All it takes is for one idiot user to pipe the NFS data stream over an IP tunnel to home, and you've got your safely encrypted data streaming over the internet, where things like Carnivore and ISPs who log and store traffic can do whatever they want with it.
Haven't heard it mentioned, but I wouldn't find it unlikely if the carnivore virus would cause data to be echoed to an FBI listening server.
The problem (well...solution for us M$-haters) with that is that once those licenses run out and come up for renewall, the low-income school districts won't be able to afford it. They'll have to switch to something they can afford.
The good thing is that a lot more people will have heard of Linux by that time, and hopefully won't associate it as "for servers only"...They may switch to Linux.
Now, even if M$ gives them free licenses until they stop supporting XP altogether, the kids in those low-income districts won't be able to affor the latest greatest hardware with XP on it...they may very well get their hands on second-hand equipment and put something free on it. Legally, they can't buy second-hand M$ software because the EULA prohibits the transfer of title. They may very well try Linux.
So, this is pretty much a win-win situation for Linux in the long run.
Well, for one, we spell things differently from much of the rest of the world.
Webster was a colonial American who took it upon himself to make a dictionary, probably interested in including words that were introduced as a result of a faster-changing culture.
For a while, people used his dictionary out of patriotism, until it became the de-facto standard. That's where we still stand today.
What you see through it is too unpredictable. When you're dealing with television, every second costs money. At any given time, they'll only be using the best view available. They determine that largely by preview and knowing what's already on that video feed.
The ball changes hands too quickly for those previews to be reliable.
What they'll probably do is collect stills during the game, and use them for various functions afterwards.
Indeed, it's just a homemade pic where someone grafted a digital camera on top of a ball that says "rugby"...I could do it in two minutes with The Gimp.
Baseballs are works of art. Each one is made the same way, and they've been made that way so long that the slightest change will affect gameplay, and players would complain every time something goes wrong.
Conceptually, the spinning problem is easy to solve.
Just let the camera rotate independant of the ball, the way current attitude-displays work on aircraft.
The only problems I can think of are that friction would cause a sort of apparent rocking motion to the viewer, and if the ball bearings (or whatever) sieze up, the balls flight path would be affected. (I.e. the ball would stop spinning as fast, so it would be more likely to go off course.)
But now I wonder...with so many companies being forced to change their OS, with profits being low due to a bad economy, does that suggest that they'll try Linux + GNOME/KDE in an effort to cut costs?
They'll have to train their employees in using Linux (unless they use some wm that looks a lot like the Windows interface), of course.
The question is, will they use Linux and pay the cost of training,
or
will they rent WindowsXP and hope their profits are higher when the rent's due next?
Linux is obviously the better choice for long-term, especially when you consider its growing support and its monetary cost. But there's also business politics.
An explosion that takes hundreds of millions of years to occur is not really an explosion, wouldn't you say?
Depends on your scale.
I can graph y1=x^2 on my graphing calculator, and it looks fine. If I change my y axis tic mark spacing so that each mark represents, say, 4, then suddenly my graph looks like y1=4x^2 to the uninformed eye.
Historically, whenever there was a missing piece of evidence that seemed necessary for a theory to be true, either it was found eventually or its absence was explained by some insightful fellow.
My school uses Groupwise for email, announcements and local newsgroups (though none of the staff know how to use the last).
I've been able to find pretty much everything else that teachers use.
I'm taking Journalism (yet again...cause I like it) next semester, and it looks like I'll be a weekly columnist in the school paper. I plan on asking what teachers and administrators use their computers for.
Isn't that the game where you're a professional musician on a cross-country tour from Independance MO to Seattle, WA, playing organs for local churches?
The only difference between Linux and Windows in this respect is who chooses to upgrade: You or the OS. In Linux, you're pretty much forced into upgrading, anyway.
To compile just about any recent piece of software, you have to have the latest (g)libc, the latest gtk, the latest glib, the latest QT, whatever.
In Debian (which I use) you have the choice of three sets of software: potato/stable(old stuff), woody/testing(recent stuff) or sid/unstable(bleeding edge).
If you're running potato, you can pretty much forget about using anything but the most fundamental and/or barely-recent-enough-to-be-used stuff, but you don't have to upgrade all that often, and you'll find yourself often downloading and compiling those more recent apps you want.
If you're running woody(as am I), you'll find yourself updating about once a week, at anywhere between 30-60MB continuous downloading, and you'll still occasionally be manually installing things occasionally.
If you're running sid, you'll find yourself with a hefty download every couple of days, with things occasionally breaking during install. (case in point: remember when the perl package broke? Debconf was killed, and that made it a real PITA to try to continue installing the remaining packages, not to mention installing additional ones.)
About the only thing you're not absolutely required to update at every version release is Linux itself. I know an ISP who still has their DNS server running on a 2.0.x kernel.
...is some sort of program to educate the educators.
Note that school system administrators aren't dumb, they're just ignorant. With enough information, they can make extremely well-reasoned decisions.
I say educate an entire state's worth of school administrators of both the pros and the cons(yes, they do exist) of running Linux, Windows, MacOS, and *BSD, and let them choose what they want to do with that information.
Give them example plans, time schedules, financial reports, and what-have-you. Make sure these represent an average school district.
Also try to address common fears like "But what will my students have to use once they graduate?" "What about my slower students?" and common fallacies like "But Windows has been around for so much longer, so it must be a better alternative," and "Windows has commercial backing, so there's concern for us," and "Windows has a much larger market share, so it must be better."
If you can make it completely plain that the information you give them is intentionally unbiased, then they'll trust what they see.
While the decisions won't be unanimous among all the school districts, you'll certainly see a trend towards whatever is best at the time for students.
And I'm betting that the administrators won't be betting on Windows.
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The question is, will he settle in return for a copy of your collection?
Isn't NFS horribly insecure?
All it takes is for one idiot user to pipe the NFS data stream over an IP tunnel to home, and you've got your safely encrypted data streaming over the internet, where things like Carnivore and ISPs who log and store traffic can do whatever they want with it.
Haven't heard it mentioned, but I wouldn't find it unlikely if the carnivore virus would cause data to be echoed to an FBI listening server.
The problem (well...solution for us M$-haters) with that is that once those licenses run out and come up for renewall, the low-income school districts won't be able to afford it. They'll have to switch to something they can afford.
The good thing is that a lot more people will have heard of Linux by that time, and hopefully won't associate it as "for servers only"...They may switch to Linux.
Now, even if M$ gives them free licenses until they stop supporting XP altogether, the kids in those low-income districts won't be able to affor the latest greatest hardware with XP on it...they may very well get their hands on second-hand equipment and put something free on it. Legally, they can't buy second-hand M$ software because the EULA prohibits the transfer of title. They may very well try Linux.
So, this is pretty much a win-win situation for Linux in the long run.
I keep seeing this over and over...people think that Microsoft would only be shorted the money spent on producing the goods.
/profit/, which, for M$ software, amounts to a pretty penny.
This is not true! They would also be shorted the
Not that I agree with M$ giving away their software...I'd rather see them take a hundred million packaged copies of Windows XP and have a bonfire...
At the time of writing, 44 out of 92 visible messages were modded +2 or higher. That's nearly half, which is an extraordinary percentage.
;)
Just a freak combination of people who decided they didn't want to mod and people who decided they wanted to say something, I suppose.
Maybe this message will be modded +5 Funny (hint hint
Well, for one, we spell things differently from much of the rest of the world.
Webster was a colonial American who took it upon himself to make a dictionary, probably interested in including words that were introduced as a result of a faster-changing culture.
For a while, people used his dictionary out of patriotism, until it became the de-facto standard. That's where we still stand today.
First it was "Funny" ... now it's "Flamebait"
What's next? Offtopic? This is rediculous!
Can't wait to metamod tonight.
The only problem is you'd be taking energy out of the ball's spin, and that would affect the trajectory.
What you see through it is too unpredictable. When you're dealing with television, every second costs money. At any given time, they'll only be using the best view available. They determine that largely by preview and knowing what's already on that video feed.
The ball changes hands too quickly for those previews to be reliable.
What they'll probably do is collect stills during the game, and use them for various functions afterwards.
Indeed, it's just a homemade pic where someone grafted a digital camera on top of a ball that says "rugby"...I could do it in two minutes with The Gimp.
Baseballs are works of art. Each one is made the same way, and they've been made that way so long that the slightest change will affect gameplay, and players would complain every time something goes wrong.
Conceptually, the spinning problem is easy to solve.
Just let the camera rotate independant of the ball, the way current attitude-displays work on aircraft.
The only problems I can think of are that friction would cause a sort of apparent rocking motion to the viewer, and if the ball bearings (or whatever) sieze up, the balls flight path would be affected. (I.e. the ball would stop spinning as fast, so it would be more likely to go off course.)
I agree completely.
But now I wonder...with so many companies being forced to change their OS, with profits being low due to a bad economy, does that suggest that they'll try Linux + GNOME/KDE in an effort to cut costs?
They'll have to train their employees in using Linux (unless they use some wm that looks a lot like the Windows interface), of course.
The question is, will they use Linux and pay the cost of training,
or
will they rent WindowsXP and hope their profits are higher when the rent's due next?
Linux is obviously the better choice for long-term, especially when you consider its growing support and its monetary cost. But there's also business politics.
An explosion that takes hundreds of millions of years to occur is not really an explosion, wouldn't you say?
Depends on your scale.
I can graph y1=x^2 on my graphing calculator, and it looks fine. If I change my y axis tic mark spacing so that each mark represents, say, 4, then suddenly my graph looks like y1=4x^2 to the uninformed eye.
I wasn't aware that there was material that could be made into fossils 4.5 billion years ago...
Historically, whenever there was a missing piece of evidence that seemed necessary for a theory to be true, either it was found eventually or its absence was explained by some insightful fellow.
It could still go either way.
It wasn't an Apples to Apples comparison then, either. It was Apples to PCs. :)
...what's missing?
I've been doing research on this, trying to put together a plan to get my HS to run Linux.
Can't find my list ATM, but here's what I remember off the top of my head:
* Grade tracking software
* class/student scheduler w/ dynamic adds and subtracts
My school uses Groupwise for email, announcements and local newsgroups (though none of the staff know how to use the last).
I've been able to find pretty much everything else that teachers use.
I'm taking Journalism (yet again...cause I like it) next semester, and it looks like I'll be a weekly columnist in the school paper. I plan on asking what teachers and administrators use their computers for.
If Microsoft was concerned more with far-future profits than near-future ones, their PR department would behave a lot differently...
Which winmodems are you referring to? Different winmodems have different hardware, therefore different interfaces...
Not to mention the palpable distaste for using CPU time to compute audio on a phone line I get from most of the *nix friends I have.
Isn't that the game where you're a professional musician on a cross-country tour from Independance MO to Seattle, WA, playing organs for local churches?
Another test for how strong the Linux community is:
How low of a salary would you accept, if it meant you would be spreading Linux to a more receptive age group?
(Before I get modded down: I love Linux)
1.) Forced into upgrades
The only difference between Linux and Windows in this respect is who chooses to upgrade: You or the OS. In Linux, you're pretty much forced into upgrading, anyway.
To compile just about any recent piece of software, you have to have the latest (g)libc, the latest gtk, the latest glib, the latest QT, whatever.
In Debian (which I use) you have the choice of three sets of software: potato/stable(old stuff), woody/testing(recent stuff) or sid/unstable(bleeding edge).
If you're running potato, you can pretty much forget about using anything but the most fundamental and/or barely-recent-enough-to-be-used stuff, but you don't have to upgrade all that often, and you'll find yourself often downloading and compiling those more recent apps you want.
If you're running woody(as am I), you'll find yourself updating about once a week, at anywhere between 30-60MB continuous downloading, and you'll still occasionally be manually installing things occasionally.
If you're running sid, you'll find yourself with a hefty download every couple of days, with things occasionally breaking during install. (case in point: remember when the perl package broke? Debconf was killed, and that made it a real PITA to try to continue installing the remaining packages, not to mention installing additional ones.)
About the only thing you're not absolutely required to update at every version release is Linux itself. I know an ISP who still has their DNS server running on a 2.0.x kernel.
I'll say this before I get modded down: I love Linux.
"how can we get these kids hooked on our products so that for the rest of their lives, they're buying from us?"
That strongly reminds me of cigarette manufacturers...
...is some sort of program to educate the educators.
Note that school system administrators aren't dumb, they're just ignorant. With enough information, they can make extremely well-reasoned decisions.
I say educate an entire state's worth of school administrators of both the pros and the cons(yes, they do exist) of running Linux, Windows, MacOS, and *BSD, and let them choose what they want to do with that information.
Give them example plans, time schedules, financial reports, and what-have-you. Make sure these represent an average school district.
Also try to address common fears like "But what will my students have to use once they graduate?" "What about my slower students?" and common fallacies like "But Windows has been around for so much longer, so it must be a better alternative," and "Windows has commercial backing, so there's concern for us," and "Windows has a much larger market share, so it must be better."
If you can make it completely plain that the information you give them is intentionally unbiased, then they'll trust what they see.
While the decisions won't be unanimous among all the school districts, you'll certainly see a trend towards whatever is best at the time for students.
And I'm betting that the administrators won't be betting on Windows.