We have Google Earth, Picasa No, we have an old, stale version of Picasa with only token support now. Picasa for Linux is ass and the Blog this feature for example is now broken because they updated blogger and haven't bothered yet to catch up the Linux version.
There's a developer in the group that says they are working on it, but it's been like this for quite some time - so it shows that Google's linux support is only token support at best. If they had Linux support they'd use a cross playform development process rather than porting wine to support their apps.
How is that different than DesktopBSD or PC-BSD? Redhat is a combination of the linux kernel + gnu tools + desktops.
As another poster wrote, BSD does not use GNU userland.
Just remember DesktopBSD or PC-BSD is FreeBSD + graphical installer. It maintains direct compatibility with FreeBSD. They aren't forks, they are addons.
FreeBSD and NetBSD are derived from 4.3BSD from Berkley, and OpenBSD was a fork from NetBSD. Linux distros move together with kernel releases; BSD operating systems do not.
You can call them flavours of BSD if you like, but not distros.
I know some people don't like me using the term distro as applied to BSD, but its the easiest way to explain what it really is.
The big difference is that many perceive that Linux is an OS where it is not. Linux needs userland, and fits well with GNU. AFAIK all BSD's are OS's on their own, and are maintained as an OS in the source tree whereas Linux is just the kernel. Each flavour of BSD is an OS of itself. DesktopBSD and PC-BSD are maintained in parallel to FreeBSD. As compared to DragonflyBSD which is a 4.x fork, or NetBSD or OpenBSD which too are forks.
Just say it with me - Linux is not an OS. Linux/GNU is an OS. Add some a package manager and you have a distribution.
Yeah, we could all get a lower price on Dell computers if everyone skips the insurance fraud, otherwise EVERYONE pays for that new laptop...one way or the other.
Doubtful. Dell isn't in the insurance business per se - they probably have an underwriter take care of it for Dell - insurance is tricky business involving actuaries and probabilities and all sorts of lame stuff a computer company shouldn't be involved in.
Considering this is an optional warranty coverage that you pay extra for, the cost of that warranty coverage might go up, but not the laptop price.
which simply means advertisers must come up with newer, more subtle or outrageous or manipulative ways of increasing their brand awareness and appeal. Great post! I want you to run the marketing department in our office;)
Thing is though, the outrageous stuff is what gets me. This morning I was watching the morning news, and from the traffic chopper out comes a freaking ad from the traffic lady's mouth. How can the morning news not think that this just annoys viewers, and that most of us are intelligent enough to look past that garbage?
I don't choose what beverage I drink from what's on TV. I've never seen an ad for Orangina on TV and that's my favourite beverage. I pick a restaurant based on reviews online at dinehere.ca (I'm from Vancouver so it makes sense). I refuse to buy Nike because honestly they are way overpriced for the value you get. If I am an athlete where the extra spring in my step makes a difference, I'll let Nike put there shoes on me for free. Until them, Umbro or Adidas or Puma is fine for me and I'll keep the other $150 in my pocket thanks. I don't pick my beer based on how slutty looking the models on TV are. I like Hoegarden and Amstel myself, and don't see much ads for those.
I've sat in on marketing conversations at the place I work, and they truly seem to believe that end users are easily manipulated. I think marketers have beliefs about consumers that just aren't true any more.
If they pull their advertising, they hurt themselves eBay is as much a household name as google is. Unlikely either will be hurt by it except Google will see a few less eBay dollars.
All that matters is whether or not you can demonstrate prior art and have the patent invalidated.
Interestingly, in the world of ETL, Informatica won their patent infringement case against Business Objects from what I've read, but IBM's Data Stage product was cleared because of prior art. All it means is that IBM is allowed to infringe on Informatica's ETL patent and Business Objects is not.
The whole notion of patenting a business process is absurd, and the notion of patenting a software algorithm too is stupid. Imagine if today some ass hat were granted a general enough patent on buying stuff on the internet as a whole. We'd have no online stores. Came pretty darn close with Amazon and their one-click BS.
Seriously though, the OP in this thread - the fanbois really had it it. We don't dare on/. write anything other than Windows sucks, OSX rules, and Linux is l337, and FreeBSD is dead, Netcraft confirms it:)
Microsoft could take some tips from Apple to make their OS more global.
Good idea - let's go after the business model which holds 5% market share and try to be more like them... Honestly, hate or love Microsoft, their model's worked for them so far. Apple might be nibbling at their heels, but there's certain price barriers that Apple just doesn't understand. I can drop $500 and get a pretty kick-ass Windows box. I think $500 gets me an iPhone.
But my post will never see the light of day as I'll be seen as anti-Apple and Pro-Microsoft which isn't the case. I run Linux on my laptop and despise Microsoft, but like it or not they are a dominant force in the desktop OS.
I'm with you on that too - UFS has been around forever as well, only seeing incremental updates from Sun and BSD - adding stuff like journaling and support for larger drives. Why go with a whole new fs?
Maximized on second screen and it mysteriously disappears. Only way to get it back is to right click on taskbar and use arrow keys to move it back to reality.
Honestly, I'm not that crazy about apple widgets anyway... On Windows one needs to use the windows theme... This looks worse than a Qt app in Gnome;)
The problem we find ourselves in is that those who are in charge want others to follow more and more rules while they follow fewer.
Governments sit for entire sessions coming up with new laws, never really repealing old stupid ones most of the time.
Imagine an entire whitehouse year full of repealing laws instead of creating new ones. Wouldn't look too great eh... (IMO fantastic, but MO doesn't count)
it will be linux ready soon ( at the same level of stability that the mac will enjoy ) and it will take off and become more of a standard for unix and linux boxes.
Depends - whatcha building? An app server, a web server, a database server, or a file server? Different strokes for different folks, and I'm not clear yet if I'd like the overhead of ZFS on a database server. The jury's still out on ZFS+Oracle...
I'm not 100% on which file system I'd like. Certainly the integrity of ZFS is quite pleasing for a DBA, questions is if the overhead is worth it...
Given that each version of studio has more features, I suspect there is a fair amount of piracy already.
The Microsoft mantra historically until Vista WGA came out seemed to have been: If you're going to pirate, at least pirate from us.
And that's what happened and still happens. I'm working on switching people over to Linux, but it's slow as some of the tools just aren't good enough yet...
Yes, when it harms another, physically or mentally, I'd say there is and should be limits to freedom.
The backwards part is that violence on TV is acceptable, when clearly enough psychological studies show that watching violence on TV creates violent kids. IMO a violent child is a bigger problem than a mouthy one.
* Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits. I like Anthrax's version better:
Shit, fuck, satan, death, sex, drugs, rape... These seven words they're trying to take... Shit, fuck, satan, death, sex, drugs, rape... Right or wrong it's our choice to make....
Thought you were referring to the present... Very familiar with the Junta... My mom lived through it. Although many Greeks seem to think the Junta was driven by the Freemasons...
And it is Cyprus
Force of habit - I'm in Vancouver, and there's a ski hill here called Cypress Bowl... D'oh!
Western values? like supporting dictatorships in Chile, central America countries, Greece, Pakistan etc?
Are you seriously fucking kidding me? Greece a dicatorship? Greece is a republic and a democracy. They have a president and a prime minister, and are a very proud people, very proud of their independence and their democracy.
Dude, they don't like the US in Greece. The US was the reason Cypress was split in two and made its own country, and the US supports Turkey, not Greece.
Please, read up a bit more. I'm Greek, and while I may not be the ambassador for all of Greece, I do know enough about Greece and Greek people to know you pulled that post right from your anus...
Didn't you know? CTRL-ALT-BS is the new CTRL-ALT-DEL...
Restart X instead of the whole OS... If it's a WM app like Amarok consuming obscene amounts of RAM, that new and improved three finger salute is the key:)
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There's a developer in the group that says they are working on it, but it's been like this for quite some time - so it shows that Google's linux support is only token support at best. If they had Linux support they'd use a cross playform development process rather than porting wine to support their apps.
How is that different than DesktopBSD or PC-BSD? Redhat is a combination of the linux kernel + gnu tools + desktops.
As another poster wrote, BSD does not use GNU userland.
Just remember DesktopBSD or PC-BSD is FreeBSD + graphical installer. It maintains direct compatibility with FreeBSD. They aren't forks, they are addons.
FreeBSD and NetBSD are derived from 4.3BSD from Berkley, and OpenBSD was a fork from NetBSD. Linux distros move together with kernel releases; BSD operating systems do not.
You can call them flavours of BSD if you like, but not distros.
I know some people don't like me using the term distro as applied to BSD, but its the easiest way to explain what it really is.
The big difference is that many perceive that Linux is an OS where it is not. Linux needs userland, and fits well with GNU. AFAIK all BSD's are OS's on their own, and are maintained as an OS in the source tree whereas Linux is just the kernel. Each flavour of BSD is an OS of itself. DesktopBSD and PC-BSD are maintained in parallel to FreeBSD. As compared to DragonflyBSD which is a 4.x fork, or NetBSD or OpenBSD which too are forks.
Just say it with me - Linux is not an OS. Linux/GNU is an OS. Add some a package manager and you have a distribution.
Yeah, we could all get a lower price on Dell computers if everyone skips the insurance fraud, otherwise EVERYONE pays for that new laptop...one way or the other.
Doubtful. Dell isn't in the insurance business per se - they probably have an underwriter take care of it for Dell - insurance is tricky business involving actuaries and probabilities and all sorts of lame stuff a computer company shouldn't be involved in.
Considering this is an optional warranty coverage that you pay extra for, the cost of that warranty coverage might go up, but not the laptop price.
Thing is though, the outrageous stuff is what gets me. This morning I was watching the morning news, and from the traffic chopper out comes a freaking ad from the traffic lady's mouth. How can the morning news not think that this just annoys viewers, and that most of us are intelligent enough to look past that garbage?
I don't choose what beverage I drink from what's on TV. I've never seen an ad for Orangina on TV and that's my favourite beverage. I pick a restaurant based on reviews online at dinehere.ca (I'm from Vancouver so it makes sense). I refuse to buy Nike because honestly they are way overpriced for the value you get. If I am an athlete where the extra spring in my step makes a difference, I'll let Nike put there shoes on me for free. Until them, Umbro or Adidas or Puma is fine for me and I'll keep the other $150 in my pocket thanks. I don't pick my beer based on how slutty looking the models on TV are. I like Hoegarden and Amstel myself, and don't see much ads for those.
I've sat in on marketing conversations at the place I work, and they truly seem to believe that end users are easily manipulated. I think marketers have beliefs about consumers that just aren't true any more.
Did you think that fees would have come down after eBay bought paypal? Really, wake me up when you return from Neverland :)
All that matters is whether or not you can demonstrate prior art and have the patent invalidated.
Interestingly, in the world of ETL, Informatica won their patent infringement case against Business Objects from what I've read, but IBM's Data Stage product was cleared because of prior art. All it means is that IBM is allowed to infringe on Informatica's ETL patent and Business Objects is not.
The whole notion of patenting a business process is absurd, and the notion of patenting a software algorithm too is stupid. Imagine if today some ass hat were granted a general enough patent on buying stuff on the internet as a whole. We'd have no online stores. Came pretty darn close with Amazon and their one-click BS.
Meh it isn't a problem - :)
/. write anything other than Windows sucks, OSX rules, and Linux is l337, and FreeBSD is dead, Netcraft confirms it :)
( couldn't resist )
Seriously though, the OP in this thread - the fanbois really had it it. We don't dare on
Wow fanboi mods are at it again eh... How they mod you Troll I have no idea.
C'mon folks, compared to Firefox it is very much void of features. But compared to Firefox most everything is void of features.
meh I have karma to burn :)
Microsoft could take some tips from Apple to make their OS more global.
Good idea - let's go after the business model which holds 5% market share and try to be more like them... Honestly, hate or love Microsoft, their model's worked for them so far. Apple might be nibbling at their heels, but there's certain price barriers that Apple just doesn't understand. I can drop $500 and get a pretty kick-ass Windows box. I think $500 gets me an iPhone.
But my post will never see the light of day as I'll be seen as anti-Apple and Pro-Microsoft which isn't the case. I run Linux on my laptop and despise Microsoft, but like it or not they are a dominant force in the desktop OS.
I'm with you on that too - UFS has been around forever as well, only seeing incremental updates from Sun and BSD - adding stuff like journaling and support for larger drives. Why go with a whole new fs?
Wow, the fanboi zealots are out in full swing today modding down anything that's anti-mac eh?
Yeah, I saw it too... That's why it's beta :)
;)
Maximized on second screen and it mysteriously disappears. Only way to get it back is to right click on taskbar and use arrow keys to move it back to reality.
Honestly, I'm not that crazy about apple widgets anyway... On Windows one needs to use the windows theme... This looks worse than a Qt app in Gnome
No great loss in keeping people with that kind of education and/or intelligence away from the internet.
They're the best suckers though - the ones most likely to buy V 1 @ g R
=D
The problem we find ourselves in is that those who are in charge want others to follow more and more rules while they follow fewer.
Governments sit for entire sessions coming up with new laws, never really repealing old stupid ones most of the time.
Imagine an entire whitehouse year full of repealing laws instead of creating new ones. Wouldn't look too great eh... (IMO fantastic, but MO doesn't count)
it will be linux ready soon ( at the same level of stability that the mac will enjoy ) and it will take off and become more of a standard for unix and linux boxes.
Depends - whatcha building? An app server, a web server, a database server, or a file server? Different strokes for different folks, and I'm not clear yet if I'd like the overhead of ZFS on a database server. The jury's still out on ZFS+Oracle...
I'm not 100% on which file system I'd like. Certainly the integrity of ZFS is quite pleasing for a DBA, questions is if the overhead is worth it...
Given that each version of studio has more features, I suspect there is a fair amount of piracy already.
The Microsoft mantra historically until Vista WGA came out seemed to have been: If you're going to pirate, at least pirate from us.
And that's what happened and still happens. I'm working on switching people over to Linux, but it's slow as some of the tools just aren't good enough yet...
'There ought to be limits to freedom.'
Yes, when it harms another, physically or mentally, I'd say there is and should be limits to freedom.
The backwards part is that violence on TV is acceptable, when clearly enough psychological studies show that watching violence on TV creates violent kids. IMO a violent child is a bigger problem than a mouthy one.
Shit, fuck, satan, death, sex, drugs, rape... These seven words they're trying to take...
Shit, fuck, satan, death, sex, drugs, rape... Right or wrong it's our choice to make....
Thought you were referring to the present... Very familiar with the Junta... My mom lived through it. Although many Greeks seem to think the Junta was driven by the Freemasons...
And it is Cyprus
Force of habit - I'm in Vancouver, and there's a ski hill here called Cypress Bowl... D'oh!
Western values? like supporting dictatorships in Chile, central America countries, Greece, Pakistan etc?
Are you seriously fucking kidding me? Greece a dicatorship? Greece is a republic and a democracy. They have a president and a prime minister, and are a very proud people, very proud of their independence and their democracy.
Dude, they don't like the US in Greece. The US was the reason Cypress was split in two and made its own country, and the US supports Turkey, not Greece.
Please, read up a bit more. I'm Greek, and while I may not be the ambassador for all of Greece, I do know enough about Greece and Greek people to know you pulled that post right from your anus...
Exaile is basically Amarok for Gnome, no need to use KDE.
Exaile! doesn't yet sync up to portable devices like AmaroK does...
Didn't you know? CTRL-ALT-BS is the new CTRL-ALT-DEL...
:)
Restart X instead of the whole OS... If it's a WM app like Amarok consuming obscene amounts of RAM, that new and improved three finger salute is the key