You seem to be under the false impression that when you buy something you don't control it. In the US there is something called the first sale doctrine which states that when you buy something, you can do whatever you want with it regardless of what the manufacturer wants. If I buy an X-box and run linux on it rather than buying X-box games, MS isn't making any money off of me. Too bad for them but I never signed anything saying I was gonna buy any games for it. It's a risk, but that's part of the game.
No, UNIX history would be repeated all over again; forks and fragmentation. The GPL is what prevents that. That's why linux is doing better than *BSD (notice I DIDN'T say it is better) and long term I think it will be better.
No, the author is quite right. Look at it from most people's points of view.
IE has (now) 90% of the market share. That means 90% of people use IE. What innovations has IE shown since it achieved that market share? Pretty much none. So from most people's perspective, there is no browser innovation. From your (our) perspective, you are quite correct, browser innovation is alive and well, but from most people (90%) it is, indeed, dead.
As a comment on that. I've shown a few people mozilla and they ABSOLUTELY LOVE popup blocking and tabs. IE doesn't have them. These people didn't know such things existed.
That's a failure on our part. We, as a community, need to start showing people these things more.
are out in full swing. Does the article really scare you that much?
How many of you actually read it? The article has some very good points and LOTS of information to back it up. I pointed many people to that article and ALL of them found it very informative and enlightening. All of them except one (a severe MS defender) came to the conclusion that MS needs to be checked at the Gates. Yes, XP sucks less than previous version of Windows. But MS is too expensive now. They are not the cheap alternative to others, but rather they are the expensive option that people are now looking for alternatives to.
"I learn best by demonstration and instruction so CBT CD-ROMs and 'go-read-a-book' aren't
viable options for me. Since I'm not currently employed, I also need some form of
placement assistance as well."
If you aren't willing to learn by playing around, then get the hell out of this field. People who just want to be shown are part of the problem with crappy IT departments. Either GET willing to 'go read a book' or stay out of the field. Sorry to be so harsh, but learning by trying is important. If you aren't willing to do it, then good riddance.
Except Office apps still load faster under Wine than OO/SO do on Linux natively. It isn't Windows preloading, it's something else. I read somewhere that there is a problem with glibc in preloading. Any gurus here know?
No, it think it's based on merit. It's not misleading, it's generally known that a *NIX box can handle more than a Windows box. He did mention why they didn't choose Windows for their reduced server farm: ""This gave us a lot of problems. So our objective was to centralise IT support to become more cost-effective and flexible," he added." and "...Evans said Samba also performed better than Windows." Sounds to me like they came to the conclusion that it was more centralised, cost effective, flexible and better performing to go with Linux than Windows.
As for admins, it is true that *NIX admins are a little more expensive but you typically need fewer of them.
It sounds to me like Section 1 states their going to amend title 17 to say such-and-such is legal, rather than saying such-and-such is illegal. Very restrictive.
Comments from others?
www.yitiens.org doesn't have it up yet but they follow things like this.
My thoughts are that they'll observe people's reactions and then come up with better ways to outsmart/outmanuever/attack linux and open source in the future.
Television costs money to produce. Where does that money come from? If people can completely cut out the commercials what incentive do companies have to fork over money for show?
We can't have our cake and eat it too.
What are better alternatives to commercials?
(This is a serious question.) Please thing about that. Complaining doesn't do any good unless you generate an alternative.
Where do you get your information? check out netcraft. It shows that Apache is most definitely NOT losing ground to IIS. They're staying roughly the same. Apache~60%; IIS~20%
I always thought KDE looked neater and more 'professional' than GNOME. But with the recent screenshots of both it appears to me that GNOME has taken the edge.
GOD I lOVE competitive cooperation! This just means on the next release KDE will look better. then GNOME, then KDE.;>
How do they run comparatively? I ask out of ignorance since I haven't used either in almost 8 months now. I hear a lot of people moaning about Nautilus. Can anyone give me unbiased (if there is such a thing.) information backed up with numbers and examples?
In any event. To everyone involved in both KDE and GNOME: Keep up the good work!! your hard work is paying off.
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I'm assuming by your statements that you are probably in your 20's to early 30's. You don't remember a time when there weren't lots of jobs.
There will come a time again where jobs are tight. The U.S. economy is a cycle. A work force monopoly is what other people call 'bad times'.
They will come again. Wait and see.
Please keep an open mind and see if you still have this opinion when you are working 70 hours a week and have resumes floating around and noone is calling you or when the company you work for outsources your job to someone else and you can't find another one because there are none.
I'm not saying unions are perfect. They have their problems just like everything else, but they do give you options. Besides, this gives us a chance to improve on the mistakes made by the old unions.
I must respectfully disagree.
All decisions went through Hitler, this is true. Hitler did NOT listen to his 'advisors'. It was his way. Example: When Normandy was invaded. Hitler's group knew about it beforehand. Enough time, in fact, that they could have moved the panzer division there in time and slaughtered the Allies' troups. Everyone in the group was afraid to wake Hitler up so they let him sleep and you know what happened.
Why do I bring this up? Linus listens to people. In fact, he expects them to speak up. It's better in the end for all, and he knows this. It's good to have one architect because he/she can make sure all the pieces will fit together properly. From what I can see, multiple divisions only work well if they structured like the military. You don't question orders from above. Do as your told. That won't work in this cluster of people. I could be wrong, it might work well having an FS division, a SMP division, a scheduling division, etc, but I don't see it.
tried to adopt.
(I agree with this previous poster.)
I work with a guy who (he and his wife) has tried 3 different times to adopt since they are unable to conceive on their own. He's one of the nicest guys you could meet and they would make great parents.
1st time: birth mother changed her mind at the last minute.
2nd time: it was an interstate operation and some beaurocrat found a blank on a form they forgot to sign (there were about 30 to sign and they'd already signed twice on the page.). This was after they had had the kid for a week! (you never saw a grown man cry like that)
3rd time: the biological grandparents wanted the kid and had decided this after my friend and his wife had put in lots of time and money.
My friend went through his entire life savings doing this shit and look what it got him.
My apologies for cussing but some of you idiots only seem to listen if there is profanity involved.
FUCKING MORONS! pull your heads out of your asses and SHUT THE HELL UP if you've never been through the adoption process. It's not as simple as here's-a-loving-family-who-will-give-you-a-good-ho me. Instead it's as political as everything else.
RDRAM lost EVERY test except for FPU thoughput with L2 cache disabled. HOWEVER, when the cache was enabled, it got trounced! The theory of RDRAM operation and performance is ok (not great) but the reality is a different story.
My girlfriend and I took pics of ourselves in 'less than full clothing'. Every time one of us trashed the other x number of times, the loser would have to do something for the winner, and I'm not talking about the dishes. I've never had so much fun in my life.
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You seem to be under the false impression that when you buy something you don't control it. In the US there is something called the first sale doctrine which states that when you buy something, you can do whatever you want with it regardless of what the manufacturer wants. If I buy an X-box and run linux on it rather than buying X-box games, MS isn't making any money off of me. Too bad for them but I never signed anything saying I was gonna buy any games for it. It's a risk, but that's part of the game.
No, UNIX history would be repeated all over again; forks and fragmentation.
The GPL is what prevents that. That's why linux is doing better than *BSD (notice I DIDN'T say it is better) and long term I think it will be better.
Read your history, or we'll be repeating it.
No, the author is quite right. Look at it from most people's points of view.
IE has (now) 90% of the market share. That means 90% of people use IE. What innovations has IE shown since it achieved that market share? Pretty much none.
So from most people's perspective, there is no browser innovation.
From your (our) perspective, you are quite correct, browser innovation is alive and well, but from most people (90%) it is, indeed, dead.
As a comment on that. I've shown a few people mozilla and they ABSOLUTELY LOVE popup blocking and tabs. IE doesn't have them. These people didn't know such things existed.
That's a failure on our part. We, as a community, need to start showing people these things more.
are out in full swing. Does the article really scare you that much?
How many of you actually read it? The article has some very good points and LOTS of information to back it up. I pointed many people to that article and ALL of them found it very informative and enlightening. All of them except one (a severe MS defender) came to the conclusion that MS needs to be checked at the Gates. Yes, XP sucks less than previous version of Windows. But MS is too expensive now. They are not the cheap alternative to others, but rather they are the expensive option that people are now looking for alternatives to.
"I learn best by demonstration and instruction so CBT CD-ROMs and 'go-read-a-book' aren't
viable options for me. Since I'm not currently employed, I also need some form of
placement assistance as well."
If you aren't willing to learn by playing around, then get the hell out of this field. People who just want to be shown are part of the problem with crappy IT departments. Either GET willing to 'go read a book' or stay out of the field.
Sorry to be so harsh, but learning by trying is important. If you aren't willing to do it, then good riddance.
Except Office apps still load faster under Wine than OO/SO do on Linux natively.
It isn't Windows preloading, it's something else. I read somewhere that there is a problem with glibc in preloading. Any gurus here know?
No, it think it's based on merit.
It's not misleading, it's generally known that a *NIX box can handle more than a Windows box.
He did mention why they didn't choose Windows for their reduced server farm: ""This gave us a lot of problems. So our objective was to centralise IT support to become more cost-effective and flexible," he added." and "...Evans said Samba also performed better than Windows."
Sounds to me like they came to the conclusion that it was more centralised, cost effective, flexible and better performing to go with Linux than Windows.
As for admins, it is true that *NIX admins are a little more expensive but you typically need fewer of them.
It sounds to me like Section 1 states their going to amend title 17 to say such-and-such is legal, rather than saying such-and-such is illegal. Very restrictive.
Comments from others?
www.yitiens.org doesn't have it up yet but they follow things like this.
My thoughts are that they'll observe people's
reactions and then come up with better ways
to outsmart/outmanuever/attack linux and open source in the future.
is a site that follows proposed bills (and rulings) and articles affecting technology.
If you are interested in things like this, take a look.
It's still under development but it's very useful.
Someone who actually did a little research before opening his/her mouth.
Television costs money to produce. Where does that money come from? If people can completely cut out the commercials what incentive do companies have to fork over money for show?
We can't have our cake and eat it too. What are better alternatives to commercials? (This is a serious question.) Please thing about that. Complaining doesn't do any good unless you generate an alternative.
start using this tech with computer games or the movies!!!!
I briefly scanned the article and they said their goal was not to help out with any of that. But with access control mechanisms in the kernel.
Basically what they are doing is ACL improvements.
Nothing to do with encrypting communications.
Which is too bad. That's the one problem I have with Iridium. It effectively destroys radio astronomy.
completely offtopic.
Where do you get your information? check out netcraft. It shows that Apache is most definitely NOT losing ground to IIS. They're staying roughly the same. Apache~60%; IIS~20%
I always thought KDE looked neater and more 'professional' than GNOME. But with the recent screenshots of both it appears to me that GNOME has taken the edge. ;>
GOD I lOVE competitive cooperation! This just means on the next release KDE will look better. then GNOME, then KDE.
How do they run comparatively? I ask out of ignorance since I haven't used either in almost 8 months now. I hear a lot of people moaning about Nautilus. Can anyone give me unbiased (if there is such a thing.) information backed up with numbers and examples?
In any event. To everyone involved in both KDE and GNOME: Keep up the good work!! your hard work is paying off.
I'm assuming by your statements that you are probably in your 20's to early 30's. You don't remember a time when there weren't lots of jobs. There will come a time again where jobs are tight. The U.S. economy is a cycle. A work force monopoly is what other people call 'bad times'. They will come again. Wait and see.
Please keep an open mind and see if you still have this opinion when you are working 70 hours a week and have resumes floating around and noone is calling you or when the company you work for outsources your job to someone else and you can't find another one because there are none.
I'm not saying unions are perfect. They have their problems just like everything else, but they do give you options. Besides, this gives us a chance to improve on the mistakes made by the old unions.
I must respectfully disagree. All decisions went through Hitler, this is true. Hitler did NOT listen to his 'advisors'. It was his way.
Example:
When Normandy was invaded. Hitler's group knew about it beforehand. Enough time, in fact, that they could have moved the panzer division there in time and slaughtered the Allies' troups. Everyone in the group was afraid to wake Hitler up so they let him sleep and you know what happened.
Why do I bring this up? Linus listens to people. In fact, he expects them to speak up. It's better in the end for all, and he knows this. It's good to have one architect because he/she can make sure all the pieces will fit together properly. From what I can see, multiple divisions only work well if they structured like the military. You don't question orders from above. Do as your told. That won't work in this cluster of people. I could be wrong, it might work well having an FS division, a SMP division, a scheduling division, etc, but I don't see it.
tried to adopt. (I agree with this previous poster.) I work with a guy who (he and his wife) has tried 3 different times to adopt since they are unable to conceive on their own. He's one of the nicest guys you could meet and they would make great parents.
o me. Instead it's as political as everything else.
1st time: birth mother changed her mind at the last minute.
2nd time: it was an interstate operation and some beaurocrat found a blank on a form they forgot to sign (there were about 30 to sign and they'd already signed twice on the page.). This was after they had had the kid for a week! (you never saw a grown man cry like that)
3rd time: the biological grandparents wanted the kid and had decided this after my friend and his wife had put in lots of time and money.
My friend went through his entire life savings doing this shit and look what it got him. My apologies for cussing but some of you idiots only seem to listen if there is profanity involved. FUCKING MORONS! pull your heads out of your asses and SHUT THE HELL UP if you've never been through the adoption process. It's not as simple as here's-a-loving-family-who-will-give-you-a-good-h
Who cares what it is, how do we round up all the lawyers and send them there?
RDRAM lost EVERY test except for FPU thoughput with L2 cache disabled. HOWEVER, when the cache was enabled, it got trounced! The theory of RDRAM operation and performance is ok (not great) but the reality is a different story.
It's definitely an awesome way to spend some time. I think we had/have so much fun because we're both about equal in skill.
My girlfriend and I took pics of ourselves in 'less than full clothing'. Every time one of us trashed the other x number of times, the loser would have to do something for the winner, and I'm not talking about the dishes.
I've never had so much fun in my life.
A guy here at work installed it.
Wasn't any better than 98. So he went back to it.