The focus should be on open source software, not some companies specific magical distro "stack". Everyone needs to push for modular and universally-installable software across all distros, and GNU/Linux needs to be its *own* distro. Then you can turn to that company claiming they are somehow magically superior and ask them what software they are using or configuration changes they have made that makes them supposedly so secure.
It does need to take over the world, actually. Not being sarcastic. The cost of living is going up all over the world due to the rich stealing from the poor, the useless stealing from those who actually do productive work. Open source software fulfilling everyone's need is important for improving everyone's quality of life, regardless of if it is used personally at home or used in the government i.e. in turn lowering taxes. Proprietary software is wasteful, and that cost is reflected in everything you buy, which in turn reflects in your quality of life.
I think this may be a big enough feature and annoyance to many users that it would be nice to see an option for changing it in the theme section somewhere. There are options for "controls", "colors", "window border", "icons", and "pointer". I think "button position" trumps the importance of some of these options and thus should be included somewhere somehow.
That's why they join together to pay lobbyist groups. There is no paranoia here. Companies trying their hardest to screw you over as a consumer is as obvious as a pink elephant pulling an ice cream truck playing jingles. Everyone knows corporations run the government, what rock have you been living under? All laws are written by the lawyers of the corporations and corporate lobbyist groups who want to see themselves take a bigger piece of your pie, further eroding the economy and making your quality of life suck as they get more money for contributing less. I'm glad Obama at least asked the right questions like "why is it your parents could afford a big house, only one of them had to work, they could buy several cars, afford college educations for all their children" etc, but of course since he is a corporate puppet he didn't try too hard to answer that question other than "corrupt politics", and certainly has not tried addressing the actual reasons for all of it.
Cool and all, but the PS3 has always been pretty worthless due to the hypervisor. Unless that is bypassed really well at some point, it will continue to be a very sub-par desktop. I had a Linux HTPC/server replace it long ago and I've never looked back. Much rather have room on the PS3 hard drive for games anyway. Not that this isn't an important project for those who have PS3s but no HTPCs, or don't want both, but with how cheaply you can get a more-than-decent HTPC for there isn't much reason not to.
Please stop calling software "technology". Live change-overs should be a feature implemented into Linux distros, though, something I've wanted for a long time though my idea was on more of a complex Linux (the kernel) level, a 2nd kernel being able to start up along side an existing one, and then the live kernel passing off the necessary info and handling to it on all-the-fly. Something like that.:P
Wikipedia says "plurality", except in British English where it means the same as "majority", means the greatest subset, not 50%. So I meant non-British plurality then. But whatever. =P
Lets see, check check..check and check, but no matter...
While you can easily get away with installing software which is patented (at least in the stupid United Corporations of America), corporations, since they have a lot of money, are the targets of lawsuits by patent holders/sharks/trolls/etc, so they can't include them and it is simply dangerous. So, when and where you are able to, convert your things to truly open formats. While I could also argue using patented things may actually help companies try to fight software patents, not using them of course removes the power these patents have as well. While I'd prefer the law was changed, sadly the latter might be the better choice because the more money which is at stake, the more lobbyists there will be, so it will be less probable that the laws will actually be overhauled intelligently.
Any way, I converted all my media away from patented formats long ago. There are several, for example, MP3 to OGG converting programs available, and while lossy to lossy conversions are normally bad, it works surprisingly well. Not to mention, OGG Vorbis is just fucking kick ass, and MP3 should have been vanquished long ago. I don't care if your ipod can't play OGG, maybe you should be buying something like a Cowon instead then.
Some people also have morals, and won't support Linux-molesting, attacking, suing corporatards (to use your terminology) like Novell and Microsoft, and thus reject the applications they try to push onto Linux no matter how good they are.
So, deal. At least everyone has the freedom to choose, something that will never completely vanish, but that is not to say that the decisions major distros make aren't at all important because they do effect the Linux ecosystem whether anyone likes it or not.
Mod parent up please, as that is the truth. Mono was pushed by Novell because Microsoft paid them to push it, and to do so Novell tried to develop some projects based on it to give it some weight. I really hope that something like Gnote will be used now to replace Tomboy, and that Mono can be expunged completely from Ubuntu, freeing up lots of space on the ISO and shortening loading times and resource demands for the default apps.
It's news for Ubuntu users, which comprises probably most Linux users, so it is relevant and is news for them, just as major Fedora changes are news-worthy as well but less so since Fedora is less used, at least for desktops I would argue, but who knows, maybe it's equal or more, that's besides the point that they are both news worthy IMO.
Ubuntu bashing is amusing, but pretty infantile. Fedora uses pretty much the same programs, with a different non-universal package manager, just as DEB isn't universal (a major gripe of mine about Linux standards and software accessibility on Linux, but off-topic).
Now, it shouldn't matter to any distro users, and none of this should be news worthy, because users should be able to get the latest version of any program easily without relying on someone to create a PPA (which still haven't been made ultra-easy to deal with, and confounds new users), but again, that's going back to the above off-topic point. The sad reality is the default apps that distros ship does matter to distro users users because they will most likely not get the new version, and many not even know Shotwell exists until they install or upgrade to the newer distro version.
Well, we are talking about a photo manager that wasn't in Lucid Lynx, and will be in Maverick Meerkat, which is in a whopping Alpha 1 state right now. Point: maybe that's why it wasn't included, and maybe it will be more featureful and finished once 10.10 is out.
Called HTML5. As for non-video-playback stuff though like SVG animations and whatnot, I'm still shocked there is no standard for doing that, though there is Java...but certain Java apps requiring certain versions of Java has aggravated me to no end, and definitely serves to invalidate it as a standard IMO even though it is open source now.
The government is only accountable to the corporations they're employed by, and those corporations have every interest in seeing problems go unresolved, and preferably worsened, because they can't buy 40 more mansions and 20 new Ferraris unless they keep the wars and other pointless wasteful jobs going. Think about their feelings for once, geez. Poor industrial military complex. =(
Sounds like you really should consider finding a rock climbing place in Canada. ^^
I'd mod you up if I hadn't posted many times. It really is totally ridiculous, but it's all for a reason, and that reason is so the industrial military complex and other businesses can make more money and waste more taxes by taking a "hard line" (stupid) approach to dealing with troubles in the world instead of actually helping to solve them.
How about a revolutionary instead? That's what the U.S. needs and it would certainly be much more productive.
I wasn't taking your comment seriously of course, but I'm just making two points, firstly that Americans need to start protesting, and secondly that terrorists are retarded since love is the most powerful "weapon" of all. You don't change a nation's course by blowing random citizens up, you change a nation by changing the hearts and minds of those who make up that nation.
Because money == good morals has been the gospel pushed as "just, upright, god-fearing American values" by the corporate-run right wing parties. I'm not saying the left isn't corporate-controlled, but simply that corporations have tried their damnedest to equate Capitalism with patriotism, and patriotism is simply a bigger part of the right's platform, or so they try to say. Of course neither side truly has the interests of citizens in mind, as America has become completely conquered by corporate rulers and your real overlords.
The reason corporations are having a heyday here, you could argue, is more because the mechanisms for control over politicians by democratic forces have been largely removed. Political leaders are not held accountable for their actions, and the corporate machine has turned the political system into a revolving door for their puppets.
For instance, Barack should have been impeached and possibly imprisoned quite some time ago for going back on virtually everything that was promised in his campaign. Government officials should be held accountable to citizens. Until Americans get that through their thick skulls and patriotism means not being a sheep and a slave, America will continue to suck hard.
Ultimately though the problem is money and greed, and it's gotten so out-of-control here and the corps have gotten so powerful that there is no chance of freedom unless a major revolt takes place. Most any system will eventually fail due to greed, but some are much more resistant than others. I guess constitutions should always be created with very democratic ideals and very strong wording to keep corps in check, or you need to make a system work which is not monetary-based. For that you likely need Star Trek-level technology, which fortunately isn't too far off I don't think.
Getting rid of copyright law would benefit the world more than FOSS. Without copyright law, source code can be legally copied no matter what. Copyleft is just a stopgap for a bigger problem and shows the benefits of what anyone can do once empowered.
I praise the Chinese government for standing up against U.S. corporations pushing their desires through their puppets.
Oh yeah? Well I just finished having sex. I'm too busy with my post-sex snuggling to compare both images in-depth.
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Seriously, patents are very broken for so many reasons. If they'd only be abolished, real competition could much more easily occur and it would be a major blow to monopolies which take more and more of your pie, slow progress, and deteriorate the quality of life for everyone. The government has become a tool wielded not by citizens to protect themselves, but by corporations to squeeze citizens and destroy competition. It is your own government that you should be pissed at for allowing, at the very least, software patents. Lawyers who are part of all this are also a major drain on the economy and thus everyone's quality of life, but it works out for corporations because they have bigger and bigger profits due to their monopoly and can afford to waste this money on lawyers. They aren't too big to fail, they are fail, the entire system is fail because they are the system. Greed has won until citizens start fighting back and actually take back their countries from these horribly corrupt, greedy, evil monetized systems. Capitalism was good while it stayed moderately uncorrupted, but the system could not withstand the greed and corruption and it is now more powerful than ever before.
Not knocking your suggestion, since narrowing your search results like that is going to be helpful on any search engine, but of course a search engine should be intelligent enough by default to give you relevant data and if one becomes cluttered due to ads or other useless things, it should stop being used.
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The focus should be on open source software, not some companies specific magical distro "stack". Everyone needs to push for modular and universally-installable software across all distros, and GNU/Linux needs to be its *own* distro. Then you can turn to that company claiming they are somehow magically superior and ask them what software they are using or configuration changes they have made that makes them supposedly so secure.
It does need to take over the world, actually. Not being sarcastic. The cost of living is going up all over the world due to the rich stealing from the poor, the useless stealing from those who actually do productive work. Open source software fulfilling everyone's need is important for improving everyone's quality of life, regardless of if it is used personally at home or used in the government i.e. in turn lowering taxes. Proprietary software is wasteful, and that cost is reflected in everything you buy, which in turn reflects in your quality of life.
I think this may be a big enough feature and annoyance to many users that it would be nice to see an option for changing it in the theme section somewhere. There are options for "controls", "colors", "window border", "icons", and "pointer". I think "button position" trumps the importance of some of these options and thus should be included somewhere somehow.
That's why they join together to pay lobbyist groups. There is no paranoia here. Companies trying their hardest to screw you over as a consumer is as obvious as a pink elephant pulling an ice cream truck playing jingles. Everyone knows corporations run the government, what rock have you been living under? All laws are written by the lawyers of the corporations and corporate lobbyist groups who want to see themselves take a bigger piece of your pie, further eroding the economy and making your quality of life suck as they get more money for contributing less. I'm glad Obama at least asked the right questions like "why is it your parents could afford a big house, only one of them had to work, they could buy several cars, afford college educations for all their children" etc, but of course since he is a corporate puppet he didn't try too hard to answer that question other than "corrupt politics", and certainly has not tried addressing the actual reasons for all of it.
Cool and all, but the PS3 has always been pretty worthless due to the hypervisor. Unless that is bypassed really well at some point, it will continue to be a very sub-par desktop. I had a Linux HTPC/server replace it long ago and I've never looked back. Much rather have room on the PS3 hard drive for games anyway. Not that this isn't an important project for those who have PS3s but no HTPCs, or don't want both, but with how cheaply you can get a more-than-decent HTPC for there isn't much reason not to.
Please stop calling software "technology". Live change-overs should be a feature implemented into Linux distros, though, something I've wanted for a long time though my idea was on more of a complex Linux (the kernel) level, a 2nd kernel being able to start up along side an existing one, and then the live kernel passing off the necessary info and handling to it on all-the-fly. Something like that. :P
Anything is possible in software.
Which I said ten zillion times in their forums, that there was NO official announcement anywhere, so now I just have one thing to say:
TOLD YOU SO, TOLD YOU SO!!! STUPID PHORONIX LIES JUST TO GET PAGE HITS!!!
Aaah, got that out of my system.
Wikipedia says "plurality", except in British English where it means the same as "majority", means the greatest subset, not 50%. So I meant non-British plurality then. But whatever. =P
I'm sorry, by "most" I didn't mean 50% or more, I meant "majority".
Lets see, check check..check and check, but no matter...
While you can easily get away with installing software which is patented (at least in the stupid United Corporations of America), corporations, since they have a lot of money, are the targets of lawsuits by patent holders/sharks/trolls/etc, so they can't include them and it is simply dangerous. So, when and where you are able to, convert your things to truly open formats. While I could also argue using patented things may actually help companies try to fight software patents, not using them of course removes the power these patents have as well. While I'd prefer the law was changed, sadly the latter might be the better choice because the more money which is at stake, the more lobbyists there will be, so it will be less probable that the laws will actually be overhauled intelligently.
Any way, I converted all my media away from patented formats long ago. There are several, for example, MP3 to OGG converting programs available, and while lossy to lossy conversions are normally bad, it works surprisingly well. Not to mention, OGG Vorbis is just fucking kick ass, and MP3 should have been vanquished long ago. I don't care if your ipod can't play OGG, maybe you should be buying something like a Cowon instead then.
Some people also have morals, and won't support Linux-molesting, attacking, suing corporatards (to use your terminology) like Novell and Microsoft, and thus reject the applications they try to push onto Linux no matter how good they are.
So, deal. At least everyone has the freedom to choose, something that will never completely vanish, but that is not to say that the decisions major distros make aren't at all important because they do effect the Linux ecosystem whether anyone likes it or not.
Mod parent up please, as that is the truth. Mono was pushed by Novell because Microsoft paid them to push it, and to do so Novell tried to develop some projects based on it to give it some weight. I really hope that something like Gnote will be used now to replace Tomboy, and that Mono can be expunged completely from Ubuntu, freeing up lots of space on the ISO and shortening loading times and resource demands for the default apps.
Simple Scan is the shizzle.
It's news for Ubuntu users, which comprises probably most Linux users, so it is relevant and is news for them, just as major Fedora changes are news-worthy as well but less so since Fedora is less used, at least for desktops I would argue, but who knows, maybe it's equal or more, that's besides the point that they are both news worthy IMO.
Ubuntu bashing is amusing, but pretty infantile. Fedora uses pretty much the same programs, with a different non-universal package manager, just as DEB isn't universal (a major gripe of mine about Linux standards and software accessibility on Linux, but off-topic).
Now, it shouldn't matter to any distro users, and none of this should be news worthy, because users should be able to get the latest version of any program easily without relying on someone to create a PPA (which still haven't been made ultra-easy to deal with, and confounds new users), but again, that's going back to the above off-topic point. The sad reality is the default apps that distros ship does matter to distro users users because they will most likely not get the new version, and many not even know Shotwell exists until they install or upgrade to the newer distro version.
Well, we are talking about a photo manager that wasn't in Lucid Lynx, and will be in Maverick Meerkat, which is in a whopping Alpha 1 state right now. Point: maybe that's why it wasn't included, and maybe it will be more featureful and finished once 10.10 is out.
Called HTML5. As for non-video-playback stuff though like SVG animations and whatnot, I'm still shocked there is no standard for doing that, though there is Java...but certain Java apps requiring certain versions of Java has aggravated me to no end, and definitely serves to invalidate it as a standard IMO even though it is open source now.
Poor horse-and-buggy companies. =(
HOW DARE YOU BUY A CAR!
~Fin~
*bows*
The government is only accountable to the corporations they're employed by, and those corporations have every interest in seeing problems go unresolved, and preferably worsened, because they can't buy 40 more mansions and 20 new Ferraris unless they keep the wars and other pointless wasteful jobs going. Think about their feelings for once, geez. Poor industrial military complex. =(
Sounds like you really should consider finding a rock climbing place in Canada. ^^
I'd mod you up if I hadn't posted many times. It really is totally ridiculous, but it's all for a reason, and that reason is so the industrial military complex and other businesses can make more money and waste more taxes by taking a "hard line" (stupid) approach to dealing with troubles in the world instead of actually helping to solve them.
How about a revolutionary instead? That's what the U.S. needs and it would certainly be much more productive.
I wasn't taking your comment seriously of course, but I'm just making two points, firstly that Americans need to start protesting, and secondly that terrorists are retarded since love is the most powerful "weapon" of all. You don't change a nation's course by blowing random citizens up, you change a nation by changing the hearts and minds of those who make up that nation.
Because money == good morals has been the gospel pushed as "just, upright, god-fearing American values" by the corporate-run right wing parties. I'm not saying the left isn't corporate-controlled, but simply that corporations have tried their damnedest to equate Capitalism with patriotism, and patriotism is simply a bigger part of the right's platform, or so they try to say. Of course neither side truly has the interests of citizens in mind, as America has become completely conquered by corporate rulers and your real overlords.
The reason corporations are having a heyday here, you could argue, is more because the mechanisms for control over politicians by democratic forces have been largely removed. Political leaders are not held accountable for their actions, and the corporate machine has turned the political system into a revolving door for their puppets.
For instance, Barack should have been impeached and possibly imprisoned quite some time ago for going back on virtually everything that was promised in his campaign. Government officials should be held accountable to citizens. Until Americans get that through their thick skulls and patriotism means not being a sheep and a slave, America will continue to suck hard.
Ultimately though the problem is money and greed, and it's gotten so out-of-control here and the corps have gotten so powerful that there is no chance of freedom unless a major revolt takes place. Most any system will eventually fail due to greed, but some are much more resistant than others. I guess constitutions should always be created with very democratic ideals and very strong wording to keep corps in check, or you need to make a system work which is not monetary-based. For that you likely need Star Trek-level technology, which fortunately isn't too far off I don't think.
Getting rid of copyright law would benefit the world more than FOSS. Without copyright law, source code can be legally copied no matter what. Copyleft is just a stopgap for a bigger problem and shows the benefits of what anyone can do once empowered.
I praise the Chinese government for standing up against U.S. corporations pushing their desires through their puppets.
Oh yeah? Well I just finished having sex. I'm too busy with my post-sex snuggling to compare both images in-depth.
And if you liked this post, you can follow me on Twitter...
+1000000000 Awesome.
Seriously, patents are very broken for so many reasons. If they'd only be abolished, real competition could much more easily occur and it would be a major blow to monopolies which take more and more of your pie, slow progress, and deteriorate the quality of life for everyone. The government has become a tool wielded not by citizens to protect themselves, but by corporations to squeeze citizens and destroy competition. It is your own government that you should be pissed at for allowing, at the very least, software patents. Lawyers who are part of all this are also a major drain on the economy and thus everyone's quality of life, but it works out for corporations because they have bigger and bigger profits due to their monopoly and can afford to waste this money on lawyers. They aren't too big to fail, they are fail, the entire system is fail because they are the system. Greed has won until citizens start fighting back and actually take back their countries from these horribly corrupt, greedy, evil monetized systems. Capitalism was good while it stayed moderately uncorrupted, but the system could not withstand the greed and corruption and it is now more powerful than ever before.
Not knocking your suggestion, since narrowing your search results like that is going to be helpful on any search engine, but of course a search engine should be intelligent enough by default to give you relevant data and if one becomes cluttered due to ads or other useless things, it should stop being used.