It seems many people are a bit confused about what exactly all this means. I suggest you read this and then have a read through this page and it should become a lot clearer...
I agree that percentage wise, it's interesting that a lot of devs who now focus on Linux used to focus on Windows. But the majority used to focus on Unix!
No, they didn't. The 40% figure isn't what anyone used to do, it's...oh, I can't be bothered....I don't think I've ever read through a comments section where so many people so obviously didn't bother reading either the original article or the interview. Why did you bother posting at all?
It appears they were collected properly, as long as you wanted to prove that "People who use Linux" == "People who use Linux"
I really don't understand this. How can you read what was written above and still completely and utterly fail to understand? Is there any point in trying to explain? Try "Developers who develop for Linux" == "Developers who used to develop for Windows, now develop for both, and are moving towards more Linux than Windows"
Because in the US, people pay a flat rate for local phone service
This makes no sense. If you can tell it's a non-local number and charge to that, why can't the company tell it's a mobile (cell) number? The receiver doesn't pay for national calls, do they?
You can get flat rate local calls in the UK too, but we don't pay to receive calls on our mobile.
while he's totally incorrect from a technical point of view, from a marketing/product line standpoing he's correct
True enough...I wasn't really considering that angle...and (To today's Mods): I don't think the parent should have been modded down. He just made a mistake and was corrected soon afterwards. Leave modding down for posts that really deserve it and concentrate on modding up.
XP is not the successor of 2000 and it didn't evolve from it.
To emphasise Spirit's post, this is completely wrong. In fact, the only part of your post which is correct is that the User Interfaces are very similar. If any reader just assumes the opposite of everything else you said, then they'll have the truth of the matter.
why it is so interesting if there really is water on Mars.
If there is simple life on Mars, there is the possibility that life in this Solar system began on Mars, not Earth. Problems with life beginning on Earth are that it was too hot (around 4 billion years ago when they figure life should have begun) with meteors crashing into it continually so that the surface was basically a sea of lava. Mars was more hospitable at that time.
We've found fragments of Mars, blasted off by impacts, on Earth, so life could have been carried here that way.
If any life on Mars is completely different to Earth life, OTOH, it would be fascinating to see how different approaches could work...also, life developing entirely independently on two planets within our solar system would strongly indicate that life was quite common within the Galaxy.
but in general I don't think you'd ever want to use the -j 2 flag on a single-processor machine since it could only slow down the compile and make your computer less responsive.
Umm...yeah...if you read the post, that's exactly what he wanted to do: make the computer less responsive so he could see if the new kernel made any difference.
At the beginning of 1983, most people were lucky if they were using computers with 64K of RAM. By the end of that year, a few had 128K. 512K didn't become common until 1985 or 1986, probably...
You're a bit early with those dates. 1985 was the year the Spectrum 128 and Commodore 128 were released. 512K became common with the Atari ST and the Amiga 500 which weren't released until 1985 and 1987 respectively. 512K was probably the average memory size in 1988-1990.
OSS Licenses (of which there are many) don't need to be compatible with GPL to be truly open. Take off those GPL blinds.
Perhaps you should take off your anti-GPL blinds? It's rather obvious that you're prejudiced against the GPL for some reason. Do you know how I spotted this? It's because you mention the GPL five times in your post whereas BadlandZ didn't mention it at all!
So in otherwords the author's comment about it not being possible to "go back to Win98" is a load of crap? I mean, in boot.ini it lists the MS OSes that it found on the hard drive and gives you a 30 second selection menu.
I think you misunderstand. You can upgrade from 98 to XP and it will pick up your applications/settings OK, but no more 98. Or you can install XP alongside 98, dual boot, but it won't pick up applications/settings so you'll need to reinstall those. The auther wanted a mix of both.
Sorry, this just struck me as weird. 30 sentences, and I counted 14 uses of the word "said". Is this bad journalism? Or simply repetetive, dry and boring?
You're right. I've fixed the relevent sentences for you:
"The discovery is unique because the materials remained stable, keeping data intact, the project's leader bellowed."
""This all began when we were trying to do something completely different with the materials," simpered John Fourkas"
"That lets the laser focus on different levels in the material to write and read digital data, Fourkas whispered seductively."
"So, far, researchers have been able to write data on as many as 25 levels, he exclaimed in an interview.
"We don't yet know how this happens, exactly," Fourkas whined."
"The discovery began about three years ago, Fourkas ejaculated"
" "We thought it might be useful for something," Fourkas grunted. "
"funded by a $344,000 grant from the U.S. Air Force, Fourkas sneered. "
"The researchers have applied for a patent, Fourkas confessed. They haven't been in contact with any companies about the discovery.
A number of issues still need to be worked out, Fourkas screamed. One is that once data is written to the disk, it can't be changed. Each disk has to be written individually, he jested."
What a load of crap! Internet Explorer saves your URL/Searches! STOP THE PRESSES! Internet Explorer saves cookies and history! BREAKING NEWS! OMIGOD IT'S A CONSPIRACY!
And keeps them after you've instructed it to clear its history and cookies. That's the point. Didn't you read the article?
Whoa, Microsoft installed "secret" files! How evil! The system attribute has only been around since, uh, DOS 1.0 or something!
And doesn't display them even when you turn on the display of hidden and system files in explorer. Didn't you read the article?
I would complain if Konqueror didn't show me all dot files after I'd enabled viewing them, or if the history file was being backed up without my knowledge.
Oh, and I found an interesting dilemma for current evolutionary ideas here [talkorigins.org]. I think it's a religious page, but if you ignore the evolution-flaming, it brings up an obvious need for further study.
Umm...this page shows how the process could have happened by evolution. talkorigins.org is not a religious site; it's a site that tackles common misconceptions about evolution.
As a European I would gladly have the saved money returned to me OR reallocated to further improve public health care and transportation, as long as ONE of them happened.
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It seems many people are a bit confused about what exactly all this means. I suggest you read this and then have a read through this page and it should become a lot clearer...
You can get flat rate local calls in the UK too, but we don't pay to receive calls on our mobile.
Wow! That's exactly the disk I used to install the very first time I used Linux...I wonder how many other people got started on that one?
To emphasise Spirit's post, this is completely wrong. In fact, the only part of your post which is correct is that the User Interfaces are very similar. If any reader just assumes the opposite of everything else you said, then they'll have the truth of the matter.
If there is simple life on Mars, there is the possibility that life in this Solar system began on Mars, not Earth. Problems with life beginning on Earth are that it was too hot (around 4 billion years ago when they figure life should have begun) with meteors crashing into it continually so that the surface was basically a sea of lava. Mars was more hospitable at that time.
We've found fragments of Mars, blasted off by impacts, on Earth, so life could have been carried here that way.
If any life on Mars is completely different to Earth life, OTOH, it would be fascinating to see how different approaches could work...also, life developing entirely independently on two planets within our solar system would strongly indicate that life was quite common within the Galaxy.
He was joking. 192.168.*.* addresses aren't public IP addresses, they're for local networks.
No, he meant why GIFs when we have PNG to do the same job better?
Umm...yeah...if you read the post, that's exactly what he wanted to do: make the computer less responsive so he could see if the new kernel made any difference.
Thanks for Celestia. It's a great program.
Perhaps you should take off your anti-GPL blinds? It's rather obvious that you're prejudiced against the GPL for some reason. Do you know how I spotted this? It's because you mention the GPL five times in your post whereas BadlandZ didn't mention it at all!
I think you misunderstand. You can upgrade from 98 to XP and it will pick up your applications/settings OK, but no more 98. Or you can install XP alongside 98, dual boot, but it won't pick up applications/settings so you'll need to reinstall those. The auther wanted a mix of both.
No, it isn't. The technology did not exist at that time to fake the moon landings and it doesn't exist now.
Yeah...that's why there's no such thing as a tourist industry.
Yeah, that book is more(1) or less(1) the only one you need...
How reassuring that they haven't died in vain...
You're right. I've fixed the relevent sentences for you:
"The discovery is unique because the materials remained stable, keeping data intact, the project's leader bellowed."
""This all began when we were trying to do something completely different with the materials," simpered John Fourkas"
"That lets the laser focus on different levels in the material to write and read digital data, Fourkas whispered seductively."
"So, far, researchers have been able to write data on as many as 25 levels, he exclaimed in an interview.
"We don't yet know how this happens, exactly," Fourkas whined."
"The discovery began about three years ago, Fourkas ejaculated"
" "We thought it might be useful for something," Fourkas grunted. "
"funded by a $344,000 grant from the U.S. Air Force, Fourkas sneered. "
"The researchers have applied for a patent, Fourkas confessed. They haven't been in contact with any companies about the discovery.
A number of issues still need to be worked out, Fourkas screamed. One is that once data is written to the disk, it can't be changed. Each disk has to be written individually, he jested."
Hope this helps...
And doesn't display them even when you turn on the display of hidden and system files in explorer. Didn't you read the article?
I would complain if Konqueror didn't show me all dot files after I'd enabled viewing them, or if the history file was being backed up without my knowledge.
See, this is your problem...you see science as cold and hard. Science is, of course, warm and cuddly!
Umm...this page shows how the process could have happened by evolution. talkorigins.org is not a religious site; it's a site that tackles common misconceptions about evolution.
As a European I would gladly have the saved money returned to me OR reallocated to further improve public health care and transportation, as long as ONE of them happened.