This is the problem with many OSS projects. The projects who pique the interest of capable developers usually are only projects that engineers are interested in. All the bankers in the world could scream for an OSS banking tool, but it wouldn't just materialize. It would have to be an interesting engineering project. What is so great about commercial software is that customer need creates solutions not the developer's personal interests.
What is that I hear? I think I hear a choir of angels singing exultations and glory to the FTC on high. Worthy worthy is the man who kiled that company.
Thats the problem with linux now, let alone Unix of christmas past. Linux is trying to wow customers with all of these amazing stats, when all the desktop user wants is: a back button on internet explorer. An X in the top right corner of every window, and most importantly a C:\
The developers (and those of us who actually use the address line in My computer) have been annoyed by the movement of My documents to some god forsaken corner of our hard drive. However for most users, they just want a My documents button, everywhere it'll fit, and that is what they got.
Linux is designed by engineers for engineers.
As long as that status quo is intact, linux will never even compete with microsoft. If the linux community could get, grandmas, artists, businessmen, and school girls involved it would be an unstoppable force, because these are the people who use Windows.
I dont' see many of these people willing to dedicate themselves to an engineering hobby anywhere in the future. Microsoft succeeds because it's designed by engineers for the customer, not for what the engineer wants. How are you going to (for free) get the average joe involved in open source development? How are you going to get the Grandma down the street onto Linux? It's not going to be by making the new Kernel 64 bit compatible. It's not going to be by offering the best overhead mememory management system. It's going to be by making the user never know they have a firewall. It's going to be by making the GUI an opaque barier to the inner workings like Apple has done. Linux needs Microsoft. Linux needs Apple. Linux needs developers willing to use the foundation to make a useable product. Linux rhetoric is like saying that the Unreal engine is a spectacular piece of software. It may be, but unless someone makes a game around it. 99% of the world doesn't give a shit. So here is my call of action to the Linux community. Make a useable OS for the masses, and the masses will embrace it just like the engineering community.
I disagree. While you say that Open Source is involved in the community unlike retail you are making a very large mistake. Open source uses anonymous tips so to speak for it's 'market research'. Every major software developer has people that work in the industry they are catering to. For instance (and this is the extreme end.) If you purchase a copy of XSI advanced, you not only get access to tech support, you get access to employee training, and access to the developers directly.
If you work in a special effects house, and you are being limited by the software, you call of Alias or Softimage, and say: "I want X". They then program X into a patch, and everyone benefits. Zbrush 2 is an extreme example of this, while Z brush 1.5 was quite crippled, with vast amounts of input from Weta and other production houses, it matured at a record pace, to be a "Must have" item of the year.
Microsoft may not listen to User #33439458BXC but they have people at major corporations sniffing around for what people want. They are hiring professionals in the relevant fields to give them feedback on what they want as a professional customer.
I would rather my developer have a plan and invent and create new features that increase productivity than to just emulate existing ideas. From what I've seen, almost all Open Source applications tend to be half ripe clones. Gimp for example is doing a somewhat decent job of ripping off everything that Adobe invents, albiet poorly. I havn't seen anything that Gimp came up with on its own.
Artists should be designing artist tools. Accountants should be designing accountant's tools. The OS community is somewhat hostile to non IT involvment in projects, and everything smells of engineer. Mount my CD rom drive? what does that mean? I just want to listen to music. Partition what? Users don't care about technical stats, unless they are running a backend server, they want easy fast, simple. Fast and simple = productive.
As a digital artist I encounter this left and right. I am constantly having to explain to Op Src users that Blender is not a viable option, Gimp is not just as good as Photoshop. If Open Source wants to make headway into any industry besides IT it needs to realize a critical problem they suffer from. Right now IT is designing Open Source for IT. Gimp is Photoshop for network admins. Blender is Maya/XSI/Max for database managers.
Photoshop and the rest of the retail packages have succeeded because they spend millions of dollars in the field finding out what the customer wants. By customer I mean a professional in the given field. An accountant is going to have a very different opinion of Excel than a software engineer, and this is where leadership comes in, and leadership takes time and money.
That being said, many of these open source projects are golden for the average joe who just wants word pad with spell check. Just don't mistake "good enough" for as good.
What is even more interesting is Nasa's solution. The committee concluded that all space shuttles should be retrofitted with defelector dishes (capable of creating tachyon beams) before any future launches.
At cost it would only be profitable for a TV show to charge around 2.5 dollars for one episode. That takes into account a 500MB encoding download the rate they charge to distributors and loss of advertising. At least that's for Sci-fi Channel. Right now I would just be happy if I could watch my TV back at home here at college over the net.
Computers are getting smaller! I *NEVER* saw that coming!
One could argue the mini is a rip off of the multitude of ITX and Shuttle designs. I would hardly call selling a small PC one of Mac's greatest innovations, more in line with their shuffle release. Old product, new package, mediocre performance.
I'm dependant on the hardware and software, not the OS. Windows doesn't help or hinder my productivity. Linux makes me spend time installing drivers, and not just running software. Mac hinders me in it's interface. Of course, that implies I want to be productive. If I wanted to be productive I would just boot straight to a 5 option menu: Word, 3d Studio Max, Photoshop, Internet, Final Draft. Ohhh and it would have to be able to play Mp3s and have a fancy way of interfacing with school computers.
Not to forget that Blogs rarely actually post original news. They usually ony rehas things they have read and recontexualizing. The competition for bloggers isn't New York Times, it's Google News.
However in regard to the topic on hand. Numerous studies have been done on the audiences of Fox News. When it comes to accurate impresions of emperically measureable facts, they come up vastly short. It's not necessarily that Fox news is biased, it may be perfectly balanced, however based on the viewership that I have noted, Fox's viewers are usually at least leaning conservative.
Everyone has bias, some are just more pronounced than others.
My view on the news spectrum
--Liberal--
Nihilists
Hippies
Moveon
--25%--
Time
Washington Post
BBC
PBS
NPR
NBC,ABC
Newsweek
---Dead Middle---
CBS
US News and weekly Report
--75%----
Bush Administration
Fox News
[Everything Else owned by Murdoch]
40's Mafia
AM Talk Shows (And O'Reilly)
Taliban, Iran, Christian Coalition.
--Conservative--
Give or take;) somthing in that order.
Just because a news agency isn't dead center doesn't imply it's not reporting truth. It *could* designate that the truth is infact not complimentary to one side at that time.
I've been a customer for over a year, I usually send them back next day in a drop box. (I have a cycle so that they come on days I have lots of free time. No I don't have a DVD - RW drive.) In all of that time I have never had a DVD held. I've had 3 lost in the mail but never one held. Netflix operates like clockwork. One day in transit to Warehouse, one day back. 2 deliveries a week.
... perhaps Slashdot (since it kills EVERY SINGLE PAGE it references) should invest in somekind of automatic caching system, like google's... just an idea...
Don't use a kernel that a majority of the world's PCs run on. It's as simple as that.
If you use an obscure OS, chances are you've flown under the radar of most crackers. Windows 2003 Server would be more secure if ran on some obscene kernel that nobody else used.
If linux were ever to become a dominant desktop OS, all of a sudden all of the kiddie scripters would be putting all of their attention on the same platform that also runs servers. The security vulnerabilities would be the same. Two for the price of one.
I've found this to be true. However I've found two problems with dropping text books from my expenditures.
(a) I can never predict accurate WHICH classes will not require any books, and some most definetely do.
(b) Although the class never makes the books necessary, or in some cases relevant. The books they choose are usually excellent references that offer a wealth of knowledge that had I not read, I would not have aquired.
I could have gone the last trimester without texts, however I could have also missed out on some of the valuable educational experiences I found in them.
I find the opposite could also be quite true. Often I could do without the instructor and simply read the text, at least for many of the more academic courses. Want to go to university on the cheap? Goto a public library and start reading.
Without Internet Explorer? Exactly how do you propose you get to Firefox.com to download firefox?
Oops never thought of that one did you?
This isn't flaimbait this is a legitimate question. If we remove IE from Windows make sure we also have Microsoft include an application for downloading alternate browsers. Otherwise they can simplly remove IE but include a system only for downloading IE by default. Which would do nothing more than increase the average user's setup time.
Seriously though... I'm curious, if it were a psychic amplifier, If everyone had one, and it could tell us when everyone saw some big event in the future. We would need to make sure a feedback loop could not occur. Otherwise I could see someone stubbing their toe. They would emotionally react. 100 people would sense it. React to it slightly. A 100,000 would sense it react to their reaction. In a matter of hours the whole planet wired into this psychic force detector would generate a phenomenon of unprecedented proportions.
We almost let enterprise slip into the background without it drawing too much attention to the destruction of the Franchise. But then somebody has to go and drag it's ugly ass back out into the light. Let it die.. just let it die Please, as a Star Trek fan, let it die.
Gosling went on to say that programming on computers was far too large of a security hole and that the human brain would be the future realm of Java's "multi-platform" strategy.
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Wasn't this a Myth Busters topic. They couldn't get it to do anything.
This is the problem with many OSS projects. The projects who pique the interest of capable developers usually are only projects that engineers are interested in. All the bankers in the world could scream for an OSS banking tool, but it wouldn't just materialize. It would have to be an interesting engineering project. What is so great about commercial software is that customer need creates solutions not the developer's personal interests.
... First slashdotters rant about how evil Visual Basic is because of security exploits... then it's horrible that it's going away...
Probably my house.
What is that I hear? I think I hear a choir of angels singing exultations and glory to the FTC on high. Worthy worthy is the man who kiled that company.
Thats the problem with linux now, let alone Unix of christmas past. Linux is trying to wow customers with all of these amazing stats, when all the desktop user wants is: a back button on internet explorer. An X in the top right corner of every window, and most importantly a C:\
The developers (and those of us who actually use the address line in My computer) have been annoyed by the movement of My documents to some god forsaken corner of our hard drive. However for most users, they just want a My documents button, everywhere it'll fit, and that is what they got.
Linux is designed by engineers for engineers. As long as that status quo is intact, linux will never even compete with microsoft. If the linux community could get, grandmas, artists, businessmen, and school girls involved it would be an unstoppable force, because these are the people who use Windows.
I dont' see many of these people willing to dedicate themselves to an engineering hobby anywhere in the future. Microsoft succeeds because it's designed by engineers for the customer, not for what the engineer wants. How are you going to (for free) get the average joe involved in open source development? How are you going to get the Grandma down the street onto Linux? It's not going to be by making the new Kernel 64 bit compatible. It's not going to be by offering the best overhead mememory management system. It's going to be by making the user never know they have a firewall. It's going to be by making the GUI an opaque barier to the inner workings like Apple has done. Linux needs Microsoft. Linux needs Apple. Linux needs developers willing to use the foundation to make a useable product. Linux rhetoric is like saying that the Unreal engine is a spectacular piece of software. It may be, but unless someone makes a game around it. 99% of the world doesn't give a shit. So here is my call of action to the Linux community. Make a useable OS for the masses, and the masses will embrace it just like the engineering community.
I disagree. While you say that Open Source is involved in the community unlike retail you are making a very large mistake. Open source uses anonymous tips so to speak for it's 'market research'. Every major software developer has people that work in the industry they are catering to. For instance (and this is the extreme end.) If you purchase a copy of XSI advanced, you not only get access to tech support, you get access to employee training, and access to the developers directly.
If you work in a special effects house, and you are being limited by the software, you call of Alias or Softimage, and say: "I want X". They then program X into a patch, and everyone benefits. Zbrush 2 is an extreme example of this, while Z brush 1.5 was quite crippled, with vast amounts of input from Weta and other production houses, it matured at a record pace, to be a "Must have" item of the year.
Microsoft may not listen to User #33439458BXC but they have people at major corporations sniffing around for what people want. They are hiring professionals in the relevant fields to give them feedback on what they want as a professional customer.
I would rather my developer have a plan and invent and create new features that increase productivity than to just emulate existing ideas. From what I've seen, almost all Open Source applications tend to be half ripe clones. Gimp for example is doing a somewhat decent job of ripping off everything that Adobe invents, albiet poorly. I havn't seen anything that Gimp came up with on its own.
Artists should be designing artist tools. Accountants should be designing accountant's tools. The OS community is somewhat hostile to non IT involvment in projects, and everything smells of engineer. Mount my CD rom drive? what does that mean? I just want to listen to music. Partition what? Users don't care about technical stats, unless they are running a backend server, they want easy fast, simple. Fast and simple = productive.
As a digital artist I encounter this left and right. I am constantly having to explain to Op Src users that Blender is not a viable option, Gimp is not just as good as Photoshop. If Open Source wants to make headway into any industry besides IT it needs to realize a critical problem they suffer from. Right now IT is designing Open Source for IT. Gimp is Photoshop for network admins. Blender is Maya/XSI/Max for database managers.
Photoshop and the rest of the retail packages have succeeded because they spend millions of dollars in the field finding out what the customer wants. By customer I mean a professional in the given field. An accountant is going to have a very different opinion of Excel than a software engineer, and this is where leadership comes in, and leadership takes time and money.
That being said, many of these open source projects are golden for the average joe who just wants word pad with spell check. Just don't mistake "good enough" for as good.
What is even more interesting is Nasa's solution. The committee concluded that all space shuttles should be retrofitted with defelector dishes (capable of creating tachyon beams) before any future launches.
At cost it would only be profitable for a TV show to charge around 2.5 dollars for one episode. That takes into account a 500MB encoding download the rate they charge to distributors and loss of advertising. At least that's for Sci-fi Channel. Right now I would just be happy if I could watch my TV back at home here at college over the net.
Computers are getting smaller! I *NEVER* saw that coming!
One could argue the mini is a rip off of the multitude of ITX and Shuttle designs. I would hardly call selling a small PC one of Mac's greatest innovations, more in line with their shuffle release. Old product, new package, mediocre performance.
I'm dependant on the hardware and software, not the OS. Windows doesn't help or hinder my productivity. Linux makes me spend time installing drivers, and not just running software. Mac hinders me in it's interface. Of course, that implies I want to be productive. If I wanted to be productive I would just boot straight to a 5 option menu: Word, 3d Studio Max, Photoshop, Internet, Final Draft. Ohhh and it would have to be able to play Mp3s and have a fancy way of interfacing with school computers.
Not to forget that Blogs rarely actually post original news. They usually ony rehas things they have read and recontexualizing. The competition for bloggers isn't New York Times, it's Google News. However in regard to the topic on hand. Numerous studies have been done on the audiences of Fox News. When it comes to accurate impresions of emperically measureable facts, they come up vastly short. It's not necessarily that Fox news is biased, it may be perfectly balanced, however based on the viewership that I have noted, Fox's viewers are usually at least leaning conservative.
;) somthing in that order.
Everyone has bias, some are just more pronounced than others.
My view on the news spectrum
--Liberal--
Nihilists
Hippies
Moveon
--25%--
Time
Washington Post
BBC
PBS
NPR
NBC,ABC
Newsweek
---Dead Middle---
CBS
US News and weekly Report
--75%----
Bush Administration
Fox News
[Everything Else owned by Murdoch]
40's Mafia
AM Talk Shows (And O'Reilly)
Taliban, Iran, Christian Coalition.
--Conservative--
Give or take
Just because a news agency isn't dead center doesn't imply it's not reporting truth. It *could* designate that the truth is infact not complimentary to one side at that time.
I've been a customer for over a year, I usually send them back next day in a drop box. (I have a cycle so that they come on days I have lots of free time. No I don't have a DVD - RW drive.) In all of that time I have never had a DVD held. I've had 3 lost in the mail but never one held. Netflix operates like clockwork. One day in transit to Warehouse, one day back. 2 deliveries a week.
"Warez is becoming infected with viruses!"
... perhaps Slashdot (since it kills EVERY SINGLE PAGE it references) should invest in somekind of automatic caching system, like google's... just an idea...
Don't use a kernel that a majority of the world's PCs run on. It's as simple as that.
If you use an obscure OS, chances are you've flown under the radar of most crackers. Windows 2003 Server would be more secure if ran on some obscene kernel that nobody else used.
If linux were ever to become a dominant desktop OS, all of a sudden all of the kiddie scripters would be putting all of their attention on the same platform that also runs servers. The security vulnerabilities would be the same. Two for the price of one.
I've found this to be true. However I've found two problems with dropping text books from my expenditures.
(a) I can never predict accurate WHICH classes will not require any books, and some most definetely do. (b) Although the class never makes the books necessary, or in some cases relevant. The books they choose are usually excellent references that offer a wealth of knowledge that had I not read, I would not have aquired.
I could have gone the last trimester without texts, however I could have also missed out on some of the valuable educational experiences I found in them.
I find the opposite could also be quite true. Often I could do without the instructor and simply read the text, at least for many of the more academic courses. Want to go to university on the cheap? Goto a public library and start reading.
Without Internet Explorer? Exactly how do you propose you get to Firefox.com to download firefox?
Oops never thought of that one did you?
This isn't flaimbait this is a legitimate question. If we remove IE from Windows make sure we also have Microsoft include an application for downloading alternate browsers. Otherwise they can simplly remove IE but include a system only for downloading IE by default. Which would do nothing more than increase the average user's setup time.
Ahhh, I see you have the machine that goes "ping".
Seriously though... I'm curious, if it were a psychic amplifier, If everyone had one, and it could tell us when everyone saw some big event in the future. We would need to make sure a feedback loop could not occur. Otherwise I could see someone stubbing their toe. They would emotionally react. 100 people would sense it. React to it slightly. A 100,000 would sense it react to their reaction. In a matter of hours the whole planet wired into this psychic force detector would generate a phenomenon of unprecedented proportions.
OH wait... thats the media.
... The machine felt a great distrubance in the force. As if millions of voices cried out and weren't silenced.
However this just proves once again that Yoda was in fact correct as we always expected. The future is always just emotion.
We almost let enterprise slip into the background without it drawing too much attention to the destruction of the Franchise. But then somebody has to go and drag it's ugly ass back out into the light. Let it die.. just let it die Please, as a Star Trek fan, let it die.
... what was wrong with bitmaps? If your icons are large enough that you need vector icons... they're way way too damn big.
Gosling went on to say that programming on computers was far too large of a security hole and that the human brain would be the future realm of Java's "multi-platform" strategy.