"Oracle just wants to add the OS, so Ubuntu Linux would make a lot more sense than Novell," said Richard Monson-Haefel, a senior analyst with Burton Group.
Far be it from me to question the wisdom of Richard Monson-Haefel, but I assume people at Oracle are capable of grasping the difference between adding a Linux distribution and buying a company the size of Novell.
And - the review did not mention the O/S crashing - just applications crashing. Linux is not the problem here.
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The Nokia 770 takes longer to boot up than some desktop computers (nearly a minute) and offers battery life no longer than that of many laptops (4 1/4 hours of nearly continuous browsing). In two weeks of testing, it locked up and spontaneously rebooted more often than any computer I've used in that time.
Admittedly, that comes after multiple problems of applications crashing separately, which is why you may have missed it.
I say kudos to nokia - they're (as the review shows) releasing a cool bit of hardware kit and they're going to let the software developement community (both free, open & proprietary) fill in lots of gaps. I hope it works out.
Oh, yeah -- this is fantastic! It may be buggy and useless as it's currently sold, but the important thing is that they're giving discounts to GNOME developers who will hopefully then fix it for them! I'd better buy one right now!
Sorry, I'm with him. I have a TiBook G4 and a work-provided T40. Even after you take the operating system out of the equation, the Mac is lighter, faster, smaller, more comfortable, has a longer battery life and doesn't have that annoying high-friction top the Thinkpad has. And above all, the Mac is less deep, which makes all the difference in the world when you're working on a plane.
The one advantage I'll give the T40 is that the USB ports on the side make for easier use of a memory stick in tight quarters. Beyond that, the only thing I'd prefer it for is hammering nails.
My first thought was that it would be great if some fake field of "science" could be created, and used as a sandbox for all the people for whom science is just one more bit of fuel for inane flamewars.
Then it occurred to me that we do have such a thing. Thank heavens for science fiction -- otherwise all the energy channeled into arguing about whether Kirk is better than Piccard would be pouring into real science, as well.
Ask them to explain what each term means. Example: What is Web 2.0 anyway? I haven't seen a new W3C standard called Web 2.0.
No offense, but I'd rather deal with MBA-speak than Annoying Nerd Sarcasm any day.
And for anyone who doubts that "deliverable" is a useful term, check today's interviews with Bruce Perens and with the new Debian leader to see what happens when that concept is missing.
The smaller packaging of games has made them easier to store, produced less waste, and has generally been good for consumers as a whole.
Heaven forbid that anyone, including the submitter or editor, should bother to RTFA, but in fact the article goes into lengthy detail about how Wal-Mart drove game publishers to use more efficient packaging, as they've done for many of the goods they carry.
"from the telling-you-what-is-good dept", indeed...
Apparently she's Angelina Jolie's body double. And for the "OMTWTFG THEIR ARE OTHER MEDIA PLAYERS BESIDES TEH IPOD!!!!" crowd, her website refers to the award as the "New Media Emmy Award". And who are you to doubt Angelina Jolie's body double?
Yeah, even if it were true, would you (or the 16-year-old you) really say, "Yes, in 2006 I plan to spend significantly more time gaming than I did in 2006!"?
No, I mean Lycoris and the other distros like it that emerged around the same time as Lindows. The ones you mention are aimed at more knowledgeable users.
As a side note: Slashdot duped this story, could well have mentioned the very likely antefacts.
I believe the chronology was this:
Nicholas Negroponte announces the project. Slashbots : "this is stupid. theres no elctricity in africa!"
Negroponte issues another fifty press releases, produces a single non-working mockup. Slashbots: "this is stupid. theres no elctricity in africa!"
Bill Gates comments "This is a bad idea. First they need decent electricity in Africa." Slashbots: "its a great idea and Bill Gates hates teh poor people!"
Negroponte blames the project's lack of progress on Linux. Slashbots: "burn down MIT!"
You don't mention what your field is, so I'd add this:
Six and a half years for a PhD and postdoc combined is quite good for some fields (chemistry, for example). It'd be near-miraculous in biology, where you'd be very lucky to get away with eight years combined. The average age of a first time NIH grant recipient is *43*! Times vary between countries, but since you're quoting salaries in dollars, I assume you're talking about a US experience.
My impression is that Lindows/Linspire has always been viewed as outside the world of "real Linux" because:
1) None of the ultra-user-friendly commercial distros have ever really caught on with the Linux enthusiast community.
2) Linspire's business plan has alwasy been based on charging users for installing sofware, something that is free everywhere else in the Linux world.
3) As #2 illustrates, there's always been something sleazy about Linspire. They appeared, making ludicrous claims about Windows compatability, stepping on Microsoft's trademark while prominently advertising rebadged KDE apps as their own, and they've been like that ever since. They may not do anything wrong but it's always... off.
Damnit, now I have "Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus, right down Santa Claus Lane!" stuck in my head. At least it's not that horrible "Pa rum pa pum pum" song... uh, oh...
Now, that would be some cool technology, to identify songs that are stuck in consumers' heads. And you know they'd lie to the researchers, who'd be saying "Sorry, sir, that looks a lot like Hit Me Baby One More Time to me."
I think it's more like Nielsen boxes -- a demographically meaningful sample of people is paid to carry these things around with them.
If the hashing scheme people are speculating about is how this works, I'd say that's pretty damn clever, whatever the ethical merits. And honestly, the ethical issues don't strike me as a huge deal. On my list of privacy concerns, knowing whether I'm forced to listen to Holly Jolly Christmas more or less than Here Comes Santa Claus in the supermarket in December doesn't rate extremely high.
Heh, I bet they can tell when you're in a strip club, though...
Andersen Consulting (no, I won't use that stupid name they came up with to try to live down the Enron scandal).
Accenture was spun off in 1989, before the Enron scandal. Andersen was obliterated. Even if one agrees that everyone at Andersen deserved to lose their jobs over the actions of a handful of auditors and managers*, people should at least stop pretending that Accenture's existence means it didn't happen.
* What I've never understood is why the conventional wisdom is that Enron, which was a shell game from top to bottom, had a handful of criminals running it and everyone else was a victim, but everyone at Andersen, 99.9% of whom had nothing at all to do with Enron, deserved to lose their jobs.
In many ways it is also about the multitude of small software pieces that companies of different sizes employ. Many of them only run on Windows, and aren't well suited to a translator environment...
That's precisely what I don't understand! Why would you prefer to run some vertical application in isolation instead of being able to cut and paste between it and Excel or Mail or Terminal?
I don't understand why people are so excited about booting Windows on Macs. To the degree that one is kept off Macs by the need for Windows-only software, isn't emulation (or better yet, a WINE-like translator) much more useful? If you want to run Windows to the exclusion of MacOS, why buy the Mac at all?
I believe that AMD had this technology before Intel ever started in on it. Yes, I know it wasn't really commercially available on PCs but it was there.
Perhaps (I'm not sure what "this technology" refers to), but so what?
It's been a feature in the Journals for a while, although this is the first time I've seen one posted.
It's actually a good idea, although you're faced with a choice between including an Obligatory Stupid Question at the end of your JE and looking like an idiot to the journal crowd or leaving it out and mostly killing your chances of story acceptance.
I guess in this case, mentioning Google was enough to make up for not closing with "Between Pine and GMail, is Microsoft doomed?"
Heh, I loved "MySpace.com, where young people do virtual preening and share musical tastes." I'd first heard of it as a music site and couldn't understand why it was blocked at work.
And CitySearch is big-time now? What's next, Starwave? Pathfinder?
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I agree with the rest of your proposals, but if I were E-Bay, absolutely no way I would do this.
Dvorak should buy Ubuntu. Or maybe Novell.
Far be it from me to question the wisdom of Richard Monson-Haefel, but I assume people at Oracle are capable of grasping the difference between adding a Linux distribution and buying a company the size of Novell.
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Admittedly, that comes after multiple problems of applications crashing separately, which is why you may have missed it.I say kudos to nokia - they're (as the review shows) releasing a cool bit of hardware kit and they're going to let the software developement community (both free, open & proprietary) fill in lots of gaps. I hope it works out.
Oh, yeah -- this is fantastic! It may be buggy and useless as it's currently sold, but the important thing is that they're giving discounts to GNOME developers who will hopefully then fix it for them! I'd better buy one right now!
The one advantage I'll give the T40 is that the USB ports on the side make for easier use of a memory stick in tight quarters. Beyond that, the only thing I'd prefer it for is hammering nails.
Then it occurred to me that we do have such a thing. Thank heavens for science fiction -- otherwise all the energy channeled into arguing about whether Kirk is better than Piccard would be pouring into real science, as well.
No offense, but I'd rather deal with MBA-speak than Annoying Nerd Sarcasm any day.
And for anyone who doubts that "deliverable" is a useful term, check today's interviews with Bruce Perens and with the new Debian leader to see what happens when that concept is missing.
Heaven forbid that anyone, including the submitter or editor, should bother to RTFA, but in fact the article goes into lengthy detail about how Wal-Mart drove game publishers to use more efficient packaging, as they've done for many of the goods they carry.
"from the telling-you-what-is-good dept", indeed...
Apparently she's Angelina Jolie's body double. And for the "OMTWTFG THEIR ARE OTHER MEDIA PLAYERS BESIDES TEH IPOD!!!!" crowd, her website refers to the award as the "New Media Emmy Award". And who are you to doubt Angelina Jolie's body double?
Yeah, even if it were true, would you (or the 16-year-old you) really say, "Yes, in 2006 I plan to spend significantly more time gaming than I did in 2006!"?
There ya go! Reunite the '85 Patriots and the '92 Bills, give them sitcoms and suddenly the commercials will look a lot better!
I'm thinking Everybody Loves Thurman Thomas...
No, I mean Lycoris and the other distros like it that emerged around the same time as Lindows. The ones you mention are aimed at more knowledgeable users.
I believe the chronology was this:
You don't mention what your field is, so I'd add this:
Six and a half years for a PhD and postdoc combined is quite good for some fields (chemistry, for example). It'd be near-miraculous in biology, where you'd be very lucky to get away with eight years combined. The average age of a first time NIH grant recipient is *43*! Times vary between countries, but since you're quoting salaries in dollars, I assume you're talking about a US experience.
My impression is that Lindows/Linspire has always been viewed as outside the world of "real Linux" because:
... off.
1) None of the ultra-user-friendly commercial distros have ever really caught on with the Linux enthusiast community.
2) Linspire's business plan has alwasy been based on charging users for installing sofware, something that is free everywhere else in the Linux world.
3) As #2 illustrates, there's always been something sleazy about Linspire. They appeared, making ludicrous claims about Windows compatability, stepping on Microsoft's trademark while prominently advertising rebadged KDE apps as their own, and they've been like that ever since. They may not do anything wrong but it's always
Now, that would be some cool technology, to identify songs that are stuck in consumers' heads. And you know they'd lie to the researchers, who'd be saying "Sorry, sir, that looks a lot like Hit Me Baby One More Time to me."
If the hashing scheme people are speculating about is how this works, I'd say that's pretty damn clever, whatever the ethical merits. And honestly, the ethical issues don't strike me as a huge deal. On my list of privacy concerns, knowing whether I'm forced to listen to Holly Jolly Christmas more or less than Here Comes Santa Claus in the supermarket in December doesn't rate extremely high.
Heh, I bet they can tell when you're in a strip club, though...
It does...
Accenture was spun off in 1989, before the Enron scandal. Andersen was obliterated. Even if one agrees that everyone at Andersen deserved to lose their jobs over the actions of a handful of auditors and managers*, people should at least stop pretending that Accenture's existence means it didn't happen.
* What I've never understood is why the conventional wisdom is that Enron, which was a shell game from top to bottom, had a handful of criminals running it and everyone else was a victim, but everyone at Andersen, 99.9% of whom had nothing at all to do with Enron, deserved to lose their jobs.
That's precisely what I don't understand! Why would you prefer to run some vertical application in isolation instead of being able to cut and paste between it and Excel or Mail or Terminal?
Or is this just about gaming?
Perhaps (I'm not sure what "this technology" refers to), but so what?
It's actually a good idea, although you're faced with a choice between including an Obligatory Stupid Question at the end of your JE and looking like an idiot to the journal crowd or leaving it out and mostly killing your chances of story acceptance.
I guess in this case, mentioning Google was enough to make up for not closing with "Between Pine and GMail, is Microsoft doomed?"
Normally I'd just tell you to RTFA, but since you asked so politely I'll add another F or two...
And CitySearch is big-time now? What's next, Starwave? Pathfinder?