What's interesting is that MinWin was supposed to give Windows 7 the ability to run on low-spec hardware like the EeePC or OLPC. Without that, will Microsoft have to keep supporting the XP line on such platforms, or abandon that market all together?
So, if I voted for Hillary because we're both white, I'm a racist? If I voted for her because she's a christian, does that make me an anti-Semite too? How about anti-Islam? Anti-Buddhist? Anti-Atheist? It's possible to be for one thing, without being against everything else.
The vast majority of people who work on the space program don't ride rockets, you do realize that don't you? Manned missions don't add that many more jobs to a mission, and they significantly increase the cost of those missions.
Also, we went years without manned space flights after the Challenger and Columbia accidents, and we're already planning on going many years between the time the Orbiter is decommissioned and the time the Orion project is ready.
Racism means discrimination based on race, not acceptance based on race. Voting for a candidate of the same race, because they are the same race, is not by definition racism. Not voting for a candidate, because they are of a different race, is racism.
I can say "I like white people" without being racist.
Not the proprietary ones. I've has no trouble with the binary nvidia drivers, but have seen many people unable to get the proprietary ati driver working for things like Compiz.
Probably the Accessibility features run as the current user, but the login screen runs as SYSTEM. So anything launched at the login screen would run as SYSTEM.
Why can't we have a leader pledge to reduce America's dependence on oil by 50% in 10 years? Sounds just as possible to me as Apollo XI would have in 1960. And it's obviously more practical. It's significantly harder if you go and think it through. The Apollo project required the efforts of maybe several thousand people, where as reducing consumption of oil will require the efforts of millions of Americans. The Apollo project required the construction of several facilities and large infrastructure in only a handful of locations, where as reducing fossil fuel use will require a nationwide architecture upgrade, and at least hundreds of large facilities.
If the Apollo program were at the scale required for reducing oil consumption, we'd have colonized most of the moon by now.
I always thought that the biggest hurdle to implementing "flying cars" were an effective means of breaking. Imagine a highway were none of the cars had breaks, and you'll see why there would be death, destruction and injury in the sky.
Also, there's the whole falling thing. Think back to every car you've seen broken down on the side of the road. Now think of that car falling hundreds of feet onto your house.
Radio astronomers have mapped the interstellar hydrogen filaments by using longer wavelength receivers. The dense thicket formed by those filaments produces a perfect fog of microwave radiation - as if we were located inside a microwave oven. Instead of the Cosmic Microwave Background, it is the Interstellar Microwave Background. That makes sense of the fact that the CMB is too smooth to account for the lumpiness of galaxies and galactic clusters in the universe. By their explanation, the radiation levels would not be uniform in every direction, but instead would have peaks and valleys depending on the density of the interstellar gasses. The Big Bang model predicts a uniform distribution of radiation in every direction, regardless of the presence or lack of galaxies, and the observed data matches those predictions. Sounds like this guy doesn't understand black body radiation as well as he should.
Not necessarily. Last time I checked, the Linux machines used Intel wireless and nVidia video cards, where the Windows models used ATI cards and I some other brand of wireless.
I think Debian is the parent of enough distros to be "the Distro", so recent events would unfortunately prove your hopes wrong. The OpenSSH guys aren't ever going to be evaluating distro changes to their package, it's not their responsibility. As long as it works right in OpenBSD, they're happy, doesn't matter to them if some Linux guys break it in their package.
Public performance is a seperate right than renting, however. As an owner of a copyrighted work (except for phono recordings and computer software, I guess they have better lobbiests!), I can rent to whomever I please without permission of the copyright holder. Why you would confuse the two is a mystery. Maybe because I don't see a practical difference between charging people to watch a video at your place as opposed to theirs.
I could be wrong, my logic and the law are often out of sync.
I don't understand why "monoculture is bad" necessarily. It does lead to more possible security breaches, but it also leads to a coherent support network, familiar UI standards across most desktops, and a larger developer and user base with which to improve/test the software. It's "bad" because it's dangerous. A single change by a single Debian maintainer caused a security vulnerability is a whole lot of installations, including mine. In this case, it wasn't that everybody was using OpenSSH, because OpenSSH wasn't the source of the problem. Redhat/Fedora and Suse both use OpenSSH and were not effected. This diversity contained a security vulnerability to just the Debian family, and not all Linux installs.
This idea that users will switch to other distros once they see the "choice" is missing the point - 1: users don't want too much choice, and 2: given the choice, users will usually choose either what's familiar to them or what everyone else chooses Users do like choice. Go to any common user's home, and they'll have customized their desktop wallpaper, the arrangements of their icons. The are probably using some non-default application like WinAmp or Firefox. The problem is that on Windows, choice isn't cheap. Making a choice in Windows causes major consequences. Linux is different, you can move from Firefox to Epiphany to Konqueror with very little sacrifice. Anything you write in OpenOffice can be read by KOffice, Lotus Symphony, or Abiword/Gnumeric. You can switch between Amarok, Rhythmbox or XMPP, and still play all your music files without issue. Standards make the application a commodity, which makes switching cheap and easy.
You are limited to how you can use a purchased video. For example, you can't but a copy from Walmart and play it at your cinema, people have been sued for things like that in the past. Heck, some sports bars have even been sued for having sporting events on their TVs.
Fair use lets you invite your friends over, but it doesn't let you broadcast it to your entire neighborhood. If someone is renting a copy of your movie that you sold for personal use, you probably have a legal case against them.
I understand the concept and differences on what the title, "Operating System" means. As long as an OS is a title, it's understandable. I guess it just has to do with how it's called Ubuntu. Why not Ubuntu Linux? Because you could replace Linux with the BSD or Solaris kernels and still be Ubuntu. You could even replace the GNU userland with BSD or Solaris userland, and it would still be Ubuntu.
The different "flavors" of Windows (lets focus on NT kernel models) all have the word windows in it, NT, XP, 2K, Vista. Though I still see windows as different, because they all don't exactly use the same kernel, they are, i assume, improved versions of the NT kernel. Those are different versions of the same OS, like different versions of Ubuntu. They use the same userland, just different versions of it. They even mostly use the same desktop and applications, just different versions.
Ubuntu is an OS in the sense that most people use it. It is the kernel, the GNU system tools (it's misleading to call them userland for most users), and the GUI applications they use to do what users today do, browse the web, read/write email, chat, write document, etc. Most new Ubuntu users will rarely ever touch a GNU program.
Gnu/Linux alone may be an OS for geeks and command-line aficionados, but the vast majority of computer users include the desktop and GUI applications for standard tasks as part of their "OS".
Think of Ubuntu as a gateway drug, uh, distro. The switch from Windows to Ubuntu is a major change, but from there user can go to any gnome-based system with ease, even Fedora and Suse will have most of the same, familiar apps. Even if the Apps differ, they will use the same protocols and formats. Anything produced on Ubuntu can be used by other Linux users.
Yes, monoculture is bad, the recent issue with Debian's OpenSSH package proves that point painfully enough. But an Ubuntu monoculture will be short-lived, because once people get used to choice, they'll start making their own choices, and it won't always been Ubuntu.
It might well be worth dumping some otherwise idle capital into securing a piece of the land at dirt cheap prices just in case it turns out to be a goldmine. It may literally be a gold-mine. Remember, any non-organic resources we have on Earth likely exist on Mars too.
It could also back-fire. If users are required by business requirements to exchange files as ODF, and MS Office makes this difficult while OO.o makes it default, it's more incentive to switch.
Obviously Microsoft is counting on this to let them sell MS Office to governments as "ISO compatible" until they can properly implement the OOXML standard, while still trying to keep everyone using their proprietary formats. It's a risky gamble, and with Office 14 having no announced release date, not one I'd be comfortable making.
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What's interesting is that MinWin was supposed to give Windows 7 the ability to run on low-spec hardware like the EeePC or OLPC. Without that, will Microsoft have to keep supporting the XP line on such platforms, or abandon that market all together?
Couldn't have put it better myself.
So, if I voted for Hillary because we're both white, I'm a racist? If I voted for her because she's a christian, does that make me an anti-Semite too? How about anti-Islam? Anti-Buddhist? Anti-Atheist? It's possible to be for one thing, without being against everything else.
The vast majority of people who work on the space program don't ride rockets, you do realize that don't you? Manned missions don't add that many more jobs to a mission, and they significantly increase the cost of those missions.
Also, we went years without manned space flights after the Challenger and Columbia accidents, and we're already planning on going many years between the time the Orbiter is decommissioned and the time the Orion project is ready.
Racism means discrimination based on race, not acceptance based on race. Voting for a candidate of the same race, because they are the same race, is not by definition racism. Not voting for a candidate, because they are of a different race, is racism.
I can say "I like white people" without being racist.
Not the proprietary ones. I've has no trouble with the binary nvidia drivers, but have seen many people unable to get the proprietary ati driver working for things like Compiz.
Probably the Accessibility features run as the current user, but the login screen runs as SYSTEM. So anything launched at the login screen would run as SYSTEM.
How is mentioning that a new desktop PC won't be able to run Vista in anyway off topic?
And a 1.6GHz processor and 2Gb of RAM is more than enough to run the latest Ubuntu. Frankly, I'd be surprised if it couldn't run Vista too.
If the Apollo program were at the scale required for reducing oil consumption, we'd have colonized most of the moon by now.
I always thought that the biggest hurdle to implementing "flying cars" were an effective means of breaking. Imagine a highway were none of the cars had breaks, and you'll see why there would be death, destruction and injury in the sky.
Also, there's the whole falling thing. Think back to every car you've seen broken down on the side of the road. Now think of that car falling hundreds of feet onto your house.
Not necessarily. Last time I checked, the Linux machines used Intel wireless and nVidia video cards, where the Windows models used ATI cards and I some other brand of wireless.
I think Debian is the parent of enough distros to be "the Distro", so recent events would unfortunately prove your hopes wrong. The OpenSSH guys aren't ever going to be evaluating distro changes to their package, it's not their responsibility. As long as it works right in OpenBSD, they're happy, doesn't matter to them if some Linux guys break it in their package.
I could be wrong, my logic and the law are often out of sync.
You are limited to how you can use a purchased video. For example, you can't but a copy from Walmart and play it at your cinema, people have been sued for things like that in the past. Heck, some sports bars have even been sued for having sporting events on their TVs.
Fair use lets you invite your friends over, but it doesn't let you broadcast it to your entire neighborhood. If someone is renting a copy of your movie that you sold for personal use, you probably have a legal case against them.
Your video has audio, doesn't it?
Upstart is what Ubuntu is supposed to be using, but it was introduced about a year ago and hasn't made much progress in replacing Sys-V init scripts.
Ubuntu is an OS in the sense that most people use it. It is the kernel, the GNU system tools (it's misleading to call them userland for most users), and the GUI applications they use to do what users today do, browse the web, read/write email, chat, write document, etc. Most new Ubuntu users will rarely ever touch a GNU program.
Gnu/Linux alone may be an OS for geeks and command-line aficionados, but the vast majority of computer users include the desktop and GUI applications for standard tasks as part of their "OS".
Think of Ubuntu as a gateway drug, uh, distro. The switch from Windows to Ubuntu is a major change, but from there user can go to any gnome-based system with ease, even Fedora and Suse will have most of the same, familiar apps. Even if the Apps differ, they will use the same protocols and formats. Anything produced on Ubuntu can be used by other Linux users.
Yes, monoculture is bad, the recent issue with Debian's OpenSSH package proves that point painfully enough. But an Ubuntu monoculture will be short-lived, because once people get used to choice, they'll start making their own choices, and it won't always been Ubuntu.
We can put all the hair dressers and telephone sanitizers on it as well.
Office 2008 for Mac may have the version 13 identifier.
It could also back-fire. If users are required by business requirements to exchange files as ODF, and MS Office makes this difficult while OO.o makes it default, it's more incentive to switch.
Obviously Microsoft is counting on this to let them sell MS Office to governments as "ISO compatible" until they can properly implement the OOXML standard, while still trying to keep everyone using their proprietary formats. It's a risky gamble, and with Office 14 having no announced release date, not one I'd be comfortable making.