... that such a way to check an OS is completely unfair. do you?
The emulation siftware could have problems as well...
Support, scalability, integration with hardware.
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In general Linux lacks the above.
But this is changing fast.
I think Sun did not jump in the bandwagon early enough, IBM and perhaps even HP will eat their lunch for lacking the guts to become a Linux player earlier in the game.
I am too late to this discussion, nevertheless I want to make a point that explains the ambivalent feelings I have about Bill Gate's generosity.
Colombian druglords very often use their ill-gotten profits to benefit the communities where they live.
They will finance schools, public works and even the local church (I have heard priests lavishing praise on these individuals).
Bill Gates is not druglord by any means (although his company uses similar tactics to spread the use of his software) but I always find hard to accept the end justifies the means mantra.
Maybe in the case of Mr. Gates it does, but frankly I wish that the person giving this money had an ethical bussiness profile more worthy of the charity causes he is sponsoring.
Only the most incompetent companies are not using Linux at this moment in that with the excuse of "legal problems".
By know it is absolutely and completely clear that this is a scam, no company worth its salt is giving a chance in a frozen hell to SCO winning this....
The only one we have any hope of ever habiting without massive artificial infrastructure is Mars, maybe Venus (big maybe). Anything else is too hot or to cold.
And as for reaching other stellar systems, get real, it would take thousends of years, even with improved technology, to reach even the closest stars.
We are stuck here, so better we make the best out of it.
Sometimes I believe you guys in the US get the nuttest of the nuttest religious idiots in the whole known Universe (well, not really, Saudi Arabia and Iran take the biscuit out of you).
Anyway, millions of Catholics around the world have premarital sex, re-marry, use contraceptives and in general completely ignore what the religious hierachy have to say about reproductive matters. For goodness sakes, Mexico's President is a devout Catholic and re-married (civil ceremony of course) while in office. That is a typical example about what Catholics think about the church's opinions in matters not spiritual.
The bigger companies pay the most and they get the talent they want.
People working in companies with big bureacucracies go rounds people in small companies, with the honourable exceptions, and there are economical reasons for this.
I know now you will throw bunches of small companies that got lucky and managed to get one or two smart guys. Those are the exceptions, not the rules. Smart people go were the money is, not for selfish reasons necessarily, but because with money you have better chances of developping your talent.
Some/.ers are so dead on against big corps that will blind themsleves to the glaringly obivous...
How many DVDs that you will watch no more than once you need to keep? Why?
I prefer to watch a DVD, if it is not memorable it finds its way to Ebay or Amazon. If it is worth watching a second time I keep it, but once I have 10 or 15 of them I know I have too many, most likely I will never watch them all again, so I get rid of 2 thirds of them, rinse and repeat.
In the unlikely case that you need a DVD again, you buy it 2nd hand.
"It's also possible to buy music from iTunes and load it on ANY music player. There are programs out there (Hymn) to remove the security from the iTunes music"
You obviously were born yesterday or came out of the cave you have been hiding for the last 10 years.
One single word: DMCA.
What you are advocating is illegal behaviour (we can discuss the morality of the laws, but as things stand what you are suggesting is a law suit waiting to happen).
If that is the flexibility Apple offers I thing we are using different dictionaries to define the same concept,
Apple fanboys get annoyed so easily! The funny thing is how they start saying nonsense when the objct of their love is touched with the petal of legitimate criticism.
That is the nature of the Internet and of this site in particular, if you don't like it, turn your computer off.
Refering to stuff in other site is not plagiarism. Don't be stupid.
The mass media, movie industry and the music cartels have brain washed you to a level that talkin about something interesting is frowned upon by you as plagiarism.
If that is the case we can't talk about anything, since by doing so we are plagiarizing ideas (according to your weird view of the world).
The naivite of some around here is stagering. If you truly believe that dealer closers cloe those millions of follars deals do on the basis of a few fucking football tickets, then you are more naive than most.
And if you think a fscking programmer (he, like you most likely) can grasp the complexities of such transactions then you are beyond hope.
You are watching too many Hollywood movies, in those the manager is always bad, ignorant and greedy and the geek in the company's basement is all knowing and can save the world if he has a macintosh.
With your "bakcup" system I can't get different versions of the same file. I get an snapshot of the full system, which is very useful of course, but does not provide me with the possibility of getting old files at a given moment in time.
You,as many people without enough experience backing up machines do, confuse high resilience with high availability of data.
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... that such a way to check an OS is completely unfair. do you?
The emulation siftware could have problems as well...
In general Linux lacks the above.
But this is changing fast.
I think Sun did not jump in the bandwagon early enough, IBM and perhaps even HP will eat their lunch for lacking the guts to become a Linux player earlier in the game.
... be interested at all in having nvidia/nforce drivers?
Just curious....
I am too late to this discussion, nevertheless I want to make a point that explains the ambivalent feelings I have about Bill Gate's generosity.
Colombian druglords very often use their ill-gotten profits to benefit the communities where they live.
They will finance schools, public works and even the local church (I have heard priests lavishing praise on these individuals).
Bill Gates is not druglord by any means (although his company uses similar tactics to spread the use of his software) but I always find hard to accept the end justifies the means mantra.
Maybe in the case of Mr. Gates it does, but frankly I wish that the person giving this money had an ethical bussiness profile more worthy of the charity causes he is sponsoring.
Only the most incompetent companies are not using Linux at this moment in that with the excuse of "legal problems".
By know it is absolutely and completely clear that this is a scam, no company worth its salt is giving a chance in a frozen hell to SCO winning this....
... without thinking about alternatives? What about shed does not know any better in this particular field of expertise?
It is a bit rich to reach such devastating conclussions without knowing all the context.
The only one we have any hope of ever habiting without massive artificial infrastructure is Mars, maybe Venus (big maybe). Anything else is too hot or to cold.
And as for reaching other stellar systems, get real, it would take thousends of years, even with improved technology, to reach even the closest stars.
We are stuck here, so better we make the best out of it.
Sometimes I believe you guys in the US get the nuttest of the nuttest religious idiots in the whole known Universe (well, not really, Saudi Arabia and Iran take the biscuit out of you).
Anyway, millions of Catholics around the world have premarital sex, re-marry, use contraceptives and in general completely ignore what the religious hierachy have to say about reproductive matters. For goodness sakes, Mexico's President is a devout Catholic and re-married (civil ceremony of course) while in office. That is a typical example about what Catholics think about the church's opinions in matters not spiritual.
If anything, politicians are getting younger due to the power of TV.
The scenario outlined above is completely ludicrous.
.... that is not correct my first reaction is "you can't say that".
The bigger companies pay the most and they get the talent they want.
/.ers are so dead on against big corps that will blind themsleves to the glaringly obivous...
People working in companies with big bureacucracies go rounds people in small companies, with the honourable exceptions, and there are economical reasons for this.
I know now you will throw bunches of small companies that got lucky and managed to get one or two smart guys. Those are the exceptions, not the rules. Smart people go were the money is, not for selfish reasons necessarily, but because with money you have better chances of developping your talent.
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Not everybody is a few minutes drive from a place where they can have a reasonable view of the sky unimpeded by artificial light.
If the Lapland is the best you can come off with then it is just one samll confirmation of how difficult it is to watch a clean sky.
I was not able to experience a clean sky until I had a chance to go to the Namib desert, pretty much in the middle of nowhere....
.... the word "context".
It will be an enlightening experience, you trying to appear "cultivated" but ignore the context in which swastikas exist.
How many times can you watch the same DVD?
How many DVDs that you will watch no more than once you need to keep? Why?
I prefer to watch a DVD, if it is not memorable it finds its way to Ebay or Amazon. If it is worth watching a second time I keep it, but once I have 10 or 15 of them I know I have too many, most likely I will never watch them all again, so I get rid of 2 thirds of them, rinse and repeat.
In the unlikely case that you need a DVD again, you buy it 2nd hand.
So again, why do you need a collection of DVDs?
"It's also possible to buy music from iTunes and load it on ANY music player. There are programs out there (Hymn) to remove the security from the iTunes music"
You obviously were born yesterday or came out of the cave you have been hiding for the last 10 years.
One single word: DMCA.
What you are advocating is illegal behaviour (we can discuss the morality of the laws, but as things stand what you are suggesting is a law suit waiting to happen).
If that is the flexibility Apple offers I thing we are using different dictionaries to define the same concept,
Apple fanboys get annoyed so easily! The funny thing is how they start saying nonsense when the objct of their love is touched with the petal of legitimate criticism.
If what you need is a function, that is dumb.
Throwing facts in the face of UK media's sensationalization and anti-french bias.
How dare you!
That is the nature of the Internet and of this site in particular, if you don't like it, turn your computer off.
Refering to stuff in other site is not plagiarism. Don't be stupid.
The mass media, movie industry and the music cartels have brain washed you to a level that talkin about something interesting is frowned upon by you as plagiarism.
If that is the case we can't talk about anything, since by doing so we are plagiarizing ideas (according to your weird view of the world).
... like the UK are free.
Even in Vietnam I had to pay to enter to the national museum in Hanoi.
.... but in any decent sized company your are drilled about not giving interviews to the media unless your are cleared by the company.
This is standard practice, so frankly I don;t see why you are making it sound like something so extraordinary.
.... be prepared to give up your cozy lifestyle.
Countries without capitalistic mechanisms to allocate wealth are normally shitholes.
You are welcome if you want something like that, but ton't expect too many enthusiatic backers.
Poor /.ers
The naivite of some around here is stagering. If you truly believe that dealer closers cloe those millions of follars deals do on the basis of a few fucking football tickets, then you are more naive than most.
And if you think a fscking programmer (he, like you most likely) can grasp the complexities of such transactions then you are beyond hope.
You are watching too many Hollywood movies, in those the manager is always bad, ignorant and greedy and the geek in the company's basement is all knowing and can save the world if he has a macintosh.
Unless you are not too choosy.
With your "bakcup" system I can't get different versions of the same file. I get an snapshot of the full system, which is very useful of course, but does not provide me with the possibility of getting old files at a given moment in time.
You,as many people without enough experience backing up machines do, confuse high resilience with high availability of data.
They are similar and related, but not the same.
But it gave your country (your blantant ignorance shows you more likely are USian) the power to destroy two town in japan completely.
Evolution is a theory in the same sense. Oh, and microbiologists use it in day to day research to save your fucking sorry ass from diseases like AIDS.