It's inevitable. The best you can do is be the one who in the end is living the best and not being killed.
And that's where you're fundamentally wrong. We, a bigbrain species, actually can rise above our nature. It's what almost every belief teaches, and what growing up to be an adult is all about. Our societies are built for this specific reason: control your urges so that we can all get along. We exterminated smallpox a few decades ago. We've been to the moon. We have cameras in orbit around Saturns moons. We do all sorts of thing that do not benefit us in the shortterm, but somehow have come to be through hard and long labour (people have fought and died for beliefs and facts put forward by periods like the Renaissance).
We know for a fact with our current level of knowledge this trash is a problem. With our level of population density we are in fact gardeners of this planet. The choice is once agian: sit there and grab what you can, or put our minds together and do something about it. It's always attractive to be cynical, because you get to sit on the bench, and maybe be even the first one who grabs. We can tackle this problem, we just need to put our minds to it. That may take years, or hundreds of years. The Western level of personal freedom took thousands of years as well. It starts with believing "we can" and telling everyone you know this is a problem and we should do something about it.
Here in the Netherlands everyone calls it either 'to PIN some money' (because everyone refers to their debit-cards as PIN-cards) or 'to get some money from the wall'. Can't get used to 'ATM' either. Although I think I just read it in the comments just now, I cant remember what ATM stands for.
What I'd like to know if btrfs does continuous checking of these checksums, preferably when there's not a lot of activity. Checksums are an excellent idea, but unless you check your files every now and again (automagically), you still don't know anything.
Funny, 1.6L engines ARE considered whopping over here in Euro-land. OK, maybe not whopping, but certainly average. If one sees a 2.0+ car, one KNOWS the driver has a small penis.
What you want is 1) not caring about storage 2) being able to access anything anytime anywhere. You can solve this by big drives in laptops (and many regular users have discovered that backing up is a good idea, so this mitigates failing drives, which isnt the big problem it used to be). Or you can solve it with high speed wifi/fiber and a plug-n-play server in the basement. The last is clearly not an option right now for moms and pops (although there are more and more home-based server appliances, I've not seen one yet that makes connecting from the internet a 3-click process), but shoving a 320GB drive in that laptop is.
Easy isn't defined by what an expert can do in 10 seconds, it's defined by what yo momma can do in 10 seconds. She probably can find the big 'Share Files' button in Opera, but not figure out how to make apache punch holes through here router firewall and actually pointing apache's index to a different location.
What's tested here isn't a hypthesis, hell, there's even nothing being tested! This is a measurement of the installed base of different OSes. Now, you can argue about the the way it's measured, but expressing a marketshare as a ratio of the total sample has nothing to do with statistcal significance.
The difference is that with the planes the options are about equal in terms of offerings, lockins, support, etc. Also, IIRC, EADS is more of an American company than Boeing.
Software is a nonphyisical good and as such you should have very different considerations when contracting a software vendor as oppossed to a airplane manufacturer. There's a very good alternative available on the software side, that allows the army full control. Sure, it requires training to switch from other software, but it also requires training to switch from Boeing to Airbus. Heck, it even requires traing to switch from XP to Vista. The point is that Linux security is much more well defined, probably better, and much more transparent and so much more controllable than Windows' or OSX'.
This announcement came as such a big surprise to me I had to see it with my own eyes. So I specifically downloaded (ahem) Office 2007 and SP2 for this purpose to see how it actually performs. Now I only tested odt (text docs), so the spreadsheets and presentations may be different, but I opened some docs I made with OpenOffice, which were not very complex, but has some tables, images with subscripts, OOo fomulae and not completely run off the mill markup, and I was surprised to see Word showed it pixelperfect to me. I could even edit the formulae I inserted with OOo. Only at the back of the document we're some quirks with positioning of images. I havent done much further testing, but from a first glance it looks like MS did it right for once.
I was impressed, and I hate Microsoft as much as the next/.'er... But it seems this blurb just isnt true. I hope I can get the Microsofties in my circles to use at least this service pack so that I can just email files I made with OOo.
AMD can certainly supply the material Intel supplies. Sure, Intel has us addicted to x86 with a turnover rate of only a few months, but this certainly can be stretched by a few months to allow AMD to play catchup. Every year a new cpu instead of six months.
They used Transgamings standalone Cedega (like how many games are ported to OSX, under the name of Cider). Remember how Cedega is a fork of Wine, years and years ago when Wine was hardly capable of 3D accelerated stuff? The two projects separately developed implementations of Direct3D, an this just shows Wine has done a better job.
A brief look at the Transgaming forums show that actual development of Cedega has stopped. Wine is the better choice these days.
On your point that making money off OS I understand you evry well, but things arent black and white. Red Hat sells Linux, and they make money. ID sells game engines, and after 5 years releases it as OS. In other parts of society, it works like this too: hardcore science is essentially free, but if you do it right, you can still make money off of it (When Philips sells you a CD player, it sells you quantum mechanics). 'Whoring out' is just a way some people manage to make money off it. And some do it for fun. I think more and more people realize that having large basic parts OS has advantages, even if you cannot make money directly off it. Linux the kernel is a net money maker, it creates economic growth. Just like basic science, whose scientist also have to struggle for funding. And just like how I can understand physics for free, I can get Linux for free.
Now, a common way of actually obtaining science is by buying books, so I really dont see why someone couldnt sell Linux. The reason it isn't sold on the Desktop (much) is simply the reason I stated in my original post: Micrsoft has an ecosystem of 3rdparty apps that people more or less require, and which cant be easily decoupled from Windows. So actually trying to decouple these two would be a Good Thing.
The matter is that Microsoft, on the whole, doesn't actually make its customers happy. Now I don't know how much fanboy koolaids macfans drink, but Apple customers certainly seem happier. And that's what matters in the end: people like iPods but don't like Windows.
The reason Microsoft is under constant barrage is that we (apparently) don't really like it, but we're kind of forced to use it, due to Microsoft having somewhat a monopoly in the operating system space and therefore in the application space. In my case: I don't really like Windows and I prefer Ubuntu, and I do use it as often as I can. But because of Microsoft's monopoly, Windows is a (much) bigger target for software developers. Some applications I want to use require me to have Windows anyway. In this way, the Microsoft monopoly affects my choice.
Now its obvious that even in a more level playground 3rd parties could choose to support only a few (or one) target platform (operating system), but I think it can be argued that there really is the effect of developers gravitating towards Windows, which could be stopped by attacking the monopoly.
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And that's where you're fundamentally wrong. We, a bigbrain species, actually can rise above our nature. It's what almost every belief teaches, and what growing up to be an adult is all about. Our societies are built for this specific reason: control your urges so that we can all get along. We exterminated smallpox a few decades ago. We've been to the moon. We have cameras in orbit around Saturns moons. We do all sorts of thing that do not benefit us in the shortterm, but somehow have come to be through hard and long labour (people have fought and died for beliefs and facts put forward by periods like the Renaissance). We know for a fact with our current level of knowledge this trash is a problem. With our level of population density we are in fact gardeners of this planet. The choice is once agian: sit there and grab what you can, or put our minds together and do something about it. It's always attractive to be cynical, because you get to sit on the bench, and maybe be even the first one who grabs. We can tackle this problem, we just need to put our minds to it. That may take years, or hundreds of years. The Western level of personal freedom took thousands of years as well. It starts with believing "we can" and telling everyone you know this is a problem and we should do something about it.
That's exactly what I mean, and like about ZFS. Does BTRFS have such a thing too?
Here in the Netherlands everyone calls it either 'to PIN some money' (because everyone refers to their debit-cards as PIN-cards) or 'to get some money from the wall'. Can't get used to 'ATM' either. Although I think I just read it in the comments just now, I cant remember what ATM stands for.
What I'd like to know if btrfs does continuous checking of these checksums, preferably when there's not a lot of activity. Checksums are an excellent idea, but unless you check your files every now and again (automagically), you still don't know anything.
Oh My God, was the creator of iFart pushed out of the window too?
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Funny, 1.6L engines ARE considered whopping over here in Euro-land. OK, maybe not whopping, but certainly average. If one sees a 2.0+ car, one KNOWS the driver has a small penis.
That's not what I read here: http://web.mit.edu/xiphmont/Public/theora/demo.html
Says in theory Theora could perform somewhere between mpeg4 and h264, but (as always) that requires time and effort.
What you want is 1) not caring about storage 2) being able to access anything anytime anywhere. You can solve this by big drives in laptops (and many regular users have discovered that backing up is a good idea, so this mitigates failing drives, which isnt the big problem it used to be). Or you can solve it with high speed wifi/fiber and a plug-n-play server in the basement. The last is clearly not an option right now for moms and pops (although there are more and more home-based server appliances, I've not seen one yet that makes connecting from the internet a 3-click process), but shoving a 320GB drive in that laptop is.
That, and an external 1TB is 80 euros. Really no reasons at all not to 'collect'.
You've got to install the service youj want through the unite website. I think the fileserver was ~100kb.
Easy isn't defined by what an expert can do in 10 seconds, it's defined by what yo momma can do in 10 seconds. She probably can find the big 'Share Files' button in Opera, but not figure out how to make apache punch holes through here router firewall and actually pointing apache's index to a different location.
Mod parent down.
What's tested here isn't a hypthesis, hell, there's even nothing being tested! This is a measurement of the installed base of different OSes. Now, you can argue about the the way it's measured, but expressing a marketshare as a ratio of the total sample has nothing to do with statistcal significance.
The difference is that with the planes the options are about equal in terms of offerings, lockins, support, etc. Also, IIRC, EADS is more of an American company than Boeing.
Software is a nonphyisical good and as such you should have very different considerations when contracting a software vendor as oppossed to a airplane manufacturer. There's a very good alternative available on the software side, that allows the army full control. Sure, it requires training to switch from other software, but it also requires training to switch from Boeing to Airbus. Heck, it even requires traing to switch from XP to Vista. The point is that Linux security is much more well defined, probably better, and much more transparent and so much more controllable than Windows' or OSX'.
World peace? All PC's coming together, macs, windows and linux alike, and download from the same store and run that same software?
This announcement came as such a big surprise to me I had to see it with my own eyes. So I specifically downloaded (ahem) Office 2007 and SP2 for this purpose to see how it actually performs. Now I only tested odt (text docs), so the spreadsheets and presentations may be different, but I opened some docs I made with OpenOffice, which were not very complex, but has some tables, images with subscripts, OOo fomulae and not completely run off the mill markup, and I was surprised to see Word showed it pixelperfect to me. I could even edit the formulae I inserted with OOo. Only at the back of the document we're some quirks with positioning of images. I havent done much further testing, but from a first glance it looks like MS did it right for once. I was impressed, and I hate Microsoft as much as the next /.'er... But it seems this blurb just isnt true. I hope I can get the Microsofties in my circles to use at least this service pack so that I can just email files I made with OOo.
Whoops...
We don't take kindle to DRM around here!
I herd you like emails in your emails, so I put some traffic thru yo traffic.
AMD can certainly supply the material Intel supplies. Sure, Intel has us addicted to x86 with a turnover rate of only a few months, but this certainly can be stretched by a few months to allow AMD to play catchup. Every year a new cpu instead of six months.
They used Transgamings standalone Cedega (like how many games are ported to OSX, under the name of Cider). Remember how Cedega is a fork of Wine, years and years ago when Wine was hardly capable of 3D accelerated stuff? The two projects separately developed implementations of Direct3D, an this just shows Wine has done a better job.
A brief look at the Transgaming forums show that actual development of Cedega has stopped. Wine is the better choice these days.
You know, usually things that are 17 years old are very ready for my desktop. If I like the performance, I may just take it to the kitchen table!
On your point that making money off OS I understand you evry well, but things arent black and white. Red Hat sells Linux, and they make money. ID sells game engines, and after 5 years releases it as OS. In other parts of society, it works like this too: hardcore science is essentially free, but if you do it right, you can still make money off of it (When Philips sells you a CD player, it sells you quantum mechanics). 'Whoring out' is just a way some people manage to make money off it. And some do it for fun. I think more and more people realize that having large basic parts OS has advantages, even if you cannot make money directly off it. Linux the kernel is a net money maker, it creates economic growth. Just like basic science, whose scientist also have to struggle for funding. And just like how I can understand physics for free, I can get Linux for free.
Now, a common way of actually obtaining science is by buying books, so I really dont see why someone couldnt sell Linux. The reason it isn't sold on the Desktop (much) is simply the reason I stated in my original post: Micrsoft has an ecosystem of 3rdparty apps that people more or less require, and which cant be easily decoupled from Windows. So actually trying to decouple these two would be a Good Thing.
If I get my government to get me what I want, I won don't I? That's what government is for, to give me what I want.
O and whats with the hate, anonymous? Maybe it's you who needs some balls.
The matter is that Microsoft, on the whole, doesn't actually make its customers happy. Now I don't know how much fanboy koolaids macfans drink, but Apple customers certainly seem happier. And that's what matters in the end: people like iPods but don't like Windows. The reason Microsoft is under constant barrage is that we (apparently) don't really like it, but we're kind of forced to use it, due to Microsoft having somewhat a monopoly in the operating system space and therefore in the application space. In my case: I don't really like Windows and I prefer Ubuntu, and I do use it as often as I can. But because of Microsoft's monopoly, Windows is a (much) bigger target for software developers. Some applications I want to use require me to have Windows anyway. In this way, the Microsoft monopoly affects my choice. Now its obvious that even in a more level playground 3rd parties could choose to support only a few (or one) target platform (operating system), but I think it can be argued that there really is the effect of developers gravitating towards Windows, which could be stopped by attacking the monopoly.