I would think in most places... but... who does the reading?
Where I live, a system that would work is to use the emissions reports. We have to get our emissions tested every two years by a certified shop using regulated equipment. The number of kilometres driven could be calculated based on this and used for tax purposes. I guess the only problem is that not all parts of the province need the emissions check. It is sketchy anyway.
indeed... I for one wouldn't put up with watching a movie that is filmed via a camcorder in a movie theatre. Yes... piracy does exist in Canada... but I doubt it is more substantial that it is in the states, and, I would be shocked if it was done using camcorders in movie theatres. I hope somebody in the police force realizes this and we don't bother wasting our time with police officers at every movie theatres doing bag checks. A phrase I think applies well here - let's not and say we did.
Well... since they ship Ubuntu... why not just ship it with a LiveCD that covers most of the bases. This way, if people have trouble, all they have to do is boot into the live cd and check if everything works.
Only thing left to test would be the hard drive, which I'm sure there is stuff available to do.
if Novell took a GPLed software and wrote documentation for it, should the documentation be under the GPL?
Well, I don't think all the books that have been written about Linux are GPL, are they? It is still illegal to redistribute these... I would consider these books to be documentation.
There's a solution: buy a Japanese radio and a Japanese transmitter, and use the frequencies 76 to 87.5 MHz...
Not too useful if you're going to use it in the car though... if you're going to buy a new radio you might as well buy a system that has an 1/8th inch in... Probably easier to find that a Japanese radio and transmitter too.
I thought the whole idea of these transmitters is to play your devices through your EXISTING equipment.
That is easily possible... the challenging part is who do we trust to manage such a large database of information?
Sure, we could tie everything in - from SSNs, to birth records, to marriage records, driver records, passports, real estate, phone directories, mailing addresses, employment... you name it - one giant database. But what happens when the owner and maintainer of that information goes bad! And what happens when telemarketers somehow find a loophole?
But doesn't confusion go right out the window when the product is an iGasm? I mean... come on... are people that stupid that they would think Apple would produce a vibrator?
I can only tell you this , Linux is not windows . so don't expect everything to be going exactly the same way . every OS needs a bit of effort to learn.
Yes... I was testing out a friend's Macbook... I sat in front of it and was dumbfounded... kept trying to right click, but the right mouse button was missing off of the mouse
Doesn't necessarily mean that OS/X has a bad interface... just means that in my Linux background, it wasn't an intuitive switch (though perhaps getting into it a bit it might become natural). FWIW, IMO, Ubuntu is easier to switch to from Windows than OS/X is (and I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing).
I think you misread his post... at the bottom he said - if their intent is to find faults, they will find faults. I think he was just trying to state how if a company wants to read something poor into your reasons for wanting the job, then they will. I don't think he was claiming the logic by the company was legit.
Totally beside the point. I was only trying to emphasize how quickly markets can change, and so to illuminate the fact that 5 year old statistics on the demand for 3d drivers on Linux may not be an authoritative basis on which to make decisions today.
And perhaps we could also add a link to http://appdb.winehq.org/. Here we see, that there certainly is a good deal of effort put into running Windows games on Linux.
* You != an average Linux user.
* Loki Software proved the lack of market for Linux games 5 years ago when they shut down in 2002.
I think we also have to take into account the fact that the Linux landscape has changed drastically in the last five years. How popular was the iPod in 2002?
Although with wine on Ubuntu it will often create desktop shortcuts for you and will add your new application to the Applications menu.
I still see no problem with not including Wine - Wine does run some apps very well, but for others it really just isn't there yet. Once functionality is better, then interface and usability can be tackled.
No reason we can't one day see it more integrated right into the system, almost like Java apps can get installed nowadays.
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You still have a maximum file size of 20MB for messages you send and receive, which I think was what the GP was trying to say.
don't hard drives have cache memory? Better record that too, just to be safe!
I would think in most places... but... who does the reading?
Where I live, a system that would work is to use the emissions reports. We have to get our emissions tested every two years by a certified shop using regulated equipment. The number of kilometres driven could be calculated based on this and used for tax purposes. I guess the only problem is that not all parts of the province need the emissions check. It is sketchy anyway.
indeed... I for one wouldn't put up with watching a movie that is filmed via a camcorder in a movie theatre. Yes... piracy does exist in Canada... but I doubt it is more substantial that it is in the states, and, I would be shocked if it was done using camcorders in movie theatres. I hope somebody in the police force realizes this and we don't bother wasting our time with police officers at every movie theatres doing bag checks. A phrase I think applies well here - let's not and say we did.
I think you missed the sarcasm there... Either that, or the reply seemed so ridiculous I concluded it was sarcasm.
The price on the iPhone is $500, I think... but that is $500 plus a service contract, IIRC.
well ya know...
If they said it on the Simpsons... then it must be true, right?
Ian
Well... since they ship Ubuntu... why not just ship it with a LiveCD that covers most of the bases. This way, if people have trouble, all they have to do is boot into the live cd and check if everything works.
Only thing left to test would be the hard drive, which I'm sure there is stuff available to do.
Ian
I hope people were compensated well for this - is this a result of failure? Or normal operation?
if Novell took a GPLed software and wrote documentation for it, should the documentation be under the GPL?
Well, I don't think all the books that have been written about Linux are GPL, are they? It is still illegal to redistribute these... I would consider these books to be documentation.
Ian
ahhh... yes... didn't see that he was nitpicking. His improper punctuation didn't make it any clearer either :)
nah...
Not new at all. We learned all about it in 1st year EE.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_field.
Ian
There's a solution: buy a Japanese radio and a Japanese transmitter, and use the frequencies 76 to 87.5 MHz...
Not too useful if you're going to use it in the car though... if you're going to buy a new radio you might as well buy a system that has an 1/8th inch in... Probably easier to find that a Japanese radio and transmitter too.
I thought the whole idea of these transmitters is to play your devices through your EXISTING equipment.
What I'd like to know is how the tasters knew what horse piss tasted like!
ewww...
That is easily possible... the challenging part is who do we trust to manage such a large database of information?
Sure, we could tie everything in - from SSNs, to birth records, to marriage records, driver records, passports, real estate, phone directories, mailing addresses, employment... you name it - one giant database. But what happens when the owner and maintainer of that information goes bad! And what happens when telemarketers somehow find a loophole?
But doesn't confusion go right out the window when the product is an iGasm? I mean... come on... are people that stupid that they would think Apple would produce a vibrator?
ahhh... but there's nothing like a good game of Bamboozled!.
I can only tell you this , Linux is not windows . so don't expect everything to be going exactly the same way . every OS needs a bit of effort to learn .
Yes... I was testing out a friend's Macbook... I sat in front of it and was dumbfounded... kept trying to right click, but the right mouse button was missing off of the mouse
Doesn't necessarily mean that OS/X has a bad interface... just means that in my Linux background, it wasn't an intuitive switch (though perhaps getting into it a bit it might become natural). FWIW, IMO, Ubuntu is easier to switch to from Windows than OS/X is (and I don't know if that is a good thing or a bad thing).
no... Microsoft sues Linux because the Linux installer uninstalls Vista.
I think you misread his post... at the bottom he said - if their intent is to find faults, they will find faults. I think he was just trying to state how if a company wants to read something poor into your reasons for wanting the job, then they will. I don't think he was claiming the logic by the company was legit.
And it does so by protecting the inventor. Inventors are induced to invent because they know their efforts won't be snaked by others.
well... except for that assumes that he trusts YOU.
Totally beside the point. I was only trying to emphasize how quickly markets can change, and so to illuminate the fact that 5 year old statistics on the demand for 3d drivers on Linux may not be an authoritative basis on which to make decisions today.
And perhaps we could also add a link to http://appdb.winehq.org/. Here we see, that there certainly is a good deal of effort put into running Windows games on Linux.
* You != an average Linux user.
* Loki Software proved the lack of market for Linux games 5 years ago when they shut down in 2002.
I think we also have to take into account the fact that the Linux landscape has changed drastically in the last five years. How popular was the iPod in 2002?
Although with wine on Ubuntu it will often create desktop shortcuts for you and will add your new application to the Applications menu.
I still see no problem with not including Wine - Wine does run some apps very well, but for others it really just isn't there yet. Once functionality is better, then interface and usability can be tackled.
No reason we can't one day see it more integrated right into the system, almost like Java apps can get installed nowadays.
Ian