I have had a theory. Apple TV didn't take off like the iPod as people instantly saw the additional prices and the lack of backward compatibility, AKA a tuner and DVR. The iPod, people think they are going to rip their existing CDs and so the only price they saw at first is the iPod price, then they see what all they can buy and start to buy more. Apple TV had no backwards compatibility, and thus people had to look for where their shows were going to come from and saw the additional price before the purchase, that along with the lack of a tuner for local TV and DVR at least meant most people did not want to adopt it. Google sounds like they might be doing it semi right. We can only hope.
If the institute this system I give it a month before we start seeing real "naked" pictures of celebrities online taken with the TSA employee's camera phones.
Does this go along the same lines as the floppy disk would be dead in 2000? Or the DVD was the last video format you would ever need to buy? I agree with an earlier comment, this is more fear mongering. Yes phones, tablets are going to become more important, but they will need better file management and storage abilities, but there will be for quite awhile laptops and home computers. The problem is two fold. One people want privacy, and a lot of people are going to be reluctant to store their lives online, especially seeing some of the nationally reported security and storage problems that have happened. Two, broadband in over 90% of the US would not be adequate for cloud storage of anything other than documents. Home videos, photo albums, 10GB of music yah not so much. Until the broadband gets better, and people's views change, the PC is going to be around the common user. As for the technical user, the PC will be around for a very long time.
So I take it you have no problem with the police profiling people. As, that is exactly what you said at the end of your comment. "I'm saying the rest of us have the right to identify you as socially suspect" Or is it just that you support bigotry against Christians? Either way, I feel sorry for you.
Yes I did read the actual patent, well some of it. If the patent office actually allows this I think I will scream.
Hmmm I wonder if I will have to pay royalties every time I write a program now.
Use version control on the machine itself, forcing the users to check in and out files might help, and alleviate the headache of two users working on the same file. Subversion is available as a binary for install right into OSX and XCode supports Subversion.
I did an in-place upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10. Some of the problems I have seen. k8temp module not working. Random crashing applets. Stability wise those are my only complaints. I have other functionality complaints, but that is for another day.
Why can't people take responsibilities for themselves, do what is right in terms of copyright, and maybe then we wouldn't have lawyers nit picking us to death. Or as the old joke goes:
"What is a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the sea?"
Answer: "A good start."
You have a point. I always went home before going to the Cinema, but if that is not possible due to time or distance, I can see where you would take it with you to the Cinema.
This is something I have NEVER understood, screenshots of a WindowManager that is the same WindowManager as the one used by other distro's which we all know what it looks like already. Ok there are screenshots of KDE, only difference from every other implimentation of KDE is the Theme, and screenshots of Gnome, again only difference from all others is the theme. I can understand screenshots of the installer, and YaST, but of apps and configs of the Window Manager, what is the difference from going to KDE's website and looking at their screnshots? It's like when I bought SuSe 10.0 in the box and on the back it had a screenshot of a KDE workspace, I thought to myself, "Yup, that's KDE, Yup, same as every other KDE screenshot I have seen". What Iam interested in is actual Version numbers, for which a list is much easier to read than the "About" screen. Ah well I just thought that was funny, not trying to troll, just something that pops into my head everytime I see a Workspace screenshot.
1) Linux is a POSIX compliant operating system, that does not mean it is UNIX. Example Just because something has 4 wheels and an engine(s) does not mean it is a car. Unix in this sence refers to AT&T System V Based operating systems which the Linux kernel shares no code with.
2)Windows can also be made POSIX compliant, does that mean that Windows is UNIX? Should SCO then be able to say that Novell also owes them for when it sold Windows? (A few years ago:-))
3)Stallman did not create Linux, he created the GNU utilities it uses, however Linux refers to the Kernel developed and written by Linus Torvalds.
4)SCO has stated their problem is with the Linux Kernel, not other software included in the Linux Distributions.
I work for an 18 person firm and have 2 Linux systems. One is the firewall, and one is a Web/DB/Mail Server. I make under $15/hour, and am the ONLY IT person for the company, but let's take that $15 per hour. Now then Here are some figures:
Cost of Distro = $0 (Downloaded from Web)
Hours per year I spend maintaining the servers = About 8 for the server, and 2 total prob for the firewall.
All I have really have had to do to the server after initial setup and configure, is update software, and reconfigure a few things as we grew and changed. The firewall was even easier, check for updates regularly and install them as needed.
Initial setup hours = 6 for the server and 1 for the firewall.
NOTE: All the hours include actual hours the machine is doing stuff, like compiling, or Installing the Distro, Etc..., during that time I was often doing something else also.
Firewall hardware cost (Old P166 Compaq Desktop with 2 PCI 10/100 NICs and 1GB HDD) = $40 Used
Server Hardware cost (AMD Athlon XP 2000 Dual 40GB HDD's Software RAID 1, 20GB Boot Drive, 1GB RAM) = $600 When bought New over a year ago.
Total Support Cost is about $255 for both machines (Less actually as I make less than $15 per hour)
Total Hardware cost is about $640.
Total Cost of Ownership for these Boxes is $255, and the Total with Hardware is $895.
I can't speak for the cost of windows on this as I have not priced 2003 server prices or IIS server prices, but I would like to see someone come up cheaper than this.
SuSe is already Open Source all they are doing is going to allow the community to drive the package selection, organization, etc... I just hope that unlike Red Hat they do a little better at listening to the community. I also think this article could have been worded better. Hmmm Open Sourcing an already Open Source Product, News at 9.:-)
Great I can hear the doctors now, "Whoops, wrong part of the nerve, you will now start sweating instead of feeling good when you get depressed, sorry." or "Whoops, is his heart supposed to be beating like a bass drum, guess it would help if I hooked up the VNS leads to the VNS and not my walkman.":-D
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I have had a theory. Apple TV didn't take off like the iPod as people instantly saw the additional prices and the lack of backward compatibility, AKA a tuner and DVR. The iPod, people think they are going to rip their existing CDs and so the only price they saw at first is the iPod price, then they see what all they can buy and start to buy more. Apple TV had no backwards compatibility, and thus people had to look for where their shows were going to come from and saw the additional price before the purchase, that along with the lack of a tuner for local TV and DVR at least meant most people did not want to adopt it. Google sounds like they might be doing it semi right. We can only hope.
Ah reminds me of Red Alert 2
If the institute this system I give it a month before we start seeing real "naked" pictures of celebrities online taken with the TSA employee's camera phones.
Does this go along the same lines as the floppy disk would be dead in 2000? Or the DVD was the last video format you would ever need to buy? I agree with an earlier comment, this is more fear mongering. Yes phones, tablets are going to become more important, but they will need better file management and storage abilities, but there will be for quite awhile laptops and home computers. The problem is two fold. One people want privacy, and a lot of people are going to be reluctant to store their lives online, especially seeing some of the nationally reported security and storage problems that have happened. Two, broadband in over 90% of the US would not be adequate for cloud storage of anything other than documents. Home videos, photo albums, 10GB of music yah not so much. Until the broadband gets better, and people's views change, the PC is going to be around the common user. As for the technical user, the PC will be around for a very long time.
The Unix file system UFS, AKA FFS and Berkley FFS has been around since the late 70s.
So I take it you have no problem with the police profiling people. As, that is exactly what you said at the end of your comment. "I'm saying the rest of us have the right to identify you as socially suspect" Or is it just that you support bigotry against Christians? Either way, I feel sorry for you.
That the way it always goes with humans it seems. They say they are tolerant, but most of the are a biggot on some level.
ROFLMAO I Love this article, and sad part is he was the first thing I thought of.
Yes I did read the actual patent, well some of it. If the patent office actually allows this I think I will scream. Hmmm I wonder if I will have to pay royalties every time I write a program now.
Use version control on the machine itself, forcing the users to check in and out files might help, and alleviate the headache of two users working on the same file. Subversion is available as a binary for install right into OSX and XCode supports Subversion.
Both sides of these arguments, and the overall argument have shown themselves to be extremists.
I did an in-place upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10. Some of the problems I have seen. k8temp module not working. Random crashing applets. Stability wise those are my only complaints. I have other functionality complaints, but that is for another day.
Why can't people take responsibilities for themselves, do what is right in terms of copyright, and maybe then we wouldn't have lawyers nit picking us to death. Or as the old joke goes: "What is a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the sea?" Answer: "A good start."
You have a point. I always went home before going to the Cinema, but if that is not possible due to time or distance, I can see where you would take it with you to the Cinema.
Maybe I am old fashioned, but why would you bring a laptop to the Cinema?
This is something I have NEVER understood, screenshots of a WindowManager that is the same WindowManager as the one used by other distro's which we all know what it looks like already. Ok there are screenshots of KDE, only difference from every other implimentation of KDE is the Theme, and screenshots of Gnome, again only difference from all others is the theme. I can understand screenshots of the installer, and YaST, but of apps and configs of the Window Manager, what is the difference from going to KDE's website and looking at their screnshots? It's like when I bought SuSe 10.0 in the box and on the back it had a screenshot of a KDE workspace, I thought to myself, "Yup, that's KDE, Yup, same as every other KDE screenshot I have seen". What Iam interested in is actual Version numbers, for which a list is much easier to read than the "About" screen. Ah well I just thought that was funny, not trying to troll, just something that pops into my head everytime I see a Workspace screenshot.
About the circular irriagation systems that have been used in nebraska for decades producing circular fields to a good degree.
and seen the irrigation circles in the fields. And Yes I am from and live in Nebraska.
1) Linux is a POSIX compliant operating system, that does not mean it is UNIX. Example Just because something has 4 wheels and an engine(s) does not mean it is a car. Unix in this sence refers to AT&T System V Based operating systems which the Linux kernel shares no code with. 2)Windows can also be made POSIX compliant, does that mean that Windows is UNIX? Should SCO then be able to say that Novell also owes them for when it sold Windows? (A few years ago :-))
3)Stallman did not create Linux, he created the GNU utilities it uses, however Linux refers to the Kernel developed and written by Linus Torvalds.
4)SCO has stated their problem is with the Linux Kernel, not other software included in the Linux Distributions.
Milo is the Alpha version of LILO it uses a small dos partition to boot off of.
Much cheaper. Also I have to agree I won't beleive it till I hear it from Jobs.
It does look pretty cool :-)
Cost of Distro = $0 (Downloaded from Web)
Hours per year I spend maintaining the servers = About 8 for the server, and 2 total prob for the firewall.
All I have really have had to do to the server after initial setup and configure, is update software, and reconfigure a few things as we grew and changed. The firewall was even easier, check for updates regularly and install them as needed.
Initial setup hours = 6 for the server and 1 for the firewall.
NOTE: All the hours include actual hours the machine is doing stuff, like compiling, or Installing the Distro, Etc..., during that time I was often doing something else also.
Firewall hardware cost (Old P166 Compaq Desktop with 2 PCI 10/100 NICs and 1GB HDD) = $40 Used
Server Hardware cost (AMD Athlon XP 2000 Dual 40GB HDD's Software RAID 1, 20GB Boot Drive, 1GB RAM) = $600 When bought New over a year ago.
Total Support Cost is about $255 for both machines (Less actually as I make less than $15 per hour)
Total Hardware cost is about $640.
Total Cost of Ownership for these Boxes is $255, and the Total with Hardware is $895.
I can't speak for the cost of windows on this as I have not priced 2003 server prices or IIS server prices, but I would like to see someone come up cheaper than this.
SuSe is already Open Source all they are doing is going to allow the community to drive the package selection, organization, etc... I just hope that unlike Red Hat they do a little better at listening to the community. I also think this article could have been worded better. Hmmm Open Sourcing an already Open Source Product, News at 9. :-)
Great I can hear the doctors now, "Whoops, wrong part of the nerve, you will now start sweating instead of feeling good when you get depressed, sorry." or "Whoops, is his heart supposed to be beating like a bass drum, guess it would help if I hooked up the VNS leads to the VNS and not my walkman." :-D