The instructions I have seen online make it look as though the Windows upgrades is a lot more work. I have not actually used Windows for years so I may be wrong.
I have yet to see Linux platform DELIVER ANYTHING the entire world wants to use, in an easy to manage, easy to interact with format. I tried installing redhat a few times back in the 90s and after banging my head a few times to actually get it working I thought to myself "Oh. Sweet. Free Civ and data management I DONT NEED."
The 90s? That is relevant how? It is about as useful as my telling you that Mandriva 2009 is much better than Windows 3.1. What is relevant is how current Linux versions compare to current Windows versions.
There is a lot of software for Linux, and obtainning and installing it is much easier and faster than for Windows.
I guess what Im really saying is, most Linux/open source advocates do it for the rebellion not because they have a better product to promote
Wrong. Most Linux users use it because they think it is better. Those who want to use open source have good motives to do so (avoiding lock in, auditable security). The biggest advantages of Linux are that it is easy, and that it is flexible. All your software is managed an upgraded using a single GUI interface, some distros can even do major version upgrade with a few mouse clicks - try upgrading from XP to Vista that way!
As for the flexibility you can get distros for geeks (Gentoo, Slack, Arch), normal users desktops (Ubuntu, Mandriva, SuSe), servers (Debian, Red Hat), old hardware (Puppy, Damn Small Linux).
He also does not understand that free as in speech does not equal free as in beer.
Models that rely on volunteers and contributions may have problems (although there may be more talent around with free time on their hands), on the other hand projects that are profitable (directly or indirectly) should not be affected any more than proprietary software.
1) Red Hat does support entire OSS stacks. Other people do as well. You can also switch more easily if the support is not satisfactory.
2) MS will not fix every single bug you find as soon as possible - it could be a disaster for you and low priority for them.
That is the only reason for lots of people to install Realplayer. It is also quite popular for video related to financial information: results webcasts etc.
Although Mplayer etc. can play real audio, they make a pretty bad job of it: being prone to failing mid stream and unable to skip forwards or backwards - on the other hand mplayer can record realaudio which the official player cannot, and all the open source players work with pulseaudio.
It also says that scientific and technical publications prefer logical quotation because of its precision. Are you suggesting that Slashdot is in some way associated with precision?
As Margaret Thatcher said "you can't buck the market".
Of course she, like most right wingers, was reluctant to apply it to immigration, but if you have (sort of) free markets in goods, services and capital, it is silly to try to avoid them in labour - after all the benefits are just as clear on the same logic.
The problem is that there is no money to be made in selling certs that way.
SSH is unprofitable and therefore communist encryption that destroys the profits of companies that could otherwise sell SSL type certs for that as well.
You could just tunnel http over ssh, but there is no browser support for that so it is something each user has to set up for themselves, rather than a method that can be generally used.
Isn't that song out of copyright now? There are vocal and musical tracts which can be still copyrighted but isn't the Happy Birthday song long out of copyright?
Surely the same would apply to any proprietary software? Are you saying that he would be shamed by working for any proprietary software company? I have worked on proprietary software, I do not feel shamed. I would have preferred to work on free software, of course, but no job is perfect (and there is no free software in their market either).
I do not see any ethical problem here, as there would be with a company that was stealing GPLed code. Anyone contributing to a BSD licensed project is saying, quite clearly, that they are happy for people to develop proprietary forks.
What it comes down to is whether he prefers the job or involvement in the project.
Unless these things have a really high return rate, it seems that most people are quite happy with Linux, and a few did not realise that PCs came with anything other than Windows and return them. So an apparently fairly poor Linux install keeps most people happy - which says something for the level of expectations Windows has set.
It is probably "power users" who are returning these. Not people who just want their web browser to work and write letters with the word processor and little else.
Not geeks who would know what they want in terms of OSes.
People who know Windows, and MS Office well, but do not actually understand at an abstract level that can be re-applied to other OSes and apps. From people with a memorised sequence of muse clicks for hundreds of tasks, to people who write apps in VBA and Excel.
The most reliable approach is to use only software meeting the standards set by the Christ Software Foundation. Some people have taken this approach, but they have had to be willing to accept limited access to some codecs.
Some people have managed to run Money while Jesus executes in a separate VM, but this is probably not a good idea. Jesus is really designed to run as a hypervisor.
Whisky ages by evaporating bad alcohols while retaining tasty ones.
This statement is nonsensical. Whisky, and any other alcoholic drink for that matter, has one and only one alcohol, ethanol, C2H5OH. At least, it better, since any other form of alcohol is quite poisonous.
It is actually quite likely that methanol evaporates out of ageing significantly faster than ethanol, so he may well be right, but the main changes come from interactions with the barrel, oxidation, etc.
Metering bandwidth raises a few questions about what should be transferred over the internet. If your paying per byte then all of those flash heavy advertisements are suddenly costing you money. you are then paying to be advertised to. who wants that?
It is part of the page you are seeing. If a site is to heavy stop using it. You could also block the heavy elements. If everyone does that advertisers will stop using them so we will have fewer flash ads, and more text ads. I do not see the problem?
What happens when your computer gets a virus and starts to send out gigabytes of email spam? Who's liable for that?
You are. I bet you would be much better motivated to keep your computer secure. The rest of us win.
How about when windows decides to update its self with that sexy new 500MB patch? Or when WoW releases a new patch and you have to pay for the 800MB-1.5GB patch for that game?
Big patches are not that frequent. The cost will be negligible. If it does become an issue users will push vendors to use differential patches, better compression etc.
Remember Comcast are charging usage over a cap of 250GB a month. Over 8Gb a day. You are not going to hit this web browsing and updating software. It is enough to download a complete set of Debian CDs (i.e. everything in their repos, which is a LOT) every two days and have enough left to spend hours every day browsing reasonably lightweight web sites.
This is going to affect video and little else. It might affect P2P more generally because it will be easy to save money by just leeching.
When people have to think, gee do I pay for the bandwidth for this massive patch to my OS/Email Client/Office Suite/Game/Misc App, then everyone looses. Too many people would make their systems not update, and leave themselves vulnerable to attacks if given that sort of choice
They will learn the hard way when some piece of malware uses a lot of their bandwidth.
Not only that, but time - St Augustine in particular.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evolution/#1
Evolution is more orthodox and traditional, and a better fit with Christian beliefs than "creationism". Have you noticed that the same people who advocate creationism have also abandoned a lot of other Christian ideas - such as the attitudes to power and wealth expressed by Jesus?
Free as in speech, because it is freedom to do what you want. Free speech lets you do what you want in what you way, free software lets you do what you want with software. The same meaning of the word free.
Why do some people have this problem and not others? I have not had it, neither has anyone else I know.
Is it an issue with particular versions of Ubuntu, that does not affect other versions or other distros? Is it a particular Flash version and browser combination? The GP says it occurs with FF but not with Seamonkey.
The other thing i cannot understand is why so many people you know were affected. Too many for it to be coincidence. Is there some common factor?
Wikipedia's competition is not just wikis. The vast majority of users are not interested in contributing, and a good many do not realise they can edit it.
Why should information on all kinds of things be on one place? Surely part of what is so good about the web is that it can be decentralised?
The main point here is that Google tends to rank Wikipedia too high, so it has little to do with the factors that might make people go directly to Wikipedia. It is not difficult to find examples of Google ranking a Wikipedia stub, incomplete, or plain crap page above much better ones from elsewhere.
Of course I have an stake in this, as I would benefit if Google ranked Wikipedia a bit lower - there are a good many searches for which my site comes second after Wikipedia. On the other hand Wikipedia can be beaten and I have done it for some searches.
Ban guns, gun crime skyrockes. Ban knives, knife crime escalates.
That actually never happened. Violent crime has been dropping in Britain.
What has happened is that there has been an increase in knife crime. This almost exactly matches the drop in gun crime resulting from the last crackdown,
Not everything is best looked up on the site. I use the man pages first, then the wiki for detail, or if it is not obvious what man page I should look at.
Slashdot Mirror
The instructions I have seen online make it look as though the Windows upgrades is a lot more work. I have not actually used Windows for years so I may be wrong.
I have yet to see Linux platform DELIVER ANYTHING the entire world wants to use, in an easy to manage, easy to interact with format. I tried installing redhat a few times back in the 90s and after banging my head a few times to actually get it working I thought to myself "Oh. Sweet. Free Civ and data management I DONT NEED."
The 90s? That is relevant how? It is about as useful as my telling you that Mandriva 2009 is much better than Windows 3.1. What is relevant is how current Linux versions compare to current Windows versions.
There is a lot of software for Linux, and obtainning and installing it is much easier and faster than for Windows.
I guess what Im really saying is, most Linux/open source advocates do it for the rebellion not because they have a better product to promote
Wrong. Most Linux users use it because they think it is better. Those who want to use open source have good motives to do so (avoiding lock in, auditable security). The biggest advantages of Linux are that it is easy, and that it is flexible. All your software is managed an upgraded using a single GUI interface, some distros can even do major version upgrade with a few mouse clicks - try upgrading from XP to Vista that way!
As for the flexibility you can get distros for geeks (Gentoo, Slack, Arch), normal users desktops (Ubuntu, Mandriva, SuSe), servers (Debian, Red Hat), old hardware (Puppy, Damn Small Linux).
What kind of retard thinks that one of the responsibilities of the president of the United States is to control the price of gasoline?
What kind of retard cannot recognise a joke?
Models that rely on volunteers and contributions may have problems (although there may be more talent around with free time on their hands), on the other hand projects that are profitable (directly or indirectly) should not be affected any more than proprietary software.
1) Red Hat does support entire OSS stacks. Other people do as well. You can also switch more easily if the support is not satisfactory. 2) MS will not fix every single bug you find as soon as possible - it could be a disaster for you and low priority for them.
It would also be just as useful as the content of the average Powerpoint presentation, except perhaps lacking in soporific qualities.
Although Mplayer etc. can play real audio, they make a pretty bad job of it: being prone to failing mid stream and unable to skip forwards or backwards - on the other hand mplayer can record realaudio which the official player cannot, and all the open source players work with pulseaudio.
It also says that scientific and technical publications prefer logical quotation because of its precision. Are you suggesting that Slashdot is in some way associated with precision?
Of course she, like most right wingers, was reluctant to apply it to immigration, but if you have (sort of) free markets in goods, services and capital, it is silly to try to avoid them in labour - after all the benefits are just as clear on the same logic.
SSH is unprofitable and therefore communist encryption that destroys the profits of companies that could otherwise sell SSL type certs for that as well.
You could just tunnel http over ssh, but there is no browser support for that so it is something each user has to set up for themselves, rather than a method that can be generally used.
Isn't that song out of copyright now? There are vocal and musical tracts which can be still copyrighted but isn't the Happy Birthday song long out of copyright?
No, still in copyright.
Remember just how long copyright lasts. Just because something was written in the 19th century do not assume it is out of copyright in the 21st.
I do not see any ethical problem here, as there would be with a company that was stealing GPLed code. Anyone contributing to a BSD licensed project is saying, quite clearly, that they are happy for people to develop proprietary forks.
What it comes down to is whether he prefers the job or involvement in the project.
It is probably "power users" who are returning these. Not people who just want their web browser to work and write letters with the word processor and little else.
Not geeks who would know what they want in terms of OSes.
People who know Windows, and MS Office well, but do not actually understand at an abstract level that can be re-applied to other OSes and apps. From people with a memorised sequence of muse clicks for hundreds of tasks, to people who write apps in VBA and Excel.
It could also pave the way to setting up an alternative standards body for file formats.
So, if Business - Jesus = Theft + Corruption, it follows that Business = Theft + Corruption + Jesus!
Both you and the GP are assuming that Business and Jesus can run together. In fact there are well fundamental incompatibilities between the output Business produces and the input expected by Jesus.
It is worth noting that other claimed incompatibilities are pure FUD.
The problem has been repeatedly highlighted by Jesus developers, and the project lead has recommended uninstalling business and similar proprietary apps. This has been unpopular with Business advocates and probably contributed to his legal difficulties.
The most reliable approach is to use only software meeting the standards set by the Christ Software Foundation. Some people have taken this approach, but they have had to be willing to accept limited access to some codecs.
Some people have managed to run Money while Jesus executes in a separate VM, but this is probably not a good idea. Jesus is really designed to run as a hypervisor.
if SMART is complaining about an immanent disk failure I'd *really* like to know.
An immanent disk? Computers really are getting everywhere.
Most alcoholic drinks contain some methanol - and the drinks that contain more give you worse hangovers.
It is actually quite likely that methanol evaporates out of ageing significantly faster than ethanol, so he may well be right, but the main changes come from interactions with the barrel, oxidation, etc.
Metering bandwidth raises a few questions about what should be transferred over the internet. If your paying per byte then all of those flash heavy advertisements are suddenly costing you money. you are then paying to be advertised to. who wants that?
It is part of the page you are seeing. If a site is to heavy stop using it. You could also block the heavy elements. If everyone does that advertisers will stop using them so we will have fewer flash ads, and more text ads. I do not see the problem?
What happens when your computer gets a virus and starts to send out gigabytes of email spam? Who's liable for that?
You are. I bet you would be much better motivated to keep your computer secure. The rest of us win.
How about when windows decides to update its self with that sexy new 500MB patch? Or when WoW releases a new patch and you have to pay for the 800MB-1.5GB patch for that game?
Big patches are not that frequent. The cost will be negligible. If it does become an issue users will push vendors to use differential patches, better compression etc.
Remember Comcast are charging usage over a cap of 250GB a month. Over 8Gb a day. You are not going to hit this web browsing and updating software. It is enough to download a complete set of Debian CDs (i.e. everything in their repos, which is a LOT) every two days and have enough left to spend hours every day browsing reasonably lightweight web sites.
This is going to affect video and little else. It might affect P2P more generally because it will be easy to save money by just leeching.
When people have to think, gee do I pay for the bandwidth for this massive patch to my OS/Email Client/Office Suite/Game/Misc App, then everyone looses. Too many people would make their systems not update, and leave themselves vulnerable to attacks if given that sort of choice
They will learn the hard way when some piece of malware uses a lot of their bandwidth.
Not only that, but time - St Augustine in particular. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evolution/#1 Evolution is more orthodox and traditional, and a better fit with Christian beliefs than "creationism". Have you noticed that the same people who advocate creationism have also abandoned a lot of other Christian ideas - such as the attitudes to power and wealth expressed by Jesus?
Free as in speech, because it is freedom to do what you want. Free speech lets you do what you want in what you way, free software lets you do what you want with software. The same meaning of the word free.
Is it an issue with particular versions of Ubuntu, that does not affect other versions or other distros? Is it a particular Flash version and browser combination? The GP says it occurs with FF but not with Seamonkey.
The other thing i cannot understand is why so many people you know were affected. Too many for it to be coincidence. Is there some common factor?
Why should information on all kinds of things be on one place? Surely part of what is so good about the web is that it can be decentralised?
The main point here is that Google tends to rank Wikipedia too high, so it has little to do with the factors that might make people go directly to Wikipedia. It is not difficult to find examples of Google ranking a Wikipedia stub, incomplete, or plain crap page above much better ones from elsewhere.
Of course I have an stake in this, as I would benefit if Google ranked Wikipedia a bit lower - there are a good many searches for which my site comes second after Wikipedia. On the other hand Wikipedia can be beaten and I have done it for some searches.
Ban guns, gun crime skyrockes. Ban knives, knife crime escalates.
That actually never happened. Violent crime has been dropping in Britain.
What has happened is that there has been an increase in knife crime. This almost exactly matches the drop in gun crime resulting from the last crackdown,
The documentation is also online at http://tcl.activestate.com/man/tcl8.5/ if you want it on the net.
Especially when the mock-up convinces the CEO that the work is half done.