sat on? I have never shattered or splintered a CD or DVD without delibrate intent (and much effort); in fact, I can't recall a single one becoming unusable (or at least un-rescuable), CDs and DVDs are very durable media (at least in comparison with hard-drives)
don't want it to become a consumer-ized product. They want, rather, the consumer to become a Linux-nerd
the former is true for a lot of people - for the same ones, the latter is not (basically, these are the people who like linux, and could care less about "the consumer")
That distro will be universally hated by the existing Linux community.
that's very true, and for that reason most of those people will use a different distro, same reason I don't use Mandrake now; I don't quite see the revelation here.
Linux will be forever a server OS and a geek-toy until and unless this changes.
Why is it that an OS that most people use only for web, email and playing Yahoo games is somehow the "real" OS, while what I (and many others) use for software development (for example) is a "toy"?
Eventually the ISPs will either have to accept it and work with it or give up.
um, yeah, and I guess then you win? yes, driving your ISP out of business by finding ways to use inordinate amounts of bandwidth is a l33t accomplishment indeed.
wow, it seems that most of the home users out there are, in fact, your mom. it always amazes me how computers are "scary" - what's it gonna do, eat you?
at some point it will probably become obvious that, just like everything else, a computer is something you have to learn to use, regardless of how great the UI is. And I know that UIs - all UIs - have a long way to go in the useability and intuitiveness departments.
Seriously, people don't expect to immediately be good at driving, cooking, sex, or playing a musical instrument; but somehow you are supposed to be able to use a computer the first time you plop down in front of it, and if not - it's the developers' fault.
Can you say that the majority of moms out there have tech savvy children?
Probably, kids are the ones that don't seem to have too much trouble with these obtuse, convoluted, mysterious and completely impossible to make any sense of, computer thingies.
What's a full linux distro? I'd say the times vary considerably depending on how you answer that question; that system could have a lot less or a lot more to it than windows.
Besides, how do the compilers compare in speed? (there'd be an almost totally useless benchmark)
All in all, I would say that a comparable gnu/linux system (kernel, base stuff, X, KDE or Gnome, plus a few other bits and bobs) would take a bit less time than this, but that's just a guess at best. Perhaps some of the Gentoo and LFS users can shed some light?
I thought the time honoured (and extremely relevant) measure of LoC/s has been officially replaced with HG/s (Human Genomes per second)? Mostly because it allowed for a lot more flexibility in making up figures that don't really tell you much, if I remember correctly.
BLAST runs on most UNIX and UNIX-like OSes, I've been using it on linux for years (though currently most of our BLAST jobs are handled by a few Tru64 boxes.
eh? Way back in the 5 days I used Opera for Windows for a bit (before switching to linux and galeon), and I remember it as being the first browser that did have pop-up management. Did they remove that feature or something?
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sat on? I have never shattered or splintered a CD or DVD without delibrate intent (and much effort); in fact, I can't recall a single one becoming unusable (or at least un-rescuable), CDs and DVDs are very durable media (at least in comparison with hard-drives)
they did, it costs something like $15 a month
m-w.com (abbridged merriam webster) found 135 words containing 'eval'
the former is true for a lot of people - for the same ones, the latter is not (basically, these are the people who like linux, and could care less about "the consumer")
That distro will be universally hated by the existing Linux community.
that's very true, and for that reason most of those people will use a different distro, same reason I don't use Mandrake now; I don't quite see the revelation here.
Linux will be forever a server OS and a geek-toy until and unless this changes.
Why is it that an OS that most people use only for web, email and playing Yahoo games is somehow the "real" OS, while what I (and many others) use for software development (for example) is a "toy"?
oh yeah, when are the debian packages coming out for that?
um, yeah, and I guess then you win? yes, driving your ISP out of business by finding ways to use inordinate amounts of bandwidth is a l33t accomplishment indeed.
dear gods - I read some of that, just what I needed at two in the morning on a saturday night - still at work.
I didn't actually realize that wasn't the title until reading your post. It's late - what can I say.
at some point it will probably become obvious that, just like everything else, a computer is something you have to learn to use, regardless of how great the UI is. And I know that UIs - all UIs - have a long way to go in the useability and intuitiveness departments.
Seriously, people don't expect to immediately be good at driving, cooking, sex, or playing a musical instrument; but somehow you are supposed to be able to use a computer the first time you plop down in front of it, and if not - it's the developers' fault.
Probably, kids are the ones that don't seem to have too much trouble with these obtuse, convoluted, mysterious and completely impossible to make any sense of, computer thingies.
they already do charge a "bunch" of money for access to the source code.
Besides, how do the compilers compare in speed? (there'd be an almost totally useless benchmark)
All in all, I would say that a comparable gnu/linux system (kernel, base stuff, X, KDE or Gnome, plus a few other bits and bobs) would take a bit less time than this, but that's just a guess at best. Perhaps some of the Gentoo and LFS users can shed some light?
Even if that's 12 hours a week, Hans is just NOT a programmer. ;)
a lot of geeks like anime... that's about it. what kind of answer were you hoping for?
Don't forget HumanGenome (HG) - roughly between 1Gig and 100 Terabytes (that's what Celera has now...)
yeah, also crazy things like size and objects blocking other objcets.
and here all this time I thought it was just a beautiful thing!
I thought the time honoured (and extremely relevant) measure of LoC/s has been officially replaced with HG/s (Human Genomes per second)? Mostly because it allowed for a lot more flexibility in making up figures that don't really tell you much, if I remember correctly.
First Amendment Project? FAP? Organizations really need to check their acronyms when they pick names.
I used a screwdriver, worked pretty well.
They set us up the base?
... it is very appropriate in this case - worst. episode. ever.
BLAST runs on most UNIX and UNIX-like OSes, I've been using it on linux for years (though currently most of our BLAST jobs are handled by a few Tru64 boxes.
I think you are it buddy, sorry.
eh? Way back in the 5 days I used Opera for Windows for a bit (before switching to linux and galeon), and I remember it as being the first browser that did have pop-up management. Did they remove that feature or something?