Great... just when I had mostly convinced the PHBs in management that yes, open source software was trustworthy, and that yes, good developers write Linux...
I'm not trolling, but maybe open source isn't ready for the enterprise.
'Cause Windows never have remote exploiting bugs, right? Yeah, not trolling.
If some coder did this at a company at least I'm pretty confident they'd get their ass fired...
Ok, you are really not trolling. You are for a +5 Funny. Sorry, now I understand.
Besides, in this debate, you are completely ignoring the other major advantages of DVCS over centralized ones: scalability, no single point of failure, possibility to work offline and have full access to all of the features of your VCS, usually faster than centralized VCS, low-cost branching/merging, etc.
Except that at a corporate environment only low-cost branching merging holds.
Any company would be free to take your code and incorporate it into their proprietary product, and you'd never see it again.
Except that would be no economical advantaje on doing that, since, as you said, you could copy the resulting product freely. The corporation that do things for no profit is yet to be born.
Came-on. We already made that experiment. Stop pretending that no copyrights on software is a new idea.
Your assumption that the specs will stay the same and the price will drop, rather than the price staying the same and the specs increasing, is highly questionable. The latter is the far more typical historical pattern.
The historical pattern is to both, price and performance, get better with time, as power consuption increases. But the current market is clearly different from the main history of computing, since we are talking about mobile devices, and history is focused on non-mobile ones.
By the end of this year, these machines will baseline with dual-core 1Ghz+ CPUs and 2-4G of RAM.
They'll probably be cheaper and use less power (lighter | highter battery life). It is very unlikely that manufacturers will choose to increase speed instead of reaching a broader market (unless they colude, of course).
Debian isn't targeting any ninche. But it wouldn't be alone not targeting the desktop on the list.
I personaly don't recomend Debian to desktop users, since the best part of it, the upgrade facilities, won't be used anyway and it comes with several shortcomings.
Well, since Windows is impossoble to set to get email the way that that section defines it (Windows simply does not do email, just pop and imap), and most other distros are a pitta for those same settings (what will disrupt cron and a few other daemons), I see no problem with that.
And an awful lot of Unix utilities and abilities have found their way into Linux, starting with the System V-compatible init. X, BASH (and its variants)...
I could understand you talking about X... System V-compatible init is simply that, compatible, you won't now say that Open Office uses MS Office code because it opens.doc documents, will you?
Now, "Bash (and its variants)"!?!?! You mean that shell created by Gnu? Sorry, no that wasn't in Unix before Gnu started developing tools.
I suppose our confidence in driving toward parallelism rests on intuition, such as analogizing that the brains of all higher animals are parallel processors therefore some solution to the problems of parallel computation must exist.
That and because the uncertainty principle (that of quantum mechanics) says that we can't keep increasing the speed of our switches (transistors) forever.
What happens when your language environment has bugs in how it generates and manages threads?
You fix the environment.
How much control would you have over what is being done behind the scenes?
How much do you want? If the environment was able to balance processor usage, communicatin overhead and responsiveness, why not use it? Do you schedule your programs manualy nowadays?
Too bad there isn't a viable alternative to hand made threads/processes.
I switched my sister to Linux several years ago because of games (but she now uses Windows for Auto-Cad:( ), my wife uses mainly Windows, but boots Linux when she wants a game, and my daugther simply knows of no Windows game (I also know of no one suitable for her age). Also, playing videos on Windows are getting near impossible (altough playing videos on a computer is still a geeky thing).
The bigest problems with Linux as it is instaled at my house are that Skype is old and it has Iceweasel installed instead of FireFox (what I am about to solve).
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I guess he is saying that the bug didn't make it to stable yet. Not the fix.
What is a joke. Please don't read the above and think you are safe.
"Criminal" and "Microsoft" obviousy aren't exclusve. Now, "terrorist" does never apply to companies, so I guess it excludes "Microsoft".
'Cause Windows never have remote exploiting bugs, right? Yeah, not trolling.
Ok, you are really not trolling. You are for a +5 Funny. Sorry, now I understand.
That is because everybody is still playing nethack. When most developers gain a nice number of times, they'll move on :)
Except that at a corporate environment only low-cost branching merging holds.
It's called anti-virus :)
Well, if the devices were really open, the carriers wouldn't be able to limit them.
Except that would be no economical advantaje on doing that, since, as you said, you could copy the resulting product freely. The corporation that do things for no profit is yet to be born.
Came-on. We already made that experiment. Stop pretending that no copyrights on software is a new idea.
That is because you didn't check the "WindowsLookAndFeel" option :)
By then, the onboard battery will already have failed, and data will be restored to January 1st 1970.
Well, one doesn't reshufle a B-tree... But I wouldn't be too surprised if I discover Windows is doing that.
The historical pattern is to both, price and performance, get better with time, as power consuption increases. But the current market is clearly different from the main history of computing, since we are talking about mobile devices, and history is focused on non-mobile ones.
They'll probably be cheaper and use less power (lighter | highter battery life). It is very unlikely that manufacturers will choose to increase speed instead of reaching a broader market (unless they colude, of course).
Like the command line?
Well, ok, XP professional has an SMTP server. I didn't know that. All the other are server products, not intended to be used at the desktop.
Debian isn't targeting any ninche. But it wouldn't be alone not targeting the desktop on the list.
I personaly don't recomend Debian to desktop users, since the best part of it, the upgrade facilities, won't be used anyway and it comes with several shortcomings.
That is Debian you are talking about. Ubuntu releases every 6 months.
Well, since Windows is impossoble to set to get email the way that that section defines it (Windows simply does not do email, just pop and imap), and most other distros are a pitta for those same settings (what will disrupt cron and a few other daemons), I see no problem with that.
I could understand you talking about X... System V-compatible init is simply that, compatible, you won't now say that Open Office uses MS Office code because it opens .doc documents, will you?
Now, "Bash (and its variants)"!?!?! You mean that shell created by Gnu? Sorry, no that wasn't in Unix before Gnu started developing tools.
That and because the uncertainty principle (that of quantum mechanics) says that we can't keep increasing the speed of our switches (transistors) forever.
You fix the environment.
How much do you want? If the environment was able to balance processor usage, communicatin overhead and responsiveness, why not use it? Do you schedule your programs manualy nowadays?
Too bad there isn't a viable alternative to hand made threads/processes.
If it is up there, I take my point away :)
Well, it would take a long time until amateurs could send things into space anyway.
Also, aligning 2 satelites isn't easy even for professionals.
That is nice...
I switched my sister to Linux several years ago because of games (but she now uses Windows for Auto-Cad :( ), my wife uses mainly Windows, but boots Linux when she wants a game, and my daugther simply knows of no Windows game (I also know of no one suitable for her age). Also, playing videos on Windows are getting near impossible (altough playing videos on a computer is still a geeky thing).
The bigest problems with Linux as it is instaled at my house are that Skype is old and it has Iceweasel installed instead of FireFox (what I am about to solve).
That makes me think... Does flash comes installed with Windows nowadays? How do (normal) people manage to whatch YouTube?