And, I think what killed the music industry and put Apple on top was...
Wait, killed the music industry? I wasn't aware music was dead. I saw a pretty good band live last week. I'm browsing Amazon as we speak to try and buy the third Franz Ferdinand album. Was thinking of going out to a club tomorrow night (who wants to bet there'll be music?).
Killed the music industry...AND put Apple on top? Apple, as in the owner of the hugely successful legal music retailer? Those guys who bucked the trend and showed that people would actually pay for music even when there's free alternatives?
Sorry, I'm struggling to follow. Run it past me again?
I was not aware there even was a Linux version of iTunes. If you're talking about running non-native software under an emulator or compatibility layer its going to be far more labour intensive- and that'd be true doing the same in Windows too.
To make Ubuntu play DVDs and rip to MP3s, all I need to do is setup "Medibuntu" (I think its called). Its a single, one-time only thing the first time you set up a computer, and I'd say no more arduous than the hours upon hours of Microsoft Windows Updates you have to run the first time you set up XP.
The fact that a huge number of the big players in open source (Novell, Sun, Red Hat, Xandros, IBM, the Free Software Foundation, Google, Mozilla, et al) are American or America-based should be the first big sign that protectionism would be a daft name for it.
You could see it as a stimulus for Europe, seeing as many of the best proprietary companies are American or Japanese. But ultimately FOSS is completely anti-protectionist; if the intellectual property is impossible to control (thanks to the licensing), how can you use it to lock out foreign competitors?
Ultimately, it's just the EU not liking being at the mercy of a foreign monopoly. Makes just as much sense as the US trying to ween itself off of foreign oil.
How do you mean "buried away"? An Amazon UK search for "ASUS eeepc" returns the top 5 results as Linux options (a mix of Xandros and Ubuntu). Looking on the Dell UK site, every Inspiron Mini page has a Linux option on the first page. I believe a recent/. article told us that 1/3 of the netbooks that Dell sell are equipped with Linux.
Its the nature of the beast that the vendors will always try to offer a Windows option if possible because thats what most non-techies want to buy. The very fact that Linux IS available AND promoted by mainstream vendors (not to mention having a market share greater than 1%) is still pretty amazing, all told.
I've been using Linux since 1995. I wonder how many of these Ubuntu fanboyz know how to configure an ethernet card with ifconfig? Or how to make a Linux live CD distribution? Or the difference between xdm and gdm. Or know that X is a network desktop.
And why should they? None of them know those kind of facts about Windows or Mac either, but it doesn't put people off using them (and paying for the privilege). Get right down to it, 90% of the computer using population aren't interested in file systems, config files or display managers, they just want a box that can surf Facebook and You Tube. And why the heck not? If Canonical can carve out a healthy business catering for that market, then good luck to them.
Speaking of Canonical's lacklustre upstream contributions, we all need to keep in mind they're still a relatively fresh start-up. They have only recently raised the prospect of being a self-sustaining, profitable company- until now they've been munching through capital. In a company's early days, 100% of their resources goes into building up their profit-making business- and for a Linux vendor, kernel patches are pretty low on the agenda.
Now they're becoming / have become an established profitable company, now it's time to watch them. If they continue their bad record, then they'll need a spanking. Everything up to now seems fairly par for the course.
The numbers aren't skewed. The numbers are exactly right. The interpretation that 1 of 3 Dell netbooks are running Linux might be skewed, but thats not really in question.
How many netbooks run XP/Linux/OSX is pretty impossible to work out. You're right to point out that Linux models are cheaper and so are bought as bare-bones PCs (good for Hackintosh, pirated XP, Win7 betas, BSD, whatever). Its also been pointed out that all Dells reconditioned netbooks seem to ship with XP, so that muddies the water even more.
I don't think its unreasonable, in the context of saying "I think filtering of child porn is bad", to point out that you're not defending the child porn itself.
In fact, I'd say its possibly the one and only time such a "capitulation" might be appropriate.
Language is for saying what you mean. I understand what he means more clearly the way he wrote it than I would have if he'd omitted his little disclaimer. That means he's doing it right.
I'm posting this from an Ubuntu PC. When I want to use some software, I go to their website and click on the "download for Ubuntu" button. I then click open, and follow the prompts. It is then installed. That is pretty much exactly as many steps as installing software for Windows by downloading and running the.exe installer. (This is assuming its not in the "Add/Remove..." menu and it's repositories, in which case its just tick the box and click OK.)
I've never had to give a second thought to dependencies even once, since it deals with that itself. The only thing I've ever had to install is the software itself, the same as for Windows.
As long as you use a major mainstream distro, you should never have to work any harder than you do with Windows.
While maybe yes (and maybe no), you're getting ahead of yourself.
All you need for the "space elevator" to work is a massive cable with one end anchored to an orbital, the other on Earth. The idea of it is to use an elevator to move materials from the surface into space.
To build a really decent power station in space, you're going to need to move a lot of materials from the surface up into orbit. Presumably the cheapest way to do this is to use your newly built space elevator- but you're going to need to power it.
So to build a nice orbital power station, we're going to want to find a way of powering the elevator from the surface first.
All companies want their products to appeal to the broadest range of people. If you can make your (mostly business oriented) smart phone device instantly appealing to casual users just by adding an MP3 player and Youtube play back, you're going to whack it in there if you can...
Thats not the same thing (oblig. IANAL). Whats on trial is whether you hit Mr. X, and what your justification was. Your motive can be "He insulted my mum", regardless of whether he was being truthful in his insult or not.
Where it comes in to play is, say the prosecution call a witness to the stands. The witness says "A friend of mine said she saw Mr. Y hit Mr. X". Thats hearsay, and not acceptable. If the "friend" saw it, they're the one that needs to be in the witness box testifying. Seeing as they weren't under oath when they told the first witness about it, theres no saying whether they were lying or not.
"What's most important to keep is quite simple and obvious really: The results. The published papers, etc."
He never suggested you throw out the results. No-one is going to throw out the results. Why would anybody throw out the results? Whichever body owns the equipment is bound to keep the results indefinitely, any papers they publish will include the results data (and be kept by the publishers), and copies will end up in all manner of libraries and file servers, duplicated all over the place.
The most important things to keep from any experiment is 1) the results (no point in doing it if you don't keep the results) and 2) the methodology (if they don't know how you got the data, it's worthless). What you could throw away without too much harm is the analysis and interpretations, since you can always reanalyze and reinterpret (and any interpretations made now may prove wrong in the future anyhow). Even then, anything interesting is likely to be kept in the grand scheme of things anyway.
The place which TFA is actually talking about is less dramatic, lower budget science. Its still important (it's the bread and butter of science and technology), but will be found in the vaults of far fewer publishers, libraries and web servers. And it's lower budget science where it's far easier to reproduce results, as in GP.
Why is it terrible and awful for kids to see pictures of sex (which all balanced people grow up to do / want to do / fail at), but perfectly a-OK for kids to see pictures of violent killings (something that we really hope no-one grows up wanting to do overly much)?
Not much has changed since the 19th century I guess. "Come child, we're going to watch a public hanging! But cover up those ankles before we leave, harlot."
How is a government spending millions of tax dollars on software development bad for software developers?
Even if its on software that isn't in your personal business area (FOSS or proprietary), it's still money being poured into your industry.
Any individual developer who is willing to work for anyone who can pay him can happily work for whatever company has the money, regardless of their business model. As long as SOMEONE is being given money to employ developers, it's good news for developers.
Just bad news for shareholders in the wrong part of the pool...
Not only are they still a monopoly by a huge factor (what, 90% of the desktop market give or take, 75% of the browser market, some other huge percent of the office suite market?), they're actually still embroiled in anti-trust suits as we speak both in the US and EU. And despite releasing a shoddy last line of products and being on the receiving end of several anti-trust verdicts already, the monopoly shows no sign of going south anytime soon.
Google, on the other hand, only has a monopoly on the (generally low/non-profit) search engine market and the online advertising market (which is near enough impossible to lock people in to, and pretty tricky to abuse). They've as yet shown little anti-competitive behaviour, not been called up on any anti-trust issues, and their brand power has shown to be far from almighty (demonstrated by the lackluster performance of the G1).
I mean I'm not saying Google won't turn out to be the next big evil, but to say that they're the the big problem that needs tackling and that Microsoft isn't an issue, that just makes absolutely no sense.
It's buggy, slow, featureless and barely make a passing nod at standards. Almost all web pages that need to be run in-game have to be specially rewritten just to render half decently. Can be a real pain; even most forums won't run properly in it, and the forums are where that game is really played...
I bought plenty of software before I was 18, with my own money, and installed and used it myself without my parents getting involved. Was I bound by the EULA?
Be careful when you're on the internet, regardless of the operating system.
The gist of TFA is that it's still possible to deliver malware to a GNOME/KDE user through simplest of attack vectors- getting a user to execute a program or open a strange file. TFA makes a point of noting that "a few extra steps" are required to write Linux malware over Windows. Its not so much of a "Linux vulnerability" as an "almost all modern GUI vulnerability" which Linux can be afflicted with too. GNOME/KDE have decided that the fix would hit their functionality too hard to be worth fixing (while others, like XFCE, decided contrary), and similar arguments apply to most of Windows' vulnerable vectors too.
If you download an execute malware, theres not much an OS can do to save you. It's unfortunate, but true.
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And, I think what killed the music industry and put Apple on top was ...
Wait, killed the music industry? I wasn't aware music was dead. I saw a pretty good band live last week. I'm browsing Amazon as we speak to try and buy the third Franz Ferdinand album. Was thinking of going out to a club tomorrow night (who wants to bet there'll be music?).
Killed the music industry...AND put Apple on top? Apple, as in the owner of the hugely successful legal music retailer? Those guys who bucked the trend and showed that people would actually pay for music even when there's free alternatives?
Sorry, I'm struggling to follow. Run it past me again?
I was not aware there even was a Linux version of iTunes. If you're talking about running non-native software under an emulator or compatibility layer its going to be far more labour intensive- and that'd be true doing the same in Windows too.
To make Ubuntu play DVDs and rip to MP3s, all I need to do is setup "Medibuntu" (I think its called). Its a single, one-time only thing the first time you set up a computer, and I'd say no more arduous than the hours upon hours of Microsoft Windows Updates you have to run the first time you set up XP.
The fact that a huge number of the big players in open source (Novell, Sun, Red Hat, Xandros, IBM, the Free Software Foundation, Google, Mozilla, et al) are American or America-based should be the first big sign that protectionism would be a daft name for it.
You could see it as a stimulus for Europe, seeing as many of the best proprietary companies are American or Japanese. But ultimately FOSS is completely anti-protectionist; if the intellectual property is impossible to control (thanks to the licensing), how can you use it to lock out foreign competitors?
Ultimately, it's just the EU not liking being at the mercy of a foreign monopoly. Makes just as much sense as the US trying to ween itself off of foreign oil.
On the other hand, working 8 hours at a software firm is enough to put anyone off coding in their time off.
Being jobless gives you plenty of free time.
How do you mean "buried away"? An Amazon UK search for "ASUS eeepc" returns the top 5 results as Linux options (a mix of Xandros and Ubuntu). Looking on the Dell UK site, every Inspiron Mini page has a Linux option on the first page. I believe a recent /. article told us that 1/3 of the netbooks that Dell sell are equipped with Linux.
Its the nature of the beast that the vendors will always try to offer a Windows option if possible because thats what most non-techies want to buy. The very fact that Linux IS available AND promoted by mainstream vendors (not to mention having a market share greater than 1%) is still pretty amazing, all told.
I've been using Linux since 1995. I wonder how many of these Ubuntu fanboyz know how to configure an ethernet card with ifconfig? Or how to make a Linux live CD distribution? Or the difference between xdm and gdm. Or know that X is a network desktop.
And why should they? None of them know those kind of facts about Windows or Mac either, but it doesn't put people off using them (and paying for the privilege). Get right down to it, 90% of the computer using population aren't interested in file systems, config files or display managers, they just want a box that can surf Facebook and You Tube. And why the heck not? If Canonical can carve out a healthy business catering for that market, then good luck to them.
Speaking of Canonical's lacklustre upstream contributions, we all need to keep in mind they're still a relatively fresh start-up. They have only recently raised the prospect of being a self-sustaining, profitable company- until now they've been munching through capital. In a company's early days, 100% of their resources goes into building up their profit-making business- and for a Linux vendor, kernel patches are pretty low on the agenda.
Now they're becoming / have become an established profitable company, now it's time to watch them. If they continue their bad record, then they'll need a spanking. Everything up to now seems fairly par for the course.
The post is "1 of 3 Dell...sold with Linux".
The numbers aren't skewed. The numbers are exactly right. The interpretation that 1 of 3 Dell netbooks are running Linux might be skewed, but thats not really in question.
How many netbooks run XP/Linux/OSX is pretty impossible to work out. You're right to point out that Linux models are cheaper and so are bought as bare-bones PCs (good for Hackintosh, pirated XP, Win7 betas, BSD, whatever). Its also been pointed out that all Dells reconditioned netbooks seem to ship with XP, so that muddies the water even more.
We just have to take the omens we're given.
I don't think its unreasonable, in the context of saying "I think filtering of child porn is bad", to point out that you're not defending the child porn itself.
In fact, I'd say its possibly the one and only time such a "capitulation" might be appropriate.
Language is for saying what you mean. I understand what he means more clearly the way he wrote it than I would have if he'd omitted his little disclaimer. That means he's doing it right.
You know how our old business of selling news for money is dyeing at the hands of free internet news?
Lets try charging people! That'll definitely help!
I'm posting this from an Ubuntu PC. When I want to use some software, I go to their website and click on the "download for Ubuntu" button. I then click open, and follow the prompts. It is then installed. That is pretty much exactly as many steps as installing software for Windows by downloading and running the .exe installer. (This is assuming its not in the "Add/Remove..." menu and it's repositories, in which case its just tick the box and click OK.)
I've never had to give a second thought to dependencies even once, since it deals with that itself. The only thing I've ever had to install is the software itself, the same as for Windows.
As long as you use a major mainstream distro, you should never have to work any harder than you do with Windows.
...you're totally screwed.
Giant magnets. Seriously. Put a big magnet in orbit in the danger zone, have it re-enter after its gobbled up all the stray iron.
I expect my cheque shortly.
There are a lot of services that already have that data. Yell.com for the UK, for example, have as much restaurant data as you could want.
If they could see their way clear to collaborating on an app, it'd be lovely.
While maybe yes (and maybe no), you're getting ahead of yourself.
All you need for the "space elevator" to work is a massive cable with one end anchored to an orbital, the other on Earth. The idea of it is to use an elevator to move materials from the surface into space.
To build a really decent power station in space, you're going to need to move a lot of materials from the surface up into orbit. Presumably the cheapest way to do this is to use your newly built space elevator- but you're going to need to power it.
So to build a nice orbital power station, we're going to want to find a way of powering the elevator from the surface first.
Maybe.
IANAS (I am not a scientist).
Because its trivially easy to make work?
All companies want their products to appeal to the broadest range of people. If you can make your (mostly business oriented) smart phone device instantly appealing to casual users just by adding an MP3 player and Youtube play back, you're going to whack it in there if you can...
Thats not the same thing (oblig. IANAL). Whats on trial is whether you hit Mr. X, and what your justification was. Your motive can be "He insulted my mum", regardless of whether he was being truthful in his insult or not.
Where it comes in to play is, say the prosecution call a witness to the stands. The witness says "A friend of mine said she saw Mr. Y hit Mr. X". Thats hearsay, and not acceptable. If the "friend" saw it, they're the one that needs to be in the witness box testifying. Seeing as they weren't under oath when they told the first witness about it, theres no saying whether they were lying or not.
5 Insightful?
Seriously, read the OP again.
"What's most important to keep is quite simple and obvious really: The results. The published papers, etc."
He never suggested you throw out the results. No-one is going to throw out the results. Why would anybody throw out the results? Whichever body owns the equipment is bound to keep the results indefinitely, any papers they publish will include the results data (and be kept by the publishers), and copies will end up in all manner of libraries and file servers, duplicated all over the place.
The most important things to keep from any experiment is 1) the results (no point in doing it if you don't keep the results) and 2) the methodology (if they don't know how you got the data, it's worthless). What you could throw away without too much harm is the analysis and interpretations, since you can always reanalyze and reinterpret (and any interpretations made now may prove wrong in the future anyhow). Even then, anything interesting is likely to be kept in the grand scheme of things anyway.
The place which TFA is actually talking about is less dramatic, lower budget science. Its still important (it's the bread and butter of science and technology), but will be found in the vaults of far fewer publishers, libraries and web servers. And it's lower budget science where it's far easier to reproduce results, as in GP.
Why is it terrible and awful for kids to see pictures of sex (which all balanced people grow up to do / want to do / fail at), but perfectly a-OK for kids to see pictures of violent killings (something that we really hope no-one grows up wanting to do overly much)?
Not much has changed since the 19th century I guess. "Come child, we're going to watch a public hanging! But cover up those ankles before we leave, harlot."
How is a government spending millions of tax dollars on software development bad for software developers?
Even if its on software that isn't in your personal business area (FOSS or proprietary), it's still money being poured into your industry.
Any individual developer who is willing to work for anyone who can pay him can happily work for whatever company has the money, regardless of their business model. As long as SOMEONE is being given money to employ developers, it's good news for developers.
Just bad news for shareholders in the wrong part of the pool...
Skynet meets the Cylons?
Totally screwed.
How are Microsoft "so last century"?
Not only are they still a monopoly by a huge factor (what, 90% of the desktop market give or take, 75% of the browser market, some other huge percent of the office suite market?), they're actually still embroiled in anti-trust suits as we speak both in the US and EU. And despite releasing a shoddy last line of products and being on the receiving end of several anti-trust verdicts already, the monopoly shows no sign of going south anytime soon.
Google, on the other hand, only has a monopoly on the (generally low/non-profit) search engine market and the online advertising market (which is near enough impossible to lock people in to, and pretty tricky to abuse). They've as yet shown little anti-competitive behaviour, not been called up on any anti-trust issues, and their brand power has shown to be far from almighty (demonstrated by the lackluster performance of the G1).
I mean I'm not saying Google won't turn out to be the next big evil, but to say that they're the the big problem that needs tackling and that Microsoft isn't an issue, that just makes absolutely no sense.
Seriously though, EVE's IGB is not good.
It's buggy, slow, featureless and barely make a passing nod at standards. Almost all web pages that need to be run in-game have to be specially rewritten just to render half decently. Can be a real pain; even most forums won't run properly in it, and the forums are where that game is really played...
Thats an interesting question actually.
I bought plenty of software before I was 18, with my own money, and installed and used it myself without my parents getting involved. Was I bound by the EULA?
Write "Not a Pedophile" in the Skills and Abilities section of your CV.
Be careful when you're on the internet, regardless of the operating system.
The gist of TFA is that it's still possible to deliver malware to a GNOME/KDE user through simplest of attack vectors- getting a user to execute a program or open a strange file. TFA makes a point of noting that "a few extra steps" are required to write Linux malware over Windows. Its not so much of a "Linux vulnerability" as an "almost all modern GUI vulnerability" which Linux can be afflicted with too. GNOME/KDE have decided that the fix would hit their functionality too hard to be worth fixing (while others, like XFCE, decided contrary), and similar arguments apply to most of Windows' vulnerable vectors too.
If you download an execute malware, theres not much an OS can do to save you. It's unfortunate, but true.