...either URPMI or APT for updates, both of which are trivial and powerful to use compared with Microsoft's chaotic collactions, and have been for many years.
Such use would also make the dynamic customisation of updates much simpler and faster (and more possible at all). People who are much less control-dominated thab MS faced and solved these kinds of issues well and long ago.
Goodness me, I remember Sonic from when I was a teenager (all of those years ago!) -- we're tending towards 40-year careers here, and counting. Few humans would be doing so well after all of those decades, so why should a mascot?
Atheism seems to have achieved the amazing rank of "most lethal mind-set", and I say amazing because it's had some fairly feirce (literally) competition.
The justification Atheists seem to most often use is either "for the common good" rather than being kind to one another, so I guess they stand out as one step less dishonest than the herd. OTOH they as a group are generally as greedy or at least as pushy as many of the bigger "religious" (usually, political or business) competitors.
BTW, this is all anti-Constitution big time for many Western countries. Either way. And those dox exist for good reasons.
One being that Aboriginals appear to have started in the Middle East, so their ancestors would be related to everyone else; the second being that there are a number of unusual Aboriginals with (for example) Dutch ancestry kicking around.
There's a lot else about Australian Aboriginals which is unexpected, some of it fairly hair-raising and some very bland, but walking into the culture with your mental eyes closed is pretty much a recipe for hilarity^Wconfusion.
...and plasma, representing either the total software short which MS-Windows so often represents, or the brightness of one's accompanying virus collection.
Plenty... if you stop making the mistake of working through the system, with its own tools, in an attempt to fix it. That's like releasing multiple-murderers on their words of honour and expecting a pleasant outcome.
...like he did by getting the US DoT to lean on the Brasilian government to shut down existing donations of AIDS drugs from Brasilian companies to Africa, so Bill's drug companies could do almost the same thing albeit much more expensively and grandiosely (but of course much less effectively as well, and I'm sure there's a virus joke tucked away in there somewhere).
Once you watch Bill's history and see how much effort he puts into chasing money and power, a lot of his behaviour becomes predictable again.
We/You have several hysterical^Whistorical examples of MS-Office components being changed to do exactly that.
When you realise that Bill appears to do everything either for more money or more control, this stops being surprising. This observation also makes the future plain: MS-Office document formats will almost certainly be broken several more times during the suite's death^Wlife-span, whereas more suites (possibly including MSO) will come to do OpenDocument I/O as well.
Belgium has (once more) planned to avoid the social tragedies which regularly afflict so many other Euro countries. Sometimes they miss the mark, but they're always a very educational country to pay attention to.
...well, technically a Canadian (in theory, my app to be dual-Oz is long registered) but I've lived in Oz for the last 41 out of 43 years, think/talk as an Aussie, and so on (except I don't like beer or watermelon).
It would be orange-and-mango juice on my monitor, too, because I know about coffee, but the dehydration at "work ethic" is something we carry in common. There are so many jobs that we're willing to duck-shovel to foreign workers as fast as we can.
Glad that this laptop (TwinHead DuraBook R15D) is pretty much splash-proof.
Many of my own customers choose Linux over Microsoft simply because they hate being charged sideways (or fined) for stuff years after they bought it and forgot it (bonus for funds then sent overseas, worsening our (Oz) balance of trade), and they hate having stuff constantly breaking.
Free Software (and to a large extent, mere Open Source) addresses those particular hates with loves, quite directly.
There is more hate, and FS is addressing it by destroying it as the hostile alienation which closed software is patterned upon, and replacing it with a widespread practical community attitude.
There is, AFAICT, no globally better way of dealing with hate.
The rest of your post, AC, I quite enjoyed. The item about "five answers" is particularly telling, because FS tends to address real-world needs (after all, who is it written by?) more effectively than the management-inspired fleet of esoterica which motives so much closed source software might hope to, and addresses them from a far wider range of perspectives.
Have you tried their Free Library or one of their copyable book CDs yet?
HTML and a variety of other common document formats, and the right to copy sans only the right to sell your copies. Oh, yes, an addiction warning: great authors and many great stories are provided.
Galileo got into trouble for asking the authorities to keep their adopted word (which it turns out was Pagan Aristotlean astronomy) rather than for any clash between science itself and church. This wasn't a case of science vs religion (n fact, the science in question clashes quite loudly with most modern science), it was a case of social politics within a large political organisation.
Many of the "scientific" disagreements which have happened recently are of a similar political or business-oriented nature, and typically have naff-all to do with any hint of genuine scientific principle.
I guess it's an almost-inevitable blame-shifting aspect of human nature.
The "on special with new OEM machine" price of Win2k3 Pro from a typical local wholesaler is less than the price of an extra CPU and a motherboard to add it to. Half as much again for a non-OEM "upgrade" version. I shudder to imagine what an HPC version will cost.
Put another way: I can run twice as many CPUs and save money if I avoid paying the Microsoft tax. I presume that the win is even larger if the licence says "per CPU".
I can probably run four CPUs and twice the RAM for less $$$, given the real HPC price. To say nothing of the absence of viruses, spyware, adware and other interfering, performance-boogering "bonuses" which regularly sing in tune with MS software.
If I also add real reliability figures and "necessary" software licence costs, I could probably shoot for eight CPUs and fourfold as much RAM for less $$$. Then I get to factor in real downtime costs, plus audit fees etc and get much more ambitious.
Oh, yes... and shoving 8x the CPUs and 4x the RAM into just 12% of the same rack-space as the proposed Win machines must represent even greater savings in location and wiring costs. Not to mention the extra foreign-exchange wins and so forth if I dress the servers as penguins instead of mindless Redmond-bound money-suckers.
OK, so saving money and stress while improving yield is simple and straightforward: why not do it?
SCOnotX weren't hilarious, but at least their systems panned out reasonably secure and robust.
SCOX are a bunch of limp-wristed dropouts. They're doing badly enough already -- especially given the marketing advantages they started with -- that they really didn't need to go to court to prove that they're greedy and effing useless. It's even less necessary now.
You can then literally apply Linux's security modules to individual Win32 applications -- or to individual instances of the same Win32 application -- by running the Win32 app under WINE.
Or run WINE under a different OS (e.g. OpenBSD) or emulator if you want different security tools.
I've done this with/for a number of customers, & integrating the security manageability with a system which has no viruses or spyware to speak of has saved them each endless damage (and endless payments to recover from that damage).
I've also convinced other developers to make their applications portable -- which has instantly increased their productivity and their market, too, sloughing off obsolete dependencies -- and simply stopped running the users under Windows (or anything from MS). This particular tactic earns you much peace & security in one step.
In Real Life(tm), which was not documented in the survey, the Windows box would be down for a fair while for each virus attack, to say nothing of data randomly distributed to other email users etc, and to say nothing of the days the freakin' thing spends off-line having the disks scraped off and reinstalled to eliminate the inevitable Windows followers, the viruses, spyware, yadda yadda. Oh, yes, and the licence server spitting out a network card usually does a fair job of knackering, too.
I speak from having Real Life(tm) work experience with Linux, Sun gear and 'Doze (amongst others) on customer sites, and I have to say that "this survey is lying" works a lot better for Real Life(tm) situations than what these gonzos are proclaiming.
Mad Americans keep finding T Rexes and the like with intact skin and flesh over their bones. That kind of puts the lie to a 60- or 70-million-year gap since their death, and it's not all.
Toss in a few things like Coelacanth and dinosaur ages start to get seriously murky. A friend of mine accidentally bought one of those in an Indonesian fish market, it was on the table with everything else and (apparently) often is, there.
Then we have this new crash-bang which would be difficult to label a non-meteor, and behold: it's much larger than Chicxulub (so, more dominant) and falls about when the dinos were due for sudden retirement (on conventional scales).
What are we to make of all of this? Was Chicxulub a dud? Or did it only get a few? Did this kerplonk get the rest? Or only a few more? What other crater-candidates are available? What else could have happened? And when?
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...either URPMI or APT for updates, both of which are trivial and powerful to use compared with Microsoft's chaotic collactions, and have been for many years.
Such use would also make the dynamic customisation of updates much simpler and faster (and more possible at all). People who are much less control-dominated thab MS faced and solved these kinds of issues well and long ago.
Goodness me, I remember Sonic from when I was a teenager (all of those years ago!) -- we're tending towards 40-year careers here, and counting. Few humans would be doing so well after all of those decades, so why should a mascot?
...has more FOSS developers per capita than any other country in this world.
My hypothesis is that Oz would be the ideal place to first make the upgrade. My business plans are all focussed around this idea. (-:
Atheism seems to have achieved the amazing rank of "most lethal mind-set", and I say amazing because it's had some fairly feirce (literally) competition.
The justification Atheists seem to most often use is either "for the common good" rather than being kind to one another, so I guess they stand out as one step less dishonest than the herd. OTOH they as a group are generally as greedy or at least as pushy as many of the bigger "religious" (usually, political or business) competitors.
BTW, this is all anti-Constitution big time for many Western countries. Either way. And those dox exist for good reasons.
...should one happen to be hungry enough, I guess.
At base, it's a pretty direct way to having people stare at you and maybe warn you about things like sticks, pitfalls, snakes and so on. Maybe.
One being that Aboriginals appear to have started in the Middle East, so their ancestors would be related to everyone else; the second being that there are a number of unusual Aboriginals with (for example) Dutch ancestry kicking around.
There's a lot else about Australian Aboriginals which is unexpected, some of it fairly hair-raising and some very bland, but walking into the culture with your mental eyes closed is pretty much a recipe for hilarity^Wconfusion.
...and plasma, representing either the total software short which MS-Windows so often represents, or the brightness of one's accompanying virus collection.
Plenty... if you stop making the mistake of working through the system, with its own tools, in an attempt to fix it. That's like releasing multiple-murderers on their words of honour and expecting a pleasant outcome.
...like he did by getting the US DoT to lean on the Brasilian government to shut down existing donations of AIDS drugs from Brasilian companies to Africa, so Bill's drug companies could do almost the same thing albeit much more expensively and grandiosely (but of course much less effectively as well, and I'm sure there's a virus joke tucked away in there somewhere).
Once you watch Bill's history and see how much effort he puts into chasing money and power, a lot of his behaviour becomes predictable again.
...if all of the SCOX legal drones got launched off to Pluto for a while.
"Hey, um, Pluto seems to be getting a bit, well, thicker recently?"
...a pair of gloves (accurate to within one... er... finger, anyway).
...so the naming people nixed Nyx in favour of Nix.
We/You have several hysterical^Whistorical examples of MS-Office components being changed to do exactly that.
When you realise that Bill appears to do everything either for more money or more control, this stops being surprising. This observation also makes the future plain: MS-Office document formats will almost certainly be broken several more times during the suite's death^Wlife-span, whereas more suites (possibly including MSO) will come to do OpenDocument I/O as well.
Belgium has (once more) planned to avoid the social tragedies which regularly afflict so many other Euro countries. Sometimes they miss the mark, but they're always a very educational country to pay attention to.
...well, technically a Canadian (in theory, my app to be dual-Oz is long registered) but I've lived in Oz for the last 41 out of 43 years, think/talk as an Aussie, and so on (except I don't like beer or watermelon).
It would be orange-and-mango juice on my monitor, too, because I know about coffee, but the dehydration at "work ethic" is something we carry in common. There are so many jobs that we're willing to duck-shovel to foreign workers as fast as we can.
Glad that this laptop (TwinHead DuraBook R15D) is pretty much splash-proof.
Many of my own customers choose Linux over Microsoft simply because they hate being charged sideways (or fined) for stuff years after they bought it and forgot it (bonus for funds then sent overseas, worsening our (Oz) balance of trade), and they hate having stuff constantly breaking.
Free Software (and to a large extent, mere Open Source) addresses those particular hates with loves, quite directly.
There is more hate, and FS is addressing it by destroying it as the hostile alienation which closed software is patterned upon, and replacing it with a widespread practical community attitude.
There is, AFAICT, no globally better way of dealing with hate.
The rest of your post, AC, I quite enjoyed. The item about "five answers" is particularly telling, because FS tends to address real-world needs (after all, who is it written by?) more effectively than the management-inspired fleet of esoterica which motives so much closed source software might hope to, and addresses them from a far wider range of perspectives.
...these fossils are at least an order of magnitude too old to have such "modern" features.
GSM should take a little more care with its duckies.
Have you tried their Free Library or one of their copyable book CDs yet?
HTML and a variety of other common document formats, and the right to copy sans only the right to sell your copies. Oh, yes, an addiction warning: great authors and many great stories are provided.
Galileo got into trouble for asking the authorities to keep their adopted word (which it turns out was Pagan Aristotlean astronomy) rather than for any clash between science itself and church. This wasn't a case of science vs religion (n fact, the science in question clashes quite loudly with most modern science), it was a case of social politics within a large political organisation.
Many of the "scientific" disagreements which have happened recently are of a similar political or business-oriented nature, and typically have naff-all to do with any hint of genuine scientific principle.
I guess it's an almost-inevitable blame-shifting aspect of human nature.
...motherboard, 4 x CPUs, 2 x RAM and a digital still camera, plus I save over AUD$100.00 per system if I don't buy it but install Linux instead.
For the HPC version, I could probably score a DVD camera and a friggin' partridge in a pear tree as well. FOR REFUSING TO BUY W2k3
<SRACASM>I wish all decisions were so hard.</SARCASM>
The "on special with new OEM machine" price of Win2k3 Pro from a typical local wholesaler is less than the price of an extra CPU and a motherboard to add it to. Half as much again for a non-OEM "upgrade" version. I shudder to imagine what an HPC version will cost.
Put another way: I can run twice as many CPUs and save money if I avoid paying the Microsoft tax. I presume that the win is even larger if the licence says "per CPU".
I can probably run four CPUs and twice the RAM for less $$$, given the real HPC price. To say nothing of the absence of viruses, spyware, adware and other interfering, performance-boogering "bonuses" which regularly sing in tune with MS software.
If I also add real reliability figures and "necessary" software licence costs, I could probably shoot for eight CPUs and fourfold as much RAM for less $$$. Then I get to factor in real downtime costs, plus audit fees etc and get much more ambitious.
Oh, yes... and shoving 8x the CPUs and 4x the RAM into just 12% of the same rack-space as the proposed Win machines must represent even greater savings in location and wiring costs. Not to mention the extra foreign-exchange wins and so forth if I dress the servers as penguins instead of mindless Redmond-bound money-suckers.
OK, so saving money and stress while improving yield is simple and straightforward: why not do it?
...it'll make web development seem like heaven when you're finally forced to return to something like it.
SCOnotX weren't hilarious, but at least their systems panned out reasonably secure and robust.
SCOX are a bunch of limp-wristed dropouts. They're doing badly enough already -- especially given the marketing advantages they started with -- that they really didn't need to go to court to prove that they're greedy and effing useless. It's even less necessary now.
You can then literally apply Linux's security modules to individual Win32 applications -- or to individual instances of the same Win32 application -- by running the Win32 app under WINE.
Or run WINE under a different OS (e.g. OpenBSD) or emulator if you want different security tools.
I've done this with/for a number of customers, & integrating the security manageability with a system which has no viruses or spyware to speak of has saved them each endless damage (and endless payments to recover from that damage).
I've also convinced other developers to make their applications portable -- which has instantly increased their productivity and their market, too, sloughing off obsolete dependencies -- and simply stopped running the users under Windows (or anything from MS). This particular tactic earns you much peace & security in one step.
"Do not launch virus attack now..."
In Real Life(tm), which was not documented in the survey, the Windows box would be down for a fair while for each virus attack, to say nothing of data randomly distributed to other email users etc, and to say nothing of the days the freakin' thing spends off-line having the disks scraped off and reinstalled to eliminate the inevitable Windows followers, the viruses, spyware, yadda yadda. Oh, yes, and the licence server spitting out a network card usually does a fair job of knackering, too.
I speak from having Real Life(tm) work experience with Linux, Sun gear and 'Doze (amongst others) on customer sites, and I have to say that "this survey is lying" works a lot better for Real Life(tm) situations than what these gonzos are proclaiming.
Toss in a few things like Coelacanth and dinosaur ages start to get seriously murky. A friend of mine accidentally bought one of those in an Indonesian fish market, it was on the table with everything else and (apparently) often is, there.
Then we have this new crash-bang which would be difficult to label a non-meteor, and behold: it's much larger than Chicxulub (so, more dominant) and falls about when the dinos were due for sudden retirement (on conventional scales).
What are we to make of all of this? Was Chicxulub a dud? Or did it only get a few? Did this kerplonk get the rest? Or only a few more? What other crater-candidates are available? What else could have happened? And when?