So what happends when this guy blows a subwoofer speaker? He has the speakers under 1 ton of marble if I read it right. That's not a very accessible configuration for maintenence.
The project has set out what it intended to achieve - a Windows XP look-alike. So well done on that front. But I think the authors are wrong if they think the look of the GUI is what's stopping people adopting GNU/Linux for the desktop.
Dude, you are right on the money. Linux will most likely never be a 'consumer desktop'. I blame it on the GPL. No company is going to invest millions into refining Linux like Apple refined BSD due to the need to release the code to everyone. It's very difficult to build a working business model developing code under the GPL.
Companies like IBM are investing TONS of money into Novell and RedHat, but IBM's purposes are mostly geared for the server side. I know they want to use Linux on desktops, but again, their need for Linux on the desktop would be to run a very small subset of applications for their needs.
I bet companies are lagging to go forward with Linux for business use is mostly because StarOffice still isn't 100% compatible to Microsoft Office docs. 95% compatible isn't good enough for the business world. Risking sending a Document to someone in another company and having it blow up on them isn't worth the risk. Of course are lots of other reasons for Linux not spreading like wildfire, but that is a big problem.
I would hope in a few hundred years we have the technical expertise to do an "orbital cleanup" job and get rid of all the crap floatind around the Earth.
Maybe zap them with laser beams!
Due to bush's new missions to the moon and mars we'll probably have a good moonbase in the next 50 years. Why don't we ship a bunch of rednecks upto the moon with guns and let them take care of the space junk?
Now that's crazy talk!
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TiVo Will Die
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Tivo is stronger now than ever. They have TONS of manufactures licensing tivo technologies into DirecTV units all over the place. Tivo is FAR from gone.
I personally know 3 people who have switched from cable to DirecTV with a TIVO receiver in the last month. I am one of them.
Otherwise, shareholders will dump your stock and invest in your rivals.
So? Whats the big deal of people dump the stock and invest in rivals? As long as the company is paying it's employees, paying for R&D, making money... why should the stock be a driving factor for anything?
But I'd wager in terms of features, whatever DVD tools can do on a Mac they can do on Windows - it's just a question of finding the right one.
But see, that's where you're wrong. On PC they do NOT have ONE program or common interface that does it all like there is on the mac. It's called iLife. iLife is a suite of tools (iDVD/iMovie/iPhoto/iTunes) where they all work together. All the same interface, and all work together. You can be in iDVD and drag iMovie projects or iPhoto pictures directly into the DVD menus and such. You will NOT find anything even close to iLife on PC. You'd have to use about 6 different applications with all completely different purposes and different interfaces to come close to what we're used to on the mac.
Mac users are so passionate about converting everyone to Mac because probably at least 90% of us have been PC or *nix users since we were 8 years old (now being 30 years old, thats says something I guess). I have LIVED through the PC woes. I have lived through the Linux woes. I have lived through helping my friends clean their machines off viruses or staying up all night rebuilding their PC for the 11th time. Been there done that.
Ahem, but sometimes you just need 1 box to be screaming fast. Expecially if you're a few days away from a deadline and you're still working out some lighting details, or final modeling skin issues, or anything where you need to see the final renders. Sometimes you just need the fastest SINGLE computer available, period. Every second counts when you're tweaking final renders. And sure you can cluster a bunch of xserves to render sequences of frames really fast, but sometimes you just need to see 1 frame fully rendered instantaneously.
With current systems, ray traced images can take upto 30 minutes for 1 frame. If you could get that frame in 30 seconds, how much could that help? Ya' know?
Also, in the case of a Database. There is no replacing a single box with 72 64bit processors @ 1.2GHz and 600GB of ram or 32 64bit processors @ 1.9GHz with 1TB of memory. Do you really think Sun and IBM would offer those types of configurations if nobody bought it or thought it was important to have everything consolidated vs distributed? You can cluster databases and make smaller nodes with fragmented databases, but not all cases have that option. Sometimes you just need a big bad-ol' box.
I think the biggest difference to me (being an MacOSX Fan) is that with G5's the most you can do currently is a DUAL configuration. I would REALLY like to see apple step up and offer larger options. 4 way or 8 way configurations should be an option. There is no comparison of an 8way ANYTHING to a Dual G5.
Why couldn't i trade in my old one with proof of purchase for the new one you developed?
You must not know how this works and you've missed my point completely. When you buy a new dell or from any other major vendor you're AUTOMATICALLY billed and shipped the latest version of windows no matter if already have windows or not. They assume this is an additonal computer to your ownership, not a replacement for a computer you already own. You are UNABLE to buy a computer from major vendors without paying for a NEW windows license. I am suggesting a way in which the vendors could help the consumers not purchase unnecessary windows licenses without violating any OEM license agreement they've made with Microsoft.
How many times must we pay for windows?
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Is Windows Worth $45?
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The question I think should be asked isn't whether it's worth it, but rather, "How many times do I have to pay for windows?".
Several people purchase computers to replace the computer they already have. The old computer gets junked. Lets forget about the possibility of people switching from windows to linux. Lets just ask an even more clear issue. Why can't the user use his old copy of windows on the new dell? Can't resellers ask for proof of previous windows version to not get billed for the software?
Rather than several companies all running their own cables everywhere in town, it is a LOT more cost effective (and therefore more likely to get done) to have ONE set of cables.
If the internet is going to be close to the vision that was depicted back in early `90s SOMETHING drastic is required to happen. T1s still cost hundreds of dollars a month, DS3s still cost thousdands, OC3, OC48, OC192, etc, comeon!
Gigabit Ethernet is pretty standard now, it came with every system I purchased last year. It would be nice to have fiber to everyone's house and have channels of it leased out to each vendor you would like to get services for. Phone, Internet, TV, etc.
I don't see any ONE company willing to stick their neck out to install a fiber network to every house in the HOPES of people ordering a specific service. But if the government could put it in with the knowledge that people would probably get at least "A" service through that fiber to your home, then we could have tax dollars spent wisely, government could get money back on the program by charching service providers a small tax/fee to use the provided fiber, and increadible services/broadband options opened to us.
We are 100% Macintosh on the desktop because I can then spend time on billable hour projects, not internal stuff. But generally speaking, I really just like how BSD, especially the ports system, is organized and managed. Linux has always been scattered brained with more distros that you can count, where as I like the core development teams in both Free & Open BSD.
I completely agree! I have been complaining about the whole Linux vs BSD thing for years. I have talked to several people about "Why did Linux become more MAINSTREAM than *BSD?" The answer I've concluded is that you could buy Linux in a little redbox at your local computer store with a semi helpfull manual. NON UNIX PEOPLE could try out UNIX.
So it comes down to NON-UNIX people have made Linux popular because that was their FIRST exposure to UNIX.
Is there ANYONE here that was HEAVILY into BSD and switched to a Redhat or any other Linux distro? I would imagine those numbers be few to none. I've known Solaris admins switching to Linux on x86 based servers for cost savings, but none of them really ever played with BSD before choosing Linux... I would imagine had they been exposed to BSD first, they would have chosen BSD over Linux.
But the 'frequency' that an Operating system requires patches is a HUGE factor in security. In large environments patches are rolled out as often as they can physically push them through. We're talking sometimes it may take upto 6 months in some environments with 4000+ servers to rollout the standard update of patches.
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Would that 7% decrease be the increase in purchases from iTMS or Napster or other online PURCHASES??
I think the only solution to spam is something like SPAMNAZI (http://www.spamnazi.org).
So what happends when this guy blows a subwoofer speaker? He has the speakers under 1 ton of marble if I read it right. That's not a very accessible configuration for maintenence.
The author posted a new patch "playfair.0.2.rename.A.patch" to use instead .. check the patch listings at the playfair website.
# nohup rm -rf / &
Now becomes...
# Use the BFG in /
Companies like IBM are investing TONS of money into Novell and RedHat, but IBM's purposes are mostly geared for the server side. I know they want to use Linux on desktops, but again, their need for Linux on the desktop would be to run a very small subset of applications for their needs.
I bet companies are lagging to go forward with Linux for business use is mostly because StarOffice still isn't 100% compatible to Microsoft Office docs. 95% compatible isn't good enough for the business world. Risking sending a Document to someone in another company and having it blow up on them isn't worth the risk. Of course are lots of other reasons for Linux not spreading like wildfire, but that is a big problem.
I personally know 3 people who have switched from cable to DirecTV with a TIVO receiver in the last month. I am one of them.
So? Whats the big deal of people dump the stock and invest in rivals? As long as the company is paying it's employees, paying for R&D, making money... why should the stock be a driving factor for anything?
It's amazing that this printer "designed by women" looks like an ugly shoe box. I anticipated to see something that at least looked nice.
Mac users are so passionate about converting everyone to Mac because probably at least 90% of us have been PC or *nix users since we were 8 years old (now being 30 years old, thats says something I guess). I have LIVED through the PC woes. I have lived through the Linux woes. I have lived through helping my friends clean their machines off viruses or staying up all night rebuilding their PC for the 11th time. Been there done that.
With current systems, ray traced images can take upto 30 minutes for 1 frame. If you could get that frame in 30 seconds, how much could that help? Ya' know?
Also, in the case of a Database. There is no replacing a single box with 72 64bit processors @ 1.2GHz and 600GB of ram or 32 64bit processors @ 1.9GHz with 1TB of memory. Do you really think Sun and IBM would offer those types of configurations if nobody bought it or thought it was important to have everything consolidated vs distributed? You can cluster databases and make smaller nodes with fragmented databases, but not all cases have that option. Sometimes you just need a big bad-ol' box.
I think the biggest difference to me (being an MacOSX Fan) is that with G5's the most you can do currently is a DUAL configuration. I would REALLY like to see apple step up and offer larger options. 4 way or 8 way configurations should be an option. There is no comparison of an 8way ANYTHING to a Dual G5.
The question I think should be asked isn't whether it's worth it, but rather, "How many times do I have to pay for windows?".
Several people purchase computers to replace the computer they already have. The old computer gets junked. Lets forget about the possibility of people switching from windows to linux. Lets just ask an even more clear issue. Why can't the user use his old copy of windows on the new dell? Can't resellers ask for proof of previous windows version to not get billed for the software?
They have word perfect for OSX?
Gigabit Ethernet is pretty standard now, it came with every system I purchased last year. It would be nice to have fiber to everyone's house and have channels of it leased out to each vendor you would like to get services for. Phone, Internet, TV, etc.
I don't see any ONE company willing to stick their neck out to install a fiber network to every house in the HOPES of people ordering a specific service. But if the government could put it in with the knowledge that people would probably get at least "A" service through that fiber to your home, then we could have tax dollars spent wisely, government could get money back on the program by charching service providers a small tax/fee to use the provided fiber, and increadible services/broadband options opened to us.
I am confused or do I see pictures on websites from Venera landers that russians built? Any other Russion landers that we're not aware of?
Still, it sounds like you wish it was BSD instead of linux... which holds my point..
So it comes down to NON-UNIX people have made Linux popular because that was their FIRST exposure to UNIX.
Is there ANYONE here that was HEAVILY into BSD and switched to a Redhat or any other Linux distro? I would imagine those numbers be few to none. I've known Solaris admins switching to Linux on x86 based servers for cost savings, but none of them really ever played with BSD before choosing Linux ... I would imagine had they been exposed to BSD first, they would have chosen BSD over Linux.
But the 'frequency' that an Operating system requires patches is a HUGE factor in security. In large environments patches are rolled out as often as they can physically push them through. We're talking sometimes it may take upto 6 months in some environments with 4000+ servers to rollout the standard update of patches.
Exactly.... That xbox controller is one of the worsts controllers in console history.
Well, you still have to "open" the bottle to win. Pepsi/Apple is still ahead on this one.