Exactly why I never RTFA. I'll read the posts and maybe even post a few times. If the posts spark my interest and I think the article may be worth my add views then I'll read it.
Maybe in stead of avoiding Linux like the Plague for the last 7 years you should give it a try. Some distributions of linux require nothing more than putting a CD in a CD tray. Others require 4-5 key strokes to get installed and configure.
Only problem, GPL. They knew that if Solaris was released under GPL it'd be dismalteled and incoorperated into Linux due to more free software developers being comfortable with Linux. Sun would lose it's branding ability.
With OOo it was diffrent. There was nothing to dismatle staroffice into at the time. Sun could maintain the code and not worry about losing control and branding.
writing linux distribution reviews should be easy. First review Gnome 2.10 with all the nice screen shots etc... Then when reviewing Fedora say it included Gnome 2.10 with a link to that review and outline the diffrences. Do this for each of the important parts of the distribution and you'd have a complete review and you'd know what made it diffrent from vanilla compiles and other distributions.
Like all free software projects they work on what they feel like working on at any specific time. No more, no less. Debian isn't a busness. They are not trying to make money. Even their secondary quest of being a popular distribution is only a little self ego stroking and not a direct goal. If someone wanted to have an AMD64 port it would get done. Eventually someone wanted one.
Redhat and other for profit companies find goals of market share to be of higher priority than fun development. That's why they end up more ridged and boring.
Why bother with the Gnome and KDE screen shots? One screen shot showing a Gnome and KDE desktop witht he Fedora logo is all that would be needed. It is the least diffrent thing between distributions yet it fills up most of the reviews.
I know it was in one of the Timothy Zahn books. It was more of a speculation from Luke that Yoda killed a dark lord there. It was never confirmed, at least in those books. I was kinda hoping that maybe Dooku was going to get killed on Dagoba, but I saw during the Clone Wars cartoon that Qui Gon Jin took Anikin to Dagoba at one point.
If there is anything less trustworthy than Science it is news stories. They are specifically driven by the same thing that bad science is. Quick money.
Ok, lets outline the reasons for doing this. I can only think of 3 off the top of my head:
1) Marketing - Cigerett company commisions someone to do a scientific study on the health problems associated with smokeing. Data altered to favor cigeretts could be a good reason for bad science.
2) Funding - Saying that results were successful in a pre test to someone you are trying to get funding from. This I would think of as the first step over the line of bad science. Unless you are pocketing the money rather than putting it into more research.
3) Short term fame - I say short term because once it is found to be bad science you will only be a famous fraud from then on. This would mostly be for a scientific ego trip.
Please others come up with other reasons someone may want to fudge science.
This way we can look at un verified science through these goggles and hopefully we can make a better decision on the trustworthness of the data.
And in case you're interested run the command with:
$ COLUMNS=150;dpkg -l
and you can actually see the full listing. For some reason you have to run it like that if you try to set COLUMNS otherwise for some reason it gets unset right away. Not sure why.
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Exactly why I never RTFA. I'll read the posts and maybe even post a few times. If the posts spark my interest and I think the article may be worth my add views then I'll read it.
They finally have ehough market share to get off pen and paper. Soon they'll graduate to Quicken.
Dell continues, "We'll only sell Apple on x86 if they use AMD chips."
Now that would be Hell freezing over!!
You can't think of even one time that you've wanted to put a member of your family in LEO?
just dont start viewing it with the --dvd-style-menu option.
They are both objects. Smaller than a bread box. Not related to a giraffe.
Actually they are almost exactly the same.
Thank you for pointing out the obvious punch line that I almost missed.
Now I have to clean the coffee out of my nose.
Are you on the phone with Microsoft support?
ahh should have been:
its harder than it's rule reads when its' not typed very often.
Maybe in stead of avoiding Linux like the Plague for the last 7 years you should give it a try. Some distributions of linux require nothing more than putting a CD in a CD tray. Others require 4-5 key strokes to get installed and configure.
You obviously don't understand. The world is black and white. There are only winners and losers. There can be only one!!
What? its harder than it's made out to be.
My next post about posts posting about next headlines going to the next extreme being anoying as all hell.
Only problem, GPL. They knew that if Solaris was released under GPL it'd be dismalteled and incoorperated into Linux due to more free software developers being comfortable with Linux. Sun would lose it's branding ability.
With OOo it was diffrent. There was nothing to dismatle staroffice into at the time. Sun could maintain the code and not worry about losing control and branding.
Doesn't matter. That is what they charge for. Hence, income!!
writing linux distribution reviews should be easy. First review Gnome 2.10 with all the nice screen shots etc... Then when reviewing Fedora say it included Gnome 2.10 with a link to that review and outline the diffrences. Do this for each of the important parts of the distribution and you'd have a complete review and you'd know what made it diffrent from vanilla compiles and other distributions.
Like all free software projects they work on what they feel like working on at any specific time. No more, no less. Debian isn't a busness. They are not trying to make money. Even their secondary quest of being a popular distribution is only a little self ego stroking and not a direct goal. If someone wanted to have an AMD64 port it would get done. Eventually someone wanted one.
Redhat and other for profit companies find goals of market share to be of higher priority than fun development. That's why they end up more ridged and boring.
Why bother with the Gnome and KDE screen shots? One screen shot showing a Gnome and KDE desktop witht he Fedora logo is all that would be needed. It is the least diffrent thing between distributions yet it fills up most of the reviews.
Didn't they learn there lesson yesterday?
You're an anti-bigot bigot.
I know it was in one of the Timothy Zahn books. It was more of a speculation from Luke that Yoda killed a dark lord there. It was never confirmed, at least in those books. I was kinda hoping that maybe Dooku was going to get killed on Dagoba, but I saw during the Clone Wars cartoon that Qui Gon Jin took Anikin to Dagoba at one point.
Exploded, I think my brain just did.
If there is anything less trustworthy than Science it is news stories. They are specifically driven by the same thing that bad science is. Quick money.
Ok, lets outline the reasons for doing this. I can only think of 3 off the top of my head:
1) Marketing - Cigerett company commisions someone to do a scientific study on the health problems associated with smokeing. Data altered to favor cigeretts could be a good reason for bad science.
2) Funding - Saying that results were successful in a pre test to someone you are trying to get funding from. This I would think of as the first step over the line of bad science. Unless you are pocketing the money rather than putting it into more research.
3) Short term fame - I say short term because once it is found to be bad science you will only be a famous fraud from then on. This would mostly be for a scientific ego trip.
Please others come up with other reasons someone may want to fudge science.
This way we can look at un verified science through these goggles and hopefully we can make a better decision on the trustworthness of the data.
And in case you're interested run the command with:
$ COLUMNS=150;dpkg -l
and you can actually see the full listing. For some reason you have to run it like that if you try to set COLUMNS otherwise for some reason it gets unset right away. Not sure why.