No it would be mean 10b web using devices total. That may be true. Computers outnumber people in most 3rd world countries. Now add phones, ereaders, tablets, game consoles. I don't have any problem with a 10b figure.
Its been a few years but Opera was my choice for web browser on blackberry. It wouldn't shock me if 1/2 of all blackberry users use Opera, so that's like 50m right there.
New features aren't such a big problem though they should really only be in minor. The real problem is removing features or radically altering APIs which should only happen in major.
Fedora is meant to be non stable, its meant to be the test bed for RedHat. The stable product is RHEL. Why would Fedora want customers that are interested in stability, so they can undercut RHEL?
But yes, FF if they are going to retire support this aggressively then its unsuitable for the enterprise. The business issues are not comparable.
The core idea of distributed source code control is distribution, that there isn't a central repository and a central administration and management structure explicitly handling branches and merges. In most commercial shops you want non distributed, you want a central administration and management structure.
Ideas like file locking are a plus: Joe has these files, Samantha is working on this module, and Michael on that one. Joe tries to change Michael's file bang runs into a lock; that's considered a good thing.
Subversion was a minor upgrade from CVS. Essentially it should have felt like a major version upgrade. GIT is an entirely different philosophy of source code management. Its a fundamental shift, and one that for most commercial shops really doesn't make sense.
I don't think you paid attention to my post. You don't have to agree with the MPAA, you just need to understand the system with respect to what you are trying to control for. For example it sounds like you are looking to control for violence. So you avoid strong rating for violence while being OK with strong rating for sex. As an aside, the MPAA is rather mainstream. I know people from the far Christian right and they would have serious objections to other things the MPAA isn't worried about.
In real life the rating agencies are pretty damn helpful. You aren't thinking like a parent...
a) A's 8 year old kid wants to see a zombie movie. Exclude the R's. See if there are any PG that are not PG-13. Probably pretty safe. b) B's 11 year old wants to watch a romantic comedy. Not sure how sexy is it. Did it get a PG, a PG-13, R or NC17? c) C's 14 year old wants to watch a war movie. Mostly they are OK but I've heard a few are rough oh and they have an NC17.
The system doesn't have to be perfect, pretty good is very helpful.
Its a bit difficult to figure out what parents want to censor in terms of all user created content. Its not hard to just have restricted sites and whitelist them.
That's just not true. Microsoft has very conservative product managers for their profitable products and as a result there is a slow transition from research to side offering and side offering to core. But... if you spend any time on their research side you will see tremendous imagination and innovation.
Microsoft right now represents a conservative and cautious choice. They done the ground work to turn on a dime if they needed to.
First off companies that have tried to break Microsoft's hold have found it incredibly expensive. That's been one of the killers for Linux as an enterprise standard. That being said, take a look at research.microsoft.com . Microsoft has tremendous capability to become a major innovator in many of these areas. The problem for them is a huge percentage of their customer base doesn't want rapid innovation; a classic problem of being disrupted.
Oh and BTW IBM lost $5b the year their desktop sales to enterprise dropped off in favor of clone people like Dell. IBM going out of business was seen as quite possible in '91.
I don't know most of the people I talked to were also using FIDONET connections so it was 2-3 days. It was only when I started going direct in '92 that I got that high speed 6-30 hr turnaround times.
I hope this holds true. I've been very happy with what I've seen of Linux Mint. Fedora is a bit more advanced than Ubuntu and of course RedHat packages vs. Debian peeling back one more level. I think this is potentially quite good.
A wrapper is going to be not much different that GTK. Everything is open source its not worth the effort to re-implement GTK and keep it current, it ain't gonna happen.
I guess it depends a great deal if your priority is other QT apps or KDE + KDE applications. I'm the latter. I love having a standard C++ widget kit that's really really good. But I think KDE is more important by a long measure. I think having QT become a component of KDE fully would be to open source's general advantage; while willing to acknowledge there are plusses and minuses.
JAVA doesn't produce great programmers IMHO. But Intel is going to need people with lower level skills and C, assembly, machine, forth is just too much to ask for a general curriculum. Assume they are going to have to pick that up on the job, IMHO.
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Why. I'd assume their users like gecko and gecko is a differentiator. Dump Gecko and they are just a webkit skin, those haven't been successful.
No it would be mean 10b web using devices total. That may be true. Computers outnumber people in most 3rd world countries. Now add phones, ereaders, tablets, game consoles. I don't have any problem with a 10b figure.
Its been a few years but Opera was my choice for web browser on blackberry. It wouldn't shock me if 1/2 of all blackberry users use Opera, so that's like 50m right there.
New features aren't such a big problem though they should really only be in minor. The real problem is removing features or radically altering APIs which should only happen in major.
They are currently competing with:
apple / google working together on webkit / chrome / safari
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They need to decide on a niche. The "heavy" browser for web designers, power users.... may be that niche.
How many enterprises with substantial Linux desktop usage have standards non compliant internal websites? Can you name any?
Fedora is meant to be non stable, its meant to be the test bed for RedHat. The stable product is RHEL. Why would Fedora want customers that are interested in stability, so they can undercut RHEL?
But yes, FF if they are going to retire support this aggressively then its unsuitable for the enterprise. The business issues are not comparable.
The core idea of distributed source code control is distribution, that there isn't a central repository and a central administration and management structure explicitly handling branches and merges. In most commercial shops you want non distributed, you want a central administration and management structure.
Ideas like file locking are a plus:
Joe has these files, Samantha is working on this module, and Michael on that one. Joe tries to change Michael's file bang runs into a lock; that's considered a good thing.
Subversion was a minor upgrade from CVS. Essentially it should have felt like a major version upgrade. GIT is an entirely different philosophy of source code management. Its a fundamental shift, and one that for most commercial shops really doesn't make sense.
Depending how you count the federal government has a larger data infrastructure than all the cloud providers combined or at least is comparable.
Nothing. Just want to make sure its a G rated rated zombie if it is going to be shown to a sesame street aged child. And that's precisely the point.
There are zombies in Wizards of Waverly Place. So again, you ain't thinking like a parent.
I don't think you paid attention to my post. You don't have to agree with the MPAA, you just need to understand the system with respect to what you are trying to control for. For example it sounds like you are looking to control for violence. So you avoid strong rating for violence while being OK with strong rating for sex. As an aside, the MPAA is rather mainstream. I know people from the far Christian right and they would have serious objections to other things the MPAA isn't worried about.
In real life the rating agencies are pretty damn helpful. You aren't thinking like a parent...
a) A's 8 year old kid wants to see a zombie movie. Exclude the R's. See if there are any PG that are not PG-13. Probably pretty safe.
b) B's 11 year old wants to watch a romantic comedy. Not sure how sexy is it. Did it get a PG, a PG-13, R or NC17?
c) C's 14 year old wants to watch a war movie. Mostly they are OK but I've heard a few are rough oh and they have an NC17.
The system doesn't have to be perfect, pretty good is very helpful.
As a parent of now a 12 year old. Those sorts of content controlled websites exist. Disney runs one. http://www.webkinz.com/ , http://www.seussville.com/ etc..
Its a bit difficult to figure out what parents want to censor in terms of all user created content. Its not hard to just have restricted sites and whitelist them.
That's just not true. Microsoft has very conservative product managers for their profitable products and as a result there is a slow transition from research to side offering and side offering to core. But... if you spend any time on their research side you will see tremendous imagination and innovation.
Microsoft right now represents a conservative and cautious choice. They done the ground work to turn on a dime if they needed to.
First off companies that have tried to break Microsoft's hold have found it incredibly expensive. That's been one of the killers for Linux as an enterprise standard. That being said, take a look at research.microsoft.com . Microsoft has tremendous capability to become a major innovator in many of these areas. The problem for them is a huge percentage of their customer base doesn't want rapid innovation; a classic problem of being disrupted.
Oh and BTW IBM lost $5b the year their desktop sales to enterprise dropped off in favor of clone people like Dell. IBM going out of business was seen as quite possible in '91.
And don't forget until about '95 most people were using real name accounts tied to their work emails. That helped I imagine the most.
I don't know most of the people I talked to were also using FIDONET connections so it was 2-3 days. It was only when I started going direct in '92 that I got that high speed 6-30 hr turnaround times.
I hope this holds true. I've been very happy with what I've seen of Linux Mint. Fedora is a bit more advanced than Ubuntu and of course RedHat packages vs. Debian peeling back one more level. I think this is potentially quite good.
A wrapper is going to be not much different that GTK. Everything is open source its not worth the effort to re-implement GTK and keep it current, it ain't gonna happen.
I guess it depends a great deal if your priority is other QT apps or KDE + KDE applications. I'm the latter. I love having a standard C++ widget kit that's really really good. But I think KDE is more important by a long measure. I think having QT become a component of KDE fully would be to open source's general advantage; while willing to acknowledge there are plusses and minuses.
They do that with the rest of QT, what's so hard about supporting a widget kit at this point?
I suspect you'll like: http://www.willamette.edu/~fruehr/haskell/evolution.html
JAVA doesn't produce great programmers IMHO. But Intel is going to need people with lower level skills and C, assembly, machine, forth is just too much to ask for a general curriculum. Assume they are going to have to pick that up on the job, IMHO.