Jr.> Mom,Mom: LOOK! A BIRD! Mom> *SMACK* Jr.> Sorry to surprise you honey, i forgot to punish you for almost destroying my computer when you almost spilled water on it trying to 'clean' it for mommy. Just be sure not to do it or not do it again!
World domination by patents:
Patent existence... or better yet, patent life... then once (inevitably) approved - declare the entire planet in your debt. Being that some people are poor an could possibly not be able to pay the $234,345,453,343 price per instanciation of this particular patent, you could always accept souls ("Souls excepted here!!!"... "For everything else, there's your soul")....
I should patent that idea
By largest I meant largest user base.. the users do in fact define the scope of the program (in terms of overall exposure to the world/risk)... not the implimentation.
No No.. I wasnt even implying that was possible... Redmond hasn't even come to know and love publically selected mirrors... We are stuck with becoming psuedo world citizens in the sense that we are limited by the fact that everyone else in the world is using windows update... I hated that about windows... now, when I want to update anything - I emerge sync and emerge -u world in Gentoo Linux, and the world rejoices.
That's a prime example of survival of the fittest, and the true formula for the best software. Competition is the key, and not just inter-OS competition like Outlook->Evolution, but things like different ftpd variants, different crons, syslogs, etc - Gentoo Linux has most openly encouraged this variety from what I can see..
I wasn't implying that - just that the LARGEST example of closed source in existence... I mean, the bug fixes in things like phpMyAdmin or Apache etc get fixed much faster than things like IIS, Office, etc... probably because the manufacturer feels the need to "batch" updates because they don't allow the user the ability to do nightly updates, or any "non-milestone" updates. When stuff breaks, its fixed and gets sent out to the world fairly quickly...
It's ok Anderson - you can stop fighting for something you obviously didn't put much thought into. That was the quickest story change I've seen in a while.
You would have mission critical/security critical processes running on a Win32 kernel and mundane process running on a *nix kernel? Isn't that a really warped view of the "Ghost Dog" (movie) ninja principles? "Treat matters of great importance lightly, and matters of little importance seriously." (something like that) Ultimately you make a very bad case for closed source operating systems.
I'm sure this has been asked and answered the world over - but, in light of this post - I'm left wondering what Linux distribution I should run... if I do at all. I run FreeBSD for all my server operations, and have used Windows for development, multimedia, etc for years. I run XP right now - with multiple monitors.. and as long as multiple monitors are supported, I want to move off windows completely. I really don't know whether to stay with FreeBSD across the board - or admit that Linux is a great "desktop Unix" at the absolute least. If there are any hard-core enthusiasts out there with some free time - could you sell me on an operating system so i can choose already?
Thanks!
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It appears as thought this will be another "no computer would ever need more than 640K" ... Thanks bill! My 1024M says YOU'RE AN IDIOT
Jr.> Mom,Mom: LOOK! A BIRD!
Mom> *SMACK*
Jr.> Sorry to surprise you honey, i forgot to punish you for almost destroying my computer when you almost spilled water on it trying to 'clean' it for mommy. Just be sure not to do it or not do it again!
I guess that's like women, except its never guarenteed you'll understand - in fact you never will... ah hell.
World domination by patents: Patent existence... or better yet, patent life... then once (inevitably) approved - declare the entire planet in your debt. Being that some people are poor an could possibly not be able to pay the $234,345,453,343 price per instanciation of this particular patent, you could always accept souls ("Souls excepted here!!!" ... "For everything else, there's your soul"). ...
I should patent that idea
Real men play freecell
By largest I meant largest user base .. the users do in fact define the scope of the program (in terms of overall exposure to the world/risk)... not the implimentation.
No No.. I wasnt even implying that was possible... Redmond hasn't even come to know and love publically selected mirrors... We are stuck with becoming psuedo world citizens in the sense that we are limited by the fact that everyone else in the world is using windows update... I hated that about windows... now, when I want to update anything - I emerge sync and emerge -u world in Gentoo Linux, and the world rejoices.
That's a prime example of survival of the fittest, and the true formula for the best software. Competition is the key, and not just inter-OS competition like Outlook->Evolution, but things like different ftpd variants, different crons, syslogs, etc - Gentoo Linux has most openly encouraged this variety from what I can see..
I wasn't implying that - just that the LARGEST example of closed source in existence... I mean, the bug fixes in things like phpMyAdmin or Apache etc get fixed much faster than things like IIS, Office, etc... probably because the manufacturer feels the need to "batch" updates because they don't allow the user the ability to do nightly updates, or any "non-milestone" updates. When stuff breaks, its fixed and gets sent out to the world fairly quickly...
What's so surprising that OSS is easier to debug? You don't see Windows anywhere near bug free do you?
News at 11 - The recent trend beating of dead horses not only continues but quickens.. is there hope for rationality?
It's ok Anderson - you can stop fighting for something you obviously didn't put much thought into. That was the quickest story change I've seen in a while.
You would have mission critical/security critical processes running on a Win32 kernel and mundane process running on a *nix kernel? Isn't that a really warped view of the "Ghost Dog" (movie) ninja principles? "Treat matters of great importance lightly, and matters of little importance seriously." (something like that) Ultimately you make a very bad case for closed source operating systems.
I suggest we move them to /dev/null ... all in favor? :-)
I'm sure this has been asked and answered the world over - but, in light of this post - I'm left wondering what Linux distribution I should run... if I do at all. I run FreeBSD for all my server operations, and have used Windows for development, multimedia, etc for years. I run XP right now - with multiple monitors.. and as long as multiple monitors are supported, I want to move off windows completely. I really don't know whether to stay with FreeBSD across the board - or admit that Linux is a great "desktop Unix" at the absolute least. If there are any hard-core enthusiasts out there with some free time - could you sell me on an operating system so i can choose already? Thanks!
Thats remeniscent of classifying a bug as an "undocumented feature"
by tomorrow, I assume you mean right now?
What you described as the future is possible now.
Can you say tyranny? Look mommy! The great country of America allows us to enjoy that flower over there! Can I have $5 to pay the associated tax?