Many of these problems you attribute to Fedora are also true of OpenSuse.
Rather than take the Ubuntu approach of popping up a "Do you want to download these non-OSS drivers button" which handles it almost perfectly in every instance and frees the Distro of legal risk, both Fedora and opensuse have historically left you to your own devices, assuring the marginalization of their product.
Forced into this by US legal situation, the web page based One-Click is better than nothing, but small consolation to someone stuck with an odd-ball network card.
Yes, but I was only 5, and it didn't dawn on me for some years that babies were not in fact found under cabbage leaves in the garden.
When I awoke to find my Dad trying to steal the money the tooth fairy left for me under my pillow I learned I could not trust everything he said no matter how much he protested that he just needed change for a dollar.
"Ignorant" is not the same as "stupid", and can be cured by means much less dramatic than death.
In this case it is exactly the same.
These reports did not come from some long overlooked rainforest tribe, but rather from people intelligent enough to call NASA with worries and fears. These are people able to read or at least watch TV news, or surf the net.
Yet they can't distinguish between a movie trailer and real life.
That, my friend, is not ignorant, but rather, stupid, in bold type, writ large.
The chance of educating these people is slim to none. The recidivism rate of stupidity is astoundingly high. The success stories few and fleeting.
No one wants to wake up on December 24th to watch their dim witted neighbor's body being carried from the next apartment due to hysteria induced suicide.
But by the same token, no one wants to hand-hold these people thru every motion picture release based on a misinterpretation of a calendar developed by people who never invented the wheel and who's year had only 360 days.
Dude, are we posting on the same thread? What planet are you on?
This thread is about keeping your parents and grand parents machines running free of charge when they can't resist the urge to click every link, install any drive-by, and automatically clicks OK to every pop up.
It has nothing to do with arrogance or attacks, unless you are in the habit of attacking your own mother.
It has everything to do with keeping their windows machines running virus free and malware free and the HOURS it takes to do that month in and month out so they can participate in their Joke-Email lists, and keep up to date with the scattered family, and maybe read the news and watch a Lo-Cats youtube video.
That's all they do. That's all they WANT to do. If the knew how to do more they would have already learned how to keep the malware off.
Haven't RTFA yet but I bet they are using patch notes as their source of vulnerabilities. If that's the case then obviously well-documented and frequently-patched browsers will be over-represented.
My house is falling apart and the roof leaks.
You can tell because of all the nails it has and all those shingle on top.
How much would burn up after breaking up in the atmosphere.
If one of these impacts every 5 years, and 65% of the earth's surface is water, you would expect 1 of every 3 or 4 to land on dry land, so in 20 years we should have had some impacts in places they can be found.
Since no one here can remember the last one, you have to assume the damage has been minimal.
So its your theory the Murdock is not a crack pot, but a man with a plan to take down google? He doesn't really care that they show snippets of his content, he just wants an excuse to sue them?
What do you base this on? Where has he ever railed against search engines other than about them using his content?
Think it thru. He wants to be paid for his pages, and he is not willing to settle for the advertising revenue he gets from clicks.
He has no secret plan to take down google. He's just greedy.
the point is, however, that its probable that a certain product or commodity will be desirable by somebody, or even a group of somebodies, at some point in time, based on past interactions in the marketplace.
And of course, the marketplace is the best engine for measuring said probability.
Trying to use game theory to evaluate the behavior of people in an attempt to explain the behavior of the market is, at best, some sort of first or second derivative approach.
He has to eliminate search engines because he wants to move news to a subscription basis. But he knows he can never be successful at that as long as anyone else provides advertiser supported free access.
So its all talk. He knows it would be suicidal to make this move alone, and is trying to drum up support among all the big news providers.
But even THAT would not work when local newspapers and TV stations put news on line, because Google would simply index those remaining free providers, which often provide a more complete story anyway.
The world has changed, and Rupert still thinks he's selling newspapers on the corner.
Presumably the OP is looking for a hosting site, or processing center, rather than looking at purchasing the facility.
If so very few of the items mentioned in the parent post are germane, other than Outage/Uptime History. What is under the floor is not your problem in hosting arrangement.
You might be interested in location (flood plain, quake zone) and, but if the place has been in business for more than 10 years it all boils down to Outage/Uptime History.
The cost, and ease of migration should the relationship sour and the names of the last big customers to exit the facility would be nice to know.
the counter argument played out by the owners of patents and copyrights is that innovation would be dead if there was not stringent FBI level enforcement of I.P. including stringent fines and jail time.
For some areas of research and development that is quite true.
That argument, while not always totally convincing, might apply when you are seeking a specific solution to a specific problem, such as a medicine to cure a specific disease. There is a vast investment of time and effort needed for such endeavors.
I'm not sure that counts as innovation in the strictest sense, its more like SIFTING thru pre-existing solutions (chemicals) looking for those that are both effective and non-harmful.
For other areas of research "Innovation" would continue even with out patents, because so much of it is Eureka moments, or serendipitous discovery. So would music and film and books, because authors derive a great deal of reward by the art itself, and by being first movers.
In the present case, this innovation was merely a combination of off the shelf products used in an imaginative way.
They "might" have patented it, but then again they probably stepped on several hundred patents in their research, (since three of the key components are off the shelf products) and the patent fight would have been long and brutal, and probably beyond their means.
By releasing it in open source, they prevent anyone else from patenting it, and still get credit for the invention, and possible consulting jobs in the future.
So its not all that different from many opensource projects where the actual product is releases under (say) the GPL, but the developers get paid by other avenues. Linux is free but Linus gets paid.
I'm personally more concerned that someone who went to MIT thinks that a technology that interacts with a person is a sense. For something to be a sense, in the accepted meaning of the word, it's going to have to convey information to a person's brain. And for it to be new, it's going to have to not use sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell.
If you follow it back to the original presentation (the "Demoed" link, you can see there is nothing even vaguely akin to a sense, although the head of the lab does use that term.
It is more like Microsoft Surface in a wearable form, sans the surface.
If the side effects are more tolerable than the disease itself most people would opt to use the medicine. Waiting for perfect solutions has never really worked, especially for diseases that slowly rob you of any ability to manage your daily life.
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It would seem if you could get this strain to survive in the soil for some months you could spray road sides even ahead of the implanting of IEDs.
Because it fails to install on most generic boxes,
That may be true for some values of "Generic", but this is less so than in the past.
Historically Fedora installs insecure, requiring that you run around closing ports and shutting down daemons that were set up by default.
Ubuntu and opensuse default to the opposite, which is all the home user really needs.
I can not say that 12 still carries on this absurd Red Hat tradition, because I have not yet given 12 a try.
Many of these problems you attribute to Fedora are also true of OpenSuse.
Rather than take the Ubuntu approach of popping up a "Do you want to download these non-OSS drivers button" which handles it almost perfectly in every instance and frees the Distro of legal risk, both Fedora and opensuse have historically left you to your own devices, assuring the marginalization of their product.
Opensuse now adds many one-click installs for some of these drivers. http://www.lebokov21.com/2008/01/29/opensuse-1-click-install-your-software/
Forced into this by US legal situation, the web page based One-Click is better than nothing, but small consolation to someone stuck with an odd-ball network card.
Yes, but I was only 5, and it didn't dawn on me for some years that babies were not in fact found under cabbage leaves in the garden.
When I awoke to find my Dad trying to steal the money the tooth fairy left for me under my pillow I learned I could not trust everything he said no matter how much he protested that he just needed change for a dollar.
"Ignorant" is not the same as "stupid", and can be cured by means much less dramatic than death.
In this case it is exactly the same.
These reports did not come from some long overlooked rainforest tribe, but rather from people intelligent enough to call NASA with worries and fears. These are people able to read or at least watch TV news, or surf the net.
Yet they can't distinguish between a movie trailer and real life.
That, my friend, is not ignorant, but rather, stupid, in bold type, writ large.
The chance of educating these people is slim to none. The recidivism rate of stupidity is astoundingly high. The success stories few and fleeting.
No one wants to wake up on December 24th to watch their dim witted neighbor's body being carried from the next apartment due to hysteria induced suicide.
But by the same token, no one wants to hand-hold these people thru every motion picture release based on a misinterpretation of a calendar developed by people who never invented the wheel and who's year had only 360 days.
Ahhh, run away, the typo police are here.
Coasters have come full circle now.
I remember my mom's ceramic coasters (bone china she called it, which as a 5 year old, creeped me out).
They were pretty durable, and lasted my mom all here adult life. The writing on the bottom was still readable after all those years.
Dude, are we posting on the same thread? What planet are you on?
This thread is about keeping your parents and grand parents machines running free of charge when they can't resist the urge to click every link, install any drive-by, and automatically clicks OK to every pop up.
It has nothing to do with arrogance or attacks, unless you are in the habit of attacking your own mother.
It has everything to do with keeping their windows machines running virus free and malware free and the HOURS it takes to do that month in and month out so they can participate in their Joke-Email lists, and keep up to date with the scattered family, and maybe read the news and watch a Lo-Cats youtube video.
That's all they do. That's all they WANT to do. If the knew how to do more they would have already learned how to keep the malware off.
Exactly.
For the home PC users it is by far the best solution to the family tech support issue. All they really want is web and email anyway.
If they are competent enough to own an ipod or iphone you might consider a Mac, because iTunes does not play well with Linux.
But for your parents and grand parents, since all they use is Firefox (even for email) Ubuntu is the way to go.
Haven't RTFA yet but I bet they are using patch notes as their source of vulnerabilities.
If that's the case then obviously well-documented and frequently-patched browsers will be over-represented.
My house is falling apart and the roof leaks.
You can tell because of all the nails it has and all those shingle on top.
Where? Right here ---> (*)
I pulled it out of, er, ah, thin air. Top of my head. Discounted lakes big enough to see across.
The real question is would it impact at all.
How much would burn up after breaking up in the atmosphere.
If one of these impacts every 5 years, and 65% of the earth's surface is water, you would expect 1 of every 3 or 4 to land on dry land, so in 20 years we should have had some impacts in places they can be found.
Since no one here can remember the last one, you have to assume the damage has been minimal.
So its your theory the Murdock is not a crack pot, but a man with a plan to take down google? He doesn't really care that they show snippets of his content, he just wants an excuse to sue them?
What do you base this on? Where has he ever railed against search engines other than about them using his content?
Think it thru. He wants to be paid for his pages, and he is not willing to settle for the advertising revenue he gets from clicks.
He has no secret plan to take down google. He's just greedy.
>Then they would actually have a legitimate cause to sue google.
He ASKED google to stop using his pages. He did it publicly.
He can't turn around and sue when they comply.
I'm glad they at least included this part, eventually:
Nobody really understands how life got started on Earth.
I wish they had gone one better and stated that nobody understands IF life started on Earth.
So Say We ALL!
They just happened by random chance.
Or, as the story shows, by entirely natural processes.
the point is, however, that its probable that a certain product or commodity will be desirable by somebody, or even a group of somebodies, at some point in time, based on past interactions in the marketplace.
And of course, the marketplace is the best engine for measuring said probability.
Trying to use game theory to evaluate the behavior of people in an attempt to explain the behavior of the market is, at best, some sort of first or second derivative approach.
Oddly enough, simply inspecting the source of any of his sites shows he uses Google as a source of advertising for his heavily ad-laden pages.
He knows about robots.txt.
See this story (On one of his own sites): http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573329,00.html where it is mentioned.
Paid subscriptions is his plan.
He has to eliminate search engines because he wants to move news to a subscription basis. But he knows he can never be successful at that as long as anyone else provides advertiser supported free access.
So its all talk. He knows it would be suicidal to make this move alone, and is trying to drum up support among all the big news providers.
But even THAT would not work when local newspapers and TV stations put news on line, because Google would simply index those remaining free providers, which often provide a more complete story anyway.
The world has changed, and Rupert still thinks he's selling newspapers on the corner.
If I were Google, I'd just cut all his sites off for a month and let them see how far their click-revenue falls off.
No google news, No search results, nothing.
The guy asked for it, so give it to him.
Presumably the OP is looking for a hosting site, or processing center, rather than looking at purchasing the facility.
If so very few of the items mentioned in the parent post are germane, other than Outage/Uptime History. What is under the floor is not your problem in hosting arrangement.
You might be interested in location (flood plain, quake zone) and, but if the place has been in business for more than 10 years it all boils down to Outage/Uptime History.
The cost, and ease of migration should the relationship sour and the names of the last big customers to exit the facility would be nice to know.
the counter argument played out by the owners of patents and copyrights is that innovation would be dead if there was not stringent FBI level enforcement of I.P. including stringent fines and jail time.
For some areas of research and development that is quite true.
That argument, while not always totally convincing, might apply when you are seeking a specific solution to a specific problem, such as a medicine to cure a specific disease. There is a vast investment of time and effort needed for such endeavors.
I'm not sure that counts as innovation in the strictest sense, its more like SIFTING thru pre-existing solutions (chemicals) looking for those that are both effective and non-harmful.
For other areas of research "Innovation" would continue even with out patents, because so much of it is Eureka moments, or serendipitous discovery. So would music and film and books, because authors derive a great deal of reward by the art itself, and by being first movers.
In the present case, this innovation was merely a combination of off the shelf products used in an imaginative way.
They "might" have patented it, but then again they probably stepped on several hundred patents in their research, (since three of the key components are off the shelf products) and the patent fight would have been long and brutal, and probably beyond their means.
By releasing it in open source, they prevent anyone else from patenting it, and still get credit for the invention, and possible consulting jobs in the future.
So its not all that different from many opensource projects where the actual product is releases under (say) the GPL, but the developers get paid by other avenues. Linux is free but Linus gets paid.
I'm personally more concerned that someone who went to MIT thinks that a technology that interacts with a person is a sense. For something to be a sense, in the accepted meaning of the word, it's going to have to convey information to a person's brain. And for it to be new, it's going to have to not use sight, hearing, touch, taste, or smell.
If you follow it back to the original presentation (the "Demoed" link, you can see there is nothing even vaguely akin to a sense, although the head of the lab does use that term.
It is more like Microsoft Surface in a wearable form, sans the surface.
Yes, it certainly would be nice.
Especially when you consider there appear to be links between Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s.
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/36/20/23-a
There has been other research suggesting that understanding one of these diseases leads to avenues of research for the other.
It might do it for you if you had the disease.
If the side effects are more tolerable than the disease itself most people would opt to use the medicine. Waiting for perfect solutions has never really worked, especially for diseases that slowly rob you of any ability to manage your daily life.