my time and my computer's resources) than I could do on OS X or Windows, and I can do them on any hardware I choose, and without the fear that a company I have come to rely on will decide one day to arbitrarily limit or degrade my choices in hardware, software, file formats, etc to serve their bottom line.
I have to agree, it would be fine to have left handed people in TV shows, so long as they don't constantly refer to their left handedness, by opening doors with the wrong hand, writing on paper with the wrong hand etc. I hate it when shows that push the Left Handed Agenda basically only put Left Handed characers in to piss people off!
No, you will likely be moderated down because you are extremely wrong. For those too lazy to click, IBM is #1 with 34% marketshare, Oracle is second at about 33% and Microsoft is a distant third at 20%.
Telling you not to do something is completely different than blocking you from doing it as Tunisia and China do.
Right, that's why the lawyer in the story is quotes saying "They might take the view that we'll penalize you once for travel and impose a second penalty for use of the listed site." Make all the excuses you want, but not only are so-called "free" Americans forbidden by law from going to Cuba, they are also forbidden by law from visiting a whole long list of web sites. Just because you can (for now) easily break those laws doesn't mean that you will be forever, or that they will not one day track you down and charge you for doing so.
It is a myth that switching to electricity would cause more pollution due to the nature of how the electricity is generated. Even taking into account that the energy comes from coal and the losses due to transmission, electric cars are still more fuel efficient (and thus cheaper and cleaner) than gasoline powered cars.
Hate to break it to you, but your government impinges on your individual rights as much or more so than, for example, the Canadian government. Don't beleive me? Go buy a plane ticket to Cuba some time. Let me know how that goes.
The U.S. Treasury Department has blacklisted more than 60 Cuba-centric sites, many maintained by a travel company called Tour & Marketing International. The last update to the list was published by the department's Office of Foreign Assets Control on June 30.
I am not sure why you guys think this is a big deal, not including her existing monitor which I re-used, the whole system cost about $1G CDN. Some idiots pay nearly that much just for a video card.
Oh and it does a complete 2.6.13 kernel compile (modules and all) in 3 minutes 27 seconds.:) All my wife cares about, though, is that she can run her cell simulation code in a reasonable amount of time.
You just built your wife a AMD x2 3800... and I'm trying to think of why?
You're right, I should have gotten her something faster.
Don't you think thats a bit over kill.. your disposable income is obviously far greater than mine... I just peiced together a p2 system for my wife, which is still overkill for what she needs...
Your problem is that you are assuming that my wife is like your wife. Unfortunately I don't think that is true. My wife needs a fast computer because she writes a lot of computationally intensive code in C, Matlab and Maple. And while she doesn't play video games, she does use some OpenGL here and there too. Her last computer (a P3 1Ghz) just wasn't cutting it any more.
I just built an AMD X2 3800 system with the 6600 (non-GT) Silencer for my wife, who is not a video game player, and it is cool, quiet, cheap and plenty fast for what she needs. Combined with the Antec Sonata II case it makes for probably the nicest Linux system I have ever put together.
If this isn't about money, just place the trademark in the public domain and let be free.. You know, free as in speech.
Like most trolls, you apparently cannot read. He explicitly spelled out the non-monetary reasons why the mark needs to be protected. Linux itself may be open source, but there is no good reason why the name should be "public domain". If I were Linus, I would do the exact same thing.
If all the ad nausium chatter about "Free" software means anything, why not put it in the public domain?
Free software is not public domain. The fact that you don't understand the difference is telling.
Yeah, not many people download movies in OGG format, and the ones that do probably spend a lot of time trying to figure out why the sound works perfectly but the picture is so garbled.
However, companies such as Microsoft and Apple Computer argue that they need broader patent protection to prevent open source companies, which give away their software and make money through service, from effectively expropriating their development costs.
Actually Walmart IS being a good corporate citizen, and they say as much in the article:
"We're doing our job as a good corporate citizen to protect the rights of others, just like we want our brand and our copyright to be protected."
So yeah, Walmart are being a very responsible corporation and they are looking out for their pals, other corporations. You don't think they give a shit about you, the individual, do you?
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Personally, given the choice, I'll take Linux or if pressed, FreeBSD every time. I value my time and my freedom -- so that leaves Windows and OS X out. I can do things in Linux far faster (for example, I do not use a GUI with icons, they are a simplified abstraction designed for new computer users and are a waste of my time and my computer's resources) than I could do on OS X or Windows, and I can do them on any hardware I choose, and without the fear that a company I have come to rely on will decide one day to arbitrarily limit or degrade my choices in hardware, software, file formats, etc to serve their bottom line.
I have to agree, it would be fine to have left handed people in TV shows, so long as they don't constantly refer to their left handedness, by opening doors with the wrong hand, writing on paper with the wrong hand etc. I hate it when shows that push the Left Handed Agenda basically only put Left Handed characers in to piss people off!
Didn't the USA do away with that little rag?
No, you will likely be moderated down because you are extremely wrong. For those too lazy to click, IBM is #1 with 34% marketshare, Oracle is second at about 33% and Microsoft is a distant third at 20%.
Right, that's why the lawyer in the story is quotes saying "They might take the view that we'll penalize you once for travel and impose a second penalty for use of the listed site." Make all the excuses you want, but not only are so-called "free" Americans forbidden by law from going to Cuba, they are also forbidden by law from visiting a whole long list of web sites. Just because you can (for now) easily break those laws doesn't mean that you will be forever, or that they will not one day track you down and charge you for doing so.
It is a myth that switching to electricity would cause more pollution due to the nature of how the electricity is generated. Even taking into account that the energy comes from coal and the losses due to transmission, electric cars are still more fuel efficient (and thus cheaper and cleaner) than gasoline powered cars.
Hate to break it to you, but your government impinges on your individual rights as much or more so than, for example, the Canadian government. Don't beleive me? Go buy a plane ticket to Cuba some time. Let me know how that goes.
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-5780117.html
The U.S. Treasury Department has blacklisted more than 60 Cuba-centric sites, many maintained by a travel company called Tour & Marketing International. The last update to the list was published by the department's Office of Foreign Assets Control on June 30.
Sorry, I guess I missed the joke. I am not sure I understand why it is necessary to give a REASON for my wife to have a fast computer.
Oh and it does a complete 2.6.13 kernel compile (modules and all) in 3 minutes 27 seconds. :) All my wife cares about, though, is that she can run her cell simulation code in a reasonable amount of time.
You're right, I should have gotten her something faster.
Don't you think thats a bit over kill
Your problem is that you are assuming that my wife is like your wife. Unfortunately I don't think that is true. My wife needs a fast computer because she writes a lot of computationally intensive code in C, Matlab and Maple. And while she doesn't play video games, she does use some OpenGL here and there too. Her last computer (a P3 1Ghz) just wasn't cutting it any more.
I just built an AMD X2 3800 system with the 6600 (non-GT) Silencer for my wife, who is not a video game player, and it is cool, quiet, cheap and plenty fast for what she needs. Combined with the Antec Sonata II case it makes for probably the nicest Linux system I have ever put together.
Like most trolls, you apparently cannot read. He explicitly spelled out the non-monetary reasons why the mark needs to be protected. Linux itself may be open source, but there is no good reason why the name should be "public domain". If I were Linus, I would do the exact same thing.
If all the ad nausium chatter about "Free" software means anything, why not put it in the public domain?
Free software is not public domain. The fact that you don't understand the difference is telling.
Linux also ran on toasters first.
Clearly it was Commodore.
Yeah, not many people download movies in OGG format, and the ones that do probably spend a lot of time trying to figure out why the sound works perfectly but the picture is so garbled.
My car gets forty rods to the hogshead, and that's the way I likes it!
Because you still have to breathe it.
I will believe this when it comes from an engineer.
Out of curiosity, what "real work" is IBM failing at wrt Linux?
Apple (along with Microsoft, IBM, Adobe, etc) is one of the companies in Eicta who are backing the effort to get software patents going in Europe.
Interesting since Apple has partnered with Microsoft to specifically undermine the open source community in Europe.
Here you go.
Not sure where you got that number, but the cheapest openpower machine I could find is the base 710, for $3500 with a 1.6Ghz POWER5/32MB L2 cache, 74GB of UltraSCSI and 1GB of RAM. I challenge you to find a Intel, AMD or even PowerPC (Apple G5-type) based box for that price that can match it performance wise.
So yeah, Walmart are being a very responsible corporation and they are looking out for their pals, other corporations. You don't think they give a shit about you, the individual, do you?