So you're saying we need a site like Gizmodo to report on the border regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan, or to analyse Australian foreign policy from the perspective of the EU member nations?
Gizmodo and Engadget cover relatively trivial consumer products. That's not what the Associated Press does, kid. Get a clue.
You have 650,000 entries in your hosts file? Holy shit.
Windows is a basic platform to run a whole bunch of very popular software. It doesn't do "hard" things, like advanced networking. Instead, buy a beige box, throw Linux/BSD on it, and use it as your firewall and gateway.
You've got it backwards - Gentoo's system is ports-inspired, as they freely acknowledge. MacPorts is more or less the BSD ports system running on OS X.
I hate replying to ACs, as you probably won't even read this, but it's not moot. Much of Canada is very rural and quite isolated. A lot of people do live near the border, but it's not like some jam-packed cluster. And there are many, MANY isolated regions with a few small towns (I am from one of them). These all have decent infrastructure.
If your theory were true, only the parts near the border would have broadband penetration. But this is not the case.
Canada is a geographically larger country with ten times fewer people. Consequently, it has a much lower population density. For it to keep up with the US in terms of digital access, even in its most rural areas, only validates this story's premise.
In other words, comparing Canada to the US is like comparing the US to one of those densely populated countries you named.
Your "evidence" is your own view that the officiating was "one-sided", and therefore the Super Bowl was fixed? That is not very convincing, and indeed comes off as a bit crackpottish.
Linux, being inspired from the most stable, tried and tested operating system in history - Unix - isn't a bad thing. Hey, it works, right? And it has a GUI too!
"Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy."
Apparently Hotspot Shield (free, ad-supported vpn service) will allow you to watch Hulu from Canada. I plan to try it tonight from my laptop, and if it works, I'll give it a go from my PS3.
Can you post evidence for this assertion? I watch pro sports (hockey), and I'd be interested to see real evidence that the "average" pro sports match is fixed.
Actually no, that sort of stuff only seems to happen with Apple's Windows offerings. There's a system-wide software updater on the Mac, kind of like Windows Update, that updates various things. But individual programs like iTunes or whatever won't update themselves or try to download other stuff.
Unfortunately, your docs - most likely a downloadable pdf or similar - will end up getting torrented within the first five copies sold. If you don't believe me, go to The Pirate Bay and search around for technical docs and even entire books.
I have a PS3 as well, and Far Cry 2 was one of my choices for next game. I guess it's now out of the running after reading what you wrote.
I'm thinking either Dead Space or Metal Gear Solid 4 - anyone have any advice? I like a super solid story/plot and great atmosphere. Bioshock is my favourite game ever, for what it's worth.
True enough. I was assuming the parent to my first post was talking about a wholesale abandonment of Windows desktops for Linux without going the Citrix route.
To be honest, I'm not really sure what using Citrix and Linux buys you over just retaining XP desktops - any decent Linux rollout will have support contracts, and Citrix isn't cheap. And as you mentioned, you still have to pay for Windows licenses.
My guess is the amount saved by switching to this sort of setup would be minimal, if anything at all.
For those with very basic needs, you are of course correct. But enterprise needs, where Citrix is commonly found, are rarely basic, and the list of apps with no Linux equivalent is huge: SAP, PeopleSoft, Cognos, Business Objects, Office (particularly workflow integration with custom apps), Siebel...there are hundreds, if not thousands, of apps that make Windows the default choice.
What's really interesting is how much more work I get as a contractor during times like this. When big companies and governments do the budget freeze dance, they start outsourcing stuff. I'm so busy I can't even take a week or two off for a bit of a holiday. Meanwhile, the client that hired me (very large US company) is laying people off. Crazy times.
I've heard similar, and not just for MS. I've seen small companies taking the opportunity to lay off unproductive workers as well. I guess companies want to avoid the possibility of heading to court over wrongful dismissal, and the downturn is a nice excuse.
Drivers are modules and are already dynamically loaded, though not in userspace. That would make Linux a microkernel (well, more or less), and we all know how Mr. Torvalds feels about those.
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So you're saying we need a site like Gizmodo to report on the border regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan, or to analyse Australian foreign policy from the perspective of the EU member nations?
Gizmodo and Engadget cover relatively trivial consumer products. That's not what the Associated Press does, kid. Get a clue.
Patrick McGoohan is also dead.
You have 650,000 entries in your hosts file? Holy shit.
Windows is a basic platform to run a whole bunch of very popular software. It doesn't do "hard" things, like advanced networking. Instead, buy a beige box, throw Linux/BSD on it, and use it as your firewall and gateway.
You've got it backwards - Gentoo's system is ports-inspired, as they freely acknowledge. MacPorts is more or less the BSD ports system running on OS X.
You can set environment variables like so:
default_variants +ssl -X11 ...and so forth.
I hate replying to ACs, as you probably won't even read this, but it's not moot. Much of Canada is very rural and quite isolated. A lot of people do live near the border, but it's not like some jam-packed cluster. And there are many, MANY isolated regions with a few small towns (I am from one of them). These all have decent infrastructure.
If your theory were true, only the parts near the border would have broadband penetration. But this is not the case.
Canada is a geographically larger country with ten times fewer people. Consequently, it has a much lower population density. For it to keep up with the US in terms of digital access, even in its most rural areas, only validates this story's premise.
In other words, comparing Canada to the US is like comparing the US to one of those densely populated countries you named.
There are nearly a quarter of a million books available for it from Amazon alone.
New, just-released titles are $10. Older titles are around $5 or so.
Your "evidence" is your own view that the officiating was "one-sided", and therefore the Super Bowl was fixed? That is not very convincing, and indeed comes off as a bit crackpottish.
Linux, being inspired from the most stable, tried and tested operating system in history - Unix - isn't a bad thing. Hey, it works, right? And it has a GUI too!
"Using Unix is the computing equivalent of listening only to music by David Cassidy."
Rob Pike
Apparently Hotspot Shield (free, ad-supported vpn service) will allow you to watch Hulu from Canada. I plan to try it tonight from my laptop, and if it works, I'll give it a go from my PS3.
Can you post evidence for this assertion? I watch pro sports (hockey), and I'd be interested to see real evidence that the "average" pro sports match is fixed.
Actually no, that sort of stuff only seems to happen with Apple's Windows offerings. There's a system-wide software updater on the Mac, kind of like Windows Update, that updates various things. But individual programs like iTunes or whatever won't update themselves or try to download other stuff.
Great, thanks for the advice. Bought a used copy of MGS4, should be good.
Haha, yep, I never said any of that shit was good...that's a whole other discussion, my friend.
Unfortunately, your docs - most likely a downloadable pdf or similar - will end up getting torrented within the first five copies sold. If you don't believe me, go to The Pirate Bay and search around for technical docs and even entire books.
I have a PS3 as well, and Far Cry 2 was one of my choices for next game. I guess it's now out of the running after reading what you wrote.
I'm thinking either Dead Space or Metal Gear Solid 4 - anyone have any advice? I like a super solid story/plot and great atmosphere. Bioshock is my favourite game ever, for what it's worth.
True enough. I was assuming the parent to my first post was talking about a wholesale abandonment of Windows desktops for Linux without going the Citrix route.
To be honest, I'm not really sure what using Citrix and Linux buys you over just retaining XP desktops - any decent Linux rollout will have support contracts, and Citrix isn't cheap. And as you mentioned, you still have to pay for Windows licenses.
My guess is the amount saved by switching to this sort of setup would be minimal, if anything at all.
For those with very basic needs, you are of course correct. But enterprise needs, where Citrix is commonly found, are rarely basic, and the list of apps with no Linux equivalent is huge: SAP, PeopleSoft, Cognos, Business Objects, Office (particularly workflow integration with custom apps), Siebel...there are hundreds, if not thousands, of apps that make Windows the default choice.
Agreed, it's the best way to go. Probably rather thorny to implement, however, not to mention sell.
It could be argued that all successful companies are about marketing first. There's nothing wrong with that - it's how the system works.
Interesting, same with the Sharp Aquos. It also uses Busybox and a few other things.
What's really interesting is how much more work I get as a contractor during times like this. When big companies and governments do the budget freeze dance, they start outsourcing stuff. I'm so busy I can't even take a week or two off for a bit of a holiday. Meanwhile, the client that hired me (very large US company) is laying people off. Crazy times.
I've heard similar, and not just for MS. I've seen small companies taking the opportunity to lay off unproductive workers as well. I guess companies want to avoid the possibility of heading to court over wrongful dismissal, and the downturn is a nice excuse.
Drivers are modules and are already dynamically loaded, though not in userspace. That would make Linux a microkernel (well, more or less), and we all know how Mr. Torvalds feels about those.
What an idiotic thing to say.