Seriously, the reason Ubuntu has been as successful as it has is because Shuttleworth can pay people to work on it.
Shouldn`t Fedora or openSUSE be the most popular distros then? I`m pretty sure RedHat/Novell employ more programmers to work on them than Canonical does for Ubuntu.
No, I believe the reason for Ubuntus success is exceptionally good marketing. Not that there is anything wrong with that - RedHat and Novell can definitely learn a thing or two about how to present their products from Canonical.
This is really depressing. The parent is totally wrong - changing the time on the ESX host will _not_ affect the clocks of the guests, provided you go back in time on the host rather than forward.
Yet the parent is modded +5 Informative as I speak, and replies pointing out the wrongness of his statement do not even show up when browsing at the default threshold.
I think the companies like Red Hat and MySQL, if they are adaptive and fine tune their business strategies, can survive this transitional stuff. The more traditional companies, the Microsofts and Oracles and Suns are who should be worried.
*cough*So MySQL need not be worried, but Sun better beware?*cough*
How has the US been "dominating the world"? Culturally? Certainly not where I live (central Europe).
Economically? That one is probably true. And you know what? I don`t have any objection. All of my employers so far were American companies. And as long as they offer competitive salaries, and create a quantum of jobs, more power to them!
Is it world domination when we get to see some of your movies in the cinema? Is McDonalds and Burger King world domination?
I don`t know. But I`m pretty sure that this is at least a different kind of world domination than the one Hitler envisioned. I have to say I even like this kind of world domination - the effect it has on my country is definitely positive. Since America is not forcing us to accept its values, we can just cherry-pick what we like and ignore the rest, thank you very much.
Just google for "buy vpn china" or something like that. There are plenty of choices for someone who wants to VPN beyond the Great Firewall. Yes, in most cases you have to pay for it, and that certainly is not nice and a deal-breaker for a number of people. But the possibility is there, even for individuals.
Oh come on. Comparing the U.S. to Nazi Germany just weakens your cause.
I don`t think that the U.S. is after world domination. At least not consciously.
Well, from what I've seen,/usr/local and/opt were reserved for the local sysadmin to manage,
Not everywhere. SuSE has for some reason kept both Gnome and KDE in/opt for a long time. They`re now moving away from that - Gnome has been moved, KDE4 can be found at the usual places from the start. KDE3 will likely stay in/opt, which I personally have nothing against - KDE3 certainly is special enough to deserve this special place.:-)
TOR is not supposed to obfuscate your traffic - it doesn`t provide encryption. The sole purpose of TOR is to make it indistinguishable where did the packets come from. Anyway, if you`re using encryption, it doesn`t matter how many subverted exit nodes there are.
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If you don't believe him, why don't you just call the companies and tell them the same story? This is really easy to verify, you know.
Apparently it's Oracle. (via reddit)
Seriously, the reason Ubuntu has been as successful as it has is because Shuttleworth can pay people to work on it.
Shouldn`t Fedora or openSUSE be the most popular distros then? I`m pretty sure RedHat/Novell employ more programmers to work on them than Canonical does for Ubuntu.
No, I believe the reason for Ubuntus success is exceptionally good marketing. Not that there is anything wrong with that - RedHat and Novell can definitely learn a thing or two about how to present their products from Canonical.
This is really depressing. The parent is totally wrong - changing the time on the ESX host will _not_ affect the clocks of the guests, provided you go back in time on the host rather than forward.
Yet the parent is modded +5 Informative as I speak, and replies pointing out the wrongness of his statement do not even show up when browsing at the default threshold.
I think the companies like Red Hat and MySQL, if they are adaptive and fine tune their business strategies, can survive this transitional stuff. The more traditional companies, the Microsofts and Oracles and Suns are who should be worried.
*cough*So MySQL need not be worried, but Sun better beware?*cough*
How the fuck can this xenophobic drivel be modded anything else than "Troll"!?!
The "American Century"? What does that mean?
How has the US been "dominating the world"? Culturally? Certainly not where I live (central Europe).
Economically? That one is probably true. And you know what? I don`t have any objection. All of my employers so far were American companies. And as long as they offer competitive salaries, and create a quantum of jobs, more power to them!
Is it world domination when we get to see some of your movies in the cinema? Is McDonalds and Burger King world domination?
I don`t know. But I`m pretty sure that this is at least a different kind of world domination than the one Hitler envisioned. I have to say I even like this kind of world domination - the effect it has on my country is definitely positive. Since America is not forcing us to accept its values, we can just cherry-pick what we like and ignore the rest, thank you very much.
but individuals don't get the same thing.
Sure they do.
Just google for "buy vpn china" or something like that. There are plenty of choices for someone who wants to VPN beyond the Great Firewall. Yes, in most cases you have to pay for it, and that certainly is not nice and a deal-breaker for a number of people. But the possibility is there, even for individuals.
Oh come on. Comparing the U.S. to Nazi Germany just weakens your cause. I don`t think that the U.S. is after world domination. At least not consciously.
Well, from what I've seen, /usr/local and /opt were reserved for the local sysadmin to manage,
Not everywhere. SuSE has for some reason kept both Gnome and KDE in /opt for a long time. They`re now moving away from that - Gnome has been moved, KDE4 can be found at the usual places from the start. KDE3 will likely stay in /opt, which I personally have nothing against - KDE3 certainly is special enough to deserve this special place. :-)
TOR is not supposed to obfuscate your traffic - it doesn`t provide encryption. The sole purpose of TOR is to make it indistinguishable where did the packets come from. Anyway, if you`re using encryption, it doesn`t matter how many subverted exit nodes there are.
Time to introduce -1 Paranoid.