Could be a dry cold vs. moist cold thing. This was right by lake St Claire in Michigan. Then again it could also be the crappy door seals on the old Mazda beater I had back then too, I used to have to scrape the outside and inside of my windows.
You probably don't live up north were forgetting to eject your tape before a night of -20 temps sets you up for a morning helping of tape spaghetti in your car stereo. I don't miss those times at all.
It's possible, they don't have much debt and still have a customer base that some would see as valuable. The one major drawback is the IBM patent infringement lawsuits. $50 million is going to be a mere down payment on the fine if IBM wins those suits. Company's with pending litigation of that kind of magnitude do not make good takeover targets.
You mean partitions and it will *work* from a smaller parition to a larger one but you'll be unable to access the extra space. since the filesytem will be sized to the smaller partition due to the imaging.
Ummm... having the software is not breaking the law, just like having a shotgun is not breaking the law. If you *choose* to use that software to illegally copy a broadcast or use that rifle to shoot someone, then YOU are the one breaking the law, it's not GNU or Winchester that are at fault. There's NO hypocracy there.
"Why should code submitted randomly by some hacker in China and distributed by some open source project, why is that, by definition, better?"
How about because I can look at that code, know 100% for certain what it does, and fix / customize / improve that code as I see fit? By definition, that does make it "better".
Dude, not to be a jerk but that's why there are different distros targeted at different segments. You want easy breezy no password point and click? Use Xandros, Lycoris, or Lindows. SuSE is for intermediate to advanced users. You want voodoo black magic? Use Gentoo.
Anyhow, I'll be 100% honest, if they want to use their PC to play games, Linux ain't where they should be. I've said this prolly 80 times before. I play games on my Linux box but I know / understand / accept that the selection is going to be limited.
I use to be all for Linux conquering the OS market but as time went on I came to understand that there's some desktop real estate that Linux shouldn't want to own. That segment is the home user that *thinks* they know what they're doing but really only know just enough to make a mess. I'd be happy to see Linux push MS out of the data center, off corporate desktops, and limit them to the mid range home user segment that's the source of 95% of all support problems.
- built-in p2p
+ Why?, use gAIM or Kopete. Are you referring to the MSN nonsense that's forced upon users in XP?
- better CD burning tools
+ with 2.4.21 you can use K3B with ATAPI CD burners which gives you 95% of what you get in Nero
- better attachment handling
+ this is a tricky one, define better. I'm assuming you mean Outlook like attachment handling. I'd want anything like this disabled by default but there's likely to be a point of contention there
I'm not questioning your choice of applications, that's what Linux is about, choice. However, this is also the reason I don't realistically think one distro to rule them all will ever take hold. My felling is that there are simply too many different types of Linux users, each with their own preferences, many of them etched in stone, to try to bring a Microsoft-like "homogeneity" to the Linux world.
Not to nitpick but Kazaa isn't based on Gnutella, it's based on FastTrack. They're both P2P but FastTrack is a closed system while Gnutella is an open one.
Ummmm... you're assuming "quality" has something to do with it. MS has repeatedly proven that quality is irrelevant, it's all about the install base. MS has the install base covered. Macromedia is about to join the long list of distinguished products that Microsoft decides it wanted to decimate, namely Wordperfect, Lotus 1-2-3, AOL AIM, Netscape, Real, and now Flash. Long story short, don't play nice with Microsoft because they have no LONG TERM intention of playing nice with you.
Wrong, it's was to facilitate merging. BK has very god merging capabilities compared to CVS. Besides, you obviously haven't tried to submit a patch to Linus, he's renowned for turing down patches, especially from those he doesn't know and trust.
do we have any reason to believe that all of the Windows code in the Diebold machines was written on American soil?
Nope, here's a quote from the link and note the choice of the word "continue":
"To meet the needs of our customers worldwide, we expect to continue to invest in a technical work force in India to assist us with our expanding product development, information technology and customer support functions," a Microsoft India executive was quoting as saying.
Ummm... I don't know what you're talking about. You can burn *ANY* tunes you buy from Apple to a CD-R and use that 20 years down the line assuming the CD-R is still good. WMA dies when MS decides it wants you to upgrade. In terms of easy to use, AAC doesn't fly for non-iPods and I hate having to boot Win2K under vmware to burn CDs via iTunes. However, it's liveable (more liveable than WMA) until Apple puts out a Linux version of iTunes.
YaST is not closed source. Full source code is provided. However, it's not GPLd it's under some other license.
Also, you're confusing the releases. SuSE has no runtime licenses for their desktop release. You're thinking of a previous product that bundled Crossover and some disk partitioning software and they've since pulled that one.
As for offering ISOs, you can easily mirror the RPMs from their ftp site, burn to a CD, and you're done.
I'm not saying SuSE are saints but one could argue that they've contributed more to the *desktop* via KDE and ALSA than RedHat. Anyhow, RedHat isn't evil, they just made a decision that a lot of people here equate to "caving in to MS" by giving up the desktop. It's not all negative since it allows a competing distro like SuSE room to grow unhindered but it does send a message of "don't waste your time here" to the desktop market. Besides, if these sort of things didn't happen,/. would be a pretty boring place!
That's kinda my concern. I can't imagine Novell seeing SuSE's install base as a vehicle to get their products installed, it's simply not that big. It'll be interesting to see what direction they move the distro towards. A RH-esque move towards the server would really put a crimp in the workstation Linux market. I've always like SuSE because it worked nicely for everything from headless servers, to highend workstations, down to mid-90s mail/surf PCs.
I agree with you but I'm curious, why would a public voting system be based on closed-source software? Is it to obscure the code to prevent fraud? We know for a fact that security through obscurity doesn't work. Is it to protect the copyright of the software author? No, that's what copyright law is for. So, that leaves only as a means to hide the underlying process. Not exactly something desirable for public elections. I believe there's a place for closed source solutions and a place for open source solutions. A building security system is a place for closed source solutions since few have a vested interest in the underlying mechanisms. On the other hand, a voting both is a place for open source solutions since we all have a vested interest in the underlying mechansim.
It used to be, at least according to the US gov, when a computer could hit the 1 gigaflop mark and that meant export restrictions. However, that's no big deal these days so I guess the definition is really dated if they haven't bumped it to 1 teraflop.
For example, Microsoft forcing all PC vendors to use Windows would be a bad thing.
Last I heard, Microsoft was forcing all PC vendors to use Windows through withholding marketing kickbacks. Anyhow that's besides the point, you're confusing "commercial" software with "open source" software. Just because a piece of software is open source does not mean it has to be free. RedHat is open source but their software is certainly not free. MySQL is open source but it is also commercial software. Commercial software is not a bad thing but closed source software is. If MS Windows was open source, companies could hire you directly to make changes to Windows for them rather than forking that money over to Steve and Bill. That way you would get to keep that 80% profit margin that they would otherwise get.
I don't consider myself a zealot, in fact, if anything, I'm a reformed Microsoft zealot. The funny thing is that I also gave away / sold all my Microsoft peripherals and replaced them with Logitech and IBM ones, thinking I was alone in my apparently odd behavior. To me the idea of supporting a company who's fondest wish is to see my company out of business, even if I was only using it's branded peripherals, was simply too much to be starring me in the face all day.
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Could be a dry cold vs. moist cold thing. This was right by lake St Claire in Michigan. Then again it could also be the crappy door seals on the old Mazda beater I had back then too, I used to have to scrape the outside and inside of my windows.
You probably don't live up north were forgetting to eject your tape before a night of -20 temps sets you up for a morning helping of tape spaghetti in your car stereo. I don't miss those times at all.
Why isn't that gold tone PS2 case available in North America??? Even better, put out a special edition platinum tone case.
before some grammar Nazi comes along ...
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It's possible, they don't have much debt and still have a customer base that some would see as valuable. The one major drawback is the IBM patent infringement lawsuits. $50 million is going to be a mere down payment on the fine if IBM wins those suits. Company's with pending litigation of that kind of magnitude do not make good takeover targets.
You mean partitions and it will *work* from a smaller parition to a larger one but you'll be unable to access the extra space. since the filesytem will be sized to the smaller partition due to the imaging.
Ummm ... having the software is not breaking the law, just like having a shotgun is not breaking the law. If you *choose* to use that software to illegally copy a broadcast or use that rifle to shoot someone, then YOU are the one breaking the law, it's not GNU or Winchester that are at fault. There's NO hypocracy there.
"Why should code submitted randomly by some hacker in China and distributed by some open source project, why is that, by definition, better?"
How about because I can look at that code, know 100% for certain what it does, and fix / customize / improve that code as I see fit? By definition, that does make it "better".
Dude, not to be a jerk but that's why there are different distros targeted at different segments. You want easy breezy no password point and click? Use Xandros, Lycoris, or Lindows. SuSE is for intermediate to advanced users. You want voodoo black magic? Use Gentoo.
Anyhow, I'll be 100% honest, if they want to use their PC to play games, Linux ain't where they should be. I've said this prolly 80 times before. I play games on my Linux box but I know / understand / accept that the selection is going to be limited.
I use to be all for Linux conquering the OS market but as time went on I came to understand that there's some desktop real estate that Linux shouldn't want to own. That segment is the home user that *thinks* they know what they're doing but really only know just enough to make a mess. I'd be happy to see Linux push MS out of the data center, off corporate desktops, and limit them to the mid range home user segment that's the source of 95% of all support problems.
Curiosity ...
- built-in p2p
+ Why?, use gAIM or Kopete. Are you referring to the MSN nonsense that's forced upon users in XP?
- better CD burning tools
+ with 2.4.21 you can use K3B with ATAPI CD burners which gives you 95% of what you get in Nero
- better attachment handling
+ this is a tricky one, define better. I'm assuming you mean Outlook like attachment handling. I'd want anything like this disabled by default but there's likely to be a point of contention there
I'm not questioning your choice of applications, that's what Linux is about, choice. However, this is also the reason I don't realistically think one distro to rule them all will ever take hold. My felling is that there are simply too many different types of Linux users, each with their own preferences, many of them etched in stone, to try to bring a Microsoft-like "homogeneity" to the Linux world.
You're right it's not, OS-X uses Quartz natively, not X-Windows.
Not to nitpick but Kazaa isn't based on Gnutella, it's based on FastTrack. They're both P2P but FastTrack is a closed system while Gnutella is an open one.
the only part of IT you have ever been involved with is PC's running Windows and a couple of small servers
Although I don't like stereotypes, you've just described at least 3/4 of the posters on Slashdot with that one.
Ummmm ... you're assuming "quality" has something to do with it. MS has repeatedly proven that quality is irrelevant, it's all about the install base. MS has the install base covered. Macromedia is about to join the long list of distinguished products that Microsoft decides it wanted to decimate, namely Wordperfect, Lotus 1-2-3, AOL AIM, Netscape, Real, and now Flash. Long story short, don't play nice with Microsoft because they have no LONG TERM intention of playing nice with you.
Wrong, it's was to facilitate merging. BK has very god merging capabilities compared to CVS. Besides, you obviously haven't tried to submit a patch to Linus, he's renowned for turing down patches, especially from those he doesn't know and trust.
do we have any reason to believe that all of the Windows code in the Diebold machines was written on American soil?
Nope, here's a quote from the link and note the choice of the word "continue":
"To meet the needs of our customers worldwide, we expect to continue to invest in a technical work force in India to assist us with our expanding product development, information technology and customer support functions," a Microsoft India executive was quoting as saying.
Ummm ... I don't know what you're talking about. You can burn *ANY* tunes you buy from Apple to a CD-R and use that 20 years down the line assuming the CD-R is still good. WMA dies when MS decides it wants you to upgrade. In terms of easy to use, AAC doesn't fly for non-iPods and I hate having to boot Win2K under vmware to burn CDs via iTunes. However, it's liveable (more liveable than WMA) until Apple puts out a Linux version of iTunes.
YaST is not closed source. Full source code is provided. However, it's not GPLd it's under some other license.
/. would be a pretty boring place!
Also, you're confusing the releases. SuSE has no runtime licenses for their desktop release. You're thinking of a previous product that bundled Crossover and some disk partitioning software and they've since pulled that one.
As for offering ISOs, you can easily mirror the RPMs from their ftp site, burn to a CD, and you're done.
I'm not saying SuSE are saints but one could argue that they've contributed more to the *desktop* via KDE and ALSA than RedHat. Anyhow, RedHat isn't evil, they just made a decision that a lot of people here equate to "caving in to MS" by giving up the desktop. It's not all negative since it allows a competing distro like SuSE room to grow unhindered but it does send a message of "don't waste your time here" to the desktop market. Besides, if these sort of things didn't happen,
That's kinda my concern. I can't imagine Novell seeing SuSE's install base as a vehicle to get their products installed, it's simply not that big. It'll be interesting to see what direction they move the distro towards. A RH-esque move towards the server would really put a crimp in the workstation Linux market. I've always like SuSE because it worked nicely for everything from headless servers, to highend workstations, down to mid-90s mail/surf PCs.
I agree with you but I'm curious, why would a public voting system be based on closed-source software? Is it to obscure the code to prevent fraud? We know for a fact that security through obscurity doesn't work. Is it to protect the copyright of the software author? No, that's what copyright law is for. So, that leaves only as a means to hide the underlying process. Not exactly something desirable for public elections. I believe there's a place for closed source solutions and a place for open source solutions. A building security system is a place for closed source solutions since few have a vested interest in the underlying mechanisms. On the other hand, a voting both is a place for open source solutions since we all have a vested interest in the underlying mechansim.
It used to be, at least according to the US gov, when a computer could hit the 1 gigaflop mark and that meant export restrictions. However, that's no big deal these days so I guess the definition is really dated if they haven't bumped it to 1 teraflop.
For example, Microsoft forcing all PC vendors to use Windows would be a bad thing.
Last I heard, Microsoft was forcing all PC vendors to use Windows through withholding marketing kickbacks. Anyhow that's besides the point, you're confusing "commercial" software with "open source" software. Just because a piece of software is open source does not mean it has to be free. RedHat is open source but their software is certainly not free. MySQL is open source but it is also commercial software. Commercial software is not a bad thing but closed source software is. If MS Windows was open source, companies could hire you directly to make changes to Windows for them rather than forking that money over to Steve and Bill. That way you would get to keep that 80% profit margin that they would otherwise get.
Looks like a few XUL based enhancments. Not that that's a bad thing but the majority of this is based on work the Mozilla devs put in.
I don't consider myself a zealot, in fact, if anything, I'm a reformed Microsoft zealot. The funny thing is that I also gave away / sold all my Microsoft peripherals and replaced them with Logitech and IBM ones, thinking I was alone in my apparently odd behavior. To me the idea of supporting a company who's fondest wish is to see my company out of business, even if I was only using it's branded peripherals, was simply too much to be starring me in the face all day.