Client app - many flavours of Windows XP,32bit,64bit,SP1,Sp2,Sp3, Vista Business/Enterprise/Ultimate, Sp1,Sp2, 32,64 with many different configurations and software already installed to conflict with, on top of that various networking configurations, and security settings
Web App - insulated from much of the above but with multiple browsers/versions of browsers/plugins/security and privacy settings
Seems that the browser varieties and variations are so complex that they do not aid installation... but they do help a little....
Like polygraphs the fundamental flaw is that they cannot tell if people are lying only that they think they are lying, or are stressed, or are relaxed....
The reason they cannot be used in a court of law is simply that they are not accurate enough to be used as evidence, this is a voice stress analyser and is less reliable than a polygraph and without calibration to a voice is near useless
Red Dwarf USA had some good points... mostly the fact that it was rewritten mostly by Grant+Naylor and not mangled too heavily by the American producers, but also they had a totally different Cat (Female played by Terry Farrell (Dax)) which might have been interesting ?
If the plot is good, the script is good, the actors are good, then why did you notice the sets?
The costumes in series 1 were terrible as well... but I only noticed that the third time I saw it...
This is the point with special effects, using CGI to cover up a thin plot and bad acting does not work.... special effects can only enhance a good show not save a bad one...
This is summed up by the never made Red Dwarf USA.......Rewritten by Grant and Naylor.. and a team of American writers and producers...Lister is heroic, and handsome (but still a slob)
Most British comedies are still written by a very small team (usually 2 or 3) people rather than the joke committee system they have in the states, it is noticeable that the US comedy shows that work in the UK are the ones with the smaller teams of writers....
Like all Jobs pay them enough to consider the job in the first place, pay them enough to stay, don't pay them so much that any idiot will try and do it.... Managers get paid a lot and a lot of them should not be doing the job....
Closed source is not broken for custom or specialist software (it never has been) but for mass market software it is and always has been non ideal
Closed source is great if it is part of a "solution" package where you buy the hardware, installation, support, and maintenance, oh.. and a licence for the software, all from one company as a package
In mass market software you are so far removed from the developers and do not normally get support included so the support systems end up being the same as open source but with none of the benefits...
This means an increase the cost to microsoft to make one copy of each flavour, the cost of the different flavours to microsoft is however still the same, the installer is the same for all the flavours and no matter which one you install they run the same code and all have to do the same job...
Again many flavours, the same cost to Microsoft, besides this cost and a markup for profit the *difference* in price of the various flavours is totally artificial...
The difference is that to give people better or different support cost redhat money, for microsoft to sell you Vista Ulimate or to Sell you Vista Home Basic costs Microsoft exactly the same, it cost them the same to manufacture it, the same to design it, the same to market it
If I buy a car then the options cost the supplier more money and they pass that cost onto me (with a markup), Microsoft are selling me something as an option that costs them nothing above the base cost, all the different flavours of Windows cost Microsoft the same amount to sell to me but they make more profit on the more expensive ones...
The different flavours of Windows are all basically the same use the same installer and are often identical except for a few configuration changes, but somehow Microsoft charge me more for some versions... and I get no tangeable benefit... everything else I buy if it is a more expensive version then I get an obvious tangeable benefit from buying the more expensive version...
When the first Automobiles rolled off the production line there was no more efficient alternative When the first Computer display monitor there was no more efficient display technology When the first lightbulb was produced there was no more efficient electric lighting technology
Again they are not blanket banning plasma screens just the most inefficient that have an alternative, these are the ones that the manufacturers are selling simply because it is cheaper for them to produce these older less efficient models than the newer more efficient ones and so they can sell them at a lower price, most consumers do not factor in the running costs (even if it is mandated that it is shown on the product) they just look a the purchase price... the EU is simply forcing the manufacturers to sell only the more efficient models of plasmas or an alternative...
Yes you can... the core of the system is still Windows. Explorer or KDE is just a shell wrapped around this that runs programs for you, you are not running Linux or Unix, you are running Windows with a pretty desktop on top
In the Windows world this is a difficult concept because the system is sold as an integrated whole and the components are crosslinked and at multiple levels and have multiple tasks, in the Unix/Linux world the components are separate and can be individually replaced (mostly) so you have the core (Kernel) with drivers and services on top, a GUI system on top of that, a window manager on that, and a desktop on that, and then desktop components on that... any of which can be replaced
KDE on Windows replaces the top three levels (which are normally handled by Explorer.exe) (partly) the window manager, the desktop, and the desktop components....the Kernel, Services, Drivers, GUI, and some of the Window manager functions are still handled by the base Windows system
The difference is that a Workstation Linux is preconfigured for a workstation but is otherwise the same as the server edition and both can be turned into the other one... it is just a convenience and many simply ask which do you want to install and actually install the same system but with configuration changes and a different list of installed components (there is nothing stopping you turning a workstation into a server of vice-versa)
The RedHat systems are actually different levels of support as well as different pre-configured systems - what you are actually paying for is the support not the system (i.e. you actually get a real benefit by paying more)
Windows flavours are purely marketing and are there so some flavours can be sold more cheaply than others, they cost the same to design, build market and sell but the more complete systems can be sold for more
Real sized car - like the majority of electric cars *now* being produced... so you can go to work *on your own* Range of 50 miles so you can do your trip to work and back...Done Charge overnight on regular outlet : Done Real performance - Tesla has this now Features - Done Safely - generally they are safer.... Price - the only current sticking point but this is due to the small production runs
220-240 @ 50Hz is used by most of the world (outside America and Japan)
The USA influenced it's neighbours (and Japan) to use it's standard of 110 V @ 60 Hz
Power distribution is slightly more efficient with 240V and slightly more reliable with 110V but most long distance power transmission is done at much higher voltages anyway....
It's the same as driving on the right or left, it's mostly a matter of tradition rather than any good reason, there are advantages and disadvantages of both systems
I do just that with Litestep - much lighter than Windows Shell (explorer) and much lighter than KDE I run explorer rarely when apps insist on it......
But I am willing to bet that KDE has the same problems with programs assuming that you have explorer running and failing silently when you don't (those popup bubble messages are done by explorer, not by your app, not by the window manager, not by a notification app, but by explorer....)
Electric light was brighter, cleaner, and safer than candles (or Gas lighting which is what it actually replaced) it might not have been cheaper but it was better....
What they are proposing is banning the equivalent of filament light bulbs now the more efficient energy saving bulbs are available and as cheap...
If I am paying thousands for a big screen TV the running costs are a minor problem and will be ignored, the kind of people who have garden lights etc. are also the kind of people who think nothing of the cost the only way to force these people to be efficient is to ban the most inefficient versions (older designs of TV, inefficient bulbs, etc...) which manufacturers only make because they are easy to produce and cheap to make (so they make more profit)... this is what governments are for
Playing catchup is good but when your catchup browser release is slower, less standards compliant than the competition and still has bugs in it then you are not playing catchup you are standing in the corner being laughed at....
Microsoft employs some of the (allegedly) best software developers in the world and they still cannot write a fast stable standards compliant browser...!
You forget the Britannica article is written by one author (who may know the subject, but will be biased to some degree) and one editor who probably will not know the subject well... they too will cite references (but these are not available online) but these will be the ones the single author picked and so will (unsurprisingly) agree....
Wikipedia the article could be biased, could be badly cited, but having large numbers of authors and editors is actually less likely to be biased?
Britannica's reputation is not as great as they think and it is unlikely that anyone who actually knows the subject would ever read the britannica article?
I tend to use wikipedia like most other people - as a introduction to a subject or as a way of finding other sources to look in depth, the fact that Google puts it near the top of the list is a good thing...
My IP address is dynamic and often different.... although it is theoretically linkable to me (or the internet cafe I am in at the moment?).... If I pay by cash and do not use a store card - how exactly do they link the purchase to me? scan my fingerprints on the till?!
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Client app - many flavours of Windows XP,32bit,64bit,SP1,Sp2,Sp3, Vista Business/Enterprise/Ultimate, Sp1,Sp2, 32,64 with many different configurations and software already installed to conflict with, on top of that various networking configurations, and security settings
Web App - insulated from much of the above but with multiple browsers/versions of browsers/plugins/security and privacy settings
Seems that the browser varieties and variations are so complex that they do not aid installation ... but they do help a little ....
Like polygraphs the fundamental flaw is that they cannot tell if people are lying only that they think they are lying, or are stressed, or are relaxed ....
The reason they cannot be used in a court of law is simply that they are not accurate enough to be used as evidence, this is a voice stress analyser and is less reliable than a polygraph and without calibration to a voice is near useless
Red Dwarf USA had some good points ... mostly the fact that it was rewritten mostly by Grant+Naylor and not mangled too heavily by the American producers, but also they had a totally different Cat (Female played by Terry Farrell (Dax)) which might have been interesting ?
If the plot is good, the script is good, the actors are good, then why did you notice the sets?
The costumes in series 1 were terrible as well ... but I only noticed that the third time I saw it ...
This is the point with special effects, using CGI to cover up a thin plot and bad acting does not work .... special effects can only enhance a good show not save a bad one ...
This is summed up by the never made Red Dwarf USA .... ...Rewritten by Grant and Naylor .. and a team of American writers and producers ...Lister is heroic, and handsome (but still a slob)
Most British comedies are still written by a very small team (usually 2 or 3) people rather than the joke committee system they have in the states, it is noticeable that the US comedy shows that work in the UK are the ones with the smaller teams of writers ....
..Although in the case of HGTTG, I think the radio show out-shines the movie
I preferred the Towel ....
Like all Jobs pay them enough to consider the job in the first place, pay them enough to stay, don't pay them so much that any idiot will try and do it .... Managers get paid a lot and a lot of them should not be doing the job ....
Closed source is not broken for custom or specialist software (it never has been) but for mass market software it is and always has been non ideal
Closed source is great if it is part of a "solution" package where you buy the hardware, installation, support, and maintenance, oh.. and a licence for the software, all from one company as a package
In mass market software you are so far removed from the developers and do not normally get support included so the support systems end up being the same as open source but with none of the benefits ...
This means an increase the cost to microsoft to make one copy of each flavour, the cost of the different flavours to microsoft is however still the same, the installer is the same for all the flavours and no matter which one you install they run the same code and all have to do the same job ...
Again many flavours, the same cost to Microsoft, besides this cost and a markup for profit the *difference* in price of the various flavours is totally artificial ...
The difference is that to give people better or different support cost redhat money, for microsoft
to sell you Vista Ulimate or to Sell you Vista Home Basic costs Microsoft exactly the same, it cost them the same to manufacture it, the same to design it, the same to market it
If I buy a car then the options cost the supplier more money and they pass that cost onto me (with a markup), Microsoft are selling me something as an option that costs them nothing above the base cost, all the different flavours of Windows cost Microsoft the same amount to sell to me but they make more profit on the more expensive ones ...
The different flavours of Windows are all basically the same use the same installer and are often identical except for a few configuration changes, but somehow Microsoft charge me more for some versions ... and I get no tangeable benefit... everything else I buy if it is a more expensive version then I get an obvious tangeable benefit from buying the more expensive version ...
When the first Automobiles rolled off the production line there was no more efficient alternative
When the first Computer display monitor there was no more efficient display technology
When the first lightbulb was produced there was no more efficient electric lighting technology
Again they are not blanket banning plasma screens just the most inefficient that have an alternative, these are the ones that the manufacturers are selling simply because it is cheaper for them to produce these older less efficient models than the newer more efficient ones and so they can sell them at a lower price, most consumers do not factor in the running costs (even if it is mandated that it is shown on the product) they just look a the purchase price ... the EU is simply forcing the manufacturers to sell only the more efficient models of plasmas or an alternative ...
Yes you can ... the core of the system is still Windows. Explorer or KDE is just a shell wrapped around this that runs programs for you, you are not running Linux or Unix, you are running Windows with a pretty desktop on top
In the Windows world this is a difficult concept because the system is sold as an integrated whole and the components are crosslinked and at multiple levels and have multiple tasks, in the Unix/Linux world the components are separate and can be individually replaced (mostly) so you have the core (Kernel) with drivers and services on top, a GUI system on top of that, a window manager on that, and a desktop on that, and then desktop components on that ... any of which can be replaced
KDE on Windows replaces the top three levels (which are normally handled by Explorer.exe) (partly) the window manager, the desktop, and the desktop components ....the Kernel, Services, Drivers, GUI, and some of the Window manager functions are still handled by the base Windows system
The difference is that a Workstation Linux is preconfigured for a workstation but is otherwise the same as the server edition and both can be turned into the other one ... it is just a convenience and many simply ask which do you want to install and actually install the same system but with configuration changes and a different list of installed components (there is nothing stopping you turning a workstation into a server of vice-versa)
The RedHat systems are actually different levels of support as well as different pre-configured systems - what you are actually paying for is the support not the system (i.e. you actually get a real benefit by paying more)
Windows flavours are purely marketing and are there so some flavours can be sold more cheaply than others, they cost the same to design, build market and sell but the more complete systems can be sold for more
Real sized car - like the majority of electric cars *now* being produced ... so you can go to work *on your own* ...Done ....
Range of 50 miles so you can do your trip to work and back
Charge overnight on regular outlet : Done
Real performance - Tesla has this now
Features - Done
Safely - generally they are safer
Price - the only current sticking point but this is due to the small production runs
220-240 @ 50Hz is used by most of the world (outside America and Japan)
The USA influenced it's neighbours (and Japan) to use it's standard of 110 V @ 60 Hz
Power distribution is slightly more efficient with 240V and slightly more reliable with 110V but most long distance power transmission is done at much higher voltages anyway ....
It's the same as driving on the right or left, it's mostly a matter of tradition rather than any good reason, there are advantages and disadvantages of both systems
No you simply replace the explorer.exe with the main KDE app ....
I don't run explorer most of the time (I use Litestep) and Windows still works fine (well no worse than it ever did)
Windows has a mechanism to do this built in .... you can replace the desktop shell fairly easily ....
I do just that with Litestep - much lighter than Windows Shell (explorer) and much lighter than KDE I run explorer rarely when apps insist on it ......
But I am willing to bet that KDE has the same problems with programs assuming that you have explorer running and failing silently when you don't (those popup bubble messages are done by explorer, not by your app, not by the window manager, not by a notification app, but by explorer....)
Electric light was brighter, cleaner, and safer than candles (or Gas lighting which is what it actually replaced) it might not have been cheaper but it was better ....
What they are proposing is banning the equivalent of filament light bulbs now the more efficient energy saving bulbs are available and as cheap ...
If I am paying thousands for a big screen TV the running costs are a minor problem and will be ignored, the kind of people who have garden lights etc. are also the kind of people who think nothing of the cost the only way to force these people to be efficient is to ban the most inefficient versions (older designs of TV, inefficient bulbs, etc ...) which manufacturers only make because they are easy to produce and cheap to make (so they make more profit) ... this is what governments are for
Playing catchup is good but when your catchup browser release is slower, less standards compliant than the competition and still has bugs in it then you are not playing catchup you are standing in the corner being laughed at....
Microsoft employs some of the (allegedly) best software developers in the world and they still cannot write a fast stable standards compliant browser ...!
Is you count C# and c++ as variants of C then so is Java, and probably several other languages ...
What is the real count of C#, C++, and C on their own ...?
They are not banning plasmas - they are banning very inefficient devices of all types, these tend to be some of the older designs of plasmas...
They are also forcing manufacturers to label new TV's showing how much energy they use so people have a choice ....
They would also prevent the sale of any new technology if it were very inefficient, but that is a good thing surely?
Looks all good to me .... another "EU bans xxxxx" which turns out a) they are not and b) it is a sensible decision....
An book on Einsteins theory of relativity written by Einstein as a primary source would seem to be an exception ....
No Secondary source should be treated as authorative .... Review, Newspaper article, Encyclopedia entry, blog etc .....
You forget the Britannica article is written by one author (who may know the subject, but will be biased to some degree) and one editor who probably will not know the subject well ... they too will cite references (but these are not available online) but these will be the ones the single author picked and so will (unsurprisingly) agree ....
Wikipedia the article could be biased, could be badly cited, but having large numbers of authors and editors is actually less likely to be biased?
Britannica's reputation is not as great as they think and it is unlikely that anyone who actually knows the subject would ever read the britannica article?
I tend to use wikipedia like most other people - as a introduction to a subject or as a way of finding other sources to look in depth, the fact that Google puts it near the top of the list is a good thing ...
My IP address is dynamic and often different .... although it is theoretically linkable to me (or the internet cafe I am in at the moment?) .... If I pay by cash and do not use a store card - how exactly do they link the purchase to me? scan my fingerprints on the till?!
So novel and useful research is at the hub of a web of citations, and the novel and useful web pages are at the hub of a web of links ....