Firefox, OpenOffice.org, Thunderbird, and Pidgin on Linux works pretty much the same as Firefox, OpenOffice.org, Thunderbird, and Pidgin on Windows, as far as Joe is concerned.
However, once Joe tries to plug in the new $39.99 printer he just bought from Walmart, or his new DSLR, or his new scanner, or tries to use gotomeeting.com or webex.com, the differences are apparent.
It may not be Linux's fault, but Joe does not know that.
How many of those 600 million cycles are performing operations as opposed to waiting for IO and memory access?
How many operations does it take to boot Linux?
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Simple. If you build a bridge, and it falls over, you have just wasted a lot of money in materials and labor that you have to reinvest. Plus you have to dispose again of the broken bridge. It is worth it to have a reasonable schedule and proper design.
If your software fails, you just fix the bug and recompile. It simply makes economic sense to rush it out the door.
It will catch on. They'll get a bunch of Visual Studio programmers to use it, and then a bunch of companies will use it for their internal stuff, then prototypes will hit production, and it will snowball, leaving Linux users unable to use a bunch of business specific applications and unable to see a million punch-the-monkey ads.
If they open source it, most of the existing Linux distributions will be happy to use the code.
Debian will still appeal to the purists. Redhat will still appeal to businesses. Gentoo will still appeal to the obsessive tinkerers. Most distros have carved out a market.
My post was a good example of why we need a -1 Incorrect modifier.
I would rather the first few moderators think I am an idiot and moderate my post to -1 so nobody would see it than have it stay at 2 and have everybody see my stupidity.
Samba v. Windows Pidgin v. AOL Instant Messenger Java v..Net JBoss v. Websphere MySQL v. SQL Server OpenWRT v. any proprietary consumer grade router vim v. any other text editor tinydns v. Microsoft DNS postfix v. Microsoft Exchange Server
Actually, I do not vote to enact laws that govern you according to my beliefs, except my belief that the government should take as little of my money as possible.
You can prove some negatives, by the way. It can be proved that I cannot fly by flapping my arms really fast.
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To Oracle, Sun is worth the value of Sun plus the value of IBM not having Sun. That is more than it is worth to anybody else.
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The problem is not that the browser was included, the problem was that MS would not let the OEMs install another browser and make it the default.
Firefox, OpenOffice.org, Thunderbird, and Pidgin on Linux works pretty much the same as Firefox, OpenOffice.org, Thunderbird, and Pidgin on Windows, as far as Joe is concerned.
However, once Joe tries to plug in the new $39.99 printer he just bought from Walmart, or his new DSLR, or his new scanner, or tries to use gotomeeting.com or webex.com, the differences are apparent.
It may not be Linux's fault, but Joe does not know that.
It does not suck. It just has social norms different from those in other parts of the world.
Indians do not stand in queues. They stand in masses and push and shove to get to the front.
How many of those 600 million cycles are performing operations as opposed to waiting for IO and memory access?
How many operations does it take to boot Linux?
Simple. If you build a bridge, and it falls over, you have just wasted a lot of money in materials and labor that you have to reinvest. Plus you have to dispose again of the broken bridge. It is worth it to have a reasonable schedule and proper design.
If your software fails, you just fix the bug and recompile. It simply makes economic sense to rush it out the door.
It will catch on. They'll get a bunch of Visual Studio programmers to use it, and then a bunch of companies will use it for their internal stuff, then prototypes will hit production, and it will snowball, leaving Linux users unable to use a bunch of business specific applications and unable to see a million punch-the-monkey ads.
You really think that educated volunteers are going to outnumber paid plants?
If they open source it, most of the existing Linux distributions will be happy to use the code.
Debian will still appeal to the purists.
Redhat will still appeal to businesses.
Gentoo will still appeal to the obsessive tinkerers.
Most distros have carved out a market.
Ubuntu is the only one I see being hurt.
What makes it better?
(I am curious. I do not mean to challenge your statement. I have used neither Vista nor Windows 7.)
It says that people will believe what they want to believe.
My post was a good example of why we need a -1 Incorrect modifier.
I would rather the first few moderators think I am an idiot and moderate my post to -1 so nobody would see it than have it stay at 2 and have everybody see my stupidity.
It would be worth it for Ford to pay for fifty domains.
It would not be worth it for domain squatters to pay for hundreds, or even dozens.
Why can't they just use Intel's compiler?
Samba v. Windows .Net
Pidgin v. AOL Instant Messenger
Java v.
JBoss v. Websphere
MySQL v. SQL Server
OpenWRT v. any proprietary consumer grade router
vim v. any other text editor
tinydns v. Microsoft DNS
postfix v. Microsoft Exchange Server
Not per hundred, per hundred thousand.
Can Redmond be second?
Could the water shortages have been caused by simply having too many people for the amount of water nearby?
No. They'll get one address. And they still will not be able to run services.
Of course they can, and they will.
Why is it not a claim? Because it is a negative?
You are not good-looking. There, now it is up to you to prove that you are.
Actually, I do not vote to enact laws that govern you according to my beliefs, except my belief that the government should take as little of my money as possible.
You can prove some negatives, by the way. It can be proved that I cannot fly by flapping my arms really fast.
If you look back up the thread, this whole thing was started because somebody stated that god does not exist.
He made the claim, he should prove it.
Nobody in the thread made the claim that god does exist.