Yep. Down time on a locomotive is expensive, and the environment they're working in is hard on a laptop. Having a reliable computer to troubleshoot them with is essential.
The world is more complex than Microsoft v Open Source.
This has nothing to do with Open Source.
This has to do with Microsoft v ANY competitor.
This has to do with Microsoft v ANY computer user who wants seamless exchange of information.
This has to do with Microsoft's willingness to destroy faith in a process which has made cooperation between nations and business across thousands of fields possible. Construction, manufacturing, medicine, transport. Almost all of human enterprise benefits from standards.
Microsoft is prepared to subvert all that just to grab a bit more money.
That's what's so contemptible about their latest efforts.
Examine ODT documents actually produced by OpenOffice, and you'll find a ton of application-specific elements that are not covered in the standard, that you have to understand in order to accurately represent the documents.
Most of my clients (some in the outback) are stubborn and technically inept. They have a real "fuck it" attitude.
I'm "in the outback" (Cloudbreak).
Our "fuck it" attitude comes from having to deal with support that takes weeks to get replacement equipment to site, and tries to administer our systems from airconditioned offices 3,000km away.
We use FreeDOS on a lot of laptops running logging and test software for locomotives (GE Dash 9s, mostly). Engine and brake management computers don't change much over decades of production.
It's also used for a lot of other similar tasks where you want to be able to exclusively control the serial port of the laptop - signaling and switching software testing, for example.
I have a HP NC6400 laptop which came with SLED 10 pre-installed, and it's a great little machine. Much better than buying a Windows laptop, then wiping it - even has a little green "Designed for SuSe Linux" sticker where those Windows ones normally go.
isn't that kind of the idea of competition? restrain the competition.
No, the idea of competition is to produce a better product than everyone else so the customers will buy yours in preference.
Anything which restricts the customers' ability to switch between products (format lockin, leveraging existing monopoly platforms, predatory pricing, OEM penalties, etc) is anticompetitive and should be prevented.
a plane should not "fall like a rock" even with no electricity.
No, and there are examples of large passenger jets with complete engine failure (all 4 main engines) surviving and restarting at a lower altitude. Google for BA flight 009 to read about it.
I have a Compaq Presario V6000-series laptop with an AMD chipset. Apparently, it has some BIOS issues that require special flags in the initial boot loader screen on the Ubuntu install CD.
I have the same laptop (with the Nvidia 6150), and while I haven't tried Ubuntu on it, Sabayon installed and runs faultlessly.
I did have to change one menu setting for Compiz/Beryl, but apart from that everything worked out of the box, including the Broadcom wifi. The screenmode was correctly set to the LCD's native resolution, and I had the option of enabling 3D desktop acceleration during the install. It's a revelation after XP on the same machine - fast, stable and fun.
I like Ubuntu, and respect their goals, but I don't think it's the best distro for computers which are non-mainstream. Having said that, I suspect it's more likely that the AMD chipset was not available when Feisty was released, and if you try Gutsy, it'll all just work.
Have they tried flinging feces at the monkeys yet?
Oddly enough, that would probably be the best approach.
Small animals like vervet monkeys are often highly sensitive to predator urine and feces, so getting hold of some lion, leopard, hyena or wild dog dung and "flinging" it around would almost certainly act as a deterrent.
Microsoft (or "M$", as your adult-self calls it) wasn't involved in the deal.
No, Microsoft's statement was:
"We provided no financial incentives to Paramount or DreamWorks whatsoever,"
Amir Majidimehr, head of Microsoft's consumer media technology group. Microsoft (and others) provided money to the HD DVD Promotion Group. The HD DVD Promotion Group provided money to the studios.
Afaict they make the projects rebuild from source and strip out all the identity of the OS.
Why the negative spin?
"Red Hat [is] required to protect its trademarks. But they were quite friendly and polite and they went as far as to confirm that they had no objection to our product. We were more than happy to reword our advert," Setchell said. Red Hat has always been a strong contributor to open source projects, and does not deserve that sort of FUD.
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Yep. Down time on a locomotive is expensive, and the environment they're working in is hard on a laptop. Having a reliable computer to troubleshoot them with is essential.
This has nothing to do with Open Source.
This has to do with Microsoft v ANY competitor.
This has to do with Microsoft v ANY computer user who wants seamless exchange of information.
This has to do with Microsoft's willingness to destroy faith in a process which has made cooperation between nations and business across thousands of fields possible. Construction, manufacturing, medicine, transport. Almost all of human enterprise benefits from standards.
Microsoft is prepared to subvert all that just to grab a bit more money.
That's what's so contemptible about their latest efforts.
If they're dreaming, it's of tropical paradises bought with Microsoft "donations".
The bodies voting "Yes, with comments" are the ones who sold out.
First time I've seen that claim.
Can you show an example?
I'm "in the outback" (Cloudbreak).
Our "fuck it" attitude comes from having to deal with support that takes weeks to get replacement equipment to site, and tries to administer our systems from airconditioned offices 3,000km away.
We use FreeDOS on a lot of laptops running logging and test software for locomotives (GE Dash 9s, mostly). Engine and brake management computers don't change much over decades of production.
It's also used for a lot of other similar tasks where you want to be able to exclusively control the serial port of the laptop - signaling and switching software testing, for example.
I have a HP NC6400 laptop which came with SLED 10 pre-installed, and it's a great little machine. Much better than buying a Windows laptop, then wiping it - even has a little green "Designed for SuSe Linux" sticker where those Windows ones normally go.
Incoherent grunge, then?
Microsoft has patented that for the Vista scheduler
So when Zerg battle Nazgul, who wins?
No, the idea of competition is to produce a better product than everyone else so the customers will buy yours in preference.
Anything which restricts the customers' ability to switch between products (format lockin, leveraging existing monopoly platforms, predatory pricing, OEM penalties, etc) is anticompetitive and should be prevented.
Try to implement an app that will round-trip MOOXML through MS Office editing, then get back to us.
I think you'll find it's not possible to use MOOXML unless you're Microsoft.
You can't avoid buying a Windows OS if you want to play Windows games.
The cost difference between XP and Vista at OEM level is insignificant, so if Vista was any good, gamers would be specifying it on their now boxes.
There is actually some discussion of Linux happening here. It starts about a third of the way down the page.
The Wintrolls got in early and tried to drown out any discussion of successful Linux OEMs because it's a topic that scares MSFT.
It's a technique used to game Slashdot by soaking up any mod points which may have been used to upmod interesting posts about Linux OEMs.
No, and there are examples of large passenger jets with complete engine failure (all 4 main engines) surviving and restarting at a lower altitude. Google for BA flight 009 to read about it.
Can you show us any evidence Bill Gates has changed his mind on this in the past nine years?
I have the same laptop (with the Nvidia 6150), and while I haven't tried Ubuntu on it, Sabayon installed and runs faultlessly.
I did have to change one menu setting for Compiz/Beryl, but apart from that everything worked out of the box, including the Broadcom wifi. The screenmode was correctly set to the LCD's native resolution, and I had the option of enabling 3D desktop acceleration during the install. It's a revelation after XP on the same machine - fast, stable and fun.
I like Ubuntu, and respect their goals, but I don't think it's the best distro for computers which are non-mainstream. Having said that, I suspect it's more likely that the AMD chipset was not available when Feisty was released, and if you try Gutsy, it'll all just work.
I intend to release my own distro in a couple of months.
How do you plan on stopping me?
Give them hundreds of typewriters.
That'd be the nastiest scarecrow ever. No way a monkey'd hang around after seeing that.
So let's all have a big group hug and make up. We need each other.
Oddly enough, that would probably be the best approach.
Small animals like vervet monkeys are often highly sensitive to predator urine and feces, so getting hold of some lion, leopard, hyena or wild dog dung and "flinging" it around would almost certainly act as a deterrent.
Some of those countries "participating" are observers.
This is the best explanation of the voting process I have seen.w ound.html
http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/02/merely-flesh-
No, Microsoft's statement was:
"We provided no financial incentives to Paramount or DreamWorks whatsoever,"Amir Majidimehr, head of Microsoft's consumer media technology group. Microsoft (and others) provided money to the HD DVD Promotion Group. The HD DVD Promotion Group provided money to the studios.
It's called "plausible deniability".
Why the negative spin?
"Red Hat [is] required to protect its trademarks. But they were quite friendly and polite and they went as far as to confirm that they had no objection to our product. We were more than happy to reword our advert," Setchell said. Red Hat has always been a strong contributor to open source projects, and does not deserve that sort of FUD.