hmm.. see. That's where our experience differ. I write internal tools for Macs, Windows and Linux systems, and the ones making the least problems are actually the Windows7 ones. Linux gives me hardware related headaches at times, but nothing a short internet search won't solve and which generally boils down to "Hardware support for this particular device is shitty, thanks to the manufacturer being a giant dick". Macs are just painfull and unintuitive to use (for me), they lack any kind of flexibility and Apple seems to be doing its worst to stop any kind of cross-platform development. Speaking of X-Platform, I seriously have to wonder about "It Just Works" when Apple's own XCode tells me my MacRuby script is completely okay (And even runs it, albeit without any output) and the same script in a terminal pukes out errors.
You mean, the same way Mac Advocate are firmly in denial of the serious shortcomings of Apple Products and the Walled Garden culture?
No OS is perfect, and I don't know anybody who would say that Linux doesn't have its share of problems, although many of those are down to proprietary drivers and non open-sourced specs making it tough to get *some* hardware working correctly.
Your statement that it's difficult to find answers concerning LInux issues, on the other hand, is very questionable, unless you use a very obscure distro with no user-base, which you shouldn't use if you don't know what you are doing anyway. Most other distros all have similar bases and many problems you might encounter with, for example, a Debian based distro (Debian, Ubuntu, MInt...) can be solved by reading wikipages writen for, again as an example, Arch Linux if you don't find a solution on the Ubuntu or Debian or Mint forums and Wikis (which would be a surprise)
the point that this often repeated argument ignore lies in the "similar spec'd" part of the sentence. With a thinkpad or any other non-Apple PC you can choose your PC's specs according to your need, and not based upon what Apple thinks you will need. You can even, and this might come as a shocker to Apple users, choose NOT to go for the most expensive alternative because your budget doesn't allow for it.
When you buy a Mac, you have a very limited set of alternatives to choose from. When you buy a PC, you have tons of alternatives to choose from (especially if your choices are not brand-centric). This means that you can choose a PC that won't have a Thunderbolt IO port, but a couple of additional USB3 ports instead, for example, and it means that you can choose to have a cheap plastic case instead of an aluminium (or whatever the current flavour of the month in metallic cases is) if you don't see the necessity, or your budget won't allow for it. You can also forgo some aspects to have a similarly priced PC with, if you are a gamer for example, a better graphic card and more RAM while forgoing some other aspects which you might not need.
So, yes.. similarly spec'd PCs might cost about the same as a Mac, but why would you buy a similarly spec'd PC in the first place?
This is what I got:
"To use iCloud, first set it up with your Apple ID on a device with iOS5 or a Mac with OS X Lion 10.7.2. Not sure which Apple ID to use? Learn More"
I generally don't feed your kind, but if PHP was from Microsoft it would be left unpatched for Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 would get a temporary patch blocking most of the functionalities and there would be an announcement that, due to technical restrictions, everybody needs to upgrade to Windows Server 2013 (release date : late December 2015) to get an actual fix. People running iis on XP, Vista or Win7 wouldn't get a patch at all. Of course, anybody running another server than iis would be left in the cold too.
On the positive side, it could be worse... Apple would just ignore any mention of security problems and systematically erase any posts on their message board refering to them.
That being said : you might want to steer away from PHP anyway. it's a stinking pile of donkey dung
yeah.. that's the part where I was just too lazy to find the correct parts, although, to be fair, the issue is raised a couple of times in the book.
Chapter 10 - Gnu/Linux
Over time, however, Stallman began to
sense that there was an underlying lack of awareness of the GNU Project and its
objectives when reading Linux developers' emails.
"We discovered that the people who considered themselves Linux users didn't
care about the GNU Project," Stallman says. "They said, `Why should I bother
doing these things? I don't care about the GNU Project. It's working for me.
It's working for us Linux users, and nothing else matters to us.' And that was
quite surprising given that people were essentially using a variant of the GNU
system, and they cared so little. They cared less than anybody else about GNU."
or, in a slightly more ambiguous way, in CHAPTER 5 - SMALL PUDDLE OF FREEDOM
Accepting the show's Linus Torvalds Award for Community Service-an
award named after Linux creator Linus Torvalds-on behalf of the Free Software
Foundation, Stallman wisecracks, "Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free
Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel
Alliance."
The GNU/Linux naming issue has nothing whatsoever to do with the use of proprietary blobs, even though your completely uneducated opinion is widely held. Read "Free as in Freedom" before trying to express yourself on the subject.
If I read this correctly, now you are unable to play the games you ~rented~ from Steam because *they* got hacked? And nobody sees anything wrong with that picture?
same problems here, which is why I avoid Steam as much as possible. A working internet connection is *NOT* a given, and when you decide you want to play some single player game and just can't because Steam acts like that you are entitled to be pissed off and call it a smegging piece of garbage (which it is).
"Why do the houses containing pigs shake ever so slightly at the beginning of each game play sequence? " because box2D or whatever engine Angry Birds uses needs to stabilize the simulation? Meh.. maybe I'm just too prosaic.
You could, of course, rephrase the story title to "Portugal might find out that GNU/Linux and FOSS kick ass once they start their budget-bound migration". It's a bit lengthy, obviously hypothetical and not particularly inflamatory, and therefore not up to/.'s standard of short, inflammatory and generally plainly wrong titles.
seriously though : if institutions are not forced to migrate they won't, no matter how much their current system suck. Complete infrastructure changes based on quality assessments are rare, as there are a) just too many costs associated with such moves, and b) people don't like big changes. Therefore, as a Gnu/linux and FOSS proponent, I'm more than happy to see stories like this one, as they are probably the best one can realistically expect, at least until enough success stories are publicized. If enough of those appear, then people in charges might jump on the bandwagon (probably for all the wrong reasons, like being seen as "progressive" and whatnot) and force other institutions to follow.
... and if it happens on any linux distro all the Windows and Mac User are just happy to it proves Linux and FOSS in general is inherently much more insecure than OSX/Win7. Well.. that's/., what did you expect?
from TFA : "This version of UnQL has no relation to an identically named unstructured data query language proposed by a University of Pennsylvania researcher over a decade ago, Phillips said."
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hmm .. see. That's where our experience differ. I write internal tools for Macs, Windows and Linux systems, and the ones making the least problems are actually the Windows7 ones. Linux gives me hardware related headaches at times, but nothing a short internet search won't solve and which generally boils down to "Hardware support for this particular device is shitty, thanks to the manufacturer being a giant dick". Macs are just painfull and unintuitive to use (for me), they lack any kind of flexibility and Apple seems to be doing its worst to stop any kind of cross-platform development. Speaking of X-Platform, I seriously have to wonder about "It Just Works" when Apple's own XCode tells me my MacRuby script is completely okay (And even runs it, albeit without any output) and the same script in a terminal pukes out errors.
You mean, the same way Mac Advocate are firmly in denial of the serious shortcomings of Apple Products and the Walled Garden culture?
No OS is perfect, and I don't know anybody who would say that Linux doesn't have its share of problems, although many of those are down to proprietary drivers and non open-sourced specs making it tough to get *some* hardware working correctly.
Your statement that it's difficult to find answers concerning LInux issues, on the other hand, is very questionable, unless you use a very obscure distro with no user-base, which you shouldn't use if you don't know what you are doing anyway. Most other distros all have similar bases and many problems you might encounter with, for example, a Debian based distro (Debian, Ubuntu, MInt...) can be solved by reading wikipages writen for, again as an example, Arch Linux if you don't find a solution on the Ubuntu or Debian or Mint forums and Wikis (which would be a surprise)
the point that this often repeated argument ignore lies in the "similar spec'd" part of the sentence. With a thinkpad or any other non-Apple PC you can choose your PC's specs according to your need, and not based upon what Apple thinks you will need. You can even, and this might come as a shocker to Apple users, choose NOT to go for the most expensive alternative because your budget doesn't allow for it.
When you buy a Mac, you have a very limited set of alternatives to choose from. When you buy a PC, you have tons of alternatives to choose from (especially if your choices are not brand-centric). This means that you can choose a PC that won't have a Thunderbolt IO port, but a couple of additional USB3 ports instead, for example, and it means that you can choose to have a cheap plastic case instead of an aluminium (or whatever the current flavour of the month in metallic cases is) if you don't see the necessity, or your budget won't allow for it. You can also forgo some aspects to have a similarly priced PC with, if you are a gamer for example, a better graphic card and more RAM while forgoing some other aspects which you might not need.
So, yes .. similarly spec'd PCs might cost about the same as a Mac, but why would you buy a similarly spec'd PC in the first place?
posting to negate accidental flamebait-mod
wtf is rockmelt?
just tried it, out of curiosity.
This is what I got :
"To use iCloud, first set it up with your Apple ID on a device with iOS5 or a Mac with OS X Lion 10.7.2. Not sure which Apple ID to use? Learn More"
So the answer ist actually "No. You can't"
genuine question, which indirectly might answer yours : can you easily access iCloud from non-Apple devices?
I generally don't feed your kind, but if PHP was from Microsoft it would be left unpatched for Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008 would get a temporary patch blocking most of the functionalities and there would be an announcement that, due to technical restrictions, everybody needs to upgrade to Windows Server 2013 (release date : late December 2015) to get an actual fix. People running iis on XP, Vista or Win7 wouldn't get a patch at all. Of course, anybody running another server than iis would be left in the cold too.
On the positive side, it could be worse ... Apple would just ignore any mention of security problems and systematically erase any posts on their message board refering to them.
That being said : you might want to steer away from PHP anyway. it's a stinking pile of donkey dung
Cheers
yeah .. that's the part where I was just too lazy to find the correct parts, although, to be fair, the issue is raised a couple of times in the book.
Chapter 10 - Gnu/Linux
Over time, however, Stallman began to sense that there was an underlying lack of awareness of the GNU Project and its objectives when reading Linux developers' emails.
"We discovered that the people who considered themselves Linux users didn't care about the GNU Project," Stallman says. "They said, `Why should I bother doing these things? I don't care about the GNU Project. It's working for me. It's working for us Linux users, and nothing else matters to us.' And that was quite surprising given that people were essentially using a variant of the GNU system, and they cared so little. They cared less than anybody else about GNU."
or, in a slightly more ambiguous way, in CHAPTER 5 - SMALL PUDDLE OF FREEDOM
Accepting the show's Linus Torvalds Award for Community Service-an award named after Linux creator Linus Torvalds-on behalf of the Free Software Foundation, Stallman wisecracks, "Giving the Linus Torvalds Award to the Free Software Foundation is a bit like giving the Han Solo Award to the Rebel Alliance."
The GNU/Linux naming issue has nothing whatsoever to do with the use of proprietary blobs, even though your completely uneducated opinion is widely held. Read "Free as in Freedom" before trying to express yourself on the subject.
Last I checked, Calibre was free and could convert (more or less successfully) from and to most formats.
Considering Steam's EULA it is not far fetched to assume compromised accoutns will be banned.
but what do you do in the meantime?
If I read this correctly, now you are unable to play the games you ~rented~ from Steam because *they* got hacked? And nobody sees anything wrong with that picture?
same problems here, which is why I avoid Steam as much as possible. A working internet connection is *NOT* a given, and when you decide you want to play some single player game and just can't because Steam acts like that you are entitled to be pissed off and call it a smegging piece of garbage (which it is).
"Why do the houses containing pigs shake ever so slightly at the beginning of each game play sequence? " because box2D or whatever engine Angry Birds uses needs to stabilize the simulation? Meh .. maybe I'm just too prosaic.
You could, of course, rephrase the story title to "Portugal might find out that GNU/Linux and FOSS kick ass once they start their budget-bound migration". It's a bit lengthy, obviously hypothetical and not particularly inflamatory, and therefore not up to /.'s standard of short, inflammatory and generally plainly wrong titles.
seriously though : if institutions are not forced to migrate they won't, no matter how much their current system suck. Complete infrastructure changes based on quality assessments are rare, as there are a) just too many costs associated with such moves, and b) people don't like big changes. Therefore, as a Gnu/linux and FOSS proponent, I'm more than happy to see stories like this one, as they are probably the best one can realistically expect, at least until enough success stories are publicized. If enough of those appear, then people in charges might jump on the bandwagon (probably for all the wrong reasons, like being seen as "progressive" and whatnot) and force other institutions to follow.
This is what EP4-6 Troopers are thinking about your idea
Here is a clip of Ritchie explaining Unix (although I ~knew~ him mostly through his work on C)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=7FjX7r5icV8
... and if it happens on any linux distro all the Windows and Mac User are just happy to it proves Linux and FOSS in general is inherently much more insecure than OSX/Win7. Well .. that's /., what did you expect?
as it's a UK thing (and the price I've always seen was 25 pounds, not 25 US dollars) the price in Poland should be the same+shipping
Obligatory : xkcd tells it as it is. (and yet, even knowing this, I still encrypt data I think is worth it)
I'm with you there ... still haven't finished the main quest ONCE. had plenty of fun exploring and doing secondary (and mod-) quests though :)
from TFA : "This version of UnQL has no relation to an identically named unstructured data query language proposed by a University of Pennsylvania researcher over a decade ago, Phillips said."
you forgot dosbox, apart from that I completely agree :)