In the Net Applications webstats Win 7 has a 0.21% share of the global desktop. Linux - all flavors - 0.9%. Operating System Market Share
Does Ubuntu have 20% of the Linux desktop?
Net Applications provides services to clients who have no interest in counting licenses or the locked-down corporate desktop - only in hits to pages that reach their target mass-market audience.
The user for whom the OEM system install has been the gold standard for close on to thirty years.
That makes Win 7's showing in Beta all the more interesting.
If they knew about the judge before hand. If they did perhaps (in typical TPB fashion) they went through the trial knowing damn well they were going to use this to get out of it
Your plan is to ask an appellate court to reverse a decision based on an issue that you know should have raised before trial.
Something you kept quiet. The card up your sleeve.
You are an idiot.
In the American legal system - and surely in most others - it is enormously difficult to introduce new issues on appeal.
I sit there in front of windows and wonder, what can I do with this? I'm not sure its going to run the applications I need it to. The tables have turned.
Name one - just one - instantly recognizable F/OSS app that hasn't been ported to Windows or began as a native Windows app.
Over and over I have heard people say that you just use the usual configure, make, make install sequence to get a program running. Unfortunately, most people using computers today have never used a compiler or written a line of program code. With the advent of graphical user interfaces and applications builders, there are lots of serious programmers who have never done this.
I've got a netbook, which gets used heavily as an ultraportable machine. As long as you're sensible, it's fine. It's far from unusual for it to be running:
* Visual Studio
* OpenOffice showing some documentation or notes
* Web browser
* DB program of some description, usually SQLite Admin....
The geek frames everything in terms of his own needs and values.
Win SE is an OS for the raw beginner.
It is an OEM product for the third-world.
Localized down to native language tutorials on how to use a mouse.
It runs on the lowest of low end hardware.
We are not talking about an Atom netbook with a gig of RAM and a 160 GB HDD.
The Starter Edition is for raw beginners running Windows on low end OEM systems.
It is not an OS for the geek's dream machine - the dual-core Atom netbook with 2 GB RAM and 16 GB of Flash.
Win SE has in the past been localized down to the level of native language tutorials on how to use a mouse.
You can open as many windows as you want from a single program. So if you want to open 15 tabs in your browser, six images in your photo-editing program, and a couple of instant messenger windows, you can do it.
Windows Explorer windows don't count. So you can open as many file folders as you want
Basic Windows tools don't trigger the limit. You can run a Command Prompt window or open Task Manager even if you already have three programs open.
Most Control Panel applets don't count either.
Desktop gadgets...and some system utilities get to bypass the three-app limit.
Antivirus programs that run as a system service don't count.
The quests were ok for the most part, but lacked the obscure humor that made Fallout and F2 so much fun.
That "obscure humor" is for the most part the sci-fi nerd's trivia fest. You don't need that crutch when you something as distinctive and rich as the Fallout universe to build on.
They're not bound by the US Constitution since they're not the Federal Government and I highly doubt that you can classify a local school board as the State Government, so they're probably not bound by the State's Constitution, either. The schoolboard is subject to state _laws_ and local ordinances, neither of which say anything about this, I am guessing.
You would be guessing wrong.
I'll think you'll find that this language is typical:
The department's supervisory activities include chartering all educational institutions in the State, including schools, libraries, and historical societies; developing and approving school curricula; accrediting college and university programs; allocating State and federal financial aid to schools; and providing and coordinating vocational rehabilitation services.About the New York State Education Department
There was a Department of Public Instruction in recognizably modern form in 1853 and in embryo as early as 1812.
It's useful to remember the basics:
Local government in the U.S. has only the independence and authority a state is willing to give it.
States possess sovereignty within the Federal union, while local governments are not sovereign in any way, shape, or form, even within their respective states; on the contrary, they are governmental corporations chartered by (and whose charters may be revoked by) the legislature of the State whose boundaries they are within.Local government
It is otherwise known as Intel's "High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection", and implemented by Microsoft as "Protected Video" and
Protected Audio" Paths.
The practical meaning of which is that you now have a single HDMI cable feeding HD media and multichannel theater sound to your HT receiver.
Movies cost nothing anyway even on DVDs it's all about the service.
This is too dumb for words.
Most stories and scripts are never produced. You can spend a lot of money before deciding that this just isn't going to work.
The production budget for an A-list feature is $100-$200 million.
That is not the price of getting audiences into theaters or in line for PPV, the DVD or Blu-Ray disk.
Your hit films have to carry the weight of all the projects that fail.
You can minimize the risk by negotiating prior agreements for IMAX, broadcast and cable distribution.
Broadband penetration in the states is under 50%.
When metered billing comes into play - The Pirate Bay at $1 a GB doesn't look like much of a bargain. Not when 50 GB of Blu-Ray HD is $20 at WalMart.
The downloader cherry-picks the winners.
He is unlikely to pay full value for anything. He is unlikely to pay anything at all There is no reason for the studios to make his life any easier.
The first lesson of Marketing 101 is that you produce a product for your paying customers:
Well, your friend is going to have a hard time buying a car. Just about all of them have radios with ipod connectors (unless you buy a cheap shitbox vehicle).
His friend will have a tough time finding an after-market radio without an iPod connector.
He'd have a tough time trying to find anything in home audio that doesn't have an iPod docking port.
but at the local level, cities and towns should have been building out the last mile of service instead of granting local monopolies.
You are a councilman.
In a city where 45% of your population are on Food Stamps.
You can vote to raise sales and property taxes across the board to lay and maintain municipal fiber or you can let Comcast finance the project and collect a franchise fee.
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Linux shines a little brighter here.
But not by much.
Linux is flat-lined on the Net Applications charts, always has been. If it was a patient on a respirator, you would pull the plug.
But even the w3Schools stats show only bare 2% growth in market share for Linux over the past five years.
How much more "willing" can you get?
In the Net Applications webstats Win 7 has a 0.21% share of the global desktop. Linux - all flavors - 0.9%. Operating System Market Share
Does Ubuntu have 20% of the Linux desktop?
Net Applications provides services to clients who have no interest in counting licenses or the locked-down corporate desktop - only in hits to pages that reach their target mass-market audience.
The user for whom the OEM system install has been the gold standard for close on to thirty years.
That makes Win 7's showing in Beta all the more interesting.
Or you could you put your laptop into a low power hibernation or stand-by mode that "just works."
If they knew about the judge before hand. If they did perhaps (in typical TPB fashion) they went through the trial knowing damn well they were going to use this to get out of it
Your plan is to ask an appellate court to reverse a decision based on an issue that you know should have raised before trial.
Something you kept quiet. The card up your sleeve.
You are an idiot.
In the American legal system - and surely in most others - it is enormously difficult to introduce new issues on appeal.
Photoshop Elements 7 for XP and Vista at $70 currently ranks #4 in software sales at Amazon.com.
The geek never quite grasps the notion that publishers like Adobe compete for the mass market as well as the pro.
The alternative to the GIMP isn't Photoshop at $700 - it is Paint Shop Pro at $40 after the mail-in rebate.
The geek is always willing to bet that Microsoft [and Intel] can't compete at the low-end of the market.
It's a bit sad really.
Rather like watching the loser who can't resist feeding another coin into the slots at Vegas.
Name one - just one - instantly recognizable F/OSS app that hasn't been ported to Windows or began as a native Windows app.
Tip:
Over and over I have heard people say that you just use the usual configure, make, make install sequence to get a program running. Unfortunately, most people using computers today have never used a compiler or written a line of program code. With the advent of graphical user interfaces and applications builders, there are lots of serious programmers who have never done this.
configure; make; make install
[Linux Gazette, November 22, 2003]
This is nonsense:
These papers are classroom assignments.
You cannot keep them private.
You must - at the highest level - be prepared to orally defend your work against the best arguments the faculty has to offer.
The simplest analogy is to "works for hire."
Works that become the property of your employer.
I've got a netbook, which gets used heavily as an ultraportable machine. As long as you're sensible, it's fine. It's far from unusual for it to be running: ...
* Visual Studio
* OpenOffice showing some documentation or notes
* Web browser
* DB program of some description, usually SQLite Admin.
The geek frames everything in terms of his own needs and values.
Win SE is an OS for the raw beginner.
It is an OEM product for the third-world.
Localized down to native language tutorials on how to use a mouse.
It runs on the lowest of low end hardware.
We are not talking about an Atom netbook with a gig of RAM and a 160 GB HDD.
Win SE is - and always has been - an OS for the third-world - the absolute beginner whose native language may be Thai or Hindi.
The Starter Edition is for raw beginners running Windows on low end OEM systems.
It is not an OS for the geek's dream machine - the dual-core Atom netbook with 2 GB RAM and 16 GB of Flash.
Win SE has in the past been localized down to the level of native language tutorials on how to use a mouse.
You can open as many windows as you want from a single program. So if you want to open 15 tabs in your browser, six images in your photo-editing program, and a couple of instant messenger windows, you can do it.
Windows Explorer windows don't count. So you can open as many file folders as you want
Basic Windows tools don't trigger the limit. You can run a Command Prompt window or open Task Manager even if you already have three programs open.
Most Control Panel applets don't count either.
Desktop gadgets...and some system utilities get to bypass the three-app limit.
Antivirus programs that run as a system service don't count.
Living within the limits of Windows 7 Starter Edition
That "obscure humor" is for the most part the sci-fi nerd's trivia fest. You don't need that crutch when you something as distinctive and rich as the Fallout universe to build on.
You don't need the sound card with optical out. You only need a video card that supports audio over HDMI.
You would be guessing wrong.
I'll think you'll find that this language is typical:
The department's supervisory activities include chartering all educational institutions in the State, including schools, libraries, and historical societies; developing and approving school curricula; accrediting college and university programs; allocating State and federal financial aid to schools; and providing and coordinating vocational rehabilitation services. About the New York State Education Department
There was a Department of Public Instruction in recognizably modern form in 1853 and in embryo as early as 1812.
It's useful to remember the basics:
Local government in the U.S. has only the independence and authority a state is willing to give it.
States possess sovereignty within the Federal union, while local governments are not sovereign in any way, shape, or form, even within their respective states; on the contrary, they are governmental corporations chartered by (and whose charters may be revoked by) the legislature of the State whose boundaries they are within. Local government
In what numbers?
Florida was for generations a winter resort. It grew oranges. In 1930 it had a population of one million.
The initial impetus for importing black slaves into the South was the climate. Their owners retreated as far north as Canada in summer.
Sailors all over the world use small wind generators to charge their batteries while at anchor.
That doesn't tell me anything if I don't know the size of the battery or the rate of charge.
Sunforce Air X Marine Wind Turbine 12 Volts. 400 Watts at 28 mph. 46" Blades. $750.
It strikes me that anchoring in 28 mph winds would keep you usefully occupied managing other problems.
The practical meaning of which is that you now have a single HDMI cable feeding HD media and multichannel theater sound to your HT receiver.
This is too dumb for words.
Most stories and scripts are never produced. You can spend a lot of money before deciding that this just isn't going to work.
The production budget for an A-list feature is $100-$200 million. That is not the price of getting audiences into theaters or in line for PPV, the DVD or Blu-Ray disk.
Your hit films have to carry the weight of all the projects that fail.
You can minimize the risk by negotiating prior agreements for IMAX, broadcast and cable distribution.
Broadband penetration in the states is under 50%.
When metered billing comes into play - The Pirate Bay at $1 a GB doesn't look like much of a bargain. Not when 50 GB of Blu-Ray HD is $20 at WalMart.
The downloader cherry-picks the winners.
He is unlikely to pay full value for anything. He is unlikely to pay anything at all There is no reason for the studios to make his life any easier.
The first lesson of Marketing 101 is that you produce a product for your paying customers:
Hannah Montana, High School Musical XII
His friend will have a tough time finding an after-market radio without an iPod connector.
He'd have a tough time trying to find anything in home audio that doesn't have an iPod docking port.
You are a councilman.
In a city where 45% of your population are on Food Stamps.
You can vote to raise sales and property taxes across the board to lay and maintain municipal fiber or you can let Comcast finance the project and collect a franchise fee.
Except perhaps ME and Vista.
I don't see the joke.
Vista's share of the desktop is 23 times that of Linux.
Windows 7 - which the geek persists in calling a "Service Pack" for Vista - has 1/5 of Linux's share of the web.
Operating System Market Share
Microsoft BOB is close on to fifteen years dead.
---and yet--and yet ---
The moment you begin moving in a virtual environment and interacting with a character instead of a dialog box you are back in BOB's world.
Why do we keep trusting a dishonest Justice system. The system is rigged. There is no Justice in the Legal system none.
There is the smell of prime grade ham in every Slashdot performance.
It is scarcely a secret that the federal courts have always been hostile to broadcasting their proceedings - and for precisely that reason.
This is simply cherry-picking.
Midtown Manhattan is not your typical American city.