If you use iTunes for play music, there are plenty of alternatives.
Not if you want to use the iTunes store, and know that it will seamlessly work with all the variations of iPods, and get the benefits of being in the mainstream.
What an odd thing to say - If you predefine your requirements for an alternative to iTunes as "must be iTunes" then you really arn't looking at alternatives are you!
This doesn't invalidate your whole post, but the GOG back catalogue works just as well for linux users. You do know those games aren't running native under Windows?
Dude, it has an SDcard for up to 32GB additional storage (+1 Android there), there are apps and/or modified firmware available to store apps on the SDcard. This is only a stock limitation, and the only reason it exists is the SDcard needs to be partitioned/formatted which would be non-transparent to the user.
This comes from a design flaw of UNIX - when you run a subprocess, you can pass in a list of arguments, but all you get back is an exit status and maybe a text stream.
This is not a design flaw. Seriously. Read up on how UNIX was designed.
For a painful example of this problem, make a wireless network connection with a Linux EeePC. All the GUI gives you is success or failure. Errors are hidden in a text window with incredibly confusing blither from about six programs used to set up the connection, several of which produce error messages in normal operation.
The default EeePC Linux install is bloody awful, but I see what you are getting at. The thing is *I* find the "confusing blither" extremely helpful - at the very least you have something you can google.
The Mac interface guidelines have some useful suggestions, but is as much about style as anything else.
Linux exists in a near-commodity space where the only difference between it and it's competitors is the license. Competition theory holds a pretty strong argument for causality right there.
Apache, postfix, etc do not compete with Linux - they exist in the same ecosystem.
The motivation of contributors may have been speculation on Urkki's part - but the license is the biggest difference between Linux and BSD, so it seems quite reasonable to say that the license is an important factor in Linux's comparative success.
The fact that RoR, sqlite, etc don't use the GPL is not really relevant given that they are not competing with BSD|Linux for developer|user mindshare.
Look, this is my problem with your anonymous trolling.
1) I specified a turbo 6 to begin with. At a similar budget and in a similar state of tune, they WILL always beat a V8. Bringing up a $100,000 GT car ignores this. My point was that technology is a more then adequate replacement for displacement.
2) Even a heavily modified Supra is much cheaper then the 'vette.
3) The video was just a random hit when searching for corvette VS. turbo. Corvettes are GT cars, not sports cars, they don't actually have a very impressive race pedigree, and are beaten all the god damn time around all sorts of different tracks.
HA! I guess it rather depends on who you are trying to impress.
My tastes run more along the lines of athletic cosmopolitan babes then trucker-cap wearing hill-billies, so the lack of a V8 exhaust note is probably not an issue.
Sure, but a V8 can't touch a straight six turbo in the "looks good and hauls ass" department.
we're witnessing an end of an era here
Not really. Don't get me wrong - I like classic muscle as much as the next guy - but that era ended a long time ago. Nothing to get sentimental about here.
My main point was really about homogeneous botnets, so the link bears that out.
As far as the 100% Windows bit goes - I'm happy to concede that this is not technically correct, if you'll allow that that 20,000 zombie Macs is not statistically relevant.
Why would anyone write an adblock extension that phones home to Google? Unless Google wrote the extension themselves (unlikely!) it is just not going to happen.
It is more testament to the damage that can be done by poorly trained users on any system, no matter how secure.
Windows is still somewhat responsible here, mainly because using Windows is what made these users so poorly trained in the first place. It engenders this user attitude that installing crappy toy applications downloaded from random websites a reasonable thing to do.
Ubuntu is not a toy - but it is a "desktop" distro, which means it does get in your way if you are used to managing a system the Unix way.
Which is fine - for a "desktop" user. But if you are actually interested in how the system works, you probably *will* want to move to Debian or Slackware eventually.
Onemorething. These cameras allow you to configure dual stream, so you can have one high quality and one low. This gives you more options with ZM, which can be configured to treat each stream differently.
Sure, used the Vivotek VT-IP7130 (indoor) and VT-IP7330 (outdoor with IR flood) cameras. They have a built in web interface for configuration of the video stream.
I set up a landing page on the Zoneminder webserver that authenticates the user, then allows them to access either the normal ZM interface or the web interface of any camera using mod-proxy.
The cameras can do a much higher video quality then the server was capable of handling simultaneously (no fancy server, just a white-box Core2 system) but you are able to tune the stream bandwith settings till they are acceptable. IIRC I had to drop the framerate down from 30 to 15 which allowed decent playback while capturing from all cameras.
All in all, setup was pretty smooth, if you just set up the cameras once and forget about the mod-proxy customisations the whole thing is practically plug and play.
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If you use iTunes for play music, there are plenty of alternatives.
Not if you want to use the iTunes store, and know that it will seamlessly work with all the variations of iPods, and get the benefits of being in the mainstream.
What an odd thing to say - If you predefine your requirements for an alternative to iTunes as "must be iTunes" then you really arn't looking at alternatives are you!
This doesn't invalidate your whole post, but the GOG back catalogue works just as well for linux users. You do know those games aren't running native under Windows?
...just sayin'
Dude, it has an SDcard for up to 32GB additional storage (+1 Android there), there are apps and/or modified firmware available to store apps on the SDcard. This is only a stock limitation, and the only reason it exists is the SDcard needs to be partitioned/formatted which would be non-transparent to the user.
Short answer: Not an issue.
This comes from a design flaw of UNIX - when you run a subprocess, you can pass in a list of arguments, but all you get back is an exit status and maybe a text stream.
This is not a design flaw. Seriously. Read up on how UNIX was designed.
For a painful example of this problem, make a wireless network connection with a Linux EeePC. All the GUI gives you is success or failure. Errors are hidden in a text window with incredibly confusing blither from about six programs used to set up the connection, several of which produce error messages in normal operation.
The default EeePC Linux install is bloody awful, but I see what you are getting at. The thing is *I* find the "confusing blither" extremely helpful - at the very least you have something you can google.
The Mac interface guidelines have some useful suggestions, but is as much about style as anything else.
If your business applications aren't platform agnostic by 2010 your IT dept have not been doing their job.
Hey, I'm just impressed you got slashdot to display those characters properly, show off!
Linux exists in a near-commodity space where the only difference between it and it's competitors is the license. Competition theory holds a pretty strong argument for causality right there.
Apache, postfix, etc do not compete with Linux - they exist in the same ecosystem.
The motivation of contributors may have been speculation on Urkki's part - but the license is the biggest difference between Linux and BSD, so it seems quite reasonable to say that the license is an important factor in Linux's comparative success.
The fact that RoR, sqlite, etc don't use the GPL is not really relevant given that they are not competing with BSD|Linux for developer|user mindshare.
Steve's "suck less" is a way to sell the newer model to folks who already have an iPhone.
I'd rather have the phone an army of Google engineers are using.
Look, this is my problem with your anonymous trolling. 1) I specified a turbo 6 to begin with. At a similar budget and in a similar state of tune, they WILL always beat a V8. Bringing up a $100,000 GT car ignores this. My point was that technology is a more then adequate replacement for displacement.
2) Even a heavily modified Supra is much cheaper then the 'vette.
3) The video was just a random hit when searching for corvette VS. turbo. Corvettes are GT cars, not sports cars, they don't actually have a very impressive race pedigree, and are beaten all the god damn time around all sorts of different tracks.
Yes.
But lets be honest here. Once there was this total hottie who slept with this guy because of his totally awesome car. But it never happened again.
OK, link swap (the corvette is the the one that looks like it is standing still)
You can't pwn somebody posting AC asshole.
No it doesn't, AC - unless you're talking about burnout competitions.
HA! I guess it rather depends on who you are trying to impress.
My tastes run more along the lines of athletic cosmopolitan babes then trucker-cap wearing hill-billies, so the lack of a V8 exhaust note is probably not an issue.
Yes, because a M3 and a 335i are in a roughly comparable state of tune aren't they?
Compare the M3 to a six-turbo that has a similar level of development (and price!) and you'll get a very different picture.
Sure, but a V8 can't touch a straight six turbo in the "looks good and hauls ass" department.
we're witnessing an end of an era here
Not really. Don't get me wrong - I like classic muscle as much as the next guy - but that era ended a long time ago. Nothing to get sentimental about here.
My main point was really about homogeneous botnets, so the link bears that out.
As far as the 100% Windows bit goes - I'm happy to concede that this is not technically correct, if you'll allow that that 20,000 zombie Macs is not statistically relevant.
Why would anyone write an adblock extension that phones home to Google? Unless Google wrote the extension themselves (unlikely!) it is just not going to happen.
I like this idea. If it could be extended to stories as well it would save even more redundancy. Just imagine...
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And the link takes you straight to the old discussion thread
It is more testament to the damage that can be done by poorly trained users on any system, no matter how secure.
Windows is still somewhat responsible here, mainly because using Windows is what made these users so poorly trained in the first place. It engenders this user attitude that installing crappy toy applications downloaded from random websites a reasonable thing to do.
I would be surprised if anything less then 100% of zombies run Windows.
Think about what would be involved in setting up and maintaining a heterogeneous botnet. Why even bother?
Ubuntu is not a toy - but it is a "desktop" distro, which means it does get in your way if you are used to managing a system the Unix way.
Which is fine - for a "desktop" user. But if you are actually interested in how the system works, you probably *will* want to move to Debian or Slackware eventually.
Onemorething. These cameras allow you to configure dual stream, so you can have one high quality and one low. This gives you more options with ZM, which can be configured to treat each stream differently.
Sure, used the Vivotek VT-IP7130 (indoor) and VT-IP7330 (outdoor with IR flood) cameras. They have a built in web interface for configuration of the video stream.
I set up a landing page on the Zoneminder webserver that authenticates the user, then allows them to access either the normal ZM interface or the web interface of any camera using mod-proxy.
The cameras can do a much higher video quality then the server was capable of handling simultaneously (no fancy server, just a white-box Core2 system) but you are able to tune the stream bandwith settings till they are acceptable. IIRC I had to drop the framerate down from 30 to 15 which allowed decent playback while capturing from all cameras.
All in all, setup was pretty smooth, if you just set up the cameras once and forget about the mod-proxy customisations the whole thing is practically plug and play.