So, if all his points are invalid, then why is marketshare for Linux on the desktop so insignificant?
"Microsoft is the evil" unfortunately dosn't work, as marketshare for Apple has risen in recent years - despite the fact that their software/hardware is mostly closed-source/proprietary and also not cheap.
All marketing? I don't think so. Despite what the slashdot crowds say, poor aceptance of users is not due to "don't know", it's because users are actively avoiding it.
After the horrible Vista-PR it was really a chance for Linux, this chance is gone. And why? Because if you really take a look, hands down:
- The same problems 10 years ago still plague Linux today
- A Windows 98-desktop allows for more productivity than a todays linux-desktop. (Think of CAD,2D,3D,Office,Audio/Videoproduction, Hardware compatibility) etc. etc.
Thing is, if it in fact would work so great for everyone, then why is Linux-on-the-desktop marketshare almost neglectible?
and btw., to pick just one thing out of many: "Enterprise: no standard way of software distribution".
I think the notion is here more like centralized software/lifecylcle management, i.e. something in the direction of Novell Zenworks. There is some work in that direction, mostly from Novell and RedHat which is no wonder as their man focus is business customers. Still though, compared to Windows...
You know that most companies for example won't switch from IE to Firefox for exact such reasons?
Where the train goes off the rails is where a conspiracy theory requires that massive numbers of people are keeping their mouths shut about some grand plan that they're a small part of. That can be done for a short time, but eventually every secret that has more than about 3 people in on it comes out.
And if you ever had an affair, you know what the parent is talking about.
Ah, never mind, this is slashdot.
but seriously though, a nice scientific heuristic concerning conspiracy theories is that they all violate ocams razor...
And _why_ shouldn't your gf be able to go to BestBuy and get Software? Why is it so friggin' hard for ISVs to ship software for Linux? Why does the maintainer of your distro-repo pretends to serve you with all software you will ever need?
My notion of Computer Science is, that you will always find published papers on the homepages of the relevant authors. Regardless, of what the publishers say. If the publishers make you require sign away your copyright you will almost always find the relevant paper either in some "draft version" or some "technical report", slightly reformulated but essentially the same.
I always thought that this is the standard also in other disciplines. What is the publication standard in other disciplines?
I am sorry, but this is not true anymore. Or rather, it depends on how you define "ahead".
Japanese cell-phones are all about the "bling".
Take my phone for example, which looks great on the feature-list: 3 MP Camera, Japanese-English dictionary, Web-browser etc. etc.
Thing is, that most of the features are so hard to use, that noone ever uses them.
The Web-browser is a joke. It works in theory, in practice it completely fails at every second web-page.
Sure, you can view i-mode pages (which is quite a big thing in Japan) but in the "western"-world everyone is interested in the "real"-web.
There is basically no function to synch the calendar/mails with the PC. No software as far as I know (docomo). Nobody synchs his cellphone with the PC, that's why.
There is no bluetooth, even among the latest models, so, how to connect to your PC, i.e. for sharing mp3/pictures etc.?
It's so hard to enter a word in the dictionary (you have to go through 4 or 5 layers of menus), that you're faster looking it up in a paper-dictionary.
Japanese people use their phone for three things: Phone, e-mail/messaging and surfing i-mode.
That's it. In 2000, that was maybe 10 years ahead. Nowadays it's a joke.
btw, you know what was the comment of my gf, when I said that I would like to have a phone with a full qwerty-keyboard, complaining that, at that time, no phone was available?
Who would've want that anyway? It's too bulky, it looks ugly!
It's all about the bling (TM). If the iPhone sells reasonable it's not because of the revolutionary way of actually being able to use the features.
It sells because it from Apple and considered "cool" and "western". Brand recognition, like Starbucks.
well then make it possible for people to chose their color-scheme. Which is actually possible to some degree in Windows XP.
On the other hand why is the color of cars sold not evenly distributed? It tends to bias to a certain color?
Why do people say that the Zune looks butt-ugly and the iPhone looks sleek and elegant?
But then again, if you default to such a very strange default color-scheme, then make it changeable easily.
However it IS NOT easily changeable in Ubuntu. Sure, you can switch from Human to Clearlooks easily. But what about gdm? What about usplash?
And even if you know how to change that, it is not easy to find nice replaceables! Just take a look at gnome-look and try to find something nice "complete" theme, with fitting usplash, gdm and theme. You really have to search.
Why don't we hear complaints about MacOS X?
If you stick to a theme like Ubuntu which polarizes so much, then make it easy to switch (and least the color scheme) and add three to five easy-accessible alternatives.
Like some white/blue-ish thing, black/green or something.
I think most people here on slashdot had the feeling that he did. However the evidence was poor and that was critized.
And still now where it's pretty clear that he did it, I still think the evidence was very poor for a conviction. There was nothing substiantial delivered by the prosecutor.
If she is stuck with the WYSIWYG approach you might want to point ther in the direction of LyX. That's how I got serveral non-geeks interested in Latex. I guess LyX is what most people want: Let everything work without my interruption, but if there's something I really need to do manually I can always interrupt (and insert plain TeX)
Sorry to say that so frankly but I'm disgusted by the foreign policy of the US. But then I read Slashdot, a site which I consider only educated ppl read and ppl who are able to think for themselves... And then I read so many weird comments relativising Guanatanamo.
The fact is, that the US is hijacking foreigners in foreign countries, flying them to 3d-world countries to torture them and circumvent US laws.
Just one question: What would you say if... say Germany, a powerful first world country and not usually seen as being part of the "axis of evil" would hijack a US citzien visiting Italy, flying him to say... Afghanistan, let him torture him by locals to gain information, figure out that I was a mistake and after holding him for 2+ years release him without any charges.
What would you then think of Germany as a country?
Then imagine reading a german website where a lots of Germans would say: "Well capturing foreigners and holding them without trial is not such a bad thing. At least we're not torturing them... well at least not so brutal... and giving them food. And bibles."
Then figure what your opinion of Germany and the German ppl would be.
That's interesting cause I had the exact same experience here two or three weeks ago. There are lots of chinese students in this university network, I guess that's the reason why we had to deal with it serveral times. It always occured to us first when arpwatch was going mad.
And as you said: AV Vendor had no signatures whatsoever, only after submitting samples S***** came up with new signatures. In fact S***** was installed on those computers and quite happy with a completely overtaken machine sniffing the network.
I think this is a new dimension; we're talking about an average computer user with an installed Anti-Virus program, but no chance for the user, the computer got owned.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/46094 (it's german, you might want to put that into the google translator).
It basically says that the police raided Crytek because the Business Software Alliance (BSA) got several evidence that Crytek was using unlicensed software
Now I'm not sure what came out of this, but I think if the police raids a whole company it's quite standard procedure to come up with some armed guys.
I can't think of any reason why Kerio - or the new Sunbelt Kerio PF should be not effective. I mean blocking applications from within is always a problem (for every Firewall) and it has been shown that there's always a method of sending data out (no matter which vendor), however I think Kerio is still quite effective on blocking incoming traffic
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but if they didn't survive my security measures, they can't sue...
So, if all his points are invalid, then why is marketshare for Linux on the desktop so insignificant?
"Microsoft is the evil" unfortunately dosn't work, as marketshare for Apple has risen in recent years - despite the fact that their software/hardware is mostly closed-source/proprietary and also not cheap.
All marketing? I don't think so. Despite what the slashdot crowds say, poor aceptance of users is not due to "don't know", it's because users are actively avoiding it.
After the horrible Vista-PR it was really a chance for Linux, this chance is gone. And why? Because if you really take a look, hands down:
- The same problems 10 years ago still plague Linux today
- A Windows 98-desktop allows for more productivity than a todays linux-desktop. (Think of CAD,2D,3D,Office,Audio/Videoproduction, Hardware compatibility) etc. etc.
So it works for you. Great.
Thing is, if it in fact would work so great for everyone, then why is Linux-on-the-desktop marketshare almost neglectible?
and btw., to pick just one thing out of many: "Enterprise: no standard way of software distribution".
I think the notion is here more like centralized software/lifecylcle management, i.e. something in the direction of Novell Zenworks. There is some work in that direction, mostly from Novell and RedHat which is no wonder as their man focus is business customers. Still though, compared to Windows...
You know that most companies for example won't switch from IE to Firefox for exact such reasons?
Where the train goes off the rails is where a conspiracy theory requires that massive numbers of people are keeping their mouths shut about some grand plan that they're a small part of. That can be done for a short time, but eventually every secret that has more than about 3 people in on it comes out.
And if you ever had an affair, you know what the parent is talking about.
Ah, never mind, this is slashdot.
but seriously though, a nice scientific heuristic concerning conspiracy theories is that they all violate ocams razor...
And _why_ shouldn't your gf be able to go to BestBuy and get Software? Why is it so friggin' hard for ISVs to ship software for Linux? Why does the maintainer of your distro-repo pretends to serve you with all software you will ever need?
My notion of Computer Science is, that you will always find published papers on the homepages of the relevant authors. Regardless, of what the publishers say. If the publishers make you require sign away your copyright you will almost always find the relevant paper either in some "draft version" or some "technical report", slightly reformulated but essentially the same.
I always thought that this is the standard also in other disciplines. What is the publication standard in other disciplines?
I am sorry, but this is not true anymore. Or rather, it depends on how you define "ahead".
Japanese cell-phones are all about the "bling".
Take my phone for example, which looks great on the feature-list: 3 MP Camera, Japanese-English dictionary, Web-browser etc. etc.
Thing is, that most of the features are so hard to use, that noone ever uses them.
The Web-browser is a joke. It works in theory, in practice it completely fails at every second web-page.
Sure, you can view i-mode pages (which is quite a big thing in Japan) but in the "western"-world everyone is interested in the "real"-web.
There is basically no function to synch the calendar/mails with the PC. No software as far as I know (docomo). Nobody synchs his cellphone with the PC, that's why.
There is no bluetooth, even among the latest models, so, how to connect to your PC, i.e. for sharing mp3/pictures etc.?
It's so hard to enter a word in the dictionary (you have to go through 4 or 5 layers of menus), that you're faster looking it up in a paper-dictionary.
Japanese people use their phone for three things: Phone, e-mail/messaging and surfing i-mode.
That's it. In 2000, that was maybe 10 years ahead. Nowadays it's a joke.
btw, you know what was the comment of my gf, when I said that I would like to have a phone with a full qwerty-keyboard, complaining that, at that time, no phone was available?
Who would've want that anyway? It's too bulky, it looks ugly!
It's all about the bling (TM). If the iPhone sells reasonable it's not because of the revolutionary way of actually being able to use the features. It sells because it from Apple and considered "cool" and "western". Brand recognition, like Starbucks.
no. Such person would us then stab in the back.
well then make it possible for people to chose their color-scheme. Which is actually possible to some degree in Windows XP. On the other hand why is the color of cars sold not evenly distributed? It tends to bias to a certain color? Why do people say that the Zune looks butt-ugly and the iPhone looks sleek and elegant? But then again, if you default to such a very strange default color-scheme, then make it changeable easily. However it IS NOT easily changeable in Ubuntu. Sure, you can switch from Human to Clearlooks easily. But what about gdm? What about usplash? And even if you know how to change that, it is not easy to find nice replaceables! Just take a look at gnome-look and try to find something nice "complete" theme, with fitting usplash, gdm and theme. You really have to search. Why don't we hear complaints about MacOS X? If you stick to a theme like Ubuntu which polarizes so much, then make it easy to switch (and least the color scheme) and add three to five easy-accessible alternatives. Like some white/blue-ish thing, black/green or something.
Actually the nuclear part was bought by Toshiba some years ago...
I think most people here on slashdot had the feeling that he did. However the evidence was poor and that was critized. And still now where it's pretty clear that he did it, I still think the evidence was very poor for a conviction. There was nothing substiantial delivered by the prosecutor.
The only fault is that imho that OS lacks a good text edtior.
I own a HTC mobile phone/PDA running Windows Mobile 5 and I am using this program http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/Dominik.Klein/index.html to learn Kanji. Nothing fancy but works great and it's free...
> when can I get them on analogue downloads?
:-)
They already are available. You could always _listen_ to the music
--verbose please... I don't get this one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTbX1aMajow
If she is stuck with the WYSIWYG approach you might want to point ther in the direction of LyX. That's how I got serveral non-geeks interested in Latex. I guess LyX is what most people want: Let everything work without my interruption, but if there's something I really need to do manually I can always interrupt (and insert plain TeX)
there is this excellent site with lots of code-examples www.thedailywtf.com
Sorry to say that so frankly but I'm disgusted by the foreign policy of the US. But then I read Slashdot, a site which I consider only educated ppl read and ppl who are able to think for themselves... And then I read so many weird comments relativising Guanatanamo.
... say Germany, a powerful first world country and not usually seen as being part of the "axis of evil" would hijack a US citzien visiting Italy, flying him to say... Afghanistan, let him torture him by locals to gain information, figure out that I was a mistake and after holding him for 2+ years release him without any charges.
The fact is, that the US is hijacking foreigners in foreign countries, flying them to 3d-world countries to torture them and circumvent US laws.
Just one question: What would you say if
What would you then think of Germany as a country?
Thing is, the US is exactly behaving like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalid_El-Masri
Then imagine reading a german website where a lots of Germans would say: "Well capturing foreigners and holding them without trial is not such a bad thing. At least we're not torturing them... well at least not so brutal... and giving them food. And bibles."
Then figure what your opinion of Germany and the German ppl would be.
That's interesting cause I had the exact same experience here two or three weeks ago. There are lots of chinese students in this university network, I guess that's the reason why we had to deal with it serveral times.
It always occured to us first when arpwatch was going mad.
And as you said: AV Vendor had no signatures whatsoever, only after submitting samples S***** came up with new signatures.
In fact S***** was installed on those computers and quite happy with a completely overtaken machine sniffing the network.
I think this is a new dimension; we're talking about an average computer user with an installed Anti-Virus program, but no chance for the user, the computer got owned.
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/46094 (it's german, you might want to put that into the google translator). It basically says that the police raided Crytek because the Business Software Alliance (BSA) got several evidence that Crytek was using unlicensed software
Now I'm not sure what came out of this, but I think if the police raids a whole company it's quite standard procedure to come up with some armed guys.
That's the worst idea I've ever heared of. Yes, this idea is horrible!
I can't think of any reason why Kerio - or the new Sunbelt Kerio PF should be not effective.
I mean blocking applications from within is always a problem (for every Firewall) and it has been shown that there's always a method of sending data out (no matter which vendor), however I think Kerio is still quite effective on blocking incoming traffic
to the Intel Core platform :-)
Seriously, currently most of the worlds researchers are at www.robocup2006.org. Interstingly the medal count looks quite differnt there, with Germany leading with 11 medals, China 9, Japan 6 and Iran 5...