It has already happened. Why do you think you see major players certifying Redhat or SUSE as their platforms of choice? The Linux distro game is for the little guy, Enterprises ignore them.
I certainly have no reason to help them, financial or otherwise. You say that they are having trouble getting volunteers? I say free Linux distributions are niche players now. SUSE and Redhat don't have the market share they do because of volunteer efforts.
If I put a Redhat/SUSE/Mandrake/etc... release from 2001 on the net as is, without a firewall or on a NAT'd network or patches, how long till they are "owned"?
The companies already do charge you for putting your phone on buzz, it is built in to the cost. Different feature sets have different costs. I've purchased 2 rintones, and found them both worth the total $4.00 I paid. That is chump change for me but you get a 100+ million to want to customize their ringer and you have a nice little chunk of change. My car/home insurance company just added a $1/month fee for direct deposit. I doubt they are being charged a $1/month more, but it is something I can overlook and they get an extra $1*number_of_direct_deposit_subscribers boost. I'm more annoyed by the "fee" for my insurance but it is so small I won't bother to switch to mail in payments.
Stop reproducing? A large population does not benefit the worlds current technological state. Large populations were good when corn was king, birth rates need to drop substantially.
If you have masters and are asking those questions you might want to get some common sense and some drive and motivation while you are at it. Seriously, if you got a Masters, you surely had a concentration and would have had contacts through your research?
It shows a certain amount of professionalism and respect for those in the future that might work with your creation? You don't have to change your personal ways, I certainly don't. When I'm around those who are more sensitive to some of my ways or deeds, I tone it down out of respect of their beliefs.
I'm sure it will be like the Concorde, all first class. People that need/want to travel between NYC and Tokyo in 6 hours will pay good money for it. I know my life was saved getting bumped to business class when I took the 11 hour flight from LA to Tokyo
That isn't what Novell and Redhat seem to think with their desktop offerings. I have to admit, it seems that KDE use is more widespread but GNOME has more money behind it.
I read the review too and how the thread creation slowed OS X down. That isn't going to matter to the average user and certainly my wife doesn't complain about her iBook at all. The configuration issues that I spoke of are all still there, no matter how bad Mac OS X falls down under a heavy load serving up web pages.
And with that ONE nice GUI, comes one API for the developer to target. One of the reasons that a lot of commercial Linux apps target certain releases of certain distributions is because supporting multiple targets can be costly. Linux is lagging in the RAD area. Linux needs to unify under one desktop and development environment for mass acceptance.
Mac OS X, imho, is the best UNIX desktop out there. Linux still isn't there, especially with regards to laptops. I've been using it since I first got Slack 3.x and remember running a 1.2.13 kernel. Currently, that I know of, not one distro ships that will put all ACPI notebooks into hibernation(or even one for that matter). I purchased a Cardbus 802.11g card and the kernel didn't have support for it, I had to grab the MADWIFI drivers. There is no 3D accelleration for ATI IGP 320M yet. The driver for the sound card apparently doesn't support mixing as when one process is generating sounds, all others get a device busy message.
Apple moving to x86 isn't a threat to Linux servers, and I don't see it as a threat to Linux on the desktop/laptop either. Mac OS X is already better and in more widespread use than Linux on the laptop/desktop. I do see iBooks and PowerBooks in use at libraries and coffeeshops but inevitably when I see an x86 laptop, it's running a variant of Windows. Just once I wish I'd see somebody else running Linux on their laptop like me but it has yet to happen. For those about to pounce with the "I see it all the time", what is the context? A Computer Science Lab/University library? At your place of work that deals with Linux? I'm talking about laptops I see owned by the unwashed and filthy masses, not in selective environments.
Quite irrelevant if you are supposed to submit in.DOC format. I too have had problems with formatting when files are saved in.DOC format. It results in my having to take the extra step to check the formatting in Word. Given that my word processing needs are very meager, it makes me question why I would bother using OpenOffice.org if I have to fire up Word anyway.
I was watching the evening news when I was 7. The world around me was fascinating and I wanted to learn all I could. My mother worked at Storage Tek back in the 70's and they let her bring home defective items, they spurred my imagination looking at them... makes we wonder where I lost my sense of adventure.
I'll give you a reason, XP crashes on my laptop 3-5 times a week and it is always the video driver. Windows 2000 has never, I repeat, never crashed on that same machine. It isn't even officially supported on my laptop, Compaq only supports XP on it. Luckily there is an HP laptop, same exact hardware but with the option for Windows 2000 or XP on it. The HP one is a "business machine" so that gave me access to Windows 200 drivers for the hardware. Windows 2000 boots slower but you know something, it is a lot more stable on that machine for me. I'm not the first person I know of with the same experience of 2000 being more stable either which is really damning for Microsoft.
They don't have to be educated but it trashes Microsoft's argument that people choose their products. One of my favorite lines with people that like to argue for Microsoft superiority is to ask them to name 10 features in xxx product from Microsoft that isn't available in yyy product from zzz company. The reactions are usually amusing. People don't like it when their whole argument comes tumbling down and they have to admit they never made a choice, they just took what they were given.
The market, to be completely competitive, requires a fully informed consumer. I think I can say that, without putting forth an argument to back it up, that most consumers of computers do not inform themselves of their options. Microsoft has $40-$50+ billion because they have a defacto monopoly. My mother thinks you have to have word to type a document.
That model doesn't exist anymore, plus look at all their laptop offerings, you don't see Linux as an option. Not exactly an auspicious start. It's available on servers and workstations(replacing older UNIX workstations).
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It has already happened. Why do you think you see major players certifying Redhat or SUSE as their platforms of choice? The Linux distro game is for the little guy, Enterprises ignore them.
I certainly have no reason to help them, financial or otherwise. You say that they are having trouble getting volunteers? I say free Linux distributions are niche players now. SUSE and Redhat don't have the market share they do because of volunteer efforts.
If I put a Redhat/SUSE/Mandrake/etc... release from 2001 on the net as is, without a firewall or on a NAT'd network or patches, how long till they are "owned"?
The companies already do charge you for putting your phone on buzz, it is built in to the cost. Different feature sets have different costs. I've purchased 2 rintones, and found them both worth the total $4.00 I paid. That is chump change for me but you get a 100+ million to want to customize their ringer and you have a nice little chunk of change. My car/home insurance company just added a $1/month fee for direct deposit. I doubt they are being charged a $1/month more, but it is something I can overlook and they get an extra $1*number_of_direct_deposit_subscribers boost. I'm more annoyed by the "fee" for my insurance but it is so small I won't bother to switch to mail in payments.
The world is finite in size and so are the resources it provides so your model will fail eventually.
Stop reproducing? A large population does not benefit the worlds current technological state. Large populations were good when corn was king, birth rates need to drop substantially.
If you have masters and are asking those questions you might want to get some common sense and some drive and motivation while you are at it. Seriously, if you got a Masters, you surely had a concentration and would have had contacts through your research?
It shows a certain amount of professionalism and respect for those in the future that might work with your creation? You don't have to change your personal ways, I certainly don't. When I'm around those who are more sensitive to some of my ways or deeds, I tone it down out of respect of their beliefs.
I'm sure it will be like the Concorde, all first class. People that need/want to travel between NYC and Tokyo in 6 hours will pay good money for it. I know my life was saved getting bumped to business class when I took the 11 hour flight from LA to Tokyo
Yeah, do it behind a nat'd network with a firewall. I've never been infected during setup and patching.
All the G4 machines above 800Mhz are hot imho. My wifes G3 700 runs nice and cool, even under a load... but then again it is a 700Mhz G3.
That isn't what Novell and Redhat seem to think with their desktop offerings. I have to admit, it seems that KDE use is more widespread but GNOME has more money behind it.
OK, I should've said UNIX-like ;-)
I read the review too and how the thread creation slowed OS X down. That isn't going to matter to the average user and certainly my wife doesn't complain about her iBook at all. The configuration issues that I spoke of are all still there, no matter how bad Mac OS X falls down under a heavy load serving up web pages.
And with that ONE nice GUI, comes one API for the developer to target. One of the reasons that a lot of commercial Linux apps target certain releases of certain distributions is because supporting multiple targets can be costly. Linux is lagging in the RAD area. Linux needs to unify under one desktop and development environment for mass acceptance.
Mac OS X, imho, is the best UNIX desktop out there. Linux still isn't there, especially with regards to laptops. I've been using it since I first got Slack 3.x and remember running a 1.2.13 kernel. Currently, that I know of, not one distro ships that will put all ACPI notebooks into hibernation(or even one for that matter). I purchased a Cardbus 802.11g card and the kernel didn't have support for it, I had to grab the MADWIFI drivers. There is no 3D accelleration for ATI IGP 320M yet. The driver for the sound card apparently doesn't support mixing as when one process is generating sounds, all others get a device busy message.
Apple moving to x86 isn't a threat to Linux servers, and I don't see it as a threat to Linux on the desktop/laptop either. Mac OS X is already better and in more widespread use than Linux on the laptop/desktop. I do see iBooks and PowerBooks in use at libraries and coffeeshops but inevitably when I see an x86 laptop, it's running a variant of Windows. Just once I wish I'd see somebody else running Linux on their laptop like me but it has yet to happen. For those about to pounce with the "I see it all the time", what is the context? A Computer Science Lab/University library? At your place of work that deals with Linux? I'm talking about laptops I see owned by the unwashed and filthy masses, not in selective environments.
The more I'm surprised that this article even was posted. It was a really poor review with really poor metrics and controls.
Quite irrelevant if you are supposed to submit in .DOC format. I too have had problems with formatting when files are saved in .DOC format. It results in my having to take the extra step to check the formatting in Word. Given that my word processing needs are very meager, it makes me question why I would bother using OpenOffice.org if I have to fire up Word anyway.
I was watching the evening news when I was 7. The world around me was fascinating and I wanted to learn all I could. My mother worked at Storage Tek back in the 70's and they let her bring home defective items, they spurred my imagination looking at them... makes we wonder where I lost my sense of adventure.
When you've proven him wrong tell him to hire somebody else.
I'll give you a reason, XP crashes on my laptop 3-5 times a week and it is always the video driver. Windows 2000 has never, I repeat, never crashed on that same machine. It isn't even officially supported on my laptop, Compaq only supports XP on it. Luckily there is an HP laptop, same exact hardware but with the option for Windows 2000 or XP on it. The HP one is a "business machine" so that gave me access to Windows 200 drivers for the hardware. Windows 2000 boots slower but you know something, it is a lot more stable on that machine for me. I'm not the first person I know of with the same experience of 2000 being more stable either which is really damning for Microsoft.
Nice little self-fullfiling prophecy, we have to move to Microsoft because they are the future. I heard that far too often in the 90s, fucking sheep.
In all that time you never learned to say "the my computer icon on your computer's desktop"?
They don't have to be educated but it trashes Microsoft's argument that people choose their products. One of my favorite lines with people that like to argue for Microsoft superiority is to ask them to name 10 features in xxx product from Microsoft that isn't available in yyy product from zzz company. The reactions are usually amusing. People don't like it when their whole argument comes tumbling down and they have to admit they never made a choice, they just took what they were given.
The market, to be completely competitive, requires a fully informed consumer. I think I can say that, without putting forth an argument to back it up, that most consumers of computers do not inform themselves of their options. Microsoft has $40-$50+ billion because they have a defacto monopoly. My mother thinks you have to have word to type a document.
That model doesn't exist anymore, plus look at all their laptop offerings, you don't see Linux as an option. Not exactly an auspicious start. It's available on servers and workstations(replacing older UNIX workstations).