Yeah, you'll probably get blasted for that post.:-)
Really, though, package installation is incredibly easy in most distributions now, with repositories handling all dependencies. In Ubuntu, for instance, there is an "Add Programs" icon in the Applications Menu by default, that lists the most popular applications and separates them into categories so there is no information overload. If you know the exact name of the package to install (such as subversion or tomcat), open up synaptic and choose the package there. Either way, all dependencies are automatically taken care of and installation is entirely automatic (once you enter your administrator password).
It's nice that the community is supporting Dell in this. I personally made sure a friend bought his new laptop from Dell just because of this. My next desktop will certainly be a Dell.
If they really want to get the ball moving they should tune up their customized installation of Ubuntu and have Walt Mossberg review it again.
The only time it will trickle down is when the average user will have so much storage that they can never fill it up.
For normal users, we may be at that point already. For people that store mp3s, we're probably at that now, as well. (Do you have more than a couple hundred gigabytes of music on your computer? If so, what the heck for?) 10 years from now we may be at that point for standard definition video.
When (storage) space no longer matters, the time to access will start to matter.
For a multinational corporation as big as IBM, is it "evil" for them to outsource jobs to India, China, etc? What if they outsourced jobs to the U.S. Would that be considered evil as well?
By moving jobs to where the labor is cheaper, they are proping up those economies. The more money the people have in poorer nations, the more companies will flourish there, providing more customers for services & products produced by IBM.
It's a long-term plan for a company that plans to be around decades from now. Should it be labeled evil?
I'm missing the idea as well. For a while high-dose melatonin was suggested to prevent jet lag (It worked for me, and also seems to improve my "performance" in bed as well). You never know what unusual side effects a medication has.
Viagra in particular is also the cheapest drug to treat pulmonary hypertension. Some other drugs to treat it literally cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
I'm running a valid WindowsXP license at work. I am still using IE6 because our IT department requires an activeX component to run a citrix component to log in remotely to another office.
(Of course, I use Firefox for everything else at work)
...there sure aren't as many "americans" here as there used to be. Of course, I mean white anglo-saxon protestant males. A lot more minorities. A lot more first and second generation americans.
I'm actually happy with my salary. I am not happy with my work hours (and neither is my wife). 12+ hours/day, 5 days per week and every other weekend. Yes, the money is excellent, but I'm worried that I'm heading towards a heart attack.
Actually, choice A is more like "Hire a lawyer and fight a court case you will probably lose". To get a call from the FSF lawyers likely means the code is truly licensed under the GPL. Lawyers realize that if they are not abiding by the scope of the GPL, they have no right to use the code at all. Copyright infringement is ridiculously costly.
I have to applaud the FSF lawyers, who are giving big businesses a second chance to do the right thing without any monetary penalty. It is something that other areas of business would do well to imitate.
I can't imagine why anyone would tolerate such things. 5 years ago people people would constantly belittle IE users because it had frequent crashes, and pointed to the 'superior' Mozilla suite. Today, FF has morphed in to something which can't be used, with plugins, for more than a couple days max without needing to be reset. Reality check: Most general users do not leave their browsers open for a couple days. Let alone a couple days max. In fact, I wager that most turn their computers off at the end of the day.
No I don't have a source for my statement. But ask people you know who are not in the tech industry. The one outlier group is Mac users, who don't realize that closing a browser window doesn't take the program out of memory.
Those are just two data points. Fact is, if you have a Harvard degree, you are more likely to get further in society than someone of the same baseline intelligence who didn't go to college because he decided to just work instead.
Not having to make choices at install time is EXACTLY the reason that ubuntu is good. After a couple of simple questions, you are up and running with a very well configured system with the best one of each type of app installed that most people want. You dont have a huge stack of apps installed that you dont need. Absolutely agree with above. The problem with earlier distributions was that at installation I had to choose which office package to install, which text editor, etc. That's fine, now that I have used Ubuntu for a couple years, but back then I kind of shrugged, made a few wrong choices, and called the distribution "unusable".
Sensible defaults and the ability to make changes later on is much preferable.
As someone who recently had to work on a modestly complex text document from multiple locations on various versions of Windows (with varying versions of Office) and OS X, having the ability to use Openoffice.org on all the machines was a godsend. No worrying about differing.doc formats and text layouts. No illicit installations of MSOffice (so that I could use the same version on differing computers). And at the end a simple print to PDF that anyone could open.
Yeah, I was being playful. In reality, I'm not sure what the right thing to do is. If Comcast were to advertise as "At least 4 terabytes of downloads", it would be confusing to a lot of potential consumers. It would have to be all ISPs being mandated to advertise their hard limits to really make it fair.
The current 3 clause BSD license allows someone to release derived works under the GPL (or under closed-source commercial license). Yes, it does. But, and this is the important part that the Linux people keep on conveniently forgetting: IT DOES NOT ALLOW YOU TO REMOVE THE ORIGINAL LICENSE! Err.... If you cannot remove the BSD license, how can you release it under the GPL? The GPL is incompatible with portions of the BSD license (in particular, the fact that you can release modifications in binary form only).
Now, I am not saying that one should actually get as much as the theoretical maximum, but if Comcast is actually setting a limit that is substantially lower than that, then the simple fact is that they are guilty of fraud and false advertising. And if they set a limit above higher than that, they can rightfully say that people that go over the limit are breaking the laws (of physics). Of course they are going to set a limit below that number. It would be foolish to set a number higher than it.:-)
I've encouraged a number of non-tech friends to convert from Windows to iMacs in the last couple years, including my dad and brother. My dad alone has bought at least $5000 in hardware in the last year (including two iMacs and an iPhone), based on my approval.
I feel violated, and suddenly wish I hadn't encouraged him.
I have an 80GB ipod from last year. Does this mean that if I sync it again with iTunes that I can no longer use amarok with it? I sync with iTunes a couple times a year to update the software, but sync with amarok quite often.:-(
Of course, google would not be what it is without Microsoft. It also wouldn't be what it was without Linus Torvalds. Or Thomas Edison. Or George Washington. Or any number of others in history.
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Yeah, you'll probably get blasted for that post. :-)
Really, though, package installation is incredibly easy in most distributions now, with repositories handling all dependencies. In Ubuntu, for instance, there is an "Add Programs" icon in the Applications Menu by default, that lists the most popular applications and separates them into categories so there is no information overload. If you know the exact name of the package to install (such as subversion or tomcat), open up synaptic and choose the package there. Either way, all dependencies are automatically taken care of and installation is entirely automatic (once you enter your administrator password).
It's nice that the community is supporting Dell in this. I personally made sure a friend bought his new laptop from Dell just because of this. My next desktop will certainly be a Dell.
If they really want to get the ball moving they should tune up their customized installation of Ubuntu and have Walt Mossberg review it again.
I thought the same thing before seeing _Serenity_.
The only time it will trickle down is when the average user will have so much storage that they can never fill it up.
For normal users, we may be at that point already. For people that store mp3s, we're probably at that now, as well. (Do you have more than a couple hundred gigabytes of music on your computer? If so, what the heck for?) 10 years from now we may be at that point for standard definition video.
When (storage) space no longer matters, the time to access will start to matter.
This guy didn't make a mistake at all. He was following orders. The ones that made the mistake were the ones that told him to take the tapes home.
I always wonder about things like this.
For a multinational corporation as big as IBM, is it "evil" for them to outsource jobs to India, China, etc? What if they outsourced jobs to the U.S. Would that be considered evil as well?
By moving jobs to where the labor is cheaper, they are proping up those economies. The more money the people have in poorer nations, the more companies will flourish there, providing more customers for services & products produced by IBM.
It's a long-term plan for a company that plans to be around decades from now. Should it be labeled evil?
I'm missing the idea as well. For a while high-dose melatonin was suggested to prevent jet lag (It worked for me, and also seems to improve my "performance" in bed as well). You never know what unusual side effects a medication has.
Viagra in particular is also the cheapest drug to treat pulmonary hypertension. Some other drugs to treat it literally cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
I'm running a valid WindowsXP license at work. I am still using IE6 because our IT department requires an activeX component to run a citrix component to log in remotely to another office.
(Of course, I use Firefox for everything else at work)
...there sure aren't as many "americans" here as there used to be. Of course, I mean white anglo-saxon protestant males. A lot more minorities. A lot more first and second generation americans.
err.... +1 creepy.
I'm actually happy with my salary. I am not happy with my work hours (and neither is my wife). 12+ hours/day, 5 days per week and every other weekend. Yes, the money is excellent, but I'm worried that I'm heading towards a heart attack.
Actually, choice A is more like "Hire a lawyer and fight a court case you will probably lose". To get a call from the FSF lawyers likely means the code is truly licensed under the GPL. Lawyers realize that if they are not abiding by the scope of the GPL, they have no right to use the code at all. Copyright infringement is ridiculously costly.
I have to applaud the FSF lawyers, who are giving big businesses a second chance to do the right thing without any monetary penalty. It is something that other areas of business would do well to imitate.
5 years ago people people would constantly belittle IE users because it had frequent crashes, and pointed to the 'superior' Mozilla suite. Today, FF has morphed in to something which can't be used, with plugins, for more than a couple days max without needing to be reset. Reality check: Most general users do not leave their browsers open for a couple days. Let alone a couple days max. In fact, I wager that most turn their computers off at the end of the day.
No I don't have a source for my statement. But ask people you know who are not in the tech industry. The one outlier group is Mac users, who don't realize that closing a browser window doesn't take the program out of memory.
Those are just two data points. Fact is, if you have a Harvard degree, you are more likely to get further in society than someone of the same baseline intelligence who didn't go to college because he decided to just work instead.
Sensible defaults and the ability to make changes later on is much preferable.
Now how about installing ntp by default.
As someone who recently had to work on a modestly complex text document from multiple locations on various versions of Windows (with varying versions of Office) and OS X, having the ability to use Openoffice.org on all the machines was a godsend. No worrying about differing .doc formats and text layouts. No illicit installations of MSOffice (so that I could use the same version on differing computers). And at the end a simple print to PDF that anyone could open.
Sure they want to be anonymous. If I found out who those damn alcoholics were that peed on my flowers, I'll kid them so hard that they'd sober up.
Or internet streaming radio. Lots of great stuff out there.
Yeah, I was being playful. In reality, I'm not sure what the right thing to do is. If Comcast were to advertise as "At least 4 terabytes of downloads", it would be confusing to a lot of potential consumers. It would have to be all ISPs being mandated to advertise their hard limits to really make it fair.
Now, I am not saying that one should actually get as much as the theoretical maximum, but if Comcast is actually setting a limit that is substantially lower than that, then the simple fact is that they are guilty of fraud and false advertising. And if they set a limit above higher than that, they can rightfully say that people that go over the limit are breaking the laws (of physics). Of course they are going to set a limit below that number. It would be foolish to set a number higher than it.
I've encouraged a number of non-tech friends to convert from Windows to iMacs in the last couple years, including my dad and brother. My dad alone has bought at least $5000 in hardware in the last year (including two iMacs and an iPhone), based on my approval.
I feel violated, and suddenly wish I hadn't encouraged him.
I have an 80GB ipod from last year. Does this mean that if I sync it again with iTunes that I can no longer use amarok with it? I sync with iTunes a couple times a year to update the software, but sync with amarok quite often. :-(
Thank god it isn't a forced upgrade. The regular iPod line is still available.
Of course, google would not be what it is without Microsoft. It also wouldn't be what it was without Linus Torvalds. Or Thomas Edison. Or George Washington. Or any number of others in history.