Stable: I found that my Fedora Linux installation was prone to crashes due to what some in the industry called 'half-baked' software, (read `desktop').
Efficient OS: Depends on who you talk to. For example, folks I worked with had their Linux installations eat up about 4GB of space. On the other hand Windows 7 installations, with the same functionality, took up more than 20GB of disk space. To those, Linux installations were more efficient.
But some will swear that Linux is inefficient especially for systems that employ Ext3 and have to handle large files. This is fact. I do not know how present file systems handle large files, but all goes to drive the point that it all depends on who you talk to.
Most people just want a distro that doesn't suck out of the box.
I agree wholeheartedly. I also have to say that all incarnations of Ubuntu sucked out of the box, as far as I am concerned. Specifically, it sucked when it came to multimedia.
I still wonder why it was so popular until Mint routed it.
I am wondering whether desktop Linux matters in these times. For some it does I am sure, as evidenced on distrowatch . It is the most popular distro now, after pushing Ubuntu to second place.
In my little world though, Linux is inconsequential. I just do not care that much any more.
I [still] employ Windows XP at work, and use Windows 7 in addition to an Asus Eee Pad transformer at home, where I spend most of my time on the net.
I still have to ask the general public whether, desktop Linux still matters. Does it?
...but you will never see a shot of the entire field and what all 22 players do on every play which is considered proprietary information available only to teams and coaches..."
I hope someone can take up this matter to defeat the nonsense. In any case, it sound ripe for a video-mounted RC helicopter project.
I am sure release of such video can make way for serious profits. On the other hand, the so called project manager is likely to attract a barrage of lawsuits as he's labeled an 'infringer' if such a term exists.
"If you can't beat them, make up frivolous charges against them...that way, you could at least slow them down."
Fact: US technology companies are struggling. Fact: There is little they can do. Fact: The US government would like to see this turned around. Fact: The US government has the means to do something about it.
This sounds like a preface from Microsoft's playbook. That is, "if you cannot beat them, go the courts with frivolous [patent] lawsuits", where you can land some success in as far as slowing them down is concerned.
This is what is happening. The sad thing is that it will fail. My hope is that the US government will gain valuable insights into this kind of behavior and learn from it.
Excel has a few bugs but for the most part it's very capable.
Care to name some of those bugs? I have not come across a single one!
The culprit is gonna be associated with Android...
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While this is an enviable achievement, I must say I am not that happy and here's why.
Apple fan boys are going to ramp up the mantra that Android geeks are behind this effort. With Ice Cream Sandwich's code released, we will be seeing an Android app pretty soon.
What will happen next are events reinforcing the myth that Android is a stolen product.
g) Corporate influence in making laws that benefit not the country or it's people, but rather only for its profits. Even if its convenient to the detriment of the country and its people
That sad thing is that when a "reformer" tries to do something, the reformer is labeled a socialist/communist...as if we cannot have anything somewhere in between.
Ohh no no no...I take issue with this point you make:
We have a "leader" bashing the United States 24/7
No sir! That leader is saying the truth. Heck, all other past leaders have been sugar coating our situation, masking the truth while America was degenerating. Do you think the current perceived degeneration started when this "leader' came into office? I for one would like a leader who tells the truth.
I agree with you on this:
We have kids brought up in a world surrounded by helicopter parents, giving them everything they want, trying to buy them anything they want. We teach "conflict resolution" and other political correctness crap in schools. We never let kids fall down and get hurt, never let them play around with boxes, tape, scissors to "make stuff"
No wonder kids from the poorest nations come here and still out-perform our kids. One such kid, from one of the poorest countries on planet earth, wondered how one can "fail" in America...where everything is at your disposal. This kid used charcoal to write on hardened earth. Her class was under a tree. When she came here, she was 3 grades ahead of her age, solving mathematical problems in her head, spoke "correct" English and wondered why people spoke in sentences like, "I am like..." What kind of English is that? She wondered.
Consumerism is killing us: I always wndered how someone would spend 14 hours for a store to open, spend upwards of $600 in order to have the "latest gadget", which gadget would be obsolete in 11 months. Insane. How much production work would that be?
You want to know why we are losing out in inventing things? We have no one to blame, but ourselves!
I agree 100%. We have whole legions of people on welfare with no hope of ever leaving it. Heck...put them to work. There are farms in Tennessee, Arizona and Texas that would be willing to get them work, but guess what, they are not willing to do that kind of work, but are willing to wait for a welfare check. Then follow the kids and grand kids...then we wonder why our nation cannot collect enough revenue to sustain basic human living standards. It's sad my friend.
Take a look around your house and count the items that were manufactured in the USA. In mine, it's the toilet! Imagine, the toilet bowl. Everything else was manufactured in Mexico, Taiwan, Canada or China.
Now, there will be those who say: "Well, but that stuff was designed in the USA." To them I say, "nonsense."
Being designed in the USA is almost irrelevant if we spend all our cash abroad, servicing our debt. Banks are able to make profits because they 'enslave" us in debts and fees. That's how they make money. With our spending getting out of hand, foreign powers will only have to sit back and live on the interest we as a nation pay them while servicing our debt. It's insane.
That's how American academics dismissed the Japanese in the 70s and guess what, in a few years, you could not find an American (100%) made product.
We were a once proud nation with corporations like Zenith. It was the inventor of subscription TV and the remote control in addition to being one of the first to develop HDTV in USA. Where is it now? History.
Our car brands are non sellers abroad. Talk of GM and Asians will laugh at you. That's where the market is at the moment.
The latest frontier in electronics in the OLED with the AMOLED variation. No American patent is relied on in OLED technology. It's all Korean. How did it start? Yes, factories moved abroad...then the cash followed.
It's bad folks. When it comes to airplanes, an increasing percentage of these are foreign made. The new Boeing 787 Dream-liner has at least 30% foreign components. These will increase and when they get to more than 48% all manufacturing followed by research will be abroad.
I am waiting to see where America still shines. Worst of all, we're broke!
I my opinion, biologist's energy and intellect are misdirected. Let's get him something else to do. What about focusing on getting the reason and possible cure of one terrible disease like diabetes?
In type 1 diabetes, folks cannot produce enough insulin and in the type 2, they are resistant to its action. This is one disease that will explode this century.
Next, i am gonna send him an email, urging him to direct his energy to what I'd call more [potentially] useful outcomes.
First off, You sound like you own stock in Chevy and the like. I hope you do not: Let me elucidate:
Have you actually met an engineer at GM, Ford, or Chrysler? Where does your bias against them come from?
I have not met an engineer at Chevy. What I have met are mechanics that have to deal with the 'crap' Chevy has produced over the years. Trust me, it's ugly. Not a single one painted a good picture of Chevey vehicles, with almost all of them reporting something to the effect that it is like "those vehicles have an expiry date (read mileage), at which point, they all are as good as junk." No other major car manufacturer has the same problems especially with leaking coolant and intake manifold gaskets.
You need to separate workmanship from parts' sourcing.
I do separate those two, and guess what, I do not care. What matters to me as a consumer is what product I get at the end. If other car manufacturers can deliver 'quality' cars, I expect the same if not better from an all American company like GM. Is it too much to expect?
Even the seats had parts coming from all over the planet. Tracks, motors, upholstery, etc, all coming from different sources. Regardless of what you want to believe, the workers had no say in this matter and had to assemble what was in front of them regardless of how crappy the parts were.
See above. All a customer cares about is the experience. Source your parts from the moon or wherever you wish, but deliver a good reliable product. If mistakes happen, and they do, after all we're human, own up to them, like one major foreign company did a few years ago. What's wrong with that?
So you are now blaming GM for solar radiation? I've stepped into Hondas in the summer that were plenty warm as well. Or are you talking about the engine overheating, as a result of the crappy water pumps, crappy gaskets, crappy hoses, and crappy radiators - all of which came from different companies?
Yes, I am talking about the engine. These engines, especially from the Impala line, overheated like hell during summer. Other cars never overheated, but they were being driven on the same roads. Explain that.
That is a sweeping generalization. If you can't support it, there is no point in responding to it. If I responded by telling you Japanese cars are boring, I would expect a similar response.
OK...I agree. I over generalized. Sorry!
You are free to hate on any company you wish. You would do yourself a favor to actually have facts behind your hatred though.
I was always skeptical of the Chevy Volt, not because of its technology per se, but because of the "executor". In this case, engineers at Chevy.
After living in a household that owned Chevys for decades, and seeing how poor workmanship was an almost guaranteed feature in all those vehicles, the Chevy left a bad mark on my mind.
Even simple stuff like seats were poorly done. The cars over heated in the summer, and many of them would just lose power when you needed it most.
Needless to say, I do not think I will ever own one even if given to me as a gift.
The folks at Qantas or the government should employ Reagan solution: Fire all those striking employees, then immediately advertise their positions at even lower compensation.
With the strike having the potential of affecting the Australian economy, decisive intervention is necessary. I am quite sure these positions once advertised, will get serious responses, even though the unemployment rate of Australia is at about 5%.
The trial was initially set to begin Oct. 31 but was postponed last week by Judge William Alsup due to scheduling conflicts with a major criminal trial.
I have read about this postponement on many fora elsewhere. My question though is why nobody will tell us which parties are involved in this 'major' criminal trial. Aren't trials and their associated parties supposed to be known to the public?
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I am not sure about that!
Stable: I found that my Fedora Linux installation was prone to crashes due to what some in the industry called 'half-baked' software, (read `desktop').
Efficient OS: Depends on who you talk to. For example, folks I worked with had their Linux installations eat up about 4GB of space. On the other hand Windows 7 installations, with the same functionality, took up more than 20GB of disk space. To those, Linux installations were more efficient.
But some will swear that Linux is inefficient especially for systems that employ Ext3 and have to handle large files. This is fact. I do not know how present file systems handle large files, but all goes to drive the point that it all depends on who you talk to.
I agree wholeheartedly. I also have to say that all incarnations of Ubuntu sucked out of the box, as far as I am concerned. Specifically, it sucked when it came to multimedia.
I still wonder why it was so popular until Mint routed it.
I am wondering whether desktop Linux matters in these times. For some it does I am sure, as evidenced on distrowatch . It is the most popular distro now, after pushing Ubuntu to second place.
In my little world though, Linux is inconsequential. I just do not care that much any more.
I [still] employ Windows XP at work, and use Windows 7 in addition to an Asus Eee Pad transformer at home, where I spend most of my time on the net.
I still have to ask the general public whether, desktop Linux still matters. Does it?
I must say this: These patent lawsuits among mobile OEMs are surely getting out of hand. Troubling.
I hope someone can take up this matter to defeat the nonsense. In any case, it sound ripe for a video-mounted RC helicopter project.
I am sure release of such video can make way for serious profits. On the other hand, the so called project manager is likely to attract a barrage of lawsuits as he's labeled an 'infringer' if such a term exists.
No, you missed something important!
In full, the message was, "I am back, send some vodka, fast!"
"If you can't beat them, make up frivolous charges against them...that way, you could at least slow them down."
Fact: US technology companies are struggling.
Fact: There is little they can do.
Fact: The US government would like to see this turned around.
Fact: The US government has the means to do something about it.
This sounds like a preface from Microsoft's playbook. That is, "if you cannot beat them, go the courts with frivolous [patent] lawsuits", where you can land some success in as far as slowing them down is concerned.
This is what is happening. The sad thing is that it will fail. My hope is that the US government will gain valuable insights into this kind of behavior and learn from it.
...that way, Google can talk (read boast) of true vertical integration. How about that?
Agreed. In fact I would rephrase this sentence to say:
Penguin will soon be drawing valuable insights from what I hope will eventually become a very expensive lesson.
I wonder who has the patents on this [idea] registered. Anyone?
Care to name some of those bugs? I have not come across a single one!
While this is an enviable achievement, I must say I am not that happy and here's why.
Apple fan boys are going to ramp up the mantra that Android geeks are behind this effort. With Ice Cream Sandwich's code released, we will be seeing an Android app pretty soon.
What will happen next are events reinforcing the myth that Android is a stolen product.
It's a sad day indeed.
The C language is not my thing per se, but I'd like to see simple C program code the illustrates the subtleties of C. Anyone?
That sad thing is that when a "reformer" tries to do something, the reformer is labeled a socialist/communist...as if we cannot have anything somewhere in between.
Ohh no no no...I take issue with this point you make:
No sir! That leader is saying the truth. Heck, all other past leaders have been sugar coating our situation, masking the truth while America was degenerating. Do you think the current perceived degeneration started when this "leader' came into office? I for one would like a leader who tells the truth.
I agree with you on this:
No wonder kids from the poorest nations come here and still out-perform our kids. One such kid, from one of the poorest countries on planet earth, wondered how one can "fail" in America...where everything is at your disposal. This kid used charcoal to write on hardened earth. Her class was under a tree. When she came here, she was 3 grades ahead of her age, solving mathematical problems in her head, spoke "correct" English and wondered why people spoke in sentences like, "I am like ..." What kind of English is that? She wondered.
Consumerism is killing us: I always wndered how someone would spend 14 hours for a store to open, spend upwards of $600 in order to have the "latest gadget", which gadget would be obsolete in 11 months. Insane. How much production work would that be?
I agree 100%. We have whole legions of people on welfare with no hope of ever leaving it. Heck...put them to work. There are farms in Tennessee, Arizona and Texas that would be willing to get them work, but guess what, they are not willing to do that kind of work, but are willing to wait for a welfare check. Then follow the kids and grand kids...then we wonder why our nation cannot collect enough revenue to sustain basic human living standards. It's sad my friend.
Here's why:
Take a look around your house and count the items that were manufactured in the USA. In mine, it's the toilet! Imagine, the toilet bowl. Everything else was manufactured in Mexico, Taiwan, Canada or China.
Now, there will be those who say: "Well, but that stuff was designed in the USA." To them I say, "nonsense."
Being designed in the USA is almost irrelevant if we spend all our cash abroad, servicing our debt. Banks are able to make profits because they 'enslave" us in debts and fees. That's how they make money. With our spending getting out of hand, foreign powers will only have to sit back and live on the interest we as a nation pay them while servicing our debt. It's insane.
That's how American academics dismissed the Japanese in the 70s and guess what, in a few years, you could not find an American (100%) made product.
We were a once proud nation with corporations like Zenith. It was the inventor of subscription TV and the remote control in addition to being one of the first to develop HDTV in USA. Where is it now? History.
Our car brands are non sellers abroad. Talk of GM and Asians will laugh at you. That's where the market is at the moment.
The latest frontier in electronics in the OLED with the AMOLED variation. No American patent is relied on in OLED technology. It's all Korean. How did it start? Yes, factories moved abroad...then the cash followed.
It's bad folks. When it comes to airplanes, an increasing percentage of these are foreign made. The new Boeing 787 Dream-liner has at least 30% foreign components. These will increase and when they get to more than 48% all manufacturing followed by research will be abroad.
I am waiting to see where America still shines. Worst of all, we're broke!
I my opinion, biologist's energy and intellect are misdirected. Let's get him something else to do. What about focusing on getting the reason and possible cure of one terrible disease like diabetes?
In type 1 diabetes, folks cannot produce enough insulin and in the type 2, they are resistant to its action. This is one disease that will explode this century.
Next, i am gonna send him an email, urging him to direct his energy to what I'd call more [potentially] useful outcomes.
Come on shoot some video and let's witness history.
First off, You sound like you own stock in Chevy and the like. I hope you do not: Let me elucidate:
I have not met an engineer at Chevy. What I have met are mechanics that have to deal with the 'crap' Chevy has produced over the years. Trust me, it's ugly. Not a single one painted a good picture of Chevey vehicles, with almost all of them reporting something to the effect that it is like "those vehicles have an expiry date (read mileage), at which point, they all are as good as junk." No other major car manufacturer has the same problems especially with leaking coolant and intake manifold gaskets.
I do separate those two, and guess what, I do not care. What matters to me as a consumer is what product I get at the end. If other car manufacturers can deliver 'quality' cars, I expect the same if not better from an all American company like GM. Is it too much to expect?
See above. All a customer cares about is the experience. Source your parts from the moon or wherever you wish, but deliver a good reliable product. If mistakes happen, and they do, after all we're human, own up to them, like one major foreign company did a few years ago. What's wrong with that?
Yes, I am talking about the engine. These engines, especially from the Impala line, overheated like hell during summer. Other cars never overheated, but they were being driven on the same roads. Explain that.
OK...I agree. I over generalized. Sorry!
You want the facts? Head here:
I was always skeptical of the Chevy Volt, not because of its technology per se, but because of the "executor". In this case, engineers at Chevy.
After living in a household that owned Chevys for decades, and seeing how poor workmanship was an almost guaranteed feature in all those vehicles, the Chevy left a bad mark on my mind.
Even simple stuff like seats were poorly done. The cars over heated in the summer, and many of them would just lose power when you needed it most.
Needless to say, I do not think I will ever own one even if given to me as a gift.
Is there a [real dollar] cost? I would like to know.
The folks at Qantas or the government should employ Reagan solution: Fire all those striking employees, then immediately advertise their positions at even lower compensation.
With the strike having the potential of affecting the Australian economy, decisive intervention is necessary. I am quite sure these positions once advertised, will get serious responses, even though the unemployment rate of Australia is at about 5%.
I am impressed by your efforts though this does not tell me what the big case is about. Do you know? What are the issues in the case?
I have read about this postponement on many fora elsewhere. My question though is why nobody will tell us which parties are involved in this 'major' criminal trial. Aren't trials and their associated parties supposed to be known to the public?
...of former female CEOs, who have all been mediocre (think Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman). I wish her all the best.