I have no idea how your post was marked interesting.
The difference between Microsoft and Linux is that it's FREE. If you want a single distro to do everything M$ can, go to a site that will provide just that. I suggest this one or possibly this one. Both are just fine as distros go.... And interoperable. If you want more, go pull it from the distro that has what you want. Not many are selling 'licenses' for basic Linux distros ATM, and they're CERTAINLY not going to sell you ten versions of the same thing - if you pay for it, you get a LOT more and that includes support.
They're only infringing if gmail.google.co.uk resolves, and Gmail was a registered trademark in America as well as Britain. I have never heard of GmailTM. Trademark infringement generally is damaging when a little company is using a big company's name and / or label to promote an inferior product. (Different, would be the current use, but the idea is not to let copied Rolexes and such be legal) This is not the case, seeing as one Gmail is usable here and now, and one gmail is vaporware with a name.
I wrote a long rant. I've deleted it. Generally, it said something like this, "Our government is wasteful and incompetent, and since we've elected it we've made our own bed. This causes me dissatisfaction for I feel disenfranchised."
That's not too high for a European country. Germany has hit much higher without breaking a sweat. The thing about the US's 6 percent unemployment being considered HUGE is that we have a much more fluid economy with much fewer social safety nets than they do. Whether you think it's a positive or a negative thing, it is generally harder to become destitute or unemployed once you have a job in a European economy, or at least that was my impression. On the other hand doing business is more cumbersome in a more highly regulated economy. It's always a trade.
I spoke to a Brit living in Germany for a while once, and he said, "Yeah, I pay taxes that are pretty high, but I don't have to pay for health care at all. What do you get for YOUR taxes in the states?" I had to agree- I don't get much other than frustration that I'm paying for a useless political circus and its associated pork barrel projects.
Because it's a Time subscriber only article. There's no really interesting discussion in the first ten posts because, well, noone can know anything or RTFA. Why do it this way?
They're failures. People try again. Silly article, based upon a premise I'm not particularly interested in. There will be another Rokr if this one fails, made by Apple alone so it gets all the 'core business.' OR, buy THIS one or not, there will be ANOTHER company (Nokia maybe?) which just builds something better. Apple has no patent on innovation itself.
I can't believe I had to come this far down for intelligent commentary / discussion..... Wait, retract that. Anyways.
My question about this is whether you could get anything odne in this kind of environment as a developer. His essential argument is to be incessantly unpermissive - you can't do anything outside the box unless you are authorized to do so. Defining that box is very important. Unfortunately, a huge percentage of what tech workers do - once they are past the normal basic level of support - is highly reliant on things which are NOT normal tasks. Can you imagine an operating system which occasionally said, "No, you're not okay to do that. Sorry, go talk to a system administrator," and then just went back to happily chugging along?
This is what he's really suggesting, and there are both advantages and disadvantages to that- sure, it's easy to keep a system running this way, but it also brings up a number of problems down the line both philosophically and systemically.
I'm almost tempted to fill out the spam questionaire and rating form because a lot of what he's saying fits in so well.
Hotmail has, unfortunately, my money for life because I got in early and want to keep my name@hotmail.com address until the day I exhume with finality. I use google more, but will always have the hotmail address too.
My only consolation and excuse is that I was using it before M$ bought it.
I guess it's possible, but so many people who are great coders who kinda help Google out on the fringes of its business (and possibly even the center) absolutely hate Microsoft and won't contribute that it may be harder than Msoft thinks to accomplish this kind of facelift.
"Occasionally, the testing process and our strict focus on quality can result in a month where no security updates are released, as is the case for 13 September 2005."
Diablo 2 was a mildly lame implementation job, I'll agree with that.
However, it stands out as being so; you've got WoW, the Warcrafts, and Starcraft on the other side and they all are highly impressive from what I gather - I only gather that about WoW and WCIII instead of KNOW because I absolutely refuse to get sucked into another video game, of course.
Erm. Flame rescinded. Running 9 year old software for the fun of it qualifies you for an 'executive' nerd card that precludes all those incredibly nasty flames.
I still want to know whether you're missing functionality while running Vista on the mildly outdated hardware, btw.
I never trashed the 360, I figure it's just a much more highly controlled version of a PC. Developing GAMES for it might be a pain in the tail but developing basic applications might be quite easy - and all the basic applications could be mere ports from normal x860-based MS applications. Hence MS is catering heavily with Vista to the hardware producers of the world while *extremely rude expletives deleted* them by simply changing the market and attempting to make them niche and therefore obsolete. Remember, they want domination of the living room - and they can get it by expanding what can be done in the living room. Hence if you can do word processing, financial management, e-mail, web browsing, and music playing with your TV, you don't NEED a computer, you just by a 360, and eventually all the upsells that can imply.
Now, as to the hardware advancement. Anyone without complete market dominance can't really depend on being the default install for every computer shipped. They have to compete. Unfortunately, competition has been removed to such an extent for M$ that regardless of how onerous they make the burden upon manufacturers of desktops, they will be the default install on 90% of all shipped computers for the next 2 years minimum. Anyone entering the OS market would work very hard to get others to re-install on top of their old install, by adding functionality. Vista? Functionality? Yeah, they say virus and privacy protection will be less effort intensive, but it's mildly unlikely this will ever be true in my book.
For any other company sysreqs this high with such a small increase in functionality would be suicide.
Blizzard could make an operating system that had lower sysreqs and decent graphics capabilities. And people would love it for saying, "Zug Zug."
Hopefully it's a nail in their home-desktop coffins that suddenly you can't put their OS on a machine that costs 600$, but somehow I doubt it. Xbox 360 for what most people currently use a home PC for, Vista for everything else.
Perhaps they'll start outputting highly intelligent and well-thought out content in high volume, so that the cynical users of the godless Internet will see the light and gravitate towards it like flies.
What is truly important about the way he/ she is looking at the question is that those are generally the types of organizations which collect / trumpet the most recognition for their work. Ergo, it doesn't account for places like Bell Labs or (probably, I haven't read beyond the wiki) Edison's Menlo Park. Just because you don't see basic research as being involved with the production of your Viagra doesn't mean it's not affecting other sciences.
Um, I don't know how things are in other countries (ie. just a "dumb Yank"), but here in the U.S., being bad at one's job is a damn good reason for termination. Seriously, if I'm not doing my job right, I can expect to be canned, and I should be. That's not unfair, it's sensible.
As another dumb yank that has lived in Germany and a few other countries for admittedly short periods, there are countries where it is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to fire someone. Australia probably isn't as intense about it as Germany, but once you hire someone in some cultures it is hard to get rid of them.
America has more social restraints on firing than other countries, in big corporations. It's easier and harder to do both - some managers are less willing to do it because of the courage and responsibility involved, etc.
You're right on all counts, but think of the anti-FUD capabilities, here. There is a really cool pseudo-logical argument to make quite quickly if this tool comes into heavy use:
1. Everyone who uses linux is a complete nerd. (Common knowledge, doesn't even HAVE to be true)
2. Nerds know lots about computers and how to keep them working.
3. Nerds have run linux for X hours, and all these hours have been pretty hardcore QA time.
4. All this time has been documented.
5. Microsoft won't tell you how much testing time they put into their software.
6. Microsoft can't afford as many dedicated and intelligent testers as the OSS community has - these sysadmins for multinational companies would charge them an arm and a leg for their time.
Therefore,
7. Linux software is better tested than Microsoft software ever will be.
8. Pro... Nah, I don't need to go that far. Let's just say, "Live a less frustrating life," which is more than simply profiting.
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I have no idea how your post was marked interesting.
The difference between Microsoft and Linux is that it's FREE. If you want a single distro to do everything M$ can, go to a site that will provide just that. I suggest this one or possibly this one. Both are just fine as distros go.... And interoperable. If you want more, go pull it from the distro that has what you want. Not many are selling 'licenses' for basic Linux distros ATM, and they're CERTAINLY not going to sell you ten versions of the same thing - if you pay for it, you get a LOT more and that includes support.
They're only infringing if gmail.google.co.uk resolves, and Gmail was a registered trademark in America as well as Britain. I have never heard of GmailTM. Trademark infringement generally is damaging when a little company is using a big company's name and / or label to promote an inferior product. (Different, would be the current use, but the idea is not to let copied Rolexes and such be legal) This is not the case, seeing as one Gmail is usable here and now, and one gmail is vaporware with a name.
I wrote a long rant. I've deleted it. Generally, it said something like this, "Our government is wasteful and incompetent, and since we've elected it we've made our own bed. This causes me dissatisfaction for I feel disenfranchised."
16TB addressable VM Space should be enough for ANYONE.
That's not too high for a European country. Germany has hit much higher without breaking a sweat. The thing about the US's 6 percent unemployment being considered HUGE is that we have a much more fluid economy with much fewer social safety nets than they do. Whether you think it's a positive or a negative thing, it is generally harder to become destitute or unemployed once you have a job in a European economy, or at least that was my impression. On the other hand doing business is more cumbersome in a more highly regulated economy. It's always a trade.
I spoke to a Brit living in Germany for a while once, and he said, "Yeah, I pay taxes that are pretty high, but I don't have to pay for health care at all. What do you get for YOUR taxes in the states?" I had to agree- I don't get much other than frustration that I'm paying for a useless political circus and its associated pork barrel projects.
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And I'm one of them. Unspeakable.
Because it's a Time subscriber only article. There's no really interesting discussion in the first ten posts because, well, noone can know anything or RTFA. Why do it this way?
That's exactly what they are doing, but it seems corporate database customers cost more than 100k apiece.
They're failures. People try again. Silly article, based upon a premise I'm not particularly interested in. There will be another Rokr if this one fails, made by Apple alone so it gets all the 'core business.' OR, buy THIS one or not, there will be ANOTHER company (Nokia maybe?) which just builds something better. Apple has no patent on innovation itself.
I can't believe I had to come this far down for intelligent commentary / discussion..... Wait, retract that. Anyways.
My question about this is whether you could get anything odne in this kind of environment as a developer. His essential argument is to be incessantly unpermissive - you can't do anything outside the box unless you are authorized to do so. Defining that box is very important. Unfortunately, a huge percentage of what tech workers do - once they are past the normal basic level of support - is highly reliant on things which are NOT normal tasks. Can you imagine an operating system which occasionally said, "No, you're not okay to do that. Sorry, go talk to a system administrator," and then just went back to happily chugging along?
This is what he's really suggesting, and there are both advantages and disadvantages to that- sure, it's easy to keep a system running this way, but it also brings up a number of problems down the line both philosophically and systemically.
I'm almost tempted to fill out the spam questionaire and rating form because a lot of what he's saying fits in so well.
Hotmail has, unfortunately, my money for life because I got in early and want to keep my name@hotmail.com address until the day I exhume with finality. I use google more, but will always have the hotmail address too.
My only consolation and excuse is that I was using it before M$ bought it.
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I guess it's possible, but so many people who are great coders who kinda help Google out on the fringes of its business (and possibly even the center) absolutely hate Microsoft and won't contribute that it may be harder than Msoft thinks to accomplish this kind of facelift.
"Occasionally, the testing process and our strict focus on quality can result in a month where no security updates are released, as is the case for 13 September 2005."
One considered snickering at this one.
Diablo 2 was a mildly lame implementation job, I'll agree with that.
However, it stands out as being so; you've got WoW, the Warcrafts, and Starcraft on the other side and they all are highly impressive from what I gather - I only gather that about WoW and WCIII instead of KNOW because I absolutely refuse to get sucked into another video game, of course.
Erm. Flame rescinded. Running 9 year old software for the fun of it qualifies you for an 'executive' nerd card that precludes all those incredibly nasty flames.
I still want to know whether you're missing functionality while running Vista on the mildly outdated hardware, btw.
I never trashed the 360, I figure it's just a much more highly controlled version of a PC. Developing GAMES for it might be a pain in the tail but developing basic applications might be quite easy - and all the basic applications could be mere ports from normal x860-based MS applications. Hence MS is catering heavily with Vista to the hardware producers of the world while *extremely rude expletives deleted* them by simply changing the market and attempting to make them niche and therefore obsolete. Remember, they want domination of the living room - and they can get it by expanding what can be done in the living room. Hence if you can do word processing, financial management, e-mail, web browsing, and music playing with your TV, you don't NEED a computer, you just by a 360, and eventually all the upsells that can imply.
Now, as to the hardware advancement. Anyone without complete market dominance can't really depend on being the default install for every computer shipped. They have to compete. Unfortunately, competition has been removed to such an extent for M$ that regardless of how onerous they make the burden upon manufacturers of desktops, they will be the default install on 90% of all shipped computers for the next 2 years minimum. Anyone entering the OS market would work very hard to get others to re-install on top of their old install, by adding functionality. Vista? Functionality? Yeah, they say virus and privacy protection will be less effort intensive, but it's mildly unlikely this will ever be true in my book.
Interesting. So are the hardware requirements are exagerrated in TFA, or are you missing noticable functionality?
And I would never flame you for running slackware, but you're running an SCO product and therefore deserve flaming.
SCO sucks and you also might in some obscure and completely unrelated way.
Consider yourself flamed.
For any other company sysreqs this high with such a small increase in functionality would be suicide.
Blizzard could make an operating system that had lower sysreqs and decent graphics capabilities. And people would love it for saying, "Zug Zug."
Hopefully it's a nail in their home-desktop coffins that suddenly you can't put their OS on a machine that costs 600$, but somehow I doubt it. Xbox 360 for what most people currently use a home PC for, Vista for everything else.
Perhaps they'll start outputting highly intelligent and well-thought out content in high volume, so that the cynical users of the godless Internet will see the light and gravitate towards it like flies.
GP argument doesn't account for Bell Labs.
What is truly important about the way he/ she is looking at the question is that those are generally the types of organizations which collect / trumpet the most recognition for their work. Ergo, it doesn't account for places like Bell Labs or (probably, I haven't read beyond the wiki) Edison's Menlo Park. Just because you don't see basic research as being involved with the production of your Viagra doesn't mean it's not affecting other sciences.
Um, I don't know how things are in other countries (ie. just a "dumb Yank"), but here in the U.S., being bad at one's job is a damn good reason for termination. Seriously, if I'm not doing my job right, I can expect to be canned, and I should be. That's not unfair, it's sensible.
As another dumb yank that has lived in Germany and a few other countries for admittedly short periods, there are countries where it is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to fire someone. Australia probably isn't as intense about it as Germany, but once you hire someone in some cultures it is hard to get rid of them.
America has more social restraints on firing than other countries, in big corporations. It's easier and harder to do both - some managers are less willing to do it because of the courage and responsibility involved, etc.
When people are appointed editors they are given a new UID (generally lower than 100) and a new moniker.
My family always froze in the snow while I was off hunting. Go figure.
You're right on all counts, but think of the anti-FUD capabilities, here. There is a really cool pseudo-logical argument to make quite quickly if this tool comes into heavy use:
1. Everyone who uses linux is a complete nerd. (Common knowledge, doesn't even HAVE to be true)
2. Nerds know lots about computers and how to keep them working.
3. Nerds have run linux for X hours, and all these hours have been pretty hardcore QA time.
4. All this time has been documented.
5. Microsoft won't tell you how much testing time they put into their software.
6. Microsoft can't afford as many dedicated and intelligent testers as the OSS community has - these sysadmins for multinational companies would charge them an arm and a leg for their time.
Therefore,
7. Linux software is better tested than Microsoft software ever will be.
8. Pro... Nah, I don't need to go that far. Let's just say, "Live a less frustrating life," which is more than simply profiting.