A biologist, a physicist and a mathematician are sitting at a cafe patio sipping coffee and watching the people go by. They see two people enter a nearby building. A few minutes later three people come out of the building.
'Ah,' the biologist says, 'they must have reproduced'.
'Nah,' says the physicist, 'three is within statistical error of two'.
'Well,' says the mathematician, 'one thing is for certain: if someone walks into the building now, it will be empty'.
To expand on what daniil said: They are talking about their model.
When they say something like 'as long as MS has first mover advantage' they mean 'when we put into our model that MS has first mover advantage'. The also ran the model where both OSs start with 0 users, which is the case where MS does not have first mover advantage.
Well, the model described in TFA basically boils down to if OSS' two advantages of cost and openness will overcome MS' advantage of already being on top. They found that MS always remains on top as long as price is not a factor. If price is a factor, then OSS may force out MS.
Throw Macs into that model: It doesn't already have a large installed base. It's not free or open.
So, you may think that Macs will take away users from Linux, but TFA definitely disagrees.
They do point out that OSS is coming from behind in terms of market share becasue it is much newer. In addition, the/. summary doesn't quite get the conclusion right. From TFA:
Our main result is that in the absence of cost asymmetries and as long as Windows has a first-mover advantage (a larger installed base at time zero), Linux never displaces Windows of its leadership position.
One of the things the study suggested that MS will have to do to maintain its dominance is significantly lower Windows' price to the point where price is not a factor when choosing between MS and OSS. There were cases in the model where OSS 'beats' Windows, but they all assumed a significant price difference between the two, which, as OSS threatens MS more and more, may become less and less likely, due to MS lowering it's prices.
The article also went into interesting points like which is better for the people. The conclusion was that an OSS monopoly is better than a Windows monopoly, but that a OSS-Windows mix is not always better than a Windows monopoly, due to a splitting of efforts. As a person who feels that the spitting of efforts in OSS is one of it's strengths due to the choices it gives us, I disagree with that one.
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6.10 is later than the fall releases used to be. Ubuntu used to release a preview version, which was very nearly final quality, on the day of the GNOME release, with the final release only a few weeks later. I guess it's still behind because of the Dapper delay.
It's a shame IMO that they haven't kept up with this. Not as many people want to grab the latest buggy daily CD image just to see new GNOME features. But the preview version was always stable enough.
I think the article may be wrong. Much of the stuff I found was free to read and included the full article. I guess it depends on the new agency, but just this morning I was reading about 1975 Angola where the US and Soviets were backing two different sides in a civil war that was threatening to turn into another Vietnam.
/OT Hey, neat! Firefox 2 has a spell checker. No more mispelled psots for me!
Can't someone (possibly Blizzard) just do the same thing again, but in space, a la Starcraft? I don't know about others, but I for one greatly favour sci-fi over fantasy. Dammit Phantasy Star Universe, where are you?!?
Also, didn't anybody say the same thing about FFXI? I would guess that people will eventually get bored with WoW just like they did with FFXI and look for the next big thing.
Please don't pretend like porn is just a movie that happens to have sex. I'm sure you know what modern porn is like, this being/. and all. Nothing in those 5 minute clips is portrayed as something which shouldn't be done. Quite the opposite in fact. And it's not portrayed as a fantasy. Everything in today's porn is portrayed as real people really doing highly enjoyable things.
It's easy to see the difference between a movie where part of the plot is that some people are murdered by some skin-heads and a movie which is just a series of clips of skin-heads going around killing people with a voice cheering them on. The latter, in many countries, is illegal. If the latter is already illegal (and I'm not saying it should be) then why should it be legal just because it has sex in it?
That's not my argument. Please don't put words in my mouth. My argument is that in many places in Europe it's already illegal to possess words which positively portray attacks on people because of their race, religion or sex.
I don't see why sexual videos positively portraying rape and murder of women is any different (not arguing whether or not violent pornography does this).
For a long time it has been illegal in most of the world to advocate the torture, rape and murder of women (or any other group) in writing or speech. Why should it be okay to do so with images?
Remember that Apple's iTunes music is encoded with its DRM. So you cannot legally play iTunes-encoded music on the iPod.
Linux will remain behind of commercial OSes in the realm of media, not because it is Linux, but becuase of DRM.
Just one of the reasons why Linux is ahead of commercial OSes. Everything on my hard-drive will live forever through countless generations of computers with no fear of some DRM scheme or closed architecture rendering the data useless.
You know, for me it's the reverse. I'm much more comfortable thinking 'I could have been great had I put the effort into it', than I would be thinking that I'm just inherently not good enough. I'd rather be lazy than stupid.
I guess I just don't like the idea of someone being 'better' than me. If someone trains, or works harder than me, that doesn't make them better, just a harder worker, which I don't mind.
Who the crap said it was? TFA didn't. The summary didn't. Mentioning two things in the same sentence does not imply that they are equal.
Besides, even if one did claim that the two are just as bad, they would have an argument. How many people outside Iraq's warzone were killed by terrorist acts this year? Not nearly as many as the number of kids that were exploited and are going to have screwed up lives because of these sick fuckers. To many people, child pornography is a bigger problem than terrorism.
FTA: A cancer cell is usually an animal's or person's own cell..
..the cells are not genetically related to the dogs they are in -- proof that they did not arise from the dogs' own cells.
..all the tumor cells, no matter where they were collected, are clones of each other.
If every cell of this cancer is a clone, and not the dog's own cells screwing up, then I'd say this is more like an infection. An alien organism has invaded the dog's body and then replicates. What's the difference (in terms of the vector) between this and a bacterial infection (also single-celled)?
It's not that I can't live without my laptop for 6 hours. It's that I don't want an essential $1000 relatively fragile piece of equipment in the hands of baggage handlers. Or anyone's hands besides mine.
If it wasn't for Jobs we'd be buying cds and downloading mp3s, as many of us still are.
The guy needs to try a spell in the real world.
And his novels SUCK. No wonder he has no need for DRM.
How is he not in the real world? He's practicing what he preaches. And no his books don't suck. I know that popularity doesn't equate to quality, but
if an author can give away his books and still make money selling them, it should be obvious that he's doing something right.
Ah, Ghost and Goblins. The one game where I got so upset that my dad told me to stop playing for awhile. I was yelling, jumping up and down on the couch, probably cussing too.
How are you doing/coping now? Have you recovered your time and a job? When you quit, was it kind of like a planned extended vacation where you would get a job after a certain period of time, or did you just play WoW and not think about the future?
I have to admit, based on the lack of references, I'm a bit skeptical too. Which is why I didn't directly link to an article. People can decide for themselves based on the evidence from a googling.
But it's not as if Bush hasn't said many other stupid, off-colour remarks. And how many of those do we get to hear about if we don't go looking for them? I certainly wouldn't be surprised is this one were true.
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A biologist, a physicist and a mathematician are sitting at a cafe patio sipping coffee and watching the people go by. They see two people enter a nearby building. A few minutes later three people come out of the building.
'Ah,' the biologist says, 'they must have reproduced'.
'Nah,' says the physicist, 'three is within statistical error of two'.
'Well,' says the mathematician, 'one thing is for certain: if someone walks into the building now, it will be empty'.
To expand on what daniil said: They are talking about their model.
When they say something like 'as long as MS has first mover advantage' they mean 'when we put into our model that MS has first mover advantage'. The also ran the model where both OSs start with 0 users, which is the case where MS does not have first mover advantage.
Well, the model described in TFA basically boils down to if OSS' two advantages of cost and openness will overcome MS' advantage of already being on top. They found that MS always remains on top as long as price is not a factor. If price is a factor, then OSS may force out MS.
Throw Macs into that model: It doesn't already have a large installed base. It's not free or open.
So, you may think that Macs will take away users from Linux, but TFA definitely disagrees.
I disagree. The article is quite interesting.
/. summary doesn't quite get the conclusion right. From TFA:
They do point out that OSS is coming from behind in terms of market share becasue it is much newer. In addition, the
Our main result is that in the absence of cost asymmetries and as long as Windows has a first-mover advantage (a larger installed base at time zero), Linux never displaces Windows of its leadership position.
One of the things the study suggested that MS will have to do to maintain its dominance is significantly lower Windows' price to the point where price is not a factor when choosing between MS and OSS. There were cases in the model where OSS 'beats' Windows, but they all assumed a significant price difference between the two, which, as OSS threatens MS more and more, may become less and less likely, due to MS lowering it's prices.
The article also went into interesting points like which is better for the people. The conclusion was that an OSS monopoly is better than a Windows monopoly, but that a OSS-Windows mix is not always better than a Windows monopoly, due to a splitting of efforts. As a person who feels that the spitting of efforts in OSS is one of it's strengths due to the choices it gives us, I disagree with that one.
6.10 is later than the fall releases used to be. Ubuntu used to release a preview version, which was very nearly final quality, on the day of the GNOME release, with the final release only a few weeks later. I guess it's still behind because of the Dapper delay.
It's a shame IMO that they haven't kept up with this. Not as many people want to grab the latest buggy daily CD image just to see new GNOME features. But the preview version was always stable enough.
I think the article may be wrong. Much of the stuff I found was free to read and included the full article. I guess it depends on the new agency, but just this morning I was reading about 1975 Angola where the US and Soviets were backing two different sides in a civil war that was threatening to turn into another Vietnam.
/OT Hey, neat! Firefox 2 has a spell checker. No more mispelled psots for me!
Can't someone (possibly Blizzard) just do the same thing again, but in space, a la Starcraft? I don't know about others, but I for one greatly favour sci-fi over fantasy. Dammit Phantasy Star Universe, where are you?!?
Also, didn't anybody say the same thing about FFXI? I would guess that people will eventually get bored with WoW just like they did with FFXI and look for the next big thing.
Please don't pretend like porn is just a movie that happens to have sex. I'm sure you know what modern porn is like, this being /. and all. Nothing in those 5 minute clips is portrayed as something which shouldn't be done. Quite the opposite in fact. And it's not portrayed as a fantasy. Everything in today's porn is portrayed as real people really doing highly enjoyable things.
It's easy to see the difference between a movie where part of the plot is that some people are murdered by some skin-heads and a movie which is just a series of clips of skin-heads going around killing people with a voice cheering them on. The latter, in many countries, is illegal. If the latter is already illegal (and I'm not saying it should be) then why should it be legal just because it has sex in it?
That's not my argument. Please don't put words in my mouth. My argument is that in many places in Europe it's already illegal to possess words which positively portray attacks on people because of their race, religion or sex.
I don't see why sexual videos positively portraying rape and murder of women is any different (not arguing whether or not violent pornography does this).
For a long time it has been illegal in most of the world to advocate the torture, rape and murder of women (or any other group) in writing or speech. Why should it be okay to do so with images?
+1. That's the first thing that came to my mind. So I guess the events of 2010 can't happen then. Punk ass Jupiter, thinks it's tough.
No, No we don't.
Why does anyone think we do? I don't understand.
Remember that Apple's iTunes music is encoded with its DRM. So you cannot legally play iTunes-encoded music on the iPod. Linux will remain behind of commercial OSes in the realm of media, not because it is Linux, but becuase of DRM.
Just one of the reasons why Linux is ahead of commercial OSes. Everything on my hard-drive will live forever through countless generations of computers with no fear of some DRM scheme or closed architecture rendering the data useless.
You know, for me it's the reverse. I'm much more comfortable thinking 'I could have been great had I put the effort into it', than I would be thinking that I'm just inherently not good enough. I'd rather be lazy than stupid.
I guess I just don't like the idea of someone being 'better' than me. If someone trains, or works harder than me, that doesn't make them better, just a harder worker, which I don't mind.
Why is child pornography as bad as terrorism?
Who the crap said it was? TFA didn't. The summary didn't. Mentioning two things in the same sentence does not imply that they are equal.
Besides, even if one did claim that the two are just as bad, they would have an argument. How many people outside Iraq's warzone were killed by terrorist acts this year? Not nearly as many as the number of kids that were exploited and are going to have screwed up lives because of these sick fuckers. To many people, child pornography is a bigger problem than terrorism.
You forgot number seven. Should it be a troll? Or perhaps you forgot Poland?
I believe he was purposefully putting himself in the 'idiot' category for comedic value.
Perhaps the 7th category is for people who miss the joke?:)
FTA:
..the cells are not genetically related to the dogs they are in -- proof that they did not arise from the dogs' own cells.
..all the tumor cells, no matter where they were collected, are clones of each other.
A cancer cell is usually an animal's or person's own cell..
If every cell of this cancer is a clone, and not the dog's own cells screwing up, then I'd say this is more like an infection. An alien organism has invaded the dog's body and then replicates. What's the difference (in terms of the vector) between this and a bacterial infection (also single-celled)?
It's not that I can't live without my laptop for 6 hours. It's that I don't want an essential $1000 relatively fragile piece of equipment in the hands of baggage handlers. Or anyone's hands besides mine.
If it wasn't for Jobs we'd be buying cds and downloading mp3s, as many of us still are.
The guy needs to try a spell in the real world. And his novels SUCK. No wonder he has no need for DRM.
How is he not in the real world? He's practicing what he preaches. And no his books don't suck. I know that popularity doesn't equate to quality, but if an author can give away his books and still make money selling them, it should be obvious that he's doing something right.
what does that have to do with how the distro looks? He wasn't saying he wanted no gui, just one that isn't so 'bubbly' like Windows.
On a side note, has anyone managed to successfully install Ubuntu on a Toshiba M70 Satellite?
Yes. I'm using Ubuntu on that exact laptop right now. I had no problems, but I installed with an early Ubuntu release candidate back in April.
Have you tried the text based installer?
Ah, Ghost and Goblins. The one game where I got so upset that my dad told me to stop playing for awhile. I was yelling, jumping up and down on the couch, probably cussing too.
No crying though. Too angry.
How are you doing/coping now? Have you recovered your time and a job?
When you quit, was it kind of like a planned extended vacation where you would get a job after a certain period of time, or did you just play WoW and not think about the future?
Just curious.
...always have the disclaimer "in select areas/markets" on them.
FLAF (FTFA en francais):
Cette expérience est conduite dans certains arrondissements parisiens.
Or 'certain areas in Paris'.
Still, it has to start somewhere. I'm sure at somepoint some neighborhood was the only one with 56kb/s.
I have to admit, based on the lack of references, I'm a bit skeptical too. Which is why I didn't directly link to an article. People can decide for themselves based on the evidence from a googling.
But it's not as if Bush hasn't said many other stupid, off-colour remarks. And how many of those do we get to hear about if we don't go looking for them? I certainly wouldn't be surprised is this one were true.