I second that. I *like* the content rule. It should be kept and enforced. We have a lot of great artists who wouldn't get the time of day by the radio stations in their mad rush for Brittney Spears, or whoever is the pop-culture queen these days. I *like* being able to listen to Canadian music on the radio, like the Bare Naked Ladies, Great Big Sea, etc.
That's ok, last time I was in the US, I really needed to use the restroom. So, I asked someone where the restroom was and they stood there with a dumbfounded look on their face while I was doing the pee-pee dance. The guys says, "...well there is a water fountain and bench down the hall..." to which I replied, "No i gotta take a leak!"
He clued in and I eventually found my way. When I told my brother who lives there he cracked up and informed me that they don't use that term.
The only other thing that bugs me about the US is that you can't find a bag of ketchup or dill pickle chips anywhere!
There is a well documented connection between Osama and Saddam. The 911 commission's report even verified that, read the report. What they did say, which is what the media twisted and ran with, is that there is no provable link between Saddam and the events of 911. The media came out with headlines, "No link between Al Quaida and Saddam." Of couse, most people only read the headline, not the article and assumed that there was no link at all.
If all operations from a GUI are slower, I'd be a bit suspicious of your graphics card and X driver. What graphics card do you have? I have and nvidia g-force ultra, and when I use the default driver that comes with mandrake, (which is really the one that comes with XFree86), it is indeed much slower. However, when I install nvidia's (proprietary, non-open-source) driver and kernel module, it is much much faster. (and I can play 3d games:) ).
Actually, in general, you are fairly correct. I once had a long correspondence with a Briton living in Brittany, and he had a long list of things the French government was actively doing to destroy their culture and language. Also, you only have to live in eastern Ontario (specifically Ottawa, this is in Canada) to see the extent to which this is true.
You tried MS Office 2000 on linux? Or you tried importing a doc from linux to office 2000? If so, you are suffering from the same problem as the linux folks importing from office 2000. Problem is, you don't have the same fonts on both platforms, or you've installed old and ugly fonts. I've seen fonts on windows worse than on linux b/c of bad fonts, or no aa applied to those fonts.
The PROBLEM with WP for linux has always been that Corel chooses to base it's product on outdated, or flaky technology in order to do it on the cheap. Then they expect to make a bunch of money off of it. I actually have a copy of WP for Linux both the wine, and motif versions, and let me tell you, would you use an office suite that crashed all the time, was buggy and slow as hell, and didn't interoperate w/ the rest of your desktop?
In other words, if Corel, released a version of Office, that was based on the windows 3.1 interface code, would you use it on your brand spanking new windows XP box?
Drips amateurish? Really. I guess I should run and tell all our engineers and physicists who use our distributed processing cluster that it's an amateur system. I guess I also now have to go apologize to management for the roll out of all those linux desktops and workstations we did that reduced our TCO by 1/2. Yeah, ok right.
Listen buddy, why don't you actually get a clue about what you are talking about before you go spouting your mouth off.
Actually the TTF support in Linux is, now, quite good. It's no ones fault that the fonts on windows are not the same as the fonts on Linux. (unless the linux user imports their windows fonts, which is fairly easy to do w/ KDE.)
I can tell you are a windows bigot, but don't be ridiculous.
At least that's how MS will bill it to it's M$ofties w/o, I'm sure, a mention that mozilla, kmail, evolution (I think), etc. have done this for a long time already.. (well at least KMail has.)
Another thing about the GST. It replaced the 7% manufacturers tax. Effectively this allows our businesses to export products to other countries cheaper. In conjunction w/ free trade, this is why the Canadian economy is still doing relatively well, despite the US economic situation.
Unfortunatly most people hate Brian Mulroney for this, not understanding the benefits the liberals are now enjoying came from his government.
Neither do most UNIX's either. HA or HA clustering on Sun/Tru64, etc tend to come down to stopping and restarting an application on another machine if it detects an error. I work w/ TruCluster and it's suppose to be better than sun's clustering, but it really isn't that great. Linux virtual server project, mosix are just as good (if not better, well at least mosix).
And how do we know that once mono has served it's purpose to them (showing that.net is a standard, and using mono to popularize the "technology"), that they then won't play the patent trump card once.net becomes widespread and required for decent functionality? Allowing.net technology to promulgate in the open source world could be it's death. If.net becomes a "web standard" and then MS kills it on open platforms, and refuses to supply their own implementation (or provides a crippled implementation) it would be a good way for them to drive people away from open source platforms, and back to windows. It could happen, and the fact that we have no guarentees either way means that "we" are taking a big risk on the good will of a company that is more known for killing off competitors than dispensing good will to them.
Maybe it is for you... but I have plenty of friends that are not so lucky. Guy with families that are out of work, and have been for some time. They have lost all of their investments, and are quickly losing their personal savings, rrsp's and yes, if things don't turn around quickly, they will lose their homes. Happy now?
If your environment is setup in a unix/linux friendly way, TCO of unix/linux will be low. If you take an environment setup for windows, and try to plug linux or unix into it, the TCO will be higher.
Interesting to note that downtime was the second highest cost in TCO. Are they saying that windows has better uptime than Linux? (Which is absurd, even if you don't factor in the downtime cost due to viruses). Look at
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/isp.avg.html
The first windows machine comes in at 14th place.
This study is just dumb. It's a projection, nothing more. Probably funded by m$.
Exactly, it's a projection. However, it should be noted that if I recall correctly, IDC also projected that the economy would recover during the second half of 2002.
What keeps me on windows is 1) Hardware that is not supported by linux. 2) Games, 3) MSOffice 4) Commercial 3D Graphics programs that don't run on Linux.
What keeps me on Linux: KDE Programming, Email, Web development, bzflag, some Loki games, work.
Konqueror isn't "integrated" into the desktop. Konqueror is an application or framework that can load various components. One of these components happens to be khtml, which happens to provide you with web browsing functionality.
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I second that. I *like* the content rule. It should be kept and enforced. We have a lot of great artists who wouldn't get the time of day by the radio stations in their mad rush for Brittney Spears, or whoever is the pop-culture queen these days. I *like* being able to listen to Canadian music on the radio, like the Bare Naked Ladies, Great Big Sea, etc.
That's ok, last time I was in the US, I really needed to use the restroom. So, I asked someone where the restroom was and they stood there with a dumbfounded look on their face while I was doing the pee-pee dance. The guys says, "...well there is a water fountain and bench down the hall..." to which I replied, "No i gotta take a leak!"
He clued in and I eventually found my way. When I told my brother who lives there he cracked up and informed me that they don't use that term.
The only other thing that bugs me about the US is that you can't find a bag of ketchup or dill pickle chips anywhere!
Ok, exactly how did this get 4, Informative?
There is a well documented connection between Osama and Saddam. The 911 commission's report even verified that, read the report. What they did say, which is what the media twisted and ran with, is that there is no provable link between Saddam and the events of 911. The media came out with headlines, "No link between Al Quaida and Saddam." Of couse, most people only read the headline, not the article and assumed that there was no link at all.
If all operations from a GUI are slower, I'd be a bit suspicious of your graphics card and X driver. What graphics card do you have? I have and nvidia g-force ultra, and when I use the default driver that comes with mandrake, (which is really the one that comes with XFree86), it is indeed much slower. However, when I install nvidia's (proprietary, non-open-source) driver and kernel module, it is much much faster. (and I can play 3d games :) ).
Actually, in general, you are fairly correct. I once had a long correspondence with a Briton living in Brittany, and he had a long list of things the French government was actively doing to destroy their culture and language. Also, you only have to live in eastern Ontario (specifically Ottawa, this is in Canada) to see the extent to which this is true.
Yup, in Evolution 2.0. Read the article mate.
You tried MS Office 2000 on linux? Or you tried importing a doc from linux to office 2000? If so, you are suffering from the same problem as the linux folks importing from office 2000. Problem is, you don't have the same fonts on both platforms, or you've installed old and ugly fonts. I've seen fonts on windows worse than on linux b/c of bad fonts, or no aa applied to those fonts.
The PROBLEM with WP for linux has always been that Corel chooses to base it's product on outdated, or flaky technology in order to do it on the cheap. Then they expect to make a bunch of money off of it. I actually have a copy of WP for Linux both the wine, and motif versions, and let me tell you, would you use an office suite that crashed all the time, was buggy and slow as hell, and didn't interoperate w/ the rest of your desktop?
In other words, if Corel, released a version of Office, that was based on the windows 3.1 interface code, would you use it on your brand spanking new windows XP box?
Drips amateurish? Really. I guess I should run and tell all our engineers and physicists who use our distributed processing cluster that it's an amateur system. I guess I also now have to go apologize to management for the roll out of all those linux desktops and workstations we did that reduced our TCO by 1/2. Yeah, ok right.
Listen buddy, why don't you actually get a clue about what you are talking about before you go spouting your mouth off.
Actually the TTF support in Linux is, now, quite good. It's no ones fault that the fonts on windows are not the same as the fonts on Linux. (unless the linux user imports their windows fonts, which is fairly easy to do w/ KDE.)
I can tell you are a windows bigot, but don't be ridiculous.
At least that's how MS will bill it to it's M$ofties w/o, I'm sure, a mention that mozilla, kmail, evolution (I think), etc. have done this for a long time already.. (well at least KMail has.)
Strange, our windows guy tried it and he said that it ate the CPU like you wouldn't believe and that vmware was less resource intensive.
Love your sig. LMFAO. I'm going to vote right now too....
I am too, so I'm interested to know if those running the company and driving this are also mormon.
Another thing about the GST. It replaced the 7% manufacturers tax. Effectively this allows our businesses to export products to other countries cheaper. In conjunction w/ free trade, this is why the Canadian economy is still doing relatively well, despite the US economic situation.
Unfortunatly most people hate Brian Mulroney for this, not understanding the benefits the liberals are now enjoying came from his government.
Neither do most UNIX's either. HA or HA clustering on Sun/Tru64, etc tend to come down to stopping and restarting an application on another machine if it detects an error. I work w/ TruCluster and it's suppose to be better than sun's clustering, but it really isn't that great. Linux virtual server project, mosix are just as good (if not better, well at least mosix).
Why? Evolution has an exchange connector already, but ximian sells it as an add on, so giving one away would cut their profits.
Good... now maybe they'll fix the \ to a / and make - for command arguments.
And how do we know that once mono has served it's purpose to them (showing that .net is a standard, and using mono to popularize the "technology"), that they then won't play the patent trump card once .net becomes widespread and required for decent functionality? Allowing .net technology to promulgate in the open source world could be it's death. If .net becomes a "web standard" and then MS kills it on open platforms, and refuses to supply their own implementation (or provides a crippled implementation) it would be a good way for them to drive people away from open source platforms, and back to windows. It could happen, and the fact that we have no guarentees either way means that "we" are taking a big risk on the good will of a company that is more known for killing off competitors than dispensing good will to them.
Maybe it is for you... but I have plenty of friends that are not so lucky. Guy with families that are out of work, and have been for some time. They have lost all of their investments, and are quickly losing their personal savings, rrsp's and yes, if things don't turn around quickly, they will lose their homes. Happy now?
If your environment is setup in a unix/linux friendly way, TCO of unix/linux will be low. If you take an environment setup for windows, and try to plug linux or unix into it, the TCO will be higher.
Interesting to note that downtime was the second highest cost in TCO. Are they saying that windows has better uptime than Linux? (Which is absurd, even if you don't factor in the downtime cost due to viruses). Look at http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/isp.avg.html The first windows machine comes in at 14th place.
This study is just dumb. It's a projection, nothing more. Probably funded by m$.
Exactly, it's a projection. However, it should be noted that if I recall correctly, IDC also projected that the economy would recover during the second half of 2002.
What keeps me on windows is 1) Hardware that is not supported by linux. 2) Games, 3) MSOffice 4) Commercial 3D Graphics programs that don't run on Linux.
What keeps me on Linux: KDE Programming, Email, Web development, bzflag, some Loki games, work.
Konqueror isn't "integrated" into the desktop. Konqueror is an application or framework that can load various components. One of these components happens to be khtml, which happens to provide you with web browsing functionality.
>The KDE project is famous for its funded and organised trolling of weblogs and message board associated with Linux and Free software/open source.
So are slashdot gnome trolls like youself.