They may run windows in the in flight entertainment systems but they DO NOT and WILL NEVER run any desktop or server OS in the avionics be it Windows , Linux , Solaris etc.
I know because a friends father is an engineer at Airbus.
"try and recoup the costs of developing and distributing Linux products."
They were already recouping them by charging for boxed versions in stores. If they want to put ads in then fine but I see no reason why they should charge for boxed versions anymore if they do that. They can't have it both ways.
"a simple solution would be to fine anyone who does this heavily."
And how would they know? As far as The System is concerned your car would be parked up. Unless they install cameras on every single road in the country and get the license details and do a cross reference. Now THAT would be Big Brother.
"Yes, and MS Windows can do something Linux still can't do today, run Win32 software well."
And how well does Windows run linux binaries? Or any binaries for others systems for that matter? Oh thats right , IT DOESN'T!
And don't give me crap about network IO completion , theres a lot more to network speed than that. And remember this is an OS that had multiuser logins and remote management (whooo , maan , so advanced!) trumpeted as a big deal by MS recently. I mean jesus , what cave have the techies at MS been living in the last 30 years??
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If you're a "Senior lecturer of computing" as it says in your sig , shouldn't you bloody well know???! Mind you , university of sunderland , hmm, sounds like some clapped out 1960s tech college trying to make itself sound impressive by calling itself a uni.
"I don't think most open source is playing catch up with that third rate vendor you mention"
I'm sorry , but it is. Look at KDE , what does it remind you of? My god , couldn't they even have come up with an original way of laying out their logo in the start menu?? What about Ximian? Looks like Outlook to me. OpenOffice? Well , the clues in the name. I'm sure there are less well known open source projects that are doing something original but lets face it , the majority are either just copying MS stuff or some other commercial product by another company. Considering the amount of flak MS gets from the OSS community seems like a large dose of hypocracy to me. And I'm not a Windows user at all , I use Linux & FreeBSD at home but I'm really sick of just seeing copycat stuff, I want something original. Even my favourite window manager AfterStep is just a clone of something Steve Jobs designed in 1985!
"What this world needs is a really big injection of orginal thought"
They are original ideas, they just don't make it into the PC world where MS dominates. MS come up with as many original ideas as McDonalds and since all KDE & Gnome (and frankly most open source projects) are doing is playing catchup with MS then originality is never going to be a prime concern.
Well call me old fashioned , but in my day we called that SQL. Why do I get the feeling this is just yet another database dressed up to look like its providing some always-wanted-but-until-now-folks-it-just-wasnt-po ssible-but-with-new-WizzoFS- etc etc
Call me a cynic but I've seen it all before. Besides , databases are inefficient for manipulation filesystems at a low level so expect your PC to crawl if you use this on a regular basis.
Actually compared to ships of the day it was designed very well. One of the sub contractors used cheap rivets which popped under extraordinary circumstances and if the lookouts had been doing their jobs properly they may have seen the million ton iceberg 10 minutes before they hit it.
"And nuclear waste processing has resulted in a large economic loss for the UK, polluted parts of the North-West and left the Irish sea full of radioactive waste."
Total and utter BS. Reprocessing makes a profit , the NW is NOT polluted (except from what came from chernobyl) and the irish sea has bugger all radioactive waste. The levels coming from sellafield and BELOW natural levels found in cornwall. How about you give the right-on student ideology a break go get a clue before you open your mouth.
And only the americans could come up with something as pointless as an SUV. A 4 wheel drive vehicle that does 2 mpg, tips over in a tight swerve has poor crash protection and if it does go off road it gets stuck. Compared to that an amphibious car sounds pretty sensible.
Maybe rowers should still to small streams , not large rivers used by 1000 ton barges and various other powered river craft. You might as well
have whinging cyclists complaining about being buffeted by the wind from trucks on a busy road.
Yes , their impracticality would be why they were used in passenger service cross-channel for 30 years and why so many military marine forces (including the US) use them as landing craft.
"Concorde"
Twice the speed of sound and still not matched by anything built elsewhere. Nuff said.
"The Titanic"
A good ship with a lousy crew. Your point is?
"Nuclear waste reprocessing"
Yeah , why reprocess and reuse it when you could just toss it in the sea instead.
"I have run a boat on the Thames for some years now and like all other boats on that river it has to obey the speed limit, a stately 4.8 MPH."
Maybe in the upper controlled parts of the river but in the tidal sections the limits are much higher if there are any at all. How do I know?
I work 300 metres from the Thames in central London nd see speedboast go up and down every day and believe me , they're doing more than 4.8mph!
If VMware implement a perfect virtual PC then there simply is no way for an OS running within this VM to know if its real or not. There simply is NO WAY for MS to prevent Windows running in a properly written virtual PC. Sure the could check the type of virtual drivers
loaded but then it would be a simply task for VMWare (or whoever) to modify them so the check doesn't work.
"The problem is clearly stated - any competitor that attempts to reverse engineer the format so that a user can edit their documents..."
In america maybe. In other countries (yes they do exist) where no such laws exist that could support that sort of anti-competetive behaviour then theres no problem.
"VOD is exactly the same as going to your local video rental store and getting a DVD to watch. "
Errm , not quite. If I rent a movie I can lend it to someone else to play it at their place after I've finished watching it. And occasionally I do. Try doing that with VOD.
"Are you sure you're not the one who's been brainwashed?"
Well I've got 16 year old CDs that still play perfectly and I've not reason to believe why pre-recorded DVDs should be any different.
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They may run windows in the in flight entertainment systems but they DO NOT and WILL NEVER run any desktop or server OS in the avionics be it Windows , Linux , Solaris etc. I know because a friends father is an engineer at Airbus.
72 in a myth called Heaven or 72 in someones imagination. Whats the difference?
"try and recoup the costs of developing and distributing Linux products."
They were already recouping them by charging for boxed versions in stores. If they want to put ads in then fine
but I see no reason why they should charge for boxed versions anymore if they do that. They can't have it both ways.
"a simple solution would be to fine anyone who does this heavily."
And how would they know? As far as The System is concerned your car would be parked up. Unless they install cameras on every single road
in the country and get the license details and do a cross reference. Now THAT would be Big Brother.
"Now is the end time for BSD"
And for you by the sounds of it. Grow up you prick, everyone on here is sick of your stupid posts.
Don't be silly. This website would just be a blank page if they did that. Hey ... maybe thats not such a bad idea...
It was a typo you muppet. And FYI its spelt "apparEntly".
Its just amazing. It its not in English then americans just can't handle it.
"Yes, and MS Windows can do something Linux still can't do today, run Win32 software well."
And how well does Windows run linux binaries? Or any binaries for others systems for that matter? Oh thats right , IT DOESN'T!
And don't give me crap about network IO completion , theres a lot more to network speed than that. And remember this is an OS that had multiuser
logins and remote management (whooo , maan , so advanced!) trumpeted as a big deal by MS recently. I mean jesus , what cave have the techies at MS been living in the last 30 years??
If you're a "Senior lecturer of computing" as it says in your sig , shouldn't you bloody well know???! Mind you , university of sunderland ,
hmm, sounds like some clapped out 1960s tech college trying to make itself sound impressive by calling itself a uni.
"I don't think most open source is playing catch up with that third rate vendor you mention"
I'm sorry , but it is. Look at KDE , what does it remind you of? My god , couldn't they even have come up with an original
way of laying out their logo in the start menu?? What about Ximian? Looks like Outlook to me. OpenOffice? Well , the clues in the name.
I'm sure there are less well known open source projects that are doing something original but lets face it , the majority are either just copying MS stuff or
some other commercial product by another company. Considering the amount of flak MS gets from the OSS community seems like a large
dose of hypocracy to me. And I'm not a Windows user at all , I use Linux & FreeBSD at home but I'm really sick of just seeing copycat stuff,
I want something original. Even my favourite window manager AfterStep is just a clone of something Steve Jobs designed in 1985!
"What this world needs is a really big injection of orginal thought"
They are original ideas, they just don't make it into the PC world where MS dominates. MS come up with as many original ideas as McDonalds
and since all KDE & Gnome (and frankly most open source projects) are doing is playing catchup with MS then originality is never going to be
a prime concern.
Not looking at screenshot 15 it isn't!
o ssible-but-with-new-WizzoFS- etc etc
"select DISTINCT(recordid) from AttrSoup...."
Well call me old fashioned , but in my day we called that SQL. Why do I get the feeling this is
just yet another database dressed up to look like its providing some always-wanted-but-until-now-folks-it-just-wasnt-p
Call me a cynic but I've seen it all before. Besides , databases are inefficient for manipulation filesystems at a low level so expect
your PC to crawl if you use this on a regular basis.
"To be honest, I can't be bothered to go into detail "
In other words you don't have any and are just banging your right-on enviromentalist drum. Kind of what I thought.
And people have been riding horses along roads for centuries but I don't see any on the M1 these days.
"Cross-channel hovercraft offered poor service compared with ferries,"
Oh , so you mean the 40 minute crossing time was irrelevant? I think not.
"The channel tunnel took that advantage away"
Yes , and it didn't do the Ferries any favours either. So what? A service doesn't last 30 years with no subsidy if its crap and no one is using it.
"The Titanic was poorly designed "
Actually compared to ships of the day it was designed very well. One of the sub contractors used cheap rivets which popped under extraordinary
circumstances and if the lookouts had been doing their jobs properly they may have seen the million ton iceberg 10 minutes before they hit it.
"And nuclear waste processing has resulted in a large economic loss for the UK, polluted parts of the North-West and left the Irish sea full of radioactive waste."
Total and utter BS. Reprocessing makes a profit , the NW is NOT polluted (except from what came from chernobyl) and the irish sea has bugger all
radioactive waste. The levels coming from sellafield and BELOW natural levels found in cornwall. How about you give the right-on student ideology a break go get a clue before you open your mouth.
And only the americans could come up with something as pointless as an SUV. A 4 wheel drive vehicle that does 2 mpg, tips over in a tight swerve
has poor crash protection and if it does go off road it gets stuck. Compared to that an amphibious car sounds pretty sensible.
Maybe rowers should still to small streams , not large rivers used by 1000 ton barges and various other powered river craft. You might as well
have whinging cyclists complaining about being buffeted by the wind from trucks on a busy road.
"Hovercraft"
Yes , their impracticality would be why they were used in passenger service cross-channel for 30 years and why so many military marine forces (including the US)
use them as landing craft.
"Concorde"
Twice the speed of sound and still not matched by anything built elsewhere. Nuff said.
"The Titanic"
A good ship with a lousy crew. Your point is?
"Nuclear waste reprocessing"
Yeah , why reprocess and reuse it when you could just toss it in the sea instead.
You're an idiot.
With a 100mph top speed I think they're being a bit generous calling it a sports car. Even your
average family box can go faster than that!
"I have run a boat on the Thames for some years now and like all other boats on that river it has to obey the speed limit, a stately 4.8 MPH."
Maybe in the upper controlled parts of the river but in the tidal sections the limits are much higher if there are any at all. How do I know?
I work 300 metres from the Thames in central London nd see speedboast go up and down every day and believe me , they're doing more than 4.8mph!
If VMware implement a perfect virtual PC then there simply is no way for an OS running within this VM to know if its real or not.
There simply is NO WAY for MS to prevent Windows running in a properly written virtual PC. Sure the could check the type of virtual drivers
loaded but then it would be a simply task for VMWare (or whoever) to modify them so the check doesn't work.
"The problem is clearly stated - any competitor that attempts to reverse engineer the format so that a user can edit their documents ..."
In america maybe. In other countries (yes they do exist) where no such laws exist that could support that sort of anti-competetive behaviour
then theres no problem.
"VOD is exactly the same as going to your local video rental store and getting a DVD to watch. "
Errm , not quite. If I rent a movie I can lend it to someone else to play it at their place after I've finished watching it. And occasionally I do. Try doing that with VOD.
"Are you sure you're not the one who's been brainwashed?"
Well I've got 16 year old CDs that still play perfectly and I've not reason to believe why pre-recorded DVDs should be any different.