The stats at www.w3schools.com are not representative of what most people are using, they represent what Web developers and other technically inclined people are using. Think about who visits www.w3schools.com.
Personally I only ever used w3schools when I was a web dev n00b, and I ran windows -- some time later, I got a clue, switched to linux, and started using the official specifications / RFCs instead.
many of the same people who were telling potential new users that all these things were easy on Linux suddenly switch and say that Linux users are locked out.
By "same people" do you mean "Slashdotter A" and "Slashdotter B"? If so, I should point out that just because they agree on some things doesn't mean that they are all one group with one unified set of opinions -- it's quite possible to have two groups of people~
Microsoft can't afford to wait another five years for an operating system.
As much as this might be true, I doubt that the writer actually did the math. A related question to anyone how knows anything about MSFT finances -- how long could they survive if their income suddenly dropped to zero?
Nethack is the only game you'll ever need -- it's been growing for years, and now contains more ways to die than I can think of off the top of my head:)
Note: for the purposes of this article, "WebOS" is defined as "a set of applications running in a web browser that together mimic, replace or largely supplement a desktop OS environment."
But the better they get at copying the Windows look and feel, the less reason there is to switch
People aren't switching for the GUI, they're switching for the price. The GUI is one of the reasons they stick with windows.
(Statements apply to the vast majority of non-technical people I know; the people who know what they're doing and *do* swap for the interface know how to set a non-default WM)
It's more use on servers -- where as typically you have several vastly overpowered servers* each doing one thing (so if the kernel crashes, or gets rooted, or a bit of hardware goes dead, only one service is affected); with VMs you can put all those installations onto one physical bit of hardware and make much better use of it. If one of the servers suddenly needs more CPU power, or the hardware needs changing for other reasons, you can migrate the installations to a different bit of hardware, thus having 100% uptime even when the hardware is being changed (migration is done in such a way that it's seamless to the human eye -- 30ms or so actual downtime, and things like network connections stay up).
* The last place I worked at used dual core, dual cpu, 2GHz boxes with 4GB of RAM as standard -- I never saw any of the boxes go above 10% CPU use:-/
[If I'm doing distribution with my own bandwidth, why should I pay for the film?]
Because hollywood has more costs than just distribution? Even if the distribution is zero cost, somebody still has to pay for the film to be produced in the first place, and that is what your money will go towards.
I feel like running some tests of my own, but all my music is from CDs -- even losslessly compressed, it's still only 16bit / 44khz to start with. Does anyone know where I can get some super-high quality source material from? (24bit, 96khz, flac; or something like that)
I wouldn't fault/. reader's intelligence (in this case), but the mpaa, for making news like this become an everyday thing that people accept as perfectly realistic without thinking twice...
it'll look to the WGA like you've installed it on multiple machines
If I install it on one VM, it'll look like I've installed it on one VM. Which defenition of "one" are you using where it becomes synonymous with "multiple"?
not only that, but some are indirectly connected to the net -- the only things between them and it being unfirewalled windows boxes, hence a flood of them getting hit by blaster. If one could have exploited that hole to get a rootkit instead of a reboot, a lot of ATMs could have been thoroughly owned:-/
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/me notes how slashdot cuts post titles short when you put a "Re:" in front, and giggles childishly
Java is *already* fragmented (AFAIK; Sun, MS, IBM, GNU, Apache, and a couple of others all have their own implementations; then there are java subset forks like sable and jikes) -- several of these were created precisely because java was proprietary. AFAICS, having it be truly open sourced should stop any more implementations being needed, and maybe it could get some of the existing open source versions to merge all their best bits into one~
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Just wait a few years until we're further down the alphabet, installing our rampant rabbits...
No FreeDB booster was ever able to sufficiently explain to me why, for example, Hotel California should be listed under New Age.
IIRC, it's because the database entries are plain text files named "[genre]/[CD checksum].txt" -- if two different CDs have the same checksum, then they have to be in different genres. Also, one can't update the genre of a CD once entered, you can only create a new entry somewhere else.
AFAIK, Autoconf's version number hasn't changed in at least two years.
Huzzah. We have quite enough versions alrady, each of them compatible enough to be given the same name, but incompatible enough to cause massive frustration. Stagnating (or, "Rotting in hell", if you will) is doing a great job of pushing people to other build systems:P
Compilation from source, so that we're actually *using* source code rather than just talking about it.
WTF does compiling do for the end user, apart from waste their time? Source code is only useful for developers -- The users only need the "open source" mark for it's guarantee of "should you ever want to become a developer, you can"; there's no reason to force them to sit through the compilation process before they can get that.
Whining about binary drivers on the one hand and using apt on the other is simply rank hypocrisy
You think "I want the source so I can make customised builds" and "I want binaries for easily installable vanilla builds" are mutually exclusive? WTF are you smoking?
With choice (hurrah!), comes choice (gah). Is there a comparison of linux CD burning tools anywhere? I see cdrecord, cdrkit, cdrdao, dvdrtools, dvdrecord, growisofs (which seems to have it's own integrated burning code, as opposed to mkisofs which needs cdrecord), and someone mentioned that with kernel 2.6 you can screw them all and just dd directly to/dvd/dvd. I've also been looking for UDF(?) so I can mount the DVD/RW just like any other media, and read / write to a regular filesystem, but from what I hear that doesn't work properly yet...
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Personally I only ever used w3schools when I was a web dev n00b, and I ran windows -- some time later, I got a clue, switched to linux, and started using the official specifications / RFCs instead.
By "same people" do you mean "Slashdotter A" and "Slashdotter B"? If so, I should point out that just because they agree on some things doesn't mean that they are all one group with one unified set of opinions -- it's quite possible to have two groups of people~
Yes, he said he needs windows XP for work :P
As much as this might be true, I doubt that the writer actually did the math. A related question to anyone how knows anything about MSFT finances -- how long could they survive if their income suddenly dropped to zero?
Umm, where did he state he had a use for Vista?
Nethack is the only game you'll ever need -- it's been growing for years, and now contains more ways to die than I can think of off the top of my head :)
Ummm, did you not read the summary?
People aren't switching for the GUI, they're switching for the price. The GUI is one of the reasons they stick with windows.
(Statements apply to the vast majority of non-technical people I know; the people who know what they're doing and *do* swap for the interface know how to set a non-default WM)
No, mcdonald's food is responsible for people being fat. This has been settled in court already :P
It's more use on servers -- where as typically you have several vastly overpowered servers* each doing one thing (so if the kernel crashes, or gets rooted, or a bit of hardware goes dead, only one service is affected); with VMs you can put all those installations onto one physical bit of hardware and make much better use of it. If one of the servers suddenly needs more CPU power, or the hardware needs changing for other reasons, you can migrate the installations to a different bit of hardware, thus having 100% uptime even when the hardware is being changed (migration is done in such a way that it's seamless to the human eye -- 30ms or so actual downtime, and things like network connections stay up).
* The last place I worked at used dual core, dual cpu, 2GHz boxes with 4GB of RAM as standard -- I never saw any of the boxes go above 10% CPU use :-/
The Plan 9 livecd boots in ~5 seconds in VMware...
I feel like running some tests of my own, but all my music is from CDs -- even losslessly compressed, it's still only 16bit / 44khz to start with. Does anyone know where I can get some super-high quality source material from? (24bit, 96khz, flac; or something like that)
I wouldn't fault /. reader's intelligence (in this case), but the mpaa, for making news like this become an everyday thing that people accept as perfectly realistic without thinking twice...
If I install it on one VM, it'll look like I've installed it on one VM. Which defenition of "one" are you using where it becomes synonymous with "multiple"?
not only that, but some are indirectly connected to the net -- the only things between them and it being unfirewalled windows boxes, hence a flood of them getting hit by blaster. If one could have exploited that hole to get a rootkit instead of a reboot, a lot of ATMs could have been thoroughly owned :-/
/me notes how slashdot cuts post titles short when you put a "Re:" in front, and giggles childishly
Java is *already* fragmented (AFAIK; Sun, MS, IBM, GNU, Apache, and a couple of others all have their own implementations; then there are java subset forks like sable and jikes) -- several of these were created precisely because java was proprietary. AFAICS, having it be truly open sourced should stop any more implementations being needed, and maybe it could get some of the existing open source versions to merge all their best bits into one~
Just wait a few years until we're further down the alphabet, installing our rampant rabbits...
You do a good enough job to get paid, and you consider it low end? What does that make image creation for websites and such?
IIRC, it's because the database entries are plain text files named "[genre]/[CD checksum].txt" -- if two different CDs have the same checksum, then they have to be in different genres. Also, one can't update the genre of a CD once entered, you can only create a new entry somewhere else.
I bet you won't be able to install Quake 3 just by sticking the CD in and clicking "next" a few times either 9_9
Huzzah. We have quite enough versions alrady, each of them compatible enough to be given the same name, but incompatible enough to cause massive frustration. Stagnating (or, "Rotting in hell", if you will) is doing a great job of pushing people to other build systems :P
WTF does compiling do for the end user, apart from waste their time? Source code is only useful for developers -- The users only need the "open source" mark for it's guarantee of "should you ever want to become a developer, you can"; there's no reason to force them to sit through the compilation process before they can get that.
You think "I want the source so I can make customised builds" and "I want binaries for easily installable vanilla builds" are mutually exclusive? WTF are you smoking?
With choice (hurrah!), comes choice (gah). Is there a comparison of linux CD burning tools anywhere? I see cdrecord, cdrkit, cdrdao, dvdrtools, dvdrecord, growisofs (which seems to have it's own integrated burning code, as opposed to mkisofs which needs cdrecord), and someone mentioned that with kernel 2.6 you can screw them all and just dd directly to /dvd/dvd. I've also been looking for UDF(?) so I can mount the DVD/RW just like any other media, and read / write to a regular filesystem, but from what I hear that doesn't work properly yet...
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