Mozilla in Solaris. My MP3 are played normally in a NEX or in my Zaurus, they are processed from CDs I legally own in my Debian machine at home. I have never bought CDs whose copyright is being infringed neither use P2P to download music for which I don't have any right to listen (plenty of free legal music out there).
And funnily enough they are loved and respected in their communities because they provide services, fix the local church, etc.
I am not saying Mr Gates is that bad, the point I am trying to make is that giving to charity does not magically make the way you earn your money cleaner or less accountable.
This is not an artificial separation. The traditional defintion of an OS makes pretty clear that a fscking email client has absolutely no OS related tasks to take care of.
OS control your hardware resources, period.
Does your email client control hardware? Nope. Does your media player control hardware? Nope. What about your browser? Nope.
What evidence do I have?
First of all the availability of other options. You can do exactly the same with other pieces of software, thus clearly there is a separation between applications and OS.
Most damning for MS is the fact that all the pieces of software you mentioned were not included with Windows before. There was a time when Windows did not have web browser, email client (when they were so clueless about the Internet that Dear Leader did not see the Internet comming) or media player , first they provided them as a conveneince and now they bury them in the OS claiming that they are vital parts of it. Sorry, but they are insulting my intelligence.
I can accept that they budle stuff in an attempt to keep or increase their profits and market share for their OS, but they are lying when they say that application software is vital for the proper functioning of the OS. That is a load of rubish from both a practical and technical point of view.
Oh yes, bundling smaller apps also hurts others, but at least MS is not claiming that Minesweeper is vital for Windows. Yet.
... then the IT industry is a bunch of derided crazy fools. No wonder they are doing worst than other industries.
To base your business planning in an assumption (what Mr Moore said is not a law) is one of the riskier business propotitions I can think of.
Users should not install software. Period.
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One person or team has to take responsibility of software installations, otherwise you are wide open to virus, trojans and to have not copyrighted software installed without your knowledge.
"If you are worried about the reliability of commodity hardware, get a back up"
This is not applicable in many situations. If you have 1TB of data it is going to be a PITA to recover that from tape.
You need mirroring and if possible data replication in a different machine or machines (each one of which has the data mirrored) if possible in different locations.
Backups must be your last resort once all the other preventive measures have failed.
If your data is really important then you owe yourself to do more than rely on slow tapes (starting with good quality systems perhaps, those 2 or 3 thousend bucks that you "saved" may come to bite you later when you face downtime. There are not blanket solutions, sometimes commodity hardware will do, other times you must use other solutions).
My home network is connected through NTL. All my machines use Linux. This has been like this for 3 years (dial-up, moving to broadband in a couple of weeks, plenty or reports that it works fine with Linux). The firewall/NAT machine is Mandrake if you want to try. SomoothWall works as well.
Don't blame on NTL what is clearly due to your lack of knowledge of Linux.
If it plays like a human, wins like a human, and for all purposses is close to better the human (in this certainly narrow area), why should I give a fuck about how this is achieved?
If you did not know how this is done, what difference would it make as long as the final result (machines bettering human performance in hthis game) is the same?
In the UK most people killed by fire arms are criminals killing each other and there are just a few incidents like those every year. It is simlarly so in most other places with gun restrictions.
In the US any retard can kill somebody else, they could not if they did not have a gun. It is similarly so in other places with lax gun restrictions or no restrictions at all.
Obviously the cause of so much violence is the widespread availability of guns.
You confuse cause and symptom, that tragic mistake commited by the US society is costing people in your country their lifes every day.
With the average IT job lasting around 2 years, work for life in the same workplace gone for ever, who cares if this particular company feels that its anal policies have been challenged?
MS natural keyboards are made in Mexico. Or the VW Beetle. Sony used to have (still has) a production plant in Mexico where TVs were made for the worldwide market.
And so on.
Anyway, as stupid as it may sound, given the differences in costs and the addition of a differential in taxes, it is not implausiblr to set shop in the north of Mexico, ship stuff there and sell it from there. It may be cheaper since you are savin in salaries and taxes.
... arise from completely unrelated stuff. The only way that scientists can connect the points is to create the disjoint points for them to connect in the first place.
In every company I worked at programmers were the cause of every problem.
Undocumented code that never adhered to the standards was the norm of these misfits. They had not got a clue of the bigger picture and could not understand why decisions that were absolutely necessary could not wait for their prima donna attitudes regarding corporate needs.
The code monkey that believes he knows what he is talking about is perhaps one of the most nocive types in the IT industry.
The informed proponents of OS don't care about price, that comes as a nice side thing.
The important thing is freedom (to innovate, to change your software when you need to not when you are foced by your provider, to fix things when it suits you).
Many of us understand what value means, your brush is too wide, some generalizations are too innacurate.
My dad is 65, and his favorite sentence regarding computers is "those things are artifacts of the Devil". No, he is not smiling.
After some years using MS and not wanting to spend money he does not have (and that he is too proud to take from me) buying new hardware (that he realized he does not need) he asked me "OK, if you are so good with these damned things, set me up a system that costs me less and does the same".
I kept biting my lips for several years, until a few months ago I installed Mandrake. Problem solved.
I think most people have this patronizing attitude of "users just don't get it". What I did is that I found documentation, formatted it, printed it and sat down and explained it to him.
I did exactly the same with the Windows stuff, which is as complex and difficult to grasp for a non technical person as a Linux environment can be.
I am very impressed that you dad may need polynomial regression in a spreadsheet and full video in presentations. Really impressive for an old fart;-)
My dad needs to write a few letters, a good spreadsheet to keep track of his expenses, presentations? Nah. Web browsing and email of course are a must and he enjoys playing the odd game, his all time favourite being tetris.
My dad is not looking for IE explorer or Outlook, he is just looking for the damned thing for the web and the fucking email program. Those, I readily provided in very accessible places.
-The Sun is in the middle of its life. That means it will not expand and die for another 4 or 5 billion years. Plenty of time if you ask me.
-Any asteroids or comets that are big enough to wipe out human life on Earth and that may one day collide with our planet will be discovered by the improving telescopes. To divert such a threat should probe relatively easy (and we don't need to send Bruce Willis to do the work, that is why we have unmanned spaceships that could put in position small rockets to divert any asteroid or comet).
If humanity still exists in lets say 2999990000 years they would still have at least 10000 years to solve the problem of the Sun expanding, which may be imperative by then.
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Mozilla in Solaris. My MP3 are played normally in a NEX or in my Zaurus, they are processed from CDs I legally own in my Debian machine at home. I have never bought CDs whose copyright is being infringed neither use P2P to download music for which I don't have any right to listen (plenty of free legal music out there).
And funnily enough they are loved and respected in their communities because they provide services, fix the local church, etc.
I am not saying Mr Gates is that bad, the point I am trying to make is that giving to charity does not magically make the way you earn your money cleaner or less accountable.
This is not an artificial separation. The traditional defintion of an OS makes pretty clear that a fscking email client has absolutely no OS related tasks to take care of.
OS control your hardware resources, period.
Does your email client control hardware? Nope.
Does your media player control hardware? Nope.
What about your browser? Nope.
What evidence do I have?
First of all the availability of other options. You can do exactly the same with other pieces of software, thus clearly there is a separation between applications and OS.
Most damning for MS is the fact that all the pieces of software you mentioned were not included with Windows before. There was a time when Windows did not have web browser, email client (when they were so clueless about the Internet that Dear Leader did not see the Internet comming) or media player , first they provided them as a conveneince and now they bury them in the OS claiming that they are vital parts of it. Sorry, but they are insulting my intelligence.
I can accept that they budle stuff in an attempt to keep or increase their profits and market share for their OS, but they are lying when they say that application software is vital for the proper functioning of the OS. That is a load of rubish from both a practical and technical point of view.
Oh yes, bundling smaller apps also hurts others, but at least MS is not claiming that Minesweeper is vital for Windows. Yet.
.... are the worst you can do. Specially if you are close to retirement, in which case you should have all in bonds or cash.
.... have not realized this and keep using their old business practices.
Sometimes common sense is the less common of all senses.
... then the IT industry is a bunch of derided crazy fools. No wonder they are doing worst than other industries.
To base your business planning in an assumption (what Mr Moore said is not a law) is one of the riskier business propotitions I can think of.
One person or team has to take responsibility of software installations, otherwise you are wide open to virus, trojans and to have not copyrighted software installed without your knowledge.
Red Hat does not have the capability to provide support round the clock every time for both hardware and software.
"If you are worried about the reliability of commodity hardware, get a back up"
This is not applicable in many situations. If you have 1TB of data it is going to be a PITA to recover that from tape.
You need mirroring and if possible data replication in a different machine or machines (each one of which has the data mirrored) if possible in different locations.
Backups must be your last resort once all the other preventive measures have failed.
If your data is really important then you owe yourself to do more than rely on slow tapes (starting with good quality systems perhaps, those 2 or 3 thousend bucks that you "saved" may come to bite you later when you face downtime. There are not blanket solutions, sometimes commodity hardware will do, other times you must use other solutions).
My home network is connected through NTL. All my machines use Linux. This has been like this for 3 years (dial-up, moving to broadband in a couple of weeks, plenty or reports that it works fine with Linux). The firewall/NAT machine is Mandrake if you want to try. SomoothWall works as well.
Don't blame on NTL what is clearly due to your lack of knowledge of Linux.
The EU has stopped mergers involving US companies based in EU anti monopoly law.
They also had stopped mergers between US and EU companies, which is more understandable to the untrained eye.
Netscape, Stacker.
If it plays like a human, wins like a human, and for all purposses is close to better the human (in this certainly narrow area), why should I give a fuck about how this is achieved?
If you did not know how this is done, what difference would it make as long as the final result (machines bettering human performance in hthis game) is the same?
Every time the topic o chess surfaces immediately there is a "Go is great" loser pushing they favourite game?
Yes, we know it is great, it is the best game ever invented by the human race.
Now, can you keep that information to yourself while talking about chess?
Jeeez.
... is written where?
In the UK most people killed by fire arms are criminals killing each other and there are just a few incidents like those every year. It is simlarly so in most other places with gun restrictions.
In the US any retard can kill somebody else, they could not if they did not have a gun. It is similarly so in other places with lax gun restrictions or no restrictions at all.
Obviously the cause of so much violence is the widespread availability of guns.
You confuse cause and symptom, that tragic mistake commited by the US society is costing people in your country their lifes every day.
With the average IT job lasting around 2 years, work for life in the same workplace gone for ever, who cares if this particular company feels that its anal policies have been challenged?
MS natural keyboards are made in Mexico.
Or the VW Beetle.
Sony used to have (still has) a production plant in Mexico where TVs were made for the worldwide market.
And so on.
Anyway, as stupid as it may sound, given the differences in costs and the addition of a differential in taxes, it is not implausiblr to set shop in the north of Mexico, ship stuff there and sell it from there. It may be cheaper since you are savin in salaries and taxes.
It has to do with the way it is written and erased, which is at a lower level than the filesystem organization.
... arise from completely unrelated stuff. The only way that scientists can connect the points is to create the disjoint points for them to connect in the first place.
In every company I worked at programmers were the cause of every problem.
Undocumented code that never adhered to the standards was the norm of these misfits. They had not got a clue of the bigger picture and could not understand why decisions that were absolutely necessary could not wait for their prima donna attitudes regarding corporate needs.
The code monkey that believes he knows what he is talking about is perhaps one of the most nocive types in the IT industry.
The informed proponents of OS don't care about price, that comes as a nice side thing.
The important thing is freedom (to innovate, to change your software when you need to not when you are foced by your provider, to fix things when it suits you).
Many of us understand what value means, your brush is too wide, some generalizations are too innacurate.
My dad is 65, and his favorite sentence regarding computers is "those things are artifacts of the Devil". No, he is not smiling.
;-)
After some years using MS and not wanting to spend money he does not have (and that he is too proud to take from me) buying new hardware (that he realized he does not need) he asked me "OK, if you are so good with these damned things, set me up a system that costs me less and does the same".
I kept biting my lips for several years, until a few months ago I installed Mandrake. Problem solved.
I think most people have this patronizing attitude of "users just don't get it". What I did is that I found documentation, formatted it, printed it and sat down and explained it to him.
I did exactly the same with the Windows stuff, which is as complex and difficult to grasp for a non technical person as a Linux environment can be.
I am very impressed that you dad may need polynomial regression in a spreadsheet and full video in presentations. Really impressive for an old fart
My dad needs to write a few letters, a good spreadsheet to keep track of his expenses, presentations? Nah. Web browsing and email of course are a must and he enjoys playing the odd game, his all time favourite being tetris.
My dad is not looking for IE explorer or Outlook, he is just looking for the damned thing for the web and the fucking email program. Those, I readily provided in very accessible places.
-The Sun is in the middle of its life. That means it will not expand and die for another 4 or 5 billion years. Plenty of time if you ask me.
-Any asteroids or comets that are big enough to wipe out human life on Earth and that may one day collide with our planet will be discovered by the improving telescopes. To divert such a threat should probe relatively easy (and we don't need to send Bruce Willis to do the work, that is why we have unmanned spaceships that could put in position small rockets to divert any asteroid or comet).
If humanity still exists in lets say 2999990000 years they would still have at least 10000 years to solve the problem of the Sun expanding, which may be imperative by then.
To worry about that now is frankly childish.
In an OS project? Well, let me check wiuth their marketing people just to make sure...
O yes, can you tell us who do you work for? You know, I don't like buggy software...