These will soon be flying outside girls schools, public swimming pools, and shower-room windows all over the country!
This! I know it's a joke, but I just hate the immediate "assumption" that people that like and use drones are peeping toms. Makes me reluctant to tell other people about my racing drone hobby. There is always a chance that they'll assume, at least on an unconscious level, that I'm some kind of weirdo pervert. If you're into spying on your neighbour, I'm sure there are many less expensive, quieter and more effective ways...
I was not aware that forking GPL'ed code constituted stealing. Do CentOS and Scientific Linux steal from Red Hat, too?
No, technically not stealing, but it is shady behaviour. There is a difference between taking the GPL-ed packages, repackaging them and giving them away for free to the community (CentOS/SL), and taking it and selling it as a direct competitor in the same market. AFAIK, Red Hat is perfectly happy about CentOS and SL, not so much when it comes to Oracle.
The main reason for the delay is the new installer. As I understand it, the old one had become extremely bloated and it took a lot of work for it to work properly with a new Fedora release. This is the reason for the "no contingency plan". The contingency would be to keep the old installer, but that isn't as simple as it seems. The installer needed to be redone, and the manpower needed to make the old installer compatible with Fedora 18 just wasn't there, so they couldn't do both at the same time. They needed to choose, and they made the right choice.
I would guess that it is practically a given. RHEL7 is supposedly going to be forked from F18.
I would guess not. Though RHEL7 will be based on F18 or thereabouts, RHEL only includes a subset of the packages that exist in Fedora. Remember that Red Hat will be supporting the packages for 10 years. They'll choose the package subset with care. But on the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised to see MATE in EPEL7.
This is exactly what Red Hat says too. While it is possible to upgrade RHEL5->RHEL6, it is highly recommended that you reinstall instead. Red Hat won't even give support for systems that are upgraded rather than reinstalled. RHEL and CentOS users should be used to this by now.
Norway's answer to the people problem is to ban ads for medicine that are regulated in any way, like antibiotics. Medicine must be prescribed by a doctor (you can't by antibiotics in a convenience store), and the doctor don't get patients that want a certain medicine after watching a TV ad. Advertisement for medicine is considered to be too dangerous to be allowed, as the decision regarding medical treatment should be left to the doctor, not the pharmaceutical companies through aggressive marketing.
1) Because it will make much more sense to live in free space (IE on an asteroid or space colony) where you avoid the huge energy cost of going up and down a gravity well.
Humans need gravity to exist for a prolonged time. Our skeleton, internal organs, muscle etc. all depend on it. Unless you in some way emulate gravity in a satisfactory way, living in free space is impossible.
The only way to make sure is to demand thorough documentation of the manufacturing process and ensure the authenticity of the documentation provided. Consumer pressure is needed to make companies deliver green products on a regular basis. They will manufacture what the buyers want. Governments are usually important customers and can lead the way on behalf of the public.
As a side note, one should also demand that the products are "fair", such as the manufacturer and subcontractors don't exploit third world countries, the workers are properly paid etc.
There's a flipside to that coin. The more programs that work perfectly in Wine, the more vendors may feel inclined to not support their app with a native Linux client (or worse, discontinue their Linux client) because "it works fine with Wine".
You say that you don't want to write code all day. I'm also guessing that you would like a job that is interesting and varied, with a minimal amount of seemingly unnecessary and boring stuff. Try getting an sysadmin job at a university or college, preferably a large one (many students and employees). Universities and colleges do a lot of varied work/research, and if you're lucky you'll get involved with many interesting projects. They also have a tradition in using open source software. You may even get paid working on FOSS. In my experience, universities can also be in the forefront in using new technologies. The work is important, but not important enough not to try new stuff. This type of work often attract smart, interesting people so it's a fair bet that your colleagues will be smart people that can really learn from.
This seems like a good opportunity to mention the famous Web 2.0 FAQ by Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka on somethingawful.com. For those readers who are not entirely sure what web 2.0 is:
Question: What is Web 2.0?
Answer: Web 2.0 is a combination of Web 1.0 and being punched in the dick.
Question: How do I know I'm using a website / service / product that is officially "Web 2.0" and not actually "Web 1.0" with various patches and enhancements added to it?
Answer: Web 2.0 is made obvious by the addition of completely and highly unnecessary bells and whistles that don't do anything besides annoy you and make life more complicated. If Web 1.0 was the equivalent of reading a book, Web 2.0 is reading a book while all the words are flying around and changing pages as the book rotates randomly and sets your hands on fire. Also there's this parrot that keeps on flying towards your head in repeated attempts to gouge out your eyes.
Question: I read about this one website in Wired Magazine. Is that Web 2.0??
Answer: Oh definitely. Wired won't even mention Web 1.0 sites. Every single site in their magazine is at least Web 2.0. Sometimes they're even up to Web 45.2 (such as www.ebutts-and-credit-reports-delivered-via-carrier-pidgeon.com)!
Question: My roommate said he "digged" a "wikipedia entry" about "the blogosphere" which mentioned "podcasting" as a viable form of "crowdsourcing."
Answer: Your roommate is a faggot. Also, this wasn't technically a question.
Question: What's Web 3.0?
Answer: It's a product or service planned on release in spring of 2008, and consists solely of websites enabling the user to create even more detailed Kirby ASCII art. (O'.')-o
A shootout between desktop distros days after the new Ubuntu is out seems to be in favor of Ubuntu. As others have mentioned, Fedora 9 is imminent. It's also worth mentioning that RHEL5.2 will be released soon (in a month or so), and will sport Firefox 3 along with new versions of Openoffice (2.3), Thunderbird (2.0) and Evolution. CentOS follows RHEL closely, so CentOS 5.2 won't be far behind.
It's also important to consider that much of the technology that is developed for military aircraft will find its way into civilian aircraft in one way or another. And in this case, look out for the Boeing 747 Stealth Edition. Makes life easier for people living close to an airport:)
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These will soon be flying outside girls schools, public swimming pools, and shower-room windows all over the country!
This! I know it's a joke, but I just hate the immediate "assumption" that people that like and use drones are peeping toms. Makes me reluctant to tell other people about my racing drone hobby. There is always a chance that they'll assume, at least on an unconscious level, that I'm some kind of weirdo pervert. If you're into spying on your neighbour, I'm sure there are many less expensive, quieter and more effective ways...
But the battery won't last that long it say 27 minutes but that is ideal conditions ...
Furlongs per fortnight is a unit of speed, not time...
Hello Kitty is worth 5 billion a year, last time I checked.
You check that often?
Ugh.. what I meant was.. Oracle bad, CentOS/SL good... coffee. now.
Also Oracle steals from Redhat
I was not aware that forking GPL'ed code constituted stealing. Do CentOS and Scientific Linux steal from Red Hat, too?
No, technically not stealing, but it is shady behaviour. There is a difference between taking the GPL-ed packages, repackaging them and giving them away for free to the community (CentOS/SL), and taking it and selling it as a direct competitor in the same market. AFAIK, Red Hat is perfectly happy about CentOS and SL, not so much when it comes to Oracle.
The solution is obviously... more guns.
We have moved on.
Summary is wrong. Openstack would be a (probably, I haven't compared the two) competitor to vCloud. The direct competitor to vSphere is RHEV.
The main reason for the delay is the new installer. As I understand it, the old one had become extremely bloated and it took a lot of work for it to work properly with a new Fedora release. This is the reason for the "no contingency plan". The contingency would be to keep the old installer, but that isn't as simple as it seems. The installer needed to be redone, and the manpower needed to make the old installer compatible with Fedora 18 just wasn't there, so they couldn't do both at the same time. They needed to choose, and they made the right choice.
I would guess that it is practically a given. RHEL7 is supposedly going to be forked from F18.
I would guess not. Though RHEL7 will be based on F18 or thereabouts, RHEL only includes a subset of the packages that exist in Fedora. Remember that Red Hat will be supporting the packages for 10 years. They'll choose the package subset with care. But on the other hand, I wouldn't be surprised to see MATE in EPEL7.
This is exactly what Red Hat says too. While it is possible to upgrade RHEL5->RHEL6, it is highly recommended that you reinstall instead. Red Hat won't even give support for systems that are upgraded rather than reinstalled. RHEL and CentOS users should be used to this by now.
Norway's answer to the people problem is to ban ads for medicine that are regulated in any way, like antibiotics. Medicine must be prescribed by a doctor (you can't by antibiotics in a convenience store), and the doctor don't get patients that want a certain medicine after watching a TV ad. Advertisement for medicine is considered to be too dangerous to be allowed, as the decision regarding medical treatment should be left to the doctor, not the pharmaceutical companies through aggressive marketing.
Speaking on behalf of the rest of the world... *giggle*
1) Because it will make much more sense to live in free space (IE on an asteroid or space colony) where you avoid the huge energy cost of going up and down a gravity well.
Humans need gravity to exist for a prolonged time. Our skeleton, internal organs, muscle etc. all depend on it. Unless you in some way emulate gravity in a satisfactory way, living in free space is impossible.
The only way to make sure is to demand thorough documentation of the manufacturing process and ensure the authenticity of the documentation provided. Consumer pressure is needed to make companies deliver green products on a regular basis. They will manufacture what the buyers want. Governments are usually important customers and can lead the way on behalf of the public.
As a side note, one should also demand that the products are "fair", such as the manufacturer and subcontractors don't exploit third world countries, the workers are properly paid etc.
There's a flipside to that coin. The more programs that work perfectly in Wine, the more vendors may feel inclined to not support their app with a native Linux client (or worse, discontinue their Linux client) because "it works fine with Wine".
I first read the title as "Regression vs. GNU"... that didn't make sense at all.
You say that you don't want to write code all day. I'm also guessing that you would like a job that is interesting and varied, with a minimal amount of seemingly unnecessary and boring stuff. Try getting an sysadmin job at a university or college, preferably a large one (many students and employees). Universities and colleges do a lot of varied work/research, and if you're lucky you'll get involved with many interesting projects. They also have a tradition in using open source software. You may even get paid working on FOSS. In my experience, universities can also be in the forefront in using new technologies. The work is important, but not important enough not to try new stuff. This type of work often attract smart, interesting people so it's a fair bet that your colleagues will be smart people that can really learn from.
Question: Who the hell funds these projects? And why?
Some record label joining forces with evil and/or insane scientists for world domination? Sounds like the work of Dr. Evil, really.
This seems like a good opportunity to mention the famous Web 2.0 FAQ by Rich "Lowtax" Kyanka on somethingawful.com. For those readers who are not entirely sure what web 2.0 is:
Question: What is Web 2.0?Answer: Web 2.0 is a combination of Web 1.0 and being punched in the dick.
Question: How do I know I'm using a website / service / product that is officially "Web 2.0" and not actually "Web 1.0" with various patches and enhancements added to it?Answer: Web 2.0 is made obvious by the addition of completely and highly unnecessary bells and whistles that don't do anything besides annoy you and make life more complicated. If Web 1.0 was the equivalent of reading a book, Web 2.0 is reading a book while all the words are flying around and changing pages as the book rotates randomly and sets your hands on fire. Also there's this parrot that keeps on flying towards your head in repeated attempts to gouge out your eyes.
Question: I read about this one website in Wired Magazine. Is that Web 2.0??Answer: Oh definitely. Wired won't even mention Web 1.0 sites. Every single site in their magazine is at least Web 2.0. Sometimes they're even up to Web 45.2 (such as www.ebutts-and-credit-reports-delivered-via-carrier-pidgeon.com)!
Question: My roommate said he "digged" a "wikipedia entry" about "the blogosphere" which mentioned "podcasting" as a viable form of "crowdsourcing."Answer: Your roommate is a faggot. Also, this wasn't technically a question.
Question: What's Web 3.0?Answer: It's a product or service planned on release in spring of 2008, and consists solely of websites enabling the user to create even more detailed Kirby ASCII art. (O'.')-o
A shootout between desktop distros days after the new Ubuntu is out seems to be in favor of Ubuntu. As others have mentioned, Fedora 9 is imminent. It's also worth mentioning that RHEL5.2 will be released soon (in a month or so), and will sport Firefox 3 along with new versions of Openoffice (2.3), Thunderbird (2.0) and Evolution. CentOS follows RHEL closely, so CentOS 5.2 won't be far behind.