FWIW I believe in panspermia and evolution. We have already discarded the possibility of full up design by any sort of intelligent designer. At most what may have happened is that the building blocks came from somewhere else and then iteratively we reached the present state by mutation, selection, etc.
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press
GAPYEONG, South Korea September 2, 2012 (AP)
Officials say the religious leader who founded the Unification Church and built it into a multibillion-dollar business empire has died in South Korea at age 92.
SAP develops database software and MySQL used to be a Swedish company. Quite often the answer to "Why there isn't an European company doing X" in the IT sector is that it either existed at a point and got bankrupt or that it got bought.
I guess you never had a Creative Sound Blaster Live with its infamously unreliable Windows drivers. FWIW I don't have problems with sound drivers on Ubuntu and I doubt there are issues in any other modern Linux distribution either.
Right. But there was fear by Microsoft that it could. At one time Corel even announced with great fanfare they were porting Corel Office to run on Java (i.e. Wordperfect, Quattro Pro, etc).
There are plenty of people with businesses around GPLed software which manage to do fine. It is not impossible to support yourself if you are a GPLed software developer. Examples: Cygnus solutions or JBoss. JBoss was sold for $420 million.
A driver crash usually doesn't bring the Linux kernel down either it is just that since it is all a blob running in the X server when the driver messes up X goes bonkers. If you remotely connect to the machine it is usually still up.
Not that I know of. What there is are APIs built on top of both like wxWidgets where you can use different toolkits without changing the application itself.
The fact is most of the things Icaza complained about were things where he had a say or actually caused them but did not do anything at the time and now he starts harping on how Linus is responsible for the behavior he had for things he himself created. For example his complaint about different desktops. Had he never founded GNOME then KDE would probably be the dominant desktop. He caused the split. If his only issue was the Qt license he could have started his own implementation of Qt rather than making a whole new desktop based on GTK+. The API incompatibilities in GNOME could have been mitigated. Even GTK+ at least had a stable API since 2.0 was released so I don't get why the GNOME folks need to be constantly breaking compatibility for their bits.
Then when things had settled with KDE and GNOME he started pushing C# as a development language. Thankfully most people ignored him and his pro-Microsoft agenda.
I don't know what the heck Icaza is talking about regarding sound support. Ever since the AC'97 standard came out I never had trouble with soundcards again.
Actually it depends on the field. Some people use AutoCAD but there are others who use Pro/ENGINEER or CATIA. If all you wanted was 2D vector drawing, like in the original AutoCAD, the problem is not substantially different from what Inkscape does. Someone made a CNC plugin for Inkscape for example. I think there will be more open source CAD/CAM solutions once 3D printing and cheap CNC becomes more commonplace.
Publishing, again, depends on the field. If you do scientific publications LaTeX is among the best solutions there is and I have tried others. Modern word processors also work fine as a limited DTP tool. If we are thinking about DTP programs similar to InDesign the selection is more limited. On Linux you can use Scribus and the closed source PageStream.
Accounting there is GnuCash and web based accounting tools.
FWIW the GIMP works fine and today we also have Inkscape. I have even stopped using Adobe Illustrator on Windows and switched to Inkscape there as well. I do not have Adobe Photoshop in my Windows system either I switched to GIMP. My remaining issue is the lack of video editing and DVD authoring tools on Linux but this is more license related than anything else. The fact is most non open source apps I still use in Windows are games.
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Geez man at least the Bible is out of copyright. Could we use something like The Time Machine by H.G. Wells instead?
FWIW I believe in panspermia and evolution. We have already discarded the possibility of full up design by any sort of intelligent designer. At most what may have happened is that the building blocks came from somewhere else and then iteratively we reached the present state by mutation, selection, etc.
Unification Church Founder Rev. Moon Dies at 92:
By HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press GAPYEONG, South Korea September 2, 2012 (AP)
Officials say the religious leader who founded the Unification Church and built it into a multibillion-dollar business empire has died in South Korea at age 92.
Coincidence? I do not think so.
Samsung is spinning off their LCD division to concentrate on OLED. It is a really bad time to invest in low margin LCD factories.
Last Sony TV we bought here had a Samsung screen.
Actually they had light speed communications since way back... with semaphores. The problem was the repeater lag.
Can you connect a working USB mouse, keyboard or pen drive to your craptastic Apple specific port?
It can't do analog in at the same time (think microphone input for a car handsfree)
Most I have seen use Bluetooth.
or video
HDMI out. You know like the other non-Apple devices have.
or simultaneous USB data transfer
Does Apple even have anything which uses this?
The Russians also made their Lavochkin La-5 fighter out of wood during WWII to minimize the use of strategic materials.
You do not need a lot of flexibility on chest armor, or helmets for that matter.
SAP develops database software and MySQL used to be a Swedish company. Quite often the answer to "Why there isn't an European company doing X" in the IT sector is that it either existed at a point and got bankrupt or that it got bought.
North Korea gets rockets that work and Iran gets working nuclear warheads of a sort.
I guess you never had a Creative Sound Blaster Live with its infamously unreliable Windows drivers. FWIW I don't have problems with sound drivers on Ubuntu and I doubt there are issues in any other modern Linux distribution either.
Right. But there was fear by Microsoft that it could. At one time Corel even announced with great fanfare they were porting Corel Office to run on Java (i.e. Wordperfect, Quattro Pro, etc).
There are plenty of people with businesses around GPLed software which manage to do fine. It is not impossible to support yourself if you are a GPLed software developer. Examples: Cygnus solutions or JBoss. JBoss was sold for $420 million.
Seems ok to me.
A driver crash usually doesn't bring the Linux kernel down either it is just that since it is all a blob running in the X server when the driver messes up X goes bonkers. If you remotely connect to the machine it is usually still up.
Not that I know of. What there is are APIs built on top of both like wxWidgets where you can use different toolkits without changing the application itself.
The fact is most of the things Icaza complained about were things where he had a say or actually caused them but did not do anything at the time and now he starts harping on how Linus is responsible for the behavior he had for things he himself created. For example his complaint about different desktops. Had he never founded GNOME then KDE would probably be the dominant desktop. He caused the split. If his only issue was the Qt license he could have started his own implementation of Qt rather than making a whole new desktop based on GTK+. The API incompatibilities in GNOME could have been mitigated. Even GTK+ at least had a stable API since 2.0 was released so I don't get why the GNOME folks need to be constantly breaking compatibility for their bits.
Then when things had settled with KDE and GNOME he started pushing C# as a development language. Thankfully most people ignored him and his pro-Microsoft agenda.
I don't know what the heck Icaza is talking about regarding sound support. Ever since the AC'97 standard came out I never had trouble with soundcards again.
Windows 95 gfx drivers do not work in Windows 2000 and later. Windows XP gfx drivers do not work in Windows Vista and later.
md5sum `find /` | sort -k1,1
Or something like that. You probably need xargs. My script-fu is weak.
Actually it depends on the field. Some people use AutoCAD but there are others who use Pro/ENGINEER or CATIA. If all you wanted was 2D vector drawing, like in the original AutoCAD, the problem is not substantially different from what Inkscape does. Someone made a CNC plugin for Inkscape for example. I think there will be more open source CAD/CAM solutions once 3D printing and cheap CNC becomes more commonplace.
Publishing, again, depends on the field. If you do scientific publications LaTeX is among the best solutions there is and I have tried others. Modern word processors also work fine as a limited DTP tool. If we are thinking about DTP programs similar to InDesign the selection is more limited. On Linux you can use Scribus and the closed source PageStream.
Accounting there is GnuCash and web based accounting tools.
Actually that is like most versions of Photoshop I know of. It is because other file formats lose project data or metadata (layers, etc).
FWIW the GIMP works fine and today we also have Inkscape. I have even stopped using Adobe Illustrator on Windows and switched to Inkscape there as well. I do not have Adobe Photoshop in my Windows system either I switched to GIMP. My remaining issue is the lack of video editing and DVD authoring tools on Linux but this is more license related than anything else. The fact is most non open source apps I still use in Windows are games.