In fact, what MS products have goes beyond what the weak word "bug" transmit (check this movie poster for a small example) unless you put the Heinlein's Starship Troopers ones in that category.
Anyway, i would had put in that list when Windows NT killed a navy ship... maybe losing a rocket could have been more expensive, but windows NT is more widespread and probably still used in critical places.
Luckily they put an OS that is, between more things, Free... who knows how much it would costed if they used there Windows.
There are too much joke potential with the idea of throwing out to space Windows computers also, but of course, nobody wants that a blue screen turns it into a red meteorite of death.
... Germany announced that they control book printing indefinitely, as is widely know that since Gutenberg invented printing press there, they remain the rightful owners of that technology and all derived from there.
If we travel deep deep into all the Microsoft vaporware, we will find an all-resource sucking Singularity. My best bet is that that codename will be the kernel and the box will have a "Galaxy" brand (after all, is what you see high in the sky when you look beyond your window).
If performance issues worries you, maybe you would want to try SUPER (SUSE Performance Enhanced Release). Is one of the nice things of being open, that people start to build around it new approachs.
If this season was bad, and was caused by the (still increasing) global warming, what will happen next year? Past-omega names? one really massive and strong megahurricane (Wilma at one point was the strongest measured ever, i think in some point heard something about winds of 500km/h) where you will have to split naming between old style hurricanes and land cleaning ones? or even so continuous appareance of ones that will be thru all the season some active dangerous hurricane around?
If this is just an isolated problem, and next year things go "back to normal" (?), keeping the actual naming system will be not so bad, but what about if things goes from bad to even worse next year? The cities/countries around caribe/mexican gulf would need to be somewhat permanently evacuated? or rebuilt in a way they could resist or not be so damaged by big hurricanes?
Wonder how will end after the same process South Park... wait, if the trouble is risk offending, it should take that process to broadcast it in US itself.
eBurn that ePaper and you will have real vapourware. Of course, that it will be shown in an Apr of next year exposition means that will not be vapour for long.
Google bussiness is in server-side, not in client. Google Talk's client for me is a "reference implementation", a somewhat minimal client side implementation that gives users a hint on what offers the server. If you have a lot of full-featured, cross plataform clients with a lot of weird ideas over it exploiting a lot more of the jabber/gtalk capabilities, and even better, making transparent in the full capabilities sense of the network you are connected (i.e. enabling you voice chat with MSN and GTalk contacts), well, they should be happy.
There is a lot of potential for expanding GTalk, from client side, because all the flexibility that have the jabber protocol. Giving the gaim community and with it at least the GPL client base some backing in expanding it they are in fact expanding a lot the possible future uses of their server.
For me this is more that just opening the standards (that is mostly already done as they are jabber based) but in some way forcing (k, is a strong word, not english speaker to give a lesser meaning to the concept) the community to reach a full featured client implementation.
Of course, where is the money for google? one word: synergy.
Maybe is not just "just" released, but in the last 7 days were also released new versions of Mandriva and SuSE. Could be interesting a comparision between those 3, not of the bundled packages, but what really makes a difference between them (installation, administration, distro-specific applications, hardware support, etc).
Using SuSE 10 in this moment myself, and now having included the main difference it had with debian based distros (apt, not so big package list compared with debian, but at least bigger than what is bundled in the dvds) maybe people should change the point of view of what defines or makes different a distro.
Bah, if you want to do a really eXtreme installation, something that defy your abilities, common sense and really make you risk your life, try installing windows in a nuclear power plant.
The real challenges are not in the top of a mountain but in yourself. How far you can go? What is the bigger risks you can take? Trying to play GTW with defense megacomputers are things of the past, move forward to the next challenges.
More than Trillian, Skype and others, i bet that they are more against their common foe, Google/Gmail/GTalk/etc. Maybe against each separate component they can have a chance, but when you start to combine them the potential for growing and taking away their markets is probably too big.
There are a lot of debian/apt based distributions where you can almost mix and match sources and repositories between those distributions... is not a consolidation, but Ubuntu, debian, knoppix based and even commercial ones are getting some sort of common backbone thanks to this.
In RPM land, things are not so clear, as is a bit more rare than an RPM for a distribution works in another, but opening distributions also generate a lot of subdistributions that aggrupates a bit a lot of distros, like all fedora-based ones or the future ones that could be based in opensuse.
I think that is ok that we have a lot of distributions with its own view on how to be installed and somewhat administrated, but could be confusing to have a separate packages for all and each distribution.
What about splitting the task and combining the resulting information between competing companies? Different search engines have a lot in common (in indexed pages) but also a lot that is convered by one but not by the others.
Of course, not all info is in the web, nor all info in the web is accessable by search engines, and even not all info accesable by search engines can be searched (think in graphics with text, i.e. just scanned books, or flash presentations with the actual content), but still that number looks like a bit too much for me.
There is some place where is discussed what countries/cities are supported and when others will be?
Living down in South America makes the tool a nice toy but with not so big "real life" utility as it have for fully covered cities (and is really nice what can be reached when you have fully covered your city, a nice example is i.e. Vivirama for the housing market in barcelona)
Yast is a far a lot more than just an application installer, is a central place for most system administration, at least for basic administration (i.e. basic firewall, basic configuration of servers, networks and, adding/removing hardware, of course package management and a lot more. You could go to manually edit text files or use specialized configurations, but for most starting tasks yast is very good.
But i agree that is far shorter to do "apt-get install firefox" than do the long way of loading yast, going to the install programs module and pick it... luckily, suse 10 have apt included, and there are a nice number of apt repositories in i.e. http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-i3 86/ and you can choose to do the yast way (there are yast repositories in this list) or the apt one.
... but is too expensive/risky/hidden/etc to take advantage of it.
Scifi authors of 20-50 years ago put us already having flying cars, exploring other solar systems or even going out of our galaxy. Risking lifes, expending really huge amounts of money and probably missing technological pieces of the puzzle make that to be still to be 20-50 years from now for Scifi authors in our future, and who knows when that will happens if happens at all.
Internet was another potential technology that could gived us exponential change. Worldwide instant communication, colaboration in investigation from far places, everyone can give his own grain of salt, etc. The revolution that something like that should have gived us (according to futurists/scifi authors/whatever from 30-40 years ago) have nothing to do with where we are now (it IS a big change still). Here economy (everyone everywhere could be connected to internet with the existing technology, but is too expensive to reach that), social forces (either by economic reasons, or for the security matters that implies everyone in, etc), politics and a lot more has lowered a lot what could be reached with the potential that had the internet concept.
Also what happens in the "real world" affects a lot how a technology grows or not. War, terrorism, climate changes, market crashes, etc, slow down or change the directions where the technologic trends are going.
So leaving aside technologically reached "singularities", the remaining ones are the almost metaphisical ones ("trascending" in a way or another, a superintelligent AI, alien visitors, whatever) that is more matter of faith than something that we know could be real (you know, like finding the black cat in the dark room that could not be there)
Probably the date means "we wrote a review about this in 2005", maybe before 2005 they had no clue about what is the Wikipedia. You know, for them no product exist before they write a review about it.
And, of course, "best" in this case means "between all we reviewed, this is what we remember to like most", that could or not coincide with your or the rest of the world opinion or an hypotetical, objective truth.
Now you have a lot of portable devices (mp3/media players, cell phones, PDAs, photo cameras, etc) that gives you the portability, a lot of time good space for storage and you can give them more functionality than just storing data (like USING it, think in the i.e. palm lifedrive).
Of course, the extra functionality comes with a price, but if the rtfa already put into the comparision the victorinox one, that have the storage plus screwdriver/knife/etc, why dont put there other kind of integrated devices?
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In fact, what MS products have goes beyond what the weak word "bug" transmit (check this movie poster for a small example) unless you put the Heinlein's Starship Troopers ones in that category.
Anyway, i would had put in that list when Windows NT killed a navy ship... maybe losing a rocket could have been more expensive, but windows NT is more widespread and probably still used in critical places.
There are too much joke potential with the idea of throwing out to space Windows computers also, but of course, nobody wants that a blue screen turns it into a red meteorite of death.
... Germany announced that they control book printing indefinitely, as is widely know that since Gutenberg invented printing press there, they remain the rightful owners of that technology and all derived from there.
If we travel deep deep into all the Microsoft vaporware, we will find an all-resource sucking Singularity. My best bet is that that codename will be the kernel and the box will have a "Galaxy" brand (after all, is what you see high in the sky when you look beyond your window).
"A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking" --Martin H. Fischer
If performance issues worries you, maybe you would want to try SUPER (SUSE Performance Enhanced Release). Is one of the nice things of being open, that people start to build around it new approachs.
Is the middle point between "Open Source" and "OpenSuse", to make the headline more into the point discussed into the article.
If this is just an isolated problem, and next year things go "back to normal" (?), keeping the actual naming system will be not so bad, but what about if things goes from bad to even worse next year? The cities/countries around caribe/mexican gulf would need to be somewhat permanently evacuated? or rebuilt in a way they could resist or not be so damaged by big hurricanes?
Wonder how will end after the same process South Park... wait, if the trouble is risk offending, it should take that process to broadcast it in US itself.
eBurn that ePaper and you will have real vapourware. Of course, that it will be shown in an Apr of next year exposition means that will not be vapour for long.
"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity"
Would be nice to see painted in the front door of one of this companies something like "All your genes are belong to us"
There is a lot of potential for expanding GTalk, from client side, because all the flexibility that have the jabber protocol. Giving the gaim community and with it at least the GPL client base some backing in expanding it they are in fact expanding a lot the possible future uses of their server.
For me this is more that just opening the standards (that is mostly already done as they are jabber based) but in some way forcing (k, is a strong word, not english speaker to give a lesser meaning to the concept) the community to reach a full featured client implementation.
Of course, where is the money for google? one word: synergy.
Using SuSE 10 in this moment myself, and now having included the main difference it had with debian based distros (apt, not so big package list compared with debian, but at least bigger than what is bundled in the dvds) maybe people should change the point of view of what defines or makes different a distro.
The real challenges are not in the top of a mountain but in yourself. How far you can go? What is the bigger risks you can take? Trying to play GTW with defense megacomputers are things of the past, move forward to the next challenges.
More than Trillian, Skype and others, i bet that they are more against their common foe, Google/Gmail/GTalk/etc. Maybe against each separate component they can have a chance, but when you start to combine them the potential for growing and taking away their markets is probably too big.
In RPM land, things are not so clear, as is a bit more rare than an RPM for a distribution works in another, but opening distributions also generate a lot of subdistributions that aggrupates a bit a lot of distros, like all fedora-based ones or the future ones that could be based in opensuse.
I think that is ok that we have a lot of distributions with its own view on how to be installed and somewhat administrated, but could be confusing to have a separate packages for all and each distribution.
Of course, not all info is in the web, nor all info in the web is accessable by search engines, and even not all info accesable by search engines can be searched (think in graphics with text, i.e. just scanned books, or flash presentations with the actual content), but still that number looks like a bit too much for me.
Living down in South America makes the tool a nice toy but with not so big "real life" utility as it have for fully covered cities (and is really nice what can be reached when you have fully covered your city, a nice example is i.e. Vivirama for the housing market in barcelona)
But i agree that is far shorter to do "apt-get install firefox" than do the long way of loading yast, going to the install programs module and pick it... luckily, suse 10 have apt included, and there are a nice number of apt repositories in i.e. http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/10.0-i3 86/ and you can choose to do the yast way (there are yast repositories in this list) or the apt one.
Scifi authors of 20-50 years ago put us already having flying cars, exploring other solar systems or even going out of our galaxy. Risking lifes, expending really huge amounts of money and probably missing technological pieces of the puzzle make that to be still to be 20-50 years from now for Scifi authors in our future, and who knows when that will happens if happens at all.
Internet was another potential technology that could gived us exponential change. Worldwide instant communication, colaboration in investigation from far places, everyone can give his own grain of salt, etc. The revolution that something like that should have gived us (according to futurists/scifi authors/whatever from 30-40 years ago) have nothing to do with where we are now (it IS a big change still). Here economy (everyone everywhere could be connected to internet with the existing technology, but is too expensive to reach that), social forces (either by economic reasons, or for the security matters that implies everyone in, etc), politics and a lot more has lowered a lot what could be reached with the potential that had the internet concept.
Also what happens in the "real world" affects a lot how a technology grows or not. War, terrorism, climate changes, market crashes, etc, slow down or change the directions where the technologic trends are going.
So leaving aside technologically reached "singularities", the remaining ones are the almost metaphisical ones ("trascending" in a way or another, a superintelligent AI, alien visitors, whatever) that is more matter of faith than something that we know could be real (you know, like finding the black cat in the dark room that could not be there)
You know, in space no one hear your screams (specially the ones about misspelling)
And, of course, "best" in this case means "between all we reviewed, this is what we remember to like most", that could or not coincide with your or the rest of the world opinion or an hypotetical, objective truth.
Now if Linux is too hard for a Chess Grand Mater, we are in trouble.
Of course, the extra functionality comes with a price, but if the rtfa already put into the comparision the victorinox one, that have the storage plus screwdriver/knife/etc, why dont put there other kind of integrated devices?