I run Windows virtually via Win4Lin 9.x over my Fedora Core 3 host OS.
I switch OSs with a click of a mouse into the X-Window in which I have Windows running, and routinely cut and paste data between Linux and Windoze applications. I even use Linux and Windows graphics applications to edit the same file at the same time. (be careful about saving the edited file before changing OSs)
I plan to continue this practice after I upgrade to VMware (or Xen, if it supports clipboard between guest / host OSs) over an upgraded Linux OS.
. What would be cool is if Microsoft released software that allowed someone to simultaneously open multiple O/S's at the same time in a non-virtualized environment.
It would be cool if they could repeal the law of gravity, too.
I don't think "virtualized" means quite what you think it does.
ONE book is portable. Much more than a dozen and your backpack will be running out of room soon and you'll be getting some exercise whether you want it or not.
My Palm PDA (Zire 31) and the 87 books I've got loaded into it is a fraction of the volume of that of a single paperback.
Why only 87? I've only got 128M of memory on the external card. When my 1G card finishes the warranty replacement process, I can change that to 870. Or some combination of books and MP3s... video is probably not worth the trouble on a 160x160 display. Instead of a whole bunch of boxes, I'll be able to move my fiction collection in one box, I've still got some paper books left, but the bulk will go with me in the PDA. What happens if the card fails? It's backed up on my HD... and if that fails, there's the mirror drive and the monthly DVD-R backup. PDBs I can read from OpenOffice if need be.
It could use more resolution, but what I've got is perfectly adequate for reading formatted text. It works well enough that I read paper books now when I can't avoid it.
I can read text, Mobipocket formatted books, and PDFs. If I had a Palm with higher resolution, it would be just great for a pile of manuals.
Not necessarily. Why couldn't the poster be a Baystar apologist? People with money in Baystar who saw the WSJ piece have got to be getting nervous about the people in charge of their investments, and their PR firm either is sending astroturfers every place they can to 'defend' the management or should be fired for being as stupid as their clients. Making a multimillion dollar investment on the basis of a handshake deal with MICROSOFT?
Next to the POS terminal at your grocery store, you'll see gift cards by the dozen from various vendors (probably including iTunes) and a couple or three debit card brands.
I use the one from Netspend. I can use it almost anywhere (some smaller stores going through third-party accesss to credit card companies can't handle my card) either in RL or online, and I can transfer money to another card holder by going to the site and providing the transfer info, practically instantaneously and free of charge, and there are any number of places (some Safeways, some check cashing places - more info on site) where the card can be reloaded.
Since they require some sort of ID to purchase (I don't think the non-reloadable gift debit cards from that vendor do), this is something a parent can do for a younger teen. (upside for parent: if it isn't loaded onto a card, a kid can't spend it, and of course, this means the parent's credit card doesn't get used for online purchases) Check the URL for more info.
Whether or not one thinks online music is worth buying is up to the user, but there are lots of other things to buy on the Net.
From my experience, the quickest way to get the right answer to what ails your OS or Linux app is to take a few words from the error message, enclose in quotes, and google it. While whoever said that 'chances are whatever your problem is, somebody else has had it' is true enough, the odds that this particular person is on whichever forum you decide to ask for help on aren't especially good. I think that with respect to the queries I've put on community forums, I've gotten useful answers back maybe 20% of the time.
Plenty of people willing to help, but if they don't know what the answers are, that's not all that useful.
2) you've got experienced users and admins (if you don't, WTF are you doing even considering writing commercial apps for Linux?)
3) you're willing to Open Source the output (make a CD or a download of the program source for an embedded product... which in the context of a Linux-based appliance, what's the problem?)
You don't have to pay any of those prices. Make a deal with a Linux consultantcy on an hourly basis for real trouble. If one wants a desktop which actually works and *has* support built into the OS price, buy Linspire. It's cheaper than either RHEL/client or SUSE support (the $50 for SLED10 covers the license and THAT'S ALL - rather like what one buys from MS)
I've heard of these bozos before.
Go read up on what the "Institute" for Policy Innovation has to say about Open Source or global warming. The Open Source articles may have something to do with their relationship with Microshit. I leave as an exercise just who might be paying for an attack on global warming science. You want a study "proving" that kiddie pr0n or tobacco is good for kids? Offer IPI some money and let us know what happens.
IPI appears to be a wingnut corporate propaganda factory. I'd be surprised if there were any reputable scientists associated with the organization.
Institute for Policy Innovation
The Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) is a think tank based in Lewisville, Texas and founded in 1987 by Congressman Dick Armey to "research, develop and promote innovative and non-partisan solutions to today's public policy problems." [1]
The conservative Capital Research Center ranked IPI as amongst the most conservative groups in the US, scoring it as an eight on a scale of one to eight. [2] (Pdf)
They've got the same kind of credibility that any study of "the danger to American children of DRUGS" funded by the DEA has got.
If you want to dig through the sewage they produce for a nugget of truth, go for it, nobody's going to stop you. But don't expect the rest of us to waste our time on it. I've read some of their stuff, it's food for thought only if you like eating shit.
This pushes responsibility where it belongs. Whether this means credit card companies tighten up their procedures or makes the retailers do it should be their problem, not ours.
Of course, we have to persuade the Federal legislators they pwn to see it this way and write this into law.
Shouldn't he be doing something useful about it? Like getting ready to move to someplace beyond the reach of extradition?
Doing "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" from a CEO translates to "I'm guilty as hell" to me, and very probably to the state AG who is aggressively pursuing this.
As for the rest of us, is anybody planning to continue doing business with them?
would be an interesting experiment, it's one I don't quite have the nerve to try.
The real problem here is that since my working environment is Linux, I'd really rather avoid burning that many of my CPU cycles in the Windows session. I'm better off simply practicing better operating habits.
Just remember that the majority of things you and I don't like coming out of the Beltway were voted into law with the help of Democrats. You know, people like your friend, Joe Lieberman. Remember the bankruptcy bill?
I'll just say that if the Democrats are so powerless, why does the entertainment industry think their votes are worth buying? You need to call Disney and tell them they're wasting their money when they give it to Senator Clinton.
How about the the Democratic Party's brave stand against torture. . . listen to them roar. [sound of crickets chirping] OK, how about Pelosi's brave defense of Bush against what Chavez said about him? At least that actually happened.
I vote Democratic these days and I'll contribute and work for the occasional progressive Democrat. But respect our elected Democrats in Washington? You've got to be kidding.
Perhaps after Lamonting a few more DLC types, the rest will suddenly act like people worthy of respect.
As for your shoe, I suggest you pull it out of your mouth before figuring out what to do with it. Perhaps it might fit up your ass?
While it's an option on the login prompt, FC3 crashed and burned when I tried to run it.
I was suggesting KDE 3.5.3 as an upgrade, though you'll probably have to add the Fedora yum repository at kde.org to get access to it via installer.
However, if you're running metacity as one of those 'lightweight' WMs, your window manager is probably not the problem. Though there's no harm in trying another one.
even if Republicans like Alaska's "Corrupt Bastards Club" and Bush's contract awards to Halliburton and other crony capitalists have escalated this to a new artform.
Look up your favorite Democrats at OpenSecrets and find out about how much of their campaign money comes from the Hollywood content cartel. . . and you won't need to wonder just where bullshit like the DMCA comes from. Hint: In Hillary Clinton's career campaign contribution profile of individual donors, Disney (as in The Path to 9/11) is #15.
Could you provide me with the URL of a webpage guaranteed to freeze your machine? I'm using Fedora Core 3 with the next-to-latest version of KDE. While it freezes occasionally, running Opera in Linux with 50+ open subwindows is kind of asking for it. Are you using the default Gnome window manager? Unless you've got some reason to be really fond of Gnome, you might want to upgrade.
I'm old enough to remember the transition... and what a pain in the ass LPs were. Keeping them ultraclean, and listening to them wear out.
To say that I don't miss vinyl records is something of an understatement.
What I'd like to see is a DRM-free extended CD format with higher sampling rates and greater dynamic range. . . and record companies with the sense to make proper use of it. Yes, I know that "record companies" and sense are an oxymoron
If I rip a track off one of my own CDs, the MP3 can be played anywhere. DRM-crapified files can only be played back on special computer players or hardware players with DRM implemented.
Music isn't the only place where DRM has been tried. The publishing industry has been trying DRM-contaminated e-books for years. Nobody seems to want them. If I can only read a book on my computer, I tend not to bother buying it.
They even give away free content at the Baen Free Library, large chunks of their backlist from name SF authors. If one reads 6 books of a series, it's hard to justify not buying the 7th book in a series.
It's convenient. Pay online and immediately download, unzip, and if one is reading on a PDA, upload to it. (you could even print from OpenOffice, though at that point, it's cheaper to order from Amazon) They even make advance copies of some books available for people who don't want to wait for the release versions.
They've got me buying books again, I spent over $100 with them last year.
Perhaps the record industry could learn from their example, if they were capable of learning.
The original reason why radio broadcast was permitted was to make it possible for the record companies to sell their records, because nobody is going to buy music they haven't heard unless it's a "name" artist and usually, not even then.
This has evolved into the current situation where every second of music you hear on a commercial radio station has been bought and paid for by a record label. The upside is that this locks indies who can't afford to do this out. THE DOWNSIDE IS THAT PEOPLE ARE MOVING OFF BROADCAST RADIO.
Little known fact about Metallica? They got a following because people were trading tapes of their material. The Grateful Dead became a megaband the same way, but everybody already knew it.
P2P is essentially people redistributing reduced-quality copies of material, some of which is copyrighted by labels. On their own dime. The sound quality of 128K MP3 is slightly inferior to FM radio.
The right answer? Put up with indie competition and make P2P work for the record companies as a distribution channel. Since record companies can afford better producers and better equipment than indies, their stuff is going to sound better on the average; if record companies can't compete despite their bigger budgets with indies, they need new management. The real upside? Record labels can stop paying payola with the Internet as a distribution channel Not to say that FM radio will disappear, they're just going to have to get used to living wihtout a cash flow other than selling ads that don't pretend to be anything else. The other upside is that the cost and risk of breaking a new band goes way down.
Bottom line: make "fair-usage" any kind of digital redistribution of copyrighted audio material that's FM quality or below, make 128K the boundary for MP3, 15K/channel bandwidth for any kind of streaming audio media. Reserve higher-quality tracks and streams for the paying customer, make ALL the material from the vaults available for sale online at the record company sites, and shift to a "burn on demand" kiosk CD and beyond model for record stores, pressing CDs only for people who can be reasonably expected to sell a million+ CDs at a time.
watzinaneihm writes/"A Harvard Study which uses formal economic modelling to determine "Will OSS ever displace traditional software from its market leadership position?" came to a (not so?) surprising result. Linux is likely to remain second best as long as Microsoft has a first mover advantage."
actually, second best doesn't have to be so bad. Imagine how MS would be foaming at the mouth if Linux got to 40%.
But the three biggest weaknesses in the study are
OSX isn't covered
effects of usability on sales isn't, either.
that first mover effects don't guarantee indefinite future dominance, otherwise Commodore, Apple, and Atari would own the PC market.
What if OSX were FOSS? What if Linux became as usable and had as many apps available as OSX and stayed free of charge? At that point, why would manufacturers load anything *but* non-MS OSs on new computers? I think they chose the wrong limiting cases.
quote from study:/The model shows that Microsoft can use *piracy as an effective tool* to price discriminate, and that piracy may even result in higher profits to Microsoft!
While this is not news, it is good to see someone using formalized methodology to demonstrate it. Remember Napster's (positive) effect on music sales.
We question the effectiveness of influencing forward-looking buyers' perceptions on the value of an operating system. The model suggests that the more forward-looking buyers are, the more advantageous it is to use fear, uncertainty, and doubt (FUD) tactics to drive the competing system out.
FUD is counterproductive when the target population knows the FUDmakers are lying.
Consider SCO, a small Swiss-based "vulture" firm that had bought up the intellectual property rights to a particular version of Unix and threatened Linux users with lawsuits over infringement of those rights unless they agree to pay substantial licensing fees. IBM, which was one of the prime corporate sponsors of Linux as well as the target of a lawsuit by SCO that sought $1 billion in damages, alleged in mid-2003 that SCO was in cahoots with Microsoft. Our model indicates that if buyers are sufficiently forward-looking, such actions may jeopardize the ability of Linux to continue as an effective competitor in the operating system space.
SCO's FUD drive is already over, and has been fairly ineffective, though it may succeed in getting the FUDmakers behind bars and perhaps even a few Micro$hits indicted once the SEC investigates them.
A: Strictly speaking, within our model the only way in which Microsoft can get rid of Linux is by setting the price at zero.
in the server space, even that wouldn't work unless MS could make a server OS and apps equally reliable, which they can't as long as they require the ability to run legacy code. This would also require that the cost of migration from *nix to Microsoft is non-zero. The cost of an OS is generally the least important component of TCO.
This study is a good start, but they need to pull somebody into their team that understands the technologies involved. (preferably somebody who's platform agnostic) Their lack of understanding results in too many flawed assumptions to permit the study to be really useful in promoting understanding of the realities in this area.
Let's see, we've got large segments of the press and investment community calling for Patricia Dunn's head, the California AG's investigating HP, and an emergency HP board meeting taking place tomorrow and we have you telling us that pretexting is legal and there's no big deal, that all HP's trouble is due to a Slashdot witch hunt. Why don't you tell the HP Board of Directors that this is all much ado about nothing?
As for HP's reputation getting trashed, that's simply due to people having been around long enough to have seen in person the decline in quality of HP equipment and some of us who worked in HP back when working for HP was something to be proud of. I used to own a HP Laserjet Series II. . . I've seen the flimsy plastic junk HP calls printers these days, and decided to buy a Canon iP3000 which is running from Linux right now. Dunn's latest stupidity is just icing on the cake.
I currently run FC3 and Windows 98SE concurrently via Win4Lin. (I only use dual-boot when I'm testing an OS or need Windoze running in native mode). If I feel like it, I can switch to VMware and run XP or whatever and/or other Linux or even BSD distros (probably Solaris as well, but I haven't looked) After my next hardware upgrade, I can run Xen and run almost anything at close to full speed... and if Apple ever makes OSX available for generic x86, I can run that, too via Xen or VMware.
Parallels is the right answer for a Mac user... Murphy's Law dictates that the next application you need to cut and paste into will be running on the other OS if one is a dual boot user, but it's hardly the only emulator in existence.
is further along the road of trading "security" for civli liberties.
The US has the PATRIOT Act and similar legislation, is surveying the reading habits of people who use public libraries (and citizens have no legal recourse), the UK is doing public survelliance, laws that require turning over passwords apparently, at the whim of any law enforcement bureaucrat, and now, a law that gives the UK government the right to investigate people's HDs for "thoughtcrimes".
Part of this is a common failure of education in both nations, people are not taught that no government can guarantee safety, and that a free country has inherent dangers, and conversely, in a police state, that one may be in danger from one's neighbors, but one is ALWAYS in danger from the government.
For those of you with recent experience with living in both the UK and America, which country is further down the road to tyranny?
Slashdot Mirror
I switch OSs with a click of a mouse into the X-Window in which I have Windows running, and routinely cut and paste data between Linux and Windoze applications. I even use Linux and Windows graphics applications to edit the same file at the same time. (be careful about saving the edited file before changing OSs)
I plan to continue this practice after I upgrade to VMware (or Xen, if it supports clipboard between guest / host OSs) over an upgraded Linux OS. It would be cool if they could repeal the law of gravity, too.
I don't think "virtualized" means quite what you think it does.
Who's going to admit to building one in the current political climate?
My Palm PDA (Zire 31) and the 87 books I've got loaded into it is a fraction of the volume of that of a single paperback.
Why only 87? I've only got 128M of memory on the external card. When my 1G card finishes the warranty replacement process, I can change that to 870. Or some combination of books and MP3s... video is probably not worth the trouble on a 160x160 display. Instead of a whole bunch of boxes, I'll be able to move my fiction collection in one box, I've still got some paper books left, but the bulk will go with me in the PDA. What happens if the card fails? It's backed up on my HD... and if that fails, there's the mirror drive and the monthly DVD-R backup. PDBs I can read from OpenOffice if need be.
It could use more resolution, but what I've got is perfectly adequate for reading formatted text. It works well enough that I read paper books now when I can't avoid it.
I can read text, Mobipocket formatted books, and PDFs. If I had a Palm with higher resolution, it would be just great for a pile of manuals.
Not necessarily. Why couldn't the poster be a Baystar apologist? People with money in Baystar who saw the WSJ piece have got to be getting nervous about the people in charge of their investments, and their PR firm either is sending astroturfers every place they can to 'defend' the management or should be fired for being as stupid as their clients. Making a multimillion dollar investment on the basis of a handshake deal with MICROSOFT?
Next to the POS terminal at your grocery store, you'll see gift cards by the dozen from various vendors (probably including iTunes) and a couple or three debit card brands. I use the one from Netspend. I can use it almost anywhere (some smaller stores going through third-party accesss to credit card companies can't handle my card) either in RL or online, and I can transfer money to another card holder by going to the site and providing the transfer info, practically instantaneously and free of charge, and there are any number of places (some Safeways, some check cashing places - more info on site) where the card can be reloaded.
Since they require some sort of ID to purchase (I don't think the non-reloadable gift debit cards from that vendor do), this is something a parent can do for a younger teen. (upside for parent: if it isn't loaded onto a card, a kid can't spend it, and of course, this means the parent's credit card doesn't get used for online purchases) Check the URL for more info.
Whether or not one thinks online music is worth buying is up to the user, but there are lots of other things to buy on the Net.
from the atmosphere were used all the way through the series, that's what the windtraps were.
From my experience, the quickest way to get the right answer to what ails your OS or Linux app is to take a few words from the error message, enclose in quotes, and google it. While whoever said that 'chances are whatever your problem is, somebody else has had it' is true enough, the odds that this particular person is on whichever forum you decide to ask for help on aren't especially good. I think that with respect to the queries I've put on community forums, I've gotten useful answers back maybe 20% of the time.
Plenty of people willing to help, but if they don't know what the answers are, that's not all that useful.
1) if you don't need branded support
2) you've got experienced users and admins (if you don't, WTF are you doing even considering writing commercial apps for Linux?)
3) you're willing to Open Source the output (make a CD or a download of the program source for an embedded product... which in the context of a Linux-based appliance, what's the problem?)
You don't have to pay any of those prices. Make a deal with a Linux consultantcy on an hourly basis for real trouble. If one wants a desktop which actually works and *has* support built into the OS price, buy Linspire. It's cheaper than either RHEL/client or SUSE support (the $50 for SLED10 covers the license and THAT'S ALL - rather like what one buys from MS)
IPI appears to be a wingnut corporate propaganda factory. I'd be surprised if there were any reputable scientists associated with the organization.
They've got the same kind of credibility that any study of "the danger to American children of DRUGS" funded by the DEA has got.
If you want to dig through the sewage they produce for a nugget of truth, go for it, nobody's going to stop you. But don't expect the rest of us to waste our time on it. I've read some of their stuff, it's food for thought only if you like eating shit.
This pushes responsibility where it belongs. Whether this means credit card companies tighten up their procedures or makes the retailers do it should be their problem, not ours.
Of course, we have to persuade the Federal legislators they pwn to see it this way and write this into law.
Shouldn't he be doing something useful about it? Like getting ready to move to someplace beyond the reach of extradition?
Doing "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" from a CEO translates to "I'm guilty as hell" to me, and very probably to the state AG who is aggressively pursuing this.
As for the rest of us, is anybody planning to continue doing business with them?
would be an interesting experiment, it's one I don't quite have the nerve to try.
The real problem here is that since my working environment is Linux, I'd really rather avoid burning that many of my CPU cycles in the Windows session. I'm better off simply practicing better operating habits.
Just remember that the majority of things you and I don't like coming out of the Beltway were voted into law with the help of Democrats. You know, people like your friend, Joe Lieberman. Remember the bankruptcy bill?
I'll just say that if the Democrats are so powerless, why does the entertainment industry think their votes are worth buying? You need to call Disney and tell them they're wasting their money when they give it to Senator Clinton.
Ever heard of the Democratic Leadership Council? Did you know that it has accepted funding from the Bradley, Olin, and Smith-Richardson Foundations. . . i.e. the same people who fund the rest of the right-wing noise machine?
How about the the Democratic Party's brave stand against torture. . . listen to them roar. [sound of crickets chirping] OK, how about Pelosi's brave defense of Bush against what Chavez said about him? At least that actually happened.
I vote Democratic these days and I'll contribute and work for the occasional progressive Democrat. But respect our elected Democrats in Washington? You've got to be kidding.
Perhaps after Lamonting a few more DLC types, the rest will suddenly act like people worthy of respect.
As for your shoe, I suggest you pull it out of your mouth before figuring out what to do with it. Perhaps it might fit up your ass?
I was suggesting KDE 3.5.3 as an upgrade, though you'll probably have to add the Fedora yum repository at kde.org to get access to it via installer.
However, if you're running metacity as one of those 'lightweight' WMs, your window manager is probably not the problem. Though there's no harm in trying another one.
Look up your favorite Democrats at OpenSecrets and find out about how much of their campaign money comes from the Hollywood content cartel. . . and you won't need to wonder just where bullshit like the DMCA comes from. Hint: In Hillary Clinton's career campaign contribution profile of individual donors, Disney (as in The Path to 9/11) is #15.
I'm just sitting and staring.
Could you provide me with the URL of a webpage guaranteed to freeze your machine? I'm using Fedora Core 3 with the next-to-latest version of KDE. While it freezes occasionally, running Opera in Linux with 50+ open subwindows is kind of asking for it. Are you using the default Gnome window manager? Unless you've got some reason to be really fond of Gnome, you might want to upgrade.
I'm old enough to remember the transition... and what a pain in the ass LPs were. Keeping them ultraclean, and listening to them wear out.
To say that I don't miss vinyl records is something of an understatement.
What I'd like to see is a DRM-free extended CD format with higher sampling rates and greater dynamic range. . . and record companies with the sense to make proper use of it. Yes, I know that "record companies" and sense are an oxymoron
Probably the pain in the ass factor.
If I rip a track off one of my own CDs, the MP3 can be played anywhere. DRM-crapified files can only be played back on special computer players or hardware players with DRM implemented.
Music isn't the only place where DRM has been tried. The publishing industry has been trying DRM-contaminated e-books for years. Nobody seems to want them. If I can only read a book on my computer, I tend not to bother buying it.
The only mass-market publisher who is making money on e-books that I know of is the SF publisherBaen Books. Their e-books are DRM free and available in multiple formats (RTF, html, pdb, etc.) , which saves me the trouble of converting for my Palm PDA where I do most of my offline reading these days.
They even give away free content at the Baen Free Library, large chunks of their backlist from name SF authors. If one reads 6 books of a series, it's hard to justify not buying the 7th book in a series.
It's convenient. Pay online and immediately download, unzip, and if one is reading on a PDA, upload to it. (you could even print from OpenOffice, though at that point, it's cheaper to order from Amazon) They even make advance copies of some books available for people who don't want to wait for the release versions.
They've got me buying books again, I spent over $100 with them last year.
Perhaps the record industry could learn from their example, if they were capable of learning.
The original reason why radio broadcast was permitted was to make it possible for the record companies to sell their records, because nobody is going to buy music they haven't heard unless it's a "name" artist and usually, not even then.
This has evolved into the current situation where every second of music you hear on a commercial radio station has been bought and paid for by a record label. The upside is that this locks indies who can't afford to do this out. THE DOWNSIDE IS THAT PEOPLE ARE MOVING OFF BROADCAST RADIO.
Little known fact about Metallica? They got a following because people were trading tapes of their material. The Grateful Dead became a megaband the same way, but everybody already knew it.
P2P is essentially people redistributing reduced-quality copies of material, some of which is copyrighted by labels. On their own dime. The sound quality of 128K MP3 is slightly inferior to FM radio.
The right answer? Put up with indie competition and make P2P work for the record companies as a distribution channel. Since record companies can afford better producers and better equipment than indies, their stuff is going to sound better on the average; if record companies can't compete despite their bigger budgets with indies, they need new management. The real upside? Record labels can stop paying payola with the Internet as a distribution channel Not to say that FM radio will disappear, they're just going to have to get used to living wihtout a cash flow other than selling ads that don't pretend to be anything else. The other upside is that the cost and risk of breaking a new band goes way down.
Bottom line: make "fair-usage" any kind of digital redistribution of copyrighted audio material that's FM quality or below, make 128K the boundary for MP3, 15K/channel bandwidth for any kind of streaming audio media. Reserve higher-quality tracks and streams for the paying customer, make ALL the material from the vaults available for sale online at the record company sites, and shift to a "burn on demand" kiosk CD and beyond model for record stores, pressing CDs only for people who can be reasonably expected to sell a million+ CDs at a time.
. . .
Profit.
- OSX isn't covered
- effects of usability on sales isn't, either.
- that first mover effects don't guarantee indefinite future dominance, otherwise Commodore, Apple, and Atari would own the PC market.
What if OSX were FOSS? What if Linux became as usable and had as many apps available as OSX and stayed free of charge? At that point, why would manufacturers load anything *but* non-MS OSs on new computers? I think they chose the wrong limiting cases. While this is not news, it is good to see someone using formalized methodology to demonstrate it. Remember Napster's (positive) effect on music sales. FUD is counterproductive when the target population knows the FUDmakers are lying. SCO's FUD drive is already over, and has been fairly ineffective, though it may succeed in getting the FUDmakers behind bars and perhaps even a few Micro$hits indicted once the SEC investigates them. in the server space, even that wouldn't work unless MS could make a server OS and apps equally reliable, which they can't as long as they require the ability to run legacy code. This would also require that the cost of migration from *nix to Microsoft is non-zero. The cost of an OS is generally the least important component of TCO. This study is a good start, but they need to pull somebody into their team that understands the technologies involved. (preferably somebody who's platform agnostic) Their lack of understanding results in too many flawed assumptions to permit the study to be really useful in promoting understanding of the realities in this area.Let's see, we've got large segments of the press and investment community calling for Patricia Dunn's head, the California AG's investigating HP, and an emergency HP board meeting taking place tomorrow and we have you telling us that pretexting is legal and there's no big deal, that all HP's trouble is due to a Slashdot witch hunt. Why don't you tell the HP Board of Directors that this is all much ado about nothing?
As for HP's reputation getting trashed, that's simply due to people having been around long enough to have seen in person the decline in quality of HP equipment and some of us who worked in HP back when working for HP was something to be proud of. I used to own a HP Laserjet Series II. . . I've seen the flimsy plastic junk HP calls printers these days, and decided to buy a Canon iP3000 which is running from Linux right now. Dunn's latest stupidity is just icing on the cake.
I currently run FC3 and Windows 98SE concurrently via Win4Lin. (I only use dual-boot when I'm testing an OS or need Windoze running in native mode). If I feel like it, I can switch to VMware and run XP or whatever and/or other Linux or even BSD distros (probably Solaris as well, but I haven't looked) After my next hardware upgrade, I can run Xen and run almost anything at close to full speed... and if Apple ever makes OSX available for generic x86, I can run that, too via Xen or VMware.
Parallels is the right answer for a Mac user... Murphy's Law dictates that the next application you need to cut and paste into will be running on the other OS if one is a dual boot user, but it's hardly the only emulator in existence.
I can go both 5 and 45 mph (Linux) at the same time!
Klingons are something one finds around one's anus.
is further along the road of trading "security" for civli liberties.
The US has the PATRIOT Act and similar legislation, is surveying the reading habits of people who use public libraries (and citizens have no legal recourse), the UK is doing public survelliance, laws that require turning over passwords apparently, at the whim of any law enforcement bureaucrat, and now, a law that gives the UK government the right to investigate people's HDs for "thoughtcrimes".
Part of this is a common failure of education in both nations, people are not taught that no government can guarantee safety, and that a free country has inherent dangers, and conversely, in a police state, that one may be in danger from one's neighbors, but one is ALWAYS in danger from the government.
For those of you with recent experience with living in both the UK and America, which country is further down the road to tyranny?