Maybe they keep releasing Duke Nukem screenshots on occasion as some kind of a running gag? I guess the real joke's on Duke Nukem fans in that case. =) That's fine. The hardware that originally ran Duke Nuke'em is already fossilizing. The true fans will eventually die off in old age, as well.
I am not a layber, but: If your router transfers the data but you don't know what the data is (likely if the router is used by neighbors), then you are effectively a common carrier and not held liable for the data forwarded by the router. Of course, you are still liable if they can pin the data as originating from your computer.
I live north of the equator. Exactly how big is this ISP that they can afford to develop their own office suite? And what is the business plan behind this? Especially since it competes on one side with Microsoft Office and on the other with openoffice.org.
Am I out of the loop? I was under the impression that most piracy was of the low quality mp3s that suck on any high end audio gear.
Lossless is a great idea and may open up a new market to the iTMS, but I can't image it's going to offset piracy. I'd think it will offset physical CD sales.
Honestly I would love if there was an application as streamlined as my iPhoto for Ubuntu, however after looking and looking and looking some more, nothing comes close to ease of use, speed, and robustness. I only have 4,500 photos in my collection, but when I tried to switch to a more open source solution, it become more of a pain than an alternative. One word: Digikam. It gives you great control of your images and keeps them in a folder hierarchy so you don't get locked into the application if you want to try something else. (One tip: You may want to change the mouse left-click to select instead of open (the default) an image. The way to do this is via kcontrol.)
One things that Digikam gets right, that every other photo manager gets wrong, is that when you drag images from one folder to another, it should always give you the option to either move all the photos or copy them. That saves me numerous support calls from my dad.:-)
Synaptic, and apt, are superior to dragging the "icon" to the application folder. Because Synaptic can find the application for you. It also does automatic dependency resolution and automatic notification if *any* application in the OS has a newer version available.
As for preventing commercial vendors from easily writing deployable software, I can't imagine it. All a commercial vendor needs to do is create an apt repository. I've seen some sites that will add the repository to your list in/etc/apt/sources.list with a click on a link on a website and entering an administrator password.
Also, for commercial vendors that don't want to support their own repository, they can have canonical put it in their commercial repository (I think that's where Opera and Google Earth are).
(Yes, I understand that the dig was against Linux in general and not Ubuntu. The fact of the matter is, once the binaries and dependencies of a Linux application are available, creating the package in either.deb or.rpm is generally painless. Or can be for a seasoned programmer that can look things up in google.)
When comparing OS X and Ubuntu, it's really a tie. Both OSs are relatively stable, secure, and have a great set of applications available for them.
If you like getting your hands dirty, they both have a good shell and can be scripted with little difficulty. They both have a nice set of apps in the default installation.
Ubuntu is somewhat ahead with application installation, with synaptic, while OS X is somewhat ahead with commercial application support.
It's hard to compare the default installation on each of them, because it's really a matter of taste.
Re: VirtualPC: So, err... why should I , as a business user, have to run a Windows emulation suite inside of Windows just to get my app running, when I can eschew that and simply run the older OS on bare metal (suitably walled-in security-wise, of course)? Sandboxing. It's not a big deal if the administrator knows what he is doing, but in all those small offices where end users have internet access, it has it's uses.
I had a secretary come up to me the other day with a trojan that was written as if it came from the federal government, with an attached.zip file containing a.doc.src file. Fortunately her computer was running Win98 and doesn't have an unzip application installed. Otherwise the whole network would have been infected.
(It wasn't until a few days later that the virus scanner updates cought up with it and labeled it as a trojan.)
Ditto. My daughter just turned 4 and already is addicted to the computer. Fortunately, all she knows so far is www.starfall.com, so it's still educational, but I don't like her sitting in front of a screen so much at that age.
Because there are aspects that the general public believes should be in a general purpose (Home) OS that are only available in the premium and "Ultimate" versions of the OS.
I understand that the bar is being raised every year on what the home user wants to do on his computer (a hell of a lot more now than 10 years ago), but that doesn't mean that $100 should buy an OS that can only do things that an OS 10 years ago could do. Especially since hardware can do so much more now (for the same price) than it could 10 years ago.
In the grand/. tradition, I haven't RTFA. However, I guess that the argument is that as the price of hardware comes down, the price of commercial software makes up a bigger part of the total expenditure.
Customers will balk when they realize that they use the computer for just internet and simple word processing and maybe some multimedia.
The problem is, in the real world Linux isn't even on the radar of most individuals. If they did hear about it, it's probably something from a few years ago and not about one of the modern distributions.
The solution: Whoever sells these cheap machines has to advertise. It should be simple enough. A short TV add showing wireless internet and desktop productivity apps for a $200 machine like the OLPC would sell them like hotcakes. Especially when you say that the price includes full versions of all the software. (You can even have two people discuss during the ad about how they hate trial versions that came with their last computer, and comparing it to amarok, k3b, openoffice.org, and digikam. Especially mention seamless integration with mp3 players and digital cameras.)
Doesn't it come with an installation CD? If so, how hard is it to give the option to format (with NTFS being the default filetype) when the installation program is run?
Well, yes they do that, but not in any useful way. (At least on WinXP.)
The recovery console is shell-based. Which sucks, since MSWindows likes to keep most of it's recovery tools GUI-based. (Can you even edit the registry in a console?) Or you can allow the installation disc to "fix" the installation, in which case you don't have any control of what it does.
If humans are not the dominant species after a nuclear (or other) apocalypse, why do you think they'll make it out on top again? After all, dinosaurs didn't make it out on top after they faced their apocalypse.
Anyone use one of these Amazon Kindle things yet? Can you read any text/PDF file on it, or do they have to be in a proprietary format or digitally signed by amazon.com?
Yes, the phone companies can use voiceprint ID on every call and track people accordingly. Yes, they can put up cameras by every pay phone and get photo IDs of everyone that uses their machine. Yes, they can put fingerprint scanners in every payphone and scan coins for fingerprints as well, to correlate with voice prints and photo IDs.
At some point they're going to say it's not worth the expense. (They are a publically traded company, right?) Even if the NSA, FBI, and CIA are paying them per-call.
There's actually a lot of quality applications in the Ubuntu Gutsy repositories. Some cruft as well, however.:-(
The real gold for Ubuntu is the paid support from Canonical and the ubuntuforums.org for the rest of us. I have hundreds of posts in my bookmarks for solving various problems. (And, there are problems. But most of them have working solutions.)
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Boot up a live CD (with the MD5 sum confirmed on 2 separate PCs) and only use the live CD's Firefox browser.
Just hope that no one injected a keylogger onto the live CD and remembered to change the MD5 sum as well...
I am not a layber, but: If your router transfers the data but you don't know what the data is (likely if the router is used by neighbors), then you are effectively a common carrier and not held liable for the data forwarded by the router. Of course, you are still liable if they can pin the data as originating from your computer.
I live north of the equator. Exactly how big is this ISP that they can afford to develop their own office suite? And what is the business plan behind this? Especially since it competes on one side with Microsoft Office and on the other with openoffice.org.
Am I out of the loop? I was under the impression that most piracy was of the low quality mp3s that suck on any high end audio gear.
Lossless is a great idea and may open up a new market to the iTMS, but I can't image it's going to offset piracy. I'd think it will offset physical CD sales.
As someone using Ubuntu but considering KDE4, can you give us a link to how to do something like that?
One things that Digikam gets right, that every other photo manager gets wrong, is that when you drag images from one folder to another, it should always give you the option to either move all the photos or copy them. That saves me numerous support calls from my dad.
Synaptic, and apt, are superior to dragging the "icon" to the application folder. Because Synaptic can find the application for you. It also does automatic dependency resolution and automatic notification if *any* application in the OS has a newer version available.
/etc/apt/sources.list with a click on a link on a website and entering an administrator password.
.deb or .rpm is generally painless. Or can be for a seasoned programmer that can look things up in google.)
As for preventing commercial vendors from easily writing deployable software, I can't imagine it. All a commercial vendor needs to do is create an apt repository. I've seen some sites that will add the repository to your list in
Also, for commercial vendors that don't want to support their own repository, they can have canonical put it in their commercial repository (I think that's where Opera and Google Earth are).
(Yes, I understand that the dig was against Linux in general and not Ubuntu. The fact of the matter is, once the binaries and dependencies of a Linux application are available, creating the package in either
When comparing OS X and Ubuntu, it's really a tie. Both OSs are relatively stable, secure, and have a great set of applications available for them.
If you like getting your hands dirty, they both have a good shell and can be scripted with little difficulty. They both have a nice set of apps in the default installation.
Ubuntu is somewhat ahead with application installation, with synaptic, while OS X is somewhat ahead with commercial application support.
It's hard to compare the default installation on each of them, because it's really a matter of taste.
I had a secretary come up to me the other day with a trojan that was written as if it came from the federal government, with an attached
(It wasn't until a few days later that the virus scanner updates cought up with it and labeled it as a trojan.)
More than that: How is the average user supposed to download a browser without having a browser installed?
Ditto. My daughter just turned 4 and already is addicted to the computer. Fortunately, all she knows so far is www.starfall.com, so it's still educational, but I don't like her sitting in front of a screen so much at that age.
Not just that, but how the heck do they manage this with an entirely open source project?
Because there are aspects that the general public believes should be in a general purpose (Home) OS that are only available in the premium and "Ultimate" versions of the OS.
I understand that the bar is being raised every year on what the home user wants to do on his computer (a hell of a lot more now than 10 years ago), but that doesn't mean that $100 should buy an OS that can only do things that an OS 10 years ago could do. Especially since hardware can do so much more now (for the same price) than it could 10 years ago.
In the grand /. tradition, I haven't RTFA. However, I guess that the argument is that as the price of hardware comes down, the price of commercial software makes up a bigger part of the total expenditure.
Customers will balk when they realize that they use the computer for just internet and simple word processing and maybe some multimedia.
The problem is, in the real world Linux isn't even on the radar of most individuals. If they did hear about it, it's probably something from a few years ago and not about one of the modern distributions.
The solution: Whoever sells these cheap machines has to advertise. It should be simple enough. A short TV add showing wireless internet and desktop productivity apps for a $200 machine like the OLPC would sell them like hotcakes. Especially when you say that the price includes full versions of all the software. (You can even have two people discuss during the ad about how they hate trial versions that came with their last computer, and comparing it to amarok, k3b, openoffice.org, and digikam. Especially mention seamless integration with mp3 players and digital cameras.)
Doesn't it come with an installation CD? If so, how hard is it to give the option to format (with NTFS being the default filetype) when the installation program is run?
I did something similar but used self-modifying code so that I could have a user input a function and that graph that function over a range.
Without a parser.
On my C64 in basic.
I freakin' amazed my math teacher.
Well, yes they do that, but not in any useful way. (At least on WinXP.)
The recovery console is shell-based. Which sucks, since MSWindows likes to keep most of it's recovery tools GUI-based. (Can you even edit the registry in a console?) Or you can allow the installation disc to "fix" the installation, in which case you don't have any control of what it does.
If humans are not the dominant species after a nuclear (or other) apocalypse, why do you think they'll make it out on top again? After all, dinosaurs didn't make it out on top after they faced their apocalypse.
And you would propose that money is the answer to this problem?
ObXKCD link: http://xkcd.com/327/
Anyone use one of these Amazon Kindle things yet? Can you read any text/PDF file on it, or do they have to be in a proprietary format or digitally signed by amazon.com?
+1 Tinfoil hat.
Yes, the phone companies can use voiceprint ID on every call and track people accordingly. Yes, they can put up cameras by every pay phone and get photo IDs of everyone that uses their machine. Yes, they can put fingerprint scanners in every payphone and scan coins for fingerprints as well, to correlate with voice prints and photo IDs.
At some point they're going to say it's not worth the expense. (They are a publically traded company, right?) Even if the NSA, FBI, and CIA are paying them per-call.
There's actually a lot of quality applications in the Ubuntu Gutsy repositories. Some cruft as well, however. :-(
The real gold for Ubuntu is the paid support from Canonical and the ubuntuforums.org for the rest of us. I have hundreds of posts in my bookmarks for solving various problems. (And, there are problems. But most of them have working solutions.)
I really hope you are not using docx as your standard file format. I don't think any open source project has good fidelity in that format as of yet.