Hulu and YouTube are two completely different different things. Sure, they're both web-based streaming services.
But YouTube was founded on providing any average Joe with a way of putting their own home videos and generated content up for anybody to stream. From day one YouTube has fought legal battles because of TV shows and full length movies finding their way onto YT.
Hulu, on the other hand, is a joint venture between major networks and exists for the sole purpose of legally streaming their shows (and in some cases, full length films).
Each has found its niche and thus the two are completely things. YouTube is and always will be a place for user-generated content, not for commercialized entertainment.
I'm not sure why the parent was modded a troll; it really is a good point. The very first thing I did with my Ubuntu installation was change its color scheme. It's fortunately an extremely simple process.
Firefox will do that out of the box anyway. Enter any arbitrary text into your address bar and it'll automatically query Google and either direct you to the most obvious match, or give you a more ambiguous search listing of possible sites.
any future bugs found in the platform will not be fixed unless customers pay
What the hell, man? People have been paying for XP more readily than Vista until they forcefully yanked it out of the market!! And they would have continued paying for it!
So, you disagree with Microsoft about Vista? I think that Microsoft has done far more user-testing of Vista than you have.
Doesn't matter whether or not I disagree with Microsoft. Read the article. They comfortably adopted an OS more foreign than Vista without any need for training.
Moving from Microsoft XP to Vista would not have brought us many advantages and Microsoft said it would require training of users. Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy.
I think the curve of going from XP to any form of Linux would be steeper than going from XP to Vista. I mean, layout changes between both versions of Windows don't exactly require staff training.
On a side note, does anybody else cringe when someone refers to Windows XP as "Microsoft XP"?
I know how to do stuff like sudo apt-get update though, and I know it downloads updates.
Not quite. That command will update your computer's local index of available packages. To actually download the updates you'd have to use apt-get -d upgrade . The -d means it'll download the updates. Strip the -d to download AND install them.
Instead of spending $$$ on bondage and discipline, how about treating your users like adult human beings?
Having worked in IT for enough years, I can guarantee that this approach will always end badly. Give users administrative rights over their computers, and soon you'll receive complaints that computers are too slow. Then you find yourself killing off 40+ media player and screensaver processes, among other crap that may have found its way in. I've had to stop the business admin from wasting money on faster computers a number of times when the existing hardware was more than adequate (but simply too gummed up with excessive processes).
I still treat and respect all of my users like adults. I'm just firm and clear about my security policies and so they respect that.
Lose 1: So any permissions based system that requires privilege escalation is "buggy as hell and totally insecure"?
RTFA. dgr73 is talking about Win7's UAC, not the general philosophy of privilege escalation.
Microsoft's "user-first" approach in this regard is what resulted in this whole mess to begin with. Had they adhered to the 'sudo' angle from the beginning, then people would not have become lazy and intolerant of UAC. In the *nix world this philosophy is completely commonplace, and those users don't complain about it one bit.
Software development does indeed involve trade-offs to please the user, but you compromise convenience or cleanliness of your code in order to make the UI user-friendly; not cutting corners around good security practices to save people the 5-second hassle of typing an admin password.
Buzzwords like "cloud computing" and "online OS" don't change the fact that this is not a paradigm shift
And "netbook."
Thank you for writing this post, it really nails my opinion of the matter on the head as well. This whole new webapp craze has created such a stink in the IT world because so many people assume that it's going to phase out good-old-fashioned binaries. This is simply not the case. Like any tool, webapps are extremely useful for the right job. Regular binary programs are extremely useful for the right job. Writing a document with a webapp that is OS-independent and stored remotely is a nifty idea (especially if your laptop dies or is stolen, your data is safe), but the thought of something like MatLab, number-crunching or large spreadsheets using Javascript makes me cringe. Of course, people out there are still going to try doing this, and that's the crappy part about webapp popularity.
The two approaches just need to find a balance and coexist. There will continue to be a distinction between webapps and the local OS because there will continue to be different people who have different uses for their computers. Average Joe will not know or care what OS is on his Eee as long as he can use his Google Mail and Google Calendar and Google Documents... and as long he knows that when the Eee is pickpocketed or dropped and broken, he can still get his data back from Google using another computer. IT Dude Tarlus (me) will continue to be anal-retentive about my OS, my software and the more advanced applications I have for them. I admit that I have written and use webapps, but only because they're the best tool for the job at hand. But I'll stick with a native word processor. (And no vasectomy, please.) =)
...keeping the US president's e-mail communications private from spies and hackers...
...the potential physical security risks that come with someone knowing the president's real-time physical location...
Just because he has a Blackberry doesn't mean he's actually using it for email. If he is, it might be personal email (not work-related) but I feel pretty safe assuming that he wouldn't be passing data sensitive to national security with it.
As for the GPS tracking, I believe that can easily be enabled/disabled in the settings of the device. Ignoring that, as many had mentioned above, it's not like his 24/7 location is a secret...
By that logic I'm not using Ubuntu right now because I'm typing this in Konqueror.
Well of course not, you must be using Kubuntu.;)
I see what you're saying, though. It's poor wording in the article, so what they should have said was that Linux distros such as Ubuntu are simply not including those services by default with the generic basic installation. Anybody advanced enough to know what MySQL is (much less how to administrate/operate it) would know how to apt-get install it if they needed it, anyway.
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It doesn't really support ODF out of the box if it takes two service packs to do it now, does it?
Hulu and YouTube are two completely different different things. Sure, they're both web-based streaming services.
But YouTube was founded on providing any average Joe with a way of putting their own home videos and generated content up for anybody to stream. From day one YouTube has fought legal battles because of TV shows and full length movies finding their way onto YT.
Hulu, on the other hand, is a joint venture between major networks and exists for the sole purpose of legally streaming their shows (and in some cases, full length films).
Each has found its niche and thus the two are completely things. YouTube is and always will be a place for user-generated content, not for commercialized entertainment.
Because 0.01% would get it, 99.99% would not and ask you wtf is that, but all they'd catch is "He's got a t-shirt in KLINGON. Run."
...and without knowing what it means, they'd think, "wow, he needs to get a life."
I'm not sure why the parent was modded a troll; it really is a good point. The very first thing I did with my Ubuntu installation was change its color scheme. It's fortunately an extremely simple process.
Pigs != Breeding techniques for pigs
I'll just download a pirated copy of the video. :D
Firefox will do that out of the box anyway. Enter any arbitrary text into your address bar and it'll automatically query Google and either direct you to the most obvious match, or give you a more ambiguous search listing of possible sites.
any future bugs found in the platform will not be fixed unless customers pay
What the hell, man? People have been paying for XP more readily than Vista until they forcefully yanked it out of the market!! And they would have continued paying for it!
I remember hearing this when I was in grade school. Hasn't this been supposedly been going on throughout the latter part of the last century?
...
*Silently stands and then applauds*
What to Fight Over After Megapixels?
Simple. Gigapixels.
So, you disagree with Microsoft about Vista? I think that Microsoft has done far more user-testing of Vista than you have.
Doesn't matter whether or not I disagree with Microsoft. Read the article. They comfortably adopted an OS more foreign than Vista without any need for training.
I think you meant, touché.
Moving from Microsoft XP to Vista would not have brought us many advantages and Microsoft said it would require training of users. Moving from XP to Ubuntu, however, proved very easy.
I think the curve of going from XP to any form of Linux would be steeper than going from XP to Vista. I mean, layout changes between both versions of Windows don't exactly require staff training.
On a side note, does anybody else cringe when someone refers to Windows XP as "Microsoft XP"?
That's because FF ignores all the non-standard CSS that microsoft.com needs to use to display properly with IE. :)
I know how to do stuff like sudo apt-get update though, and I know it downloads updates.
Not quite. That command will update your computer's local index of available packages. To actually download the updates you'd have to use apt-get -d upgrade . The -d means it'll download the updates. Strip the -d to download AND install them.
Just as long as it's a thumb drive, and not a thumb.
Exactly how many fucking many processes does Norton need to have running at one time???
Instead of spending $$$ on bondage and discipline, how about treating your users like adult human beings?
Having worked in IT for enough years, I can guarantee that this approach will always end badly. Give users administrative rights over their computers, and soon you'll receive complaints that computers are too slow. Then you find yourself killing off 40+ media player and screensaver processes, among other crap that may have found its way in. I've had to stop the business admin from wasting money on faster computers a number of times when the existing hardware was more than adequate (but simply too gummed up with excessive processes).
I still treat and respect all of my users like adults. I'm just firm and clear about my security policies and so they respect that.
Your post reeks of troll.
I don't think that means what you think it means.
Lose 1: So any permissions based system that requires privilege escalation is "buggy as hell and totally insecure"?
RTFA. dgr73 is talking about Win7's UAC, not the general philosophy of privilege escalation.
Microsoft's "user-first" approach in this regard is what resulted in this whole mess to begin with. Had they adhered to the 'sudo' angle from the beginning, then people would not have become lazy and intolerant of UAC. In the *nix world this philosophy is completely commonplace, and those users don't complain about it one bit.
Software development does indeed involve trade-offs to please the user, but you compromise convenience or cleanliness of your code in order to make the UI user-friendly; not cutting corners around good security practices to save people the 5-second hassle of typing an admin password.
Buzzwords like "cloud computing" and "online OS" don't change the fact that this is not a paradigm shift
And "netbook."
Thank you for writing this post, it really nails my opinion of the matter on the head as well. This whole new webapp craze has created such a stink in the IT world because so many people assume that it's going to phase out good-old-fashioned binaries. This is simply not the case. Like any tool, webapps are extremely useful for the right job. Regular binary programs are extremely useful for the right job. Writing a document with a webapp that is OS-independent and stored remotely is a nifty idea (especially if your laptop dies or is stolen, your data is safe), but the thought of something like MatLab, number-crunching or large spreadsheets using Javascript makes me cringe. Of course, people out there are still going to try doing this, and that's the crappy part about webapp popularity.
The two approaches just need to find a balance and coexist. There will continue to be a distinction between webapps and the local OS because there will continue to be different people who have different uses for their computers. Average Joe will not know or care what OS is on his Eee as long as he can use his Google Mail and Google Calendar and Google Documents... and as long he knows that when the Eee is pickpocketed or dropped and broken, he can still get his data back from Google using another computer. IT Dude Tarlus (me) will continue to be anal-retentive about my OS, my software and the more advanced applications I have for them. I admit that I have written and use webapps, but only because they're the best tool for the job at hand. But I'll stick with a native word processor. (And no vasectomy, please.) =)
Give me a K..DE!
You tried to say 'KDE' but there was a lag before it completed... Just like true KDE4!
*Runs away*
...keeping the US president's e-mail communications private from spies and hackers...
...the potential physical security risks that come with someone knowing the president's real-time physical location...
Just because he has a Blackberry doesn't mean he's actually using it for email. If he is, it might be personal email (not work-related) but I feel pretty safe assuming that he wouldn't be passing data sensitive to national security with it.
As for the GPS tracking, I believe that can easily be enabled/disabled in the settings of the device. Ignoring that, as many had mentioned above, it's not like his 24/7 location is a secret...
You must be a pretty advanced user if you're using emerge in Ubuntu. :D
By that logic I'm not using Ubuntu right now because I'm typing this in Konqueror.
Well of course not, you must be using Kubuntu. ;)
I see what you're saying, though. It's poor wording in the article, so what they should have said was that Linux distros such as Ubuntu are simply not including those services by default with the generic basic installation. Anybody advanced enough to know what MySQL is (much less how to administrate/operate it) would know how to apt-get install it if they needed it, anyway.