This article states:
Amazon didn't even have to resort to controversial pro forma accounting methods. It posted a net profit of $5 million, or 1 cent a share, for the quarter, using standard accounting methods.
Technically, creative accounting made them a profit. For instance, I don't believe the expenses included debt interest or payments. However, this is what they told "the street" they would do this year. In that sense it is a major milestone. They are still losing money, tho.
Do this for your ide hard drives:
hdparm -u1 -ci -d1/dev/whatever
I can't believe I was running without it. Does anyone know why this is not turned on by default?
Use man hdparm to learn what these settings do.
However, your problems sound more like Xwindows problems than kernel problems.
An American Airlines Jet, probably an Airbus, was headed to the Dominican Republic and ran into some kind of trouble after takeoff. It tried to return to the airport, but could not make. Maybe an engine exploded or was on fire. FAA does NOT believe it was a terroist attack or any kind of hijacking.
The fantasy world that the Linux kernel can be all things to all people is not possible. People want this feature or that feature. They want their issue in the kernel right now. Also, most people don't want bugs (this issue has one confirmed, but unnamed, victim). See, the problem is that wanting something now means that you don't want to wait for testing.
The really cool thing that I see from this kind of discussion is that Linux has such a large user base now, it's impossible to please most of them. MS, with its huge user base, has basically said, "Screw it, let's piss 'em all off."
There is not knowing English, and then there is writing like a 13 year old. "Ass-wiping" and 3 sentences crammed into one run-on are signs of bad writing in almost any language. These are not just examples of bad English.
Yes it is bigger and Yes probably slower. However, I typical user that is used to Windows Bloat will see very similar functionality and speed improvements without the popup ads (XP's cool new features). Linux must keep up with the Evil Empire in many things that "typical" users will think they need. They also must balance the Linux configurability for us geeks. It's a tough job.
If Grandma is going to install Linux, it better work right out of the box. The only way to do that is to have it install everything.
If you're smart enough to know you don't want everything (and you obviously are), then you have to remove what you don't want. How is Mandrake supposed to know what YOU want installed vs. me? In order to cover all of the possible installations, they'd have to make a "Custom" install choice or something. Oh wait, they do.
Would Grandma like to edit startup scripts or spend half of her day, everyday, clicking the "X" to remove the "Would you like to sign up for a Passport now?" balloon dialogue she'd get in Windows? (Does anybody know how to stop this without actually getting a Passport?)
What does Northwestern's purchase agreement have to do with Front Page's EULA? All you've done is point out a License agreement between NU and MS that doesn't have the line mentioned in the InfoWorld story. I've got a EULA from Windows 3.1 that doesn't have the statement either. If it were in electronic form, I'd post a link [here]. Hell, I've even got an article about NU Football in today's Chicago Tribune that doesn't have the stated MS EULA exclustions, here.
Do all of the soundbytes used in this post and all of your financial/business knowledge come from Fox "Dance Party" News?
1. Make it illegal for them to require their product placement over that of others on the desktop. IT IS ILLEGAL!!!!
2. Place no restriction or penalty on the cost of windows for companies that sell computers with other operating systems. So, Microsoft can charge as much as they want for Windows to a PC company if that PC company offers other OSes? Yeah, that's probably not what you meant, but it is what you said. However, if I understand what was meant by the preceding statement, this practice of "Microsot Taxing" is also illegal.
3. Create and monitor window wholesale costs so that it is sold to resellers of similar volume at the same price. This should not be public information, but monitored by an independant board appointed by the court. I'm no expert, but I think it'd be quite hard to make this information private. Especially since most of the PC companies are public and must provide their financial information to examiners and auditors.
4. Require that any software installed by a competitor be allowed to become the first choice for operating on the media (I think this already occurs) Yes, this does already occur, but when it takes one click to use the MS version, but 3 screens and 5 plus clicks to use the alternative... See Kodak.
5. Allow for removal of non-required components via the Windows Software Add/Remove. This means you can one click access away for IE, WMedia, or anything else. Define "required". Isn't that the essence of the browser tying part of the case. MS says it's a required part of the OS, they were proven wrong. A 3 year court case for each item MS adds seems impractical.
6. Require Microsoft to show a good-faith effort in correcting incompatibilities caused by a software update on their part with a competitors product. Perhaps have an outside board judge the effort. Do you think MS will start shoiwng good faith now? MS: Oops, we did it again. We'll have a patch for that Quicktime problem in a few weeks. Meanwhile, you can use Windows Media player. Regardless, who chooses board members? How many members? What disciplines should members have? Who pays their salaries? What happens when these boards and MS disagree, another court case? Has this ever been the remedy for an antitrust case?
Don't call one person's ideas stupid when yours aren't any better.
In an article I read, the MS rep. said that MONO would "probably" have to use MS IP. And, in the situation where MS IP was used, MS would have to look at how they license their IP because the GPL is so scary.
This is total FUD, because MONO is only implementing the EMCA standard and would never use MS IP to do it. After all, how could you make quality software if you filled it with/based it on crap?
MS is just creating FUD again by saying that the GPL is scary, so thus this Open/Free.NET implementation will also be scary.
The notion that seems really foreign around here, though, is that there are issues of respect and courtesy that go beyond what you think the law could possibly allow you to get away with.
Exactly. If.ORG would have just said something like, "...and much thanks go to the folks over at mySQL AB (LINK) for all their hard work on creating this excellent database...", none of this would have happened and we'd all still be reading about the solar car race starting Sunday in Chicago!
Was the cited survey conducted in the summer? Would the responses be different if you asked a hundred random people on the streets of Chicago in January?
The earth is large and our immediate impact is hardly perceptible, however we ARE affecting the planet. Argue all you want about climatic cycles, but I'm not going out in the sun without an SPF of at least 30.
<hypocrite>Of course, I'm also not turning off my AC.</hypocrite>
But the kodak software forces you to use Kodak's service for the same thing.
Absolutely True, but I didn't by a Microsoft Digital Camera. Digital photography is the 1232nd business MS has entered (brokering prints from digital images is 1307). They'll suck at these like they suck at everything else that they try to take by force. (They don't suck at "taking by force".)
Also, Kodak does provide the printing service they are forcing you to use. OTOH, MS charges you to use somebody else's service. The reason MS gets to charge that tax is because they make their software the default. That is the issue.
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This article states:
Amazon didn't even have to resort to controversial pro forma accounting methods. It posted a net profit of $5 million, or 1 cent a share, for the quarter, using standard accounting methods.
NO, YOU ARE WRONG!!!
OK, you're right.
this article says that pro-forma profit was ~$35 million. Net profit was ~$5 mil. I sit corrected.
Technically, creative accounting made them a profit. For instance, I don't believe the expenses included debt interest or payments. However, this is what they told "the street" they would do this year. In that sense it is a major milestone. They are still losing money, tho.
Do this for your ide hard drives: /dev/whatever
hdparm -u1 -ci -d1
I can't believe I was running without it. Does anyone know why this is not turned on by default?
Use
man hdparm to learn what these settings do.
However, your problems sound more like Xwindows problems than kernel problems.
One more note, the plane crashed on takeoff according to CNN.
An American Airlines Jet, probably an Airbus, was headed to the Dominican Republic and ran into some kind of trouble after takeoff. It tried to return to the airport, but could not make. Maybe an engine exploded or was on fire. FAA does NOT believe it was a terroist attack or any kind of hijacking.
I gotta love how Windows zealots call Linux zealots zealots!
The article states, clearly, that they turned off all of the eye candy and XP was still painfully slower. Hard, cold facts are hard to argue with.
XP sure is purty, tho.
The fantasy world that the Linux kernel can be all things to all people is not possible. People want this feature or that feature. They want their issue in the kernel right now. Also, most people don't want bugs (this issue has one confirmed, but unnamed, victim). See, the problem is that wanting something now means that you don't want to wait for testing.
The really cool thing that I see from this kind of discussion is that Linux has such a large user base now, it's impossible to please most of them.
MS, with its huge user base, has basically said, "Screw it, let's piss 'em all off."
There is not knowing English, and then there is writing like a 13 year old. "Ass-wiping" and 3 sentences crammed into one run-on are signs of bad writing in almost any language. These are not just examples of bad English.
Yes it is bigger and Yes probably slower. However, I typical user that is used to Windows Bloat will see very similar functionality and speed improvements without the popup ads (XP's cool new features). Linux must keep up with the Evil Empire in many things that "typical" users will think they need. They also must balance the Linux configurability for us geeks. It's a tough job.
If Grandma is going to install Linux, it better work right out of the box. The only way to do that is to have it install everything.
If you're smart enough to know you don't want everything (and you obviously are), then you have to remove what you don't want. How is Mandrake supposed to know what YOU want installed vs. me? In order to cover all of the possible installations, they'd have to make a "Custom" install choice or something. Oh wait, they do.
Would Grandma like to edit startup scripts or spend half of her day, everyday, clicking the "X" to remove the "Would you like to sign up for a Passport now?" balloon dialogue she'd get in Windows? (Does anybody know how to stop this without actually getting a Passport?)
I used to work for the Gartner Group.
I don't think you did, at least not in any important capacity. You can't write.
What does Northwestern's purchase agreement have to do with Front Page's EULA? All you've done is point out a License agreement between NU and MS that doesn't have the line mentioned in the InfoWorld story.
I've got a EULA from Windows 3.1 that doesn't have the statement either. If it were in electronic form, I'd post a link [here]. Hell, I've even got an article about NU Football in today's Chicago Tribune that doesn't have the stated MS EULA exclustions, here.
NO!
Do not bomb them fast.
Figure out as best you can who did it. Do not follow this attack up by killing more innocent people. Period.
Fuck up the poeple who DID do it.
Do you have any idea how many times Quicktime has taken over/crashed my browser upon opening a .mov file?
Isn't it the browser's fault then?
Do you have debug information we don't have that shows it was quicktime that caused your browser to crash?
Why is it that when an MS OS based computer crashes, it's never Microsoft's software that caused the crash?
Let me clue everyone in. It's always Microsoft's software that causes it.
For a 13 year old.
Do all of the soundbytes used in this post and all of your financial/business knowledge come from Fox "Dance Party" News?
1. Make it illegal for them to require their product placement over that of others on the desktop.
IT IS ILLEGAL!!!!
2. Place no restriction or penalty on the cost of windows for companies that sell computers with other operating systems.
So, Microsoft can charge as much as they want for Windows to a PC company if that PC company offers other OSes? Yeah, that's probably not what you meant, but it is what you said.
However, if I understand what was meant by the preceding statement, this practice of "Microsot Taxing" is also illegal.
3. Create and monitor window wholesale costs so that it is sold to resellers of similar volume at the same price. This should not be public information, but monitored by an independant board appointed by the court.
I'm no expert, but I think it'd be quite hard to make this information private. Especially since most of the PC companies are public and must provide their financial information to examiners and auditors.
4. Require that any software installed by a competitor be allowed to become the first choice for operating on the media (I think this already occurs)
Yes, this does already occur, but when it takes one click to use the MS version, but 3 screens and 5 plus clicks to use the alternative... See Kodak.
5. Allow for removal of non-required components via the Windows Software Add/Remove. This means you can one click access away for IE, WMedia, or anything else.
Define "required". Isn't that the essence of the browser tying part of the case. MS says it's a required part of the OS, they were proven wrong. A 3 year court case for each item MS adds seems impractical.
6. Require Microsoft to show a good-faith effort in correcting incompatibilities caused by a software update on their part with a competitors product. Perhaps have an outside board judge the effort.
Do you think MS will start shoiwng good faith now?
MS: Oops, we did it again. We'll have a patch for that Quicktime problem in a few weeks. Meanwhile, you can use Windows Media player.
Regardless, who chooses board members? How many members? What disciplines should members have? Who pays their salaries? What happens when these boards and MS disagree, another court case? Has this ever been the remedy for an antitrust case? Don't call one person's ideas stupid when yours aren't any better.
GPL: If you're going to use our source code, then you must release your source code back to us.
Borland: If you're going to make money off of code made by our product, then you must give money back to us.
In an article I read, the MS rep. said that MONO would "probably" have to use MS IP. And, in the situation where MS IP was used, MS would have to look at how they license their IP because the GPL is so scary.
.NET implementation will also be scary.
This is total FUD, because MONO is only implementing the EMCA standard and would never use MS IP to do it. After all, how could you make quality software if you filled it with/based it on crap?
MS is just creating FUD again by saying that the GPL is scary, so thus this Open/Free
ZDNet reports this propaganda like it's fact.
They are forbidden to alter Java. They can include it all they want. Even the article states this.
We could just wait to send spam and surf porn 'til we get home.
Not that anybody cares, but I've got a DSL line at home and no cell phone. Somehow, I get by.
The notion that seems really foreign around here, though, is that there are issues of respect and courtesy that go beyond what you think the law could possibly allow you to get away with.
.ORG would have just said something like, "...and much thanks go to the folks over at mySQL AB (LINK) for all their hard work on creating this excellent database...", none of this would have happened and we'd all still be reading about the solar car race starting Sunday in Chicago!
Exactly. If
Was the cited survey conducted in the summer? Would the responses be different if you asked a hundred random people on the streets of Chicago in January?
The earth is large and our immediate impact is hardly perceptible, however we ARE affecting the planet. Argue all you want about climatic cycles, but I'm not going out in the sun without an SPF of at least 30.
<hypocrite>Of course, I'm also not turning off my AC.</hypocrite>
But the kodak software forces you to use Kodak's service for the same thing.
Absolutely True, but I didn't by a Microsoft Digital Camera. Digital photography is the 1232nd business MS has entered (brokering prints from digital images is 1307). They'll suck at these like they suck at everything else that they try to take by force. (They don't suck at "taking by force".)
Also, Kodak does provide the printing service they are forcing you to use. OTOH, MS charges you to use somebody else's service. The reason MS gets to charge that tax is because they make their software the default. That is the issue.
Those of you who like pico but want more functionality may like nano
FYI: The author of the LinuxToday article is also the author of nano.