Cloud storage, also known as "give us your companies confidential data, and we will look after it and not look at it, honest...."
Re:Nope, it's the putative new users problem
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Who are the "they" you are talking about...
The management? The sales force?
There are only developers.... and in the case of things like TV cards they are not paid, they are doing it purely to get a working system for themselves, and if someone else benefits, then good...
Mr Joe Average is not who a do-it-yourself PVR system is aimed at, no-one sells a Linux PC PVR, no-one maintains them, they are not simple to setup or maintain,
If you are talking about mainstream Video or soundcards then you have a point, but most of these for basic use are well supported, 3D acceleration and multi-monitor support is very hardware specific and is the kind of thing that often does not work on Windows even with the manufacturers own drivers....
Re:Let me be the first critic
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Video - NVidia : On most distros (perhaps with adding a repository in a GUI) just works
Intel : As Above just works
ATI : As above Just works
Audio Cards : As above all the ones listed just work
(Note many people had problems installing Vista with manufacturers drivers, but their Linux system worked fine...)
Many of the Linux drivers for these were written by IBM/Redhat etc.. to support paying customers, or by the manufacturers
Your Video capture card is totally different, it is a relatively low volume specialist card and since the people in the Linux community writing the drivers are all working for free, in most cases they are happy if the system works for them and the hardware they have, they have no incentive to write drivers for every new card that comes on the market. I can understand why the manufacturer only supports Windows, and can understand that they do not want to support a "minority" operating system, but please note that because of this the card will not work on earlier versions of windows or (if it is an earlier card) on later versions of Windows, the manufacturers attitude to writing drivers to work on earlier or later versions of Windows will be the same as writing drivers for Linux or Intel Mac, there is not enough demand
Re:Nope, it's the putative new users problem
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You are missing the point....
It's not their 'fault' that it doesn't work on your hardware - The hardware manufacturer will not release the specs so they cannot easily write a driver and if they reverse engineer one it may not work properly
It's not their 'problem' that it doesn't work on your hardware - They do not really care if it works on every possible hardware configuration just the ones they use (which tend to be the *very* popular, the ones the manufacturer will release the specs for or will write a Linux driver for themselves)
Unlike a manufacturer they do not sell anything, so while they would like it to work on your hardware they have no real incentive to make it work...they do not sell the hardware, they do not sell the software, you have not paid them anything....
The Queen's gift is a diplomatic one... she gives the same gift of the same cost, to everyone, regardless of how important they are and regardless of what they give her in return, no one is snubbed, overvalued, undervalued, or insulted....
The giving of gifts is done for purely diplomatic reasons and the cost of the gift given by the British PM is limited, any gift given to him over that same cost is owned by the government not by the current PM....
Teach people how to find information (and how not to) and how to use their judgement as to how reliable that information is, is far more useful than "The Victorians"...
If they know how to do research properly they can find out far more than they would ever learn in school
If you think teaching from a book is good... see the/. discussion on US school textbooks and how well written and reliable they are, some make Wikipedia look positively authoritative
OpenVMS is still in active development.... So not gone.......and Windows NT was written by the development team who wrote VMS! (Oh how are the mighty fallen)
... and this is like making a car that needs to phone home before it will start
and if the manufacturer has gone under, or is having system problems today, or the phone service is down, then you cannot drive your car
Why do they pretend to sell you software at all, they are not selling you anything but the privilege of using their software, unless they decide otherwise, or you can't connect, until they can't be bothered to support it anymore....
There should be two records 1) Who has voted 2) A vote by one of the above, and who it is for
The two should not be connected in any way, they should not be able to, and have no reason to, ever tie the two back together, this is the anonymous part of voting
You cannot be intimidated, or punished for which you voted if nobody can ever know which way you voted, just if you did, and that you only voted once....
He is talking about a business desktop
Not a laptop : Very nice with Linux, Cloud is largely irrelevant
Not a Home PC : Very nice with Linux, Cloud is irrelevant
Business desktop could be run as (and often is) a very thin client "cloud" PC now....
Now what is the thin client layer between the hardware and the cloud... probably a Web browser on Linux?
When At&T have no broadband customers then they will think again about this
If they will disconnect people who are "accused" of illegal filesharing then they will eventually have to disconnect just about all their customers looking at RIAA's random scattergun targeting of illegal filesharers....
This is not technically the normal DRM... Since you do not have the key and the lock as you normally have in DRM (which is why it is pointless) you just have the key... the lock is back at Steam
a 2 core CPU is split between the OS and your program a 4 core CPU is split between the OS and a couple of your programs (one is probably the GUI) and one is little used
an 8 core system 4-5 of the cores are never used....
Most programs spend most of their time waiting for resources (keyboard input, Disk, memory etc...) adding more cPU's or cores will not speed up a sleeping process
More cores only help if the programs can actually use them, or need to... most of the programs you are running today cannot logically use more than one core (maybe 2) and will spend most of thier time waiting for you....
The exception is very processor intensive programs like games and render software.... for most other software it would only help to spread the load across cores...which both Windows and Linux do now...
Press the button on the the screen marked "Obama" the machine prints out your vote...you check it says you have voted for Obama , you put this in the ballot box
What you put in the ballot box is not kept by you...
It is easily machine readable so is quick to count...
The voting machine does not need to remember who voted, how many votes etc...it cannot be gamed
The paper voting slip is as anonymous and as verifiable as the old "place cross here" system...
Install Firefox.... oh what's this - add-ons, cool what are there? Most popular User Agent Switch, Save image, Adblock, Media Converter...... oh look and these are checked.... hmm let's try these.... nice...
IE - Can't see anything about addins... Hidden menu bar... Oh look Manage add-ons, most popular: Silverlight, Search, Search, Search, Search.... nothing interesting....
The point about "release early, release often" is that you do it to people who are aware that it is not the final version, and who will give you constructive feedback....
Ordinary users who will at best say "It didn't work" are not your target audience....they are the people who you give v1.01 Stable release to....
The reason Vista is hated so much is it's usability, which beta releases should have found and corrected, but the Beta testers seemed to all be people who didn't complain enough?
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Apple sell hardware, they happen to sell software to go with it, but they really sell hardware
They are not in the same market as Microsoft and Linux at all ....
So you think using an applet provided by them leaves them with no possibility of allowing them to unencrypt the data ....
Yes I do sound paranoid, but if my data is important to my business then I have a right to be ...
Alum -> Alumnus .... "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alumni"
Graduate of a college (or in this case the Netscape mindset ...)
Cloud storage, also known as "give us your companies confidential data, and we will look after it and not look at it, honest...."
Who are the "they" you are talking about ...
The management?
The sales force?
There are only developers .... and in the case of things like TV cards they are not paid, they are doing it purely to get a working system for themselves, and if someone else benefits, then good ...
Mr Joe Average is not who a do-it-yourself PVR system is aimed at, no-one sells a Linux PC PVR, no-one maintains them, they are not simple to setup or maintain,
If you are talking about mainstream Video or soundcards then you have a point, but most of these for basic use are well supported, 3D acceleration and multi-monitor support is very hardware specific and is the kind of thing that often does not work on Windows even with the manufacturers own drivers ....
Video - NVidia : On most distros (perhaps with adding a repository in a GUI) just works
Intel : As Above just works
ATI : As above Just works
Audio Cards : As above all the ones listed just work
(Note many people had problems installing Vista with manufacturers drivers, but their Linux system worked fine...)
Many of the Linux drivers for these were written by IBM/Redhat etc.. to support paying customers, or by the manufacturers
Your Video capture card is totally different, it is a relatively low volume specialist card and since the people in the Linux community writing the drivers are all working for free, in most cases they are happy if the system works for them and the hardware they have, they have no incentive to write drivers for every new card that comes on the market. I can understand why the manufacturer only supports Windows, and can understand that they do not want to support a "minority" operating system, but please note that because of this the card will not work on earlier versions of windows or (if it is an earlier card) on later versions of Windows, the manufacturers attitude to writing drivers to work on earlier or later versions of Windows will be the same as writing drivers for Linux or Intel Mac, there is not enough demand
You are missing the point ....
It's not their 'fault' that it doesn't work on your hardware - The hardware manufacturer will not release the specs so they cannot easily write a driver and if they reverse engineer one it may not work properly
It's not their 'problem' that it doesn't work on your hardware - They do not really care if it works on every possible hardware configuration just the ones they use (which tend to be the *very* popular, the ones the manufacturer will release the specs for or will write a Linux driver for themselves)
Unlike a manufacturer they do not sell anything, so while they would like it to work on your hardware they have no real incentive to make it work ...they do not sell the hardware, they do not sell the software, you have not paid them anything ....
The Queen's gift is a diplomatic one ... she gives the same gift of the same cost, to everyone, regardless of how important they are and regardless of what they give her in return, no one is snubbed, overvalued, undervalued, or insulted ....
The giving of gifts is done for purely diplomatic reasons and the cost of the gift given by the British PM is limited, any gift given to him over that same cost is owned by the government not by the current PM ....
Do not announce anything important on 1st of April ...
and that's all 49 hours of it across the 25 Time zones of the globe ...and try not to die or no-one will believe it!
Teach people how to find information (and how not to) and how to use their judgement as to how reliable that information is, is far more useful than "The Victorians" ...
If they know how to do research properly they can find out far more than they would ever learn in school
If you think teaching from a book is good... see the /. discussion on US school textbooks and how well written and reliable they are, some make Wikipedia look positively authoritative
Number of 50+ Solar mass stars that had been observed to go supernova : 0
Number now : 1
Most people would allow the theory to be incorrect with no experiments run ...
OpenVMS is still in active development .... So not gone .... ...and Windows NT was written by the development team who wrote VMS! (Oh how are the mighty fallen)
AmigaOS - Still going thank you (Last update September 2008)
BeOS - Still Going thank you (as Haiku last update... last night)
The X Window System - Not an operating system, not gone! Could they not find a 10th ...
VMS - Still going thank you (Now called OpenVMS still in active development)
... and this is like making a car that needs to phone home before it will start
and if the manufacturer has gone under, or is having system problems today, or the phone service is down, then you cannot drive your car
Why do they pretend to sell you software at all, they are not selling you anything but the privilege of using their software, unless they decide otherwise, or you can't connect, until they can't be bothered to support it anymore ....
Physical cash weighs more ... the people you are buying from have to have change ....
There should be two records
1) Who has voted
2) A vote by one of the above, and who it is for
The two should not be connected in any way, they should not be able to, and have no reason to, ever tie the two back together, this is the anonymous part of voting
You cannot be intimidated, or punished for which you voted if nobody can ever know which way you voted, just if you did, and that you only voted once ....
He is talking about a business desktop
Not a laptop : Very nice with Linux, Cloud is largely irrelevant
Not a Home PC : Very nice with Linux, Cloud is irrelevant
Business desktop could be run as (and often is) a very thin client "cloud" PC now ....
Now what is the thin client layer between the hardware and the cloud ... probably a Web browser on Linux?
When At&T have no broadband customers then they will think again about this
If they will disconnect people who are "accused" of illegal filesharing then they will eventually have to disconnect just about all their customers looking at RIAA's random scattergun targeting of illegal filesharers ....
This is not technically the normal DRM ... Since you do not have the key and the lock as you normally have in DRM (which is why it is pointless) you just have the key ... the lock is back at Steam
Database file system ... Like WinFS and GNOME Storage except it has actually been released and works ....
a 2 core CPU is split between the OS and your program
a 4 core CPU is split between the OS and a couple of your programs (one is probably the GUI) and one is little used
an 8 core system 4-5 of the cores are never used ....
Most programs spend most of their time waiting for resources (keyboard input, Disk, memory etc...) adding more cPU's or cores will not speed up a sleeping process
More cores only help if the programs can actually use them, or need to ... most of the programs you are running today cannot logically use more than one core (maybe 2) and will spend most of thier time waiting for you ....
The exception is very processor intensive programs like games and render software .... for most other software it would only help to spread the load across cores ...which both Windows and Linux do now ...
No it's simple you have a wallet card .... fill it up with "cash" at a bank or hole in the wall machine ... pay anonymously anywhere like cash ....
Works exactly like cash ... but it's lighter and easier
If it gets stolen, it's exactly like having the cash stolen out of your wallet... no link to you, and you only lose as much as you were carrying
Credit cards should only be used for higher price items ...i.e. that you need credit on, and need the payment guaranteed....
Voting machines can work .... but ....
Press the button on the the screen marked "Obama" the machine prints out your vote...you check it says you have voted for Obama , you put this in the ballot box
What you put in the ballot box is not kept by you ...
It is easily machine readable so is quick to count ...
The voting machine does not need to remember who voted, how many votes etc ...it cannot be gamed
The paper voting slip is as anonymous and as verifiable as the old "place cross here" system ...
Install Firefox .... oh what's this - add-ons, cool what are there? Most popular User Agent Switch, Save image, Adblock, Media Converter ... ... oh look and these are checked .... hmm let's try these .... nice ...
IE - Can't see anything about addins ... Hidden menu bar ... Oh look Manage add-ons, most popular: Silverlight, Search, Search, Search, Search .... nothing interesting ....
The point about "release early, release often" is that you do it to people who are aware that it is not the final version, and who will give you constructive feedback....
Ordinary users who will at best say "It didn't work" are not your target audience....they are the people who you give v1.01 Stable release to ....
The reason Vista is hated so much is it's usability, which beta releases should have found and corrected, but the Beta testers seemed to all be people who didn't complain enough?