Who buys a $2900 camera anyways? Sure, a $290 camera takes better pictures and has more features than a $29 camera, but what does a $2900 camera get you? And why would you buy it from an online website with "price rite" in its name? Maybe I'll buy our next server from eBay, and bid it up to $25000, just so I could say I manage a $25000 server.
1) Employees want it 2) Competitors are using it 3) Corporate direction (?) 4) Source code 5) Vendor independence 6) Manageability 7) Total Cost of Ownership 8) Unhappy with existing OS 9) Reduce licensing costs 10) Security
The grid they gave with the results was a little hard to read, so I tried to make a top 10 ranking out of it. I just figured this using a simple average rank, treating N/A as 8, so it's not as accurate/meaningful as it could be. The top 3 make no sense to me, but they may have just consistently scored in the top 5, whereas some issues are either very important or entirely unimportant.
I walk into any room, and I can hear all of the computer monitors with ease. Even a lot of LCD's give off high pitched noises. Even some computers themselves, and occasionally lightbulbs. It drives me crazy. I'm not a teen.
Extract the binary tarball to your home directory and watch how it all just works, without so much as a root login. Visit a site requiring Flash, and a yellow bar will popup offering to install Flash, and that'll work too (for x86 users). Then make it your preferred browser and you're set.
Make the PC version identify itself as the console version. That ought to thwart any attempts at enforcing the use of a cheat detector, so long as the communication is the same in every other way.
I still think this was unfair, but I'll accept that all unfairness was entirely unintended and accidental. Maybe the admins thought they had to stick with Suse 8. Had the results favored Linux, the study would not have been published.
Too bad about all the negative press. Did Microsoft comission this study directly? Or did they go through a third party for anonymity?
There may have been researchers who demanded that their studies be released regardless of who won, but obviously Microsoft decided not to commission those kinds of studies.
I thought Java3D wasn't bundled with the Java runtime, so end users would have to download and install it manually, so it had no chance of ever taking off.
I haven't really felt the urge to buy software support from a hardware vendor. All of our Linux servers run CentOS, and I'm prepared to take responsibility when they break, rather than pass the blame onto a support provider who's unlikely to be able to resolve most serious problems unless they can be fixed by rebooting, restoring, or reinstalling. I have nightly backups and failover/recovery plans for all of them, I monitor their logs looking for signs of upcoming hardware failure, I'm very careful and delibrate in all my administration tasks, and I don't lie awake at night wondering what I'll do if one of them fails. On the other hand, I have an expensive Windows server with 3 years of onsite warranty support (next day was the best they could offer), and I'm still afraid of what would happen if a problem cropped up that I couldn't easily fix. I don't even know the model of hard disks it has, because I'd have to shut it down and look inside to find out. It's all hidden, whereas I know all of our Linux servers inside and out.
AFAIK, Dell offers a no OS option for each of their servers. I think it's usually selected by default as well. The Windows option costs at least another $399, usually $799, plus CALs.
I have to get back into the habit of never making absolute statements.
I've always installed Linux myself, and I hear more of people installing it themselves than getting it preinstalled. You have more control, and choice of distro. And if you buy servers from say, Dell, they'll charge much more to install Red Hat than to just ship it no OS.
Now that I think about it, I do have a friend who's into web hosting who buys racks of Linux servers from a large datacenter, where all they do is turn the system on, which they've already installed Linux onto, and send him the login.
People don't buy servers with Linux preinstalled. They buy a no OS server and install it themselves. Plus Linux is free, which also skews the numbers a bit.
I can't wait to see what the Dutch Supreme Court does when Lycos tells them to shove it. Will the US courts uphold their ruling that Lycos must reveal the user's identity even though no crime has been committed? Or will they tell them to shove it as well? It's always amusing when a foreign court tries to tell a US company what to do.
I've noticed that most companies specializing in offsite backups charge 5-10x what it'd cost (apart from one-time labor) to set it up yourself, and do it right.
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MS is just too protective of their source code to let an army of programmers audit it.
What do you think it might cost to make those?
Who buys a $2900 camera anyways? Sure, a $290 camera takes better pictures and has more features than a $29 camera, but what does a $2900 camera get you? And why would you buy it from an online website with "price rite" in its name? Maybe I'll buy our next server from eBay, and bid it up to $25000, just so I could say I manage a $25000 server.
1) Employees want it
2) Competitors are using it
3) Corporate direction (?)
4) Source code
5) Vendor independence
6) Manageability
7) Total Cost of Ownership
8) Unhappy with existing OS
9) Reduce licensing costs
10) Security
The grid they gave with the results was a little hard to read, so I tried to make a top 10 ranking out of it. I just figured this using a simple average rank, treating N/A as 8, so it's not as accurate/meaningful as it could be. The top 3 make no sense to me, but they may have just consistently scored in the top 5, whereas some issues are either very important or entirely unimportant.
The face was taken from a LIVE donor.
Old people can get away with just about anything.
I walk into any room, and I can hear all of the computer monitors with ease. Even a lot of LCD's give off high pitched noises. Even some computers themselves, and occasionally lightbulbs. It drives me crazy. I'm not a teen.
Extract the binary tarball to your home directory and watch how it all just works, without so much as a root login. Visit a site requiring Flash, and a yellow bar will popup offering to install Flash, and that'll work too (for x86 users). Then make it your preferred browser and you're set.
Are you saying that the 6+ servers behind ftp.mozilla.org are no match for Slashdot?
browse to the url "about:mozilla"
Only 26 remaining. $9.95/yr. Be the first cybersquatter to own them all.
but I'll accept that all unfairness was entirely unintended and accidental
On second thought, this isn't your first misleading Windows vs Linux study to be published.
Make the PC version identify itself as the console version. That ought to thwart any attempts at enforcing the use of a cheat detector, so long as the communication is the same in every other way.
Disclaimer: I generally don't play games.
I still think this was unfair, but I'll accept that all unfairness was entirely unintended and accidental. Maybe the admins thought they had to stick with Suse 8. Had the results favored Linux, the study would not have been published.
Too bad about all the negative press. Did Microsoft comission this study directly? Or did they go through a third party for anonymity?
There may have been researchers who demanded that their studies be released regardless of who won, but obviously Microsoft decided not to commission those kinds of studies.
I thought Java3D wasn't bundled with the Java runtime, so end users would have to download and install it manually, so it had no chance of ever taking off.
I haven't really felt the urge to buy software support from a hardware vendor. All of our Linux servers run CentOS, and I'm prepared to take responsibility when they break, rather than pass the blame onto a support provider who's unlikely to be able to resolve most serious problems unless they can be fixed by rebooting, restoring, or reinstalling. I have nightly backups and failover/recovery plans for all of them, I monitor their logs looking for signs of upcoming hardware failure, I'm very careful and delibrate in all my administration tasks, and I don't lie awake at night wondering what I'll do if one of them fails. On the other hand, I have an expensive Windows server with 3 years of onsite warranty support (next day was the best they could offer), and I'm still afraid of what would happen if a problem cropped up that I couldn't easily fix. I don't even know the model of hard disks it has, because I'd have to shut it down and look inside to find out. It's all hidden, whereas I know all of our Linux servers inside and out.
I should probably have RTFA first, before googling for additional articles. The middle of the article says the exact same thing.
Wikipedia suggests to me that he's really the co-founder of the Tera Computer Company, which merged with Cray in 2000.
If that Linux server running 1000 sites was sold with no OS, I think it counts as zero.
AFAIK, Dell offers a no OS option for each of their servers. I think it's usually selected by default as well. The Windows option costs at least another $399, usually $799, plus CALs.
I have to get back into the habit of never making absolute statements.
I've always installed Linux myself, and I hear more of people installing it themselves than getting it preinstalled. You have more control, and choice of distro. And if you buy servers from say, Dell, they'll charge much more to install Red Hat than to just ship it no OS.
Now that I think about it, I do have a friend who's into web hosting who buys racks of Linux servers from a large datacenter, where all they do is turn the system on, which they've already installed Linux onto, and send him the login.
People don't buy servers with Linux preinstalled. They buy a no OS server and install it themselves. Plus Linux is free, which also skews the numbers a bit.
I can't wait to see what the Dutch Supreme Court does when Lycos tells them to shove it. Will the US courts uphold their ruling that Lycos must reveal the user's identity even though no crime has been committed? Or will they tell them to shove it as well? It's always amusing when a foreign court tries to tell a US company what to do.
I've noticed that most companies specializing in offsite backups charge 5-10x what it'd cost (apart from one-time labor) to set it up yourself, and do it right.