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he's far too dogmatic This is his curse: and many people reproach him this. His standard reply is, that if he would have ever given way to "compromises" by being less "dogmatic", GNU/Linux would have never happened: it would be infested w
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A designer of the longsoon chip came to make a presentation -- and he gave it from such a netbook using OpenOffice.org. The MIPS chip is supposed to scale (the manufacturing is a joint venture with some Italians). They are building the next
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What is annoying, is the way "green" is being abused of - and the posting is no exception. Let's get back to this conversation, when there will be something of substance to speak about, when something substantive "green" has been delivered.
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bs. Anyone with a clue on large computing centres know, that today any "green agenda" in practice is only PR. Physical constraints of today's realities forbid anything "green": it is not viable economically, therefore doomed.
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"we have no plans to create a traditional desktop product for the consumer market in the foreseeable future." -- redhat, 2008/04/16 http://www.press.redhat.com/2008/04/16/whats-going-on-with-r...
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Don't worry: it will not cost $400,000/yr. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
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And why not? Because of software patents. Microsoft isn't paying them all. No, it is threatening them all if they don't pay. In the name of "innovation".
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http://canvaspaint.org/#
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It's sad that even recent history gets badly mangled. This is all what PR and marketing is about: not to speak of companies supposedly involved (vs. hidden in plain sight).
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MS has always, and is still actively buying off educational and govt institutions: the nature of centralized corruption makes this possible. Not to speak of the preinstalled OS-es from vendors - for a casual end-user, there is almost no o
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This is just the same thing as Faust: selling your soul for science is a devil's bargain by definition. Scientists aren't smart enough not to do it ;)
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Szeretnéd, ha ilyen könnyen eltűnne a "kellemetlenség". Amíg az SV hadiiparra koncentrálsz, addig nem lesz vége. Legalábbis nem lesz jó vége...
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...if you want to burn out, that is. If you have read it, you've missed the point.
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This problem will remain for at least as long as you are in denial (and take points away to make the diagnosis fade away and disappear).
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"Some analysts are expecting the laptops to start at less than $800, compared with $1,099 now" -- WSJ
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http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Se...
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it is minding its own business. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1020_ageofempire/... http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20992.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnLWSC5p1XE Q&A...
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DICTATORSHIPS are like a good many other things in this world. They can be the best, or the worst, form of government. There are some excellent dictatorships, and there are some hateful ones. Nevertheless, be they good or bad, it generally
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There has never been a peer-reviewed comparison between the much hyped GRID ruled by CERN, and say more discrete distributed supercomputers, like the Storm or Kraken in terms of reliability, scalability (do you get spam?) configurability (h
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Exactly the same here. The Acer Aspire One runs almost fine on intrepid out of the box, except for the wifi hardware toggle/led. Very nice though.
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"mmense success shows that if your product provides enough value, you can still compete" ... iif u r backed by GOOG.
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"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that..." The 5 real reasons to avoid iPhone 3G: * iPhone completely blocks free software. Developers must pay a tax to Apple, who becomes the sole authority over what can and can't be on everyone
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"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that..." The 5 real reasons to avoid iPhone 3G: * iPhone completely blocks free software. Developers must pay a tax to Apple, who becomes the sole authority over what can and can't be on everyone
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"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that..." The 5 real reasons to avoid iPhone 3G: * iPhone completely blocks free software. Developers must pay a tax to Apple, who becomes the sole authority over what can and can't be on everyone
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this just further proves, that GOOG is not an advertising company, as advertised. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8911340403810065276
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no, it is rather a shorthand for "I cannot explain the basic concept behind it clearly in a few words, because I fail to fully understand it" Anyway, this paper publishing business has become an industry, which has little to do with exposin
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Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? http://www.charlespetzold.com/etc/DoesVisualStudioRotTheMind... The only reason I can imagine why Microsoft would put its programmers, device vendors, third-party developers, and ultimately its customers,
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"A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high: Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors." Bill Gates (1991) "If people
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e.g. FF is already #1 in .hu Firefox 48.9% Internet Explorer 46.8% http://www.adverticum.com/article/1063/
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.ro, .il, .cn ...usa???
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