To be fair, you can't completely trust proprietary software either. Also, you can't completely trust your hardware to not come already compromised. You can't completely trust your bank either.
There are varying degrees of trust, for everything.
That is because you need to search, you can't have tens of thousands of programs available for installation and not have a tens of thousand of items long list of programs. If grep and vi navigation aren't for you, use synaptic, there is a search bar on plain sight once you open it.
Linux's development model is "you make it, and if it is any good, it will go to the kernel". That is closest to agile than waterfall, but even then, calling it agile is a bit stretching.
Differently from the developers, the people that complain that this is a bug know that calc isn't a fully algebraic calculator, so reordering the operations make no sense at all.
When you have a calculator that displays something other than a number, you can start using something other than a number as state.
You know, I like using a calculator that I know how the operators are ordered even when I don't follow it with the same calculation on my head.
Anyway, if it is displaying '5', when I press '*2' it should change to 10, despite any other key that I've pressed before, with the only exception of '()', that are there for a reason. Also, it should show me when it is in the parenthesis mode.
And, after you ask me, the scientific calculator I'm used to does exactly that, like standard ones. I've never met a calculator that does something different*, except by MS's calc.
* Some of them delay the result, those are called 'algebraic', others reoder the operator, so there is no ambiguity, those need to show a stack. But no one of them will display only the number '5' and when pressed '*2' will give you '7' as result.
You may not find an explicit reference at any summary, but, except for a few details, every technology that gets out of the TC community is directed against local attacks. Why else do you think that there is no wire transmitting unencrypted data, for example? A remote attacker doesn't have access to your wires.
"So what exactly the direction is Microsoft taking?"
Secificaly on this case, MS is going on the direction that EU court ordered them to go, backed with with multi-billion fines and treats of closing the european market for Microsoft.
And, by the way, MS lied and postponed this decision for a few years (and a few billion on fines) before giving up.
Microsoft isn't accountable for windows doing anything. Red Hat, by the other way, will work at your place to solve every little problem that your unique configuration causes. But your CEO doesn't know that, he thinks that it is MS that solves all Windows' problems, and that those guys that run around every time your computers have problems are just making some cooper. So, don't expect him to understand. To make things worse, every time you try to point that MS support never did something useful for your company, somebody will come with an event where they called MS support and could get some kind of answer. You can't contest the usefulness of such an answer on a non-technical meeting, so you will lose the argument.
To keep matters simple, forget about accountability and focus on the GP's list. It is a great one.
"Standard edition license includes 1 phys server + 1 VM (on the same server)
Enterprise includes 1 phys server + 4 VM (again on the same server)
Datacenter includes unlimited server licenses of any type"
Just to clarify, those VM licenses give you the right to run a VM, not the right to run Windows on a virtual machine. So, if you buy a Windows Standard, you can run 1 Linux VM on it, not 2, not a Windows VM. If you want a Windows VM, you need another Windows license.
MS sellers will outright lie about this unless you make them write down the terms, so every time you talk with a MS representative, you should disconsider everything he says and, instead, ask for everything written. Even then, you'll have a confusing document, make sure to clarify everything (and write the clarifications) before closing any contract.
That is how I think, since I use KDE, I don't even install a DE with Debian, just the basic system, and them go with aptitude. But I wouldn't advice that for any distro that hopes to attract people. Really, almost everybody likes to have the kitchen sinc already installed and running.
Debian installer does not use a GUI, and you can still opt-out of installing one just by deselecting "Desktop environment". But partition is really annoying.
The funny thing is that my perception is that Debian is easier to use than Ubuntu. It comes out of the box on a more complete state, has less problems with hardware (except for 3D acceleration) and updates better. It has also a more varied collection of software, that would take a bit of work installing on an Ubuntu system.
I can see why having 3D acceleration out of the box is a win for some people, but for me, the downsides of Ubuntu are much bigger than the upsides.
"I have no idea what you mean by faster memories, though."
It is quite hard to conceive an application that makes use of an entire block of 4GB and runs smoothly on some 600MHz serial (ok, series of words, but still not massively parallel) bus. Needing a lot of data implies processing a lot of data, consequently, accessing a lot of data.
My bet is that massively parallel non-uniform memories will lead to lots of improvements on AI (I've already hit some problems that would stop being on such on architecture). That could be done inserting lots of small slow processing cores at the same chip that the memory comes, of course, that isn't easy, but theoretically could be done.
There are quite few possible apps that need use more than 2GB of memory alone. The couple that come to my mind are databases and, like someone already pointed, virtualization.
Now, some advances on interface research may lead to only 64-bit windowing systems, but the only way I can see that being need is for 3D, and well, I'm not a beliver on 3D interfaces taking over the world... Also, I can see some AI needing to be 64-bit only, but nobody is even near there yet.
It looks like that we'll need way faster memories before an individual desktop application starts using more than 2GB. That will probably take a long time.
I remember an experiment NASA made when I was a child, they applied on Earth a sensor they'd send to look for life at other planets. The best evidence of life it found on Earth was methane.
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To be fair, you can't completely trust proprietary software either. Also, you can't completely trust your hardware to not come already compromised. You can't completely trust your bank either.
There are varying degrees of trust, for everything.
Are you talking about Wondows? Because Windows' Add/Remove programs can not add a program, just remove.
You can't compare both.
That is because you need to search, you can't have tens of thousands of programs available for installation and not have a tens of thousand of items long list of programs. If grep and vi navigation aren't for you, use synaptic, there is a search bar on plain sight once you open it.
Linux's development model is "you make it, and if it is any good, it will go to the kernel". That is closest to agile than waterfall, but even then, calling it agile is a bit stretching.
Well, ok. Maybe different contracts, with different representatives.
That goes to show that RH behavior isn't that homogeneous.
Are you crazy? Those things will NEVER get over the event horizon!!!
You'd better generate the anti-matter right here at our universe, and make sure to reduce its temperature to exactly 3K before radiating.
Well, superconductors have zero resistivity. Very smallish tiny amounts aren't zero.
Several characteristics of a superconductor depend on the resistivity being exactly zero.
Not when that <Windows program> is a turing complete interpreter.
Except for VB...
Differently from the developers, the people that complain that this is a bug know that calc isn't a fully algebraic calculator, so reordering the operations make no sense at all.
When you have a calculator that displays something other than a number, you can start using something other than a number as state.
I've got some problems with it, but never understood that the scientific mode did operation reordering. It just showed the wrong results some times.
Anyway, now I'm used to press ENTER before I do any calculation different from addition.
You know, I like using a calculator that I know how the operators are ordered even when I don't follow it with the same calculation on my head.
Anyway, if it is displaying '5', when I press '*2' it should change to 10, despite any other key that I've pressed before, with the only exception of '()', that are there for a reason. Also, it should show me when it is in the parenthesis mode.
And, after you ask me, the scientific calculator I'm used to does exactly that, like standard ones. I've never met a calculator that does something different*, except by MS's calc.
* Some of them delay the result, those are called 'algebraic', others reoder the operator, so there is no ambiguity, those need to show a stack. But no one of them will display only the number '5' and when pressed '*2' will give you '7' as result.
You may not find an explicit reference at any summary, but, except for a few details, every technology that gets out of the TC community is directed against local attacks. Why else do you think that there is no wire transmitting unencrypted data, for example? A remote attacker doesn't have access to your wires.
Secificaly on this case, MS is going on the direction that EU court ordered them to go, backed with with multi-billion fines and treats of closing the european market for Microsoft.
And, by the way, MS lied and postponed this decision for a few years (and a few billion on fines) before giving up.
Microsoft isn't accountable for windows doing anything. Red Hat, by the other way, will work at your place to solve every little problem that your unique configuration causes. But your CEO doesn't know that, he thinks that it is MS that solves all Windows' problems, and that those guys that run around every time your computers have problems are just making some cooper. So, don't expect him to understand. To make things worse, every time you try to point that MS support never did something useful for your company, somebody will come with an event where they called MS support and could get some kind of answer. You can't contest the usefulness of such an answer on a non-technical meeting, so you will lose the argument.
To keep matters simple, forget about accountability and focus on the GP's list. It is a great one.
Just to clarify, those VM licenses give you the right to run a VM, not the right to run Windows on a virtual machine. So, if you buy a Windows Standard, you can run 1 Linux VM on it, not 2, not a Windows VM. If you want a Windows VM, you need another Windows license.
MS sellers will outright lie about this unless you make them write down the terms, so every time you talk with a MS representative, you should disconsider everything he says and, instead, ask for everything written. Even then, you'll have a confusing document, make sure to clarify everything (and write the clarifications) before closing any contract.
Hum... If not even the advanced users cared about the options, there wouldn't really be a reason to keep them as options, would it?
Now, you must have a point if nearly every one of them was changing for the same set of options, but there isn't anything implying that.
That is how I think, since I use KDE, I don't even install a DE with Debian, just the basic system, and them go with aptitude. But I wouldn't advice that for any distro that hopes to attract people. Really, almost everybody likes to have the kitchen sinc already installed and running.
Debian installer does not use a GUI, and you can still opt-out of installing one just by deselecting "Desktop environment". But partition is really annoying.
The funny thing is that my perception is that Debian is easier to use than Ubuntu. It comes out of the box on a more complete state, has less problems with hardware (except for 3D acceleration) and updates better. It has also a more varied collection of software, that would take a bit of work installing on an Ubuntu system.
I can see why having 3D acceleration out of the box is a win for some people, but for me, the downsides of Ubuntu are much bigger than the upsides.
Hey, nice to meet you. If you ever come to Brasilia, also, send me one.
It is quite hard to conceive an application that makes use of an entire block of 4GB and runs smoothly on some 600MHz serial (ok, series of words, but still not massively parallel) bus. Needing a lot of data implies processing a lot of data, consequently, accessing a lot of data.
My bet is that massively parallel non-uniform memories will lead to lots of improvements on AI (I've already hit some problems that would stop being on such on architecture). That could be done inserting lots of small slow processing cores at the same chip that the memory comes, of course, that isn't easy, but theoretically could be done.
There are quite few possible apps that need use more than 2GB of memory alone. The couple that come to my mind are databases and, like someone already pointed, virtualization.
Now, some advances on interface research may lead to only 64-bit windowing systems, but the only way I can see that being need is for 3D, and well, I'm not a beliver on 3D interfaces taking over the world... Also, I can see some AI needing to be 64-bit only, but nobody is even near there yet.
It looks like that we'll need way faster memories before an individual desktop application starts using more than 2GB. That will probably take a long time.
I remember an experiment NASA made when I was a child, they applied on Earth a sensor they'd send to look for life at other planets. The best evidence of life it found on Earth was methane.
One of your torpedoes is trying to launch.
Allow | Deny
One of your torpedoes is enabling a tracking mechanism.
Allow | Deny
One of your torpedoes is trying to blow a ship.
Allow | Deny
KPatience?