This is why the future is with LiveCDs. I don't think I'll switch from Ubuntu any time soon but if I switch to something, I'll start shopping at distros who have LiveCDs that let me test drive them and get a good feel of it without having to do the whole install process.
In Ender's shadow you can see how been is a cold blooded killer and atheist in the begining but change totally during the course of the novel and start quoting stuff from the bible. It doesn't even mention in the book when he actually read the bible or converted.
With the exeption of that not very subtle message, the rest of the book is good.
The difference is that if it is droped by it's maintainers but people still want to use it, it will be forked and continue it's life under a new management as long as people care.
It's what hapening to the Mozilla Suite right now. The Mozilla Foundation is only interested in Firefox / Thunderbird but some still like the Suite. They are now organizing themselves and you will be able to download these forked version now named Sea Monkey (which used to be the code name of the Suite).
We could just make clients supporting both and encouraging people to send to our new email 2.0 adress while still receiving email 1.0 messages (and spam). It would all come in the same mailbox and you would not see a difference, exept that when nobody would be e-mailing you at your email 1.0 adress, you could ditch it and say good bye to spam.
Not all Linux users, I'm afraid, are geeks, and know what K3B is. Aunt Tilly isn't going to run and learn K3B because it's there. She's going to go with something she knows, and that's the target market.
Most "aunt Tillie" I know can use k3b just find. Which is probably because I installed their distro, gave them some instructions on how to use it and told them that k3b is "just like Nero". Of course, it's not exactly the same but for what they use, they look alike.
Most Aunt Tillie users have been introduced by someone and can usually call them if they don't know what app to use for something.
The main problem is usually when you tell them that OpenOffice is "just like MS Office".
And what exactly prevent a company from auditing the source and selling a garantee that the calculations are accurate ? If I recall correctly, the GPL expressely permit to sell such insurances.
And how much money cost buying the next Windows version compared to downloading the next isos of your favourite distribution (or dist-upgrading it) ?
If there is there is demand for support for older distros, it appears (Fedora legacy for instance will support your old Red Hat system) but most people (me included) are happy to run the latest and greatest.
It's true in Canada at least. My father works for CBC (the national TV station) and when his manager reach the end of his fiscal year, they all get new work clothes (steel cap boots and stuff) and new furnitures because they have nothing else to spend their budget on.
They could also add a tab beside image for people to access wikipedia. When I need infos on a topic, I will most of the time try Wikipedia before Google since I will have right away good infos and won't need to sort useless links to get what I want.
It would make Google more attractive to a lot of people who didn't knew Wikipedia in the first place.
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This is why the future is with LiveCDs. I don't think I'll switch from Ubuntu any time soon but if I switch to something, I'll start shopping at distros who have LiveCDs that let me test drive them and get a good feel of it without having to do the whole install process.
The point is that he is not anymore at the end with no real explanation of how it happened exept with quotes from the Bible.
I'd describe more precise stuff but I don't want to give spoilers...
The first book however rocks and is without preaching (or at least I didn't noticed any).
In Ender's shadow you can see how been is a cold blooded killer and atheist in the begining but change totally during the course of the novel and start quoting stuff from the bible. It doesn't even mention in the book when he actually read the bible or converted. With the exeption of that not very subtle message, the rest of the book is good.
I just tried that on a WinXP box with SP2 and it worked (or you can say it successfuly stopped working).
Try Ubuntu. They have a release cycle of 6 month and the next release due to april is Gnome / KDE. You can even get the preview release now.
The difference is that if it is droped by it's maintainers but people still want to use it, it will be forked and continue it's life under a new management as long as people care.
It's what hapening to the Mozilla Suite right now. The Mozilla Foundation is only interested in Firefox / Thunderbird but some still like the Suite. They are now organizing themselves and you will be able to download these forked version now named Sea Monkey (which used to be the code name of the Suite).
What about dropping stuff to /tmp ? You don't even have to clean up after.
I usually just alt-F2 and write the app name, way quicker :)
Canadians will get it on CBC (Canadian equivalent to BBC). I don't know if you get CBC in US but if so, you will be able to watch Dr. Who on it.
And everybody who signed on the "please tell me when it will be open to the public" list got an invite from Google about a month ago.
We could just make clients supporting both and encouraging people to send to our new email 2.0 adress while still receiving email 1.0 messages (and spam). It would all come in the same mailbox and you would not see a difference, exept that when nobody would be e-mailing you at your email 1.0 adress, you could ditch it and say good bye to spam.
Most "aunt Tillie" I know can use k3b just find. Which is probably because I installed their distro, gave them some instructions on how to use it and told them that k3b is "just like Nero". Of course, it's not exactly the same but for what they use, they look alike.
Most Aunt Tillie users have been introduced by someone and can usually call them if they don't know what app to use for something.
The main problem is usually when you tell them that OpenOffice is "just like MS Office".
The DS (their new handheld console) moves. TFA says that you will be able to play on the net with the DS while linked to this new console.
There is a native Doom 3 version on Linux by the way.
Find the market with the products that suck the most and do something better.
And what exactly prevent a company from auditing the source and selling a garantee that the calculations are accurate ? If I recall correctly, the GPL expressely permit to sell such insurances.
I don't know for you but the download of my mail cost me 0$ for each mail and 5% of it is also 0$.
I pay my ISP to have an Internet connexion but there is already a tax on it.
And how much money cost buying the next Windows version compared to downloading the next isos of your favourite distribution (or dist-upgrading it) ?
If there is there is demand for support for older distros, it appears (Fedora legacy for instance will support your old Red Hat system) but most people (me included) are happy to run the latest and greatest.
It's true in Canada at least. My father works for CBC (the national TV station) and when his manager reach the end of his fiscal year, they all get new work clothes (steel cap boots and stuff) and new furnitures because they have nothing else to spend their budget on.
A few years ago, he got a PDA.
outrageous: exceeding the limits of what is usual
believiable: capable of being believed especially as within the range of known possibility or probability
how can a claim be outrageous and believable? (m-w.com)
DOUBLETHINK
They could also add a tab beside image for people to access wikipedia. When I need infos on a topic, I will most of the time try Wikipedia before Google since I will have right away good infos and won't need to sort useless links to get what I want. It would make Google more attractive to a lot of people who didn't knew Wikipedia in the first place.
How can you forget the Gentoo zealots ?!
And if they use Linux, they don't get viruses hence no need for the vaccine in the first place ;-)
My irrational optimism is more limited : I hope that when Anakin will turn to the Dark Side, it will not suck.
Why did you move "Preferences" from under "Edit" to "Tools"? That is something that always bugged me about IE, now everyone does it. Arghh.
They considered it standard on Windows. On Linux, it is still in the edit menu.