I'm sorry to say to you, but you are f****d:-( Simply put - your government & religion leaders has hard control over military (both official and semi-official IRGC) and you don't have total-majority (80-90%) of population on your side, not speaking about military leaders. Your only chance to do bloody revolution, but how history teaches us, there is only a little chance that it will lead in long-term peaceful solution.
From the article: "...the symbolic file link (or as it's called in UNIX, the soft link) finally arrives in Windows Vista." - anybody heard "soft link"? Me (after 10 years of using Linux) never...
He doesn't. As far as I can see he never said their products are trash or anything like that. He just said that he has no experiences with them and he just doesn't see any reason to use them for himself. And this shouldn't be even his job - there should be other people focusing on comparing competitor's products in RedHat.
I think that the whole idea about Ghandi's quote is more complex. Yes - lot of us "believe in Linux superioriy" so we think that we'll "win" in long-term (yes, we can discuss what "win" means).
But the main message (for me) is something like that - never ignore or laugh at somebody/something just because you're (market) leader.
I'm no expert in X11 protocol but AFAIK the protocol needs "confirmation" for every single "command" - which makes it extremely sensitive for network latency. Otherwise is great that you can run applications from different platforms and display them on your computer screen no matter what you got - Windows, Linux, Solaris... Also the idea of extensions which makes it not-so-difficult to add new things like transparency, shadows etc. is quite good (again - I'm no expert in this)
Generally UNIX systems have much steeper learning curve - it takes longer to learn how to use them but then the user/admin/developers "performance" is much higher. So on the 1st or 2nd look it can look complex but once you start thinking how would YOU design these systems to "fit", then most of the time you'll come to the same solution as already exists - think PAM, X11 (protocol is crap but design is good), pipes, all-config-in-text-files etc.
As I mention in another post - I personally don't care about movies. I'm in CD/DVD duplication bussiness and I need to be able to record "pure" data on it....
Yes, I know that it's possible but it's not clean modular design. If so it'd be very easy to make native Qt port - but AFAIK it was done by "search GTK calls and replace them with Qt calls" so (but this is really just speculation!) you can't use both of them at once.
Another example of modular design advantages would be simple implementation of GUI in AJAX (with full OO.org features "behind" like best MSO compatibility in "free code world" etc.)
In my view OO.org biggest problem is not that SUN pays most engeneers but huge complexity of OO.org. I've heard even some rumors that OO.org contains ASSEMBLER language in some parts!!!
To make much more flexible whole project needs to become much more modular (which equals trash all existing codebase and start from scratch): - file modules (input/output) - in ideal world OO.org would share this part with AbiWord, KOffice etc... - "processing" module (document "managment", scripting etc.) - imagine running OO.org without GUI (some server document processing etc.) - "GUI" module - native Qt, GTK, Windows, MacOS, etc..
But I'm 99% sure that this will not ever happen. More probable is that KOffice will become much more usable and supported on Windows/MacOS.
Hi, after happening WMF bug, which is (according to Microsoft own statement) from Windows 3.1 (!!!) - even if it was hardly-happening in Windows 9x - what exactly you changed in your security process to prevent these happening?
Heh - with this philosophy we won't have anything and be in stone-age (hey - stones can be (ab)used for head-smashing!). _ANYTHING_ CAN & WILL BE ABUSED!
You don't get it. Nobody is expecting that MS will not re-use the old code. For that MS is doing the "Singularity OS" project.
What's wrong with this bug is that clearly Microsoft "software quality control" is failed (we know it for a long time - this is just another prove). All code going to Vista should be checked line by line and not cut-n-pasted function by function.
I absolutely agree about Mac GUI consistency. But Windows??? Have you notice that almost evey application in Windows uses own "GUI style"? Windows Update, almost every antivirus/firewall SW (I know that's 3rd party, but 99% of them use own widgets!!!), Media player (by Microsoft!), soon-coming Office also have new toolbar style etc. etc.
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I'm sorry to say to you, but you are f****d :-( Simply put - your government & religion leaders has hard control over military (both official and semi-official IRGC) and you don't have total-majority (80-90%) of population on your side, not speaking about military leaders. Your only chance to do bloody revolution, but how history teaches us, there is only a little chance that it will lead in long-term peaceful solution.
There is already RFC supporting transmitting data over large-delay lines (e.g. from Mars). See RFC 1149.
And yet Google experiences show otherwise ;-) (lot of desktop-class PCs with distributed filesystem)
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From the article: "...the symbolic file link (or as it's called in UNIX, the soft link) finally arrives in Windows Vista." - anybody heard "soft link"? Me (after 10 years of using Linux) never...
He doesn't. As far as I can see he never said their products are trash or anything like that. He just said that he has no experiences with them and he just doesn't see any reason to use them for himself. And this shouldn't be even his job - there should be other people focusing on comparing competitor's products in RedHat.
Sorry - I'm trying to translate Indian name from Czech diakritics to English ;-)
I think that the whole idea about Ghandi's quote is more complex. Yes - lot of us "believe in Linux superioriy" so we think that we'll "win" in long-term (yes, we can discuss what "win" means).
But the main message (for me) is something like that - never ignore or laugh at somebody/something just because you're (market) leader.
I'd definitively hire Linux sysadmin since I know that he'll be able to manage more servers and get higher uptime then Windows admin/platform ;-)
I'm no expert in X11 protocol but AFAIK the protocol needs "confirmation" for every single "command" - which makes it extremely sensitive for network latency. Otherwise is great that you can run applications from different platforms and display them on your computer screen no matter what you got - Windows, Linux, Solaris... Also the idea of extensions which makes it not-so-difficult to add new things like transparency, shadows etc. is quite good (again - I'm no expert in this)
Generally UNIX systems have much steeper learning curve - it takes longer to learn how to use them but then the user/admin/developers "performance" is much higher. So on the 1st or 2nd look it can look complex but once you start thinking how would YOU design these systems to "fit", then most of the time you'll come to the same solution as already exists - think PAM, X11 (protocol is crap but design is good), pipes, all-config-in-text-files etc.
Jeez, you are substituting database by Excel! Learn some SQL!
As I mention in another post - I personally don't care about movies. I'm in CD/DVD duplication bussiness and I need to be able to record "pure" data on it....
Who cares about movies - I want to backup/distribute data on it!
Does anybody has ANY info about Linux support for these drives?
This will be better for piracy. Legal HD-DVD will run on 1/4 of the pirated version! Jeez, I just sooo want to spent my money for legal movies... :(((
Yes, I know that it's possible but it's not clean modular design. If so it'd be very easy to make native Qt port - but AFAIK it was done by "search GTK calls and replace them with Qt calls" so (but this is really just speculation!) you can't use both of them at once.
Another example of modular design advantages would be simple implementation of GUI in AJAX (with full OO.org features "behind" like best MSO compatibility in "free code world" etc.)
In my view OO.org biggest problem is not that SUN pays most engeneers but huge complexity of OO.org. I've heard even some rumors that OO.org contains ASSEMBLER language in some parts!!!
To make much more flexible whole project needs to become much more modular (which equals trash all existing codebase and start from scratch):
- file modules (input/output) - in ideal world OO.org would share this part with AbiWord, KOffice etc...
- "processing" module (document "managment", scripting etc.) - imagine running OO.org without GUI (some server document processing etc.)
- "GUI" module - native Qt, GTK, Windows, MacOS, etc..
But I'm 99% sure that this will not ever happen. More probable is that KOffice will become much more usable and supported on Windows/MacOS.
Hi, where can you get those 10$ FXO cards?
Please mod parent up - it's been 4 years since Bill Gates' statement "Security is priority" and we've all seen WMF bug in Vista beta...
Hi,
after happening WMF bug, which is (according to Microsoft own statement) from Windows 3.1 (!!!) - even if it was hardly-happening in Windows 9x - what exactly you changed in your security process to prevent these happening?
Heh - with this philosophy we won't have anything and be in stone-age (hey - stones can be (ab)used for head-smashing!). _ANYTHING_ CAN & WILL BE ABUSED!
You don't get it. Nobody is expecting that MS will not re-use the old code. For that MS is doing the "Singularity OS" project.
What's wrong with this bug is that clearly Microsoft "software quality control" is failed (we know it for a long time - this is just another prove). All code going to Vista should be checked line by line and not cut-n-pasted function by function.
I absolutely agree about Mac GUI consistency. But Windows??? Have you notice that almost evey application in Windows uses own "GUI style"? Windows Update, almost every antivirus/firewall SW (I know that's 3rd party, but 99% of them use own widgets!!!), Media player (by Microsoft!), soon-coming Office also have new toolbar style etc. etc.
OK, I understand the "lyrics part" - it's "intelectual property" same as poems, books etc.
But WTF about "unlicensed song scores"? Does that mean that I can't publish on my blog what songs I like and hate?