Actually that comment by Mrs. M. makes no sense at all.
Color is a subjective experience. My experience of a specific "blue" next to a specific "green" might be completely different from everyone else's. In fact, it probably is.
And by "match" what does she mean? *Exact* same color? Look at solid color surface in the room you are sitting in and find 2 seperate spots that are illuminated differently. "Same" color?!?!
Better yet, shine a red light in one eye but not the other for a minute then look at the same object one eye at a time. Is that object simultaneously 2 shades of the same color?
The interesting thing is that if a company is not comercially viable they can fail (go bankrupt, become consumed by another company, etc...).
But so long as Linux has the same type of users it did in its "pre-commercial" phase, it will continue to become more commercially viable. That's the commercial power of GPL and Open Source.
Will the release of 2.4 put a blip in those stock trends? I imagine so. What about more resctrictive and expensive licenses from M$? Likely.
Give Linux a bit more time and realize that comercial viability has not been important for a large majority of productive Linux users and developers.
What I mean is I know a large number of *very* knowledgable and informed people as far as OSs/kernels/etc are concerned. I went to the University of Waterloo for CS. Like I said, one of them uses HURD.
Read into that whatever you will, and I'll do the same.
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If you look at the cyphertext you can see repeats of scrambled words. This means there is some structure to base a decryption on.
If the cyphertext was completely random I would agree with you.
IBM is so big it almost makes no sense to say "IBM this" or "IBM that".
I was at a developer conference where I was told IBM wants to make Linux "The development platform". For ALL development.
Obvioulsy each section (persion) in IBM has their own agenda.
Actually that comment by Mrs. M. makes no sense at all.
Color is a subjective experience. My experience of a specific "blue" next to a specific "green" might be completely different from everyone else's. In fact, it probably is.
And by "match" what does she mean? *Exact* same color? Look at solid color surface in the room you are sitting in and find 2 seperate spots that are illuminated differently. "Same" color?!?!
Better yet, shine a red light in one eye but not the other for a minute then look at the same object one eye at a time. Is that object simultaneously 2 shades of the same color?
Mrs. M. should shut up.
The interesting thing is that if a company is not comercially viable they can fail (go bankrupt, become consumed by another company, etc...).
But so long as Linux has the same type of users it did in its "pre-commercial" phase, it will continue to become more commercially viable. That's the commercial power of GPL and Open Source.
Will the release of 2.4 put a blip in those stock trends? I imagine so. What about more resctrictive and expensive licenses from M$? Likely.
Give Linux a bit more time and realize that comercial viability has not been important for a large majority of productive Linux users and developers.
The irony is that "Worthless nerd dies, big deal!" is probably exactly what your family will put on your tombstone when you die.
RIP
Thank you for rejecting this story when I submitted it a day before, and posting it yourself.
What I mean is I know a large number of *very* knowledgable and informed people as far as OSs/kernels/etc are concerned. I went to the University of Waterloo for CS. Like I said, one of them uses HURD.
Read into that whatever you will, and I'll do the same.
you "HURD" nothing more
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Maybe it should be called "Brute Force Filter".
Ok, I realize that part of opensource/gnu/posix/*nix/X/etc is that you've got lots of choice.
But really, how many filemanagers do we need?
Especially with shell auto-completion and regexs. You've got the best file manager right there.
Show me a file manager that can mv backup?0*.txt.
You are correct.
I was sure, as your name might evince, that this response was a flame for spelling "I've" "Iv'e".
There's still time...
Just so you know, I *am* watching the election. I'd vote Nader or Gore, but alas I'm Canadian.
Most other people Iv'e talked to (here in Toronto) would do the same.
Looks like I was way to slow with that 1st post.
Got unlucky 13th instead. Uh oh... maybe Bush will win.
I agree. Also, why so many ad banners on a commercial software site?
Trying to make a few pennies are we?
Maybe it's just a traffic trick.
Lame.