If office were priced upon a subscription model (as has been speculated) would it be appropriate to sell and would you try to sell a Linux (any toolkit/window manager of your choice) version in the same way that Office exists for Mac?
Does the diversified nature of windowing toolkits for the X Windows system, the current use of both XFree86 and X.org, and the huge effort you have put into you own kernel for MS Windows make it even less likely that a version of any MS software will appear for Linux, no matter how many office desks begin to use Linux? (Is the technical challenge too big for you?:-P)
Fighting for freedom and liberty is considered by the authors to be no different from fighting to enslave and oppress. May I do a mindjob on you? If we take a step back from what the goals of the institution are, can it not be argued that both the totalitarian system and the liberal (as in 'free as in speech') system both need to get their citizens to follow their goals? When the people running the system that seeks freedom and liberty use methods from totalitarianism to get their goals, does that not make them no different from the people who enslave and oppress? It is in this way that there may be times when those seeking, for example, to bring democracy and peace by means of violence are no better than the totalitarian regimes being opposed. In this case the leadership should be challenged for the sheer incongruence of their action.
This is why I think it is reasonable to ask if the methods used in contemporary politics follow this poisoned thinking and method.
(And I hope that the mods don't find me here so far offtopic. We have always been at war with The_Mods...)
Interesting. That's another spin on the name. I had assumed that it indicated that Phoenix was the browser that emerged from the ashes of Netscape Navigator.
I've had Spybot S&D rate cookies accepted by Firefox as spyware; I haven't met any malicious XPI's just yet.
Please don't worship me, I'm a little geek like you. But I do have two Prestonia Xeons in my workstation in the office. XP Pro recognises 4 processors and schedules work accordingly: I don't have a "server" version of Windows.
Having heard Microsoft say that a dual-core processor will be dealt with as one chip in terms of licensing, it may be possible to use XP Home as the OS. However, I expect that anyone who pays enough for a dual-core proc will get XP Pro with their machine.
Surely a line with a fixed width and items of pixel-counted size will look bad when scaled, because that's not true vector imagery. Real vector-based imagery should have everything as porportions irrespective of the number of pixels involved which ensures it will scale well.
I'm not a buyer for an organisation, but I assume that the purchase of bulk systems for a corporate client would involve negotiations that could remove the Windows tax entirely.
Why isn't that route followed? Say if he rung up to get quotes for 20 systems suitable for office use (Celeron/Sempron, 256MB, 20GB discs and flat panels) without Windows, that would provide a better understanding of how it is to be done. I will assume that he did look on Dell's Corporate sales site, but I suspect that ringing them up would get a better grasp of the sales cost.
I wrote this and then realise that Linus' intention is that people do trust him, saying that he would publish security vulnerabilities plainly so that people are not hidden from the real problems tha come with this enterprise. Linus also says that he understands this isn't entirely practical.
Aren't these problems inevitable with any community-developed software, that the people who have input on to project need to be aware of problems on the project?
Unfortunately, trust is an issue: the inclusion of anyone who may be able to help out opens the doors to anyone who wants to attack. Additional complexity arises when the project is sold as a product; because the people using the product actually need to become involved in the community project too if they are to get the best support. Vendor-sec kind of does this for the Kernel, but the Kernel maintainers don't think that this is enough, because it's done reasons that are, broadly, not about making the best code as safe as possible (PR publication, politics are cited in the article, but I'm not involved and haven't seen).
If this one list gets set up, there will be a need also for trusted individuals to be included on any private security list to watch and make sure that bugs are squashed, not to code or argue about how to fix a hole. I understand that this would be anathema to the maintainers who want as few people as possible on such a list to stop leaks, but see it as an important part of the community process.
It will need automagic grammar sensing: as far as I am aware, people automatically recognise a declined verb, or when the noun or verb sense of a word is required. I think that some learning neural networks and five years of PhD study might fill that gap in your technology.:-P
The site's with the Electronic Freedom Foudnation, is about media freedom and electronic freedom, so I made the assumption that the phrases used were a criticism of DRM technology. That would mean that the content the D/A & A/D chips play with is encrypted; the only way to stop the sale of these essntial pieces of electronics would be under the INDUCE Act (as items that made possible breach of copyrights).
I assume that chip foundries wil still produce the existing chips: digital solutions require D/A conversion, but newer models won't exist without rights management on silicon next to the D/A.
I thought that people were going to change the information they transform so you can't use plain ordinary chips and must use DRM-encumbered DMCA-protected corporate-owned 'solutions'.
Um. I'm not great at counting, but that doesn't look right.
Growth is different to magnitude or size. The one-man outfit which hired two others is 300% in size but that makes it only 200% up: the growth is 200%.
Thanks for helping me get my scout "Counting Nazi" badge!
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If office were priced upon a subscription model (as has been speculated) would it be appropriate to sell and would you try to sell a Linux (any toolkit/window manager of your choice) version in the same way that Office exists for Mac?
:-P)
Does the diversified nature of windowing toolkits for the X Windows system, the current use of both XFree86 and X.org, and the huge effort you have put into you own kernel for MS Windows make it even less likely that a version of any MS software will appear for Linux, no matter how many office desks begin to use Linux? (Is the technical challenge too big for you?
Fighting for freedom and liberty is considered by the authors to be no different from fighting to enslave and oppress.
May I do a mindjob on you? If we take a step back from what the goals of the institution are, can it not be argued that both the totalitarian system and the liberal (as in 'free as in speech') system both need to get their citizens to follow their goals? When the people running the system that seeks freedom and liberty use methods from totalitarianism to get their goals, does that not make them no different from the people who enslave and oppress? It is in this way that there may be times when those seeking, for example, to bring democracy and peace by means of violence are no better than the totalitarian regimes being opposed. In this case the leadership should be challenged for the sheer incongruence of their action.
This is why I think it is reasonable to ask if the methods used in contemporary politics follow this poisoned thinking and method.
(And I hope that the mods don't find me here so far offtopic. We have always been at war with The_Mods...)
Interesting. That's another spin on the name. I had assumed that it indicated that Phoenix was the browser that emerged from the ashes of Netscape Navigator.
I've had Spybot S&D rate cookies accepted by Firefox as spyware; I haven't met any malicious XPI's just yet.
Current setup: 486/33 and M$DOS 6.0 you insensitive clod!
I suppose it's better than the terror and pain that happened when the Borg attacked at XBox 359.
Please don't worship me, I'm a little geek like you. But I do have two Prestonia Xeons in my workstation in the office. XP Pro recognises 4 processors and schedules work accordingly: I don't have a "server" version of Windows.
Having heard Microsoft say that a dual-core processor will be dealt with as one chip in terms of licensing, it may be possible to use XP Home as the OS. However, I expect that anyone who pays enough for a dual-core proc will get XP Pro with their machine.
Surely a line with a fixed width and items of pixel-counted size will look bad when scaled, because that's not true vector imagery. Real vector-based imagery should have everything as porportions irrespective of the number of pixels involved which ensures it will scale well.
I'm not a buyer for an organisation, but I assume that the purchase of bulk systems for a corporate client would involve negotiations that could remove the Windows tax entirely.
Why isn't that route followed? Say if he rung up to get quotes for 20 systems suitable for office use (Celeron/Sempron, 256MB, 20GB discs and flat panels) without Windows, that would provide a better understanding of how it is to be done. I will assume that he did look on Dell's Corporate sales site, but I suspect that ringing them up would get a better grasp of the sales cost.
I wrote this and then realise that Linus' intention is that people do trust him, saying that he would publish security vulnerabilities plainly so that people are not hidden from the real problems tha come with this enterprise. Linus also says that he understands this isn't entirely practical.
Aren't these problems inevitable with any community-developed software, that the people who have input on to project need to be aware of problems on the project?
Unfortunately, trust is an issue: the inclusion of anyone who may be able to help out opens the doors to anyone who wants to attack. Additional complexity arises when the project is sold as a product; because the people using the product actually need to become involved in the community project too if they are to get the best support. Vendor-sec kind of does this for the Kernel, but the Kernel maintainers don't think that this is enough, because it's done reasons that are, broadly, not about making the best code as safe as possible (PR publication, politics are cited in the article, but I'm not involved and haven't seen).
If this one list gets set up, there will be a need also for trusted individuals to be included on any private security list to watch and make sure that bugs are squashed, not to code or argue about how to fix a hole. I understand that this would be anathema to the maintainers who want as few people as possible on such a list to stop leaks, but see it as an important part of the community process.
I can't use Dihydrogen monoxide, I'm stuck using hydrogen hydroxide, you insensitive clod!
I was wondering where the Carbons came into the equation. There may be lots of CO2 dissolved in his water already which help form the CH4's.
AMD or Intel?
ATi or nVidia?
Egg over easy or sunny side up?
Red pill or Blue pill?
(Bonus marks awarded for "CowboyNeal" answer.)
It will need automagic grammar sensing: as far as I am aware, people automatically recognise a declined verb, or when the noun or verb sense of a word is required. I think that some learning neural networks and five years of PhD study might fill that gap in your technology. :-P
http://www.choicesdirect.com/shop.asp is the cheapest place I've found for UK DVD; it has stuff like 24 for less than 20 quid a series.
Because the meritocracy that runs Slashdot won't accept patches..?
TFA tells us that the processor can deal with up to 8MB/s of video. What need is there for an HD, apart from capacity?
The site's with the Electronic Freedom Foudnation, is about media freedom and electronic freedom, so I made the assumption that the phrases used were a criticism of DRM technology. That would mean that the content the D/A & A/D chips play with is encrypted; the only way to stop the sale of these essntial pieces of electronics would be under the INDUCE Act (as items that made possible breach of copyrights).
I assume that chip foundries wil still produce the existing chips: digital solutions require D/A conversion, but newer models won't exist without rights management on silicon next to the D/A.
I thought that people were going to change the information they transform so you can't use plain ordinary chips and must use DRM-encumbered DMCA-protected corporate-owned 'solutions'.
That's what this article is about.
Um. I'm not great at counting, but that doesn't look right.
Growth is different to magnitude or size. The one-man outfit which hired two others is 300% in size but that makes it only 200% up: the growth is 200%.
Thanks for helping me get my scout "Counting Nazi" badge!
I remember putting GTi on my homeworks in school and getting better grades.
Did you see the computers they had on classy Sci-Fi shows like Star Trek's original series? They're gunning for computers that look like that.
I don't understand what the blinkenlights do either.
Linux clearly isn't ready for the Desktop.
The present "Informative" moderation to this post put a smile on my face. Anyone managing a team in the style of David Brent is asking for the sack.
I would venture FreeBSD, but Netcraft confirms...