True, but Concorde was taken out of service for financial reasons, it simply wasn't economical given the limited routes it could fly. It would need about 2 stops for fuel to fly anywhere like Australia, all that landing and taking off takes time.
People care more about the cost and security of air travel. It was never about the sound (although that didn't help), it's just down to the cost of fuel and limited range of the craft.
SCO Unix is behind the times and they know they're losing customers to Linux, Sun and Microsoft. So instead of being creative and coming up with new products they've decided to take the easier strategy of suing their competitors to syphon off some of their hard earned cash.
Linux will get installed more if it can "upgrade" a Windows installation. You insert the CD, run a Setup.exe and it then installs Linux, it migrates your email and network settings and keeps all your files.
Of course, for this to be possible it would require the use of Microsoft development tools (non-free), so for most distributions to remain free-software (beer and speech) they would need to have a separate Winstall disk.
Erm, reset button? that requires physical access to the hardware. Having highly important network hardware with a backdoor is risky these days. You'd be better supplying password recovery software which operates on the console port.
But I can understand his disgust, Java had the potential (I say potential, it's only become fast enough in recent times) to solve many cross platform compatibility problem. Java isn't dead yet, but it doesn't have the marketplace to itself anymore.
The core of these desktops are fairly simple to use, it's the apps written for them that need more thought.
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Well I'm not on about Linus, I'm on about Rick Carey.
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I like the sentence about Linux an being imitation (of Windows) and that he'd rather pay for Windows and get innovation. What is he smoking?
Linux had a kernel HTTP acceleration before Windows did (Windows 2003 adds kernel IIS acceleration). Apache doesn't imitate IIS, Perl doesn't imitate VB etc..etc..
From a Linux perspective it's useful to have apps in their own directory to allow for easy removal, the disadvantage is when you want to backup all your settings. You then have to traverse all the app directories to find settings files and back those up and not the application files.
Given the low cost of Star Office and Open Office is this venture commercially viable? Word Perfect needs to offer a much higher quality product to be good value. Star Office and Open Office use freely available file formats, does Word Perfect? vendor lock-in is something people are trying to avoid by moving away from Microsoft Office.
Oh some companies need to be humiliated into fixing bugs (the beast of Redmond is guilty of this). But most exploits aren't exploited until they are announced.
They might also do for a cheap unix/linux developer box should a PC die unexpectedly at your work place. Being able to pop out and get a PC with Linux preloaded saves quite a bit of setup time and if that saves half a day of installation work that would save money.
The problem is such exploits are published and not referred to the companies in question for them to fix these faults.
By publishing exploits you are on one hand helping consumers choose their security software wisely, but on the other hand you are providing hackers will methods to penetrate systems.
True, but then your printer is good for nothing without ink, your PC is good for nothing if it has no software. If the systems are designed such that you can't hack them to do anything else and there are laws (DMCA) that say you can't publish the results, then you're stuffed.
If you don't manage to get them do other things then the comparison of a small piece of metal and plastic with a large pile of plastic, silicon etc.. is valid IMHO.
Just like Gillette virtually give away their shaving handles and printers cost next to nothing they're going towards making PCs like games consoles.
What is worrying is you can only succeed if you make you product unable to be used for anything else. So for games consoles you have to make it near impossible for anyone else to be able to write software (especially free software) for the device. For printers you need to make sure that nobody else can supply ink.
There's no such thing as a free lunch, you pay one way or another. If the hardware is next to free then the software will be subsidising it. The problem is for this to work for Microsoft they need a PC platform that can't run Linux, so I can see that their inroads into the BIOS, DRM etc... (see XBox for the beginnings of an implementation) are quite worrying.
Of course there will never be a situation where there won't be an x86 platform that can't run Linux, it is too popular in Japan, India and China.
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True, but Concorde was taken out of service for financial reasons, it simply wasn't economical given the limited routes it could fly. It would need about 2 stops for fuel to fly anywhere like Australia, all that landing and taking off takes time.
People care more about the cost and security of air travel. It was never about the sound (although that didn't help), it's just down to the cost of fuel and limited range of the craft.
SCO Unix is behind the times and they know they're losing customers to Linux, Sun and Microsoft. So instead of being creative and coming up with new products they've decided to take the easier strategy of suing their competitors to syphon off some of their hard earned cash.
Well this may turn out to be another stick to beat Linux with. FAT support would have to be removed.
Well at some point you have to link with some Microsoft code don't you? maybe not, I'm not familiar with how Windows applications startup etc...
Linux will get installed more if it can "upgrade" a Windows installation. You insert the CD, run a Setup.exe and it then installs Linux, it migrates your email and network settings and keeps all your files.
Of course, for this to be possible it would require the use of Microsoft development tools (non-free), so for most distributions to remain free-software (beer and speech) they would need to have a separate Winstall disk.
Erm, reset button? that requires physical access to the hardware. Having highly important network hardware with a backdoor is risky these days. You'd be better supplying password recovery software which operates on the console port.
Indeed, it's a common way of letting support staffs fix products. But I'm a little surprised it is still going on.
Next time I install Windows I'll use resource editors and other mods to change Windows into W*nk**s.
But when I hear that name I just think of Clint Eastwood in that daft film.
How about a long life brandname for Mozilla Firefox?
I'd suggest Mozilla lite or Mozilla Express.
Sun only needs to make 3,299 redundant now :)
But I can understand his disgust, Java had the potential (I say potential, it's only become fast enough in recent times) to solve many cross platform compatibility problem. Java isn't dead yet, but it doesn't have the marketplace to itself anymore.
The core of these desktops are fairly simple to use, it's the apps written for them that need more thought.
Well I'm not on about Linus, I'm on about Rick Carey.
I like the sentence about Linux an being imitation (of Windows) and that he'd rather pay for Windows and get innovation. What is he smoking?
Linux had a kernel HTTP acceleration before Windows did (Windows 2003 adds kernel IIS acceleration). Apache doesn't imitate IIS, Perl doesn't imitate VB etc..etc..
From a Linux perspective it's useful to have apps in their own directory to allow for easy removal, the disadvantage is when you want to backup all your settings. You then have to traverse all the app directories to find settings files and back those up and not the application files.
It seems like their stock is on the up again, it was down to about 7, but it's now up to 9.5.
Plenty of gullable suckers out there.
Given the low cost of Star Office and Open Office is this venture commercially viable? Word Perfect needs to offer a much higher quality product to be good value. Star Office and Open Office use freely available file formats, does Word Perfect? vendor lock-in is something people are trying to avoid by moving away from Microsoft Office.
Oh some companies need to be humiliated into fixing bugs (the beast of Redmond is guilty of this). But most exploits aren't exploited until they are announced.
They might also do for a cheap unix/linux developer box should a PC die unexpectedly at your work place. Being able to pop out and get a PC with Linux preloaded saves quite a bit of setup time and if that saves half a day of installation work that would save money.
You might already have Windows 2000 which is still a perfectly good OS.
The problem is such exploits are published and not referred to the companies in question for them to fix these faults.
By publishing exploits you are on one hand helping consumers choose their security software wisely, but on the other hand you are providing hackers will methods to penetrate systems.
True, but then your printer is good for nothing without ink, your PC is good for nothing if it has no software. If the systems are designed such that you can't hack them to do anything else and there are laws (DMCA) that say you can't publish the results, then you're stuffed.
If you don't manage to get them do other things then the comparison of a small piece of metal and plastic with a large pile of plastic, silicon etc.. is valid IMHO.
Just like Gillette virtually give away their shaving handles and printers cost next to nothing they're going towards making PCs like games consoles.
What is worrying is you can only succeed if you make you product unable to be used for anything else. So for games consoles you have to make it near impossible for anyone else to be able to write software (especially free software) for the device. For printers you need to make sure that nobody else can supply ink.
There's no such thing as a free lunch, you pay one way or another. If the hardware is next to free then the software will be subsidising it. The problem is for this to work for Microsoft they need a PC platform that can't run Linux, so I can see that their inroads into the BIOS, DRM etc... (see XBox for the beginnings of an implementation) are quite worrying.
Of course there will never be a situation where there won't be an x86 platform that can't run Linux, it is too popular in Japan, India and China.
For which Gnome is the default desktop. It forms the basis of Sun's Java desktop.