I do think that there is more work that can and will be done to bring the things we love about Android into form factors [such as netbooks]
She also mentions Moblin as a possible alternative.
I cannot actually see what is so good about Android. Why not Maemo, or the mobile optimised versions of distros such as Ubuntu. It is going to take Android a long time to catch up with the range of software available for real Linux.
People who do not want offensive content will just leave Google's default "moderate safe search" filter on.
I would also guess that the heavy internet users are not likely to be the most conservative people. Take a look at the Alexa list of the most popular sites in India. There are a good many porn sites in the top 100
If they are trying to avoid legal problems, it is a pretty poor attempt. You can still get sexually explicit content through more imaginative searches, and play the videos on the Bing site itself.
I wonder what your religious users will make of that?
On the other hand, if you change the icons to look roughly like the Windows ones and use a Windows like theme, those same people will not notice that they are using a different OS.
The problem is that management do not want quants who rigorously test models - especially risk models.
They would far prefer to be allowed to collect fees while business is doing well, and if they are taking more risks than they are supposed to, well, its not their money is it?
Journalists are professional people who do research and go through an editorial process before they get published
Journalists are professional people who rewrite press releases and go through an editorial process to check they are on message with their employers positions before they get published.
Flash on Windows is x86 only as well, and so is Windows itself and so is Flash on any OS - so how is this relevant to choice of OS on a netbook. It is relevant only to choosing and ARM based vs x86 netbook.
Gnash means Flash will work sometimes - Youtube apparently works, which at least half my usage of FLash,
Silverlight has Moonlight which is sorta comparable
And a lot of sites use Silverlight with non-free video formats whose freely available decoders aren't ported to ARM even if they are ported to Linux.
I have never actually come across any site that uses Silverlight, and, again, this is a lack of ARM software rather than Linux software.
A large corporation might store their sensitive stuff on their own web servers: i.e. they will not use Gmail, but they might set up their own webmail and encourage users to use it rather than support a mail client on each PC.
Assuming that the market is not growing significantly, Linux usage grew by 13% in a month, at that rate it would reach 82% in two years......
No, I do not think that will happen. My point is:
1) I do not believe a 13% jump is usage in one month. 2) Even if it was true, you cannot extrapolate a trend from one month. 3) Given the monthly growth is clearly wrong, I do not believe the numbers at all.
After all whatever I cannot do easily in OpenBSD Linux does through binary blobs and proprietary software. At that point I could be as well running Windows 7.
So there is no reason to use Linux over Windows other than to have an entirely free software systems?
I hope you are using an open source BIOS and microcode as well, just to be consistent.
RTFA. The judge is a member (actually a director in at least one case) of organisations that are lobbying to change the law, to make what Pirate Bay did illegal.
Pirate Bay's lawyer's argue that what they did was not illegal. Is the judge, who is committed to making sure it is illegal, the best person to apply the law impartially?
People know that an ISP can only do best effort for the advertised speed. If streaming is too slow, they'll stop using it, or use it less often (low reliability = low usage).
In other words, a minority of heavy users degrade speed and reliability for everyone. Most customers are better off if their service is cut off.
It is a lot easier for the average user to clean a home directory that contains malware than to re-install an OS and all apps (especially if the OS cannot install everything from a repo).
Mounting/home and/tmp as noexec would restrict what malware installed without root could do.
Given that the conditions in open source licences apply to redistribution, this only affects software vendors who want to rip-off GPL (or similar) code for proprietary products.
That is the point of these licences.
Moskin is also very biased - it is very obvious in the law.com article that tries to spin the facts to imply that end users would be at risk, when the facts presented (read the last para) contradict this.
Apparently, so is everyone else who is commenting on this. Not the ratio that I would expect on Slashdot. I find it hard to believe that it is because VLC is popular on Windows, given no-one seems to like it. So why is this so interesting to Window users?
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At that time, Opera was well worth paying for.
Well the ARM quote, if you RTFA, is:
She also mentions Moblin as a possible alternative.
I cannot actually see what is so good about Android. Why not Maemo, or the mobile optimised versions of distros such as Ubuntu. It is going to take Android a long time to catch up with the range of software available for real Linux.
People who do not want offensive content will just leave Google's default "moderate safe search" filter on.
I would also guess that the heavy internet users are not likely to be the most conservative people. Take a look at the Alexa list of the most popular sites in India. There are a good many porn sites in the top 100
If they are trying to avoid legal problems, it is a pretty poor attempt. You can still get sexually explicit content through more imaginative searches, and play the videos on the Bing site itself.
I wonder what your religious users will make of that?
Thailand? Sex is so under wraps there.....
On the other hand, if you change the icons to look roughly like the Windows ones and use a Windows like theme, those same people will not notice that they are using a different OS.
The problem is that management do not want quants who rigorously test models - especially risk models.
They would far prefer to be allowed to collect fees while business is doing well, and if they are taking more risks than they are supposed to, well, its not their money is it?
Assuming that it needs a password on wake up, I do not see what easy attacks there are that exploit it being suspended rather than off.
Yes, lots of stuff is unencrypted in RAM, but it would not be easy to read it off a running system.
If there is a weakness, please let me know, because I have been doing just this thinking it was reasonably secure.....
Journalists are professional people who do research and go through an editorial process before they get published
Journalists are professional people who rewrite press releases and go through an editorial process to check they are on message with their employers positions before they get published.
Flash has been on Linux for ages now.
On ARM, or only on x86?
Flash on Windows is x86 only as well, and so is Windows itself and so is Flash on any OS - so how is this relevant to choice of OS on a netbook. It is relevant only to choosing and ARM based vs x86 netbook.
Gnash means Flash will work sometimes - Youtube apparently works, which at least half my usage of FLash,
Silverlight has Moonlight which is sorta comparable
And a lot of sites use Silverlight with non-free video formats whose freely available decoders aren't ported to ARM even if they are ported to Linux.
I have never actually come across any site that uses Silverlight, and, again, this is a lack of ARM software rather than Linux software.
have the possibility that the FSF will decide to grant an exemption for a specific large organisation and allow them to relicense your work.
Why do you think that the FSF is in the least likely to grant an exemption to a "specific large organisation"?
The revised GFDL allows relicensing of content on wikis (and any other publicly editable web sites) under another license with a very similar intent.
A large corporation might store their sensitive stuff on their own web servers: i.e. they will not use Gmail, but they might set up their own webmail and encourage users to use it rather than support a mail client on each PC.
Actually, he might just get sued by whoever now hold John Cage's copyrights
Assuming that the market is not growing significantly, Linux usage grew by 13% in a month, at that rate it would reach 82% in two years......
No, I do not think that will happen. My point is:
1) I do not believe a 13% jump is usage in one month.
2) Even if it was true, you cannot extrapolate a trend from one month.
3) Given the monthly growth is clearly wrong, I do not believe the numbers at all.
My six year old daughter has used Kubuntu on her own PC for about an year now, and used it occasionally before that.
I certainly has to show her how things worked (I cannot imagine any OS being different), but everything she has wanted to do has worked.
After all whatever I cannot do easily in OpenBSD Linux does through binary blobs and proprietary software. At that point I could be as well running Windows 7.
So there is no reason to use Linux over Windows other than to have an entirely free software systems?
I hope you are using an open source BIOS and microcode as well, just to be consistent.
RTFA. The judge is a member (actually a director in at least one case) of organisations that are lobbying to change the law, to make what Pirate Bay did illegal.
Pirate Bay's lawyer's argue that what they did was not illegal. Is the judge, who is committed to making sure it is illegal, the best person to apply the law impartially?
People know that an ISP can only do best effort for the advertised speed. If streaming is too slow, they'll stop using it, or use it less often (low reliability = low usage).
In other words, a minority of heavy users degrade speed and reliability for everyone. Most customers are better off if their service is cut off.
It's like people hating on pop stars, Windows, and Kraft Parmesan cheese.
You honestly cannot think of any other reasons why people might hate Windows, Kraft cheeses and quite a lot of pop stars?
have you no taste?
Slashdot has a critical mass in its community, so it is still the best of its kind despite being run badly.
To put it another way, a bad product wins because of network effects. Very like Microsoft....
It is a lot easier for the average user to clean a home directory that contains malware than to re-install an OS and all apps (especially if the OS cannot install everything from a repo).
Mounting /home and /tmp as noexec would restrict what malware installed without root could do.
Actually it was not GPL licensed. Part of the problem is that he used the artistic license. RTFA.
Given that the conditions in open source licences apply to redistribution, this only affects software vendors who want to rip-off GPL (or similar) code for proprietary products.
That is the point of these licences.
Moskin is also very biased - it is very obvious in the law.com article that tries to spin the facts to imply that end users would be at risk, when the facts presented (read the last para) contradict this.
I'm a Windows user
Apparently, so is everyone else who is commenting on this. Not the ratio that I would expect on Slashdot. I find it hard to believe that it is because VLC is popular on Windows, given no-one seems to like it. So why is this so interesting to Window users?
It does, however, highlight the unfairness of a law that makes do distinction between commercial and non-commercial breaches of copyright.
So you are want to get people who would never hit the cap to switch in order to protest that they are no longer cross-subsidising you?
It is perfectly reasonable to charge heavy users more.
It is a lot better than Comcasts approach of a high cap and cutting off those who breach it twice.