But most (almost all) modern computers have this hardware support and it will be used by default from a plain installation of any of the major distors. I personally run Redhat 9.0 as my desktop and I had to do NO tweaking to get it running to my satisfaction. I installed Nvidia drivers (which are just great, Nvidia really paid attention to what the users wanted), installed games through WineX3, setup email, everything. All from nice GUI programs, just like you would in Windows. Seriously, try installing a modern distro. You'll be shocked at how big the advances have been.
I would have to disagree with you. I think Linux is pushing new technologies faster than MS is. Take a look at the 2.5.x (soon to be 2.6.x) kernels. They represent the most modern kernel out there. MS doesn't have all the features in their ntkernel that Linux does, and probably won't for another 5 years.
And Linux is very much multimedia friendly. Just look up a few programs such as Xine or Mplayer. These players alone will play ANYTHING out there, and do it very well.
To this day I have yet to find a person saying "Linux isn't ready for desktop use" that has tried the latest release from Redhat or Mandrake or SuSE. They are always referring to distros over two years old or older, which was the last time they touched Linux. They just don't get that Linux moves faster than MS has, does, or ever will. And as someone above said, Linux is a train and it's only picking up steam.
Because MS has shown that it isn't unlike a drug dealer: the first one is always free. Just wait until the industry is hooked and a hopeless addict and then jack the prices up to rediculous levels. It's why people don't like MS. If MS products were cheap then most people here wouldn't mind MS Windows et al.
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Your close in that description. Only one point you are off on: the government doesn't pocket anything beyone what it takes to run the government. In true communism, the government is only there to distribute goods and nothing else. Soviet Russian communism wasn't communism, but a mutated, bastard child of communism.
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Exactly! Motivation is the entire basis of capitalism! You are motivated to work and perform because you get money/services/goods/etc based on your efforts and your results. If you take away the reward, you start loosing motivation. And to expect a large workforce to work just because "it's what's best for the company" is... COMMUNISM!
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Yup, wouldn't want that CEO to not take is multimillion dollar bonus this year because being CEO is scary and risky. We'll just have to layoff another 100 people to pay for that bonus, but they were just the factory workers/engineers who actually built/designed our products. How have they helped the company anyway? Bunch of ingrates.
I've found that when you do take the effort to actually walk over to a person and talk to them about something, no matter how trivial the subject, they remember it a few days later, while they forget the emails you send them or don't even read them because they have 2,000+ waiting to be read. Plus, when you sit on your ass for hours on end, it's nice to get up and move around a bit.
Homogeneous networks are a lot like our current agricultural system. We have only a few types of wheat in the world which support most of the population. What happens when a new wheat disease comes along that targets these kinds? The world supply of food could be greatly reduced. And since we spent so much money and time on producing the exact same kinds of wheat over and over again, you can't just switch to another kind over night. But a system where you have many different kinds of wheat protects you. If wheat type A gets destroyed by a new bug, you still have types B-Z to keep you fed.
The same can be said for networks. It's better to have an open set of standard protocols that everyone can use so you can have a diverse network. A new Windows virus won't take down the entire office if it is only used on the desktop machines (where it belongs IMO) and *inx on the servers. And if MS continues to act in their draconian manner, it would be very nice to have the option to change your OS and keep the same functionality.
You'd be scared shitless if you truely knew just how much information the government has/can get on you. Tieing your phone number(s) to an email address is nothing.
Here is a great example: we have NO idea what the NSA does because there are no checks or balances in place for them. Through some nifty loopholes, the group was founded with almost complete autonomy and no oversight. The only real tie they have is through funding, and even that is classified! Some estimates by people in the know say that half of the world's computing power is actually in the direct control of the NSA. They have the ability to record and analize EVERY phone conversation in the world in real time and are rumored to be able to break PGP (hence why they stopped blocking it from being legally exported).
Now, after knowing the power that they have, do you really think that you linking an email address to a phone number is really something to worry about?
P.S. I am not a lunitic (I just play on on/.), I got this from many reputable news sources. I'd post exactly which ones, but I don't have the list handy. Email me if you really want the list.
Yes! That sums up my feelings perfectly! Once I installed Win2k along time ago I found myself actually liking a MS OS. But after I found Redhat 8.0 and then 9.0, I haven't looked back. But if you have to use a MS OS, I wouldn't use anything but Win2k. XP makes me feel like a preschooler with his MyFirstComputer(tm).
I mean seriously, think about this in non-mp3 terms and it just doesn't even make sense
But we aren't thinking about this in a non-mp3 term. That's the whole point. When it comes to music, people don't see how sharing music is immoral. But those same people would agree with you that yes, stealing the plans for the next Intel ship (which is illegal right there) and posting a copy of them should be illegal. The difference is that one is a luxury, and the other is not.
But where is the "cracking"? If you post all your imporant information on a big board and then put it in a room with a lock, but leave the door open all the time, is it any wonder that someone will walk in and take a peek? And would they have done anything really wrong? Better analogy might be to have the board in the window with the blinds open. Then people just walking by can take a look, they don't even have to enter a room (which would be tresspassing).
I think the school was not "cracked" but just viewed, which is not and should not be illegal.
But you are right, if a student had done this they would have been expelled, no questions asked.
[sarcasm]Any student that proves they are smarter than the administration must be a terrorist/criminal and should delt with harshly.[/sarcasm]
Please mod this up. This is a perfect example of the mindset most people have. People equate theft with taking something physical without paying for it, or profiting from something that isn't their's. Downloading a song or sharing a song with someone doesn't involve the taking of anything physical or making a profit on something that isn't their's. It's just sharing of information.
When run at standard settings yes, but if you turn off the compiler optimizations, floating point optimizations, memory optimizations, user optimizations, reality optimizations, and go-fast-now optimizations, the Macs pull ahead by a whole point(when compared to one node)!
I agree with you. In fact, that kind of system would solve the privacy concers! The store would not have to keep any information on you personally inorder to target marketing at you. They just have to sample your RFID tags for what you have on to know, at that exact moment, what you are likely to be interested in. The whole thing doesn't need to be recorded since it can be reproduced every time you walk near by. Sounds like it could cut down on stored information that others would have to have to do now with current technology.
But the retna thing is scary, and I don't want that. I'd where polarizing glasses everywhere I went.
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The Open Source option is just that, an option. It is not the end-all, be-all of software paths for a company to follow. But it should still be looked at and given a chance.
The people who can benifit from Open Source the most are large companies who already have programers on staff. The programers can learn the project and start fixing bugs/adding features to it without the need to deal with all the corporate politics that are involved with B2B. This way you can put pressure on a person to get the job done since they are inhouse. And, in the case of licenses like the GPL, the company doesn't have to give the work back if they only use it internally. But they could offer the fixes/features back to the world and see if others would add features/fixes to it as well, which they could merge back into the internal version. Think of it as getting a large pool of free eyes to look at what you are already doing and paying for.
I direct you to exihbit A: 2 terabytes of news articles from/. about SCO and their actions/remarks made since sueing IBM.
The prosecution rests its case.
Then Microsoft would be in violation of the GPL. The GPL lets anybody on the face of the earth take something released under it and package it and sell it, but they are required to provide the source code for free to any and all who ask for it. That means that their "product" becomes only as valuable as the services they sell with it, which is fine by me since they would actually have to do something in order to make money. If Microsoft passed it off as their own and didn't release source code, well then they would be criminals wouldn't they.
I would have to agree with you there. Right now, Linux is not ready for joe six pack. But look at the rate at which Linux has been progressing. Just compare Redhat 7.3 to Redhat 9.0 (not that long of period between the two) and you'll see what I mean. I think Linux will overtake both OS X and Windows very soon if it keeps progressing this fast.
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But most (almost all) modern computers have this hardware support and it will be used by default from a plain installation of any of the major distors. I personally run Redhat 9.0 as my desktop and I had to do NO tweaking to get it running to my satisfaction. I installed Nvidia drivers (which are just great, Nvidia really paid attention to what the users wanted), installed games through WineX3, setup email, everything. All from nice GUI programs, just like you would in Windows. Seriously, try installing a modern distro. You'll be shocked at how big the advances have been.
I would have to disagree with you. I think Linux is pushing new technologies faster than MS is. Take a look at the 2.5.x (soon to be 2.6.x) kernels. They represent the most modern kernel out there. MS doesn't have all the features in their ntkernel that Linux does, and probably won't for another 5 years. And Linux is very much multimedia friendly. Just look up a few programs such as Xine or Mplayer. These players alone will play ANYTHING out there, and do it very well. To this day I have yet to find a person saying "Linux isn't ready for desktop use" that has tried the latest release from Redhat or Mandrake or SuSE. They are always referring to distros over two years old or older, which was the last time they touched Linux. They just don't get that Linux moves faster than MS has, does, or ever will. And as someone above said, Linux is a train and it's only picking up steam.
Because MS has shown that it isn't unlike a drug dealer: the first one is always free. Just wait until the industry is hooked and a hopeless addict and then jack the prices up to rediculous levels. It's why people don't like MS. If MS products were cheap then most people here wouldn't mind MS Windows et al.
Your close in that description. Only one point you are off on: the government doesn't pocket anything beyone what it takes to run the government. In true communism, the government is only there to distribute goods and nothing else. Soviet Russian communism wasn't communism, but a mutated, bastard child of communism.
Exactly! Motivation is the entire basis of capitalism! You are motivated to work and perform because you get money/services/goods/etc based on your efforts and your results. If you take away the reward, you start loosing motivation. And to expect a large workforce to work just because "it's what's best for the company" is... COMMUNISM!
Yup, wouldn't want that CEO to not take is multimillion dollar bonus this year because being CEO is scary and risky. We'll just have to layoff another 100 people to pay for that bonus, but they were just the factory workers/engineers who actually built/designed our products. How have they helped the company anyway? Bunch of ingrates.
I've found that when you do take the effort to actually walk over to a person and talk to them about something, no matter how trivial the subject, they remember it a few days later, while they forget the emails you send them or don't even read them because they have 2,000+ waiting to be read. Plus, when you sit on your ass for hours on end, it's nice to get up and move around a bit.
I'd actually watch that.
Homogeneous networks are a lot like our current agricultural system. We have only a few types of wheat in the world which support most of the population. What happens when a new wheat disease comes along that targets these kinds? The world supply of food could be greatly reduced. And since we spent so much money and time on producing the exact same kinds of wheat over and over again, you can't just switch to another kind over night. But a system where you have many different kinds of wheat protects you. If wheat type A gets destroyed by a new bug, you still have types B-Z to keep you fed. The same can be said for networks. It's better to have an open set of standard protocols that everyone can use so you can have a diverse network. A new Windows virus won't take down the entire office if it is only used on the desktop machines (where it belongs IMO) and *inx on the servers. And if MS continues to act in their draconian manner, it would be very nice to have the option to change your OS and keep the same functionality.
You'd be scared shitless if you truely knew just how much information the government has/can get on you. Tieing your phone number(s) to an email address is nothing.
/.), I got this from many reputable news sources. I'd post exactly which ones, but I don't have the list handy. Email me if you really want the list.
Here is a great example: we have NO idea what the NSA does because there are no checks or balances in place for them. Through some nifty loopholes, the group was founded with almost complete autonomy and no oversight. The only real tie they have is through funding, and even that is classified! Some estimates by people in the know say that half of the world's computing power is actually in the direct control of the NSA. They have the ability to record and analize EVERY phone conversation in the world in real time and are rumored to be able to break PGP (hence why they stopped blocking it from being legally exported).
Now, after knowing the power that they have, do you really think that you linking an email address to a phone number is really something to worry about?
P.S. I am not a lunitic (I just play on on
Um, I don't know. /me going flying into chasm.
Yes! That sums up my feelings perfectly! Once I installed Win2k along time ago I found myself actually liking a MS OS. But after I found Redhat 8.0 and then 9.0, I haven't looked back. But if you have to use a MS OS, I wouldn't use anything but Win2k. XP makes me feel like a preschooler with his MyFirstComputer(tm).
But where is the "cracking"? If you post all your imporant information on a big board and then put it in a room with a lock, but leave the door open all the time, is it any wonder that someone will walk in and take a peek? And would they have done anything really wrong? Better analogy might be to have the board in the window with the blinds open. Then people just walking by can take a look, they don't even have to enter a room (which would be tresspassing).
I think the school was not "cracked" but just viewed, which is not and should not be illegal.
But you are right, if a student had done this they would have been expelled, no questions asked.
[sarcasm]Any student that proves they are smarter than the administration must be a terrorist/criminal and should delt with harshly.[/sarcasm]
Please mod this up. This is a perfect example of the mindset most people have. People equate theft with taking something physical without paying for it, or profiting from something that isn't their's. Downloading a song or sharing a song with someone doesn't involve the taking of anything physical or making a profit on something that isn't their's. It's just sharing of information.
When run at standard settings yes, but if you turn off the compiler optimizations, floating point optimizations, memory optimizations, user optimizations, reality optimizations, and go-fast-now optimizations, the Macs pull ahead by a whole point(when compared to one node)!
I agree with you. In fact, that kind of system would solve the privacy concers! The store would not have to keep any information on you personally inorder to target marketing at you. They just have to sample your RFID tags for what you have on to know, at that exact moment, what you are likely to be interested in. The whole thing doesn't need to be recorded since it can be reproduced every time you walk near by. Sounds like it could cut down on stored information that others would have to have to do now with current technology.
But the retna thing is scary, and I don't want that. I'd where polarizing glasses everywhere I went.
The Open Source option is just that, an option. It is not the end-all, be-all of software paths for a company to follow. But it should still be looked at and given a chance. The people who can benifit from Open Source the most are large companies who already have programers on staff. The programers can learn the project and start fixing bugs/adding features to it without the need to deal with all the corporate politics that are involved with B2B. This way you can put pressure on a person to get the job done since they are inhouse. And, in the case of licenses like the GPL, the company doesn't have to give the work back if they only use it internally. But they could offer the fixes/features back to the world and see if others would add features/fixes to it as well, which they could merge back into the internal version. Think of it as getting a large pool of free eyes to look at what you are already doing and paying for.
Then Microsoft would be in violation of the GPL. The GPL lets anybody on the face of the earth take something released under it and package it and sell it, but they are required to provide the source code for free to any and all who ask for it. That means that their "product" becomes only as valuable as the services they sell with it, which is fine by me since they would actually have to do something in order to make money. If Microsoft passed it off as their own and didn't release source code, well then they would be criminals wouldn't they.
I would have to agree with you there. Right now, Linux is not ready for joe six pack. But look at the rate at which Linux has been progressing. Just compare Redhat 7.3 to Redhat 9.0 (not that long of period between the two) and you'll see what I mean. I think Linux will overtake both OS X and Windows very soon if it keeps progressing this fast.