1)Actually, with a decent UI, any software is usable. A good IT worker should be able to adapt quickly to new software - computing is a fast moving world and requires quick adaptation skills to cater for that
2)Hey, Solaris isn't the only alternative out there and financially, it is the exception to the rule. A quick calculation of costs (on the fly in the local computer store ^^) for Redhat (w/gcc,oo.org,etc) vs Win XP (w/equivalent tools) indicated over $1000 saving.
3)Meh. I see your point. However, MS are working towards a new filesystem standard, whats to stop OSs improving on the existing linux ones?
4)Yeh, well. You might want to check that one. The speed of a computer is to a certain extent dictated by the software running on top of the OS. Not every programmer is obsessive compulsive about variable sizes and memory overhead (Not that I'm not ^^);)
5)4 words. Open Office filetype filters:)
And those are just 5 reasons why there are two sides to the coin:)
I fail to see the necessity to produce hundreds of windows-clone distros - isn't it win that we want to draw people away from? Look at it through the eyes of the average user:
It looks and functions like windows. I already have windows. Therefore, I'm sticking with the superior(?) windows
What we need to do is be developing newer, fresher ideas which keep microsoft on their toes - if we do that then at least MS has to keep coming up with the goods. My point is that a line of copies doesn't work - the average user doesn't care about the inside workings - they want results. I'll take the handheld game market as an example - How many gameboy clones have we seen come and disappear, doomed to sit in the back pages of children's catalogs? What we need as I have said too many times in this post is something new. There is more than one way to do it and until OSs capitalises on that and jumps into that niche, there is little hope of removing MS's stranglehold on the market.
But really, what are the advantages of this system that cannot be offered by a 2-D GUI? It's really cool and all, but don't you think this would be a slight waste of CPU or GPU power?
Hey, we will always have the nice little no-frills console. God helps us when they find a way to make that 3d o.0
Whats to stop them just disconnecting your account? Mass downloading of pointless data is most probably against the ToS of most isps. To get this to succeed you would need to most likely get a large proportion of the isp's customer base doing it, up to a point where it wouldn't be financially viable to disconnect offenders.
As for e-mail, we have a little term for such action - its called spamming ^_~
Seriously though, [falembait]take off the tin foil hat[/flamebait] What do most of us have to fear? Are they going to go through our collective histories and gone to the assumption that/. must be an extreme terrorist group due to it's mass following?
It would be easy to prove innocence. You just don't share your root. However, it makes a plea of insanity a lot easier should your innocence be questioned;)
Isn't obvious? "I didn't kill him, the gun did!"
Now if people didn't have such double standards of logic then the world would be a much clearer place. What are they going to do next, blame General Motors for facilliating road accidents or sue Microsoft [No karma whoring intended] for supplying the 12 year olds with the OS that they h4Xx0r phr0m?
And you said what in the above post that hadn't been said in 3 more before half of/. had had a chance to read the story? The point of the title was examining their PR efforts. It said nothing of success or positivity. It merely confirmed that the RIAA are involved in PR in some way. Oh, I'll save you the bother. Consider this post -1, Troll.
Despite the funniness, this is actually a good point. I realise that for idiots like the GNAA and all the other retarded first-post whores this is an appropriate title - maybe even a little too lenient. However, if someone posts anonymously because of valid reasons (like many in the RIAA stories) then it is a little unfair. I realise that it would be near impossible to judge which to use (it isn't a simple case of "logged in user" "logged out user") without adding an extra and pointless layer of moderation. Bah. Thats just my 2 cents.
1)Yup, thats right...assuming you didn't tell it to share your system root;)
2)Depends - did you right-click exit in the tray or just click [x]? It keeps running in the tray - worse still, it allows much more bandwidth for uploads when the system is idle - typically when its in the tray and you've gone to get a cup of coffee or go to the bathroom or whatever.
And they laughed at me when I kept hold of my motorolla brick. Methinx I'll be getting hold of one of these Linux based phones when I can...be a good excuse to replace this bloody old one.
So if you run Linux on a single processor machine (as is true of many non-webserver deployments) SCO really has no case? I would be interested to see if they could uphold a case against a mass deployment on single processor systems:-\
Sorry, I've only got the camel book for reference ^_^ But seriously, why do we need to have a "do-not-spam" list? Why can't we work things the other way, allowing idiots to sign up for a "feel-free-to-spam" list?
I've got a nice little regex that could be used to generate a "do-not-spam" list: /^[\w\.\-]+\@[\w\.\-]+\.[a-z][a-z]+$/i
Of course when the corporate nitwits tried to edit their list in Outlook Mr ^[\w\.\-]+\ @ [\w\.\-]+\.[a-z][a-z]+$ would be the only person who benefited
In fact, Mozilla, or more generally, Open Source browsers could become the "rich" cousins, while proprietary browsers become the feature poor cousins. This would be very ironic.
And it would save us a _lot_ of money - what more do you want?
Hold on a second. Doesn't this make the tag along with half of the HTML 4 standard in breach of the patent o_0 ? Images are stored externally, style sheets are stored externally, fonts are stored externally and don't even get me started about server side includes o_0
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1)Actually, with a decent UI, any software is usable. A good IT worker should be able to adapt quickly to new software - computing is a fast moving world and requires quick adaptation skills to cater for that
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2)Hey, Solaris isn't the only alternative out there and financially, it is the exception to the rule. A quick calculation of costs (on the fly in the local computer store ^^) for Redhat (w/gcc,oo.org,etc) vs Win XP (w/equivalent tools) indicated over $1000 saving.
3)Meh. I see your point. However, MS are working towards a new filesystem standard, whats to stop OSs improving on the existing linux ones?
4)Yeh, well. You might want to check that one. The speed of a computer is to a certain extent dictated by the software running on top of the OS. Not every programmer is obsessive compulsive about variable sizes and memory overhead (Not that I'm not ^^)
5)4 words. Open Office filetype filters
And those are just 5 reasons why there are two sides to the coin
What is your favourite mis-interpretation of MCSE?
I fail to see the necessity to produce hundreds of windows-clone distros - isn't it win that we want to draw people away from? Look at it through the eyes of the average user:
It looks and functions like windows. I already have windows. Therefore, I'm sticking with the superior(?) windows
What we need to do is be developing newer, fresher ideas which keep microsoft on their toes - if we do that then at least MS has to keep coming up with the goods. My point is that a line of copies doesn't work - the average user doesn't care about the inside workings - they want results. I'll take the handheld game market as an example - How many gameboy clones have we seen come and disappear, doomed to sit in the back pages of children's catalogs? What we need as I have said too many times in this post is something new. There is more than one way to do it and until OSs capitalises on that and jumps into that niche, there is little hope of removing MS's stranglehold on the market.
It looks like a bit of a waste of time to me. Whats the point in all that 3d rendering when you know the "cd" and "ls" commands? o.0
But really, what are the advantages of this system that cannot be offered by a 2-D GUI? It's really cool and all, but don't you think this would be a slight waste of CPU or GPU power?
Hey, we will always have the nice little no-frills console. God helps us when they find a way to make that 3d o.0
Whats to stop them just disconnecting your account? Mass downloading of pointless data is most probably against the ToS of most isps. To get this to succeed you would need to most likely get a large proportion of the isp's customer base doing it, up to a point where it wouldn't be financially viable to disconnect offenders. /. must be an extreme terrorist group due to it's mass following?
As for e-mail, we have a little term for such action - its called spamming ^_~
Seriously though, [falembait]take off the tin foil hat[/flamebait] What do most of us have to fear? Are they going to go through our collective histories and gone to the assumption that
It would be easy to prove innocence. You just don't share your root. However, it makes a plea of insanity a lot easier should your innocence be questioned ;)
Isn't obvious?
"I didn't kill him, the gun did!"
Now if people didn't have such double standards of logic then the world would be a much clearer place. What are they going to do next, blame General Motors for facilliating road accidents or sue Microsoft [No karma whoring intended] for supplying the 12 year olds with the OS that they h4Xx0r phr0m?
And you said what in the above post that hadn't been said in 3 more before half of /. had had a chance to read the story? The point of the title was examining their PR efforts. It said nothing of success or positivity. It merely confirmed that the RIAA are involved in PR in some way. Oh, I'll save you the bother. Consider this post -1, Troll.
Despite the funniness, this is actually a good point. I realise that for idiots like the GNAA and all the other retarded first-post whores this is an appropriate title - maybe even a little too lenient. However, if someone posts anonymously because of valid reasons (like many in the RIAA stories) then it is a little unfair. I realise that it would be near impossible to judge which to use (it isn't a simple case of "logged in user" "logged out user") without adding an extra and pointless layer of moderation. Bah. Thats just my 2 cents.
1)Yup, thats right...assuming you didn't tell it to share your system root ;)
:-)
2)Depends - did you right-click exit in the tray or just click [x]? It keeps running in the tray - worse still, it allows much more bandwidth for uploads when the system is idle - typically when its in the tray and you've gone to get a cup of coffee or go to the bathroom or whatever.
Hope that helped
That'll take SCO out with it too - where the hell are we going to find our entertainment?
Bah, if anyones committed such crimes against good taste as many RIAA artists have I see no reason why it shouldn't be o.0
IBM. Their flagship game would probably have something to do with guns and SCO - then we could get our daily fix offline too :D
A cout order? Is that written with the linux version of iostream.h then?
Costumers? Methinx you need the spell chackar from the last story ^_~
And they laughed at me when I kept hold of my motorolla brick. Methinx I'll be getting hold of one of these Linux based phones when I can...be a good excuse to replace this bloody old one.
So if you run Linux on a single processor machine (as is true of many non-webserver deployments) SCO really has no case? I would be interested to see if they could uphold a case against a mass deployment on single processor systems :-\
Sorry, I've only got the camel book for reference ^_^ But seriously, why do we need to have a "do-not-spam" list? Why can't we work things the other way, allowing idiots to sign up for a "feel-free-to-spam" list?
I've got a nice little regex that could be used to generate a "do-not-spam" list:
/^[\w\.\-]+\@[\w\.\-]+\.[a-z][a-z]+$/i
Of course when the corporate nitwits tried to edit their list in Outlook Mr ^[\w\.\-]+\ @ [\w\.\-]+\.[a-z][a-z]+$ would be the only person who benefited
No, we've already had our SCO story today, that wasn't called for.
In fact, Mozilla, or more generally, Open Source browsers could become the "rich" cousins, while proprietary browsers become the feature poor cousins. This would be very ironic.
And it would save us a _lot_ of money - what more do you want?
Hold on a second. Doesn't this make the tag along with half of the HTML 4 standard in breach of the patent o_0 ? Images are stored externally, style sheets are stored externally, fonts are stored externally and don't even get me started about server side includes o_0
Or store it in database and give the control an id rather than a path ^_~
Maybe they'll be kind enough to take all those active x vulnerabilities down with the ship too ^_^