Many of our systems do run Linux, but only because a consulting company is willing to fill that gap and assume the role of supplying custom fixes/patches while we wait for "official" ones to make it into the kernal. It's not that we have anything against the community, but frankly we need someone to take responsibility and to be held accountable for all aspects of our system.
You: We need this fixed Open Source: Upgrade, or fix it yourself. You: We can't afford to upgrade. Open Source:Tough luck.
You start maintaining a patch while you work on an upgrade plan.
You: We need this fixed Microsoft: Upgrade. You:We can't afford to upgrade. Microsoft: Tough luck.
You go without a patch until you manage to cough up the cash.
Also there's the little fact that Linux users on average will pay more for the game unless Humble Bundle stats lie.
The stats are tainted by live updating. No Linux enthusiasts want to drag the average down.
Also, you'll notice that Linux brought in maybe 20% of the total by paying nearly twice as much per copy.
Contributing $10 instead of $5 for a indie/charity thing is all well and good, but would you tolerate being charged $120 for a AAA title while your Windows buddies are only paying $60?
A very important point has been missed in this discussion. The first 9 characters of the initial xkcd password are not random, they are a word. Because they are a word their entropy is not 102^9=1.17165938 * 10^16.
You misunderstand. We're assuming that the attacker knows that the password is a group of dictionary words.
Your keyboard has 102 characters on it. So the security of a random-character password is:
102 (first character) * 102 (second character) * 102... so on and so forth. Or 102^x, x = character length of your password
The Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary has 165,000 words. So the strength is:
165,000 (first word) * 165,000 (second word) * 165,000... So the strength is 165,000^x, x=number of words in your password
Actually, cars have changed ALOT in the last 100 years. The Model T Ford (1908) worked more like a traction engine than what anyone would recognise as a modern car layout.
100 years. Way to prove your point. How many pointless changes have been made to the core interface (stop/go/turn) in, say, the past 30?
I am *so* glad I'm not the only one who thinks this. The first couple of books were great, but then they really started to drag on and on with all kinds of meaningless details on what people were wearing or what they were thinking which did exactly nothing to advance the story or make the characters interesting. It got so bad that, by the ninth book, I discovered that I could just quickly skim the first and last sentence of every paragraph and literally not miss anything important.
I abandoned the series halfway through Winter's Heart. I just couldn't force myself to read through that garbage anymore. Such a shame. The series stared out with such great promise.
I was just introduced to the series last month. I am ~75% of the way through Crossroads, and can hardly stand to pick it up because of how bad it drags. That and the absurd lack of communication (WHY DO THEY NOT MEET WITH RAND IN TEL'ARAN'RHIOD) have me on the verge of dropping it completely. Pretty much the only thing that keeps me going is that I've read Sanderson's work.
Now, if you want a *solid* fantasy series from start to finish (that's not quite so heavy), check out The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weiss and Tracey Hickman. Fantastic series with great character development and interesting situations.
I was actually pretty unsatisfied with that one. I felt like things meandered about in 5 & 6, and 7 went off the deep end.
Theses aren't features that will benefit much from screenshots.
Like the "Windows on the Go": Look at your screen. Now look at the flash drive in your USB port. That's what Windows on the Go looks like.
Linux's LiveUSB: Look at a screenshot of a Linux deskop. Now look at that same flash drive.
They can either refuse Microsoft's thuggish demands (do not sell linux or we will cut off all supplies of Windows to you), or they can give in to Microsoft's thuggish demands.
...
I'm pretty sure this isn't the case. They may stop giving Lenovo some massive "preferred customer" discounts (which OEMs can't afford to lose), but they won't cut them off completely.
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HTML: 60 fps
Canvas: 87 fps
SVG: 85-90 fps
Flash: 33-36 fps
Chromium 17 & Flash 11-r1, on Debian testing.
Many of our systems do run Linux, but only because a consulting company is willing to fill that gap and assume the role of supplying custom fixes/patches while we wait for "official" ones to make it into the kernal. It's not that we have anything against the community, but frankly we need someone to take responsibility and to be held accountable for all aspects of our system.
You: We need this fixed
Open Source: Upgrade, or fix it yourself.
You: We can't afford to upgrade.
Open Source:Tough luck.
You start maintaining a patch while you work on an upgrade plan.
You: We need this fixed
Microsoft: Upgrade.
You:We can't afford to upgrade.
Microsoft: Tough luck.
You go without a patch until you manage to cough up the cash.
Two years out an this is news?
No. It was news 8 months ago.
What we have here is a regurgitation of the slashdot comments from last year.
Also there's the little fact that Linux users on average will pay more for the game unless Humble Bundle stats lie.
The stats are tainted by live updating. No Linux enthusiasts want to drag the average down.
Also, you'll notice that Linux brought in maybe 20% of the total by paying nearly twice as much per copy.
Contributing $10 instead of $5 for a indie/charity thing is all well and good, but would you tolerate being charged $120 for a AAA title while your Windows buddies are only paying $60?
Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
-- Publilius Syrus
...wasn't GNU Emacs used as the example of the "cathedral" model?
I highlight typos.
A very important point has been missed in this discussion. The first 9 characters of the initial xkcd password are not random, they are a word. Because they are a word their entropy is not 102^9=1.17165938 * 10^16.
You misunderstand. We're assuming that the attacker knows that the password is a group of dictionary words.
Your keyboard has 102 characters on it. So the security of a random-character password is:
102 (first character) * 102 (second character) * 102... so on and so forth. Or 102^x, x = character length of your password
The Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary has 165,000 words. So the strength is:
165,000 (first word) * 165,000 (second word) * 165,000... So the strength is 165,000^x, x=number of words in your password
Actually, cars have changed ALOT in the last 100 years. The Model T Ford (1908) worked more like a traction engine than what anyone would recognise as a modern car layout.
100 years. Way to prove your point. How many pointless changes have been made to the core interface (stop/go/turn) in, say, the past 30?
So to make sure they have his details, he ran straight to them?
It's like reporting your car stolen to hide the fact that you were the getaway driver.
How dare you defile vim with X11!
Do mules count as a subspecies of horse/donkey?
each "year" was 29 days.
Assuming you meant "month", the calander had leap months.
I am *so* glad I'm not the only one who thinks this. The first couple of books were great, but then they really started to drag on and on with all kinds of meaningless details on what people were wearing or what they were thinking which did exactly nothing to advance the story or make the characters interesting. It got so bad that, by the ninth book, I discovered that I could just quickly skim the first and last sentence of every paragraph and literally not miss anything important.
I abandoned the series halfway through Winter's Heart. I just couldn't force myself to read through that garbage anymore. Such a shame. The series stared out with such great promise.
I was just introduced to the series last month. I am ~75% of the way through Crossroads, and can hardly stand to pick it up because of how bad it drags. That and the absurd lack of communication (WHY DO THEY NOT MEET WITH RAND IN TEL'ARAN'RHIOD) have me on the verge of dropping it completely. Pretty much the only thing that keeps me going is that I've read Sanderson's work.
Now, if you want a *solid* fantasy series from start to finish (that's not quite so heavy), check out The Death Gate Cycle by Margaret Weiss and Tracey Hickman. Fantastic series with great character development and interesting situations.
I was actually pretty unsatisfied with that one. I felt like things meandered about in 5 & 6, and 7 went off the deep end.
Well what are you waiting for?
Theses aren't features that will benefit much from screenshots.
Like the "Windows on the Go": Look at your screen. Now look at the flash drive in your USB port. That's what Windows on the Go looks like.
Linux's LiveUSB: Look at a screenshot of a Linux deskop. Now look at that same flash drive.
Range 250-300 miles.
Seriously, I commute a 100+ miles a day. And this will work just fine for me.
That's just about enough to get you from Philly to Pittsburgh. And with the money you save on gas, you can always rent a mini-van for a longer trip...
Not that "saving money" is that big a factor when buying Tesla atm.
correcthorsebatterystaple
correct_horse_battery_staple
It means they set up a branch office there.
A manually-entered sig, at that.
Let's assume the safe cannot be cracked (or at least not in a timely manner). What now?
They can either refuse Microsoft's thuggish demands (do not sell linux or we will cut off all supplies of Windows to you), or they can give in to Microsoft's thuggish demands.
...
I'm pretty sure this isn't the case. They may stop giving Lenovo some massive "preferred customer" discounts (which OEMs can't afford to lose), but they won't cut them off completely.
Why did this particular spelling die out?
A hung program doesn't execute properly.
*grunt* *hoot* *growl*