There are plenty of other alternatives. I have seven web browsers installed, and user thre (Firefox fo its plugins, Opera for important sites I login to (Google Adsense, banking etc.), and Epiphany because its the only one Iplayer works in.
Right, so that why my former employer has not only been seeing their product increasingly deployed on Linux (it used to be Solaris only).
They were recently bought by the London Stock Exchange to bring development of the new, more stable, system in house. Stock Exchanges are pretty insistent on reliability.
The only thing that might slightly take the shine of Linux n this story is that the London Stock Exchange were running Windows, so the direct comparison is not with Linux, however, having being burned, they still went with Linux.
I think dropping the bit about murdering all the Jews and gypsies and enslaving almost everyone else is a fairly significant difference, even if some bits of economic policy are similar.
Also, I wonder if this study holds true for various other pleasurable inputs
Please do not say that to any politicians, or they will see it as an excuse to ban everything from sex to reading because it is addictive, and is obviously just as bad as heroin.
Actually this says nothing about fatty foods. The rats were fed a mixture of fatty and sugary food: it could just as easily be the sugar that was addictive.
I have found plenty of inaccuracies. The quality of Wikipedia is fine for articles that have lots of contributors, but not all subjects do: look at less well known people, topics that are not popular with Wikipedia contributors etc.
The one thing that governments have consistently been able to reach big agreements on are measures to spy on and control their citizens. Just say "terrorism" and it will sail through.
There is very little that is not packaged for Debian and derivatives. The other major distros have everything that is commonly used packaged, and a lot of the more minor stuff. There are occasionally things missing but they are usually minor,
Someone has to be amazingly closeminded and fundamentalist, and go out of their to avoid the most prevalent consumer OS for the last 10 years.
It is fundamentalist and closed minded to not buy a product because you do not like it?
Coca-cola is the most popular soft drink, if someone said that they had not drunk it for a few years because they never liked it, but they could not remember exactly what it tasted like, would that be "fundamentalist and closed minded"?
go out of their to avoid the most prevalent consumer OS for the last 10 years.
I have hardly touched Windows in the last six years. I have not gone out of my way: I would have to go out of my way to use Windows more. I have a laptop and a dektop, both with Linux installed. Dual boot would be a hassle, virtualisation uses too much memory, and I have no pressing reason to do either. I rarely use other people's machines, so it would take a definite effort to use Windows.
Indeed, the general state of sexual repression in the world that makes girls think that they're dirty for wanting sex and men think that girls just don't want sex is absolutely horrible.
Is that the general state of the world? You obviously live in a very different world from me.
It might have been true say from some time in the 17th or 18th century up to a little after Victorian times (in the west) and in some very conservative countries (today) , but it is not what I have seen in any community I know in either Europe of Asia (and I know a few with different cultures and religions).
People are still frequently screwed up about, or by, sex, but the worst problem I have seen is too young/too irresponsible (teenage pregnancies in Salford), not too repressed.
I think the fundamental problem is, like many aspects of our behaviour, is instincts that suit hunter gatherers living in small communities coming up against modern life.
"If you don't like the interface changes in Windows 7, you don't have the option to either change it yourself or pay someone who knows how to change it for you."
Last I heard, MSFT is a pubically traded company. You CAN buy it and have them change whatever you like in the code. While impractible, so would hiring a coder to custom modify any other OS be to most individuals.
It's not really impractical so much as most people don't care *enough*. I'm sure you could go over to Rentacoder or something and find someone in India or China willing to move the window control buttons on that theme for under $100 on a particular build of Ubuntu. The Microsoft stock comparison is laughable. The issue is that for the people involved the time and/or money to make it the way they want it isn't *worth* the cost, no matter how little that cost might be.
"If you don't like the interface changes in Windows 7, you don't have the option to either change it yourself or pay someone who knows how to change it for you."
Last I heard, MSFT is a pubically traded company. You CAN buy it and have them change whatever you like in the code. While impractible, so would hiring a coder to custom modify any other OS be to most individuals.
It's not really impractical so much as most people don't care *enough*. I'm sure you could go over to Rentacoder or something and find someone in India or China willing to move the window control buttons on that theme for under $100 on a particular build of Ubuntu. The Microsoft stock comparison is laughable. The issue is that for the people involved the time and/or money to make it the way they want it isn't *worth* the cost, no matter how little that cost might be.
An earlier comment pointed out that its in the bug submitter's PPA, presumably hosted by Launchpad: so you do not have to pay anything.
What this is an example of, is that you may not have to pay to make a change. If lots of people want the same change, only one has to do it and make it available.
The existence of turn based strategy games disproves the GP's assertion that "brainy", even if you accept his assertion about RTS games (which is probably false - I have not played RTS games enough to judge).
I have recently got completely addicted to Battle for Wesnoth. Its fun, but it can be very hard and complex.
The distinction you are trying to make is between debt capital (e.g. bonds, long term bank loans, any thing else that is financing) and other liabilities. Shareholders equity is not shown as a liability, and is not connected to the share price.
The number you want is net assets, but it is not really relevant to valuing a company link Novell except for establishing a floor to the valuation.
You may need a sum of parts valuation (I am not sure how diverse Novells businesses are), but a simple profit multiple may do.
Novell's management have got some key shareholder backing for rejecting the offer, so they are not the only ones who think they will get more.
As much as you may not like it, not complying with an officer of the law is a crime (get out of the car, get down on the ground, put your hands on your head, etc), and Peter Watts definitely committed a crime in refusing to obey the officers.
Regardless of how unreasonable what you are asked to do is? There was no reason to humiliate him by making him lie on the ground.
If you accept that you have to do what ever the cops tell you to, where do you draw the line? "Lie down", "lick my boots", "give me a blow job"?
I think this case made up my mind for me: I am NEVER visiting the US. If a perfectly reasonable person, behaving in a perfectly reasonable way can get sent to jail for not being willing to humiliate themselves, the country is crazy like Zimbabwe.
it is unamerican, because it is feudal. it gives control of the intellectual life over to a few. the needs of the few coming before the needs of the many, is contrary to american revolutionary ideas.
The revolution was rather a long time ago. These days a comparatively small number of people own most of the economy, a small number of people control the media, a small number of people have a huge amount of political influence - all largely down to increasing centralisation (both public and private sector).
Its a global phenomenon, not American, but the fact is "IP" law has just gone the same way as everything else.
The problem is that people do not realise how easy it is to harvest and process that information to give away more than they want to.
Remember the study that showed it was possible to identify gays who had not revealed the fact with a 78% certainty from their Facebook friends network? Many people also do not understand the privacy settings, and the application privacy settings in particular.
Then there is the fact that once you are on, a lot of people start posting stuff about you. Did oe of your friends post an embarrassing picture of you on Facebook? Then another will tag it so everyone you know can find it.
The problem is with stuff that is already built on MySQl, and the availability of MySQL. All the low end CMSs use MySQL, so do quite a few big ones. ALl the cheap web hosts offer MySQL.
Not really like Google News because Google only crawls headlines that are published on public web sites, obeys robots.txt, only crawls subscription only sites with permission etc.
The critical element here seems to be that the stuff was being reported before all the paying clients saw it. It is more as though Google bought subscriptions as an ordinary user and used those login details to spider a site behind a pay wall.
Slashdot Mirror
In lots of countries, including the EU they store it so the government can use it to build a profile of you.
There are plenty of other alternatives. I have seven web browsers installed, and user thre (Firefox fo its plugins, Opera for important sites I login to (Google Adsense, banking etc.), and Epiphany because its the only one Iplayer works in.
Right, so that why my former employer has not only been seeing their product increasingly deployed on Linux (it used to be Solaris only).
They were recently bought by the London Stock Exchange to bring development of the new, more stable, system in house. Stock Exchanges are pretty insistent on reliability.
The only thing that might slightly take the shine of Linux n this story is that the London Stock Exchange were running Windows, so the direct comparison is not with Linux, however, having being burned, they still went with Linux.
I think dropping the bit about murdering all the Jews and gypsies and enslaving almost everyone else is a fairly significant difference, even if some bits of economic policy are similar.
Also, I wonder if this study holds true for various other pleasurable inputs
Please do not say that to any politicians, or they will see it as an excuse to ban everything from sex to reading because it is addictive, and is obviously just as bad as heroin.
Actually this says nothing about fatty foods. The rats were fed a mixture of fatty and sugary food: it could just as easily be the sugar that was addictive.
I have found plenty of inaccuracies. The quality of Wikipedia is fine for articles that have lots of contributors, but not all subjects do: look at less well known people, topics that are not popular with Wikipedia contributors etc.
The one thing that governments have consistently been able to reach big agreements on are measures to spy on and control their citizens. Just say "terrorism" and it will sail through.
There is very little that is not packaged for Debian and derivatives. The other major distros have everything that is commonly used packaged, and a lot of the more minor stuff. There are occasionally things missing but they are usually minor,
Someone has to be amazingly closeminded and fundamentalist, and go out of their to avoid the most prevalent consumer OS for the last 10 years.
It is fundamentalist and closed minded to not buy a product because you do not like it?
Coca-cola is the most popular soft drink, if someone said that they had not drunk it for a few years because they never liked it, but they could not remember exactly what it tasted like, would that be "fundamentalist and closed minded"?
go out of their to avoid the most prevalent consumer OS for the last 10 years.
I have hardly touched Windows in the last six years. I have not gone out of my way: I would have to go out of my way to use Windows more. I have a laptop and a dektop, both with Linux installed. Dual boot would be a hassle, virtualisation uses too much memory, and I have no pressing reason to do either. I rarely use other people's machines, so it would take a definite effort to use Windows.
I agree, but why what does it say about Slashdot that a discussion about school hours turns into a discussion of sex?
I guess it tell us more about Slashdotter's fantasies than the topic in the article.
Indeed, the general state of sexual repression in the world that makes girls think that they're dirty for wanting sex and men think that girls just don't want sex is absolutely horrible.
Is that the general state of the world? You obviously live in a very different world from me.
It might have been true say from some time in the 17th or 18th century up to a little after Victorian times (in the west) and in some very conservative countries (today) , but it is not what I have seen in any community I know in either Europe of Asia (and I know a few with different cultures and religions).
People are still frequently screwed up about, or by, sex, but the worst problem I have seen is too young/too irresponsible (teenage pregnancies in Salford), not too repressed.
I think the fundamental problem is, like many aspects of our behaviour, is instincts that suit hunter gatherers living in small communities coming up against modern life.
He did not say there were Christians, he said they were religious. You admit they may have been Deists.
Why would you expect the founding father to be in hell, regardless of their religion?
"If you don't like the interface changes in Windows 7, you don't have the option to either change it yourself or pay someone who knows how to change it for you."
Last I heard, MSFT is a pubically traded company. You CAN buy it and have them change whatever you like in the code. While impractible, so would hiring a coder to custom modify any other OS be to most individuals.
It's not really impractical so much as most people don't care *enough*. I'm sure you could go over to Rentacoder or something and find someone in India or China willing to move the window control buttons on that theme for under $100 on a particular build of Ubuntu. The Microsoft stock comparison is laughable. The issue is that for the people involved the time and/or money to make it the way they want it isn't *worth* the cost, no matter how little that cost might be.
"If you don't like the interface changes in Windows 7, you don't have the option to either change it yourself or pay someone who knows how to change it for you."
Last I heard, MSFT is a pubically traded company. You CAN buy it and have them change whatever you like in the code. While impractible, so would hiring a coder to custom modify any other OS be to most individuals.
It's not really impractical so much as most people don't care *enough*. I'm sure you could go over to Rentacoder or something and find someone in India or China willing to move the window control buttons on that theme for under $100 on a particular build of Ubuntu. The Microsoft stock comparison is laughable. The issue is that for the people involved the time and/or money to make it the way they want it isn't *worth* the cost, no matter how little that cost might be.
An earlier comment pointed out that its in the bug submitter's PPA, presumably hosted by Launchpad: so you do not have to pay anything.
What this is an example of, is that you may not have to pay to make a change. If lots of people want the same change, only one has to do it and make it available.
Given that Mark Shuttleworth usually describes himself as "Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life" of Ubuntu, no one claimed it was democratic.
On the other hand, although the project is not democratic, the software is free, so you are free to fork it if you wish.
The existence of turn based strategy games disproves the GP's assertion that "brainy", even if you accept his assertion about RTS games (which is probably false - I have not played RTS games enough to judge).
I have recently got completely addicted to Battle for Wesnoth. Its fun, but it can be very hard and complex.
The distinction you are trying to make is between debt capital (e.g. bonds, long term bank loans, any thing else that is financing) and other liabilities. Shareholders equity is not shown as a liability, and is not connected to the share price.
The number you want is net assets, but it is not really relevant to valuing a company link Novell except for establishing a floor to the valuation.
You may need a sum of parts valuation (I am not sure how diverse Novells businesses are), but a simple profit multiple may do.
Novell's management have got some key shareholder backing for rejecting the offer, so they are not the only ones who think they will get more.
Its another big and ambitious British government IT project.
The usual outcome is consultants and contractors make lots of money, and it is implemented a decade late, if at all.
As much as you may not like it, not complying with an officer of the law is a crime (get out of the car, get down on the ground, put your hands on your head, etc), and Peter Watts definitely committed a crime in refusing to obey the officers.
Regardless of how unreasonable what you are asked to do is? There was no reason to humiliate him by making him lie on the ground.
If you accept that you have to do what ever the cops tell you to, where do you draw the line? "Lie down", "lick my boots", "give me a blow job"?
I think this case made up my mind for me: I am NEVER visiting the US. If a perfectly reasonable person, behaving in a perfectly reasonable way can get sent to jail for not being willing to humiliate themselves, the country is crazy like Zimbabwe.
That is because you are trying to explain the concept without explaining why it matters to them.
it is unamerican, because it is feudal. it gives control of the intellectual life over to a few. the needs of the few coming before the needs of the many, is contrary to american revolutionary ideas.
The revolution was rather a long time ago. These days a comparatively small number of people own most of the economy, a small number of people control the media, a small number of people have a huge amount of political influence - all largely down to increasing centralisation (both public and private sector).
Its a global phenomenon, not American, but the fact is "IP" law has just gone the same way as everything else.
The problem is that people do not realise how easy it is to harvest and process that information to give away more than they want to.
Remember the study that showed it was possible to identify gays who had not revealed the fact with a 78% certainty from their Facebook friends network? Many people also do not understand the privacy settings, and the application privacy settings in particular.
Then there is the fact that once you are on, a lot of people start posting stuff about you. Did oe of your friends post an embarrassing picture of you on Facebook? Then another will tag it so everyone you know can find it.
The problem is with stuff that is already built on MySQl, and the availability of MySQL. All the low end CMSs use MySQL, so do quite a few big ones. ALl the cheap web hosts offer MySQL.
MySQL is also, IMO, easier to learn.
Not really like Google News because Google only crawls headlines that are published on public web sites, obeys robots.txt, only crawls subscription only sites with permission etc.
The critical element here seems to be that the stuff was being reported before all the paying clients saw it. It is more as though Google bought subscriptions as an ordinary user and used those login details to spider a site behind a pay wall.
I feel somewhat vindicated for being no good at econometrics when I see where the people who were good at it have landed us.....