There are a lot of boxes out there doing nothing but serving files and printers, if ARM did start to be popular you can be sure that MS would be sure not to lose that business. And then, once you have the things installed, it suddenly makes sense to write some of your new programs to run on them...
I've given up on assuming I will ever be safe. Each time I have to view a pdf, I open a virtual machine and download and install the latest version from Adobe's website. When I'm done with the document, I assume it's infected and roll back to a 'safe' state, where nothing from Adobe is installed.
Look, I'm typing this on Linux, it has any number of advantages not least of which is that it's harder to run arbitrary code as root. None of that stands in the way of this problem, though. All I need to do is send you happy_puppies.deb or happy_puppies.rpm, you double click, put in your password, and it happily installs. Just like Opera or Chrome or anything else that you actually should be installing. If it's well designed, it even adds a repository so it can keep itself up to date unobtrusively.
The fact is that a computer can never be protected from its owner without turning it into something else (e.g. Tivo, Iphone, etc)
Someone said this more concisely above, but the GP's point is perhaps obscured by his use of the word 'profit'... he's not saying that the division is making money, but that the major hardware components leave enough room that the margin on these units is likely to defray the other costs. In other words, selling more is better because it increases the chance that they will recoup development.
For the benefit of those who didn't grow up in the US in the 80s, it's not just like something from a Hollywood movie, in the context of terrorism The Baroness is a very specific someone, whose name was chosen presumably because of the military connotations you mention. The whole thing combines to make articles like this intensely amusing.
I've always assumed it's like the braile on the drive-though ATM. Sure, it's useless there, but it's easier to only have one model. And I can say that they do sometimes work, there's one on my ride in to work where it's necessary that I push it. I think the key is that they only matter at an intersection of a busy street and a rarely used street. Otherwise, the light prioritizes the busy street I'm trying to cross and my bike doesn't trip the automatic sensor telling it there's a car waiting.
There's some commentary over at the Planetary Society that suggests (among other things) that the two bodies may not be joined, just gravitationally bound, and that the material in the middle is probably loose.
What I think we are seeing here is a contact binary, two main bodies that orbit each other so closely that they are touching. Gravel and dust has flowed into the weird gravitational region between the two lobes, filling it almost as though it were a liquid. I'll bet that smooth neck traces out an equipotential surface.
In the words of CmdrTaco "There is no -1:Disagree." You're going to have a hard enough time convincing people that they are wrong. Trying to tell them that they are lying as well is going to get you nowhere.
It's not like U.S. book publishers do that sort of editing to UK/Aussie/ect. books.
You mean, like Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone? I'm not saying it's right, mind, I'm saying it's worse than you thought. That may explain (but not excuse) some of the attitude you've been seeing from some of those outside our borders.
Which, really, has nothing to do with this. Anyone who doesn't know what Aero or Aqua are doesn't need to know whether they are using Unity or GNOME either, both will just work. For some of us, though, it's interesting news.
There's a world of difference between having a fallback for those who can't use the secure site (with a warning that it is not secure, even) and not having an option for those who can.
GP's statement was incorrect, most people only get a refund of what they paid. It's very possible to be paid by the government quite apart from welfare, though. If you were over 25, working, and still poor (and I mean, really poor), you missed out on the EITC. It's hard to actually get money back on it as an individual, but if you have 2+ kids and make less than about $30,000 it's not hard for the credit to be more than you owe in taxes, and they will cut you a check for it. As posters below have shown, that includes quite a few people.
As you say, some of these issues may be recently resolved. Specifically, software installation and support. As package managers have gotten more mature, software installation has become what you asked for, I go to the website for Skype or Chrome or World of Goo and download a.deb and double click it. Chrome even uses the.deb to add it's repository so it stays up to date.
As far as support goes, I think it's Ubuntu's greatest contribution. You've perfectly characterized a lot of places where Linux folks congregate, but the Ubuntu forums are a marvelous place, even for people who barely know their way around Windows. If they can get there, they can get an answer to their question. Now, the answer may be "that's not possible," which brings me to where you are perfectly correct.
Documentation remains a problem, but a relatively minor one and it's getting better. I don't foresee most of my family being unable to find an answer for something on Linux where they wouldn't be calling me for the same thing on Windows. The only big problem left that I can see is Software, Software, Software, and as you say it's huge. And it's a chicken and egg problem with no resolution in sight. If Android apps were able to be installed on a desktop, we might have a shot, but as it stands it's going to be a long time before it changes. My only hope is that Google is good about porting their apps (albeit slowly), so anyone who competes with them and wants to have folks like me recommend their software (e.g. Skype) is forced to follow.
Just for the record, go-oo was merged in before the Document Foundation even put out a press release. Novell is on board, so there's the trifecta. And if that wasn't enough, they even got a quote from GOOG.
It didn't hurt my grades, but I certainly would have understood the material better. I am ashamed to say that I never learned vectors because I spent the time I should have spent doing my homework programming my calculator to do it for me, and the teacher was never the wiser.
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There are a lot of boxes out there doing nothing but serving files and printers, if ARM did start to be popular you can be sure that MS would be sure not to lose that business. And then, once you have the things installed, it suddenly makes sense to write some of your new programs to run on them...
I've given up on assuming I will ever be safe. Each time I have to view a pdf, I open a virtual machine and download and install the latest version from Adobe's website. When I'm done with the document, I assume it's infected and roll back to a 'safe' state, where nothing from Adobe is installed.
Look, I'm typing this on Linux, it has any number of advantages not least of which is that it's harder to run arbitrary code as root. None of that stands in the way of this problem, though. All I need to do is send you happy_puppies.deb or happy_puppies.rpm, you double click, put in your password, and it happily installs. Just like Opera or Chrome or anything else that you actually should be installing. If it's well designed, it even adds a repository so it can keep itself up to date unobtrusively.
The fact is that a computer can never be protected from its owner without turning it into something else (e.g. Tivo, Iphone, etc)
Someone said this more concisely above, but the GP's point is perhaps obscured by his use of the word 'profit'... he's not saying that the division is making money, but that the major hardware components leave enough room that the margin on these units is likely to defray the other costs. In other words, selling more is better because it increases the chance that they will recoup development.
And then what, goatse to cure them from 4chan? And then in winter the goats just freeze to death!
Well, thank you for a mental image of 'arranging blocks' that I'll never get out of my head. Don't play Tetris, you'll go blind.
You know, every so often I wish there was an administrative override to (Score:6, Insightful).
For the benefit of those who didn't grow up in the US in the 80s, it's not just like something from a Hollywood movie, in the context of terrorism The Baroness is a very specific someone, whose name was chosen presumably because of the military connotations you mention. The whole thing combines to make articles like this intensely amusing.
I've always assumed it's like the braile on the drive-though ATM. Sure, it's useless there, but it's easier to only have one model. And I can say that they do sometimes work, there's one on my ride in to work where it's necessary that I push it. I think the key is that they only matter at an intersection of a busy street and a rarely used street. Otherwise, the light prioritizes the busy street I'm trying to cross and my bike doesn't trip the automatic sensor telling it there's a car waiting.
There's some commentary over at the Planetary Society that suggests (among other things) that the two bodies may not be joined, just gravitationally bound, and that the material in the middle is probably loose.
What I think we are seeing here is a contact binary, two main bodies that orbit each other so closely that they are touching. Gravel and dust has flowed into the weird gravitational region between the two lobes, filling it almost as though it were a liquid. I'll bet that smooth neck traces out an equipotential surface.
Wait, you're on /. and you think dancing is different from tilting your hand in time with the music?
In the words of CmdrTaco "There is no -1:Disagree." You're going to have a hard enough time convincing people that they are wrong. Trying to tell them that they are lying as well is going to get you nowhere.
It's not like U.S. book publishers do that sort of editing to UK/Aussie/ect. books.
You mean, like Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone? I'm not saying it's right, mind, I'm saying it's worse than you thought. That may explain (but not excuse) some of the attitude you've been seeing from some of those outside our borders.
This only says the child may be sued
To be fair, that's the part that most people here are objecting to.
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Which, really, has nothing to do with this. Anyone who doesn't know what Aero or Aqua are doesn't need to know whether they are using Unity or GNOME either, both will just work. For some of us, though, it's interesting news.
No, it was cheaper to replicate them through time travel.
There's a world of difference between having a fallback for those who can't use the secure site (with a warning that it is not secure, even) and not having an option for those who can.
Or an even simpler option: loopholes are there because the rich government officials put them there.
If you didn't already have money, you couldn't afford the campaign.
GP's statement was incorrect, most people only get a refund of what they paid. It's very possible to be paid by the government quite apart from welfare, though. If you were over 25, working, and still poor (and I mean, really poor), you missed out on the EITC. It's hard to actually get money back on it as an individual, but if you have 2+ kids and make less than about $30,000 it's not hard for the credit to be more than you owe in taxes, and they will cut you a check for it. As posters below have shown, that includes quite a few people.
Don't you see? They already have.
It does seem to be how they're responding to Android.
As you say, some of these issues may be recently resolved. Specifically, software installation and support. As package managers have gotten more mature, software installation has become what you asked for, I go to the website for Skype or Chrome or World of Goo and download a .deb and double click it. Chrome even uses the .deb to add it's repository so it stays up to date.
As far as support goes, I think it's Ubuntu's greatest contribution. You've perfectly characterized a lot of places where Linux folks congregate, but the Ubuntu forums are a marvelous place, even for people who barely know their way around Windows. If they can get there, they can get an answer to their question. Now, the answer may be "that's not possible," which brings me to where you are perfectly correct.
Documentation remains a problem, but a relatively minor one and it's getting better. I don't foresee most of my family being unable to find an answer for something on Linux where they wouldn't be calling me for the same thing on Windows. The only big problem left that I can see is Software, Software, Software, and as you say it's huge. And it's a chicken and egg problem with no resolution in sight. If Android apps were able to be installed on a desktop, we might have a shot, but as it stands it's going to be a long time before it changes. My only hope is that Google is good about porting their apps (albeit slowly), so anyone who competes with them and wants to have folks like me recommend their software (e.g. Skype) is forced to follow.
Just for the record, go-oo was merged in before the Document Foundation even put out a press release. Novell is on board, so there's the trifecta. And if that wasn't enough, they even got a quote from GOOG.
It didn't hurt my grades, but I certainly would have understood the material better. I am ashamed to say that I never learned vectors because I spent the time I should have spent doing my homework programming my calculator to do it for me, and the teacher was never the wiser.