I think you also need to think that when people are in the store looking for software they don't see shelves upon shelves of FOSS software. You can't buy it, because it's free. Because it's free stores don't stock it.
On the otherhand, you do see shelves upon shelves of windows software.
When Joe consumer is in the store, who has more brand recognition, the brand that is present or the brand that isn't.
So it's not Linux that's out of touch with the consumer, it's the consumer who's out of touch with the delivery channels.
I'm not so sure that Linux is safer due to it's smaller target audience. I think it's just safer period. Of course the MS Zeolots claim that it's because of the smaller target and Linux would have the same problems as Windows, but were is the proof of that? It's just supposition. Linux does not automagically run things from the web, has security issues fixed as soon as they are found, and is easy to upgrade.
Interesting, in that Einstein liked to go for long walks under the open sky.
From the headline.
When people are in a room with a high ceiling, they activate the idea of freedom and The concept of freedom promotes information processing that encourages greater variation in the kinds of thoughts one has, said Meyers-Levy...
Here's another non-obvious tip. Don't get any sudden exposure.
My dad runs a stock expert tracking site stockchase that he was getting some small revenue from adsense on. He got some exposure from a major newspaper, and google canned the adsense. The only thing we can think of is the sudden jump made them suspicous, and my dad saw some ad's on the site that he was interested in, and clicked on.
We wrote to them, and got no answer. He has re-applied for adsense and they won't touch us.
It's one thing to do something wrong and be told don't do that or we will discontinue the service. It's another thing to discontinue the service and not be told the reason other then we were suspicous.
The lack of people who do this stuff for fun is frustrating. I program for a living and for fun, http://code.google.com/p/crylib/wiki/CryLib The problem is that in order for people to be excited about working after hours as a hobby, they have to have a motive or project that really excites them. Programming for most people is a means to an end. If the end is exciting or liberating in some way (an OS kernel is a good example) then more people will join in.
In my case I'm interested in A.I. and decided that I needed a framework to build some of my ideas around, so I started working on my library. Several years later, I'm still working on my library and only have a couple of A.I. things in it. But the library is getting kinda cool, so I guess it's taking over.
I was pleasently surprised at all the different things a PS3 can do. It can play music, show videos, show pictures, play games.
Why is it with 8 processors, it can only do these things one at a time.
I'd like to start it playing music and display a series of pictures and/or videos. It would be useful at parties. I'd like to start it playing background music, turn off the music in a game and play a game, without listening to "call to battle" or whatever the track is, over and over and over.
Well, one of the ways Distros make money is selling support. Do you see how this might work? Dell sells the hardware, along with a Distro preloaded, that comes with a support package from that Distro. Sounds pretty straightforward to me.
Had the enter key pop off on my laptop. They sent a new one within 2 days. The instructions were missing so the guy talked me through replacing the keyboard while I was on the phone. (It turns out to be pretty simple, but I didn't know that at the time).
So between broken keyboard and fixed 2 days.
Support staff seemed very friendly and knowledgable.
Of course this was a hardware problem so software may be a different story. But I think preloading linux with a major distro shouldn't be a problem. Send out a sample machine to suse/mephis/ubuntoo/gentoo/debian and so on with instructions to load their OS on as nicely as possible, and to call for hardware specs if needed. I have a feeling that companies wouldn't mind doing this as a service to get possible thousands of sales. The community sponsored distros have gurus that would love to promote their software. Software support provided by.... (not Dell). If you want support you pay the extra for the premium. Once a system has been set up, start duplicating disks.
Anyways, does Dell do software support for Microsoft? I don't think so.
Yes an algorithm is a process. But it is also a mathematical function, an idea, and at it's lowest level just a string of 1's and 0's.
Imagine the program on your disk to be one large number in base 2. Can you patent a number? Of course not. Can you patent an idea, nope, you can only patent a thing. This is why they are talking about the patent being the software ON the computer. Both combined are patentable.
I think it's great that the supreme court is looking at this. It's about time.
Ninety percent of your users will not have an opinion about your software. Ninety percent of the users who have an opinion, will have a misconception about what the software is supposed to do. Ninety percent of the users who understand what the software was supposed to do, will have a preconceived idea on how it should work based on their experiences with your competitors. The final 10% of the people who have an opinion, have no misconceptions about the software, and have no preconceived idea, will have useful input.
The game looks interesting, but I think that you should save your money, and just use planeshift http://www.planeshift.it/main_01.html which is already open source, uses the crystal space game engine (also open source) and is available for free NOW.
Then again I'm not really into MMORPH's so maybe there is more to Ryzom then I'm seeing.
The coolest thing I was ever involved with was first robotics. It is an international competition between highschools. Each high school builds a robot that competes against other schools. The thing is, you don't know what the robot's job is until 8 weeks before the competition so time is scarce in making everything work.
Yup I'm a Gentoo user, and have been since the first slashdot artical came out about it. (around Jul 2002). It hasn't gotten any harder since then. I'm not exactly a Linux Noob but before Gentoo I just let Mandrake scripts deal with the OS.
If Joe can't install Gentoo, Joe shouldn't be reviewing Linux Distros, except from a pure newbie point of view. Cause it's just not that hard.
Opensource tends to outlast comercial. You don't need big bucks to maintain a software house, you just need to know how to program. Even if you don't there are lots of people who do. If the program is useful for you it will be useful for other people as well.
So any pc manufacturer is also open to lawsuits? Your post makes no sense at all. A TiVo is a computer running propriatary software for a specialized purpose. If you run your own software then TiVo isn't liable for what you do. It would be like sueing car manufactures for road accidents due to alcohol. Not going to happen.
If I understand your problem right. You've taken a loan out and you want to invest it. That investment will have to be able to pay more then the load itself, and (I don't know US law) any applicable taxes you make on the money you invest.
If your loan is $10,000 at 6%, and the taxes at 15% of your earnings you will have to make back the 6% interest plus the 15% of the >6 percent earnings in order to show any gain at all. Probably around 8% or 9% return in order to make it worthwhile.
If these figures are anywhere close to what your situation is, you might be better off REPAYING THE LOANS, and concentrating on school.
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I think you also need to think that when people are in the store looking for software they don't see shelves upon shelves of FOSS software. You can't buy it, because it's free. Because it's free stores don't stock it.
On the otherhand, you do see shelves upon shelves of windows software.
When Joe consumer is in the store, who has more brand recognition, the brand that is present or the brand that isn't.
So it's not Linux that's out of touch with the consumer, it's the consumer who's out of touch with the delivery channels.
I'm not so sure that Linux is safer due to it's smaller target audience. I think it's just safer period. Of course the MS Zeolots claim that it's because of the smaller target and Linux would have the same problems as Windows, but were is the proof of that? It's just supposition. Linux does not automagically run things from the web, has security issues fixed as soon as they are found, and is easy to upgrade.
From the headline. When people are in a room with a high ceiling, they activate the idea of freedom and The concept of freedom promotes information processing that encourages greater variation in the kinds of thoughts one has, said Meyers-Levy...
Here's another non-obvious tip. Don't get any sudden exposure.
My dad runs a stock expert tracking site stockchase that he was getting some small revenue from adsense on. He got some exposure from a major newspaper, and google canned the adsense. The only thing we can think of is the sudden jump made them suspicous, and my dad saw some ad's on the site that he was interested in, and clicked on.
We wrote to them, and got no answer. He has re-applied for adsense and they won't touch us.
It's one thing to do something wrong and be told don't do that or we will discontinue the service. It's another thing to discontinue the service and not be told the reason other then we were suspicous.
The lack of people who do this stuff for fun is frustrating. I program for a living and for fun, http://code.google.com/p/crylib/wiki/CryLib The problem is that in order for people to be excited about working after hours as a hobby, they have to have a motive or project that really excites them. Programming for most people is a means to an end. If the end is exciting or liberating in some way (an OS kernel is a good example) then more people will join in.
In my case I'm interested in A.I. and decided that I needed a framework to build some of my ideas around, so I started working on my library. Several years later, I'm still working on my library and only have a couple of A.I. things in it. But the library is getting kinda cool, so I guess it's taking over.
It doesn't matter if there is only one processor or if Sony has reservered processors for various purposes.
With my one processor PC I can do all those things. Come on, Cell tech is supposed to be advanced.
I haven't been able to play my music in back of the slide show. When you leave the music option, it stops playing.
I was pleasently surprised at all the different things a PS3 can do. It can play music, show videos, show pictures, play games.
Why is it with 8 processors, it can only do these things one at a time.
I'd like to start it playing music and display a series of pictures and/or videos. It would be useful at parties.
I'd like to start it playing background music, turn off the music in a game and play a game, without listening to "call to battle" or whatever the track is, over and over and over.
Yes... :)
But how do you really feel?
Well, one of the ways Distros make money is selling support. Do you see how this might work? Dell sells the hardware, along with a Distro preloaded, that comes with a support package from that Distro. Sounds pretty straightforward to me.
Had the enter key pop off on my laptop. They sent a new one within 2 days. The instructions were missing so the guy talked me through replacing the keyboard while I was on the phone. (It turns out to be pretty simple, but I didn't know that at the time).
.... (not Dell). If you want support you pay the extra for the premium. Once a system has been set up, start duplicating disks.
So between broken keyboard and fixed 2 days.
Support staff seemed very friendly and knowledgable.
Of course this was a hardware problem so software may be a different story. But I think preloading linux with a major distro shouldn't be a problem. Send out a sample machine to suse/mephis/ubuntoo/gentoo/debian and so on with instructions to load their OS on as nicely as possible, and to call for hardware specs if needed. I have a feeling that companies wouldn't mind doing this as a service to get possible thousands of sales. The community sponsored distros have gurus that would love to promote their software. Software support provided by
Anyways, does Dell do software support for Microsoft? I don't think so.
Yes an algorithm is a process. But it is also a mathematical function, an idea, and at it's lowest level just a string of 1's and 0's.
Imagine the program on your disk to be one large number in base 2. Can you patent a number? Of course not. Can you patent an idea, nope, you can only patent a thing. This is why they are talking about the patent being the software ON the computer. Both combined are patentable.
I think it's great that the supreme court is looking at this. It's about time.
I think it's funny to hear these exceutives couch their phrases behind action packed verbs!!!
Replace "Overly agressive" with "too hopeful" to get back to a normal person.
I think this is one of the best comments I've ever seen on slashdot. Very well done!
Every time I see this title I think "French Kiss Gets OSS from USB Sticks" and I'm left wondering if it's a virus or something.
The problem is that people insist that everything be as simple as a toaster,
gawd. I hate my toaster.
I'm glad I don't work for you too.
Hmm, my humor module must be out for repair. That was supposed to be funny.
Ninety percent of your users will not have an opinion about your software.
Ninety percent of the users who have an opinion, will have a misconception about what the software is supposed to do.
Ninety percent of the users who understand what the software was supposed to do, will have a preconceived idea on how it should work based on their experiences with your competitors.
The final 10% of the people who have an opinion, have no misconceptions about the software, and have no preconceived idea, will have useful input.
Unfortunately 90% of those people are idiots.
The game looks interesting, but I think that you should save your money, and just use planeshift http://www.planeshift.it/main_01.html which is already open source, uses the crystal space game engine (also open source) and is available for free NOW.
Then again I'm not really into MMORPH's so maybe there is more to Ryzom then I'm seeing.
The coolest thing I was ever involved with was first robotics. It is an international competition between highschools. Each high school builds a robot that competes against other schools. The thing is, you don't know what the robot's job is until 8 weeks before the competition so time is scarce in making everything work.
First Robotics
I was a mentor for the programming part. It's pretty intense for the kids, as they need to learn a new language (c++) as well as program the thing.
This teams highlights video give a pretty good idea of what it's like here
Yup I'm a Gentoo user, and have been since the first slashdot artical came out about it. (around Jul 2002). It hasn't gotten any harder since then. I'm not exactly a Linux Noob but before Gentoo I just let Mandrake scripts deal with the OS.
If Joe can't install Gentoo, Joe shouldn't be reviewing Linux Distros, except from a pure newbie point of view. Cause it's just not that hard.
Opensource tends to outlast comercial. You don't need big bucks to maintain a software house, you just need to know how to program. Even if you don't there are lots of people who do. If the program is useful for you it will be useful for other people as well.
So any pc manufacturer is also open to lawsuits? Your post makes no sense at all. A TiVo is a computer running propriatary software for a specialized purpose. If you run your own software then TiVo isn't liable for what you do. It would be like sueing car manufactures for road accidents due to alcohol. Not going to happen.
If I understand your problem right. You've taken a loan out and you want to invest it.
That investment will have to be able to pay more then the load itself, and (I don't know US law) any applicable taxes you make on the money you invest.
If your loan is $10,000 at 6%, and the taxes at 15% of your earnings you will have to make back the 6% interest plus the 15% of the >6 percent earnings in order to show any gain at all. Probably around 8% or 9% return in order to make it worthwhile.
If these figures are anywhere close to what your situation is, you might be better off REPAYING THE LOANS, and concentrating on school.
Wasn't longhorn the codename for windows 95. I think it's already been released.