As a correction to my previous post (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=275887&cid=20 317971) my karma increased (from "terrible" to "bad"), so it means I *can* get out of "terrible" karma, it just takes a lot of extra work.
Linux and the desktop are fundamentally incompatible. If they weren't, none of us would like Linux.
Linux is about freedom and power. "The desktop" is about perceived lack of responsibility and perceived lack of complexity. "The desktop" paradigm mostly seems to be about reducing and reducing a computers capabilities and roles until it's barely more than a device. Meanwhile, Linux makes computers bigger.
Linux's failure to proliferate into the desktop world is a superlative sign that Linux is a very good product indeed.
We don't want Linux to proliferate into the desktop world. It won't help.
They don't have a trade-mark on "Open Office". Probably no one does because it's just words.
Someone other than Openoffice.org has a trade-mark on "OpenOffice" I heard, and that that was why Openoffice.org was Openoffice.org and not OpenOffice....
Perhaps evidence for this would come up in a web search.
Openoffice's LOC don't count because Openoffice isn't part of Linux or any other operating system. It's an application suite, it's what operating systems are written to run.
Plus this quote: "Since we are confronted with two plausible arguments leading to opposite conclusions, the only rational response is to admit our ignorance."
All I want is an 80x25 monochrome display on a 386 with 8 MiB of RAM and a 200 MiB harddisk... running Linux. That gives me Lynx, VI, SSH, Mutt, and GPG. These are all the tools I need to get work and play done.
Having it able to run off cheap batteries and having it cost less than $150 would be nice too. Really nice would be having a full-size keyboard fold out somehow, and a big display, and really long battery life, and a fast CPU and tonnes of RAM...
But mainly, my point is, working through a pen or a mouse only is really sucky.
This is the second Slashdot blurb saying that if a business isn't making a profit something's wrong.
Businesses aren't people--it doesn't matter if they're poor. If the people can buy cheaper DVD players, this is obviously a good thing. Why do I even need to say this?
We'll Return, after this Message by John Walker of Fourmilab (and Speak Freely and Autocad) did a very computer-geek compatible story on the suggestion in the Slashdot blurb. It'd be worth a read if you weren't already spoiled on the ending...
at the heart of the system -- is open and free for anyone to look at and change, as long as they post those changes on the Internet so that anyone else can use them.
Obviously wrong. This is when I stop wasting my time reading poorly researched material.
People like "Focus On The Family", who normally do excellent work, are simply unclued about the internet. The internet is like a big city, you just can't let your kids wander alone in it. It doens't matter _what_ software you have installed. As your kids mature, you can teach them how to navigate safely. I just don't understand why these simple concepts are so hard to grasp for these Holier Than Thou Groups. *sigh*
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As a correction to my previous post (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=275887&cid=20 317971) my karma increased (from "terrible" to "bad"), so it means I *can* get out of "terrible" karma, it just takes a lot of extra work.
:-).
Actually I'm quite happy with that
I don't know. I guess Slashdot doesn't allow upwards moderation (and the resulting increase in karma) to people who've acquired "terrible" karma.
Boot 100% of the time.
Amazingly, I don't think pornography is good for children.
Linux and the desktop are fundamentally incompatible. If they weren't, none of us would like Linux.
Linux is about freedom and power. "The desktop" is about perceived lack of responsibility and perceived lack of complexity. "The desktop" paradigm mostly seems to be about reducing and reducing a computers capabilities and roles until it's barely more than a device. Meanwhile, Linux makes computers bigger.
Linux's failure to proliferate into the desktop world is a superlative sign that Linux is a very good product indeed.
We don't want Linux to proliferate into the desktop world. It won't help.
Thanks for letting me know.
They don't have a trade-mark on "Open Office". Probably no one does because it's just words.
...
Someone other than Openoffice.org has a trade-mark on "OpenOffice" I heard, and that that was why Openoffice.org was Openoffice.org and not OpenOffice.
Perhaps evidence for this would come up in a web search.
Openoffice's LOC don't count because Openoffice isn't part of Linux or any other operating system. It's an application suite, it's what operating systems are written to run.
Plus this quote:
:-).
"Since we are confronted with two plausible arguments leading to opposite conclusions, the only rational response is to admit our ignorance."
Well, there goes most of Slashdot
Yeah it might.
But the article suggests (if not proves) that he's not at all confused by the term global warming and understands the issues just fine.
Perhaps you should read it.
This is almost exactly the same as the music video for Scream and Run Away by The Gothic Archies.
And one further question... what do I do to get modded up so my comments have
a default posting value of at least, say, zero.
All I want is an 80x25 monochrome display on a 386 with 8 MiB of RAM and a 200 MiB harddisk... running Linux. That gives me Lynx, VI, SSH, Mutt, and GPG. These are all the tools I need to get work and play done.
Having it able to run off cheap batteries and having it cost less than $150 would be nice too. Really nice would be having a full-size keyboard fold out somehow, and a big display, and really long battery life, and a fast CPU and tonnes of RAM...
But mainly, my point is, working through a pen or a mouse only is really sucky.
This is the second Slashdot blurb saying that if a business isn't making a profit something's wrong.
Businesses aren't people--it doesn't matter if they're poor. If the people can buy cheaper DVD players, this is obviously a good thing. Why do I even need to say this?
We'll Return, after this Message by John Walker of Fourmilab (and Speak Freely and Autocad) did a very computer-geek compatible story on the suggestion in the Slashdot blurb. It'd be worth a read if you weren't already spoiled on the ending...
I just installed Mozilla Firefox 0.9. It seems a lot faster and more responsive than 0.8. It's almost pleasant to use. Has anyone else noticed this?
But I think this trailer is actually better than that movie :-o.
Slashdot linked to an article that used "hacker" incorrectly.
I consider myself proficient at GNU/Linux. :-/ I have a lot to learn.
Looking at what you need for level one certification daunts me.
And criticism from ACs isn't?
This is a major point of contention of people who don't want to use GPL software, they think that they _have_ to give away anything they do with it.
at the heart of the system -- is open and free for anyone to look at
and change, as long as they post those changes on the Internet so that
anyone else can use them.
Obviously wrong. This is when I stop wasting my time reading poorly researched material.
People like "Focus On The Family", who normally do excellent work, are simply unclued about the internet. The internet is like a big city, you just can't let your kids wander alone in it. It doens't matter _what_ software you have installed. As your kids mature, you can teach them how to navigate safely. I just don't understand why these simple concepts are so hard to grasp for these Holier Than Thou Groups.
*sigh*
Thank God for Anonymous Cowards.
I told you it was scary.
Is anybody else as afraid of this as I am?
TomG