Viewsonic released, about two days later, this display, 9.1 million pixels goodness. Note that all those pixels are found on a screen that is 8 inch smaller than the Apple one, the pixels must be so tiny I doubt you can see them otherwise than by looking very closely at your screen and even then, images must be incredibly sharp. Working with text must be the ultimate pain however. Those monitors (even the Apple one) aren't use as main displays for this reason, whatever Apple tells you. These are made for media work, to display the project not the toolbars. The viewsonic screen requires a Quatro from Nvidia to drive it. the card-display combo will cost you an arm and a leg though so you better be needing it cause there won't be no gaming on those...
Media, I'm surprised no one mentionned it, Apple has the biggest share of the media market; audio, video, graphics. If you look closely you'll notice that pros rarely use the same stuff as consumers, same goes in computing. As a professionnal audio tech I wouldn't work with a winbox, even though it does audio, every time I did I regreted it, I will work with a Mac. I almost never see studios geared with PC except for techno kids basements and the secretary desk, mac are as common in media as PCs are with consummers.
they do not censor, they just infiltrate your peace group or get you arrested for speaking against Bush (yes this is a reference to scenes of Fahrenheit 911).
It's easier to be shocked by other nation than our own but to critisize China for openly doing what the US are doing hypocriticaly (we all know it but still pretend it's just "stories") is disturbing to the least, it's like saying that removing people right is ok as long as you don't tell them which and you keep it a "secret".
Apple as been a very secretive company in its past, which is absolutely bad if you wanna get in the entreprise market which Apple has now started to try. Even the media market can't deal with secrecy anymore, it's fun to be surprised but it might cost you a lot by realizing the new product fits way better than the old for less money.
Anyway, thing is, Apple should always do this, maybe not a year in advance but a few month is good, let's hope this isn't just a reaction to a problem but the beginning of a new attitude...
LINUX is that geeky guy that never takes days off, but instead sits in his lonely office with the lights turned off pounding out incredible amounts of code in record time.
Strangely enough all of that code has the purpose of writing other code like some neverending perfection circle where the holy grail is code that write code faster, more stable, scalable, code, more code...:-|~~~~~~~
not to mention that he is paid with some sort of governement grant and is happy to work for "free"
yeah but according to free speech deffinition by an american he has every right to say it...
however we need to draw some line between opinion and incitation. Even tough saying : Americans are fat ass arogant bastards, French stinks, Nigers are ugly or anything as stupid or even more than this should be allowed, they are opinions. Saying: we should kill nigers, vote for me I get rid of the jewish problem, let's bomb the sant-andreas rift however is an incitation. It is what is mostly being refered to as hate speech, at least in Canada. Even though any serious racist quote on public media gets frowned upon publicly by the medias and politicians there are no laws against it, inciting people to commit crimes is illegal however.
if your constitution protect freedom of belief then I don't see how it could be legal to promote hate of a religion since the act of promoting this hate goes against the freedom of belief in the first place.
Lemme be clear, giving your opinion on certain religions is free speech, it is a given, asking people to beat the shit out of people of a certain religion isn't.
Hate speech isn't free speech, that is something americans seems to be confusing a lot since their very creation. Hate speech is when one promotes differents rights or responsibilities for some group of people having one or many common traits related to their belief, origin, physical attribute... Since most countries have some chart of human rights it is illegal to promote actions going against the very foundation of your legal system.
the garnment isn't even generating any of the camoflage process, it's merely a reflective surface. If you look at the picture you'll notice that it's just a projection trick. I think the enemy would see any soldier equiped with this thing coming for miles, especially since an AV crew came in earlier to set up the projection rig...
We have WindowsNT but our version is secure and stable, turns out Bill was keeping a copy of it for us. It's a special magical copy of Windows that has been stripped out of every bug (they're listed in the registry, you just have to know how to find the.bug file related to the registry entry and voilà). It's a special version, for special client, people who actually have the capacity to kill Bill... like the navy for example.
One of the main reason movies and records cost more and more money with each generation of delivery format is because the higher the resolution, the higher the detail in the image, which makes it even harder to hide a flaw, harder to make effects because they do not get the blur they need to blend them with the surrounding.
Equipement needed to record, edit, mix, master and archive go usually seriously up, the required staff to operate those equipement are either younger (fresh out of school where they learned the tech in question) or more expensive (more talent needed because of reason stated in previous paragraph or more experienced workers that keep up-to-date). Price go up, the consummer pays more and actually, if he would never had seen a movie in this increased resolution he would never ever have gave a damn about it...
One thing about your statement, S/PDIF is digital and caries the digitized audio part of a file unchanged, if the audio signal contains some form of watermark it won't be filtered by the interface. If the DRM is contained in the file headers or metadata it won't be found at the other end of the cable since S/PDIF only carries the audio part of a signal and apply it's own headers which are only present during the transfer. Therefore, it depends on how the DRM works for an S/PDIF transfer to result in a DRM free file..
And George Martin recorded the Beatles on 3 analog tracks using many many 20 min. tape reels...
I used to record and work in post-prod (lots more tracks and automation than musical recordings) using 20GB drives, containing the system!
We used to be transfering every scene after its editing on DA-88s to free up the drive. Don't forget 20GB used to be expensive as hell so we would use the disk only for editing, playback of finished edited tracks was done via the DA-88s in sync with our dear old pal Avid Audiovison.
Audio tech, we get hungrier by the generation!;)
And, by the way, 16 tracks for four instruments!!??? even with 8 mics on the drum (which strat to be ridiculous considering the accoustic leaking of every mic'ed drum and cymbal in other mic'ed drum and cymbals mics...) You don't get there. Well, maybe with two mics on the guit (one for the amp, one for the finger picking...) and X-Y on the piano and another X-Y on a xylophone and even then it only makes for 14 mics...
I am a professionnal audio technician (in Quebec you cannot say engineer...), I have been since the past 7 years. I've worked in post-prod, I've been a technical supervisor and teacher for a sound design school, I've been working in AV for the past 4 years and I am an audio consultant for musicians and project studios and home studios. I have been formely trained in audio and have been trained by my present employer in broadcast video. I have helped conceived and built 2 commercial grade studios (heh, you never do those alone...). All of that crap to say: I know my trade and I have the experience to assess of what follows;
Studio owner, studio technicians, studio operators, studio people, they don't want a studio in a box, mixing with a mouse sucks anyway. There are of course control surfaces that exist to aleviate this problem but, as any pro audio person will tell you, you do not want only one source of processing in your studio you want as many colors as you whish, as many mics model as you can so as to capture your sound and enhance or atenuate certain aspects of it. You want knobs and faders to access as rapidly as possible what you need, you want to control your fades so they fit right in the mix, you do not want to draw them. And I say that as a digital audio and hybrid studio oriented audio tech. As much of a (not) novelty this thing is it only remains a curiosity, plus I doubt many control surfaces actually work on Linux, not many AD/DAs must be either. And to be honest, appart from the fact that mini-ITX machines are usually pretty silent, what's the purpose of small here? The smaller the box the more interferences you will have in your signal, don't forget that part of a digital audio circuit is actually analog and subject to all the garbage found inside a computer box. Even if you use external boxes for your connectors you won't be protected against the added heavy jitter and granulation noise brought by those interferences. Of course you could use a very well shielded card, but will a shielded card fit inside those tiny boxes?
And how much more of your money are you willing to invest in harware and time to not pay for your OS...
Anyways, you get the idea. Long live audio on Linux, I am really looking forward to seeing good solutions appearing on this system but this isn't one of them. I see Linux in audio as an embeded OS for external processors, I see it at the hearth of studio-in-a-box (not the computer form factor but the mixing consolle/recorder form factor) machines, various crazy and imaginative audio appliances but not as a general purpose OS used for audio.
Publish (source):
1 a : to make generally known b : to make public announcement of
2 a : to disseminate to the public b : to produce or release for distribution; specifically : PRINT 2c c : to issue the work of (an author) intransitive senses
1 : to put out an edition
2 : to have one's work accepted for publication
Publishing a work is actually done by the artist, trough an editor (usually), which then propose it to different distribution channel. At some point a collection of work might be grouped and recorded (an album), or a single work could be produced (movie), the resulting product would then be published to various distribution channels (in the case of majors, their own).
Distribute (source):
transitive senses
1 : to divide among several or many : APPORTION [distribute expenses]
3 a : to divide or separate especially into kinds b : to return the units of (as typeset matter) to storage
4 : to use in or as an operation so as to be mathematically distributive
intransitive senses : to be mathematically distributive [multiplication distributes over addition]
- distributee/dis-"tri-by&-'tE/ noun
synonyms DISTRIBUTE, DISPENSE, DIVIDE, DEAL, DOLE OUT mean to give out, usually in shares, to each member of a group. DISTRIBUTE implies an apportioning by separation of something into parts, units, or amounts [distributed food to the needy]. DISPENSE suggests the giving of a carefully weighed or measured portion to each of a group according to due or need [dispensed wisdom to the students]. DIVIDE stresses the separation of a whole into parts and implies that the parts are equal [three charitable groups divided the proceeds]. DEAL emphasizes the allotment of something piece by piece [deal out equipment and supplies]. DOLE OUT implies a carefully measured portion that is often scant or niggardly [doled out what little food there was].
The distribution channels, using various formats (cd, vhs, whatever) then divide the published worked into many copies which they sell (usually).
When we use P2P software we distribute files, we do not publish them, to be able to publish something a software would need to create that something first.
However I feel the need to point out that I strongly oppose what is happening in Italy. I just couldn't resist playing the word game. Fact is, most people abusing the law, or using loophole, are actually doing exactly this, arguing over words, not concepts, making the law systems pretty hard to grasp and navigate trough. We don't need a dictionnary, we all knew what they meant in their judgement, even if it's a sad sad one.
it travels in space, the model presented by those two people is actually a better version of the entreprise since it can fly in an atmosphere. About anything of about any shape and weight can "fly" in space... warp speed, now that's something to achieve...
Yes and no, it won't have any long time effect on your performance but there is a short time effect that can be usefull when dealing with audio. On a Mac, using a drive with block sizes of 64K to 256K (ideal when dealing with digital audio, as long as you set the buffer per track size of your daw to the same size as the blocks on your drive) you can gain up to 8 tracks by defraging your drive. Sometimes on large projects I have to record a file or playback the entire session in edit mode (no tracks frozen, everything real-time and not bounced), after editing for a while the daw refuses to play the project, lags, stutter or present some serious drop-outs, I defrag and this is where I get this 6-8 tracks headroom, but that will last only for a day of work and even then (Pro-Tools, Nuendo, Cubase, MOTU DP all present this caracteristic, as for the other I haven't tested them enough to provide meaningfull data).
however, defraging is not the same for every defrag utility. For example, I was working with Avid Audiovision about 5-6 years ago on a TV show, it seems that defraging a drive hosting files created or edited with Audiovision with Speed Disk by Symantec would actually corrupt the entire projects contained on the drive (the biggest mistake and the only serious one I had in my career, I didn't loose my job but my boss did loose his temper, live and learn!), audio file were not readable at all after, it was actually a documented bug of Audiovision and I even think it was affecting every OMF files not just the ones used by Audiovision (not sure about this though), thats what happens when your boss won't let you RTFM. Only Disk Express, some Avid defrager or, later, Techtool could defrag those drives.
On a side note, in the Classic mac (7-9.2), defragmenting your drive was also a way to prevent data corruption, actually its the other way around, not defraging would lead to data corruption. I don't know if its also the case with NTFS, EXT2 et al.
Linux guy: Windows sux! big time, OSS rocks, Linux is the single best operating system, even my grandma could use it!
Windows guy: Linux looks too complicated...
Linux guy: Bullshit, take Xandros for example or the KDE environement, they just look and act the same as Windows, intuitive huh! Windows just can't do that! Linux rox!
It's not because 9 out of ten person answered considering/using open source that 9 out of then entreprises use it. open source can also mean some P2P software, server software or digital thieving tools (playfair and the like). It doesn't mean that 9 out of then company uses Linux. I work in AV for coorporate events (amongst other things) I do a lot of conventions with a lot of entreprise in various domain, pharmaceutical, business associations, health, governments, technology...
The most Linux box I've seen at the same convention was 6-7, I can assure you that more and more scientific coorporations/peoples are now using macs, in the past 3 month we saw more macs than ever before at conventions, if the convention was about pharmaceutical, health, genomics, physics or nanotech, the proportion of macs even surpass the windows one (one of those convention had around 60% macs, out of 5000 attendees from around the world... (APS) ).
As for the people I speak with in those conventions (rough proportions: 20% salespeople, 30-40% employees/students/consultants, 20% presidents/CEO, 20% marketing/public relation) most of them don't use, aren't interested in open-source or Linux (they know it exist but they haven't used it), the exception being tech and science people.
Don't get me wrong I am not saying the result of the survey isn't right all I'm saying is that it puts open-source in the wrong light, I believe it is indeed very common in Canada but not as much as those results reflects.
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Viewsonic released, about two days later, this display, 9.1 million pixels goodness. Note that all those pixels are found on a screen that is 8 inch smaller than the Apple one, the pixels must be so tiny I doubt you can see them otherwise than by looking very closely at your screen and even then, images must be incredibly sharp. Working with text must be the ultimate pain however. Those monitors (even the Apple one) aren't use as main displays for this reason, whatever Apple tells you. These are made for media work, to display the project not the toolbars. The viewsonic screen requires a Quatro from Nvidia to drive it. the card-display combo will cost you an arm and a leg though so you better be needing it cause there won't be no gaming on those...
yep and the slower the cat the faster the system, macosX blind kitten should rock!
Media, I'm surprised no one mentionned it, Apple has the biggest share of the media market; audio, video, graphics. If you look closely you'll notice that pros rarely use the same stuff as consumers, same goes in computing. As a professionnal audio tech I wouldn't work with a winbox, even though it does audio, every time I did I regreted it, I will work with a Mac. I almost never see studios geared with PC except for techno kids basements and the secretary desk, mac are as common in media as PCs are with consummers.
Echelon = american
Carnivore = american
they do not censor, they just infiltrate your peace group or get you arrested for speaking against Bush (yes this is a reference to scenes of Fahrenheit 911).
It's easier to be shocked by other nation than our own but to critisize China for openly doing what the US are doing hypocriticaly (we all know it but still pretend it's just "stories") is disturbing to the least, it's like saying that removing people right is ok as long as you don't tell them which and you keep it a "secret".
Apple as been a very secretive company in its past, which is absolutely bad if you wanna get in the entreprise market which Apple has now started to try. Even the media market can't deal with secrecy anymore, it's fun to be surprised but it might cost you a lot by realizing the new product fits way better than the old for less money.
Anyway, thing is, Apple should always do this, maybe not a year in advance but a few month is good, let's hope this isn't just a reaction to a problem but the beginning of a new attitude...
imacs have fan now, they have fan since the advent of the firewire iMac...
my 2 unnescessary !
LINUX is that geeky guy that never takes days off, but instead sits in his lonely office with the lights turned off pounding out incredible amounts of code in record time.
:-|~~~~~~~
;-)
Strangely enough all of that code has the purpose of writing other code like some neverending perfection circle where the holy grail is code that write code faster, more stable, scalable, code, more code...
not to mention that he is paid with some sort of governement grant and is happy to work for "free"
yeah but according to free speech deffinition by an american he has every right to say it...
however we need to draw some line between opinion and incitation. Even tough saying : Americans are fat ass arogant bastards, French stinks, Nigers are ugly or anything as stupid or even more than this should be allowed, they are opinions.
Saying: we should kill nigers, vote for me I get rid of the jewish problem, let's bomb the sant-andreas rift however is an incitation. It is what is mostly being refered to as hate speech, at least in Canada. Even though any serious racist quote on public media gets frowned upon publicly by the medias and politicians there are no laws against it, inciting people to commit crimes is illegal however.
if your constitution protect freedom of belief then I don't see how it could be legal to promote hate of a religion since the act of promoting this hate goes against the freedom of belief in the first place.
Lemme be clear, giving your opinion on certain religions is free speech, it is a given, asking people to beat the shit out of people of a certain religion isn't.
Hate speech isn't free speech, that is something americans seems to be confusing a lot since their very creation. Hate speech is when one promotes differents rights or responsibilities for some group of people having one or many common traits related to their belief, origin, physical attribute... Since most countries have some chart of human rights it is illegal to promote actions going against the very foundation of your legal system.
the garnment isn't even generating any of the camoflage process, it's merely a reflective surface. If you look at the picture you'll notice that it's just a projection trick. I think the enemy would see any soldier equiped with this thing coming for miles, especially since an AV crew came in earlier to set up the projection rig...
I know this is a totaly foreign territory for slashdotters but for your infos misters
man=hard
woman=moist
In the above statement you can actually change the word moist to hard to get an idea of how the woman feels.
We have WindowsNT but our version is secure and stable, turns out Bill was keeping a copy of it for us. It's a special magical copy of Windows that has been stripped out of every bug (they're listed in the registry, you just have to know how to find the .bug file related to the registry entry and voilà). It's a special version, for special client, people who actually have the capacity to kill Bill... like the navy for example.
One of the main reason movies and records cost more and more money with each generation of delivery format is because the higher the resolution, the higher the detail in the image, which makes it even harder to hide a flaw, harder to make effects because they do not get the blur they need to blend them with the surrounding.
Equipement needed to record, edit, mix, master and archive go usually seriously up, the required staff to operate those equipement are either younger (fresh out of school where they learned the tech in question) or more expensive (more talent needed because of reason stated in previous paragraph or more experienced workers that keep up-to-date). Price go up, the consummer pays more and actually, if he would never had seen a movie in this increased resolution he would never ever have gave a damn about it...
One thing about your statement, S/PDIF is digital and caries the digitized audio part of a file unchanged, if the audio signal contains some form of watermark it won't be filtered by the interface. If the DRM is contained in the file headers or metadata it won't be found at the other end of the cable since S/PDIF only carries the audio part of a signal and apply it's own headers which are only present during the transfer. Therefore, it depends on how the DRM works for an S/PDIF transfer to result in a DRM free file..
4 tracks of 16bits/44.1KHz during 40 mins= 847MB
You used either more tracks or more time than you remember.
16GB = at 16bits/44.1KHz = 80 tracks for 40 mins OR 4 tracks 800 mins
And George Martin recorded the Beatles on 3 analog tracks using many many 20 min. tape reels...
;)
I used to record and work in post-prod (lots more tracks and automation than musical recordings) using 20GB drives, containing the system!
We used to be transfering every scene after its editing on DA-88s to free up the drive. Don't forget 20GB used to be expensive as hell so we would use the disk only for editing, playback of finished edited tracks was done via the DA-88s in sync with our dear old pal Avid Audiovison.
Audio tech, we get hungrier by the generation!
And, by the way, 16 tracks for four instruments!!??? even with 8 mics on the drum (which strat to be ridiculous considering the accoustic leaking of every mic'ed drum and cymbal in other mic'ed drum and cymbals mics...) You don't get there. Well, maybe with two mics on the guit (one for the amp, one for the finger picking...) and X-Y on the piano and another X-Y on a xylophone and even then it only makes for 14 mics...
I am a professionnal audio technician (in Quebec you cannot say engineer...), I have been since the past 7 years. I've worked in post-prod, I've been a technical supervisor and teacher for a sound design school, I've been working in AV for the past 4 years and I am an audio consultant for musicians and project studios and home studios. I have been formely trained in audio and have been trained by my present employer in broadcast video. I have helped conceived and built 2 commercial grade studios (heh, you never do those alone...). All of that crap to say: I know my trade and I have the experience to assess of what follows;
Studio owner, studio technicians, studio operators, studio people, they don't want a studio in a box, mixing with a mouse sucks anyway. There are of course control surfaces that exist to aleviate this problem but, as any pro audio person will tell you, you do not want only one source of processing in your studio you want as many colors as you whish, as many mics model as you can so as to capture your sound and enhance or atenuate certain aspects of it. You want knobs and faders to access as rapidly as possible what you need, you want to control your fades so they fit right in the mix, you do not want to draw them. And I say that as a digital audio and hybrid studio oriented audio tech. As much of a (not) novelty this thing is it only remains a curiosity, plus I doubt many control surfaces actually work on Linux, not many AD/DAs must be either. And to be honest, appart from the fact that mini-ITX machines are usually pretty silent, what's the purpose of small here? The smaller the box the more interferences you will have in your signal, don't forget that part of a digital audio circuit is actually analog and subject to all the garbage found inside a computer box. Even if you use external boxes for your connectors you won't be protected against the added heavy jitter and granulation noise brought by those interferences. Of course you could use a very well shielded card, but will a shielded card fit inside those tiny boxes?
And how much more of your money are you willing to invest in harware and time to not pay for your OS...
Anyways, you get the idea. Long live audio on Linux, I am really looking forward to seeing good solutions appearing on this system but this isn't one of them. I see Linux in audio as an embeded OS for external processors, I see it at the hearth of studio-in-a-box (not the computer form factor but the mixing consolle/recorder form factor) machines, various crazy and imaginative audio appliances but not as a general purpose OS used for audio.
Wow! this thread echoes!
... ... ..
PCI-X is not PCI express
PCI-X is not PCI express
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Publish (source):
/dis-"tri-by&-'tE/ noun
1 a : to make generally known b : to make public announcement of
2 a : to disseminate to the public b : to produce or release for distribution; specifically : PRINT 2c c : to issue the work of (an author)
intransitive senses
1 : to put out an edition
2 : to have one's work accepted for publication
Publishing a work is actually done by the artist, trough an editor (usually), which then propose it to different distribution channel. At some point a collection of work might be grouped and recorded (an album), or a single work could be produced (movie), the resulting product would then be published to various distribution channels (in the case of majors, their own).
Distribute (source):
transitive senses
1 : to divide among several or many : APPORTION [distribute expenses]
3 a : to divide or separate especially into kinds b : to return the units of (as typeset matter) to storage
4 : to use in or as an operation so as to be mathematically distributive
intransitive senses : to be mathematically distributive
[multiplication distributes over addition] - distributee
synonyms DISTRIBUTE, DISPENSE, DIVIDE, DEAL, DOLE OUT
mean to give out, usually in shares, to each member of a group.
DISTRIBUTE implies an apportioning by separation of something into parts, units, or amounts [distributed food to the needy]. DISPENSE suggests the giving of a carefully weighed or measured portion to each of a group according to due or need [dispensed wisdom to the students]. DIVIDE stresses the separation of a whole into parts and implies that the parts are equal [three charitable groups divided the proceeds]. DEAL emphasizes the allotment of something piece by piece [deal out equipment and supplies]. DOLE OUT implies a carefully measured portion that is often scant or niggardly [doled out what little food there was].
The distribution channels, using various formats (cd, vhs, whatever) then divide the published worked into many copies which they sell (usually).
When we use P2P software we distribute files, we do not publish them, to be able to publish something a software would need to create that something first.
However I feel the need to point out that I strongly oppose what is happening in Italy. I just couldn't resist playing the word game. Fact is, most people abusing the law, or using loophole, are actually doing exactly this, arguing over words, not concepts, making the law systems pretty hard to grasp and navigate trough. We don't need a dictionnary, we all knew what they meant in their judgement, even if it's a sad sad one.
it travels in space, the model presented by those two people is actually a better version of the entreprise since it can fly in an atmosphere. About anything of about any shape and weight can "fly" in space... warp speed, now that's something to achieve...
Yes and no, it won't have any long time effect on your performance but there is a short time effect that can be usefull when dealing with audio. On a Mac, using a drive with block sizes of 64K to 256K (ideal when dealing with digital audio, as long as you set the buffer per track size of your daw to the same size as the blocks on your drive) you can gain up to 8 tracks by defraging your drive. Sometimes on large projects I have to record a file or playback the entire session in edit mode (no tracks frozen, everything real-time and not bounced), after editing for a while the daw refuses to play the project, lags, stutter or present some serious drop-outs, I defrag and this is where I get this 6-8 tracks headroom, but that will last only for a day of work and even then (Pro-Tools, Nuendo, Cubase, MOTU DP all present this caracteristic, as for the other I haven't tested them enough to provide meaningfull data).
however, defraging is not the same for every defrag utility. For example, I was working with Avid Audiovision about 5-6 years ago on a TV show, it seems that defraging a drive hosting files created or edited with Audiovision with Speed Disk by Symantec would actually corrupt the entire projects contained on the drive (the biggest mistake and the only serious one I had in my career, I didn't loose my job but my boss did loose his temper, live and learn!), audio file were not readable at all after, it was actually a documented bug of Audiovision and I even think it was affecting every OMF files not just the ones used by Audiovision (not sure about this though), thats what happens when your boss won't let you RTFM. Only Disk Express, some Avid defrager or, later, Techtool could defrag those drives.
On a side note, in the Classic mac (7-9.2), defragmenting your drive was also a way to prevent data corruption, actually its the other way around, not defraging would lead to data corruption. I don't know if its also the case with NTFS, EXT2 et al.
Linux guy:
Windows sux! big time, OSS rocks, Linux is the single best operating system, even my grandma could use it!
Windows guy:
Linux looks too complicated...
Linux guy:
Bullshit, take Xandros for example or the KDE environement, they just look and act the same as Windows, intuitive huh! Windows just can't do that! Linux rox!
and I'm really looking forward to macosX crippled kitten! ;)
It's not because 9 out of ten person answered considering/using open source that 9 out of then entreprises use it. open source can also mean some P2P software, server software or digital thieving tools (playfair and the like). It doesn't mean that 9 out of then company uses Linux. I work in AV for coorporate events (amongst other things) I do a lot of conventions with a lot of entreprise in various domain, pharmaceutical, business associations, health, governments, technology...
The most Linux box I've seen at the same convention was 6-7, I can assure you that more and more scientific coorporations/peoples are now using macs, in the past 3 month we saw more macs than ever before at conventions, if the convention was about pharmaceutical, health, genomics, physics or nanotech, the proportion of macs even surpass the windows one (one of those convention had around 60% macs, out of 5000 attendees from around the world... (APS) ).
As for the people I speak with in those conventions (rough proportions: 20% salespeople, 30-40% employees/students/consultants, 20% presidents/CEO, 20% marketing/public relation) most of them don't use, aren't interested in open-source or Linux (they know it exist but they haven't used it), the exception being tech and science people.
Don't get me wrong I am not saying the result of the survey isn't right all I'm saying is that it puts open-source in the wrong light, I believe it is indeed very common in Canada but not as much as those results reflects.