The thing with Ubuntu releases are that they are based on calendar dates. They want to release the next version in October of this year. Which means that if some of the goals aren't met, they are put aside until the next release. (ie: Bulletproof X11) They really don't want to miss their release window, because it will be a mess for their next release.
The reasoning behind this is that they base each release on the latest version of Gnome. Gnome releases every six months. So Ubuntu releases a month or so after Gnome. If they delay a release, they either delay all future releases (which will get them off-sync with Gnome), or have a shortened next release cycle (which is what happened with 6.06 -> 6.10), meaning a less interesting next release (as many considered 6.10).
I used RealOne player as my sole audio player for quite some time. Once it was set up, it worked quite well. (The setup was a b!tch, though). I made the mistake of downloading version 2 when it was available. It was definitely a downgrade rather than an upgrade, and I did go back to version one for a while. I finally realized that I wanted to use a player that respected me, and started using winamp.
(Of course, now I'm using amarok, but that's another story...)
It's not that the heart "healed". What happens after a serious injury to the heart (whether a heart attack, viral infection, or anything else), is that the heart becomes weaker and tries to adapt. Things that physicians do to help the heart adapt in the right way (as opposed to the wrong way) include assist devices that will pump the blood forward. These include artificial hearts, left ventricular and biventricular assist devices, and intra-aortic balloon pumps. Other things that help people along are medications that help the heart rest and prevent the maladaptation that the heart will do on it's own if left to it's own means (the maladaptation is known as negative remodelling).
Given enough time, the heart may beat more effectively. I know a number of people whos hearts are pumping out less than 10 percent of the blood that enters it (normal is to pump out ~60 percent). Some of these people are crippled and await heart transplantation. A few, however, are out chasing the girls (and boys), and you wouldn't have any idea that they had a medical problem until you saw the number of medications that they take to stay well.
Macs don't crash (or at least, my dad's never crashed for me yet), but they do hang on occasion. I'm hoping that with the new version of Mac OS X coming out in a couple months, the hangs will be less frequent.
Frankly, I'm not sure what the article is trying to state.
If the code is released under GPLv3, then modifications of the code must be able to run on the same hardware. It doesn't matter if the key to run the code is a checksum or a password to give the hypervisor. Either way, if modification of the client cannot be dropped into the place of the original client (either to run on the same hardware or the same hypervisor), it's in abuse of the GPLv3.
Actually, all it takes is for one of the main package maintainers to change licenses for their packages. For instance, Samba (which is used for networking and file sharing with MSwindows systems) will have future versions released under GPL v3. Either Novell uses the newer Samba (which will trap Microsoft), or it does not use the newer Samba (and gets left behind).
This, of course, is based on the assumption that Microsoft distributing coupons for SuSE is akin to distributing the software.
It's still a nitch, but a growing one. The other group of people are, like me, people that already have Linux installed on a computer, and now need a new computer but don't have the time to build one from scratch.
I am certainly planning on buying my next computer with Linux pre-installed. Not because I am not going to wipe the drive as soon as I get it (because I will), but because I don't have to worry about the hardware not working with Linux.
Actually, this sounds reasonable. If an elected official cannot remember whether something happened or not, maybe they seek mandatory neurologic testing to make sure there isn't a reason. If he cannot remember a number of different events, maybe he/she should be institutionalized for his own safety.
You use an open format so that when you need to change software, you can do so. You also do it so that when the proprietary format is no longer supported (ie: Word95 doc, Wordstar, WordPerfect5.1), you are not left out in the cold.
SACEM, ASCAP/BMI, SOCAN, etc.: performing rights organizations which represent artists, composers and lyricists. THE GOOD GUYS.
The good guys?. These good guys (the European performing rights organizations in europe: SACEM, SGAE...) try to collect a fee on every damn cdr, dvdr, printer, mp3 player or even hd sold. Oh, and on Internet access too. Maybe the GP post was using "good" in a relative sense. As in, "Jack the Ripper" was a good guy. After all, he was never a member of the RIAA.
So, while it's true that iWorks is the only real option for editing them now, it shouldn't be too hard to convert them in the future
What it doesn't do is answer the basic question of why we need another set of document formats. We've heard this story before and we've always hated it. However, I'd love to hear from Apple about why TextEdit in Leopard supports ODF and iWork does not.
My guess is that iWork does stuff that is not currently defined in the ODF format. My hope is that the commission that is in charge of ODF will extend it to support everything available in iWork. (Those slide transitions in the iWork presentation software are pretty freakin' cool!)
The President grants executive powers to do what he wants. Seriously though, it shouldn't even really be one U.S. citizen that they do this with. When does the fear mongering to get broad reaching government powers end? I'm so damned tired of it, and this country has slid so far downhill in the last 5 or so years due to it. Just about every other nation looks at the U.S. in a bad light these days because we're prudish, invasive, annoying, and hipocritical. I'm getting to the point where I want to purge the entire administration from the lowest congressman all the way up and start over. Take out the special interest groups, no corporate sponsorships for campaigns, and get rid of the all the harpy lobbyists. I'm just so sick of it. It's not that the government shouldn't wiretap their own population. Of course, they should be able to. The FISA courts are secret so that they can get warrants to do this sort of thing. It's when the government doesn't bother getting the warrants that things get illegal.
No company should surrender private communications to the government without a warrant. And if they do, the public can sued them.
I just tell people (when they ask; I'm not a zealot) that I run Linux. If they ask for specifics, I let them know.
It's more when they stop by my computer and they see it doing things that they don't have (like thumbnails of various file types in nautilus), that things get hairy.:-)
I agree completely. I was in the habit of reimaging my dad's machine about once every 4-6 months due to just general slowdown and an unstable system. He finally asked for a new computer. I gave him two options. First was a Windows desktop which would be more of the same (a problem, since I had moved out and he would have to wait weeks or longer for me to fix his system), and the second was an iMac or Mac Mini.
Once he saw the iMac, he was sold. I haven't had to touch his system since the initial software setup and showing him how things worked, over a year and a half ago.
I still go to his place every few months, and run software update while I'm there, but he doesn't call me for problems ever.
He did call to go to the store with him to get an iPhone and help him install it. Once I talked him through that, he was embarrassed that he even had to ask.
By the way, my mom now complains that he is always in front of the computer. Was never a problem when he had MSWindows machines for over a decade. He just never used them much. Now he's playing around with his iTunes collections, and iPhoto, and email and g-d only knows what else.
WTF? How on earth does the sound and network subsystem overlap? PCI resource scheduler issue? I'd love to see Disk I/O on a fast RAID Vs sound usage... -nB I wonder if it depends on how loud the volume is on my speakers (looks at the volume dial, set at 11...and sweats...).
(Thankfully, I'm running XP at work and Ubuntu at home)
I don't know if this is possible with Vista, but on WinXP I just unzip the Firefox application to a folder on my desktop and run a link from there. Certainly better (and less painful) than running IE.
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The thing with Ubuntu releases are that they are based on calendar dates. They want to release the next version in October of this year. Which means that if some of the goals aren't met, they are put aside until the next release. (ie: Bulletproof X11) They really don't want to miss their release window, because it will be a mess for their next release.
The reasoning behind this is that they base each release on the latest version of Gnome. Gnome releases every six months. So Ubuntu releases a month or so after Gnome. If they delay a release, they either delay all future releases (which will get them off-sync with Gnome), or have a shortened next release cycle (which is what happened with 6.06 -> 6.10), meaning a less interesting next release (as many considered 6.10).
I used RealOne player as my sole audio player for quite some time. Once it was set up, it worked quite well. (The setup was a b!tch, though). I made the mistake of downloading version 2 when it was available. It was definitely a downgrade rather than an upgrade, and I did go back to version one for a while. I finally realized that I wanted to use a player that respected me, and started using winamp.
(Of course, now I'm using amarok, but that's another story...)
As opposed to say, windows 98? Or Office97,2000,2003,2007?
Not just that, but it appears that the original file was dual licensed to BSD and GPLv2.
What exactly is this article about?
Let us give thanks to his noodly appendage.
It's not that the heart "healed". What happens after a serious injury to the heart (whether a heart attack, viral infection, or anything else), is that the heart becomes weaker and tries to adapt. Things that physicians do to help the heart adapt in the right way (as opposed to the wrong way) include assist devices that will pump the blood forward. These include artificial hearts, left ventricular and biventricular assist devices, and intra-aortic balloon pumps. Other things that help people along are medications that help the heart rest and prevent the maladaptation that the heart will do on it's own if left to it's own means (the maladaptation is known as negative remodelling).
Given enough time, the heart may beat more effectively. I know a number of people whos hearts are pumping out less than 10 percent of the blood that enters it (normal is to pump out ~60 percent). Some of these people are crippled and await heart transplantation. A few, however, are out chasing the girls (and boys), and you wouldn't have any idea that they had a medical problem until you saw the number of medications that they take to stay well.
Macs don't crash (or at least, my dad's never crashed for me yet), but they do hang on occasion. I'm hoping that with the new version of Mac OS X coming out in a couple months, the hangs will be less frequent.
Frankly, I'm not sure what the article is trying to state.
If the code is released under GPLv3, then modifications of the code must be able to run on the same hardware. It doesn't matter if the key to run the code is a checksum or a password to give the hypervisor. Either way, if modification of the client cannot be dropped into the place of the original client (either to run on the same hardware or the same hypervisor), it's in abuse of the GPLv3.
How about if they have the contents of ram printed to paper every time the ram is refreshed.
The cost of paper may build up to something considerable after the first couple seconds...
Actually, all it takes is for one of the main package maintainers to change licenses for their packages. For instance, Samba (which is used for networking and file sharing with MSwindows systems) will have future versions released under GPL v3. Either Novell uses the newer Samba (which will trap Microsoft), or it does not use the newer Samba (and gets left behind).
This, of course, is based on the assumption that Microsoft distributing coupons for SuSE is akin to distributing the software.
It's still a nitch, but a growing one. The other group of people are, like me, people that already have Linux installed on a computer, and now need a new computer but don't have the time to build one from scratch.
I am certainly planning on buying my next computer with Linux pre-installed. Not because I am not going to wipe the drive as soon as I get it (because I will), but because I don't have to worry about the hardware not working with Linux.
Actually, this sounds reasonable. If an elected official cannot remember whether something happened or not, maybe they seek mandatory neurologic testing to make sure there isn't a reason. If he cannot remember a number of different events, maybe he/she should be institutionalized for his own safety.
You use an open format so that when you need to change software, you can do so. You also do it so that when the proprietary format is no longer supported (ie: Word95 doc, Wordstar, WordPerfect5.1), you are not left out in the cold.
The good guys?. These good guys (the European performing rights organizations in europe: SACEM, SGAE...) try to collect a fee on every damn cdr, dvdr, printer, mp3 player or even hd sold. Oh, and on Internet access too. Maybe the GP post was using "good" in a relative sense. As in, "Jack the Ripper" was a good guy. After all, he was never a member of the RIAA.
What it doesn't do is answer the basic question of why we need another set of document formats. We've heard this story before and we've always hated it. However, I'd love to hear from Apple about why TextEdit in Leopard supports ODF and iWork does not.
My guess is that iWork does stuff that is not currently defined in the ODF format. My hope is that the commission that is in charge of ODF will extend it to support everything available in iWork. (Those slide transitions in the iWork presentation software are pretty freakin' cool!)Making dinner.
Actually, I was under the impression that SUNW was a more respectable name. Workstation gives the suggestion of serious computer power.
I had no idea that the xbox had a good photo manager or iPod and iPhone support. I'll look into it if he asks for a different system in the future.
No company should surrender private communications to the government without a warrant. And if they do, the public can sued them.
I just tell people (when they ask; I'm not a zealot) that I run Linux. If they ask for specifics, I let them know.
:-)
It's more when they stop by my computer and they see it doing things that they don't have (like thumbnails of various file types in nautilus), that things get hairy.
I agree completely. I was in the habit of reimaging my dad's machine about once every 4-6 months due to just general slowdown and an unstable system. He finally asked for a new computer. I gave him two options. First was a Windows desktop which would be more of the same (a problem, since I had moved out and he would have to wait weeks or longer for me to fix his system), and the second was an iMac or Mac Mini.
Once he saw the iMac, he was sold. I haven't had to touch his system since the initial software setup and showing him how things worked, over a year and a half ago.
I still go to his place every few months, and run software update while I'm there, but he doesn't call me for problems ever.
He did call to go to the store with him to get an iPhone and help him install it. Once I talked him through that, he was embarrassed that he even had to ask.
By the way, my mom now complains that he is always in front of the computer. Was never a problem when he had MSWindows machines for over a decade. He just never used them much. Now he's playing around with his iTunes collections, and iPhoto, and email and g-d only knows what else.
How on earth does the sound and network subsystem overlap?
PCI resource scheduler issue? I'd love to see Disk I/O on a fast RAID Vs sound usage...
-nB I wonder if it depends on how loud the volume is on my speakers (looks at the volume dial, set at 11...and sweats...).
(Thankfully, I'm running XP at work and Ubuntu at home)
I don't know if this is possible with Vista, but on WinXP I just unzip the Firefox application to a folder on my desktop and run a link from there. Certainly better (and less painful) than running IE.
Actually, I'm using D2 on Firefox on WinXP and Ubuntu 7.04. I haven't noticed the quote button. Or any other buttons, for that matter.
Come to think of it, some nice icons in the text box would be nice.
Why not just run the river through a refrigerator to cool it down? After all, you can generate the electricity for the refrigerator in the plant.
(I'd patent the idea, but the patent office has a silly rule regarding perpetual motion machines that gets in the way...)