Anyway the move from MS is most unsurprising, playing nice and interoperable until enough traction is achieved, then use the marketshare to push a more ruthless domination agenda. And back.
I question your experience of average desktop users.
The most common scenario is a single hd and lots of usb drives with data stored and retrieved from that.
Average users don't even know how to make a copy, they usually move files around if same filesystem and copy it around if different filesystem no matter if they wanted to move or copy stuff in the first place.
Back to topic, transfers on the same filesystem are slow because the heads are switching back and forth from source to destination blocks. If that hoses the system because of scheduling problems i dunno since i can't reproduce the problem anymore:D
Oh great I tried my own suggestion and it doesnt hose the system. Maybe newer kernels corrected the problem? Im on 2.6.36 and ext3 (on encrypted LVM) and doing the dd right now, as root. Load is 4, X is only a lil jerky at times. It was with earlier kernels and ext4 maybe...
with my sid kernel it hoses X, but with some patience you ctrl-z out of it or pause the process from a text console.
But usually you don't dd stuff, and usually windows is slower than debian. Where I work, all issues are windows related. Too much time to reinstall (aptosid from a usb stick: complete desktop able to print everywhere scan from everywhere in 4 damn minutes, while unattended XP clean install from SP2 takes hours) which office license was installed where, newer office seems less compatible with openoffice etc. All machines are dual booting.
IIRC kanotix ships with kon kolivas kernel so one can easily try out which scheduler is right for him. Then bother patching if it really makes a difference.
Since they never decided nor are informed that banks can loan using fractional reserve, their decision about getting a loan - which matures in a market inflated by said loans, is secondary. Effect comes later than cause.
Beware the idea of keeping the people out the real decisions because they are too dumb or inexperienced: getting people dumbed down and their lowest instincts tickled so that an elite can rule over them with the praetext of protecting society from itself becomes feasible.
I dunno how it would end up for national security. But for money policies we left the matter to central banks so we could have stability and dunno what else, and debt became widespread, money rules de facto over law, insolvent banks compete with their fractional reserve in the same league of your hard earned money. Not the best deal.
Not exactly. Downloading a.deb and dpkg -i it as superuser is like downloading a.dmg and run it. apt-getting packages is different since they are crypto signed. So it's more like going to windows update center, but instead of system stuff it contains a motherload of stuff.
Back when precious metals were the currency, fiat currency is virtual currency. If we want to stick to the IT field, with fractional reserve banking and dematerialization, normal currency is even more virtual than virtual one. The world is under the spell of numbers in a computer.
Patents on one side, pirate parties pushing for the complete removal of copyright on the other side... Both options would make people poorer, the second one seems the less troublesome but something in the middle would be the best: you can assert copyright but then you cannot disperse free samples to entice people (either it's open or it's behind a paywall), you can patent stuff that other people can't come up with on their own, you can sue, or even directly get compensation for something like "the actual damage infringement caused minus the advantages (publicity) gotten from piracy".
I am going to imagine the praise that would have gone to Steve if he opened up the source of his java implementation instead. Then leave it to the community and if it lags simply tell people: java is dying, use (technology X) instead.
SAME EFFORT, better image overall. This saddens me as I attacked apple but also appreciated their tech for a few happy years.
No antitrust lawsuit IMO. Instead be honest and put a sticker on apple products saying "warning, the producer has the means and the will to control what you put on this device".
I kinda summed up the consequences, OK i was pessimistic but I also had forgotten apple used to have offerings in the server market. A server that can't do tomcat natively? hmmmm.
Also they can open up the source, give it to ibm or some openjdk consortium, or wait for somebody to fill the gap. Such moves could be planned in a more transparent way though...
anyway advertisement is NOT free expression, it's conditioning. Therefore i kinda disagree with y'all. People oughta be taught advertisement in school. So that later they recognize the tricks when they are subjected to them.
Reality disagrees with you, says my firsthand experience of people donating anonymously and having no direct or indirect return from it with almost certain probability.
> they lose nothing We'll see how much those addresses were worth in a short time, I guess.
>Sorry, but if you can get my app in front of 50 million Mac owners, and handle application delivery AND payment processing...
>I will GLADLY give you 30% of the action.
Problem is, your app will be in front of 50000000 users together with all the other apps. The user will take less time browsing apps than it does now by googling for mac stuff, surely. But that basically means the app store might kill those outside of it and cost money to those inside.
As for ease of installation, while nothing beats an aptitude get and upgrade, I don't recall having much problems with.dmgs back in the day.
Except that this is not the bug tracking forum so the right answer is:
File a bug report.
Being part of the free software community should mean at least do your part as an end user.
Somehow I don't think that with closed source development you are guaranteed good reaction to bug reports either, it all depends on the resources vendor has devoted.
The attitude of FOSS authors may be kinder? sure. The attitude of FOSS users may be more grateful too.
until that someone is a significant share, it's a strawman. You might want to prove your point finding luddites proclaiming OO superiority due to ribbon absence. And no, the ribbon sux can be said even by people who want to use office like they did on their previous PC like my less linux-literate coworkers.
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"Chi pecora si fa, il lupo la mangia"
(If you make yourself sheep the wolf eats you)
You are not sheep for any shepherd of this world.
(which conveniently works whatever your religious beliefs are, if you don't believe in God, then believe in Man)
Higher yield was the propaganda phase. Now they are engineering stuff resistant to herbicides instead.
Working out the difference is left as an exercise to the reader.
good but they will always be playing catch up.
Anyway the move from MS is most unsurprising, playing nice and interoperable until enough traction is achieved, then use the marketshare to push a more ruthless domination agenda. And back.
IE is the perfect example.
I question your experience of average desktop users.
The most common scenario is a single hd and lots of usb drives with data stored and retrieved from that.
Average users don't even know how to make a copy, they usually move files around if same filesystem and copy it around if different filesystem no matter if they wanted to move or copy stuff in the first place.
Back to topic, transfers on the same filesystem are slow because the heads are switching back and forth from source to destination blocks. If that hoses the system because of scheduling problems i dunno since i can't reproduce the problem anymore :D
Oh great I tried my own suggestion and it doesnt hose the system. Maybe newer kernels corrected the problem? Im on 2.6.36 and ext3 (on encrypted LVM) and doing the dd right now, as root. Load is 4, X is only a lil jerky at times. It was with earlier kernels and ext4 maybe...
try dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/delme bs=4K
with my sid kernel it hoses X, but with some patience you ctrl-z out of it or pause the process from a text console.
But usually you don't dd stuff, and usually windows is slower than debian. Where I work, all issues are windows related. Too much time to reinstall (aptosid from a usb stick: complete desktop able to print everywhere scan from everywhere in 4 damn minutes, while unattended XP clean install from SP2 takes hours) which office license was installed where, newer office seems less compatible with openoffice etc. All machines are dual booting.
IIRC kanotix ships with kon kolivas kernel so one can easily try out which scheduler is right for him. Then bother patching if it really makes a difference.
Since they never decided nor are informed that banks can loan using fractional reserve, their decision about getting a loan - which matures in a market inflated by said loans, is secondary. Effect comes later than cause.
Beware the idea of keeping the people out the real decisions because they are too dumb or inexperienced: getting people dumbed down and their lowest instincts tickled so that an elite can rule over them with the praetext of protecting society from itself becomes feasible.
I dunno how it would end up for national security.
But for money policies we left the matter to central banks so we could have stability and dunno what else, and debt became widespread, money rules de facto over law, insolvent banks compete with their fractional reserve in the same league of your hard earned money. Not the best deal.
Not exactly. Downloading a .deb and dpkg -i it as superuser is like downloading a .dmg and run it.
apt-getting packages is different since they are crypto signed. So it's more like going to windows update center, but instead of system stuff it contains a motherload of stuff.
They came first for Flash,
and I didn't post because I wasn't into broadcasting a webcam.
Then they came for the Java,
and I didn't blog because I wasn't a programmer.
Then they came for OS X,
and I didn't tweet because I wasn't a Mac Pro owner.
Then governments made Apple way the only approved way to own a computer.
and I was pwned.
Back when precious metals were the currency, fiat currency is virtual currency.
If we want to stick to the IT field, with fractional reserve banking and dematerialization, normal currency is even more virtual than virtual one. The world is under the spell of numbers in a computer.
Patents on one side, pirate parties pushing for the complete removal of copyright on the other side... Both options would make people poorer, the second one seems the less troublesome but something in the middle would be the best: you can assert copyright but then you cannot disperse free samples to entice people (either it's open or it's behind a paywall), you can patent stuff that other people can't come up with on their own, you can sue, or even directly get compensation for something like "the actual damage infringement caused minus the advantages (publicity) gotten from piracy".
I am going to imagine the praise that would have gone to Steve if he opened up the source of his java implementation instead. Then leave it to the community and if it lags simply tell people: java is dying, use (technology X) instead.
SAME EFFORT, better image overall. This saddens me as I attacked apple but also appreciated their tech for a few happy years.
No antitrust lawsuit IMO. Instead be honest and put a sticker on apple products saying "warning, the producer has the means and the will to control what you put on this device".
I kinda summed up the consequences, OK i was pessimistic but I also had forgotten apple used to have offerings in the server market. A server that can't do tomcat natively? hmmmm.
Let me spin it a lil'.
It could mean faster videogames, better porn clips decoding, and more responsive LOLCAT sites. Is OP interested, nao?
So the best way to get rid of iran is to set off a nuke in israel. Good thing to know for some enemy of both countries.
Also they can open up the source, give it to ibm or some openjdk consortium, or wait for somebody to fill the gap. Such moves could be planned in a more transparent way though...
OSX Lion... er...
anyway advertisement is NOT free expression, it's conditioning. Therefore i kinda disagree with y'all. People oughta be taught advertisement in school. So that later they recognize the tricks when they are subjected to them.
no, this is a fine example of you indirectly but freely expressing the idea that free expression is bad per se.
> Altruism doesn't exist.
Reality disagrees with you, says my firsthand experience of people donating anonymously and having no direct or indirect return from it with almost certain probability.
> they lose nothing
We'll see how much those addresses were worth in a short time, I guess.
No. Microsoft giving customers a reasonably well packaged offering is the news item.
If you want to praise someone for this you ought to praise the existence of macs, linux, openoffice.
> without a hint of malice...
I beg to differ.
Malice -> from latin Malitia -> from Malus = evil; therefore "evil thing" in latin is Malum
Malum -> latin for... apple.
That's what i call a hint :D
This is indeed informative but GP didn't exactly ask which is the keyboard shortcut to open files.
>Sorry, but if you can get my app in front of 50 million Mac owners, and handle application delivery AND payment processing...
>I will GLADLY give you 30% of the action.
Problem is, your app will be in front of 50000000 users together with all the other apps. The user will take less time browsing apps than it does now by googling for mac stuff, surely. But that basically means the app store might kill those outside of it and cost money to those inside.
As for ease of installation, while nothing beats an aptitude get and upgrade, I don't recall having much problems with .dmgs back in the day.
Except that this is not the bug tracking forum so the right answer is:
File a bug report.
Being part of the free software community should mean at least do your part as an end user.
Somehow I don't think that with closed source development you are guaranteed good reaction to bug reports either, it all depends on the resources vendor has devoted.
The attitude of FOSS authors may be kinder? sure. The attitude of FOSS users may be more grateful too.
until that someone is a significant share, it's a strawman. You might want to prove your point finding luddites proclaiming OO superiority due to ribbon absence. And no, the ribbon sux can be said even by people who want to use office like they did on their previous PC like my less linux-literate coworkers.