if you have figures for "dollars per day transacted on the web by OS" I think you will find that Linux comes very far behind commercial Unix and Windows.
Netcraft results:
True, Barnes and Noble runs IIS on Win2k. But Amazon runs Stronghold (a customized Apache server) on unknown, but given that Red Hat makes Stronghold, it's probably Linux behind a firewall. Google runs a custom web server on Linux (connection to dollars: at least froogle, adwords, and catalogs). What high profile sites are you thinking of that do a lot of B2C and run Windows Server?
Is it plain-old-GPL, or is it GPL with an exception like that of Guile? In general, a window system cannot become popular unless some sort of proprietary software can be published for the platform. Some disciplines such as prepress image editing need patented algorithms whose owners aren't willing to license them royalty-free; only proprietary software can implement these algorithms.
What does it have over moped, bicycle,electric bicycle, roller blades, walking, etc?
Unlike a bicycle, a Segway HT can be brought indoors with the rider, safe from vandalism and possible theft. It is also faster than walking, which means the rider can go farther in a one-hour commute. I'm guessing it'd be a decent solution in an area with no usable public transportation.
My experience has been different. They mod up bad jokes and misconceptions as Funny, and then they mod down informative comment correcting the misconceptions as Overrated, presumably because they think the author of the informative comment didn't get the joke.
Segway, on the other hand, is a joke, except in those limited areas with no usable public transportation.
Whether a picture is a hit or a dog, it makes no difference; once the picture is in the can, that is the end of the crew's involvement.
But if more movies are distributed unlawfully, the major studios will invest in production of fewer movies, which means fewer "involvements" for the crew.
20min of crappy dialog that even a TV serial company would laugh at
Worse yet, 20 minutes of crappy dialog that even the writers in a breakfast cereal company would laugh at. The writing in The Adventures of Uncle Toucan is better than the writing in some of the $#!+ that disgraces big screens in the U.S. nowadays.
I was under the impression that POSIX was created by some U.S. government IT department in order to specify that "we want UNIX". See, UNIX is a trademark of UNIX System Labs (then part of AT&T, now part of The Open Group), and this agency's charter prohibited asking for a product by trademark so as not to favor one private company over another; to circumvent this restriction, it produced a requirements sheet that stated everything the UNIX system at the time had, and the result was IEEE 1003. Wikipedia says RMS came up with only the name.
I'm guessing that if Mr. Simpson's private investigators find the real killers, he can appeal the civil judgment against him on grounds of new evidence.
In the origin story from the book of Genesis, God confused the languages of the people because they stayed too close to Babylon after the flood, disregarding God's order to fill the earth. I'm guessing that the animal migrations may have piggybacked on the spreading of the peoples that started after they abandoned building the Babel monument. Young-earth creationists don't seem to have much against the concept of small-scale adaptation over generations, which could help explain how koalas picked up a taste for eucalyptus leaves.
Try telling that to the webmasters at Newgrounds. Newgrounds has HTML navigation, but the meat of its content is audiovisual works in SWF format.
There are better tools [than SWF] for animation
What format 1. can compress a vector cel animation smaller than SWF can while retaining image quality (thus ruling out DivX, MPEG-4 advanced simple video, RealVideo, and Windows Media Video) and 2. has player plug-ins for major graphical web browsers on Windows, Mac, and GNU/Linux operating systems?
OK, what OS developed and published by IBM is in wide use on home computers? I'm guessing OS/2 on the desktop is less widespread than GNU/Linux on the desktop, and it's not even close to one proprietary BSD.
Home computers are important because somebody trained on Windows at home is going to want to use Windows at work.
"Vectors" are a construct from linear algebra; if you're not familiar, please review an introductory text on linear algebra. "Orthogonal vectors" are vectors that are perpendicular in vector space. You can test whether two nonzero vectors in an inner product space are orthogonal by taking their dot product. (The dot product of two vectors is a scalar; to compute it, multiply them element-wise and then sum all the products.) If the sum is close to zero, the vectors are close to orthogonal.
(Change the desktop background of AFK users who haven't logged out of their workstations to Goatse's hello.jpg)
Nice Idea. Until your boss will catch you doing that. In some companies that coud be the last day.
Unless your boss is in on it as well, and the company's computer use policy states that the company is not responsible for any sexual harassment performed when an employee forgets to log out of a workstation.
You're right about one thing. Almost all spam I get is HTML e-mail, and almost all HTML e-mail I get is spam. Trouble is, I can't just block HTML e-mail because people who are first contacting me about one of my web sites may have not changed Outlook Express's compose settings, which default to "rich text" (HTML). What would be a good way for me to deal with this?
They create huge word documents with huge tables in them.
Can't Mozilla Composer edit huge tables? And wouldn't huge collections of information in tabular form be more the domain of MS Excel/OOo Calc than a word processor?
But because I want to run Linux, I bought Crossover Office. And the Office license is already paid for.
I wonder, how do most people get the money to pay for their Microsoft Office licenses? Disclaimer: I am in no way accusing you of copyright infringement; I am just curious as to who funds the Microsoft machine.
Not when they're playing Tetris for Game Boy, one of the original green-screen system's launch titles. I know; I've tried it. The music starts about 100ms out of sync and then falls further out of sync as the music runs faster for a player who is about to die.
Granted. But I don't think even MS Office 97 was designed for collaborative editing, being released before Microsoft "integrated the Internet into the OS." And how much roundtrip editing do you expect to do where something other than text absolutely has to survive? And if it bothers you and them that much, why can't you just mail your client a CD-R copy of OOo?
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if you have figures for "dollars per day transacted on the web by OS" I think you will find that Linux comes very far behind commercial Unix and Windows.
Netcraft results:
True, Barnes and Noble runs IIS on Win2k. But Amazon runs Stronghold (a customized Apache server) on unknown, but given that Red Hat makes Stronghold, it's probably Linux behind a firewall. Google runs a custom web server on Linux (connection to dollars: at least froogle, adwords, and catalogs). What high profile sites are you thinking of that do a lot of B2C and run Windows Server?
Is it plain-old-GPL, or is it GPL with an exception like that of Guile? In general, a window system cannot become popular unless some sort of proprietary software can be published for the platform. Some disciplines such as prepress image editing need patented algorithms whose owners aren't willing to license them royalty-free; only proprietary software can implement these algorithms.
The scarf evolved into the cravat, and the cravat evolved into the modern necktie.
(You probably meant "caveat.")
Care to contribute some of your knowledge about Stallman's involvement in POSIX to the Wikipedia article I linked to?
What does it have over moped, bicycle,electric bicycle, roller blades, walking, etc?
Unlike a bicycle, a Segway HT can be brought indoors with the rider, safe from vandalism and possible theft. It is also faster than walking, which means the rider can go farther in a one-hour commute. I'm guessing it'd be a decent solution in an area with no usable public transportation.
My experience has been different. They mod up bad jokes and misconceptions as Funny, and then they mod down informative comment correcting the misconceptions as Overrated, presumably because they think the author of the informative comment didn't get the joke.
Segway, on the other hand, is a joke, except in those limited areas with no usable public transportation.
Whether a picture is a hit or a dog, it makes no difference; once the picture is in the can, that is the end of the crew's involvement.
But if more movies are distributed unlawfully, the major studios will invest in production of fewer movies, which means fewer "involvements" for the crew.
20min of crappy dialog that even a TV serial company would laugh at
Worse yet, 20 minutes of crappy dialog that even the writers in a breakfast cereal company would laugh at. The writing in The Adventures of Uncle Toucan is better than the writing in some of the $#!+ that disgraces big screens in the U.S. nowadays.
If you really want to pirate Pirates of the Caribbean, you can always wait for the public DVD release and rent, rip, burn.
POSIX. That was his baby too.
I was under the impression that POSIX was created by some U.S. government IT department in order to specify that "we want UNIX". See, UNIX is a trademark of UNIX System Labs (then part of AT&T, now part of The Open Group), and this agency's charter prohibited asking for a product by trademark so as not to favor one private company over another; to circumvent this restriction, it produced a requirements sheet that stated everything the UNIX system at the time had, and the result was IEEE 1003. Wikipedia says RMS came up with only the name.
".arpa" used to represent DARPA, but now it represents the Address and Routing Parameter Area, a backronym.
I'm guessing that if Mr. Simpson's private investigators find the real killers, he can appeal the civil judgment against him on grounds of new evidence.
In the origin story from the book of Genesis, God confused the languages of the people because they stayed too close to Babylon after the flood, disregarding God's order to fill the earth. I'm guessing that the animal migrations may have piggybacked on the spreading of the peoples that started after they abandoned building the Babel monument. Young-earth creationists don't seem to have much against the concept of small-scale adaptation over generations, which could help explain how koalas picked up a taste for eucalyptus leaves.
[SWF is] not a good basis for an entire website
Try telling that to the webmasters at Newgrounds. Newgrounds has HTML navigation, but the meat of its content is audiovisual works in SWF format.
There are better tools [than SWF] for animation
What format 1. can compress a vector cel animation smaller than SWF can while retaining image quality (thus ruling out DivX, MPEG-4 advanced simple video, RealVideo, and Windows Media Video) and 2. has player plug-ins for major graphical web browsers on Windows, Mac, and GNU/Linux operating systems?
if you don't want your server being hit, don't put a link to it on /. front page !
Better yet, if your page doesn't have a lot of large images, link to a Google cached page instead.
OK, what OS developed and published by IBM is in wide use on home computers? I'm guessing OS/2 on the desktop is less widespread than GNU/Linux on the desktop, and it's not even close to one proprietary BSD.
Home computers are important because somebody trained on Windows at home is going to want to use Windows at work.
"Vectors" are a construct from linear algebra; if you're not familiar, please review an introductory text on linear algebra. "Orthogonal vectors" are vectors that are perpendicular in vector space. You can test whether two nonzero vectors in an inner product space are orthogonal by taking their dot product. (The dot product of two vectors is a scalar; to compute it, multiply them element-wise and then sum all the products.) If the sum is close to zero, the vectors are close to orthogonal.
You can learn more on Wikipedia.
(Change the desktop background of AFK users who haven't logged out of their workstations to Goatse's hello.jpg)
Nice Idea. Until your boss will catch you doing that. In some companies that coud be the last day.
Unless your boss is in on it as well, and the company's computer use policy states that the company is not responsible for any sexual harassment performed when an employee forgets to log out of a workstation.
You meant delete all e-mail containing HTML tags.
You're right about one thing. Almost all spam I get is HTML e-mail, and almost all HTML e-mail I get is spam. Trouble is, I can't just block HTML e-mail because people who are first contacting me about one of my web sites may have not changed Outlook Express's compose settings, which default to "rich text" (HTML). What would be a good way for me to deal with this?
They create huge word documents with huge tables in them.
Can't Mozilla Composer edit huge tables? And wouldn't huge collections of information in tabular form be more the domain of MS Excel/OOo Calc than a word processor?
But because I want to run Linux, I bought Crossover Office. And the Office license is already paid for.
I wonder, how do most people get the money to pay for their Microsoft Office licenses? Disclaimer: I am in no way accusing you of copyright infringement; I am just curious as to who funds the Microsoft machine.
Not when they're playing Tetris for Game Boy, one of the original green-screen system's launch titles. I know; I've tried it. The music starts about 100ms out of sync and then falls further out of sync as the music runs faster for a player who is about to die.
And what happens if you run FCE Ultra for Linux under XFce?
If you're playing multiplayer, why would you use headphones?
To hear the other players' characters' footsteps so I can sneak up behind them. To avoid the din of several slightly-out-of-sync music engines.
What fun is multiplayer if you can't hear your friends whine when you beat them?
That's why I take one earpiece off at the end of a round.
Granted. But I don't think even MS Office 97 was designed for collaborative editing, being released before Microsoft "integrated the Internet into the OS." And how much roundtrip editing do you expect to do where something other than text absolutely has to survive? And if it bothers you and them that much, why can't you just mail your client a CD-R copy of OOo?