Just today I download flash 7.0 installer.exe , right-clicked it and left-clicked run-as, Admin, password, and it broked, Admin doesn't have permission to run a file saved under a user's name, what kind of shit is that? That's somekind of effort on Microsoft's part.
And the second most important application is "Digital Camera/Video?" Sure ever try to develope product brouchures without a digital camera? Last time my oldish digital camera just worked in Linux, I'm curious to try it now, the switch to udev has caused some weirdness on my Linux system running Arch Linux.
I'm amazed at how much stuff just works in Linux, usually if some hardware doesn't work, it's because some required spec wasn't implimented because windows doesn't use it and the vendor didn't bother to test for it, or decided to steal some CPU cycles to work around it in the driver.
Usually if a printer doesn't work correctly in windows, the printer manufacturer get blamed, it's their hardware and drivers, if it doesn't work in Linux it's linux's blame.
It see it as more of a mind-set thing, some people buy a car, and take it to the dealership every 2000 miles to be taken care of. Some people want a car that they can wrench on and get it tricked out, some are happy with 18 inch wheels and spinners, some end up with a car with a different engine, tranny, and body pannels.
If Granny has never changed the wallpaper on her screen, she should probably stay away from slackware or gentoo, I don't ever see the 'puter being a toaster, to many variables.
Some of those "extremely common" file formats are patent encumbered, so if they play or not can depend on if the distro's country of origin recognises software patents, or sometimes the distro just figures they are small enough to be able to fly under the radar. I usualy figure if mplayer can't play it, it's probably got some kind of windows virus, spyware or DRM in it; I've only found it true on some porn sites. There are libaries that can be download that play most major formats, ones that some distros can't include for legal reasons.
one man's "can't perform the most basic of tasks" is another's vendor lock-in.
Actualy looking at the stock price over a 3 month period, it seems to be helping! Why is it that nobody seems to value good-will any more? The American Indians had a saying "Don't judge a man by what he does, or by his children but judge him by his grandchildren" now Sony a Japanese company seems to have squander a couple decades worth of brand building. The Japanese used to be the masters of long-range business plans, now it seems they to have been corupted by the only worry about the next quarter syndrome. Now everytime i hear the tagline "Sony the one and only" I think "thank God"
I didn't realise it went back that far (for the US), I was about two then. I did meet a Frenchman who told me he served in Viet Nam in 1954, that was the year I was born.
Many times what is percieved as fast talk and snap decisions are in reality the results of months of carefull consideration and rehersal. The ability to ignore extranious information and careful select pertainant information makes a lot of snap decisions "no-brainers" as well.
it was more JFK - LBJ - Nixon. JFK had something like 50K over there and a lot of Special Forces, who spent their time teaching the Vietnamese how to defend themselves so they could make decisions without being bullied by any side. The program was reasonbly effective as a Spec OPs mission and LBJ was kept out of the loop by the bros from Mass. When LBJ got the program he did what most Americans would do, "if enough is good, too much is better" and turned it into a real war. Nixon's unpopularity alowed the North to perfect a polictical attack method, which we are starting to see again; everytime somebody calls on American Politicians to not "vietnamize" Iraq that's exactly what they are doing.
While I'll agree that Carter has been among the worst presidents we've had, we also have to give him his due as one of the best former presidents. Other than Kenedy and Reagan, its been a while sense we've had a good president
John Murtha, isn't he the guy that is being called an ex-marine in the media all over the place as opposed to being called a former-marine. The saying goes "The only ex-marine is a dead Marine", so being called an ex-marine is more like being disowned by your family, shunned by your community, exiled by your nation and excommunicated by your church. This is a sign of disrespect, even in our left leaning press, there has to be somebody, maybe a camera-man or a grip that understands and has explain the insult to the writers and talkin-heads.
It's more along the lines, "Scientists proves what I've known all my life, psycologists still trying to catch up" What i would find interesting now that we have an objective determination method is what are the proportions of introverts/extroverts
In modern times we have stumbled across many peoples still living with stone-age technology,and haven't doubted their sentience. Personaly I've wonder if we are the only great ape that's truly sentient, With a gentle prod, Gorillas and chimps become uncomfortabley close to the average intellegnce of modern man. Language ability and its resultant abstract reasoning seems to count more for intellegence than pure processing power.
I figure this guy has to be some major kind of genius, because if somebody like me wrote some seriosly whacked-out shit like this and worked for fermilab, they'd rip out both my balls and security clearence so fast I wouldn't know what happened.
I figure any interstellar travel would be so resource intensive, that it would make the Galcticus routine manditory. If they aren't ready, willing and able to suck the life out of any solar system they come across, they wouldn't make it here.
I've got punch cards that you can't even read the printing on that still hold the data perfectly uncorrupted; at least 25 years old. No mechanical device is ever going to beat good old punched cards or mylar/paper tape for longevity
30 year range sure a couple of Ideas 1 best, home-made platinum prints, gives the best combination of storage volume and longevity 2. staying digital, tape system as in punched mylar longest data retention, but storage volume has major suckage factor
what I would do is massive RAID 50 array in the back for long term archial storage in the back room, something not as massive and faster up front for recent work that you might actually need to get to; only fire up the back-room arrary if you need something.
I know that's not what you want to hear, but its too early to consider digital for anything than needs archival quality.
I would agree, and futher I found the studies use of "required by 3rd party software" a bit ambigious in one context it could mean X-windows or MySQL is 3rd party to Linux, in another it could be some php scripts function that would never be used was listed by a developer that just never bothered to test against the 3.23 version of MySQL.
I've tried to find the PDF and couldn't, but I don't remember a list of what the 3rd party software was, just an appendix of corps using the software.
Technicaly you're correct, but the effect of being GPL'ed is because anyone who recieves a copy may in turn freely distribute copies, the concept of sales is nonsensicaly in GPLed software.
Getting even more technical, only the copyright holders have the right to sell initialy; since RH doesn't hold all of the copyrights in Linux, they don't own RHEL, therefore they can't sell what they don't have sales rights for, which means they can't "sell" RHEL. Even Windows isn't sold, only a very restricted right to use is sold.
So what is in RHEL that isn't GPLed? Very little I suspect, maybe some hardware detection routines a couple images, surely nothing that couldn't be gotten arround. Once apon a time SuSE's Yast program which configured the system via a gui wasn't GPLed, but that was quite a while ago
FTA Windows based systems are more expensive than Linux based systems, so even if vendors sold lesser number of Windows systems, the price difference could ensure that Windows sales revenue was higher. This implies that, in terms of pure numbers, Linux could very well have outsold Windows. So appearently they are saying windows is outselling Linux, but maybe Linux is outselling Windows.
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Just today I download flash 7.0 installer.exe , right-clicked it and left-clicked run-as, Admin, password, and it broked, Admin doesn't have permission to run a file saved under a user's name, what kind of shit is that? That's somekind of effort on Microsoft's part.
And the second most important application is "Digital Camera/Video?"
Sure ever try to develope product brouchures without a digital camera? Last time my oldish digital camera just worked in Linux, I'm curious to try it now, the switch to udev has caused some weirdness on my Linux system running Arch Linux.
I'm amazed at how much stuff just works in Linux, usually if some hardware doesn't work, it's because some required spec wasn't implimented because windows doesn't use it and the vendor didn't bother to test for it, or decided to steal some CPU cycles to work around it in the driver.
Usually if a printer doesn't work correctly in windows, the printer manufacturer get blamed, it's their hardware and drivers, if it doesn't work in Linux it's linux's blame.
It see it as more of a mind-set thing, some people buy a car, and take it to the dealership every 2000 miles to be taken care of. Some people want a car that they can wrench on and get it tricked out, some are happy with 18 inch wheels and spinners, some end up with a car with a different engine, tranny, and body pannels.
If Granny has never changed the wallpaper on her screen, she should probably stay away from slackware or gentoo, I don't ever see the 'puter being a toaster, to many variables.
Some of those "extremely common" file formats are patent encumbered, so if they play or not can depend on if the distro's country of origin recognises software patents, or sometimes the distro just figures they are small enough to be able to fly under the radar. I usualy figure if mplayer can't play it, it's probably got some kind of windows virus, spyware or DRM in it; I've only found it true on some porn sites. There are libaries that can be download that play most major formats, ones that some distros can't include for legal reasons.
one man's "can't perform the most basic of tasks" is another's vendor lock-in.
Actualy looking at the stock price over a 3 month period, it seems to be helping! Why is it that nobody seems to value good-will any more? The American Indians had a saying "Don't judge a man by what he does, or by his children but judge him by his grandchildren" now Sony a Japanese company seems to have squander a couple decades worth of brand building. The Japanese used to be the masters of long-range business plans, now it seems they to have been corupted by the only worry about the next quarter syndrome.
Now everytime i hear the tagline "Sony the one and only" I think "thank God"
I didn't realise it went back that far (for the US), I was about two then. I did meet a Frenchman who told me he served in Viet Nam in 1954, that was the year I was born.
Many times what is percieved as fast talk and snap decisions are in reality the results of months of carefull consideration and rehersal. The ability to ignore extranious information and careful select pertainant information makes a lot of snap decisions "no-brainers" as well.
it was more JFK - LBJ - Nixon. JFK had something like 50K over there and a lot of Special Forces, who spent their time teaching the Vietnamese how to defend themselves so they could make decisions without being bullied by any side. The program was reasonbly effective as a Spec OPs mission and LBJ was kept out of the loop by the bros from Mass. When LBJ got the program he did what most Americans would do, "if enough is good, too much is better" and turned it into a real war. Nixon's unpopularity alowed the North to perfect a polictical attack method, which we are starting to see again; everytime somebody calls on American Politicians to not "vietnamize" Iraq that's exactly what they are doing.
While I'll agree that Carter has been among the worst presidents we've had, we also have to give him his due as one of the best former presidents. Other than Kenedy and Reagan, its been a while sense we've had a good president
John Murtha, isn't he the guy that is being called an ex-marine in the media all over the place as opposed to being called a former-marine. The saying goes "The only ex-marine is a dead Marine", so being called an ex-marine is more like being disowned by your family, shunned by your community, exiled by your nation and excommunicated by your church. This is a sign of disrespect, even in our left leaning press, there has to be somebody, maybe a camera-man or a grip that understands and has explain the insult to the writers and talkin-heads.
It's more along the lines, "Scientists proves what I've known all my life, psycologists still trying to catch up" What i would find interesting now that we have an objective determination method is what are the proportions of introverts/extroverts
so hex editing a pre-compiled worm to listen to the correct IRC channel would be ok because the scriptkiddie isn't actualy using a compiler.
In modern times we have stumbled across many peoples still living with stone-age technology,and haven't doubted their sentience. Personaly I've wonder if we are the only great ape that's truly sentient, With a gentle prod, Gorillas and chimps become uncomfortabley close to the average intellegnce of modern man. Language ability and its resultant abstract reasoning seems to count more for intellegence than pure processing power.
I figure this guy has to be some major kind of genius, because if somebody like me wrote some seriosly whacked-out shit like this and worked for fermilab, they'd rip out both my balls and security clearence so fast I wouldn't know what happened.
I'm retired military and if I had to choose between a glider dropping gun-powder bombs and a catapult lobbing greek-fire; I'd chose the former.
I figure any interstellar travel would be so resource intensive, that it would make the Galcticus routine manditory. If they aren't ready, willing and able to suck the life out of any solar system they come across, they wouldn't make it here.
definately should go in the china circular file
if you could you can
I've got punch cards that you can't even read the printing on that still hold the data perfectly uncorrupted; at least 25 years old. No mechanical device is ever going to beat good old punched cards or mylar/paper tape for longevity
30 year range sure a couple of Ideas
1 best, home-made platinum prints, gives the best combination of storage volume and longevity
2. staying digital, tape system as in punched mylar longest data retention, but storage volume has major suckage factor
what I would do is massive RAID 50 array in the back for long term archial storage in the back room, something not as massive and faster up front for recent work that you might actually need to get to; only fire up the back-room arrary if you need something.
I know that's not what you want to hear, but its too early to consider digital for anything than needs archival quality.
I would agree, and futher I found the studies use of "required by 3rd party software" a bit ambigious in one context it could mean X-windows or MySQL is 3rd party to Linux, in another it could be some php scripts function that would never be used was listed by a developer that just never bothered to test against the 3.23 version of MySQL.
I've tried to find the PDF and couldn't, but I don't remember a list of what the 3rd party software was, just an appendix of corps using the software.
Technicaly you're correct, but the effect of being GPL'ed is because anyone who recieves a copy may in turn freely distribute copies, the concept of sales is nonsensicaly in GPLed software.
Getting even more technical, only the copyright holders have the right to sell initialy; since RH doesn't hold all of the copyrights in Linux, they don't own RHEL, therefore they can't sell what they don't have sales rights for, which means they can't "sell" RHEL. Even Windows isn't sold, only a very restricted right to use is sold.
So what is in RHEL that isn't GPLed? Very little I suspect, maybe some hardware detection routines a couple images, surely nothing that couldn't be gotten arround.
Once apon a time SuSE's Yast program which configured the system via a gui wasn't GPLed, but that was quite a while ago
FTA Windows based systems are more expensive than Linux based systems, so even if vendors sold lesser number of Windows systems, the price difference could ensure that Windows sales revenue was higher. This implies that, in terms of pure numbers, Linux could very well have outsold Windows.
So appearently they are saying windows is outselling Linux, but maybe Linux is outselling Windows.