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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
And you can't get new versions of apps without upgrading the whole OS (including every other app) every few months. Ubuntu 12.04 is nice, but it is already "abandoned" in the sense that new versions of apps that came out after 12.04 dont ge
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> Sometimes I wonder if MS would have been better served offering two version No, they want to leverage the power of the desktop Windows to get a foothold in mobile, which they werent able to achieve on their own. Now everybody who deve
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> So do you want to be a big fish in a little pond But how is this a little pond? Basically every other big player offering Android phones also offer Windows Phones. If Nokia starts making money with windows Phones, everybody else will
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> It takes Greece-style catastrophe to really shake things up, it seems. Or more time. The pirates are growing, give them a few cycles. Considering that they never were in a parliament in the first place, 8% is impressive. The FDP, who
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> and most of the people will give up. And start doing what? Buying all the stuff they were just hoarding because it was "free" and they never were able to afford in the first place? I don't think so. If the effort to get stuff increase
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> This has to be understood in historical context. Thats what he said. How do you know that he honestly sees this as a problem for the country and not just a problem for his party? He is literally advocating getting rid of political com
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> It would be nice to see a total abolition of parties Abolishing the formal definition of parties wouldnt help, because like-minded people would still team up and form de facto parties, so nothing substantial would change. > People
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> They do not have the indepth knowledge required to make a > good decision. You need knowledge to decide whether something is good or not, when the policy is fact-based. You dont need knowledge to decide whether you _want_ somethi
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
In other news, former German president Roman Herzog, member of the (for now) largest party, the Christian Democratical Union CDU, suggested that having new parties like the Pirates entering parliaments is bad for overall democracy because i
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
> never managed to interest Microsoft's 5 most important clients (the aforementioned PC makers) on the full-featured, rock-solid, fast and stable desktop Because it is neither rock-solid nor stable. It changes too much, too often, in an
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by muuh-gnu 14y ago
My fave have always been the GNU mugs: http://www.linux-fan-shop.de/images/product_images/popup_ima... Another giant mug catalog is http://ixsoft.de/cgi-bin/web_store.cgi?cart_id=1177611_4791&...
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> It has vertical splits So has screen and has been for years. tmux just had it first. > a saner config I never had any trouble configuring screen to do anything I needed. Can you give a practical example of what somewhat important
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> some issues of monopoly. What monopoly? Google doesnt remotely have a monopoly on scientific visualisation, and a possible monopoly on search doesnt really overlap with that. The problem small companies have with Google is Google's _s
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> People don't use Web browsers for video chat. That was before Google Voice+Video+Hangouts. A significant number of people I contact with has already switched to Google because it is much easier to use.
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> destruction of property rights (intellectual or otherwise) These are not the same. Most people do not support the concept of "intellectual property". But for a property to exist in practice, you need majority support, otherwise your p
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> They show people blowing their head off with a gun in the afternoon news while children are watching, but omg, a boob or even worse a nipple they go crazy! http://i.imgur.com/SRa6U.png
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> And I don't see what's wrong with requiring users to have an up-to-date system. The problem are not the forced invisible security updates, the problem are forced user-visible upgrades. When you want to upgrade one app, you maybe dont
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> I don't see how it is related to the concept of distributions. Distributions freeze the set of available app versions to a specific version of the base system. You cant get a new app without upgrading everything else too, including al
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> But distros only add ways to get software. Without distros, the way to get software is unbearable for Windows converts, where it is just "click, click, done." > what better way is there to avoid dependency hell? All distros agreei
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> You can still configure && make && make install You aren't serious, are you? > statically-linked binary Nobody builds them. > any other method of getting Linux apps to run. There are no other methods. > Dis
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> but they're in a brand new market on brand new devices. But they still had no problem starting with an ecosystem with zero apps. Now they have hundreds of thousands. > I still think the main difference is that you have to install
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> But what is the alternative to a non-distributions based gnu linux operating system? A small core set of libraries that change _very_ slowly and arent intentionally obsoleted every few months. Think of Windows like slow, stable and su
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> The main reason why OSX/iOS, Android, and Windows attract more commercial developers is because those platforms have a much greater installed base! A few years ago, Linux had a bigger installed base than both iOS and Android. Both of
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
The reason I stopped recommending Linux to "normal users" is _because_ of the concept of distributions. Coupling the updates of single apps with the updates of the whole desktop or framework and libs, is just plain wrong. Having to upgrade
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> But obviously the goal should be how to structure the economy so we can enjoy music and musicians can live comfortably. No, thats ugly socialism. We dont want to structure laws and economy so a certain kind of jobs becomes profitable
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
Both mindsets are legit. The only way to find out which one trumps the other is to vote on it. Surprisingly, nobody on the planet ever voted on copyright. It was decieded from the top down, in shady backroom deals and behind closed doors. I
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
Those artists dont have to be artists. If they realize that their audience is not voluntarily paying them for their art, they can change jobs and do something where customers voluntarily pay for the work done.
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> But first time use isn't the relevant metric for an activity which one will do for years and in which one engages for productivity. Having to abandon all the skills you had in muscle memory for years and lern an entirely new set of cl
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
I've never had to upgrade Windows (including all installed apps) to be able to install some other random app. On Linux, having to upgrade the distro (including getting a new desktop environment force-installed) to get a new version of any r
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by muuh-gnu 15y ago
> not for the whole eco-system, but that's what stable distros are for The problem is that no app dev targets stable distros, but always goes for the latest and greatest from the upstream so distros are constantly forced to update libs

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