Might I suggest replacing #1 with "Start a business claiming to be a movie studio/publisher/record label" and #3 with "Accuse every living and recently deceased ( < 10 years) citizen of copyright infringement."
My only concern is what happens when those bristles get a little worn out after all that high intensity cyclic stress and an elevator load of passengers plummet to their doom from 100 km up.
what are Firefox 3 and Chrome doing on the list then? Yay, a browser update and yet another KHTML-derivative. KDE4 was the biggest open source failure of 2008.
I never said I approved of the rest of the list.
Firefox 3: An open source browser stays open source for another version. It's much better than before, but I am not convinced it advanced FOSS's cause very far. After all, Windows users benefit as well, and most don't care about open source.
Chrome: Google releases a semi-open-source browser for a completely closed source platform. Kinda defeats the purpose. The only real news here is a new browser not based on Gecko.
KDE 4:
Linux's second most popular DE (Ubuntu gives Gnome nearly a third of the Linux market single-handedly, so unless KDE is really popular in the rest of the Linux world...) has a promising but uncouth release. Hardly a "victory" yet.
Android: OK, not the greatest example of FOSS in the world, but a good step in the right direction anyways. But if it belongs on this list, FOSS is in trouble.
Python:
See Firefox
openSolaris:
Sun continues it's tradition of half-hearted commitment to open source by releasing their OS on a license incompatible with the GPL.
Mono:
noun: Popular name for infectious mononucleosis
More earth-shattering are ATI's open source drivers or Dell selling Ubuntu pre-installed. Maybe KDE now being portable to Windows.
The metric was percentage of computers connected to the Internet.
US Windows computers (I will assume this is 50% of computers online for this example) + Non-US Windows computers (40%) = 90% of computers online
Macs (almost entirely US machines, you say) = 9% of computers online.
Surely the outside of the platter would be fastest, assuming a quick acceleration to full speed?
So we need to put the data that needs the most speed at the end of the disc?
Not everyone gets a new computer every Christmas. The issue is what they were selling 4 years ago.
The only machines from 4 years ago that would be more sensible to upgrade than replace are the (very) high-end ones. These ones were 64-bit anyways.
People running the machines that were low-end (or even middling) 4 years ago are not going to handle the upgrade to 7 very well anyways, if only because the modern software that runs on it will be too bloated for such a box.
So my opinion is that these people either will:
Stay on their current boxen running XP a few more years. OR
Upgrade to a new machine soon. Unavoidably, a 64-bit machine
Windows runs on so many thousands of different devices that it'll be a long, long time before all of them "go away" enough to let them drop 32-bit support
Well, I really doubt Linux is going to be dropping 32-bit support any time soon. Although I hope the OEMs that are selling *nix systems (Dell, HP, System76, etc.) decide to ship 64-bit by default.
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Might I suggest replacing #1 with "Start a business claiming to be a movie studio/publisher/record label" and #3 with "Accuse every living and recently deceased ( < 10 years) citizen of copyright infringement."
Purple.
Brain the size of a planet.
What I want to know is, does any sane person think that overall price deflation isn't terrible for the economy?
I'm no economist, but if we have deflation right now I am pretty happy about it. Maybe pennies will once again be worth the metal we put in them.
It's crushing to anyone in any significant amount of debt (i.e. anyone who holds a mortgage).
Don't buy that house that costs so much more than your annual income.
One thing companies can start doing is monitoring their networks on an ongoing basis so that they understand the normal pattern of data flow and usage
Assuming theft isn't already the normal "data flow usage".
Sounds to me like this is turning a problem into a solution.
If you put the anchor far enough out there that centripetal force pulls it away harder than the base station's vibrations pull it, it should work.
My only concern is what happens when those bristles get a little worn out after all that high intensity cyclic stress and an elevator load of passengers plummet to their doom from 100 km up.
It shouldn't be too hard to add a braking system.
I'll handle translating this one:
I'm pasting farm my celly up unison steve cloud.
They were caught at various points in the process of downloading, burning, and installing Ubuntu.
At the very least, this method can be a cheap way to acquit suspects. Those that come up positive can ask for the more accurate test.
Every couple minutes, just in case. Why do you ask?
why not go with FreeBSD or OpenBSD
Because *BSDs are dying. Duh.
Clarification: one of the modified BSD Licences.
I did say that it needed to be GPL, just licensed compatibly. The Apache License (2.0) is compatible with GPL 3.
Personally, I think I'd prefer the BSD license.
He's didn't. I'm sure he can go lower.
what are Firefox 3 and Chrome doing on the list then? Yay, a browser update and yet another KHTML-derivative. KDE4 was the biggest open source failure of 2008.
I never said I approved of the rest of the list.
Firefox 3:
An open source browser stays open source for another version. It's much better than before, but I am not convinced it advanced FOSS's cause very far. After all, Windows users benefit as well, and most don't care about open source.
Chrome:
Google releases a semi-open-source browser for a completely closed source platform. Kinda defeats the purpose. The only real news here is a new browser not based on Gecko.
KDE 4:
Linux's second most popular DE (Ubuntu gives Gnome nearly a third of the Linux market single-handedly, so unless KDE is really popular in the rest of the Linux world...) has a promising but uncouth release. Hardly a "victory" yet.
Android:
OK, not the greatest example of FOSS in the world, but a good step in the right direction anyways. But if it belongs on this list, FOSS is in trouble.
Python:
See Firefox
openSolaris:
Sun continues it's tradition of half-hearted commitment to open source by releasing their OS on a license incompatible with the GPL.
Mono:
noun: Popular name for infectious mononucleosis
More earth-shattering are ATI's open source drivers or Dell selling Ubuntu pre-installed. Maybe KDE now being portable to Windows.
The metric was percentage of computers connected to the Internet.
US Windows computers (I will assume this is 50% of computers online for this example) + Non-US Windows computers (40%) = 90% of computers online
Macs (almost entirely US machines, you say) = 9% of computers online.
Apple's US marketshare would be 9/50, or 18%
3GB of Ram...Vista...slower than XP..
...how he uses his machine.
He's obviously copying a file.
Surely the outside of the platter would be fastest, assuming a quick acceleration to full speed?
So we need to put the data that needs the most speed at the end of the disc?
Has anyone benchmarked this?
Not everyone gets a new computer every Christmas. The issue is what they were selling 4 years ago.
The only machines from 4 years ago that would be more sensible to upgrade than replace are the (very) high-end ones. These ones were 64-bit anyways.
People running the machines that were low-end (or even middling) 4 years ago are not going to handle the upgrade to 7 very well anyways, if only because the modern software that runs on it will be too bloated for such a box.
So my opinion is that these people either will:
Stay on their current boxen running XP a few more years.
OR
Upgrade to a new machine soon. Unavoidably, a 64-bit machine
You ARE an oppressed minority. There's just about barely more mac os users on the interwebs than linux users.
Since when did Linux have 8.9% marketshare?
3 major releases (1.6, 2.0, 2.1) this year!
Big deal. If I write a shell script, revise it twice, and label them as versions 1, 2, and 3, was it as big of an accomplishment?
That's not to say some major improvements haven't been made in VirtualBox, I am just pointing out that version numbers don't mean much
See Also:
Linux Kernel 3.0
Linux Kernel 0.95
Windows runs on so many thousands of different devices that it'll be a long, long time before all of them "go away" enough to let them drop 32-bit support
Well, I really doubt Linux is going to be dropping 32-bit support any time soon. Although I hope the OEMs that are selling *nix systems (Dell, HP, System76, etc.) decide to ship 64-bit by default.
No, that's just the name for the trash bin. Or maybe the user's documents folder.