Are you sure about that? Ten years ago their "click-wrap" license said that. Last time I got a machine preloaded with windows (3 or 4 years ago) I went through that carefully, with my camera ready to document it, and found no trace of that statement.
I used to get kitty litter delivered every six weeks from a website selling it. They had a "subscribe" page on the site where you marked the time interval between deliveries, which product you wanted, and your credit card number.
95% of the time *my* driving is less than 25 miles a day. At least if you count *days*. My daily commute is very short. But a couple of times a year I take a longer trip 1-2 thousand miles and a few more times a year I go out of town on shorter trips.
A pure electric is impossible for me. A Volt was on my short list, but the high cost of electricity in California's central valley makes the case less compelling unless I spring for solar panels at the same time. I'd love to do that, but $20-30k for solar panels on top of $40k plus for a car, all at the same time, is a bit off-putting. That's less than my first house cost.
I'm probably going to go for the Ford Fusion hybrid or something similar.
Sure it does. It's part of an old sixties saying: "Fighting for peace is like fucking for viginity."
Pirating as a moral stance is similarly inconsistent.
One of Microsoft's biggest assets is that people pirate their stuff. They'd rather you buy it, but if you're not going to buy it they'd rather you pirate *theirs* than use someone else's.
According to the youtube link someone above provided, the businessmen *were* arrested and spent a year in jail. The 18-year-old was arrested and spent a month in jail. The official (who willingly accepted the bribe and *did* come across with the contracts) didn't suffer any problems. Until now, of course.
And yes, he did sell out to the bribe, he just wasn't willing to be blackmailed. I suppose that's *some* level of integrity, but maybe more one of power.
All this is from a english-language video, not from China. I don't speak Chinese, so I'm not speaking from original sources. But it does seem to correlate with TFA.
Maybe. Maybe not. But it is certainly the answer to support. I can support this. When she was using Windows, her "local" support was Best Buy, and they charged her a ton of money without solving the problems. I'm not local (she's 1100 miles away), and my ability to help over the phone was limited, especially since the last version of Windows I used with any regularity was NT4.
If she gets an iPad, she's on her own. I have no expertise with that.
What if the program isn't there or is broken? What if my niece spills a drink on the computer? What if the roof blows off the next time there's a good Chinook blowing through and the computer blows out to Kansas?
You can't protect against everything. We'd deal with that if we have to, but so far none of those things have happened, and I'm not holding my breath about any of them.
Since I switched her over (about three years ago) she had *one* instance where she clicked on somthing and disabled most of her browser controls. That's as close to "broken" as her computer has experienced. All other calls have been on the order of "How do I do this?" or "I bought a new printer," and have easily been solved. The number of calls has dropped dramatically.
And that tells me that perhaps security has been addressed as well, because the security issues she used to have simply haven't come up. Would giving her better training in how to handle herself on the Net be a Good Thing? Sure. But I have 1 week a year there, and perhaps an hour or two of that is spent on computer issues. That's not likely to change.
Um. Pirate because of moral dislikes about cerain companies? That doesn't raise your eybrows?
Isn't that kind of like "fucking for viginity?"
If you actually had moral qualms about certain companies, you wouldn't be supporting them (yes, that's what I said--ever hear of network effects?) by spreading their product around.
I have moral qualms about quite a few companies, possibly the same ones you do. I don't use their products.
My sister has an icon on her desktop that says "Connect to Steve at home" and one that says "Connect to Steve at work." She calls me up, I set up the VNC client in listen mode, and she clicks the icon.
I then have access to her machine. All the command line stuff is done in a script attached to that icon. She doesn't have to deal with it. It's not that hard.
Well, there was always Fido. Scaled to hundreds of thousands (or so), just *real* high latency.:) Round trip messages could take several days, all over long distance phone lines.
Don't think it would have been able to even *think* of millions, certainly not in the billion range. But the nodelist at its peak had something like 35,000 hosts. Each one was a BBS with many or few users.
I'd be curious how fast their write times are. Because as far as the flash drives I've seen (I'm not talking about SSDs here) the larger they get the slower they write.
That being the case, WiFi is still a viable alternative to transfer from one machine to the next, as long as you're close enough. And a wired connection is almost certainly faster.
On the other hand, if read performance is reasonable and you need to copy to multiple devices, then a portable device with a file system that can handle large files starts to make sense. The slow writes can be amortized across multiple final destinations.
Well, judging from the speed of flash drives that I've used, as they get bigger they get slower.
So WiFi might very well be viable as an alternative. It would be slow, but not necessarily slower.
Not that we're anywhere close to terabyte flash drives. Are they proposing shipping external USB spinning drives with exFAT? Those have been coming with NTFS, or at least the last few I've gotten did. I would think that Microsoft would be happy with that -- why would they develop exFAT in the first place?
Chapter 4. The reviewer does not step through each chapter of the book and describe it. Not everything covered in the book is mentioned in the review. The review doesn't mention free speech or crime, or employment issues either. That doesn't mean they are missing from the book.
She spends 40 pages on Intellectual Property, or almost 50 if you count the exercises and notes, etc. at the end of the chapter.
If you update too seldom you find that too many things have changed and an update has become impossible. I generally update every few weeks, and even then you periodically get an update that acts as a land mine. You can usually repair it, but it's not always trivial to do. If you let enough time between updates go by, the chance of multiple landmines falling in between increases, and updating becomes an intractable problem.
That's why I use Gentoo for my personal machines (well, most of them) but I use Mint for machines that I have to support.
Oh, excuse me! I missed your definition of "proper Gentoo install." You meant I should install a minimal system targeted to a specific purpose. I should use my computer like you do!
Not only that, but I seldom announce to my "friends" on Facebook (even though they are mostly really my friends) what movies I like or what products I like, etc. I might "like" a band I support, etc., but that's as far as it goes.
Facebook just doesn't have enough information about me to make most of these connections. It's not so much that I'm trying to keep a low profile with them, I just don't have the urge to share that kind of stuff, even face to face. Unless the question comes up. I'm not unwilling to talk about it, I just have no urge to make sure people know those kinds of details.
Good point. Although that 4 year degree is no guarantee that a person can read or write.
I teach a GenEd class that involves a term paper and other strong writing components. It's sad how many upper division students cannot write intelligibly. *Many* have poor grammar and poor spelling. A considerable number aren't *that* good--it's a challenge to understand what they're trying to say.
To be fair, some write fairly well, but they're in the minority.
A significant number of our CompSci students come in sufficiently unprepared as to require remedial math and/or remedial english before they can take any of our classes. (The school offers these remedial courses, but they do *not* get college credit for them.) Of the students who require such remediation, less than 1 in 10 ever finish our program. There's a case to be made that those students really don't belong in college.
I'm doing it in virtual machines, but I have to have campus IT host the license server for me, since I have no Windows servers. I guess that's fair -- they're having me host the MatLab license servers.:)
Still, it's annoying that I can't run a FlexLM instance because the vendor daemon is Windows only.
The Unigraphics link you pointed to includes the comment, "NX is a direct competitor to Creo Elements/Pro, CATIA, SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor."
Of these, NX is the only one that supports anything other than Windows. CATIA is supported on Linux (on the server) but the CATIA article indicates that all clients other than Windows have been dropped.
So yes, Dassualt *could* port CATIA to Linux. If I were going to buy a few thousand seats, they might even do it. I only need 30 or 40 seats, and at educational pricing at that. I'm not big enough.
It's good to know that NX is out there, and it might be worth our while to investigate the possibility of educational pricing. We have instructors for AutoCAD, however. None for NX.
I'd also suggest that AutoCAD and Solidworks have deeper penetration into the market -- maybe not in the engineering departments of multinational manufacturers, but in the general engineering and drafting population.
There's a tiny little outfit called Autodesk that publishes this minor little package called AutoCAD. *I've* never been able to find a Linux version of it -- in fact, even their license manager (which is built on FlexLM, a predominantly Unix server product) is Windows only.
If you could point me to a Linux version of AutoCAD, I'd be forever grateful. But I'm not holding my breath.
I've heard that Solidworks is the up and coming CAD package, eclipsing AutoCAD. Also Windows only.
Which "big boys" in the CAD arena have Linux versions?
On the side of the company? Not in my experience. HR is not on anyone's side. They are there to prevent hiring, as near as I can tell. In every organization I've ever been in, they seem to see their job as blocking you from getting hired, or if you're on the other end, preventing you from hiring the people you need.
Yup, that's my problem. I'd love to see 48fps, but I've seen maybe a half dozen 3D films, which is about 5 more than my lifetime quota. No need to subject myself to that again.
I think that 48fps (or higher) *would* be a good thing for the motion picture industry, but 3D is not. If I have to have one to get the other, I'm going to have to pass.
To be fair, some people like 3D. That's fine for them, but glasses over glasses gives me a headache. No thanks.
High frame rates solve a problem (for me) in the cinematic experience. 3D introduces one (to me.)
Well, 3D gives *me* a headache. I wear glasses, and glasses over glasses translates to my brain as a smudge I can't remove. It's really irritating.
On the other hand, I'd love to see this at 48fps -- I just saw Skyfall on an Imax screen and the pans during the action sequence at the beginning made me want to rip my eyes out. I thought to myself that it would have been nice to have 48fps on *that* film.
I doubt that any theater is going to show 48fps Hobbit in 2D, however, so I probably won't get to see it.
Good to know. The last time I dealt with it was Red Hat 9, so that should give you an idea how long ago that was. It was for database servers, and we *did* have good UPSs.
Trying it on my workstation wasn't nearly so protected, and I paid the price on that.
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Gentoo has removed Chrome? They must have just done that, since I saw it update on my system in the last couple of weeks.
Are you sure about that? Ten years ago their "click-wrap" license said that. Last time I got a machine preloaded with windows (3 or 4 years ago) I went through that carefully, with my camera ready to document it, and found no trace of that statement.
I used to get kitty litter delivered every six weeks from a website selling it. They had a "subscribe" page on the site where you marked the time interval between deliveries, which product you wanted, and your credit card number.
This was 4 or 5 years ago. How is this different?
95% of the time *my* driving is less than 25 miles a day. At least if you count *days*. My daily commute is very short. But a couple of times a year I take a longer trip 1-2 thousand miles and a few more times a year I go out of town on shorter trips.
A pure electric is impossible for me. A Volt was on my short list, but the high cost of electricity in California's central valley makes the case less compelling unless I spring for solar panels at the same time. I'd love to do that, but $20-30k for solar panels on top of $40k plus for a car, all at the same time, is a bit off-putting. That's less than my first house cost.
I'm probably going to go for the Ford Fusion hybrid or something similar.
Sure it does. It's part of an old sixties saying: "Fighting for peace is like fucking for viginity."
Pirating as a moral stance is similarly inconsistent.
One of Microsoft's biggest assets is that people pirate their stuff. They'd rather you buy it, but if you're not going to buy it they'd rather you pirate *theirs* than use someone else's.
According to the youtube link someone above provided, the businessmen *were* arrested and spent a year in jail. The 18-year-old was arrested and spent a month in jail. The official (who willingly accepted the bribe and *did* come across with the contracts) didn't suffer any problems. Until now, of course.
And yes, he did sell out to the bribe, he just wasn't willing to be blackmailed. I suppose that's *some* level of integrity, but maybe more one of power.
All this is from a english-language video, not from China. I don't speak Chinese, so I'm not speaking from original sources. But it does seem to correlate with TFA.
Maybe. Maybe not. But it is certainly the answer to support. I can support this. When she was using Windows, her "local" support was Best Buy, and they charged her a ton of money without solving the problems. I'm not local (she's 1100 miles away), and my ability to help over the phone was limited, especially since the last version of Windows I used with any regularity was NT4.
If she gets an iPad, she's on her own. I have no expertise with that.
What if the program isn't there or is broken? What if my niece spills a drink on the computer? What if the roof blows off the next time there's a good Chinook blowing through and the computer blows out to Kansas?
You can't protect against everything. We'd deal with that if we have to, but so far none of those things have happened, and I'm not holding my breath about any of them.
Since I switched her over (about three years ago) she had *one* instance where she clicked on somthing and disabled most of her browser controls. That's as close to "broken" as her computer has experienced. All other calls have been on the order of "How do I do this?" or "I bought a new printer," and have easily been solved. The number of calls has dropped dramatically.
And that tells me that perhaps security has been addressed as well, because the security issues she used to have simply haven't come up. Would giving her better training in how to handle herself on the Net be a Good Thing? Sure. But I have 1 week a year there, and perhaps an hour or two of that is spent on computer issues. That's not likely to change.
Um. Pirate because of moral dislikes about cerain companies? That doesn't raise your eybrows?
Isn't that kind of like "fucking for viginity?"
If you actually had moral qualms about certain companies, you wouldn't be supporting them (yes, that's what I said--ever hear of network effects?) by spreading their product around.
I have moral qualms about quite a few companies, possibly the same ones you do. I don't use their products.
My sister has an icon on her desktop that says "Connect to Steve at home" and one that says "Connect to Steve at work." She calls me up, I set up the VNC client in listen mode, and she clicks the icon.
I then have access to her machine. All the command line stuff is done in a script attached to that icon. She doesn't have to deal with it. It's not that hard.
Well, there was always Fido. Scaled to hundreds of thousands (or so), just *real* high latency. :) Round trip messages could take several days, all over long distance phone lines.
Don't think it would have been able to even *think* of millions, certainly not in the billion range. But the nodelist at its peak had something like 35,000 hosts. Each one was a BBS with many or few users.
I'd be curious how fast their write times are. Because as far as the flash drives I've seen (I'm not talking about SSDs here) the larger they get the slower they write.
That being the case, WiFi is still a viable alternative to transfer from one machine to the next, as long as you're close enough. And a wired connection is almost certainly faster.
On the other hand, if read performance is reasonable and you need to copy to multiple devices, then a portable device with a file system that can handle large files starts to make sense. The slow writes can be amortized across multiple final destinations.
Well, judging from the speed of flash drives that I've used, as they get bigger they get slower.
So WiFi might very well be viable as an alternative. It would be slow, but not necessarily slower.
Not that we're anywhere close to terabyte flash drives. Are they proposing shipping external USB spinning drives with exFAT? Those have been coming with NTFS, or at least the last few I've gotten did. I would think that Microsoft would be happy with that -- why would they develop exFAT in the first place?
Chapter 4. The reviewer does not step through each chapter of the book and describe it. Not everything covered in the book is mentioned in the review. The review doesn't mention free speech or crime, or employment issues either. That doesn't mean they are missing from the book.
She spends 40 pages on Intellectual Property, or almost 50 if you count the exercises and notes, etc. at the end of the chapter.
If you update too seldom you find that too many things have changed and an update has become impossible. I generally update every few weeks, and even then you periodically get an update that acts as a land mine. You can usually repair it, but it's not always trivial to do. If you let enough time between updates go by, the chance of multiple landmines falling in between increases, and updating becomes an intractable problem.
That's why I use Gentoo for my personal machines (well, most of them) but I use Mint for machines that I have to support.
Oh, excuse me! I missed your definition of "proper Gentoo install." You meant I should install a minimal system targeted to a specific purpose. I should use my computer like you do!
No. Just...
No.
Not only that, but I seldom announce to my "friends" on Facebook (even though they are mostly really my friends) what movies I like or what products I like, etc. I might "like" a band I support, etc., but that's as far as it goes.
Facebook just doesn't have enough information about me to make most of these connections. It's not so much that I'm trying to keep a low profile with them, I just don't have the urge to share that kind of stuff, even face to face. Unless the question comes up. I'm not unwilling to talk about it, I just have no urge to make sure people know those kinds of details.
Good point. Although that 4 year degree is no guarantee that a person can read or write.
I teach a GenEd class that involves a term paper and other strong writing components. It's sad how many upper division students cannot write intelligibly. *Many* have poor grammar and poor spelling. A considerable number aren't *that* good--it's a challenge to understand what they're trying to say.
To be fair, some write fairly well, but they're in the minority.
A significant number of our CompSci students come in sufficiently unprepared as to require remedial math and/or remedial english before they can take any of our classes. (The school offers these remedial courses, but they do *not* get college credit for them.) Of the students who require such remediation, less than 1 in 10 ever finish our program. There's a case to be made that those students really don't belong in college.
I'm doing it in virtual machines, but I have to have campus IT host the license server for me, since I have no Windows servers. I guess that's fair -- they're having me host the MatLab license servers. :)
Still, it's annoying that I can't run a FlexLM instance because the vendor daemon is Windows only.
Maybe so. So where are you going to find something that light?
Macbook Air 11" is 2.4 lb. The 13" is 3 lb.
Have you found soemthing lighter?
So get an X-series. Exactly what you're asking for.
Not what *I* would choose, but the X-1 is light (around 3lb) and without an optical drive. Comes with Win8 but 7 is an option.
The Unigraphics link you pointed to includes the comment, "NX is a direct competitor to Creo Elements/Pro, CATIA, SolidWorks and Autodesk Inventor."
Of these, NX is the only one that supports anything other than Windows. CATIA is supported on Linux (on the server) but the CATIA article indicates that all clients other than Windows have been dropped.
So yes, Dassualt *could* port CATIA to Linux. If I were going to buy a few thousand seats, they might even do it. I only need 30 or 40 seats, and at educational pricing at that. I'm not big enough.
It's good to know that NX is out there, and it might be worth our while to investigate the possibility of educational pricing. We have instructors for AutoCAD, however. None for NX.
I'd also suggest that AutoCAD and Solidworks have deeper penetration into the market -- maybe not in the engineering departments of multinational manufacturers, but in the general engineering and drafting population.
There's a tiny little outfit called Autodesk that publishes this minor little package called AutoCAD. *I've* never been able to find a Linux version of it -- in fact, even their license manager (which is built on FlexLM, a predominantly Unix server product) is Windows only.
If you could point me to a Linux version of AutoCAD, I'd be forever grateful. But I'm not holding my breath.
I've heard that Solidworks is the up and coming CAD package, eclipsing AutoCAD. Also Windows only.
Which "big boys" in the CAD arena have Linux versions?
On the side of the company? Not in my experience. HR is not on anyone's side. They are there to prevent hiring, as near as I can tell. In every organization I've ever been in, they seem to see their job as blocking you from getting hired, or if you're on the other end, preventing you from hiring the people you need.
Yup, that's my problem. I'd love to see 48fps, but I've seen maybe a half dozen 3D films, which is about 5 more than my lifetime quota. No need to subject myself to that again.
I think that 48fps (or higher) *would* be a good thing for the motion picture industry, but 3D is not. If I have to have one to get the other, I'm going to have to pass.
To be fair, some people like 3D. That's fine for them, but glasses over glasses gives me a headache. No thanks.
High frame rates solve a problem (for me) in the cinematic experience. 3D introduces one (to me.)
Well, 3D gives *me* a headache. I wear glasses, and glasses over glasses translates to my brain as a smudge I can't remove. It's really irritating.
On the other hand, I'd love to see this at 48fps -- I just saw Skyfall on an Imax screen and the pans during the action sequence at the beginning made me want to rip my eyes out. I thought to myself that it would have been nice to have 48fps on *that* film.
I doubt that any theater is going to show 48fps Hobbit in 2D, however, so I probably won't get to see it.
Good to know. The last time I dealt with it was Red Hat 9, so that should give you an idea how long ago that was. It was for database servers, and we *did* have good UPSs.
Trying it on my workstation wasn't nearly so protected, and I paid the price on that.