Alternately, they start selling a cheap version of OSx86 (no more costly than Windows, certainly) with little to no official support and make their service almost like a very polished commercial Linux.
This would have to be done very rapidly, though, and I'm not certain that Apple would be willing to risk it.
You'd essentially need a library that converts gtk/qt/gnome/kde references into whichever wm references you need. For instance, if you set an environment variable "WM_IN_USE" to "E17", then the Enlightenment widget library would be used, even for native GNOME applications. It'd be slower than normal, of course, but it would use less memory when you've got applications from multiple GUI toolkits open at once.
There would be one problem with this: you'd need the toolkit libraries to be bypassed in favor of the inter-toolkit library.
First, there's no online office product yet, and Microsoft hasn't been crushing anything like that.
Second, live.com is, as everyone else has been saying, another web portal (albeit with some interesting features and probably Windows integration). Nothing prevents anyone else from implementing all the same ideas.
If you're the first to make something, that makes you a monopoly by default. So should we punish all inventors?
I think there are many people who don't complain about MS software, and many people who do that don't distrust Microsoft. Windows XP was a rather good product, in my opinion; the only instability I've seen in the OS was an issue with a bad driver installation. And even then, the only issue with the exception handling was that the computer wouldn't shut down.
On Linux, that wouldn't happen; but keep in mind that 90% of Linux drivers (aside from proprietary video card drivers and some printer drivers) are included in the kernel. That allows for a lot more stability and quality control.
Really, one of the biggest features that Windows could use is apparently included in Vista: loadable module support.
I'll still use Linux, but at this point, it's a matter of preference. And package managers. And money.
I use Gentoo, and it handles just about everything for me, holds my hand through everything....And most other distros are even more friendly. The last time I had to set LD_* was with a strange and rare piece of software meant for Windows but designed with interoperability in mind.
You don't even need to compile a kernel these days, even with a radical change of hardware. Coldplug and hotplug manage it all for you.
Really, you should just try Linux for one day. You'll be searching for complaints, but you won't find more than "This isn't what I'm used to".
Of course. We all have sufficient time and money to get bacchalaureats in physics and geology. Not to mention history, political science, economics, sociology, criminology....
So, shall we institute a government in which everyone who's studied a particular topic can vote on the relevant issues?
I do that, actually. I mean, last year I had hard drive failure on my only drive. I reinstalled from scratch. And then I screwed up my partition table after that and had to reformat.
However, finding the appropriate Linux driver isn't always easy. And this is why we have coldplug and hotplug.
So whether driver installation is easier in Windows than in Linux largely depends on your distribution. It can be a one-step process (boot) or an hour-long search for the appropriate module.
Maybe you've heard of it, though you've never had to earn it. It's called money.
I don't have a spare $800 for a gaming machine, and these days, it can cost more than that for something decent. But I can afford a $1200 computer that runs both Linux and Windows, so I can use it for work and play.
Geeks tend not to be terribly athletic, and tactical puzzles of the sort 'How do we get the ball past this stinking heap of muscle?' aren't exactly brain intensive. Or rather, they require reflexive tactical decisions rather than careful pondering.
Programming well requires careful pondering; programming poorly usually uses more reflexive or instinctual decisions. So roleplaying situations which involve algorithmic puzzles or other such problems would likely be more suited to most programmers.
Since when did working at McDonald's require creativity?
There's a well-defined ruleset, well enough defined that no thought is usually required. This also removes the need for cooperation--I don't call it that when one finite automaton passes an item to another for further processing, just as I don't call it cooperation when an application uses GTK libraries.
Minor math may be required sometimes. On the other hand, some of the cash registers these days require no more than counting skills.
Face it, if the hardware were cheap enough, we could replace McDonald's workers with a very short shell script. And that situation is insulting to McDonald's workers.
1.0.7 kept crashing on my Gentoo box, roughly once every twelve hours. I'm using Deer Park beta 1 now, and it seems to be more stable. Don't ask me why; 1.0.7 worked fine until last week.
If you're deprived of your major source of income for any period of time and not reimbursed, that's already a punishment. And in the US, you're supposedly innocent until proven guilty, and sentenced after you're convicted, not before.
We know that this guy's a spammer. Determining whether it's done legally could well be accomplished with audits, just like the issues with IP infringement with SCO and IBM. It then follows that a warrant rather than a subpoena was issued solely to halt his actions without a trial.
There are laws legislating the proper use of email as an advertising tool. Ralsky may, in fact, be abiding by them. So the US government decided to seize his entire business in order to determine whether he's guilty.
The due process that's missing is a court injunction against his activities. It's rather clear that the intent was to stop him, not to determine his compliance with laws.
As for murderers...generally, pistols and shotguns aren't essential to your livelihood, and they can kill others. Computers are essential to IT businesses such as Ralsky's, and they can't injure anyone. (Unless you throw them hard enough.)
Highlight, center click. But you need someone to tell you about that, just as you need to tell them Ctrl+V copies something. I didn't know about it for the first year of using Linux, but I miss it greatly whenever I have to use Windows for non-trivial tasks (rarely, thankfully).
Yep, that's a hell of a lot of time. And if you want to install something with a different prefix, you probably have a good reason (i.e. it's unstable), and people shouldn't try that if they don't know much about their Linux box.
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I wrote my own encrypted filesystem, you insensitive clod!
Perhaps true, but Microsoft has the capital to make it work. And if it provides the basis for the next major revision of Windows, so much the better.
The trouble is, of course, compatability.
No, it's a DDR song.
Alternately, they start selling a cheap version of OSx86 (no more costly than Windows, certainly) with little to no official support and make their service almost like a very polished commercial Linux.
This would have to be done very rapidly, though, and I'm not certain that Apple would be willing to risk it.
Do you propose to require a company to sell something, even if they don't want to?
Perhaps Microsoft should also be required to sell its Redmond campus.
You'd essentially need a library that converts gtk/qt/gnome/kde references into whichever wm references you need. For instance, if you set an environment variable "WM_IN_USE" to "E17", then the Enlightenment widget library would be used, even for native GNOME applications. It'd be slower than normal, of course, but it would use less memory when you've got applications from multiple GUI toolkits open at once.
There would be one problem with this: you'd need the toolkit libraries to be bypassed in favor of the inter-toolkit library.
I'm on 1.5b2, and the "Check for updates" option is greyed out.
I suck.
Um...no.
First, there's no online office product yet, and Microsoft hasn't been crushing anything like that.
Second, live.com is, as everyone else has been saying, another web portal (albeit with some interesting features and probably Windows integration). Nothing prevents anyone else from implementing all the same ideas.
If you're the first to make something, that makes you a monopoly by default. So should we punish all inventors?
I think there are many people who don't complain about MS software, and many people who do that don't distrust Microsoft. Windows XP was a rather good product, in my opinion; the only instability I've seen in the OS was an issue with a bad driver installation. And even then, the only issue with the exception handling was that the computer wouldn't shut down.
On Linux, that wouldn't happen; but keep in mind that 90% of Linux drivers (aside from proprietary video card drivers and some printer drivers) are included in the kernel. That allows for a lot more stability and quality control.
Really, one of the biggest features that Windows could use is apparently included in Vista: loadable module support.
I'll still use Linux, but at this point, it's a matter of preference. And package managers. And money.
I feel like Ozymandius.
Sniffle.
When's the last time you used Linux? 1992?
I use Gentoo, and it handles just about everything for me, holds my hand through everything....And most other distros are even more friendly. The last time I had to set LD_* was with a strange and rare piece of software meant for Windows but designed with interoperability in mind.
You don't even need to compile a kernel these days, even with a radical change of hardware. Coldplug and hotplug manage it all for you.
Really, you should just try Linux for one day. You'll be searching for complaints, but you won't find more than "This isn't what I'm used to".
Of course. We all have sufficient time and money to get bacchalaureats in physics and geology. Not to mention history, political science, economics, sociology, criminology....
So, shall we institute a government in which everyone who's studied a particular topic can vote on the relevant issues?
I just see a lot of text, and then I start Enlightenment. Where does that place me?
I do that, actually. I mean, last year I had hard drive failure on my only drive. I reinstalled from scratch. And then I screwed up my partition table after that and had to reformat.
su /usr/src/linux
cd
make menuconfig
(arrow, arrow, arrow, arrow, arrow, arrow, enter, arrow, arrow, arrow, arrow, m, ESC, ESC, ESC, y)
make modules && make modules_install
modprobe
Or...
Firefox -> vendor website
Download
Double click
Click, click, pause, click, click, wait twenty seconds, click, reboot
However, finding the appropriate Linux driver isn't always easy. And this is why we have coldplug and hotplug.
So whether driver installation is easier in Windows than in Linux largely depends on your distribution. It can be a one-step process (boot) or an hour-long search for the appropriate module.
Maybe you've heard of it, though you've never had to earn it. It's called money.
I don't have a spare $800 for a gaming machine, and these days, it can cost more than that for something decent. But I can afford a $1200 computer that runs both Linux and Windows, so I can use it for work and play.
Geeks tend not to be terribly athletic, and tactical puzzles of the sort 'How do we get the ball past this stinking heap of muscle?' aren't exactly brain intensive. Or rather, they require reflexive tactical decisions rather than careful pondering.
Programming well requires careful pondering; programming poorly usually uses more reflexive or instinctual decisions. So roleplaying situations which involve algorithmic puzzles or other such problems would likely be more suited to most programmers.
Though culture is a large influence, I'm sure.
Since when did working at McDonald's require creativity?
There's a well-defined ruleset, well enough defined that no thought is usually required. This also removes the need for cooperation--I don't call it that when one finite automaton passes an item to another for further processing, just as I don't call it cooperation when an application uses GTK libraries.
Minor math may be required sometimes. On the other hand, some of the cash registers these days require no more than counting skills.
Face it, if the hardware were cheap enough, we could replace McDonald's workers with a very short shell script. And that situation is insulting to McDonald's workers.
1.0.7 kept crashing on my Gentoo box, roughly once every twelve hours. I'm using Deer Park beta 1 now, and it seems to be more stable. Don't ask me why; 1.0.7 worked fine until last week.
Check out Deer Park, either beta 1 or beta 2. Neither is vulnerable to this.
If you're deprived of your major source of income for any period of time and not reimbursed, that's already a punishment. And in the US, you're supposedly innocent until proven guilty, and sentenced after you're convicted, not before.
We know that this guy's a spammer. Determining whether it's done legally could well be accomplished with audits, just like the issues with IP infringement with SCO and IBM. It then follows that a warrant rather than a subpoena was issued solely to halt his actions without a trial.
There are laws legislating the proper use of email as an advertising tool. Ralsky may, in fact, be abiding by them. So the US government decided to seize his entire business in order to determine whether he's guilty.
The due process that's missing is a court injunction against his activities. It's rather clear that the intent was to stop him, not to determine his compliance with laws.
As for murderers...generally, pistols and shotguns aren't essential to your livelihood, and they can kill others. Computers are essential to IT businesses such as Ralsky's, and they can't injure anyone. (Unless you throw them hard enough.)
Hm...
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Highlight, center click. But you need someone to tell you about that, just as you need to tell them Ctrl+V copies something. I didn't know about it for the first year of using Linux, but I miss it greatly whenever I have to use Windows for non-trivial tasks (rarely, thankfully).
Have you ever heard of Eclipse? Or do you still use cat for most of your programming needs?
apt-get install gaim
apt-get remove gaim
Yep, that's a hell of a lot of time. And if you want to install something with a different prefix, you probably have a good reason (i.e. it's unstable), and people shouldn't try that if they don't know much about their Linux box.