Thanks for the explanation, I have probably not seen enough to see a representative sample, and several of them would have been old, so more likely to be Linux.
Given that so many routers (virtually every one I have bought) see to run Linux, and the Linux kernel supports IPv6, why do they not support IPv^ as well?
Are there any real costs or difficulties in the way, or is it just that they cannot be bothered to do until customers actually demand it.
The big three monotheistic religions all believe in an invisible man in the sky. You're not the first person to raise objections to that description of the entity also known as God/Jehovah/Yahweh/Allah, but it is an accurate one nevertheless.
You clearly are either:
1) trolling
2) completely ignorant of the beliefs of monotheistic religions.
For example the word "invisible" is meaningless when applied to God, who is incorporeal, as is "in the sky". Man is also not applicable, unless you can reasonably define a being who exists outside time and space, is sexless (except for Christians, and then specifically only to one person of the trinity when incarnate), etc.
Opps! It looks like every single word of your description is wrong. How is that accurate?
Assuming you are ignorant, rather than trolling, I suggest you either desist from making comments about things you do not understand, or you take the trouble to learn about the subject. I suggest reading this, this, this, and this. They are all IMO simplistic or flawed, and it is much better explained in books than anything I can find online.
it'll be cheap and ineffective technological measure
Its cheap, and effective: effective in convincing the voters (and themselves) that the government is "doing something".
Also, the Irish government is probably happy to announce anything that will distract attention from the economic problems they will have if Obama cracks down on American companies using transfer pricing to move profits to low tax countries.
What I don't get is how Xenu and his nukes is treated as bunk, but the invisible man in the sky who can hear a billion people whisper to him at the same time is treated like a celebrity who dare not be questioned by anyone who wants to run for elected office in America.
Can you please tell me who does believe that? You state a parody of a belief and then point out what a ridiculous belief the parody is.
Of course I am assuming you are talking about theistic religions. Of course you could be talking about belief in Santa Claus (it is the only thing I can think of that you have accurately described), in which case I am quite prepared to agree with you that believing in Santa Claus is delusional.
A country that is fighting civil war to prevent an ethnically based breakaway state? If that is justified, how can selling part of the country be justified?
The war has also made people very nationalist, so giving up territory is likely to go down pretty badly. The Buddhist fundamentalists are not going to like having 370,000 Muslims added to the population either. See here for one example.
The same objection as you have to Australia selling land, that it would introduce land borders for the first time, also apply to Sri Lanka.
Another trick is to overpay someone to whom you make a legitimate payment (a local partner, for example) on the tacit understanding that they will negotiate and pay whatever bribes are necessary.
That is often why people say things like "we entered into a joint venture with local partner who can supply local knowledge". It means they have the right contacts and will take the blame in the unlikely event that the bribe comes to light.
Does the US government actually bother to prosecute these cases? Britain has similar laws but government is not really bothered about enforcing them, and has even pressurised the police into dropping investigations (the BAE Saudi bribes case last year).
Ummm... no. One is free of charge only, the other is both free of charge and free as in freedom.
What amazes me is that it took this many comments before anyone pointed that out. This is supposed to be a site for open source geeks and no one noticed!
Unless some can tell me where I can download the Google docs source from, that is.....
It shows what a bad idea the term "free software" is. Something like "freedom software" would have been better. "Open source" would have been fine if the OSI had trademarked it and prevented it from being used for restrictive "shared source" type licenses.
The whole point of this is to improve battery life compared to laptops that only have the higher performance GPU: you use the more efficient GPU when you do not need the performance, and the better performance one only when you do.
This site has a different purpose from macosxhints.com.
The comment is made in the context of a discussion started making a claim about what is holding back the adoption of Linux.
Given that Windows is widely adopted (to say the least), it makes no sense to attribute to the low adoption of Linux to a flaw that is shared by, or even worse, on Windows.
If you complain on a distro's forums about a usability issue or submit a bug, you are very unlikely to get the same response.
But for 98% of the population, they don't *want* to touch that. They want their OS to work. They want it to install smoothly,
Which OS delivers that?
have the drivers
Linux usually does, Vista often does not. Windows is ahead, but for most people Linux is there and Linux is less likely to require you to install the driver yourself.
have easy to install programs (which even ubuntu struggles with), and work
Win for Linux. Ease of finding and installing software is one of the reasons I use Linux.
They don't want to have to get into the guts of the OS.
Most people do not need to with Linux. The commonest reason is driver problems, which affect people with particular hardware.
Since the discussion is about taking linux 'mainstream' -- that is what I'm talking about. Most people are monkeys who like pre-fab machines.
So they should not be installing and OS for themselves. It should be pre-installed, or installed for them by someone who knows a bit more.
The result of that would be that many manufacturers would not bother with drivers for anything that is not in current production or that they do not expect to sell for too long after the introduction of Windows 7.
Te result would be lots of people would need to buy new hardware to upgrade the OS, or would buy hardware that does not work with it.
I know several non-geeks who happily use Linux - although one of them is showing signs of becoming a geek since she discovered the command line is sometimes "more logical"....
Memo to slashdot nerds in special target market with unique buying constraints: the rest of the world doesn't care about linux.
Only yesterday I got an email from a non-nerd friend telling me he had just installed Ubuntu.
I now know several non-nerd users of Linux. The only problems have been:
1) Itunes does not work (but she eventually decided Amarok is fine anyway).
2) hardware support: wifi on laptops is a problem.
Except that by not being able to spread out the cost of the phone over 12 or 24 months many people would not buy a phone.
They could just buy a cheap phone. The last phone I bought cost the equivalent of about $45. I have seen cheaper pay as you go phones (about half the price) advertised, but they may be locked to a network.
You need to be pretty badly off to need to spread that over two years.
Ubuntu is usually seamless in my experience. I have certainly known newbies to just click on the upgrade icon when it appears and upgrade to a new version successfully. It can go wrong though!
Mandrake cannot do upgrades from the Mandriva One CDs (which is what I usually use for the small download size) and has not done version upgrades from the repos like Ubuntu does (although I think that may be possible with the latest version). I full CD sets do have upgrade options, but I have not tried them.
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One thing that went wrong was Stalin's getting into power - bearing in mind that he was someone Lenin warned against.
Of course, any system that centralises power is vulnerable to someone evil taking control.
I think there is also a "quickstart" app that pre-loads parts of it: i.e. make it behave more like MS Office.
Thanks for the explanation, I have probably not seen enough to see a representative sample, and several of them would have been old, so more likely to be Linux.
It also says:
one of the most respected executives in the software world, Steve Ballmer.
Is that really a reflection of Ballmer's reputation? I would have though "nothing like as good at running MS as Gates was" is more accurate.
Are there any real costs or difficulties in the way, or is it just that they cannot be bothered to do until customers actually demand it.
Can you please tell me who does believe that?
The big three monotheistic religions all believe in an invisible man in the sky. You're not the first person to raise objections to that description of the entity also known as God/Jehovah/Yahweh/Allah, but it is an accurate one nevertheless.
You clearly are either:
1) trolling 2) completely ignorant of the beliefs of monotheistic religions.
For example the word "invisible" is meaningless when applied to God, who is incorporeal, as is "in the sky". Man is also not applicable, unless you can reasonably define a being who exists outside time and space, is sexless (except for Christians, and then specifically only to one person of the trinity when incarnate), etc.
Opps! It looks like every single word of your description is wrong. How is that accurate?
Assuming you are ignorant, rather than trolling, I suggest you either desist from making comments about things you do not understand, or you take the trouble to learn about the subject. I suggest reading this, this, this, and this. They are all IMO simplistic or flawed, and it is much better explained in books than anything I can find online.
it'll be cheap and ineffective technological measure
Its cheap, and effective: effective in convincing the voters (and themselves) that the government is "doing something".
Also, the Irish government is probably happy to announce anything that will distract attention from the economic problems they will have if Obama cracks down on American companies using transfer pricing to move profits to low tax countries.
What I don't get is how Xenu and his nukes is treated as bunk, but the invisible man in the sky who can hear a billion people whisper to him at the same time is treated like a celebrity who dare not be questioned by anyone who wants to run for elected office in America.
Can you please tell me who does believe that? You state a parody of a belief and then point out what a ridiculous belief the parody is.
Of course I am assuming you are talking about theistic religions. Of course you could be talking about belief in Santa Claus (it is the only thing I can think of that you have accurately described), in which case I am quite prepared to agree with you that believing in Santa Claus is delusional.
Sri Lanka is a much more likely candidate.
A country that is fighting civil war to prevent an ethnically based breakaway state? If that is justified, how can selling part of the country be justified?
The war has also made people very nationalist, so giving up territory is likely to go down pretty badly. The Buddhist fundamentalists are not going to like having 370,000 Muslims added to the population either. See here for one example.
The same objection as you have to Australia selling land, that it would introduce land borders for the first time, also apply to Sri Lanka.
That is often why people say things like "we entered into a joint venture with local partner who can supply local knowledge". It means they have the right contacts and will take the blame in the unlikely event that the bribe comes to light.
Does the US government actually bother to prosecute these cases? Britain has similar laws but government is not really bothered about enforcing them, and has even pressurised the police into dropping investigations (the BAE Saudi bribes case last year).
Ummm... no. One is free of charge only, the other is both free of charge and free as in freedom.
What amazes me is that it took this many comments before anyone pointed that out. This is supposed to be a site for open source geeks and no one noticed!
Unless some can tell me where I can download the Google docs source from, that is.....
It shows what a bad idea the term "free software" is. Something like "freedom software" would have been better. "Open source" would have been fine if the OSI had trademarked it and prevented it from being used for restrictive "shared source" type licenses.
The whole point of this is to improve battery life compared to laptops that only have the higher performance GPU: you use the more efficient GPU when you do not need the performance, and the better performance one only when you do.
Amazon will not recognise ISBN-13 in links at all, they will be using their own product numbers instead.
The comment is made in the context of a discussion started making a claim about what is holding back the adoption of Linux.
Given that Windows is widely adopted (to say the least), it makes no sense to attribute to the low adoption of Linux to a flaw that is shared by, or even worse, on Windows.
If you complain on a distro's forums about a usability issue or submit a bug, you are very unlikely to get the same response.
But for 98% of the population, they don't *want* to touch that. They want their OS to work. They want it to install smoothly,
Which OS delivers that?
have the drivers
Linux usually does, Vista often does not. Windows is ahead, but for most people Linux is there and Linux is less likely to require you to install the driver yourself.
have easy to install programs (which even ubuntu struggles with), and work
Win for Linux. Ease of finding and installing software is one of the reasons I use Linux.
They don't want to have to get into the guts of the OS.
Most people do not need to with Linux. The commonest reason is driver problems, which affect people with particular hardware.
Since the discussion is about taking linux 'mainstream' -- that is what I'm talking about. Most people are monkeys who like pre-fab machines.
So they should not be installing and OS for themselves. It should be pre-installed, or installed for them by someone who knows a bit more.
In other words a theist and an atheist would expect this bet to be a pretty sure loser. Who is making these bets?
Te result would be lots of people would need to buy new hardware to upgrade the OS, or would buy hardware that does not work with it.
That might work on some or most files, but there still is no replacement for Acrobat.
I have had one PDF file so far this year that failed to open in KPDF - and I have not tested if that opens in Acrobat either.
I have never used Foxit, but there are certainly perfectly good, reliable, PDF readers other than Acrobat.
This may not be true if you need a particular feature that is only implemented by Acrobat, for most people the alternatives are as good or better.
Memo to slashdot nerds in special target market with unique buying constraints: the rest of the world doesn't care about linux.
Only yesterday I got an email from a non-nerd friend telling me he had just installed Ubuntu.
I now know several non-nerd users of Linux. The only problems have been: 1) Itunes does not work (but she eventually decided Amarok is fine anyway). 2) hardware support: wifi on laptops is a problem.
I know a diamond dealer whose safe was just taken away whole to be broken into at leisure. She got a larger and more securely fitted one next time.
Except that by not being able to spread out the cost of the phone over 12 or 24 months many people would not buy a phone.
They could just buy a cheap phone. The last phone I bought cost the equivalent of about $45. I have seen cheaper pay as you go phones (about half the price) advertised, but they may be locked to a network.
You need to be pretty badly off to need to spread that over two years.
No he just thinks its impressive that he knows three women - that's more than any of his friends.
Mandrake cannot do upgrades from the Mandriva One CDs (which is what I usually use for the small download size) and has not done version upgrades from the repos like Ubuntu does (although I think that may be possible with the latest version). I full CD sets do have upgrade options, but I have not tried them.
How many records do we have from ancient Assyrians? From the Egyptians? Romans? British Empire?
In order the answer are: not much, don't know, quite a bit, and a huge amount.