I think that one of the areas that linux can really beat windows given enough effort is with it's desktop environments.
Given this, wouldn't it be better for people migrating from windows to become acustomed to the more powerful desktop environment of linux, rather than one which sacrifices some good features for the sake of making windows users feel more at home?
Also, if you shroud the differences between windows and linux behind a look-alike gui as soon as something goes wrong, or the user trys to install something the os will likely throw up a very un-windows like error, which will most likely confuse the user, leaving a sour taste about linux in their mouth.
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Make it easy, with options like in some of the linux installers (Anaconda, whatever slackware uses). Have a 'install all', 'install sets', 'expert (select individual packages)'. Divide everything up into logical sets, and make sure that you have to install required components (and I don't mean IE or Windows Media Player). Perhaps have an 'Express Install' option that will install all the basic sets. You should also have the ability to add/remove sets or packages after the install.
So, today are we getting excited about tech converging (eg. your phone+camera+pim+kitchen-sink) or are we getting excited about the tech diverging into hundreds of specialised interconnected devices?
With all the 'innovation' these days it's getting hard to keep track;)
I vaguely remember another poster saying awhile ago that ISPs only have to pay for data injected _into_ other networks. Therefore they don't have to pay data charges for your downloads - only for your uploads. If this is true then it makes sense that ISPs limit upstream traffic, as it's costing them more.
Actually, I'd kill for a dsl connection like my sibling poster has. Here in NZ if I want to get full DSL with a 10gig data cap I need to pay $1500 a month, so I'm stuck with 128/128k sdsl:(.
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Can you just imagine being in the middle of battle, killing an enemy soldier and having the HUD flash and an ominous, echoing voice in your ear announcing that 'You are in the lead'.
Not to mention the scrolling display up the top saying how many frags are left...
"Making a TCPA-compliant version of GNU/linux (or Apache, or whatever) will mean tidying up the code and removing whatever features conflict with the TCPA security policy. The company will then submit the pruned code to an evaluator, together with a mass of documentation for the work that's been done, including a whole lot of analyses showing, for example, that you can't get root by a buffer overflow."
Does this mean that MS will have to 'prune' their OS and applications as well to make them secure enough to be signed?
From reading all these replies from people using, 'less than one gram' of sodium in Chem I have to feel sympathy. My chem teacher did an experiment with us using a big hunk of the stuff in a container full of water with an upturned bucket over it. The bucket blasted off about 5 metres into the air, although me, being in the front row, was showered with little bits of sodium.
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I think that one of the areas that linux can really beat windows given enough effort is with it's desktop environments.
Given this, wouldn't it be better for people migrating from windows to become acustomed to the more powerful desktop environment of linux, rather than one which sacrifices some good features for the sake of making windows users feel more at home?
Also, if you shroud the differences between windows and linux behind a look-alike gui as soon as something goes wrong, or the user trys to install something the os will likely throw up a very un-windows like error, which will most likely confuse the user, leaving a sour taste about linux in their mouth.
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Spelling mistake. It was supposed to be 'Talk in prison'
Dude, if you post AC it's probably better not to include your name in the pose ;P
The white noise you get when you unplug their box and return it?
Package Selection.
Make it easy, with options like in some of the linux installers (Anaconda, whatever slackware uses). Have a 'install all', 'install sets', 'expert (select individual packages)'. Divide everything up into logical sets, and make sure that you have to install required components (and I don't mean IE or Windows Media Player). Perhaps have an 'Express Install' option that will install all the basic sets. You should also have the ability to add/remove sets or packages after the install.
Just my $0.02,
Landrocker
> perhaps in the not-too-distant future we'll be able to mine 3He from the moon
We should probably build the reactor in China then...;)
So, today are we getting excited about tech converging (eg. your phone+camera+pim+kitchen-sink) or are we getting excited about the tech diverging into hundreds of specialised interconnected devices?
;)
With all the 'innovation' these days it's getting hard to keep track
Landrocker
I vaguely remember another poster saying awhile ago that ISPs only have to pay for data injected _into_ other networks.
:(.
Therefore they don't have to pay data charges for your downloads - only for your uploads. If this is true then it makes sense that ISPs limit upstream traffic, as it's costing them more.
Actually, I'd kill for a dsl connection like my sibling poster has. Here in NZ if I want to get full DSL with a 10gig data cap I need to pay $1500 a month, so I'm stuck with 128/128k sdsl
Landrocker
Looks like it. Guess it's time to pull all the Microsoft Bob disks out of the nuclear waste dumps and start selling them ;).
We _know_ that everyone is secretly working on option G - porting BSD to their toaster (with full ethernet capability of course)
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Check out Habbo Hotel.
It's a semi-massively multiplayer hotel where you can chat with other people. It's free, but to get furniture for your own rooms you have to pay.
Can you just imagine being in the middle of battle, killing an enemy soldier and having the HUD flash and an ominous, echoing voice in your ear announcing that 'You are in the lead'.
Not to mention the scrolling display up the top saying how many frags are left...
Does this mean that MS will have to 'prune' their OS and applications as well to make them secure enough to be signed?
From reading all these replies from people using, 'less than one gram' of sodium in Chem I have to feel sympathy. My chem teacher did an experiment with us using a big hunk of the stuff in a container full of water with an upturned bucket over it. The bucket blasted off about 5 metres into the air, although me, being in the front row, was showered with little bits of sodium.