Not to mention the fact that time-shifting is legal. The Sony Betamax case (which established this) said nothing of space-shifting or media-shifting, which is what some are concerned about.
Without the mindshare and press of Tivo, ReplayTV has sported this feature for a long time. Ownere preemptively filed suit to make sure they could legally use show-sharing.
Most of PHP's user base are people that are using PHP to make a living and they wouldn't care less I doubt it. There is a huge non-profit/amateur base of users--look no further than the numerous php projects hosted on sourceforge.
How many major for-profit php apps can you name? Yes, many commercial sites use PHP. But a ton of noncommercial sites do too.
It is somewhat sad that the PHP developers don't see "the rest of us" as a significant portion of their user base, just as it was sad to see RMS not understand that his political message surrounding free software was turning many people off.
I had considered buying this "paper" you speak of, but haven't heard anything about the battery life. If I can plug it into my cigarette adapter, I'm sure that it would be better than the poor iPod.
Personally, on x86 I had far more problems with setting up gentoo (I have to compile a kernel during the installation? how fucked up is that?) If you're going to post flamebait, at least get the facts right. You don't have to compile the gentoo kernel during installation. So nothing is "fucked up." You just didn't read the first page of installation docs that describe a "stage 3" install.
um, isn't that 'Gentoo MacOS' a tad misleading? It's like calling x86 Linux 'Linux Windows' No--this isn't an OS (gentoo has run on the Mac hardware for sometime). Rather it is a native OS X port of portage and other gentoo utilities. It would be like calling cygwin "cygwin" (in other words Cygnus + GNU on windows).
What do we think of when we say "SuSE"? I ThINK ThAT WoRDS WiTH OnE LoWERCASE LeTTER ArE CoOL!!! --- I guess I'm not surprised they changed their name to SUSE: I can just see the pedantic sys-admins giving their pointy haired bosses a hard time for writing "Suse" or "SUSE" in an email.
Now their only problem is that there is more disagreement on how to pronounce "SUSE" than how to pronounce "linux."
MPlayer for Windows is built with MinGW32. That's a big minus for Windows, and most of us that have compared compilers know that VC++ produces faster code.
I don't know--there's a case to be made for using as similar a compiler as possible when you're testing OS performance rather than compiler performance. If they wanted to throw the "big guns" at the problem, the Intel compiler gives excellent results & is available for free for noncommercial use on Linux.
I think most "real-world" benchmarks are pretty flawed & they probably should've used simpler number-crunching algorithms.
You've gotten a lot of responses to "use Passport" and the like. Passport, of course, doesn't uniquely identify you--you can easily get multiple passport accounts.
Instead, use Paypal or similar financial services who have an interest in verifying ID. Yes, many have problems with Paypal eating money, etc. Guess what: Most will probably have a bigger problem sending YOU their personal info & paypal already has a lot of personal info.
Just make users send you the send you the smallest amount possible as pseudo-micropayment. And/or send THEIR paypal account some small amount. That will probably be cheaper than doing verification yourself.
I dislike NVU, and I don't believe that Quanta is a WYSIWYG editor. I've never heard of bluefish, and I'll have to give it a try. Well, Bluefish is probably as WYSIWYH as Quanta--easily plugin a browser. If you don't like quanta, you might not like bluefish. Peacock is pretty good too.
And I now see you were putting Free in caps. Right-a-roo. Sorry if you already knew about the commercial apps on linux. Still, don't discount the "Free" ones altogether--some are decent and are likely to keep improving.
This is very fair & I sympathize. I do wish there were more comprehensive databases to show what is and is not working under wine, etc.--Most show the more popular apps that have good native linux equivalents.
Many times your software will work under wine, etc. It is sometimes worth a try.
If not, it will probably work under a virtual machine (maybe even a free one) and, depending on the licensing, you may not have to purchase additional windows or CAD licenses to "mostly" switch to linux.
Running legacy windows machines is not with out cost! As microsoft may refuse to patch security holes, you may not be able to afford *NOT upgrading.* Certainly, when it comes time to "upgrade," it may make much more sense to pay larger up-front costs of switching to linux rather than the drawn out continual costs of updating windows.
This is fair, but ideally VMWare or Win4Lin or Emmy or BOCHS or.... would just a crutch for you until you can find a comparable native app.
Furthermore, the value mentioned in the article was as a replacement to windows. You probably have a windows license, so no additional costs are added there. The value proposition of switching from the article's viewpoint is primarily to gain security. With linux in place, you still gain this. If you don't want to pay for linux, that is possible (stil supporting it of course) & there are free alternatives to VMWare. Supporting VMWare and apps under it is really the only poor part of the equation.
Just tell end users what you will support on the virtual x86 program (which should ideally be a short list) & ween them off.
How hard woudld it really be for an "average user" to use Crossover Office to get their MS apps back? Or to reassociate "Mozilla" with browsing instead of IE? Or to choose a window mananger/desktop environment that has a "start menu" (many do)?
You don't give the "average user" or the state of the linux desktop nearly enough credit if your gripes are serious.
You can prevent robots (such as the MS Search bot) from doing this by prohibiting them from getting these files with your robots.txt file.
As for individuals, you can limit from IP addresses or add a bandwidth throttling/limiting module to Apache or have all downloads through cgi/php/servlets that are able to track useage.
The real question is if MS search is actually doing anything with those large movies. Perhaps instead of having it retrieve whitelisted filetypes, MS has it retrieve EVERYTHING or isn't using a blacklist big enough
I wonder what happens to these numbers if you include iTunes Music Store and other legal music purchases. These services have been pretty successful. Maybe this report adds to a case for implementing slick infoware from which to download media at reasonable prices. Current video and software on demand is nowhere near as inexpensive and well-put-together as the music on demand.
Being in the military is not a bed of roses, where the soldiers casually stroll about all day, sipping fragrant teas in exchange for outrageous pay and benefits.
Neither does it always (or even usually) mean being on the front lines. Perhaps I am at fault for using "tooth and nail," as it does connotated some sort of direct involvement in conflict. What I meant was that those who choose to be in the military are often passionate about defending liberty. Their service shows this passion.
I am not enlisted & don't have plans to enlist. I have the pleasure of being involved in academic research (though I also see the lack of tea and pay and benfits). My research happens to help create better materials for, among other things, use by the military. I am rewarded in that the science I am passionate about can be put to good use by someone who may not be unlike the great-grandparent of this post. I respect his career choice, but question his motivation for making it since our traditional ideals don't seem to be near and dear to him.
Old TJ was more irate over the charges of sacreligious materials (more complete quote below). Quoting him out of context is a bit of a cheap shot.
I am really mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, a fact like this can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too, as an offence against religion; that a question about the sale of a book can be carried before the civil magistrate. Is this then our freedom of religion? and are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? Is a priest to be our inquisitor, or shall a layman, simple as ourselves, set up his reason as the rule for what we are to read, and what we must believe? It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason. --From In Freedom
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Not to mention the fact that time-shifting is legal.
The Sony Betamax case (which established this) said nothing of space-shifting or media-shifting, which is what some are concerned about.
"Ownere" is not some Korean company--it is me "mispelling" (won't this drive spelling bee champions nuts) "Owners."
Without the mindshare and press of Tivo, ReplayTV has sported this feature for a long time. Ownere preemptively filed suit to make sure they could legally use show-sharing.
Most of PHP's user base are people that are using PHP to make a living and they wouldn't care less
I doubt it. There is a huge non-profit/amateur base of users--look no further than the numerous php projects hosted on sourceforge.
How many major for-profit php apps can you name? Yes, many commercial sites use PHP. But a ton of noncommercial sites do too.
It is somewhat sad that the PHP developers don't see "the rest of us" as a significant portion of their user base, just as it was sad to see RMS not understand that his political message surrounding free software was turning many people off.
I had considered buying this "paper" you speak of, but haven't heard anything about the battery life. If I can plug it into my cigarette adapter, I'm sure that it would be better than the poor iPod.
Right. Sorry. Stage 3 installs the base system for you. As noted by another poster, there are ebuilds of binary kernels.
Personally, on x86 I had far more problems with setting up gentoo (I have to compile a kernel during the installation? how fucked up is that?)
If you're going to post flamebait, at least get the facts right. You don't have to compile the gentoo kernel during installation. So nothing is "fucked up." You just didn't read the first page of installation docs that describe a "stage 3" install.
um, isn't that 'Gentoo MacOS' a tad misleading? It's like calling x86 Linux 'Linux Windows'
No--this isn't an OS (gentoo has run on the Mac hardware for sometime). Rather it is a native OS X port of portage and other gentoo utilities. It would be like calling cygwin "cygwin" (in other words Cygnus + GNU on windows).
What do we think of when we say "SuSE"?
I ThINK ThAT WoRDS WiTH OnE LoWERCASE LeTTER ArE CoOL!!!
---
I guess I'm not surprised they changed their name to SUSE: I can just see the pedantic sys-admins giving their pointy haired bosses a hard time for writing "Suse" or "SUSE" in an email.
Now their only problem is that there is more disagreement on how to pronounce "SUSE" than how to pronounce "linux."
MPlayer for Windows is built with MinGW32. That's a big minus for Windows, and most of us that have compared compilers know that VC++ produces faster code.
I don't know--there's a case to be made for using as similar a compiler as possible when you're testing OS performance rather than compiler performance. If they wanted to throw the "big guns" at the problem, the Intel compiler gives excellent results & is available for free for noncommercial use on Linux.
I think most "real-world" benchmarks are pretty flawed & they probably should've used simpler number-crunching algorithms.
You've gotten a lot of responses to "use Passport" and the like. Passport, of course, doesn't uniquely identify you--you can easily get multiple passport accounts.
Instead, use Paypal or similar financial services who have an interest in verifying ID. Yes, many have problems with Paypal eating money, etc. Guess what: Most will probably have a bigger problem sending YOU their personal info & paypal already has a lot of personal info.
Just make users send you the send you the smallest amount possible as pseudo-micropayment. And/or send THEIR paypal account some small amount. That will probably be cheaper than doing verification yourself.
I dislike NVU, and I don't believe that Quanta is a WYSIWYG editor. I've never heard of bluefish, and I'll have to give it a try.
Well, Bluefish is probably as WYSIWYH as Quanta--easily plugin a browser. If you don't like quanta, you might not like bluefish. Peacock is pretty good too.
And I now see you were putting Free in caps. Right-a-roo. Sorry if you already knew about the commercial apps on linux. Still, don't discount the "Free" ones altogether--some are decent and are likely to keep improving.
First of all, grand parent was certainly talking about free as in speech, not beer: check his title.
How are any of these apps free on Windows?! You can pay for all of this software on linux if you like instead!
Look at QCAD, VariCAD, CYCAS, and intellicad. Look to see if your favorite windows app works under Wine.
Look at Oregano, Gael, gEDA, PCB, MUCS-PCB, XRoadMaker, Xelen, SpiceCAD for your PCB stuff.
Some of these are fre as in beer or speech, some are commercial.
You can do useful stuff in linux too!
This is very fair & I sympathize. I do wish there were more comprehensive databases to show what is and is not working under wine, etc.--Most show the more popular apps that have good native linux equivalents.
Many times your software will work under wine, etc. It is sometimes worth a try.
If not, it will probably work under a virtual machine (maybe even a free one) and, depending on the licensing, you may not have to purchase additional windows or CAD licenses to "mostly" switch to linux.
Running legacy windows machines is not with out cost! As microsoft may refuse to patch security holes, you may not be able to afford *NOT upgrading.* Certainly, when it comes time to "upgrade," it may make much more sense to pay larger up-front costs of switching to linux rather than the drawn out continual costs of updating windows.
This is fair, but ideally VMWare or Win4Lin or Emmy or BOCHS or.... would just a crutch for you until you can find a comparable native app.
Furthermore, the value mentioned in the article was as a replacement to windows. You probably have a windows license, so no additional costs are added there. The value proposition of switching from the article's viewpoint is primarily to gain security. With linux in place, you still gain this. If you don't want to pay for linux, that is possible (stil supporting it of course) & there are free alternatives to VMWare. Supporting VMWare and apps under it is really the only poor part of the equation.
Just tell end users what you will support on the virtual x86 program (which should ideally be a short list) & ween them off.
Dreamweaver
Works under crossover office. Also see NVU, Bluefish, and Quanta for great native GUI HTML composers that run natively.
Warcraft
Frecraft or under TransGaming.
Neverwinter
Runs natively
EQ
Runs under Trans Gaming
To truly compete against Windows, GNU/Linux needs to have a line of hardware, clearly marked, that it will work flawlessly with.
Like keyboards with tux where the windows logo is?
90% of your other apps? Please. Which specific apps can you not find an equivalent app for that won't run under wine/crossover office/vmware?
You will find many here who use Linux as there primary or only OS. Are you saying these people don't actually use their machines?
How hard woudld it really be for an "average user" to use Crossover Office to get their MS apps back? Or to reassociate "Mozilla" with browsing instead of IE? Or to choose a window mananger/desktop environment that has a "start menu" (many do)?
You don't give the "average user" or the state of the linux desktop nearly enough credit if your gripes are serious.
You can prevent robots (such as the MS Search bot) from doing this by prohibiting them from getting these files with your robots.txt file.
As for individuals, you can limit from IP addresses or add a bandwidth throttling/limiting module to Apache or have all downloads through cgi/php/servlets that are able to track useage.
The real question is if MS search is actually doing anything with those large movies. Perhaps instead of having it retrieve whitelisted filetypes, MS has it retrieve EVERYTHING or isn't using a blacklist big enough
I wonder what happens to these numbers if you include iTunes Music Store and other legal music purchases. These services have been pretty successful. Maybe this report adds to a case for implementing slick infoware from which to download media at reasonable prices. Current video and software on demand is nowhere near as inexpensive and well-put-together as the music on demand.
Being in the military is not a bed of roses, where the soldiers casually stroll about all day, sipping fragrant teas in exchange for outrageous pay and benefits.
Neither does it always (or even usually) mean being on the front lines. Perhaps I am at fault for using "tooth and nail," as it does connotated some sort of direct involvement in conflict. What I meant was that those who choose to be in the military are often passionate about defending liberty. Their service shows this passion.
I am not enlisted & don't have plans to enlist. I have the pleasure of being involved in academic research (though I also see the lack of tea and pay and benfits). My research happens to help create better materials for, among other things, use by the military. I am rewarded in that the science I am passionate about can be put to good use by someone who may not be unlike the great-grandparent of this post. I respect his career choice, but question his motivation for making it since our traditional ideals don't seem to be near and dear to him.
No, that would be George Washington.
No, that would be Thomas Jefferson
Old TJ was more irate over the charges of sacreligious materials (more complete quote below). Quoting him out of context is a bit of a cheap shot.
I am really mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, a fact like this can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too, as an offence against religion; that a question about the sale of a book can be carried before the civil magistrate. Is this then our freedom of religion? and are we to have a censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? And who is thus to dogmatize religious opinions for our citizens? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched? Is a priest to be our inquisitor, or shall a layman, simple as ourselves, set up his reason as the rule for what we are to read, and what we must believe? It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason. --From In Freedom