This just sounds like a rehash of the rather pointless European rulings. Can't MS just ship Windows XP N out there and be done with it?
Anyway, it's not like one can't stick alternative bits of software on top of what's already there. Having Windows Media Player installed doesn't stop you from using Winamp any more than having MSN Messenger stops you from using AIM.
Linux is good enough. Quit making it better and spend some time coming up with apps - now THAT will get people to convert.
Possibly. But not as many as Linux wants to convert.
If you want the masses to convert, Linux has to me made far easier to use than it currently is. Windows takes users' hands and guides them all the way. If something doesn't work it either takes care of it itself (fine, this doesn't always work) or offers advice on what the user should do to remedy the problem.
Yes, I do run Linux. I like Linux, but most people I know, even the "advanced" Windows users, would be totally unable to cope with basic setup process, let alone the rest of the system.
Windows has its place. It may not be a place some of us want to be in anymore, but it's a place nonetheless.
Now really, don't you think that it would be more sensible to conduct the main launch for the Mars Mission from a space station such as the ISS?
Surely this would allow the craft to be smaller and more efficient (or larger, depending on what you intend it to achieve once on Mars) as it wouldn't need to carry or have attachement points for fuel tanks, boosters and other assorted atmospheric launch gear?
Anyway, I feel that having a permanent manned base in orbit, be it of scientific benefit or not, is as large and important a step as that of Mars, albeit far less exciting to think about.
I tend to program in an almost completely dark room (bar for the monitor of course) with music. Works for me, anyway.
I tend to leave food and drink out of the equation because otherwise I head into "coffee appreciation mode" and end up musing on the merits of Jamaica Blue Mountain rather than how to get a computer to accurately describe a nondescript knife from a low definition picture (don't ask)...
Oh yeah, and exclude other people too. Swear at them, throw stuff at them, just make sure they leave, otherwise you'll never get anything done.
Oh yeah, and although I should probably have put it up on the right section, coding is very much like writing a book. Anyone who's done both will tell you that straight away. It's all about inspiration. You can sit and stare for ages at a piece of code that isn't working right and not see the problem or even the solution, then, in the middle of the night (or a meeting) it'll come to you and have you scrambling for a pen and paper.
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This just sounds like a rehash of the rather pointless European rulings. Can't MS just ship Windows XP N out there and be done with it?
Anyway, it's not like one can't stick alternative bits of software on top of what's already there. Having Windows Media Player installed doesn't stop you from using Winamp any more than having MSN Messenger stops you from using AIM.
Linux is good enough. Quit making it better and spend some time coming up with apps - now THAT will get people to convert.
Possibly. But not as many as Linux wants to convert.
If you want the masses to convert, Linux has to me made far easier to use than it currently is. Windows takes users' hands and guides them all the way. If something doesn't work it either takes care of it itself (fine, this doesn't always work) or offers advice on what the user should do to remedy the problem.
Yes, I do run Linux. I like Linux, but most people I know, even the "advanced" Windows users, would be totally unable to cope with basic setup process, let alone the rest of the system.
Windows has its place. It may not be a place some of us want to be in anymore, but it's a place nonetheless.
Now really, don't you think that it would be more sensible to conduct the main launch for the Mars Mission from a space station such as the ISS?
Surely this would allow the craft to be smaller and more efficient (or larger, depending on what you intend it to achieve once on Mars) as it wouldn't need to carry or have attachement points for fuel tanks, boosters and other assorted atmospheric launch gear?
Anyway, I feel that having a permanent manned base in orbit, be it of scientific benefit or not, is as large and important a step as that of Mars, albeit far less exciting to think about.
I tend to program in an almost completely dark room (bar for the monitor of course) with music. Works for me, anyway.
I tend to leave food and drink out of the equation because otherwise I head into "coffee appreciation mode" and end up musing on the merits of Jamaica Blue Mountain rather than how to get a computer to accurately describe a nondescript knife from a low definition picture (don't ask)...
Oh yeah, and exclude other people too. Swear at them, throw stuff at them, just make sure they leave, otherwise you'll never get anything done.
Oh yeah, and although I should probably have put it up on the right section, coding is very much like writing a book. Anyone who's done both will tell you that straight away. It's all about inspiration. You can sit and stare for ages at a piece of code that isn't working right and not see the problem or even the solution, then, in the middle of the night (or a meeting) it'll come to you and have you scrambling for a pen and paper.