Comment Re:No one cares (Score 5, Funny) 208
So a whole OS that is dumbed down so even a retard would find it frustrating to use?
Look at how much money Apple makes from iOS.
CDE Open Sourced 263
First time accepted submitter christurkel writes "CDE, the Common Desktop Project, has been open sourced by the Open Group. CDE was created by a collaboration of Sun, HP, IBM, DEC, SCO, Fujitsu and Hitachi. You can find the source here. It has been tested on Debian Squeeze and Ubuntu. Testers are encouraged to join the project. Motif will follow in a few months once some legal issues are sorted out."
Comment Re:This is just... boring (Score 1) 184
The Boston Tea Party involved an amazingly large number of tea leaves. That doesn't stop it from being a single incident.
Comment Re:This is just... boring (Score 1) 184
Bradley Manning's data leak was a single tactical incident too.
Comment Re:This is just... boring (Score 1) 184
USA independence... All of them would have failed if the people involved had been anonymous cowards.
You seem to be unaware that the people who organized the Boston Tea Party weren't merely anonymous cowards, but actually disguised themselves as American Indians.
Comment Re:Oh, Lamar Smith... (Score 1) 134
Unfortunately, the Internet is dominated by slacktivists, unwilling to put their money where their mouths are.
Or unwilling to donate money to a Republican.
Comment Re:I'd agree with them on that.. (Score 1) 497
So if the linux community would just provide the infrastructure for Optimus for the nvidia driver, you might just see that feature pop-up in their closed source driver.
So Linux devs should do a bunch of work for free, to help nVidia release closed-source-only drivers? Fuck that.
If nVidia release the specs for their hardware, then Linux devs will add the necessary infrastructure for Optimus, and nVidia can also use that infrastructure in their closed-source drivers. But it has to be a two-way win-win cooperation. The Linux developers don't exist to serve nVidia's selfish whims.
Comment Re:My modest proposal (Score 1) 265
1. In general, companies don't want to rent perpetually from a sleazebag, and sleazebags don't want to deal with regular billing.
2. It may be arbitrary, but consider how many domains are squatted by companies that don't use them. The way trademark law works, if two companies have trademarks on "Foo", they ought to be able to have "foo.biz" and "foo.com". The way it works right now, more often than not one of the companies has registered "foo.*" even though they aren't using anything but foo.com.
Comment My modest proposal (Score 3, Interesting) 265
1. Make domain name registrations non-transferable. That would eliminate the parasites who squat on domains.
2. Make a rule that if you have a domain in one TLD, you can't have the same domain in another TLD. That would eliminate corporate squatting of every single variation of a common word or phrase that they want to own.
Comment Re:No one knows for sure anymore. (Score 3, Interesting) 393
The problem is that Oracle is saying that although the code is GPL, the API is proprietary, so by writing code while referencing the API Google has violated copyright and needs a license for all of their code.
The interesting thing is that if Oracle won this argument, one could presumably argue that Oracle's database on Linux is dependent upon the Linux kernel API, and hence must fall under the GPL.
Comment Re:What sort of guarantee backs up the 20 year lif (Score 1) 743
Does your experience concern Philips CFLs? I have one that has lasted since 1998.
Comment Re:20 years? (Score 1) 743
Maybe you shouldn't buy the cheap crappy CFLs. I have one from 1998 that's still going. It's a Philips, coincidentally.
Comment Re:release the source? (Score 2) 646
When you look at the other roads they could have taken starting around 1995-6, they actually made a pretty good choice. I have worked on systems installed in 1986-8 that are still operating with much pain and purely DOS or ancient UNIX based programs.
Actually, DOS would have been a better choice, as they could then keep the system running indefinitely using FreeDOS.
Really, for a SCADA, there's no point having Windows unless you actually need a GUI, and maybe not even then.
Comment Re:"More resources than were available" (Score 4, Insightful) 99
Well, personally I was considering moving to Debian, but there really aren't that many APT-based distros with good KDE flavor.
Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? 592
gbrumfiel writes "Africa has some of the poorest soil of anywhere on the earth, and over farming is only making matters worse. As the population grows, governments and NGOs must decide whether to subsidize chemical fertilizers like those used in the west or promote more sustainable agricultural practices. In Malawi, the government has decided to subsidize fertilizers, with impressive results. Corn yields have tripled since the subsidies were introduced. More sustainable practices, such as fertilizer trees can't deliver those kind of results in just a few years. The question is simple: does Africa follow the same, unsustainable road as the rest of the world? Or do they become a testing ground for potentially game-changing new techniques? OR is there a third path? Discuss."
