I find this an interesting issue, because the USA government has so much control over there, and they can probably order a company like Microsoft to install some spy software on there. Without looking at the source code, it would be difficult to detect.
Fixed that for ya. Note that this is why some European governments are using Linux;-)
Seriously if this bothers you, you need to not deal with F/OSS software. Backwards compatibility is no where on the feature list, its almost 'broken by design' as those developing the code have no need or reason personally to maintain backwards compatibility. You have the source, you can fix the bug and recompile!
Backwards compatibility is one thing. Broken stuff is another. If something is broken, the Linux Vendors will fix it (depending on their knowledge). But if you updated software X to version 2.0, you should be aware that it may require a newer version of lib Y.
Not sure I missed some sarcasm, but I think there is a truth in your comment:-) If someone lacks respect to others, they should be accountable for that. I mean, it should suffer severe consequences instead of getting huge bonuses;-)
*That* is the main problem: trust and security, which turns out to be *respect* (a strong word for Japanese and other Asiatic cultures, and a weak word for "western"). Here in "western", we think in respect as up to the "is it legal?" level, while more advanced societies goes beyond that level.
GNU has produced an operating system. It's nowhere near as advanced in functionality as Linux
I don't get it... GNU guys says that Linux is not an OS, just a kernel. Linux guys (the ones who bother to answer this questio) says that GNU is not an OS, as it doesn't have a kernel. And you say that both are OS ?
Why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby is a good introduction to programming. It is fun to read and the nature of the Ruby language gives the "instant gratification" that everyone (specially kids) needs.
Once one start acting like a man, the "real" girls will want to date you.
I would say what "be a man" means, but as there are a lot of types of women out there, you need to figure out the right approach of "be a man" you need to get the right girls for you:-)
Just allowing anyone to put a charge on a bank account number like that opens up for all sorts of abuse. Tiny transactions can go unnoticed for a long time.
I cannot see how it differs from credit card. In Brazil, only companies can charge to your credit card. That means, the company must exist as legal entity.
So, why would it be different with your bank account? It is all about your money, right?
You can compare the softwares (and versions) distributed by each one on http://distrowatch.com/
Or, download the Live CD for both of them and try out:-)
Tip: if you don't want to burn a CD just to test a distro, you can write the Live CD images to a USB stick. Just look at the livecd-iso-to-disk script in Fedora's ISO.
Depends on your needs. If you have a big company, with tons of servers working in a distributed cluster, then one server can completely fail without having any hit on the performance of the services. And as failures are exceptional cases, those big companies prefer to have failures in some specific components/machines than to have to pay a far higher energy bill.
But if you have the "traditional setup", with tons of machines, each of them responsible for a specific system/application, then of course: if anything in one machine fails, that machine (and everything running on it) will break.
For them not to defend their IP would open them up to lawsuits from their stakeholders. And for that matter, giving away their IP as others have suggested would also create the same outcome.
The thing is: they are not giving away their IP. Their products are *not* being opened. Only the protocols their products uses needs to be documented. And let me show you another excerpt of TFA, as it seems you didn't read as well:
The EU mandated a set of minimum terms (now known as the WSPP) that the Samba Team (and others) would be able to access the documentation under. By early 2008 the Free Software community gained access to this documentation under NDA, and by May 2008 Microsoft made all their protocol documentation public.
That means: their trade-secrets are still protected. They are forced to change only their monopolistics acts.
Because having one common DRM implementation enables you to use the same *content* in different devices. The way it happens today, you can only play your "iTunes songs" in iTunes.
But no, I don't agree and I don't buy DRMed stuff.
Yes, they are normal folks. But they have to do what their company tells them to do. If your employer forbids you to provide documentation to competitors, would you do that?
Microsoft is doing that only because they *have* to do that. That's the reason why the Microsoft engineers are allowed to be so nice with Samba team.
Right, and they are doing that because they are good, right? I know that nobody RTFA, but here is an excerpt, just for you:-)
In September 2007 Microsoft lost it's appeal of the 2004 anti-trust Decision by the European Commission. As as result, Microsoft was required to make protocol documentation available to competitors.
In which perspective? From Microsoft's POV, the "sky is falling", because they now have to provide information to other companies/projects as part of their EU antitrust lawsuits. And this situation (provide competitors with documentation) is tragic to them:-)
No. My point is that Oracle scales very well and is trusted in the enterprise for enterprise-level applications. It's supported by major enterpise application vendors as SAP, UGS/Siemens, etc. It's a known quantity. Truth be told, until enough large enterprises are running MySQL or Postgres for applications on this scale, they will never be trusted for major enterprise-level applications. These databases are shared out all over the globe and if they're not running Oracle, they're running DB2 on an IBM mainframe. Downtime is simply not an option.
Am I safe to assume that Google uses Oracle or DB2?
And with regards to Cuba. Are you willing to forcibly reduce the doctors wages to $20 per month and physically prevent them from seeking abroad to earn more?
That means: medical care in all other developed western countries is a poor quality one? Please, tell me your are kidding:-)
I guess the main point here is: some cultures sees the capitalism as a "way to achieve things" and other cultures sees it as a "life style".
UHC is seen as a "must have" for the first group, because health is not a "thing". It is a right for every human being. And UHC is evil for the second group, as health is included in the "things" list.
And what happens when some people don't have the ability to pay for it?
I know that Michael Moore's Sicko is very controversial, but it is shocking to see people not being able get medical care because of lack of money. That old lady which was thrown out from a cab hired by a hospital is enough evidence to me that medical care *is* denied to those who can't pay for it.
It is "funny" that people in America fears that the DNA will be used against them by the insurance companies, while the European people can see the real benefit of being diagnosed with years of antecedence.
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I find this an interesting issue, because the USA government has so much control over there, and they can probably order a company like Microsoft to install some spy software on there. Without looking at the source code, it would be difficult to detect.
Fixed that for ya. Note that this is why some European governments are using Linux ;-)
Seriously if this bothers you, you need to not deal with F/OSS software. Backwards compatibility is no where on the feature list, its almost 'broken by design' as those developing the code have no need or reason personally to maintain backwards compatibility. You have the source, you can fix the bug and recompile!
Backwards compatibility is one thing. Broken stuff is another. If something is broken, the Linux Vendors will fix it (depending on their knowledge). But if you updated software X to version 2.0, you should be aware that it may require a newer version of lib Y.
His main problem is that he doesn't know how to make money off of Desktop Linux.
And who exactly knows?
Not sure I missed some sarcasm, but I think there is a truth in your comment :-) If someone lacks respect to others, they should be accountable for that. I mean, it should suffer severe consequences instead of getting huge bonuses ;-)
*That* is the main problem: trust and security, which turns out to be *respect* (a strong word for Japanese and other Asiatic cultures, and a weak word for "western"). Here in "western", we think in respect as up to the "is it legal?" level, while more advanced societies goes beyond that level.
Sell support and training.
GNU has produced an operating system. It's nowhere near as advanced in functionality as Linux
I don't get it... GNU guys says that Linux is not an OS, just a kernel. Linux guys (the ones who bother to answer this questio) says that GNU is not an OS, as it doesn't have a kernel. And you say that both are OS ?
Why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby is a good introduction to programming. It is fun to read and the nature of the Ruby language gives the "instant gratification" that everyone (specially kids) needs.
4. Be a man (not a kid)
Once one start acting like a man, the "real" girls will want to date you.
I would say what "be a man" means, but as there are a lot of types of women out there, you need to figure out the right approach of "be a man" you need to get the right girls for you :-)
Just allowing anyone to put a charge on a bank account number like that opens up for all sorts of abuse. Tiny transactions can go unnoticed for a long time.
I cannot see how it differs from credit card. In Brazil, only companies can charge to your credit card. That means, the company must exist as legal entity.
So, why would it be different with your bank account? It is all about your money, right?
You can compare the softwares (and versions) distributed by each one on http://distrowatch.com/
Or, download the Live CD for both of them and try out :-)
Tip: if you don't want to burn a CD just to test a distro, you can write the Live CD images to a USB stick. Just look at the livecd-iso-to-disk script in Fedora's ISO.
Depends on your needs. If you have a big company, with tons of servers working in a distributed cluster, then one server can completely fail without having any hit on the performance of the services. And as failures are exceptional cases, those big companies prefer to have failures in some specific components/machines than to have to pay a far higher energy bill.
But if you have the "traditional setup", with tons of machines, each of them responsible for a specific system/application, then of course: if anything in one machine fails, that machine (and everything running on it) will break.
Most editors? Windows ones, right?
To parse logs, the best set of tools one have is awk+grep+sed
No kidding, with these tools, you can rule the world if you are willing to spend some time learning awk and regexp's properly.
For them not to defend their IP would open them up to lawsuits from their stakeholders. And for that matter, giving away their IP as others have suggested would also create the same outcome.
The thing is: they are not giving away their IP. Their products are *not* being opened. Only the protocols their products uses needs to be documented. And let me show you another excerpt of TFA, as it seems you didn't read as well:
The EU mandated a set of minimum terms (now known as the WSPP) that the Samba Team (and others) would be able to access the documentation
under. By early 2008 the Free Software community gained access to this documentation under NDA, and by May 2008 Microsoft made all their protocol documentation public.
That means: their trade-secrets are still protected. They are forced to change only their monopolistics acts.
Because having one common DRM implementation enables you to use the same *content* in different devices. The way it happens today, you can only play your "iTunes songs" in iTunes.
But no, I don't agree and I don't buy DRMed stuff.
Yes, they are normal folks. But they have to do what their company tells them to do. If your employer forbids you to provide documentation to competitors, would you do that?
Microsoft is doing that only because they *have* to do that. That's the reason why the Microsoft engineers are allowed to be so nice with Samba team.
Right, and they are doing that because they are good, right? I know that nobody RTFA, but here is an excerpt, just for you :-)
In September 2007 Microsoft lost it's appeal of the 2004 anti-trust
Decision by the European Commission. As as result, Microsoft was
required to make protocol documentation available to competitors.
In which perspective? From Microsoft's POV, the "sky is falling", because they now have to provide information to other companies/projects as part of their EU antitrust lawsuits. And this situation (provide competitors with documentation) is tragic to them :-)
India is not / no longer part of the third world.
I agree with everything you said, excepted the quote above. India *is* part of the Third World in all the definitions I know:
- Not aligned with either the West or East in Cold War
- Not a country with high HDI (Human Development Index)
- Is a "developing country"
But maybe you have another definition for it?
No. My point is that Oracle scales very well and is trusted in the enterprise for enterprise-level applications. It's supported by major enterpise application vendors as SAP, UGS/Siemens, etc. It's a known quantity. Truth be told, until enough large enterprises are running MySQL or Postgres for applications on this scale, they will never be trusted for major enterprise-level applications. These databases are shared out all over the globe and if they're not running Oracle, they're running DB2 on an IBM mainframe. Downtime is simply not an option.
Am I safe to assume that Google uses Oracle or DB2?
And with regards to Cuba. Are you willing to forcibly reduce the doctors wages to $20 per month and physically prevent them from seeking abroad to earn more?
Does it means that those "3432 medical students from 23 nations" studying in their "first-class" medical schools are forced to work within the country?
Free for all means mediocre or poor for everyone.
That means: medical care in all other developed western countries is a poor quality one? Please, tell me your are kidding :-)
I guess the main point here is: some cultures sees the capitalism as a "way to achieve things" and other cultures sees it as a "life style".
UHC is seen as a "must have" for the first group, because health is not a "thing". It is a right for every human being. And UHC is evil for the second group, as health is included in the "things" list.
And what happens when some people don't have the ability to pay for it?
I know that Michael Moore's Sicko is very controversial, but it is shocking to see people not being able get medical care because of lack of money. That old lady which was thrown out from a cab hired by a hospital is enough evidence to me that medical care *is* denied to those who can't pay for it.
+1.
It is "funny" that people in America fears that the DNA will be used against them by the insurance companies, while the European people can see the real benefit of being diagnosed with years of antecedence.
"Serious" is a bit vague, but you may want to check this: http://www.votoseguro.org/