They already had a bad time with hotmail now google as well?
Also it is always said that MS is rich but is it? It certainly doesn't seem to have like a super rich company. Super rich companies BUY things. MS rarely buys anything big.
Stock value don't mean shit. It is nice for loans but you can't easily turn it into cash.
It would be very intrestting to see some real analysis into MS money. Enron and Worldcom has money too remember? And no I am not saying MS is Enron but some said during the analysis that there were links.
If you are running Microsoft Windows XP, god help you, complete with Microsoft Office, to keep the virusses out you know, and are browsing online with IE? Then what the hell are they going to advertise? If I am on linux you better use some really hot nekkid ladies to tempt me over. (not that I would everyone knows windows babes carry virusses)
I started blocking ads for one simple reason. At the time I was using UPC as an ISP (crap dutch cable modem) and was constantly seeing annoying flashing banners advertising, wait for it, UPC. Wtf? Kinda like watching NBC in holland where they interrupted the Tonight Show to show ads for, tadaa, the Tonight Show. Oh well, must be an american thing.
I would vote democrat about the same time as I would vote KKK. Give me a break.
Look at the political field in europe and you will see that to us the democrats are extreme right wing. Anti-gay marriage being the most obvious at the moment.
The state has no business telling people how to life and a religion should only be allowed to advise its own followers on how to behave as long as it doesn't violate others rights. I can't quite see how banning people from saying "I choose this person as my partner for life" fits in with this.
Strangly enough isn't it the republican Arnold Schwarzenegger who is for equal rights?
No both democrats and republicans are bought and sold. Just look at the sock puppets for the RIAA/MPAAfia.
Also look at a recent story in france where a EU sock puppet is trying to pull the same stunt.
The only saving grace in europe is that we are so fucking huge and have so many parties. We got them all, nazi to communist. Hippies to bankers. 99% of the time they are fighting each other and doing absolutly nothing. This is goverment at its best. If something is worth doing by goverment it is worth 10 yrs of fighting. Good things are worth waiting for. Bad things need a lot of time to be wiped out.
TADAAA! Thanks to the help of another slashdotter that showed me the site, wget and showimg.
You can easily get all the scanned documents. Site is even very fast. Just go one dir up on the link and you will find a simple dir listing. Download, make sure you rememeber to tell wget not to travel up and read and be horrified.
As others have pointed out the journalist in question is not 100% reliable and I rather trust Groklaw. At least people there know law. If these documents are real it should be trivial to verify having been shown in a courtroom.
IF it is true then it just goes once again to show how fucking rotten the legal system is. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth eh? So will these be grounds for a new case? Wasn't Martha Stewart found guilty of lying to an officer instead of insider dealing? Can they get MS on withholding evidence? Perhaps even going after people who can be jailed? I personally don't believe for a second that this could be accidental (IF of course it is real)
Some posts seem to mention that attempting to create or abuse a monopoly is a felony. Doesn't this mean that MS is a criminal? So how exactly is it still allowed to do business as usual? Companies seem to want all the perks of being treated a real people but none of the bad stuff like oh say being punished for committing crimes.
Oh well at least we can snigger at all the microsoft apologist trying to wriggle out of this one. This must be one of their worst weeks. Embarrising papers, being fined and if you look at groklaw yet more hypocrasy by claiming that the EU has no right to tell it how to behave while MS itself is asking the EU to tell Lindows how to behave.
It is actually one of the harder to download distro's. Not impossible but they make it pretty clear they would like you to pay for it.
So will it be cheaper? Well depends on scale and on how much Novell wants this. Lets not forget that Windows does not exactly come at retail price when you buy it pre-installed. Companies like Dell and HP get GIGANTIC discounts. This has recently been discussed on/. so no need to repeat it.
So will Novel/Suse be able/willing to undersell windows? It might be close. I don't think they can afford to undercut what MS charges for XP Home OEM but it might just break even with XP Pro OEM.
Of course this is all just speculation.
HOWEVER unless HP is really just screwing around even if you pay the same YOU WILL NOT be paying for a MS windows license. You would be paying for a Novell/Suse License.
I think that if you want a clean system from an HP or Dell you might have a few more years to go. MS has in its contracts with these firms that they will not sell OSless machines. Why do you think Dell sells some machines with a freedos? Because anybody really would need that? No because they are not allowed to sell it without an OS and freedos is the closest they can get.
So you get half you wish. No money going to MS but the money is also not going to remain in your pocket. Then again this is about free as in freedom not about free as in keeping your money.
Not? I run a desktop on GNU/Linux/WM of the month for over two years now and I can do everything as well.
But that might not be the best selling angle.
Businesses want you to use your pc to work. Not to entertain youreselve. Odd I know but they got the money.
There are probably a lot of ways to sell linux and HP seems to take the angle, "all the apps your business needs and only the apps your business needs". Considering stuff like the RIAA not being able to run edonkey and such might actually be a HUGE selling point.
If you are old enough you may remember when PC's were new and suspicious. Real work was done on terminals hooked up to mainframes or at a minimum servers.
But slowly the idea started to emerge that not everyone needed the full power of a mainframe setup. Cheap simple extremely limited machines started to appear wich could do a few tasks but that was all they needed to do. These machines where DOS and later Windows machines.
Now linux is doing the same. Sure Linux does not have the same capacity yet as a windows machine but windows did not have the same capacity as a mainframe. The question is does it do what is required well enough?
There is a difference. Dos/Windows got in through the lowend single purpose workstation. Linux is going in at all angles. High end server, middle file/printer server, lowend single purpose workstation, specialized appliance (firewall).
MS is scared. HP selling linux as an option is not something MS wants to see.
Well actually mine is just empty as I use opera but the idea is the same.
Start pages are used by people who complain their internet is slow. Small office with a dozen or so people sharing a DSL all using start pages and complaining it is slow. DUH.
Don't they realize that every time they open a window with a start page, wich 99% of the time they don't want, they waste network resources? Sure with proper caching and proxy it wouldn't matter to much but that is of course never the case.
Start page? Never used it as soon as I learned how to disable it years ago in netscape days.
MONEY and lots of it. Bandwidth and Servers don't come cheap. nothing kills a new site faster then that first bill for bandwidth or findout that a Celeron with 128MB and an IDE disk worked fine when the sites was being developed but now that is popular it seems to smoke.
Bandwidth is the real killer. With most products the more you sell the cheaper it becomes. Websites are the reverse. A small site can be run for free. A medium site will cost you. A big site will need some serious income to keep running.
Also add that bandwidth costs usually come AFTERWARDS and you can set yourselve up for a nasty suprise. Just be ready.
Server is another thing. You will be suprised how BAD websites scale in real life. That nice site that is so fast with a dozen visitors blows up when you get thousands because somebody posted a link to it on a popular site. Something called a dashslot effect or something.
Now server is a bit easier. A good second hand server ain't expensive at all and should if properly setup (PHP needs a phpcache) be capable of working for you until you get big. Just don't run it of an old PC.
Last but most killing for new website admins is burnout. You are going to have to deal with the worst kind of people in the entire history of mankind. Users. I bet the mother Teressa when she was online had a vocabulary that would make the devil blush. Users demand everything for nothing yesterday. I seen plenty of bright eyed hopefull people get totally depressed at having to deal with thousands of emails complaining about everything and nothing. Do not underestimate this. It is quit different from working as a paid punchbag and doing it as a hobby.
Oh and don't forget one thing, you are not going to reinvent the net. If everybody does something in way X, there may be a reason for it. Are you really building something new or just making "dashperiod stories for dorks, matters you can stuff"?
Switch of that toolbar with back buttons and print out the sheet with mouse gestures. Try it for a day of webbrowsing. Then just see if you are also starting to use mouse gestures in other apps. (important really try to do all the gestures and not "skip" to alt-f4 and such)
Personally I did it because I didn't like how much space the icon toolbar was taking. My use of opera also opens most pages in other windows.
So for instance to reply to you I rightclicked the link and moved the mouse down a bit opening this reply window in a new tab. Why? Well I am finished with this reply I will hold the right mouse button down and do a down and to the right movement, other move is also available, and close it and be instantly back where I was reading. I notice that this seems faster as some pages seem to insist on reloading if you do back. Also my move is one close and not two backs.
I am not saying it is for anyone but once I was determined to use it I was amazed how easy it was to pick up and get totally used to it. Of course it means that when I am on a IE box I am totally out of my depth.
Am I working faster or better with mouse gestures? It certainly seems more relaxed to me. Will I like voice commands? Well I got music on constantly in the background so perhaps not unless they got that sorted out.
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Most the security breaches are the fault of bad installs. Basically the admins left a hole and someone made use of it. At worst it is an application like the ftp server that should have been patched or wasn't.
At least as far as I been aware it never been a a OS that was at fault.
nitpicking? Well yes. But just ask yourselve this. Gnome runs Red Hat. If there was a hole in Red Hat then why is only gnome under attack and not every Red Hat box in the world? Are linux hackers more easily satisfied and think 1 box is enough?
So what do you think has happened here. Someone found a fault with Red hat or did someone find a fault with the Gnome setup of their Red Hat server?
Only fools blaim MS for users who download a "keygen" that turns out to be a virus. However we do blaim MS for making holes in their software that affects every damn installation of windows out there.
That is the difference.
As for your howto suggestion. They exist. They just are a lot of work and most people don't bother. Hell if you follow such howto's then Windows can be made secure (rule 1 Windows is not an internet OS, run it behind a firewall that means not a firewall ON windows but windows BEHIND a firewall). I follow them. My windows/dos box has never been compromised. Neither has my linux box.
Then again neither of my machines is supposed to do what gnomes machines are supposed to do. It is easy to secure to the outside world when nobody is supposed to access it. Fort Knox is secure because nobody is allowed in there. The highstreet bank is a lot harder to secure.
It would be nice if the two could co-exist besides each other. Perhaps even overlap.
Unfortunally their are three camps at least. The CLI people who could care less about ease of use. If it was hard to write it should be hard to use:P . In reality they care very much about ease of use it is just that say a text configuration file where all the options are in one easily edited place is easy in their eyes. I agree with them by the way.
The second group is filled by Lindows and Xandros. They say fine you find it easy we think a gui is better so they build one. Or pay others to build it for them. This is fine and good and works.
The third group is the/. "I would run linux if only it used C: D: file structure, was case-insensitive, allows me to run any app anytime, install software with 1 click, in fact if it was windows but free". They want all of all linux to becomes "easy" and reading manuals is a waste of time. You can regonize them. They never admit THEY find it to complex. It is always their aunt. Their aunt who worked with REAL unix command line apps all her life to do simple things like typing letters. You know the 50yr old lady who knows VI.
Funniest experience was when I was working on some friday 5 o'clock site launch and the clients (small firm with everyone they knew invited, it was the boom time) where standing behind me watching me work on the server via the command line. The general question what I was working on and did their server run on dos perhaps? The mother of the boss said, "Well it looks a bit like vi except for that status bar". To her I was the gui freak for needing that status bar to remember wich state I was in.
Anyway the whole problem is that we all want something different from our OS but some of us want others to fix our problem. Not the way opensource works. Your itch, you scratch it. Want me to scratch your itch that I don't have? Pay me.
For this it is good that Sun/IBM/HP take an intrest. They can PAY people to make the Linux for the "make it easy" crowd. Unfortuanlly as this article shows the "make it easy" crowd is hard to please.
I don't know wich MPEG you are thinking about but the old fashioned one, you know the one we had before all that RM and later DivX crap was MPEG and it plays everywhere kinda like mp3 (You would even say they are related). Only problem is that it is big, some might even say gigantic, in filesize for relativly low quality.
But there are players out for almost any platform and most desktop setups would include a player for it.
But really the only truly good way to do it is to encode in multiple formats and let the customer choose. This is sun. It is not like they don't have the hardware to run multiple encodes or don't have enough diskspace etc.
Half Life 2 doesn't have to BE 40x better then a 1 million dollar game. It got to SELL 40x better.
Big difference. After all "better game" is a highly subjective term. Better sales isn't. If everyone thinks HL2 is the best game in history but they don't buy it, look at all Looking Glass games, then valve is in the shitter. If on the other hand everyone considers it a mediocre game, think movie tie-ins, but everyone buys it then they are pleased as punch.
100 to a rich man is not the same as 100 to a poor man. Even jesus got that one.
If I make 1000 dollars a month and I am fined 500 then that is half my income gone. If I make a 10000 a month and you fine me 500 then am I suffering the same?
Too old to have to pass a test anyway. 900 hundred planets? Good kids these days are to lazy anyway.
But yes purely excluding on size seems stupid. What he says makes a lot of sense. So what if it upsets some people who like a nice clean solar system. Simply saying But one thing I miss is what seperates moons from planets. Is the moon also a planet? Or did he forget to include that a planet has to orbit a star directly? (the moon orbits the sun indirectly).
True enough but this is a traffic ticket to Bill Gates. Not a traffic ticket to you and me. It always struck me as fundamentally unfair that traffic tickets are fixed and not based on income. Simply put 100 dollars is not the same to everyone. 500 million is petty cash to MS.
A fine should at least make it unprofitable for me to commit the crime again. If I stole 1 million and was fined 1000 then that is not exactly going to stop me is it? So how much did MS make by violating the law? More then 500 million? Then they ain't gonna stop.
I can still find plenty of links to the Star Trek adventure game "Secret of Vulcan Fury" to pine over. If you think Sam & Max 2 looks great google for the ST game and remember that it was supposed to come out years ago.
It is not even as if the two previous Star Trek adventures did bad. They were moderate commercial successes. Sure nothing amazing in sales but in the game industry doing two games who turn a nice profit is amazing enough. Especially when you consider how much success Interplay has had since with Star Trek titles or other games.
Oh well. What was that other sleeper adventure serious that made a profit? Broken sword? Oh yeah look at number 3. Lara croft wannabe.
Longest Journey? Again a small success. Sequel rumorerd to take a more action adventure approach. While we all know Tomb Raider is death adventure game makes seem determined to follow it.
Adventure gaming however ain't dead. Best adventure I played in a long time has been "Space Quest 0". No 3D, no action, just fun and puzzles and pure old fashioned gaming goodness.
Problem is that companies seem to want their games to appeal to all people all the time. This never works. Name me one game genre that everyone likes. Instead of focusing on a small section of the market and totally owning that section they instead aim wide and miss completly.
but people who are paralyzed usually are from the head down. It is damage to the spine and last time I check your eyes are not attached to your spine.
These people can in fact move their eyes. That is how current systems work, by tracking the movement off the eyes they can manipulate a pointer over a keyboard.
Also this is just one way of doing it. I seen earlier experiments that worked simply by making the user think of two widely different things. Using that as calibration and then controlling something by thinking of those two things.
So in fact what you suggest was what they used in one experiment and it worked, tv presentator was capable of doing it with only a few minutes of training.
Flashing lights is just easier to make a working model I guess but in practice this could work for anyone with a working brain and who is capable of receiving input sufficient to learn about this.
Disclaimer I am a linux loving desktop hippy who plays games ONLY on windows 2003.
"The Internet is powered by open source."
True enough except not really certain parts of it certainly are. TCP/IP bind apache etc are all opensource. Telecom infrastructure sure as hell isn't. Neither is the hardware that powers all the opensource. At best it is 50/50.
"The Internet is the carrier for open source."
True enough. Opensource can usually be downloaded legally wich is a bit less usual for propietary code.
"The Internet is also the platform through which open source is developed."
And how do all those outsourcing project work? Over the internet. It is more like opensource is possible because of the internet. Opensource is big because of the internet not the other way around.
"It's simply going to be more secure than proprietary software."
Well sure. As soon as someone gets all the bugs out of openssl. It is not the biggest piece of software in the world and still holes are found. Sure they are plugged as soon as possible but they are still there. Opensource is only secure at the moment because nobody has found a gigantic hole yet. We may not be so lucky in the future.
"Open source benefits from anti-American sentiments."
Oh boy. What a nice way to ruin an article. Exactly what is meant by it anyway? I know plenty of "anti-american" kiddies. They just go with the flow but I don't see them using linux. They spout of against america because it is cool but it is just words. None of them practice it. Would be hard to do as none of them got a clue.
There is a far more real anti-"what america has become" feeling. How exactly this applies to the choice of software would be hard to say. I think at best you can say it is powered by an anti-coorperation feeling but this would not exactly explain why big business is adopting linux.
This argument is too big to be included in a short list.
"Incentives around open source include the respect of one's peers."
Incentives around closed source include million dollar salaries. I think this is a tie.
"Open source means standing on the shoulders of giants."
Linux stands on the shoulders of unix. Since when has unix been opensource? Sentence is incomplete. Opensource stands on the shoulders of giants who may have nothing to do with source at all or who developed some closed source but allowed others to use it and work with it and it is sharing a place on those shoulders with closed source.
Nice speech but meaningless.
"Servers have always been expensive and proprietary, but Linux runs on Intel."
So does windows. In fact it runs only on Intel and AMD but linux runs on the most expensive hardware out there. Intel isn't proprietary? WAHAAA. Intel isn't expensive? Depends, get some real hardware from intel and you will be paying big money. Not as big as "real" servers but you get what you pay for. Itanium? Better have a 19inch fridge ready to cool it.
"Embedded devices are making greater use of open source."
True. Same as tron. Tron is also capable of running on the desktop. Have you even seen it live? So my washing machine etc will run on linux but I control it via windows? Nice win, not. Only if all linux powered embedded devices are also compatible with linux on the outside it will mean very little.
"There are an increasing number of companies developing software that aren't software companies."
Ehm, right. What was AT&T again? Or Xerox? Software companies? Don't think so. Hell software being developed by software companies is a relativly new idea.
"Companies are increasingly supporting Linux."
Yup but that is not a reasing why it will win. It is a symptom of the fact that it is winning. Cause and effect I am afraid.
"It's free."
Yes nice. Free as in money or free as in freedom. People care about money. Far less about freedom. Opensource costs money. Same as closed source. You need to pay someone to maintain your setup. To install and modify.
I know he was trying to limit words but this sentence should be more specific.
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Also it is always said that MS is rich but is it? It certainly doesn't seem to have like a super rich company. Super rich companies BUY things. MS rarely buys anything big.
Stock value don't mean shit. It is nice for loans but you can't easily turn it into cash.
It would be very intrestting to see some real analysis into MS money. Enron and Worldcom has money too remember? And no I am not saying MS is Enron but some said during the analysis that there were links.
I started blocking ads for one simple reason. At the time I was using UPC as an ISP (crap dutch cable modem) and was constantly seeing annoying flashing banners advertising, wait for it, UPC. Wtf? Kinda like watching NBC in holland where they interrupted the Tonight Show to show ads for, tadaa, the Tonight Show. Oh well, must be an american thing.
Smarter people have speculated on this but it would make a lot of sense to see "Novell/GNU/Linux/Window Manager" come out of this.
Look at the political field in europe and you will see that to us the democrats are extreme right wing. Anti-gay marriage being the most obvious at the moment.
The state has no business telling people how to life and a religion should only be allowed to advise its own followers on how to behave as long as it doesn't violate others rights. I can't quite see how banning people from saying "I choose this person as my partner for life" fits in with this.
Strangly enough isn't it the republican Arnold Schwarzenegger who is for equal rights?
No both democrats and republicans are bought and sold. Just look at the sock puppets for the RIAA/MPAAfia.
Also look at a recent story in france where a EU sock puppet is trying to pull the same stunt.
The only saving grace in europe is that we are so fucking huge and have so many parties. We got them all, nazi to communist. Hippies to bankers. 99% of the time they are fighting each other and doing absolutly nothing. This is goverment at its best. If something is worth doing by goverment it is worth 10 yrs of fighting. Good things are worth waiting for. Bad things need a lot of time to be wiped out.
You can easily get all the scanned documents. Site is even very fast. Just go one dir up on the link and you will find a simple dir listing. Download, make sure you rememeber to tell wget not to travel up and read and be horrified.
Reading all the image files it just makes it totally clear that the US was bought and sold in the original trial.
People who voted for Murray, a sock puppet for washington state, should feel so proud.
IF it is true then it just goes once again to show how fucking rotten the legal system is. Tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth eh? So will these be grounds for a new case? Wasn't Martha Stewart found guilty of lying to an officer instead of insider dealing? Can they get MS on withholding evidence? Perhaps even going after people who can be jailed? I personally don't believe for a second that this could be accidental (IF of course it is real)
Some posts seem to mention that attempting to create or abuse a monopoly is a felony. Doesn't this mean that MS is a criminal? So how exactly is it still allowed to do business as usual? Companies seem to want all the perks of being treated a real people but none of the bad stuff like oh say being punished for committing crimes.
Oh well at least we can snigger at all the microsoft apologist trying to wriggle out of this one. This must be one of their worst weeks. Embarrising papers, being fined and if you look at groklaw yet more hypocrasy by claiming that the EU has no right to tell it how to behave while MS itself is asking the EU to tell Lindows how to behave.
I almost pity the MS fans. Almost.
So will it be cheaper? Well depends on scale and on how much Novell wants this. Lets not forget that Windows does not exactly come at retail price when you buy it pre-installed. Companies like Dell and HP get GIGANTIC discounts. This has recently been discussed on /. so no need to repeat it.
So will Novel/Suse be able/willing to undersell windows? It might be close. I don't think they can afford to undercut what MS charges for XP Home OEM but it might just break even with XP Pro OEM.
Of course this is all just speculation.
HOWEVER unless HP is really just screwing around even if you pay the same YOU WILL NOT be paying for a MS windows license. You would be paying for a Novell/Suse License.
I think that if you want a clean system from an HP or Dell you might have a few more years to go. MS has in its contracts with these firms that they will not sell OSless machines. Why do you think Dell sells some machines with a freedos? Because anybody really would need that? No because they are not allowed to sell it without an OS and freedos is the closest they can get.
So you get half you wish. No money going to MS but the money is also not going to remain in your pocket. Then again this is about free as in freedom not about free as in keeping your money.
But that might not be the best selling angle.
Businesses want you to use your pc to work. Not to entertain youreselve. Odd I know but they got the money.
There are probably a lot of ways to sell linux and HP seems to take the angle, "all the apps your business needs and only the apps your business needs". Considering stuff like the RIAA not being able to run edonkey and such might actually be a HUGE selling point.
But slowly the idea started to emerge that not everyone needed the full power of a mainframe setup. Cheap simple extremely limited machines started to appear wich could do a few tasks but that was all they needed to do. These machines where DOS and later Windows machines.
Now linux is doing the same. Sure Linux does not have the same capacity yet as a windows machine but windows did not have the same capacity as a mainframe. The question is does it do what is required well enough?
There is a difference. Dos/Windows got in through the lowend single purpose workstation. Linux is going in at all angles. High end server, middle file/printer server, lowend single purpose workstation, specialized appliance (firewall).
MS is scared. HP selling linux as an option is not something MS wants to see.
Start pages are used by people who complain their internet is slow. Small office with a dozen or so people sharing a DSL all using start pages and complaining it is slow. DUH.
Don't they realize that every time they open a window with a start page, wich 99% of the time they don't want, they waste network resources? Sure with proper caching and proxy it wouldn't matter to much but that is of course never the case.
Start page? Never used it as soon as I learned how to disable it years ago in netscape days.
Bandwidth is the real killer. With most products the more you sell the cheaper it becomes. Websites are the reverse. A small site can be run for free. A medium site will cost you. A big site will need some serious income to keep running.
Also add that bandwidth costs usually come AFTERWARDS and you can set yourselve up for a nasty suprise. Just be ready.
Server is another thing. You will be suprised how BAD websites scale in real life. That nice site that is so fast with a dozen visitors blows up when you get thousands because somebody posted a link to it on a popular site. Something called a dashslot effect or something.
Now server is a bit easier. A good second hand server ain't expensive at all and should if properly setup (PHP needs a phpcache) be capable of working for you until you get big. Just don't run it of an old PC.
Last but most killing for new website admins is burnout. You are going to have to deal with the worst kind of people in the entire history of mankind. Users. I bet the mother Teressa when she was online had a vocabulary that would make the devil blush. Users demand everything for nothing yesterday. I seen plenty of bright eyed hopefull people get totally depressed at having to deal with thousands of emails complaining about everything and nothing. Do not underestimate this. It is quit different from working as a paid punchbag and doing it as a hobby.
Oh and don't forget one thing, you are not going to reinvent the net. If everybody does something in way X, there may be a reason for it. Are you really building something new or just making "dashperiod stories for dorks, matters you can stuff"?
Personally I did it because I didn't like how much space the icon toolbar was taking. My use of opera also opens most pages in other windows.
So for instance to reply to you I rightclicked the link and moved the mouse down a bit opening this reply window in a new tab. Why? Well I am finished with this reply I will hold the right mouse button down and do a down and to the right movement, other move is also available, and close it and be instantly back where I was reading. I notice that this seems faster as some pages seem to insist on reloading if you do back. Also my move is one close and not two backs.
I am not saying it is for anyone but once I was determined to use it I was amazed how easy it was to pick up and get totally used to it. Of course it means that when I am on a IE box I am totally out of my depth.
Am I working faster or better with mouse gestures? It certainly seems more relaxed to me. Will I like voice commands? Well I got music on constantly in the background so perhaps not unless they got that sorted out.
At least as far as I been aware it never been a a OS that was at fault.
nitpicking? Well yes. But just ask yourselve this. Gnome runs Red Hat. If there was a hole in Red Hat then why is only gnome under attack and not every Red Hat box in the world? Are linux hackers more easily satisfied and think 1 box is enough?
So what do you think has happened here. Someone found a fault with Red hat or did someone find a fault with the Gnome setup of their Red Hat server?
Only fools blaim MS for users who download a "keygen" that turns out to be a virus. However we do blaim MS for making holes in their software that affects every damn installation of windows out there.
That is the difference.
As for your howto suggestion. They exist. They just are a lot of work and most people don't bother. Hell if you follow such howto's then Windows can be made secure (rule 1 Windows is not an internet OS, run it behind a firewall that means not a firewall ON windows but windows BEHIND a firewall). I follow them. My windows/dos box has never been compromised. Neither has my linux box.
Then again neither of my machines is supposed to do what gnomes machines are supposed to do. It is easy to secure to the outside world when nobody is supposed to access it. Fort Knox is secure because nobody is allowed in there. The highstreet bank is a lot harder to secure.
Unfortunally their are three camps at least. The CLI people who could care less about ease of use. If it was hard to write it should be hard to use :P . In reality they care very much about ease of use it is just that say a text configuration file where all the options are in one easily edited place is easy in their eyes. I agree with them by the way.
The second group is filled by Lindows and Xandros. They say fine you find it easy we think a gui is better so they build one. Or pay others to build it for them. This is fine and good and works.
The third group is the /. "I would run linux if only it used C: D: file structure, was case-insensitive, allows me to run any app anytime, install software with 1 click, in fact if it was windows but free". They want all of all linux to becomes "easy" and reading manuals is a waste of time. You can regonize them. They never admit THEY find it to complex. It is always their aunt. Their aunt who worked with REAL unix command line apps all her life to do simple things like typing letters. You know the 50yr old lady who knows VI.
Funniest experience was when I was working on some friday 5 o'clock site launch and the clients (small firm with everyone they knew invited, it was the boom time) where standing behind me watching me work on the server via the command line. The general question what I was working on and did their server run on dos perhaps? The mother of the boss said, "Well it looks a bit like vi except for that status bar". To her I was the gui freak for needing that status bar to remember wich state I was in.
Anyway the whole problem is that we all want something different from our OS but some of us want others to fix our problem. Not the way opensource works. Your itch, you scratch it. Want me to scratch your itch that I don't have? Pay me.
For this it is good that Sun/IBM/HP take an intrest. They can PAY people to make the Linux for the "make it easy" crowd. Unfortuanlly as this article shows the "make it easy" crowd is hard to please.
But there are players out for almost any platform and most desktop setups would include a player for it.
But really the only truly good way to do it is to encode in multiple formats and let the customer choose. This is sun. It is not like they don't have the hardware to run multiple encodes or don't have enough diskspace etc.
Big difference. After all "better game" is a highly subjective term. Better sales isn't. If everyone thinks HL2 is the best game in history but they don't buy it, look at all Looking Glass games, then valve is in the shitter. If on the other hand everyone considers it a mediocre game, think movie tie-ins, but everyone buys it then they are pleased as punch.
You know. It must be really cold in the sewers. Nudge nudge wink wink.
If I make 1000 dollars a month and I am fined 500 then that is half my income gone. If I make a 10000 a month and you fine me 500 then am I suffering the same?
But yes purely excluding on size seems stupid. What he says makes a lot of sense. So what if it upsets some people who like a nice clean solar system. Simply saying But one thing I miss is what seperates moons from planets. Is the moon also a planet? Or did he forget to include that a planet has to orbit a star directly? (the moon orbits the sun indirectly).
A fine should at least make it unprofitable for me to commit the crime again. If I stole 1 million and was fined 1000 then that is not exactly going to stop me is it? So how much did MS make by violating the law? More then 500 million? Then they ain't gonna stop.
It is not even as if the two previous Star Trek adventures did bad. They were moderate commercial successes. Sure nothing amazing in sales but in the game industry doing two games who turn a nice profit is amazing enough. Especially when you consider how much success Interplay has had since with Star Trek titles or other games.
Oh well. What was that other sleeper adventure serious that made a profit? Broken sword? Oh yeah look at number 3. Lara croft wannabe.
Longest Journey? Again a small success. Sequel rumorerd to take a more action adventure approach. While we all know Tomb Raider is death adventure game makes seem determined to follow it.
Adventure gaming however ain't dead. Best adventure I played in a long time has been "Space Quest 0". No 3D, no action, just fun and puzzles and pure old fashioned gaming goodness.
Problem is that companies seem to want their games to appeal to all people all the time. This never works. Name me one game genre that everyone likes. Instead of focusing on a small section of the market and totally owning that section they instead aim wide and miss completly.
Sigh.
These people can in fact move their eyes. That is how current systems work, by tracking the movement off the eyes they can manipulate a pointer over a keyboard.
Also this is just one way of doing it. I seen earlier experiments that worked simply by making the user think of two widely different things. Using that as calibration and then controlling something by thinking of those two things.
So in fact what you suggest was what they used in one experiment and it worked, tv presentator was capable of doing it with only a few minutes of training.
Flashing lights is just easier to make a working model I guess but in practice this could work for anyone with a working brain and who is capable of receiving input sufficient to learn about this.
Pretty amazing stuff really.
Bike games.
Disclaimer I am a linux loving desktop hippy who plays games ONLY on windows 2003.
True enough except not really certain parts of it certainly are. TCP/IP bind apache etc are all opensource. Telecom infrastructure sure as hell isn't. Neither is the hardware that powers all the opensource. At best it is 50/50.
True enough. Opensource can usually be downloaded legally wich is a bit less usual for propietary code.
And how do all those outsourcing project work? Over the internet. It is more like opensource is possible because of the internet. Opensource is big because of the internet not the other way around.
Well sure. As soon as someone gets all the bugs out of openssl. It is not the biggest piece of software in the world and still holes are found. Sure they are plugged as soon as possible but they are still there. Opensource is only secure at the moment because nobody has found a gigantic hole yet. We may not be so lucky in the future.
Oh boy. What a nice way to ruin an article. Exactly what is meant by it anyway? I know plenty of "anti-american" kiddies. They just go with the flow but I don't see them using linux. They spout of against america because it is cool but it is just words. None of them practice it. Would be hard to do as none of them got a clue.
There is a far more real anti-"what america has become" feeling. How exactly this applies to the choice of software would be hard to say. I think at best you can say it is powered by an anti-coorperation feeling but this would not exactly explain why big business is adopting linux.
This argument is too big to be included in a short list.
Incentives around closed source include million dollar salaries. I think this is a tie.
Linux stands on the shoulders of unix. Since when has unix been opensource? Sentence is incomplete. Opensource stands on the shoulders of giants who may have nothing to do with source at all or who developed some closed source but allowed others to use it and work with it and it is sharing a place on those shoulders with closed source.
Nice speech but meaningless.
So does windows. In fact it runs only on Intel and AMD but linux runs on the most expensive hardware out there. Intel isn't proprietary? WAHAAA. Intel isn't expensive? Depends, get some real hardware from intel and you will be paying big money. Not as big as "real" servers but you get what you pay for. Itanium? Better have a 19inch fridge ready to cool it.
True. Same as tron. Tron is also capable of running on the desktop. Have you even seen it live? So my washing machine etc will run on linux but I control it via windows? Nice win, not. Only if all linux powered embedded devices are also compatible with linux on the outside it will mean very little.
Ehm, right. What was AT&T again? Or Xerox? Software companies? Don't think so. Hell software being developed by software companies is a relativly new idea.
Yup but that is not a reasing why it will win. It is a symptom of the fact that it is winning. Cause and effect I am afraid.
Yes nice. Free as in money or free as in freedom. People care about money. Far less about freedom. Opensource costs money. Same as closed source. You need to pay someone to maintain your setup. To install and modify.
I know he was trying to limit words but this sentence should be more specific.
"Opensource allows freedom."
CONCLUSION:
Meaningless.