I've always wondered, since the design was completely open source, why some clever person didn't just order a few thousand direct from the manufacturer, and sell them?
They wouldn't let anyone in the first world order them (except through G1G1). Asking people to buy one for the price of two is a bit much for most. They probably would had greater volume had it been G0.25G1.
I don't like the idea of being interrupted every five minutes with a letter from the second-cousin-twice-removed-of-a-Nigerian-prince's-best-friend's-teacher asking me to help move around massive quantities of cash for them.
Yeah, but the university doesn't usually make money off of MS Office, Windows, and Adobe CS. Why require a ridiculously expensive product when you're not making money from it?
But - wait another one. Linux. Linux just doesn't recognize Windows file permissions. Boot a system to Linux, you can copy anything from anywhere to anywhere else.
I could imagine them doing something to make such files read as corrupted under a standard-compliant NTFS (is that an oxymoron?) reader, but I it seems that this can be defeated with RAID mirrors.
apt-get upgrade? I thought it was emerge -uDv world? No, wait, it's up2date --upgrade-to-release xx, isn't it? Crap, I'm wrong again, it's yum upgrade... or yum update, I forget which. I'll try the last one--dammit, now I'm getting some kind of GPG error, let me check the man page.
Huh. I would think that users would go with Update Manager.
If anything, on a stable system without any problems, windows update and the standard linux update mechanisms work equally well.
Personally, there are several features I prefer in Linux's repositories over Windows Update.
I can update all of my programs rather than just the OS and an Office Suite. I can also add third-party repositories, eliminating the need for standalone or builtin update checkers. And I can actually have an idea of how quickly it's going through the update check process.
Disney is a thieving corporation that stole stories from other countries and made them their own.
Kimba the White Lion, for example.
Take some advice from someone who has tried to tally the number of movies they've based on works with expired copyrights: It's easier to count their original works.
The thing is expensive. The F-35 Lightning II is not as good of a fighter, but it's much more versatile. The capability of carrier takeoffs and VTOL means you can turn a decent stretch of clear roadway into an impromptu airbase. At just over half the cost of an F-22 Raptor. A Raptor could probably take out a Lightning, but how does it fare against two Lightnings far from a decent landing strip?
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If they don't want to help maintain it, I say drop it from the kernel.
Indeed. Just because they are obligated to release it, that doesn't mean the Linux kernel is obligated to use it.
Like per-application volume control that no other OS provides?
The applications themselves provide that.
I've always wondered, since the design was completely open source, why some clever person didn't just order a few thousand direct from the manufacturer, and sell them?
They wouldn't let anyone in the first world order them (except through G1G1). Asking people to buy one for the price of two is a bit much for most. They probably would had greater volume had it been G0.25G1.
I don't like the idea of being interrupted every five minutes with a letter from the second-cousin-twice-removed-of-a-Nigerian-prince's-best-friend's-teacher asking me to help move around massive quantities of cash for them.
If they are incapable of determining the quality of work that comes in, they deserve to get ripped off.
As a non-programmer, how am I supposed to accurately (and inexpensively) judge that?
I'm pretty sure Pensyvania Avenue, Route 66, the Golden Gate bridge, and other famous thoroughfares will be very heavily contested.
Or if one just releases into the public domain instead of the long, costly and complex process of patenting.
And how would one do that in a way that makes it easy to find for patent examiners and defense attorneys alike?
Hey everyone! Twitter's back!
A microphone (audio surveillance)
Skype calls (call tapping)
Isn't that a little redundant?
Daylight from windows can make reading screens difficult while indoors.
Let's not. They're entertaining.
Yeah, but the university doesn't usually make money off of MS Office, Windows, and Adobe CS. Why require a ridiculously expensive product when you're not making money from it?
But - wait another one. Linux. Linux just doesn't recognize Windows file permissions. Boot a system to Linux, you can copy anything from anywhere to anywhere else.
I could imagine them doing something to make such files read as corrupted under a standard-compliant NTFS (is that an oxymoron?) reader, but I it seems that this can be defeated with RAID mirrors.
Step 4: ???
In (2), your staff is recommending free products that you do not make any money on.
So grab an Ubuntu cd label, stamp out a few dozen shiny discs for $0.50 apiece, and sell them next to the Windows boxes for $15.
apt-get upgrade? I thought it was emerge -uDv world? No, wait, it's up2date --upgrade-to-release xx, isn't it? Crap, I'm wrong again, it's yum upgrade... or yum update, I forget which. I'll try the last one--dammit, now I'm getting some kind of GPG error, let me check the man page.
Huh. I would think that users would go with Update Manager.
If anything, on a stable system without any problems, windows update and the standard linux update mechanisms work equally well.
Personally, there are several features I prefer in Linux's repositories over Windows Update.
I can update all of my programs rather than just the OS and an Office Suite. I can also add third-party repositories, eliminating the need for standalone or builtin update checkers. And I can actually have an idea of how quickly it's going through the update check process.
What would make a retailer sell linux? There is no margin on FREE.
Untrue. Free (to the seller) gives them the highest margins possible.
It's not difficult to change Firefox's icon.
...which is more than I can say of Microsoft.
No it's not
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I'm hoping that compiler performance was sacrificed in favour of compiled binary size and optimisation.
Disney is a thieving corporation that stole stories from other countries and made them their own.
Kimba the White Lion, for example.
Take some advice from someone who has tried to tally the number of movies they've based on works with expired copyrights: It's easier to count their original works.
The six-core AMD Opteron EE...is designed for 2P servers...
All I really want to know is: can you install it in a toaster?
Am I the only one that looked at the thing and thought "it doesn't look very stealthy."
I don't think the F-35 looks very stealthy, but it supposedly is (anybody know how it's stealth compares to the F-22, the B-2, etc?).
The thing is expensive. The F-35 Lightning II is not as good of a fighter, but it's much more versatile. The capability of carrier takeoffs and VTOL means you can turn a decent stretch of clear roadway into an impromptu airbase. At just over half the cost of an F-22 Raptor. A Raptor could probably take out a Lightning, but how does it fare against two Lightnings far from a decent landing strip?