with realities like QT/mac/win32, GTK/win and Mono and supposing the linux desktop will grow for home users my two cents will go (for computer shops shelfs) to a mix of.NET, Gnome, KDE and Java software, all being multiplatform. But I don't expect this until non-Windows desktops reach at least 20% of the _sales_.
And games will be the linux _home_ desktop killer apps. On this I bet far more than 2 cents:)
and seems it is not a worry for end users too. End users always thinks bad things happens to someone else. That's why a poorly designed security model IS a problem. OTOH, it is an end user problem, something here on slashdot could be used as base for jokes.
Italy does not have a "common law" law system, so this doesn't mean "from now on in Italy it is fully legal to produce, sell, install and use modchips". It means these people were not found guilty (and set s a "guideline, too, but this guideline is not enforceable in court)
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hint: Salmon of doubt.
Too bad Douglas Adams didn't live up to see this, he would surely have liked this
> Everything else should be designed to do just one thing and do it better/prettier than emacs.
Like vi for editing text?
> Internet is all about freedom, don't forget it
Internet is about machine-to-machine communication.
The Internet culture developed between 1980 and 1998 is about freedom (of speech, of communication).
From 1998 the Internet is about business and control.
> It's a win-win!
no, it's a Linux-Win.
VMWar^WXen
I hope they will also release an AAlib converted version. Can't wait to telnet a port and watch the video (with subtitles, obiouvsly)
with realities like QT/mac/win32, GTK/win and Mono and supposing the linux desktop will grow for home users my two cents will go (for computer shops shelfs) to a mix of .NET, Gnome, KDE and Java software, all being multiplatform. But I don't expect this until non-Windows desktops reach at least 20% of the _sales_.
:)
And games will be the linux _home_ desktop killer apps. On this I bet far more than 2 cents
Moreover, sold (or better, commercially licensed) software is only a part of used software.
> 5.The protocol would be very simple: Text based, similar to a simplified postscript or html imagemap.
use SVG, and you will get much more support.
Won't Go Fast
1) Develop spinach based photovoltaic cells
2) Use Popeye in the logo
3) Profit!
But now we know that Steve's Reality Distortion Field (tm) can be distorted as well.
Next step: iWarp iDrive.
(I'll bite (again))
> I assume we ignore the portion of the planet which clearly doesn't matter enough.
I suppose you ignore.
I do not.
> Coronary artery disease causes around 50% of deaths worldwide.
:-D
I would like to inform you that Miami is not on the border of the world, which is not flat, by the way
> having a cell phone in say Germany and recieveing a call on it costs you money if your home is in say Spain.
what if you're in Mexico and your home in, say, USA and you receive a call?
The parent probably should have said "Move to any European Nation".
microscopic interlocking nodes with a distributed brain
you mean a Beowulf nanocluster?!?!?!?!?
I know this could be a shock: Reiserfs4. go check yourself.
;)
How do we know which part of a 1gb file should lie in memory, and which should not?
it's not a filesystem matter.
It's just like a big database where we need good rules of what's good and what's not.
I, for one, hope that won't be microsoft to choose what's good or bad
Security isn't my primary worry
and seems it is not a worry for end users too. End users always thinks bad things happens to someone else. That's why a poorly designed security model IS a problem. OTOH, it is an end user problem, something here on slashdot could be used as base for jokes.
Italy does not have a "common law" law system, so this doesn't mean "from now on in Italy it is fully legal to produce, sell, install and use modchips". It means these people were not found guilty (and set s a "guideline, too, but this guideline is not enforceable in court)
I'm sorry, I can't answer you. I signed an NDA which forbids me to.
Microsft is going to win hands down, they would simple have to submit some windows source code.
does # of Library of Congress please you? ;)
1) Find a check printing software house with poor security on software
2) Get hired
3) Print checks bypassing the poor security
4) Profit!
The way Microsoft will control your TV set.