There are no "desktop" or "home" editions of Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, VM/MVS, AS400, or other systems because the concept is irrational.
No, but there are Enterprise versions like SuSE or RHEL...
And there's versions designed for end users like Linspire. And there's others like Fedora or OpenSuSE or Ubuntu which CAN work as a server, but generally you don't deploy it to the enterprise...
Sure there's some goofy sysadmins who install gentoo in enterprise situations, but generally this is bad news for the enterprise.
This isn't a really great random sampling; it's skewed slightly by the fact that it's about myspace users dumb enough to fall for a phishing attack only.
If everything is moving away from everything else, then at some point in the past they must all have been in the same place.
That may be an assumption made a priori, but I'll challenge that... Just because we observe bodies moving away from a point doesn't necessarily mean that they started there or even had an explosion there... It could be anecdotal evidence...
you are not religious, but you are not scientifically minded either. We do not 'just theorize', we gather data and propose ideas - hypothesis and mathematical models. These models fit the gathered data and can be used to predict events in the future.
The big bang is still just a theory, unproven. I'm merely asking why it's one of the more accepted theories out there - I'm getting some great responses thanks!
If time has no beginning, how long would it have taken to get to the moment you're reading this post?
Time in that sense is relative to now. One minute ago. yesterday. Five years ago. Two years in the future.
Our calendar is based on relativity - cycles of the earth, cycles around the sun. Every unit of time is simply relative. Time can best be expressed as a function from now, not so easily as a function from the beginning of time.
We express our calendar as a function of time from the birth of Christ. We pick a static point in time, and measure our relative distance from it.
Okay, maybe I just don't get it... I'm not religious, but I don't buy into the big bang theory either... Why can't we just theorize that time is not finite - there's no beginning and no end...
Seriously, someone explain to me why time MUST have a beginning? Can't we just accept some things as being infinite?
Monopolies only become a problem when they stop doing what's in the best interests of the customers.
Make no mistake about it, people who use Google's free services are not Google's customers; they are Google's product.
Advertisers are Google's customers. They are the ones who pay. Granted they treat their users well with their offerings, but in no way are you a customer of Google's.
I personally really enjoy football (american, NFL) and even I am beginning to become unnerved by the ads.
Ever notice that the two most popular sports in America are Football and Baseball? And those same two sports allow for the most insane commercial breaks. Hell baseball has 18 chances for commercial breaks plus piching changes. It's insane!
I truly believe hockey is failing in the US because the TV stations aren't selling it to you - it simply isn't as profitable for them as Baseball or Football...
Why do I have to pay for each movie in a movie theater?
Just to point out that you also get 30 mins of marketing crap before the movie starts too... rest assured that money doesn't go the theater, it's another way for movie companies to squeeze more revenues out of the movie.
We honestly have every right to try to avoid the marketing crap thrown at us. It's our choice what we see and what we don't see. If the marketing companies had their way, the advertisements would be on the inside of our eyelids.
Do local cops currently have the ability to jam landline phones?
You can't bring your landline phone to a movie theater or a restaurant. If you want to be a rude prick, that's fine, I just don't want you around me.
I say let the market decide. Have restaurants and movie theaters that have a cell phone jamming device and see who spends more money - the people who want a night out to enjoy themselves or the ass hats who think that because they are a paying customer they have a right to disrupt people's enjoyment of what they paid for - their food or their seat at the movie.
If Microsoft eliminated backwards compatibility, thousands of companies would be in a position where they needed to include the cost of migrating software in the upgrade decision.
As compared to the upgrade path to OSX, where non native apps wrong like a slug in emulator mode?
Flame away here, but Microsoft has been fairly good with their backwards compatibility. At least as good as OSX, if not better.
If a law firm for example continues to insist they should be running Word Perfect 5.1 because that's all the legal secretaries want to use, that isn't Microsoft's problem. Moving to Linux isn't going to make that any different either.
Free marIt's up to society to decide if we leave a person destitude after a life saving operation. Market forces simply do not work in health care, except perhaps for elective procedures such as plastic surgery.
An economist would say it's from the elasticity of demand. There is nothing more inelastic than health care. Anyone would pay all of their assets to get their life back. It's an excellent example of the breakdown of capitalism.
So, no trees, no water, no crops, and no livestock which depend on those crops. No fish, no seafood. What, exactly, did you think your kids were going to eat?
Farmed salmon!
^_^
Who neads real, tasty wild pacific salmon when we can have pcb infested, unnatural west coast raised atlantic salmon instead???
You'll need to upgrade everything (including OS), or nothing.
With every version of Windows, Microsoft further saturates the market. I'm not so certain the Vista upgrade will be a must-have.
For most people, Internet and Word Processing and Solitaire, XP is probably enough.
Recall XP was the only good upgrade after 98; ME was crap, and win2k had some minor compatibility issues.
Don't count on Vista being the must-have OS. The DRM for example and the phoning home BS will force end users to stay away. For us, we're moving to a completely Linux household. Wife's on board with it.
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There are no "desktop" or "home" editions of Linux, Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, VM/MVS, AS400, or other systems because the concept is irrational.
No, but there are Enterprise versions like SuSE or RHEL...
And there's versions designed for end users like Linspire. And there's others like Fedora or OpenSuSE or Ubuntu which CAN work as a server, but generally you don't deploy it to the enterprise...
Sure there's some goofy sysadmins who install gentoo in enterprise situations, but generally this is bad news for the enterprise.
This isn't a really great random sampling; it's skewed slightly by the fact that it's about myspace users dumb enough to fall for a phishing attack only.
Cool article though!
No, in some facilities it's smart. Why? It prevents unauthorized personnel from booting with a live CD they bring from home.
Er - why does unauthorized personnel have access to the server anyway???
If everything is moving away from everything else, then at some point in the past they must all have been in the same place.
That may be an assumption made a priori, but I'll challenge that... Just because we observe bodies moving away from a point doesn't necessarily mean that they started there or even had an explosion there... It could be anecdotal evidence...
you are not religious, but you are not scientifically minded either. We do not 'just theorize', we gather data and propose ideas - hypothesis and mathematical models. These models fit the gathered data and can be used to predict events in the future.
The big bang is still just a theory, unproven. I'm merely asking why it's one of the more accepted theories out there - I'm getting some great responses thanks!
If time has no beginning, how long would it have taken to get to the moment you're reading this post?
Time in that sense is relative to now. One minute ago. yesterday. Five years ago. Two years in the future.
Our calendar is based on relativity - cycles of the earth, cycles around the sun. Every unit of time is simply relative. Time can best be expressed as a function from now, not so easily as a function from the beginning of time.
We express our calendar as a function of time from the birth of Christ. We pick a static point in time, and measure our relative distance from it.
IT ALL TRACES BACK TO GOD!
Okay, maybe I just don't get it... I'm not religious, but I don't buy into the big bang theory either... Why can't we just theorize that time is not finite - there's no beginning and no end...
Seriously, someone explain to me why time MUST have a beginning? Can't we just accept some things as being infinite?
Monopolies only become a problem when they stop doing what's in the best interests of the customers.
Make no mistake about it, people who use Google's free services are not Google's customers; they are Google's product.
Advertisers are Google's customers. They are the ones who pay. Granted they treat their users well with their offerings, but in no way are you a customer of Google's.
I personally really enjoy football (american, NFL) and even I am beginning to become unnerved by the ads.
Ever notice that the two most popular sports in America are Football and Baseball? And those same two sports allow for the most insane commercial breaks. Hell baseball has 18 chances for commercial breaks plus piching changes. It's insane!
I truly believe hockey is failing in the US because the TV stations aren't selling it to you - it simply isn't as profitable for them as Baseball or Football...
and this is a crazy idea, there were some way to do away with all that and broadcast television content wirelessly? S
You're kidding right? Ever heard of satellite cable?
As in a wireless broadcast gets picked up by my dish outside my home and delivers content to me?
Why do I have to pay for each movie in a movie theater?
Just to point out that you also get 30 mins of marketing crap before the movie starts too... rest assured that money doesn't go the theater, it's another way for movie companies to squeeze more revenues out of the movie.
We honestly have every right to try to avoid the marketing crap thrown at us. It's our choice what we see and what we don't see. If the marketing companies had their way, the advertisements would be on the inside of our eyelids.
Do local cops currently have the ability to jam landline phones?
You can't bring your landline phone to a movie theater or a restaurant. If you want to be a rude prick, that's fine, I just don't want you around me.
I say let the market decide. Have restaurants and movie theaters that have a cell phone jamming device and see who spends more money - the people who want a night out to enjoy themselves or the ass hats who think that because they are a paying customer they have a right to disrupt people's enjoyment of what they paid for - their food or their seat at the movie.
Novell is a company in very serious trouble
Doesn't Novell claim to have the rights to Unix, insofar as the SCO lawsuit was concerned?
That's a pretty valuable patent, in terms of dollars.
So yeah, Why are we even considering catering for 4.6% of the worlds population?
4.6% of the worlds population is presently over 20% of the worlds economy. Like it or not, their purchasing power is huge.
a lot of slashdot users is that they take a lot of cheap shots at people just to boost their ego.
Yeah, that's it. Not that I was pointing out the irony of your comments. No, that wasn't it. It was simply to boost my ego.
s/commonity/commodity/
:)
:)
You must be an IE user
Considering you yourself said that IE users had a tendency to have poor spelling and grammar haha...
Now I'm using FF2 with the new spell check feature so you won't see any of that here from me
'Dell recommends Windows XP Professional,' as if there were a choice in the matter
As if I can buy a mac and install Yellow Dog Linux or whatever. AFAIK Mac's come with OSX and you can't order them without OSX either.
Same thing folks - if you want to be a fanboi, that's fine, but remember Apple does the same crap and even worse sometimes than Microsoft...
Well only about 16.7 percent of the world's population has access to the internet. So a while.
and how much own a dvd player??
Tired of waiting for working video editing in linux.....
Wholly crap me too... Right now it's the biggest bug in my ass any why I'm starting to dislike Linux...
That's a hardware issue, not a software one.
Sorry I wasn't more clear - Mac OS 9 to OSX.
It was an unpleasant upgrade path but one the users followed.
OSX users tend to upgrade when told to. Windows users just tend to sit back and bitch about being told to upgrade.
If Microsoft eliminated backwards compatibility, thousands of companies would be in a position where they needed to include the cost of migrating software in the upgrade decision.
As compared to the upgrade path to OSX, where non native apps wrong like a slug in emulator mode?
Flame away here, but Microsoft has been fairly good with their backwards compatibility. At least as good as OSX, if not better.
If a law firm for example continues to insist they should be running Word Perfect 5.1 because that's all the legal secretaries want to use, that isn't Microsoft's problem. Moving to Linux isn't going to make that any different either.
Free marIt's up to society to decide if we leave a person destitude after a life saving operation. Market forces simply do not work in health care, except perhaps for elective procedures such as plastic surgery.
An economist would say it's from the elasticity of demand. There is nothing more inelastic than health care. Anyone would pay all of their assets to get their life back. It's an excellent example of the breakdown of capitalism.
But that is for a judge and jury to decide, not a pissed off cop.
Where's the rest of the video? Not enough context in this video to decide if this is police brutality or not.
So, no trees, no water, no crops, and no livestock which depend on those crops. No fish, no seafood. What, exactly, did you think your kids were going to eat?
Farmed salmon!
^_^
Who neads real, tasty wild pacific salmon when we can have pcb infested, unnatural west coast raised atlantic salmon instead???
You'll need to upgrade everything (including OS), or nothing.
With every version of Windows, Microsoft further saturates the market. I'm not so certain the Vista upgrade will be a must-have.
For most people, Internet and Word Processing and Solitaire, XP is probably enough.
Recall XP was the only good upgrade after 98; ME was crap, and win2k had some minor compatibility issues.
Don't count on Vista being the must-have OS. The DRM for example and the phoning home BS will force end users to stay away. For us, we're moving to a completely Linux household. Wife's on board with it.