Well, I have no idea if the thread would be here or not, but the entire thing is not a big deal, except for the opt-out part. If it was opt-in, and still appeared at/., I'd be complaining about editorial quality...
About pop-con, I enable it at my home desktops. I don't enable it at anything that is actualy important and constantly on the net. I do that because there are very real privacy issues with it, and I won't risk anything I can't format without getting any data out before. (Yep, that probably skews their stats as I'm probably not the only one doing that, but pop-con probably isn't targeted at servers anyway, it should be biased into desktops.)
I'm with you here, that if MS asked me for the same kind data, I'd refuse to give it to them. In fact, I refuse to give any data I can to them.
Every release of Windows works that way, since the 95 time. It may have worked that way earlier too, but I can't know.
Every time there is a release of Windows on the go, people start to try it and publuish their opinions, it only changed from the print into the web. Most of the times, that opinion is aligned with the opinion people have after the OS is released (the only exception I can remember of being ME). Every time a few of the opinions are too aligned with MS or one of their competitors to be taken at face value. (It's not the first time MS has competitors, you know...)
So, all the applications that actualy do something are going to be scary, and the toys are not? I agree, it seems like MS wants to do that, but I disagree with MS that it is a good strategy for them. In a short time Windows will be relegated to the "toy" status.
Hell, we are in a time where corporations can't fail, whatever they do; and people must not think, whatever is done to them. In times like that, selling a toy to both of those is a great idea... It just can't last forever.
Targeted advertising should at least have the decency to be sneaky, not obvious.
I prefer it obvious. Better yet if it anounces itself.
But you are complaining that it is too overreaching. Like when after you buy a book at Amazon, you suddenly receive some spam from dozens of new adressess that you still didn't block.
Some systems are better than others, and some formats are more redundant.
Within a year tapes behave well if you test them and discard the non-functional ones. As archiving media they show the same problems of optical media, altough they take longet to deteriorate.
Oh, and if you save a completely non-redundant file without adding any redundance at backup time, you have a big chance of not recovering it. Whatever media you use (but you'll need to mess a lot with HDs or SSDs to make non-redundant writes).
Why are you even complaining about that? This project is not to remove the console, it is to make a new console.
By the way, "linux single" still works on grub by default, Ubuntu must have added some weard config to it, just reconfigure the beast, and it will be back. The kernel video modes are there for a reason, the console gets much better in high definition. If you like big letters, just setup a big font. And the startup screen, it is just matter of removing one package, but I don't remember its name. Yeah, it may be better to just not install Ubuntu. There is still Mint, or if you don't like that (I never used Mint, so I don't know), plain Debian.
If the inventors of yesteryears were as greedy as Apple - We are sure going to miss out on the many things that we are enjoying today
There mostly were. The great things we have now are here because either the patents expired or a odd inventor decided against patenting it, and overtook the entire market (composed of hundreds of inventors and dozens of corporations) because of that.
Keep in mind that there is a huge noise on EROEI measures. Basicaly, no two studies find the same values. Thus, while those values are a nice overview (enough to get gidelines, like "bio-sources have low EROEI", "hydro can be great" or "few things compete with coal"), don't take them too literaly.
If you think a lot about it, you'll discover that there is some chance Windows 8 actualy has the effect MS is hoping for.
I mean, the chance is non-zero. It can be estimated. It's even bigger than the chance of the air living the entire MS headquarters at random, and suffocating everybody there. It is also bigger than the chance of the entire planet deciding it wants to decay into iron at once and blowing.
Government spent a lot on salaries by hiring and raising public sector salaries but managed to invest only a little bit
Public sector salaries have been around 15% of GDP for a decade. Inflation reduce it, then raises increse it again, so it doesn't change much. The HUGE flow spending the government talks about is composed mainly of salaries, interest and money redistribution. And interest is getting lower, because the debt/GDP is falling (also, the governemnt is getting cheaper credit, but that never lasts). Now, money redistribution the way it is currently done is a huge problem.
We are in a serious situation, we may get into a long term crisis. But we are not following the steps of Europe.
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Well, I have no idea if the thread would be here or not, but the entire thing is not a big deal, except for the opt-out part. If it was opt-in, and still appeared at /., I'd be complaining about editorial quality...
About pop-con, I enable it at my home desktops. I don't enable it at anything that is actualy important and constantly on the net. I do that because there are very real privacy issues with it, and I won't risk anything I can't format without getting any data out before. (Yep, that probably skews their stats as I'm probably not the only one doing that, but pop-con probably isn't targeted at servers anyway, it should be biased into desktops.)
I'm with you here, that if MS asked me for the same kind data, I'd refuse to give it to them. In fact, I refuse to give any data I can to them.
This:
Does not lead to:
If they made the Metro applications run on a desktop interface, everybody would be just happy.
No, he is not fucked either way.
He choosed to get fucked when he decided to use the MS Office format. If he didn't use it, everything would work.
If you buy only compatible systems (what is EASY to do in an enterprise), yes, driver support is far superior on Linux.
In fact, "far" doesn't do justice to it. The difference is astronomical.
Every release of Windows works that way, since the 95 time. It may have worked that way earlier too, but I can't know.
Every time there is a release of Windows on the go, people start to try it and publuish their opinions, it only changed from the print into the web. Most of the times, that opinion is aligned with the opinion people have after the OS is released (the only exception I can remember of being ME). Every time a few of the opinions are too aligned with MS or one of their competitors to be taken at face value. (It's not the first time MS has competitors, you know...)
Which is the group they are bleeding right now.
What? Really? The computer iliterated people are the ones choosing to buy a Mac or installing Linux on their PCs? If not, how is MS losing them?
So, all the applications that actualy do something are going to be scary, and the toys are not? I agree, it seems like MS wants to do that, but I disagree with MS that it is a good strategy for them. In a short time Windows will be relegated to the "toy" status.
Hell, we are in a time where corporations can't fail, whatever they do; and people must not think, whatever is done to them. In times like that, selling a toy to both of those is a great idea... It just can't last forever.
Yes, exactly. Except that on Linux one just installs KDE, Enligtment or XFCE and calls it a day. On Windows you are stuck with it.
This is MS living 50% of their market share in machines, but 90% of it in money, open for a competitor to take.
But market take over on desktops is a slow process, and they may quite well put their act toghether before anybody has a chance to do that.
That's interesting. People are willing to work more it they don't have to interact with IT?
BOFH would be proud.
I prefer it obvious. Better yet if it anounces itself.
But you are complaining that it is too overreaching. Like when after you buy a book at Amazon, you suddenly receive some spam from dozens of new adressess that you still didn't block.
Yep, we are some 2 billion years behind the median.
Some systems are better than others, and some formats are more redundant.
Within a year tapes behave well if you test them and discard the non-functional ones. As archiving media they show the same problems of optical media, altough they take longet to deteriorate.
Oh, and if you save a completely non-redundant file without adding any redundance at backup time, you have a big chance of not recovering it. Whatever media you use (but you'll need to mess a lot with HDs or SSDs to make non-redundant writes).
Why are you even complaining about that? This project is not to remove the console, it is to make a new console.
By the way, "linux single" still works on grub by default, Ubuntu must have added some weard config to it, just reconfigure the beast, and it will be back. The kernel video modes are there for a reason, the console gets much better in high definition. If you like big letters, just setup a big font. And the startup screen, it is just matter of removing one package, but I don't remember its name. Yeah, it may be better to just not install Ubuntu. There is still Mint, or if you don't like that (I never used Mint, so I don't know), plain Debian.
By "cloud" I (like everybody) mean a 3rd party.
You know that governments gurarantee bank deposits everywhere, because when they didn't people simlpy didn't put their money at the banks, right?
It is an off-site backup that can go away in a poof at any time.
Also, where do you keep the encryption keys? In a self maintained archive like the one you want to replace?
Where should I put sensitive documents that must be safely stored for a long time? In the cloud, of course!
There mostly were. The great things we have now are here because either the patents expired or a odd inventor decided against patenting it, and overtook the entire market (composed of hundreds of inventors and dozens of corporations) because of that.
Keep in mind that there is a huge noise on EROEI measures. Basicaly, no two studies find the same values.
Thus, while those values are a nice overview (enough to get gidelines, like "bio-sources have low EROEI", "hydro can be great" or "few things compete with coal"), don't take them too literaly.
That's not such a simple certainty. It's very likely that solar will get cheaper than coal at some point, but the judge is still out on biodiesel.
There is a feedback loop hidden there, dumped by the EROEI of those sources.
Won't MS just kill Windows 7 once they release Windows 8, like they did every other release?
If you think a lot about it, you'll discover that there is some chance Windows 8 actualy has the effect MS is hoping for.
I mean, the chance is non-zero. It can be estimated. It's even bigger than the chance of the air living the entire MS headquarters at random, and suffocating everybody there. It is also bigger than the chance of the entire planet deciding it wants to decay into iron at once and blowing.
They created the desktop market, how can you claim they never had a big share of it?
When they created the market, they had 100% of it.
Public sector salaries have been around 15% of GDP for a decade. Inflation reduce it, then raises increse it again, so it doesn't change much. The HUGE flow spending the government talks about is composed mainly of salaries, interest and money redistribution. And interest is getting lower, because the debt/GDP is falling (also, the governemnt is getting cheaper credit, but that never lasts). Now, money redistribution the way it is currently done is a huge problem.
We are in a serious situation, we may get into a long term crisis. But we are not following the steps of Europe.