I am not sure that defaulting to Gnome is a good idea.
Yes, Gnome is easier to use for the completely naive users.
However, it makes Linux less appealing for Windows "power users". They are used to configuring things heavily, and doing quite a lot with their PCs - but they are used to doing this in the GUI. This makes KDE an easier transition for them.
As things stand the completely naive users are unlikely to try Linux anyway, unless they have someone to install and configure stuff for them, so it probably would be better to target the power users.
Yes, it is about choice, but I do think that KDE is a better default.
I did not way they necessarily did, only that it was possible given their motivations. It is hardly uncommon for someone from a big company to have a quiet word with the authorities when necessary, and the publicity was hugely damaging.
I find MS's support for the retailer very interesting. Did the PCs come with Windows pre-installed or not? If they did, then the reseller was pirating. If not, were the PCs sold with no OS or another OS? That is hardly common. The alternative is that there was an intermediary between the MS reseller and the school, who installed Windows, in which case why did no one go after them?
Exactly, I would prefer cheap moderate bandwidth (low end broadband, like I have now) to expensive very high bandwidth.
If there is not enough bandwidth for what everything everyone is trying to do, it is going to most badly affect things like video. The worst affected people will stop using video, bandwidth will be freed, and everything will be OK again.
This is being pushed by the telcos who want to tiered pricing, and people who think they can make money out of video (Google through Youtube). Whether consumers actually want to pay more to get enough bandwidth for lots of high quality video is another matter altogether.
This still means that a civil prosecution would be possible.
I have never heard of a criminal prosecution anywhere in the world for a GPL violation, have you? I do not think the authorities bother with criminal prosecutions on behalf of this commie open source stuff.
So the ruling makes it harder for proprietary software companies to sue, but makes no difference in enforcing open source licences.
Of course, MS is not likely to want to enforce its licences in Russia, any more than it does in most of Asia, so piracy is now OK. I would not be surprised if MS has been leaning on the Russian authorities to ensure that the teacher got off - which would explain why the serious charges were dropped by the prosecution. They can not openly say they are in favour of piracy, but the last thing they want is people switching to Linux to save money.
You also need to be a bit careful with some of Levitt's popular works is that they are written in an easy to read style, but the exact wording of the conclusions matters so some care needs to be taken. I have known people to misunderstand him before, for example many people take to lack of correlation between children being read to and learning to read to mean that there is no correlation between early teaching of reading and learning to read. I have lent my copy of Freakonomics to someone, so I cannot check what it says on the topic of TV and education.
The other problem with Freakonomics is that it does not (again unlike his academic publications) give details of the statistics and methodology. In this case we need to know what measurements are used, at what age, over what period TV viewing was measured etc.
As for computers, I think that they can have both negative and positive effect depending on how they are used, so I am not surprised that there is no correlation.
We do not have a TV, but my daughter does have a PC with software we feel to be beneficial.
The games in Gcompris worked really well for my daughter. For example, it helped her understand the idea of categorising things.
I was quite surprised at some of the things she understood - like the Gcompris water cycle game.
The list you link to is a bit short. I would add some version of Logo (we use Kturtle), and simple board games.There is a lot more I have not tried yet.
Once they can read and spell a bit, they can start using a web browser. My daughter recently did her first Google image searches.
On average, illegal immigrants kill 25 American citizens every day.
Thats 12 murders and 13 road accidents, even if we believe the numbers that produced out of thin air with no citations. I see no reason to believe it because a politician says so - in case you did not know, it is not unknown for politicians to distort numbers, and these could be distorted in a number of ways.
Given how good Americans are at killing each other both by murder and in road accidents., the illegal immigrants contribution is not huge.
US death rates for both causes are very high by developed country standards. The numbers for Britain are approx 300 murders and 3000 accident victims, which even on a per-capita basis are much lower. The problem that needs to be solved lies elsewhere.
My main site gets about 80% IE. However, there has been a significant drop over the last year (from over 90%) - rather to my surprise given the audience (UK oriented and a lot of people read it at work).
On the other hand, my blog gets about 55% IE. While not a techie blog, it does have pages on my Wordpress themes and plugins, and a fair amount of content that might appeal to a techie audience.
From a financial point of view, if this is revenue generating, and operational gearing means that losing 10% (its not going to be much less) of users, could mean losing a lot more in profits. Losing 20% or 30% of losers is likely to lose you a lot of your profits.
They were auditors, which requires no actual accounting ability. Hence, conversations like this, "You're net income is overstated, because you mis-stated depreciation expense for last quarter. Fix it.", "OK, how? What is the journal entry?", "I'm an auditor, not a bookkeeper... you figure it out..."
There is no way a competent auditor can not know how to do the accounts - you can not check what you do not understand. They are telling you that they have done their job, now you do yours.
This is because most people just dick with things randomly until they work. Then they walk away and don't think about it again until it stops working. This is the way most people use computers.
installing ATI drivers (for those of you out there who've done it know this) is an absolute pain in the ass on Ubuntu
The announcement says "new infrastructure will be implemented which allows the user to trivially enable both enhanced desktop effects and the necessary driver support"
So driver installation should come closer to being always very easy.
As far as I can see Joanna Rutkowska's original criticism was that you need to be admin to install software. How is this different from Linux or any other OS?
Mark Russinovich then revealed that a non-admin process could cause an admin process to run arbitrary code. That sounds like more of a real problem.
Besides, is oracle liable for your data loss when you lose your oracle instance? MS when you lose your IIS website?
I think the real point in those situations is "if it goes wrong I can put the blame on a big company the PHB has heard of, otherwise it will be my fault".
Not that unlikely because it is a net effect. The lost sales due to people downloading instead of buying gets almost offset by people buying because they have downloaded an mp3 but want decent quality or bought a copy because they heard it because someone else who had downloaded it playing it.
Surely most people who have something like that installed, will be those already working from home regularly.
In a crisis a lot of the extra people working form how will either have taken a work laptop home, or be doing the work on their own PCs (not ideal, but we are talking about a crisis situation).
Of course if you modified his statement to "lots of tiny denominations, mostly American based or influenced, that are in no way representative of Christianity in general", I would have no problem with that.
I can also tell you, with certainty, that many catholics believe the bible is without error, regardless of what the official policy of the higher ups in their organization may say.
Yes, with hundreds of millions of Catholics in the world, I am sure you can find "many" stupid ones.
I have been a Chatholic most of my life, and I have met very few who think that. You must only know particularly stupid or ignorant Catholics.
Anyway, now I have produced multiple sources. Can you or the GP produce any?
MS obviously do not agree with you. I live in a country where:
1) Hardly anyone ever pays for Windows or MS Office. 2) MS backed off enforcing its copyrights because a large (by standards here) corporate user threatened to switch to Linux if they did. 3) MS still spends money on advertising.
They obviously prefer people to use pirated MS products, than to risk them using anything else.
It's like East Indian workers can do no wrong and we can do no right. Well, excuse me, but I'll vote with my money. And if the other 300 million Americans did the same, there would be no booming East India or China economy.
And what would be the long term effects on the US? That sort of insular behaviour has never worked well for any country.
You globalists depend on America's money. Otherwise you wouldn't sell so much to us. At least show us some respect.
No chance. At least not any more respect than any other country.
I am sure American reps speak better English than Indians and they have their reasons too. They live in a society where they are forced to learn English as their first language. Indians are not. They learn it out of choice and speaking English is a personal decision
I am South Asian (by birth and current residence), and English is the only language I can speak fluently. It was my parents' first language and my grandparents' (all of them). It is what all my friends speak, both in this country and in other countries in the sub-continent.
It is the language of business and the language of international communication, and even between different regions of the same country. What language do you think an Indian from Tamil Nadu is most likely to share with one from Punjab? What language do you think a Sri Lankan (to pick another country that does a lot of outsourcing) company will publish its annual report in? There is not a lot of choice with regard to learning English if you want a decent job.
As for adoption the foreign accents, I wonder how those Americans who complain about Indian accents would cope with some British accents like Geordie? You are quite right, they should stop being so insular and learn to understand the rest of the world.
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I am not sure that defaulting to Gnome is a good idea.
Yes, Gnome is easier to use for the completely naive users.
However, it makes Linux less appealing for Windows "power users". They are used to configuring things heavily, and doing quite a lot with their PCs - but they are used to doing this in the GUI. This makes KDE an easier transition for them.
As things stand the completely naive users are unlikely to try Linux anyway, unless they have someone to install and configure stuff for them, so it probably would be better to target the power users.
Yes, it is about choice, but I do think that KDE is a better default.
I did not way they necessarily did, only that it was possible given their motivations. It is hardly uncommon for someone from a big company to have a quiet word with the authorities when necessary, and the publicity was hugely damaging.
I find MS's support for the retailer very interesting. Did the PCs come with Windows pre-installed or not? If they did, then the reseller was pirating. If not, were the PCs sold with no OS or another OS? That is hardly common. The alternative is that there was an intermediary between the MS reseller and the school, who installed Windows, in which case why did no one go after them?
Exactly, I would prefer cheap moderate bandwidth (low end broadband, like I have now) to expensive very high bandwidth.
If there is not enough bandwidth for what everything everyone is trying to do, it is going to most badly affect things like video. The worst affected people will stop using video, bandwidth will be freed, and everything will be OK again.
This is being pushed by the telcos who want to tiered pricing, and people who think they can make money out of video (Google through Youtube). Whether consumers actually want to pay more to get enough bandwidth for lots of high quality video is another matter altogether.
The judge ruled that there was no criminal case.
This still means that a civil prosecution would be possible.
I have never heard of a criminal prosecution anywhere in the world for a GPL violation, have you? I do not think the authorities bother with criminal prosecutions on behalf of this commie open source stuff.
So the ruling makes it harder for proprietary software companies to sue, but makes no difference in enforcing open source licences.
Of course, MS is not likely to want to enforce its licences in Russia, any more than it does in most of Asia, so piracy is now OK. I would not be surprised if MS has been leaning on the Russian authorities to ensure that the teacher got off - which would explain why the serious charges were dropped by the prosecution. They can not openly say they are in favour of piracy, but the last thing they want is people switching to Linux to save money.
Thats too much of a nuisance to be practical.
/usr/local most of the time, so this means:
/usr/local /usr/local
A ordinary user should not always have write permission to
1) Give yourself write permission to
2) Do the install
3) Remove the permission to
Other studies disagree.
You also need to be a bit careful with some of Levitt's popular works is that they are written in an easy to read style, but the exact wording of the conclusions matters so some care needs to be taken. I have known people to misunderstand him before, for example many people take to lack of correlation between children being read to and learning to read to mean that there is no correlation between early teaching of reading and learning to read. I have lent my copy of Freakonomics to someone, so I cannot check what it says on the topic of TV and education.
The other problem with Freakonomics is that it does not (again unlike his academic publications) give details of the statistics and methodology. In this case we need to know what measurements are used, at what age, over what period TV viewing was measured etc.
As for computers, I think that they can have both negative and positive effect depending on how they are used, so I am not surprised that there is no correlation.
We do not have a TV, but my daughter does have a PC with software we feel to be beneficial.
The games in Gcompris worked really well for my daughter. For example, it helped her understand the idea of categorising things.
I was quite surprised at some of the things she understood - like the Gcompris water cycle game.
The list you link to is a bit short. I would add some version of Logo (we use Kturtle), and simple board games.There is a lot more I have not tried yet.
Once they can read and spell a bit, they can start using a web browser. My daughter recently did her first Google image searches.
For older children there is a lot more.
Thats 12 murders and 13 road accidents, even if we believe the numbers that produced out of thin air with no citations. I see no reason to believe it because a politician says so - in case you did not know, it is not unknown for politicians to distort numbers, and these could be distorted in a number of ways.
Given how good Americans are at killing each other both by murder and in road accidents., the illegal immigrants contribution is not huge.
US death rates for both causes are very high by developed country standards. The numbers for Britain are approx 300 murders and 3000 accident victims, which even on a per-capita basis are much lower. The problem that needs to be solved lies elsewhere.
My experience is much the same.
My main site gets about 80% IE. However, there has been a significant drop over the last year (from over 90%) - rather to my surprise given the audience (UK oriented and a lot of people read it at work).
On the other hand, my blog gets about 55% IE. While not a techie blog, it does have pages on my Wordpress themes and plugins, and a fair amount of content that might appeal to a techie audience.
From a financial point of view, if this is revenue generating, and operational gearing means that losing 10% (its not going to be much less) of users, could mean losing a lot more in profits. Losing 20% or 30% of losers is likely to lose you a lot of your profits.
There is no way a competent auditor can not know how to do the accounts - you can not check what you do not understand. They are telling you that they have done their job, now you do yours.
You mean there is another way?
The announcement says "new infrastructure will be implemented which allows the user to trivially enable both enhanced desktop effects and the necessary driver support"
So driver installation should come closer to being always very easy.
Do you think the people have a clue what is going on.
The vast majority of people are likely to think as far as "I like free music", or "they need to be paid", and that is it.
IBM does not exist either. It is a front for Karl Marx, who now calls himself Richard Stallman - if you do not believe that, look at beard.
Of course Karl Marx himself is just a front for Pamela Jones.
As far as I can see Joanna Rutkowska's original criticism was that you need to be admin to install software. How is this different from Linux or any other OS?
Mark Russinovich then revealed that a non-admin process could cause an admin process to run arbitrary code. That sounds like more of a real problem.
I think the real point in those situations is "if it goes wrong I can put the blame on a big company the PHB has heard of, otherwise it will be my fault".
Not that unlikely because it is a net effect. The lost sales due to people downloading instead of buying gets almost offset by people buying because they have downloaded an mp3 but want decent quality or bought a copy because they heard it because someone else who had downloaded it playing it.
Surely most people who have something like that installed, will be those already working from home regularly.
In a crisis a lot of the extra people working form how will either have taken a work laptop home, or be doing the work on their own PCs (not ideal, but we are talking about a crisis situation).
One denomination, which just happens to be by far the largest. I provided far more evidence than him who offered no source at all.
Other major denominations (orthodox and Anglican for example) share a similar point of view to the Catholic Church. This church on England document on training clergy seems to take it for granted that there is a diversity of views on the authority of the bible (see page 9). The orthodx churches are more conservative but still far from taking a fundamentalist approach.
Of course if you modified his statement to "lots of tiny denominations, mostly American based or influenced, that are in no way representative of Christianity in general", I would have no problem with that.
I can also tell you, with certainty, that many catholics believe the bible is without error, regardless of what the official policy of the higher ups in their organization may say.
Yes, with hundreds of millions of Catholics in the world, I am sure you can find "many" stupid ones.
I have been a Chatholic most of my life, and I have met very few who think that. You must only know particularly stupid or ignorant Catholics.
Anyway, now I have produced multiple sources. Can you or the GP produce any?
A right to be identified as the creator of the original work?
MS obviously do not agree with you. I live in a country where:
1) Hardly anyone ever pays for Windows or MS Office.
2) MS backed off enforcing its copyrights because a large (by standards here) corporate user threatened to switch to Linux if they did.
3) MS still spends money on advertising.
They obviously prefer people to use pirated MS products, than to risk them using anything else.
The parent was modded up to +4 insightful and down to -1 flamebait.
I would bet the moderation largely depended on 1) the nationality of the moderator and 2) how threatened they felt by off-shoring.
So much for fair moderation!
Wrong.
Take a look at what the largest Christian denomination believes about the bible. Pages 17 and 18 of the linked document in particular.
And what would be the long term effects on the US? That sort of insular behaviour has never worked well for any country.
You globalists depend on America's money. Otherwise you wouldn't sell so much to us. At least show us some respect.
No chance. At least not any more respect than any other country.
I am South Asian (by birth and current residence), and English is the only language I can speak fluently. It was my parents' first language and my grandparents' (all of them). It is what all my friends speak, both in this country and in other countries in the sub-continent.
It is the language of business and the language of international communication, and even between different regions of the same country. What language do you think an Indian from Tamil Nadu is most likely to share with one from Punjab? What language do you think a Sri Lankan (to pick another country that does a lot of outsourcing) company will publish its annual report in? There is not a lot of choice with regard to learning English if you want a decent job.
As for adoption the foreign accents, I wonder how those Americans who complain about Indian accents would cope with some British accents like Geordie? You are quite right, they should stop being so insular and learn to understand the rest of the world.