I find it slightly disconcerting that we may be producing a generation that has no research skills bar Google.
Heck, I find it even MORE disconcerting that most of those people you are talking about are people who cannot effectively use Google itself!
For instance, most of the people I know feel disappointed by Google because it always gives too many results for their searches. I always try teaching them to RTFAdvanced Search, using double quotes, or using keywords like inurl, intitle, filetype, and so on, to narrow it down. But they never put that in practice, as it feels better to keep on bitching than learning how to use the tool. Makes me wonder if they could find their own heads if not attached the their necks.
Maybe the Internet is dumbing every non-techie down.
As much as I like Linux, I think/. should stop posting every single article about how "linux is better that Windows because xyz". I'm sure we can find the same amount of articles on the Windows side, and none of them would be unbiased either.
People, leave each OS in its place and things will just happen. Just because some MS software is crap, it doesn't mean we need to get into flamewars every time some text gives one or another the advantage.
I've seen meny people turn to free/open source just because it works, not because of MS bashing.
...the RIAA will start selling CDs in their own CD Player each, with no possibility to open it....your next stove will only cook one type of meal....you will not be able to paint the walls of your own house....posting comments in/. will be a violation of the DMCA.
And don't forget Ardour, an excellent project for a Linux DAW. They're releasing new betas every other week and coming close to the 1.0 release. A great substitute for Cakewalk/Sonar.
Actually, this might be a Good Thing for e-learning projects. One great challenge for e-learning is to give precise evaluation automatically. With this, teacher could write his own essay and machines evaluate students' essays taking teacher's as reference.
Neat stuff. And the paper is really well written, IMHO. The "story" doesn't say enough.
While TCO is really a hard thing to measure, there's just one thing that I would like to add to your post.
There have been here (.br) a lot of initiatives to try to keep money inside the country. The country can only survive if enough money is staying here.
As for the investment, yes, it might be really big, but the money is going straight to other Brazilians' pockets instead of out of the country. And that is a lot better to the economy than giving it to MS. There are pretty good technical people here, and consulting Linux businesses are on the rise.
Yes, I agree on the "illiterate, shortsighted policy", because no software can be used for everything. But I'm sure that Linux is a good way to go at least for Office-like applications, and that means HUGE savings for the government.
I risk being modded as redundant (maybe I browse too high) but there's another thing needing to be accounted for: Linux is the kernel, all around it is a distro. Vendors choose their packages, and not all of them choose the same. And this also works for the kernel version.
So, if there happens to be a virus out there that makes use of an exploit, my guess is that you won't see most machines vulnerable, as in the Blaster incident. Diversity inside Linux itself may make it harder to write a global-target virus or something, and even disencourage virus writers, since they can only affect a minor number of computers.
Just a thought. I'd like to be corrected if I'm saying something stupid.
Yeah, and one week later, every single script kiddie in the world has an account into that ISP.
If nothing gets actually logged, the thing becomes an anarchy. Don't get me wrong, I'd also love an ISP with such a behaviour, but "no way to trace you back" also means "w3lc0m3 70 p4r4d1s3, k1dd13z" and THAT surely is not the kind of publicity an ISP is wishing for.
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It will turn... ...42!
(base 13, of course).
That must be one of the reasons why they are suing the ones that are sharing, not downloading.
I find it slightly disconcerting that we may be producing a generation that has no research skills bar Google.
Heck, I find it even MORE disconcerting that most of those people you are talking about are people who cannot effectively use Google itself!
For instance, most of the people I know feel disappointed by Google because it always gives too many results for their searches. I always try teaching them to RTFAdvanced Search, using double quotes, or using keywords like inurl, intitle, filetype, and so on, to narrow it down. But they never put that in practice, as it feels better to keep on bitching than learning how to use the tool. Makes me wonder if they could find their own heads if not attached the their necks.
Maybe the Internet is dumbing every non-techie down.
...yet most of its story got lost in write-errors on unreliable cassette tape recorders attached to thousands of ZX SPECTRUMs.
Forgive me, it must be that brain damage everybody's talking about around here.
And yes, my code sucks. Even in BASIC. And that was 15 years ago.
I remember myself on Win98:
1) Windows
2) ICQ
3) M$Office
4) *crash*
5) *Reboot*
6) *Hell breaks loose*
7) Windows
8) ICQ...
Almost right.
M is for "Million". MM stands for "Millions".
Plural doubles the letter.
Yes, but does it "inlude" photos?
As much as I like Linux, I think /. should stop posting every single article about how "linux is better that Windows because xyz". I'm sure we can find the same amount of articles on the Windows side, and none of them would be unbiased either.
People, leave each OS in its place and things will just happen. Just because some MS software is crap, it doesn't mean we need to get into flamewars every time some text gives one or another the advantage.
I've seen meny people turn to free/open source just because it works, not because of MS bashing.
OK, mod me down to hell now.
...the RIAA will start selling CDs in their own CD Player each, with no possibility to open it. ...your next stove will only cook one type of meal. ...you will not be able to paint the walls of your own house. ...posting comments in /. will be a violation of the DMCA.
Maybe 4 seconds.
Processor time is not the issue (not at least on your 1.4GHz box). Disk access time (which has not improved that much in the past 10 years) is.
And don't forget: UDMA133 does not give you 133MB/s.
And don't forget Ardour, an excellent project for a Linux DAW. They're releasing new betas every other week and coming close to the 1.0 release. A great substitute for Cakewalk/Sonar.
We can just hope that this doesn't show up in the next upgraded version of goatse.cx.
Yeah, but not tomorrow!
We all know that 48hrs is enough to obsolete any hardware.
"They've sent cease and desist letters to Danger Mouse, a handful of record stores, and websites that have hosted the songs"
I would have expressed my opinion about all the copyright stuff.
Then I realized the album is already available on Kazaa.
My point? No point.
I really don't think any of the two Matrix movies deserved anything, but someone had to say it.
Let the 5,000 posts comparing trilogies begin!
This article posted before already tells us all this, the paper that originated it was mentioned in the comments, and this one is another of a series of papers by this researcher.
OK, nothing else to see here, move on to the next redundant post (Is that paraphrasing 'dupe'?)
Actually, this might be a Good Thing for e-learning projects. One great challenge for e-learning is to give precise evaluation automatically. With this, teacher could write his own essay and machines evaluate students' essays taking teacher's as reference.
Neat stuff. And the paper is really well written, IMHO. The "story" doesn't say enough.
You mean Yahoo is moving to Soviet Russia?
Sorry, had to say.
While TCO is really a hard thing to measure, there's just one thing that I would like to add to your post.
There have been here (.br) a lot of initiatives to try to keep money inside the country. The country can only survive if enough money is staying here.
As for the investment, yes, it might be really big, but the money is going straight to other Brazilians' pockets instead of out of the country. And that is a lot better to the economy than giving it to MS. There are pretty good technical people here, and consulting Linux businesses are on the rise.
Yes, I agree on the "illiterate, shortsighted policy", because no software can be used for everything. But I'm sure that Linux is a good way to go at least for Office-like applications, and that means HUGE savings for the government.
Where we go from there, it's up to us.
RedHat discontinues RHL and goes for big bucks only.
Novell buys SuSE.
Do we have a new leader, and therefore a new mainstream image for linux?
Or do we have a more expensive distro?
Can Novell actually rise from the dead?
Stay tuned.
A friend of mine here in Brazil works at Novell. He told me he has orders to be certified LPI level 2 by the end of this year.
So maybe LPI it is.
I risk being modded as redundant (maybe I browse too high) but there's another thing needing to be accounted for: Linux is the kernel, all around it is a distro. Vendors choose their packages, and not all of them choose the same. And this also works for the kernel version.
So, if there happens to be a virus out there that makes use of an exploit, my guess is that you won't see most machines vulnerable, as in the Blaster incident. Diversity inside Linux itself may make it harder to write a global-target virus or something, and even disencourage virus writers, since they can only affect a minor number of computers.
Just a thought. I'd like to be corrected if I'm saying something stupid.
And Scotland.
Ok MS, that will work.
At least until someone finds out that the update system itself is broken and uses it to directly install stuff into your computer.
Oh wait... they've been on secure programming for some time now... ain't gonna happen.
Yeah, and one week later, every single script kiddie in the world has an account into that ISP.
If nothing gets actually logged, the thing becomes an anarchy. Don't get me wrong, I'd also love an ISP with such a behaviour, but "no way to trace you back" also means "w3lc0m3 70 p4r4d1s3, k1dd13z" and THAT surely is not the kind of publicity an ISP is wishing for.