I'm not saying it isn't there, but for every copy of Linux you can find running, want to bet I can find more than 100 copies of Windows running close by? The market shows I'm right. Linux is taking over for UNIX in the data center, it is not becoming a desktop contender. Egads I've been hearing that same crap for nearly a decade now, Linux is ready to take over the desktop any day now. People don't understand how the majority of computer users, probably well over 99%, view them as appliances or tools and not in the same way a tinkerer or developer does.
But wouldn't my peers be running Linux? All my work involves UNIX/Linux. I also spoke of my experiences in public. The fact that Dell is selling machines pre-installed with Ubuntu does say to me that they are getting something out of it but I've watched Linux hardware vendors, vendors selling to the home and home office market, come and go. Didn't Slashdot's parent company sell Linux hardware in the past? Outside of server class hardware, you don't see Linux being sold. There are not 10s of millions installing Linux on their own.
Reality distortion fields are very prevalent among believers. I use Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In the past I have used FreeBSD, OpenBSD (they're dead you know!), OS/2 and others. In my everyday life, working with co-workers, interacting with friends, paying attention to machines in use at the bookstore or coffee house, I've never seen a Linux machine in use outside of work or my home. I do have one co-worker that says Linux is his primary OS at home with a Windows machine only for gaming. One thing I have noticed is a surge in Mac usage. Last weekend I actually had a period of several hours where I only saw Macs in use on a street mall. At every coffee shop or sandwich shop you'd find at least one person with a laptop and I only saw Apples, I was actually incredibly surprised. I think the fact that more software houses are writing for the Mac shows where people are migrating too.
The results you receive querying any database will be as good as the input data. We are doing web page searches here correct? So if I just search "microsoft apple" those two words will appear billions if not trillions of times I'm sure. Is the web engine supposed to figure out intent from that? Give me a break. The page returns that Google is giving out are probably related to user behavior after a similar search and Alpha hasn't had enough time to build up that kind of data. The second one was stupid as well. Again, we are searching web pages. I doubt many pages exist converting 10 pounds to kilograms. If I want to convert something how about a more useful query like "converting pounds to kilograms" I found myself more annoyed by this story than I have been in a long while.
You have those that will pay for vendor to support it, just another "UNIX" like operating system to them, and those that use it because it is open and free and want to roll their own. Server rooms don't show up on usage stats. Linux will never gain a significant desktop share in it's current incarnation or with the current direction. It has become quite obvious that those looking for a UNIX desktop have chosen Apple, that was the impetus for the early Mac adoption that I saw. Time after time I saw people that had tried running Linux on a laptop but like me they got tired of having to massage things and so they got a Mac notebook instead. I love my MacBook Pro and no Linux laptop/desktop has ever come close to it.
They audit every line of code they ship, including the external stuff they don't write. It is one of the most secure operating system distributions because of this policy.
As was I against the bailout. I'm registered as 'unaffiliated' aka independent, but am Libertarian leaning. Libertarians believe in letting the markets correct themselves. The government helped create this crisis by backing these poorly thought out policies regarding sub-prime loans. The market would have not done this because of the inherent risk involved in loaning to such credit risks.
Funny thing at my work, it is all AIX for the serious stuff and Linux for servers that are less important. When large amounts of money are changing hands, you often find UNIX working. Linux is great, but the hardware/software integration that big Vendors can provide is the extra yard that a lot of high throughput applications need. Lots of testing was done and in the end, AIX on Power was the best solution for us. Linux just couldn't cope.
I was going to get me an iPhone, they are friggin sweet. I own a MacBook Pro. After much deliberation I decided to not pay the premium price, got a glyde and I can listen to my MP3s just fine with it over my Plantronics Bluetooth headset. I've been mulling over my decision to buy the MacBook Pro last year as well. I could have saved some money on a similarly equipped PC and dual booted Linux and Windows. I'm still thinking of selling the MacBook Pro and getting a Dell with Ubuntu installed. My Mac experiment may be nearing an end. I like the platform, I am starting to loathe the company.
Really d-bag? How has Linux gone past cli and gui concepts that are implented in Windows, Mac OS X, other Unices? He was just disparaging Windows in case you have reading comprehension problems.
No, there were no pictures of molten steel. There was steel melted from blow torches, plenty of beam cutting going on. There was red hot steel pulled from the pile, that is true, no molten steel though. The flowing liquid from the south tower was identified as lead coming from a UPS center a few floors above the impact site. There is no cohesive conspiracy theory, though there are conflicting ones. Tell me Mr conspiracy theorists, was Al Qaeda in on this with the US Government? Did they make marty videos to help the US make it look like a terrorist attack. Was the US Government and Al Qaeda in coohots in 93 as well? Perhaps you forget that Al Qaeda declared War on the US after Saudia Arabia allowed us to use their land for Air Bases? Perhaps a lesson in the history of Al Qaeda's jihad against the US is in order?
They are ripping people off on upgrades. I refused to pay the exorbitant price for a bigger hard drive and went with the cheapest model. I'm running out of space and having to use external drives for storage and am pissed off that Apple does not make upgrading easier and that they rip you off for upgrades. This will be my last Mac unless they make upgrading the hard drive easier. I shouldn't have to go through the minor surgery and void my warranty to add a larger and faster hard drive to my MBP. I never had problems upgrading my old PC laptops.
I prefer buying DRM free 256k MP3s from Amazon. The last 4 albums I've purchased in electronic format have been from there. I buy CDs if I want to make sure I have a physical backup of the music.
The fanboys tell me over and over how this is the year of the Linux desktop, I've been hearing that since 1999, but I've tired of the issues I had trying to run Linux as my primary desktop. I bought a MacBook Pro last year and am very happy with it. I run Windows/Linux in VMWare Fusion when I need/want to do something in them but I really am quite happy at deciding to choose the Mac as my primary platform. I started using Linux in 1996 with Slackware 2.x but last year when I found myself still having to compile source code to get a new piece of hardware to work, without full functionality to boot, I through in towel and said I'm done. Linux will succeed on the desktop when hardware manufacturers build their products with Linux in mind and ship with Linux drivers. When the latest gadget that everybody wants has a sticker that says "Ready for Linux", Linux will have arrived.
I use a computer to get work done and I select GNOME as my default desktop environment when I'm under Linux. It has always made the basic functionality I need easier to achieve. KDE seems to be preferred by the type of people that like to run WindowBlinds on Windows. I need to be able to manage my windows, start my apps from a convenient location and not a whole lot more in day to day work. I configure my environment once and I'm pretty much done. When I get a machine with GNOME I:
I get rid of the bottom panel Move the top panel to the bottom Add the workspace switcher and window list to the panel plus any app launchers I need At that point I'm done except for maybe resizing the panel based on the screen resolution and also setting up pixel smoothing for my display.
So how is GNOME assuming I'm too stupid to know how I work best? I have to admit that the clearlooks theme with slight hinting looks really sharp in my opinion, best looking Linux desktop I've had.
Just like all the Windows books that cover material that Microsoft didn't put in a book with the operating system? How about all those programming books, the compiler makers should cover every topic you should ever need to know about programming too.
I second that. I believe that all intro and data structure courses should be taught in C. A lot of people coming out of school are "Computer Scientists" that don't have the slightest clue as to how a computer really works. After the first two courses you can start introducing other languages once the student actually understands the link between the program statements and how the computer is really interpreting them.
I live close to one and their selection kicks the ass of CompUSA, BB, CC or any of the other chains. I don't have experience with Fry's so I can't compare.
If you are using a source as a reference you should always make sure to be able to verify what you read and to make sure the sources for your source are valid. I have found false and misleading information on Wikipedia. I have also found that 99% of my searches contain accurate information, it is the one in one hundred where the entry was written by somebody with an obvious axe to grind that hurt Wikipedia's image.
It is my first Mac, I've had it for nearly a month now. The first thing I did when getting it was letting it update 10.4 and then I upgraded to 10.5 with the disc that came in the box. I have not had one crash since I received the machine. I run iWork, Microsoft Office 2004, Thunderbird, Firefox regularly and all run smoothly. Maybe I haven't taxed the machine enough in my brief time with it but I've found no problems. It seems like a lot of issues are coming from upgrades of machines that have been in use for a long time?
My wife and I just switched to digital from analog this week. We were taken in by the $25 for six months with HBO. I have to say, analog was better. Sometimes there is so much compression that it looks like a video game. I'm seriously upset.
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I'm not saying it isn't there, but for every copy of Linux you can find running, want to bet I can find more than 100 copies of Windows running close by? The market shows I'm right. Linux is taking over for UNIX in the data center, it is not becoming a desktop contender. Egads I've been hearing that same crap for nearly a decade now, Linux is ready to take over the desktop any day now. People don't understand how the majority of computer users, probably well over 99%, view them as appliances or tools and not in the same way a tinkerer or developer does.
But wouldn't my peers be running Linux? All my work involves UNIX/Linux. I also spoke of my experiences in public. The fact that Dell is selling machines pre-installed with Ubuntu does say to me that they are getting something out of it but I've watched Linux hardware vendors, vendors selling to the home and home office market, come and go. Didn't Slashdot's parent company sell Linux hardware in the past? Outside of server class hardware, you don't see Linux being sold. There are not 10s of millions installing Linux on their own.
Reality distortion fields are very prevalent among believers. I use Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. In the past I have used FreeBSD, OpenBSD (they're dead you know!), OS/2 and others. In my everyday life, working with co-workers, interacting with friends, paying attention to machines in use at the bookstore or coffee house, I've never seen a Linux machine in use outside of work or my home. I do have one co-worker that says Linux is his primary OS at home with a Windows machine only for gaming. One thing I have noticed is a surge in Mac usage. Last weekend I actually had a period of several hours where I only saw Macs in use on a street mall. At every coffee shop or sandwich shop you'd find at least one person with a laptop and I only saw Apples, I was actually incredibly surprised. I think the fact that more software houses are writing for the Mac shows where people are migrating too.
The results you receive querying any database will be as good as the input data. We are doing web page searches here correct? So if I just search "microsoft apple" those two words will appear billions if not trillions of times I'm sure. Is the web engine supposed to figure out intent from that? Give me a break. The page returns that Google is giving out are probably related to user behavior after a similar search and Alpha hasn't had enough time to build up that kind of data. The second one was stupid as well. Again, we are searching web pages. I doubt many pages exist converting 10 pounds to kilograms. If I want to convert something how about a more useful query like "converting pounds to kilograms" I found myself more annoyed by this story than I have been in a long while.
You have those that will pay for vendor to support it, just another "UNIX" like operating system to them, and those that use it because it is open and free and want to roll their own. Server rooms don't show up on usage stats. Linux will never gain a significant desktop share in it's current incarnation or with the current direction. It has become quite obvious that those looking for a UNIX desktop have chosen Apple, that was the impetus for the early Mac adoption that I saw. Time after time I saw people that had tried running Linux on a laptop but like me they got tired of having to massage things and so they got a Mac notebook instead. I love my MacBook Pro and no Linux laptop/desktop has ever come close to it.
They audit every line of code they ship, including the external stuff they don't write. It is one of the most secure operating system distributions because of this policy.
As was I against the bailout. I'm registered as 'unaffiliated' aka independent, but am Libertarian leaning. Libertarians believe in letting the markets correct themselves. The government helped create this crisis by backing these poorly thought out policies regarding sub-prime loans. The market would have not done this because of the inherent risk involved in loaning to such credit risks.
Funny thing at my work, it is all AIX for the serious stuff and Linux for servers that are less important. When large amounts of money are changing hands, you often find UNIX working. Linux is great, but the hardware/software integration that big Vendors can provide is the extra yard that a lot of high throughput applications need. Lots of testing was done and in the end, AIX on Power was the best solution for us. Linux just couldn't cope.
I was going to get me an iPhone, they are friggin sweet. I own a MacBook Pro. After much deliberation I decided to not pay the premium price, got a glyde and I can listen to my MP3s just fine with it over my Plantronics Bluetooth headset. I've been mulling over my decision to buy the MacBook Pro last year as well. I could have saved some money on a similarly equipped PC and dual booted Linux and Windows. I'm still thinking of selling the MacBook Pro and getting a Dell with Ubuntu installed. My Mac experiment may be nearing an end. I like the platform, I am starting to loathe the company.
Really d-bag? How has Linux gone past cli and gui concepts that are implented in Windows, Mac OS X, other Unices? He was just disparaging Windows in case you have reading comprehension problems.
No, there were no pictures of molten steel. There was steel melted from blow torches, plenty of beam cutting going on. There was red hot steel pulled from the pile, that is true, no molten steel though. The flowing liquid from the south tower was identified as lead coming from a UPS center a few floors above the impact site. There is no cohesive conspiracy theory, though there are conflicting ones. Tell me Mr conspiracy theorists, was Al Qaeda in on this with the US Government? Did they make marty videos to help the US make it look like a terrorist attack. Was the US Government and Al Qaeda in coohots in 93 as well? Perhaps you forget that Al Qaeda declared War on the US after Saudia Arabia allowed us to use their land for Air Bases? Perhaps a lesson in the history of Al Qaeda's jihad against the US is in order?
They are ripping people off on upgrades. I refused to pay the exorbitant price for a bigger hard drive and went with the cheapest model. I'm running out of space and having to use external drives for storage and am pissed off that Apple does not make upgrading easier and that they rip you off for upgrades. This will be my last Mac unless they make upgrading the hard drive easier. I shouldn't have to go through the minor surgery and void my warranty to add a larger and faster hard drive to my MBP. I never had problems upgrading my old PC laptops.
If the the IT dept thinks that Vista "sux0rz" they probably think XP sucks as well hey?
I prefer buying DRM free 256k MP3s from Amazon. The last 4 albums I've purchased in electronic format have been from there. I buy CDs if I want to make sure I have a physical backup of the music.
The fanboys tell me over and over how this is the year of the Linux desktop, I've been hearing that since 1999, but I've tired of the issues I had trying to run Linux as my primary desktop. I bought a MacBook Pro last year and am very happy with it. I run Windows/Linux in VMWare Fusion when I need/want to do something in them but I really am quite happy at deciding to choose the Mac as my primary platform. I started using Linux in 1996 with Slackware 2.x but last year when I found myself still having to compile source code to get a new piece of hardware to work, without full functionality to boot, I through in towel and said I'm done. Linux will succeed on the desktop when hardware manufacturers build their products with Linux in mind and ship with Linux drivers. When the latest gadget that everybody wants has a sticker that says "Ready for Linux", Linux will have arrived.
They have a freshman wonder kid and a graduating senior working together on breakthrough laser designs.
I use a computer to get work done and I select GNOME as my default desktop environment when I'm under Linux. It has always made the basic functionality I need easier to achieve. KDE seems to be preferred by the type of people that like to run WindowBlinds on Windows. I need to be able to manage my windows, start my apps from a convenient location and not a whole lot more in day to day work. I configure my environment once and I'm pretty much done. When I get a machine with GNOME I:
I get rid of the bottom panel
Move the top panel to the bottom
Add the workspace switcher and window list to the panel plus any app launchers I need
At that point I'm done except for maybe resizing the panel based on the screen resolution and also setting up pixel smoothing for my display.
So how is GNOME assuming I'm too stupid to know how I work best? I have to admit that the clearlooks theme with slight hinting looks really sharp in my opinion, best looking Linux desktop I've had.
Just like all the Windows books that cover material that Microsoft didn't put in a book with the operating system? How about all those programming books, the compiler makers should cover every topic you should ever need to know about programming too.
I second that. I believe that all intro and data structure courses should be taught in C. A lot of people coming out of school are "Computer Scientists" that don't have the slightest clue as to how a computer really works. After the first two courses you can start introducing other languages once the student actually understands the link between the program statements and how the computer is really interpreting them.
I live close to one and their selection kicks the ass of CompUSA, BB, CC or any of the other chains. I don't have experience with Fry's so I can't compare.
If you are using a source as a reference you should always make sure to be able to verify what you read and to make sure the sources for your source are valid. I have found false and misleading information on Wikipedia. I have also found that 99% of my searches contain accurate information, it is the one in one hundred where the entry was written by somebody with an obvious axe to grind that hurt Wikipedia's image.
It is my first Mac, I've had it for nearly a month now. The first thing I did when getting it was letting it update 10.4 and then I upgraded to 10.5 with the disc that came in the box. I have not had one crash since I received the machine. I run iWork, Microsoft Office 2004, Thunderbird, Firefox regularly and all run smoothly. Maybe I haven't taxed the machine enough in my brief time with it but I've found no problems. It seems like a lot of issues are coming from upgrades of machines that have been in use for a long time?
My wife and I just switched to digital from analog this week. We were taken in by the $25 for six months with HBO. I have to say, analog was better. Sometimes there is so much compression that it looks like a video game. I'm seriously upset.
...if he survives the freezing process.
The last time it was updated was 2005?
http://www.kde.org/history/awards.php
I would think that would be embarrassing if you had a 2 year award drought.