Apparently it's something more subtle than what one could think of in few mins on Slashdot
Blasphemy! In my relatively short time lurking on Slashdot, I've seen nearly all the world's problems, including hideously complicated questions of physics, SOLVED in posts no more than a few paragraphs long.
This is IT for Microsoft! The year of Linux on the desktop has arrived! This is totally new, totally novel, and no one has ever made such a claim before!
Obviously joking, but seriously I do remember people being excited about XP and grabbing it as soon as they could, but I haven't seen that with Vista. Anecdotal, sure, but backed up by some facts (manufacturers offering XP downgrades, etc.).
Where the hell is XP SP3?
Designed to act more like content than a typical ad,
This sure reads like an admission that ads aren't content (at least "typical ads").
My feeling on ads is nicely summed up by banksy:
Any advertisement in public space that give you no choice
whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you.
It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. (emphasis mine)
This misses the point of Wine. Wine is for running applications that CANNOT be ported, e.g. commercial software like MS Office. Applications that can be ported, should. Otherwise, they pack their own version of Wine, and it can conflict with a version of Wine a user already has installed.
A native Linux version of Picasa doesn't seem preposterous to me. Google's done it with Google Earth.
Using hacks like Wine (a great hack, but still a hack) to run applications on Linux makes it less appealing to me than running native software.
VirtualBox is really nice; I don't know about the performance comparison to Xen, but VirutalBox is a breeze to use and performance is generally pretty good. I've been messing with VM software for about six or seven years and just discovered VirtualBox a few months ago. Before that I had heard of Bochs, Plex86, Xen, VMware, VirtualPC, Parallels, and Qemu (off the top of my head). Where has VirtualBox been hiding?
Hey slashdot, I'm thinking of buying a computer. How is mac and pc different?? I have microsoft, will it run on a mac? Also are there any other "operating systems" besides microsoft and apple because I heard there are? thx slashdot lol!
Even hybrid gas-electric cars are based on 80+-year-old tech.
Why is this the case? Is it cost alone, or the gasoline infrastructure? It is amazing how refined IC engine technology has become, but at the core it's still the same old pistons burning gasoline to turn a crankshaft. The amount of effort and cost that have gone into IC piston engines seems more than enough to have come up with something else. But I guess every town has a gas station, but no a hydrogen station, for example.
OpenOffice has no provision for making a table of authorities, and the bibliographic functions as a whole are practically nonexistent. The project does concede this. That said, I use OOo on linux and like it very much.
And don't worry, you can admit that MS Office 2007 looks good without being an "OMG MS Fanboy STFU!!"
In Russia, at least as late as July 2006, it was this way as well. Stores (in downtown St. Petersburg, not just stalls in markets) stocked with pirate CDs, DVDs, and loads of software, all dirt-cheap. Many Russians who own computers do not have an internet hookup in their house, and if they do it's a prepaid dial-up line. OS DVDs typically come with large drivers (nVidia/ATI video card drivers) and large freely downloadable service packs on the disc because they know people won't be able to download them.
"Students won't need textbooks, they can just use these tablet devices."
Umm, that's great "progress," but I like actual books. I don't want to have to download DRM'd textbook files, worry about hardware failure and battery life when simply trying to read, and stare at a computer screen instead of proper pages. Some weeks I read hundreds of textbook pages, and I cannot conceive of doing so any way but with a real, paper-and-ink book.
Yeah, no love for that - and also, can you use localized, non-English versions of MS Office on it? The Russian version of Office 2003 is a mix of Cyrillic characters in some places and character-substitute boxes in others.
Kids remember, vividly, how their parents treated them. Ignore your kids now and you shall reap what you've sown. You won't care if that client doesn't call you in 20 years.
Then again, if you're such a lousy parent now, will you care if your kids don't call in 20 years?
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Please tell me there's a Rod on the team.
"You didn't say car Ramrod!"
Ahh, there it is - we wouldn't want to let any article about open source software pass without telling someone to "do it yourself."
It's amazing, really.
I was wondering where the "peek" tag was
From TFA:
This is IT for Microsoft! The year of Linux on the desktop has arrived! This is totally new, totally novel, and no one has ever made such a claim before! Obviously joking, but seriously I do remember people being excited about XP and grabbing it as soon as they could, but I haven't seen that with Vista. Anecdotal, sure, but backed up by some facts (manufacturers offering XP downgrades, etc.). Where the hell is XP SP3?
How does ANYONE go about proving that she(?) is "a women?" Conjoined twins?
My feeling on ads is nicely summed up by banksy: Any advertisement in public space that give you no choice
whether you see it or not is yours. It belongs to you.
It's yours to take, re-arrange and re-use.
Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head. (emphasis mine)
How do I go about http://www.k2.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/perception/HapticRadar/index-e.htmldodging stuff?
Here's the best picture.
Seriously, this Mars rover business is really freakin' cool. It actually has me rooting for a robot, just because these things will not quit.
This misses the point of Wine. Wine is for running applications that CANNOT be ported, e.g. commercial software like MS Office. Applications that can be ported, should. Otherwise, they pack their own version of Wine, and it can conflict with a version of Wine a user already has installed.
A native Linux version of Picasa doesn't seem preposterous to me. Google's done it with Google Earth.
Using hacks like Wine (a great hack, but still a hack) to run applications on Linux makes it less appealing to me than running native software.
As TFA says, Picasa for Linux wasn't native, just a Windows version repackaged with Wine. I hope the new stuff isn't like that.
7. Profit!!!!
I don't listen to anyone who talks about "integrat[ing] [Linux] into my existing ecosystem of PCs."
Ecosystem of computers? Jackass.
I'm glad this is cleared up now.
VirtualBox is really nice; I don't know about the performance comparison to Xen, but VirutalBox is a breeze to use and performance is generally pretty good. I've been messing with VM software for about six or seven years and just discovered VirtualBox a few months ago. Before that I had heard of Bochs, Plex86, Xen, VMware, VirtualPC, Parallels, and Qemu (off the top of my head). Where has VirtualBox been hiding?
Hey slashdot, I'm thinking of buying a computer. How is mac and pc different?? I have microsoft, will it run on a mac? Also are there any other "operating systems" besides microsoft and apple because I heard there are? thx slashdot lol!
Can I be on the front page too??
Why is this the case? Is it cost alone, or the gasoline infrastructure? It is amazing how refined IC engine technology has become, but at the core it's still the same old pistons burning gasoline to turn a crankshaft. The amount of effort and cost that have gone into IC piston engines seems more than enough to have come up with something else. But I guess every town has a gas station, but no a hydrogen station, for example.
OpenOffice has no provision for making a table of authorities, and the bibliographic functions as a whole are practically nonexistent. The project does concede this. That said, I use OOo on linux and like it very much.
And don't worry, you can admit that MS Office 2007 looks good without being an "OMG MS Fanboy STFU!!"
So is the self-mutiliation aspect of "the entire Apple experience" optional?
In Russia, at least as late as July 2006, it was this way as well. Stores (in downtown St. Petersburg, not just stalls in markets) stocked with pirate CDs, DVDs, and loads of software, all dirt-cheap. Many Russians who own computers do not have an internet hookup in their house, and if they do it's a prepaid dial-up line. OS DVDs typically come with large drivers (nVidia/ATI video card drivers) and large freely downloadable service packs on the disc because they know people won't be able to download them.
Physical piracy is alive and well.
Umm, that's great "progress," but I like actual books. I don't want to have to download DRM'd textbook files, worry about hardware failure and battery life when simply trying to read, and stare at a computer screen instead of proper pages. Some weeks I read hundreds of textbook pages, and I cannot conceive of doing so any way but with a real, paper-and-ink book.
Yeah, no love for that - and also, can you use localized, non-English versions of MS Office on it? The Russian version of Office 2003 is a mix of Cyrillic characters in some places and character-substitute boxes in others.
Kids remember, vividly, how their parents treated them. Ignore your kids now and you shall reap what you've sown. You won't care if that client doesn't call you in 20 years.
Then again, if you're such a lousy parent now, will you care if your kids don't call in 20 years?