Comment Re:Drunk and on valium (Score 4, Insightful) 549
High. Not legal everywhere, but healthier than vallium.
Unofficial Qt Environment (and Sudoku) For the Kindle 36
An anonymous reader writes "I've just posted packages for installing a Qt-based platform on the Kindle 2 and DX devices, and a Sudoku game to go along with it. The Qt-based platform includes plugins I wrote for the e-ink display, the keyboard, and the five-way joystick thing — so it's a fully interactive and usable environment now. Soon I'll be adding a sample app with source code to go along with it."
Comment Re:Then they also have to ban... (Score 1) 496
Admittedly I never though about prisoners doing any of those things, including D&D, but hey, whatever works.
Just try to tell the death row inmates your monster rolled a 20
Comment Oh Great! (Score 3, Insightful) 279
More expensive DRM-laden adware music! This is JUST what we need to change our minds about NOT CARING about music enterprises! Making the lives of the pirates easier compared to those who pay for the content is such a great idea! It's worked before, hasn't it?
Comment Re:I keep trying (Score 1) 483
That depends which side of the Linux vs GNU/Linux side of the argument you are.
Comment Re:I keep trying (Score 1) 483
Do you claim that an integrated package manager that can even handle dependency-checking for the ENTIRE system (even recompiling it entirely with different cflags in the case of portage) is the same as a program you6 have to download and install yourself? If you don't, then it's not really goalpost shifting. If you do, then allow me to rephrase:
Package Management for grownups
Additionally, what if MS decides to change the way programs are allowed to behave yet again? (I'm not saying this is necessarily a bad thing) Are you sure your package management solution will still be working? I couldn't care less if the manufacturer is Microsoft, Apple, a community project or satan, I just want to be sure that it will work in a predictable and integrated fashion for a lot of time. Windows, with its proprietary format and dependence on the capabilities and priorities of a SINGLE company doesn't really offer that.
Comment Re:I keep trying (Score 1) 483
and, how is a third-party program equal to an integrated package manager?
AppSnap is primarily designed for Windows which does not have any decent package manager such as APT and RPM as in the Linux world.
Comment Re:Gentoo... (Score 1) 483
Well, you know... muggles like us!
Comment Re:I keep trying (Score 2, Informative) 483
Package Management?
Comment Re:Eee strategy (Score 1) 284
Comment Re:Eee strategy (Score 1) 284
Comment Re:The bigger news here (Score 1) 284
Yes, their contrib to the linux kernel a few months ago. Some virtualisation stuff that helps them run linux on their OS I think. More news here
Comment Re:I must be getting old (Score 1) 284
...and FOSS being the sane choice for the most hostile company towards it doesn't qualify as success? Do I need to remind you of their past EEE and FUD strategies against it?
I mean, other than all the community goodness and hacker ethics and what-have-you, we DO want to actually make a living by FOSS, no?
Plus, it is kind of ridiculous for Microsoft to continue their claims that the GPL is not enforcable, or viral, or financially unprofitable when they use it themselves. These do sound like successes to me.
I mean, other than all the community goodness and hacker ethics and what-have-you, we DO want to actually make a living by FOSS, no?
Plus, it is kind of ridiculous for Microsoft to continue their claims that the GPL is not enforcable, or viral, or financially unprofitable when they use it themselves. These do sound like successes to me.
Comment Re:I must be getting old (Score 1) 284
These are the final days I tell you! the end is nigh!
Comment Re:I must be getting old (Score 1) 284
Well duh! But the fact that the company whose development and profit paradigm are the exact opposite of the FOSS philosophy is forced (legally or business-sense-wise) to develop FLOSS code is a major success, don't you think?
