That's what happens when you sell a lifestyle as opposed to a product. Yuppies don't want to talk to an Indian when they call support about their iPod.
I've noticed that ask.com has found some sites that weren't found in google, but more often than not they have bring up a lot fewer sites than google. I've found myself using them when I don't find something from google.
So I gave Ubuntu a shot with all the hype, and I must say I hate their package manager. I want to upgrade Firefox to 1.5.0.3 so I do a search with their utility (forget the name) and I can't find it. That makes a bit of sense as it was pretty new. I figure I'd get it directly from Mozilla, but first let me remove the old package. Can't do it, unless I want to remove all of Ubuntu desktop. Why would I want to remove all the desktop apps? What is this Microsoft? They have to bundle the browser? Just try and remove any application using their package manager. Pretty much everything that comes with Ubuntu is tied into that Ubuntu desktop app. So I end up having two of everything. How is that user friendly? Yes, I'm sure you can remove it by going command line. But for that I'll stick with Slackware. At least I know what to expect, I just thought I'd try this new fangled user-friendly distro.
The impersonal Internet coupled with people with high intelligence, little life experience, and a lack of social skills that is contributing greatly to this. Can you imagine these same geeks telling someone to their face to "Go Read The Fucking Manual?"
The assertion that Linux is helping Oracle gain grounds on IBM isn't supported at all in the article. DB2 also runs under Linux, and if they said that Oracle on Linux is faster than DB2 on Linux then I could understand it. But just because Oracle runs under Linux, doesn't mean existing DB2 customers will jump ship to Oracle. Also new customers in the market for a database will not go to Oracle just because it runs under Linux because so does DB2. They'll compare the merits of the databases, and the costs that go with them.
Linux has gotten to the point where Microsoft's FUD can no longer hurt it. There are enough companies that have adopted Linux now that nothing that Microsoft says can cause clueful companies to ignore a Linux solution. Sure Microsoft will make or keep some sales due to FUD, but that no longer hurts Linux but perhaps the companies themselves.
The next battle may be with patents, but with IBM so involved with Linux, I seriously doubt Microsoft would go head to head with Linux for fear of stepping on IBM's toes. I actually wish there would be a big patent battle. If there was it would probably fizzle out with the result being some cross-patenting agreement, but there is a miniscule chance that companies and the government would realize the mess of patents if we had an apocalyptic patents battle.
FreeBSD could still beat Linux to the desktop just because it's standardised on what comes with it, and you could release packages for it a lot more easily. What's lacking is hardware support (which is even more miserable than linux), and desktop performance. If they worked on desktop performance, I think they could easily get drivers by porting them from Linux. I wouldn't mind running FreeBSD on my laptop if only they'd get the performance right. I have actually dual booted FreeBSD and Linux on the same box, both running the same version of KDE, and FreeBSD is just dog slow compared to Linux, which isn't that fast to begin with. Sure KDE can be a hog, but it's either more of a hog on FreeBSD or FreeBSD just doesn't pay attention to a desktop user's needs.
It's funny, Britannica says the reviewers did not provide any sources for their ascertions, and then they go and say for every criticism "We do not accept this." Well, as long as the all knowing Britannica does not accept it, it must be invalid. All bow to the true keepers of knowledge.
Nach0king received a phone call soon after submitting the 1,000,000th article. At first he thought it was marketer, but it turned out that it was someone from the Wikimedia Foundation. They told him he had to write 10,000 more article as a reward.
Watch the ISP's start to throttle people ala Netflix.
"Sure you can have unlimited rentals for $14.99, as long as you limit it to less than 5 a month, otherwise we'll throttle you to a limit of our choosing."
"Sure you can have 1Mbps up/down, as long as you don't try to use it, otherwise it will be 128Kbps."
How do they keep getting away with this. If I were to say, "sure I'll agree to pay you $14.99/mo for the service as long as it's only for one month, otherwise I'll just pay you $1.99/mo" I'd get service interrupted and a big splap on my credit history. We need consumer unions to protect ourselves. When one person drops the service, they'll be glad as it's just someone using the service to the advertised terms (instead of much lower than that), but if a thousand subscribers do it at once they'd notice.
And Microsoft doesn't have private correspondence (hotmail, msn)? How about your ISP, does it have any? You can encrypt all way around, but then you'll have to make the recipients of your mail decrypt it. It's just easier to trust someone. Who you trust is up to you. I'd go with google seeing as they didn't bend over for the government like Yahoo and Microsoft did (and probably your ISP would).
If this is true it will indeed be a great thing. Something callous that came to my mind, if we can find cures for aids, cancer, etc., might we find ourselves in a really bad overpopulation problem a hundred years down the line? It seems like wars will be the only tool nature will have to pare down the population of the most dominant species on this planet. I sure hope that we can find a way to space travel and terraform planets in the next hundred years.
Someone who develops in the.NET platform perhaps? No it doesn't have to be one of the subsets you picked. Just like when you say a C programmer you don't mean programmers using C to develop embeded software for widgets on snowy Monday's of every leap year.
Are you saying that Bill Gates is not a programmer? Billy was a pretty good hacker in the 70s and 80s, and I bet he could still be a pretty good programmer.
Reading this Slashback, it struck me just how bad and dissapointing news stories are lately. It's always the state/federal government/big corporation doing something to screw people over. What a depressing state of afairs.
You do realise that even works licensed under the GFDL and CC are copyrighted don't you? Which means that a large chunk are copyrighted. Of course, there are public domain ones too.
The fact is that there aren't that many minority graduates in engineering. How many African-American students did you see in your 300 level engineering/math/cs courses? Chances are if there were any they were really good, but probably there weren't enough of them to balance out the ratios at IT companies. This goes back all the way to high school (think of your AP classes). I don't know what happens, but somehow African-Americans stop going for the AP classes and engineering degrees. Maybe they buy into this discrimination/racism gap and stop going for it. Or maybe it's a culture thing where smart people are looked down on more in the African-American culture. But the fact of it is, there are fewer candidates, and from the number of candidates, you still have to pick the best ones. You have a white candidates that's more qualified than a black candidate, then the only reason to go with the black candidate is to diversify, and that would be racism too.
The ironic part is that this was probably discovered while the Wikipedia editor was looking for sources to improve the article. Wikipedia would have been Ok with it if only the Star had complied with the GFDL rules.
The key phrase is "in the United States." There are countries that frown at public domain works (*cough*Frenchies*cough*) so the license might actually help.
What does this have to do with Windows? Are you telling me that if you ran malware that targeted Linux you wouldn't have a problem? Sure you're likely going to run it as a user instead of root, but the nuisance factor could be just as high.
The show had some promisse, but they really needed a smart person to help out the writers. There were so many logical inconsistencies that it made watching the show difficult. Of course they could easily explain it through some convoluted logic at the end, but it doesn't make it any easier to watch.
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Time to move back to the US.
That's what happens when you sell a lifestyle as opposed to a product. Yuppies don't want to talk to an Indian when they call support about their iPod.
I've noticed that ask.com has found some sites that weren't found in google, but more often than not they have bring up a lot fewer sites than google. I've found myself using them when I don't find something from google.
So I gave Ubuntu a shot with all the hype, and I must say I hate their package manager. I want to upgrade Firefox to 1.5.0.3 so I do a search with their utility (forget the name) and I can't find it. That makes a bit of sense as it was pretty new. I figure I'd get it directly from Mozilla, but first let me remove the old package. Can't do it, unless I want to remove all of Ubuntu desktop. Why would I want to remove all the desktop apps? What is this Microsoft? They have to bundle the browser? Just try and remove any application using their package manager. Pretty much everything that comes with Ubuntu is tied into that Ubuntu desktop app. So I end up having two of everything. How is that user friendly? Yes, I'm sure you can remove it by going command line. But for that I'll stick with Slackware. At least I know what to expect, I just thought I'd try this new fangled user-friendly distro.
Go Pearl Jam! My favorite band gets even better. I hope they continue this with their live music.
The impersonal Internet coupled with people with high intelligence, little life experience, and a lack of social skills that is contributing greatly to this. Can you imagine these same geeks telling someone to their face to "Go Read The Fucking Manual?"
The assertion that Linux is helping Oracle gain grounds on IBM isn't supported at all in the article. DB2 also runs under Linux, and if they said that Oracle on Linux is faster than DB2 on Linux then I could understand it. But just because Oracle runs under Linux, doesn't mean existing DB2 customers will jump ship to Oracle. Also new customers in the market for a database will not go to Oracle just because it runs under Linux because so does DB2. They'll compare the merits of the databases, and the costs that go with them.
Linux has gotten to the point where Microsoft's FUD can no longer hurt it. There are enough companies that have adopted Linux now that nothing that Microsoft says can cause clueful companies to ignore a Linux solution. Sure Microsoft will make or keep some sales due to FUD, but that no longer hurts Linux but perhaps the companies themselves.
The next battle may be with patents, but with IBM so involved with Linux, I seriously doubt Microsoft would go head to head with Linux for fear of stepping on IBM's toes. I actually wish there would be a big patent battle. If there was it would probably fizzle out with the result being some cross-patenting agreement, but there is a miniscule chance that companies and the government would realize the mess of patents if we had an apocalyptic patents battle.
FreeBSD could still beat Linux to the desktop just because it's standardised on what comes with it, and you could release packages for it a lot more easily. What's lacking is hardware support (which is even more miserable than linux), and desktop performance. If they worked on desktop performance, I think they could easily get drivers by porting them from Linux. I wouldn't mind running FreeBSD on my laptop if only they'd get the performance right. I have actually dual booted FreeBSD and Linux on the same box, both running the same version of KDE, and FreeBSD is just dog slow compared to Linux, which isn't that fast to begin with. Sure KDE can be a hog, but it's either more of a hog on FreeBSD or FreeBSD just doesn't pay attention to a desktop user's needs.
It's funny, Britannica says the reviewers did not provide any sources for their ascertions, and then they go and say for every criticism "We do not accept this." Well, as long as the all knowing Britannica does not accept it, it must be invalid. All bow to the true keepers of knowledge.
Nach0king received a phone call soon after submitting the 1,000,000th article. At first he thought it was marketer, but it turned out that it was someone from the Wikimedia Foundation. They told him he had to write 10,000 more article as a reward.
Watch the ISP's start to throttle people ala Netflix.
"Sure you can have unlimited rentals for $14.99, as long as you limit it to less than 5 a month, otherwise we'll throttle you to a limit of our choosing."
"Sure you can have 1Mbps up/down, as long as you don't try to use it, otherwise it will be 128Kbps."
How do they keep getting away with this. If I were to say, "sure I'll agree to pay you $14.99/mo for the service as long as it's only for one month, otherwise I'll just pay you $1.99/mo" I'd get service interrupted and a big splap on my credit history. We need consumer unions to protect ourselves. When one person drops the service, they'll be glad as it's just someone using the service to the advertised terms (instead of much lower than that), but if a thousand subscribers do it at once they'd notice.
And Microsoft doesn't have private correspondence (hotmail, msn)? How about your ISP, does it have any? You can encrypt all way around, but then you'll have to make the recipients of your mail decrypt it. It's just easier to trust someone. Who you trust is up to you. I'd go with google seeing as they didn't bend over for the government like Yahoo and Microsoft did (and probably your ISP would).
If this is true it will indeed be a great thing. Something callous that came to my mind, if we can find cures for aids, cancer, etc., might we find ourselves in a really bad overpopulation problem a hundred years down the line? It seems like wars will be the only tool nature will have to pare down the population of the most dominant species on this planet. I sure hope that we can find a way to space travel and terraform planets in the next hundred years.
Someone who develops in the .NET platform perhaps? No it doesn't have to be one of the subsets you picked. Just like when you say a C programmer you don't mean programmers using C to develop embeded software for widgets on snowy Monday's of every leap year.
Are you saying that Bill Gates is not a programmer? Billy was a pretty good hacker in the 70s and 80s, and I bet he could still be a pretty good programmer.
Reading this Slashback, it struck me just how bad and dissapointing news stories are lately. It's always the state/federal government/big corporation doing something to screw people over. What a depressing state of afairs.
Watch your step, slippery slope ahead.
So as long as it's a worthwhile sacrifice then it's Ok?
You do realise that even works licensed under the GFDL and CC are copyrighted don't you? Which means that a large chunk are copyrighted. Of course, there are public domain ones too.
Nasa should take a cue from Sun and implement garbage collection.
The fact is that there aren't that many minority graduates in engineering. How many African-American students did you see in your 300 level engineering/math/cs courses? Chances are if there were any they were really good, but probably there weren't enough of them to balance out the ratios at IT companies. This goes back all the way to high school (think of your AP classes). I don't know what happens, but somehow African-Americans stop going for the AP classes and engineering degrees. Maybe they buy into this discrimination/racism gap and stop going for it. Or maybe it's a culture thing where smart people are looked down on more in the African-American culture. But the fact of it is, there are fewer candidates, and from the number of candidates, you still have to pick the best ones. You have a white candidates that's more qualified than a black candidate, then the only reason to go with the black candidate is to diversify, and that would be racism too.
The ironic part is that this was probably discovered while the Wikipedia editor was looking for sources to improve the article. Wikipedia would have been Ok with it if only the Star had complied with the GFDL rules.
The key phrase is "in the United States." There are countries that frown at public domain works (*cough*Frenchies*cough*) so the license might actually help.
What does this have to do with Windows? Are you telling me that if you ran malware that targeted Linux you wouldn't have a problem? Sure you're likely going to run it as a user instead of root, but the nuisance factor could be just as high.
The show had some promisse, but they really needed a smart person to help out the writers. There were so many logical inconsistencies that it made watching the show difficult. Of course they could easily explain it through some convoluted logic at the end, but it doesn't make it any easier to watch.