they just looked at Android and it became three times faster.
Is that the power of open source?;)
Seriously. "Believe it when I see it" seems to be more the power of open source. If it works, awesome. If not, it's just hype.. open source or closed source..
I have noticed that my wife tends to really like surprises. It doesn't REALLY matter if I am super-romantic or something... but just surprising her with an outing that's just for her. It's romantic on a deeper level than throwing candy hearts at her.
I did hear about the Ubuntu One cloud thingy. I stand corrected there. I haven't tried it.
Hm. Well, I've used Outlook Online client and it seems to work ok. Perhaps it was improved. Who knows:) I guess we both agree to be ignorant here, ha.
Yes, Google definitely embraced the web. It's their business, pretty much. I agree also that Microsoft is not embracing standards as well as they should, although they seem to be doing better - e.g., I can use Live Mesh from a non-IE browser.
I agree with you general premise - that Google is better at embracing everyone, whereas Microsoft definitely still pushes for everyone to use Windows. But isn't that basically because of the fundamental difference in their business? Google doesn't make money from selling an OS, Google makes money - basically - from you using them to search. They DO push their search. They do a good job with making other web apps that push their search (and their advertising, etc), granted. Microsoft, on the other hand, has a vested interest in pushing people to use Windows.
Except for a principle-based argument, I don't see one as really better than the other... i.e., they both have the same object. I don't think Google is an altruistic company hoping to create good feelings and free exchange of information so that open source can get better. Perhaps some workers there do, sure. But I think Google... wants to make money. And Microsoft, too. And they are going about it two different ways.
:) Smiley face to indicate friendliness, not snarkiness. hehe.
It's looking to me like Monaco wins the per-capita award, with Ireland a close second. I envy China's per-capita debt... but I don't think I envy the plight of the typical Chinese citizen. India is lower than China, interestingly.
Nice to know our debt as % of GDP isn't as bad as a lot of other countries, too, I guess.
But it'd still be nice to not have such striking budget deficits. Not just deficits, but PLANNING to increase it. That seems ridiculous to me. I understand if "things happen" and we end up increasing it, but planning a deficit is... eh.
Outlook Live works without IE, I used it... either in FireFox or Chrome.
I don't know much about Sync and the iPhone.
Ever tried running iTunes on anything but Mac and Windows? Hmmm.
As for the LiveMesh thing, I was under the understanding that you could access it from any browser (relatively speaking... I use Chrome personally and it works fine). I never expected to actually be able to do the program that you run on the Windows box itself to work on OSX though. Are you saying you can't access the LiveMesh website functionally from OSX+browser? Or are you saying that a Windows-only product doesn't work on OSX? You may as well complain that FinalCut Pro doesn't work on Windows...
Short answer: Microsoft is in the business of trying to get people to use their products. Yes, in some cases that means they like vendor lockins. However, if you are trying to sell an operating system, offering features with that operating system is a pretty good way to do it. Does Linux have a LiveMesh equivalent that is easy (as in Create Account, Download Program, Install, and you're done) to do and has a reliable web presence? Not that I know of... does Google? Not that I know of...
And as for Google products, it took them a while for Chrome. How many non-web applications do they have? I can think of Chrome... Gears, which I don't think is on Linux?... and their desktop search (or desktop gadgets). I don't know about gadgets on Linux or OSX. I think desktop search was on Linux, but I don't completely recall.
Yes. Their Live Mesh is actually quite useful. Their SkyDrive is 25gb, one of the larger free online drives I've found. Their Microsoft Sync appears to work fairly decently. Hotmail has been improving. Outlook Live is actually pretty decent as well. And yes, Windows 7 is pretty nice so far, IMO.
Google's products are good, too. A lot of them, anyways.
Tolkien wanted to write, basically, English mythology. He saw King Arthur's stories as a conglomerate of other nations myths squished into England and didn't really like them. (something like that)
And I hate to break it to you (well, no I don't) but a lot of "ancient" cultures took great care to record genealogies. Easy case in point: the Bible. Look at all the genealogies in there. And what makes it more fascinating is that, presumably, these cultures had to memorize them when they passed it down orally, before writing it down...
Completely not caring about who you came from seems to be a relatively recent thing.
Furthermore, Tolkien appeared to write basically an entire history... and history is full of genealogies as well. So his books were. Anyways, he didn't list too many of them in Lord of the Rings. Just a few, tracing back to great dwarves or great elves. And of course, the hobbit culture was very genealogically minded, since they took great pride in being whatever family they were (e.g., Baggins, Sackville-Baggins, Proudfoot, Took, Brandybuck, etc... and they all had their stereotypes).
The LotR books were more about history (in which Tolkien's worldview comes through, which is where you get the good vs. evil, power-corrupting, a creation account, the Valar/Maiar, and even the sadness of tearing down forests and beautiful trees [e.g., Saruman]) than anything. Which myths tend to be about...
People may *have* known "Red Hat" in the past (I guess) because it seemed to be one of the only Linux companies ever in the news... I personally knew about Red Hat before I tried Mandrake and SuSE. But Ubuntu seems to be on the tip of everyone's tongue (if they even know what "Linux" is), now. And a lot of people mispronounce it, too. For some reason, they like spelling/pronouncing it Ubunto...
according to distrowatch, it is. Of course, I recognize that in many production environments, they are likely not reporting to distrowatch, and probably things like RHEL and SLES (and CentOS, Gentoo, etc) are fairly popular... but Ubuntu is definitely one of the most popular "normal person" Linux distro. If people have heard of Linux and only know what distribution, they seem to know Ubuntu. Not openSuSE or RedHat.
because Globbal warming studies have been looked at by many different scientist and many studies have been done that show that all the data we have points to global warming being influenced by C02 emissions.
ALL the data? That's a big claim. Do you have a scientific paper that says that, or are you saying that?
As for C02 emissions, I'm not sure how many people debate that the global climate is effected, in some way, by C02. The question is whether or not man releases enough C02 that it actually effects nature. It appears it's up to politicians to convince us of that... something they appear to be quite willing to do...
Alec Guinness was cool. His movies always seemed to be rather sad at the end, though... seems "it" never worked out. Man in the White Suit, Lavender Hill Mob, Ladykillers, and Kind Hearts and Cornets all ended rather badly for the main protagonist. Among others.:)
However, when people SEE something happen in a video they're probably more likely to believe it than when a newscaster says it. The brain processes this information in a different way.
Agreed. Most people seem to "observe" things that visually far more than aurally.
And yes, Fox, CNN, and pretty much all news groups have a commercial interest in garnering viewers, so exciting news definitely generates more revenue...
Which is why celebrity news, I suppose, seems so popular, too.
"May"... it seems that almost everyone DOES. In fact, it seems many people base their opinions on movies in theaters. I have no doubt they base opinions on video footage (animated or not) when they see news, far more than any actual facts that may (or may not) be recited by the newscaster...
Any idea what OSs are typical? It'd be interesting to see the difference between Poland and "global" with respect to OS's (e.g., is Mac as popular in Poland?)
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As AndrewNeo said in response to you, they're all "PCs." They're not all "IBM Compatible PCs" of course.
What's this one going to say, "I'm Linux" - which is pretty much completely wrong? That's like calling your monitor your "computer" :P
they just looked at Android and it became three times faster.
Is that the power of open source? ;)
Seriously. "Believe it when I see it" seems to be more the power of open source. If it works, awesome. If not, it's just hype.. open source or closed source..
and they all gave me guff the next time they saw me, saying it made them look bad.
Your friends really love their wives, don't they. :P
Humor taken, but ... you missed the "surprising her with an outing just for her part. I didn't say spook or gross out.
I have noticed that my wife tends to really like surprises. It doesn't REALLY matter if I am super-romantic or something... but just surprising her with an outing that's just for her. It's romantic on a deeper level than throwing candy hearts at her.
"Best Friend[s] Forever"
You have me there. :)
I did hear about the Ubuntu One cloud thingy. I stand corrected there. I haven't tried it.
Hm. Well, I've used Outlook Online client and it seems to work ok. Perhaps it was improved. Who knows :) I guess we both agree to be ignorant here, ha.
Yes, Google definitely embraced the web. It's their business, pretty much. I agree also that Microsoft is not embracing standards as well as they should, although they seem to be doing better - e.g., I can use Live Mesh from a non-IE browser.
I agree with you general premise - that Google is better at embracing everyone, whereas Microsoft definitely still pushes for everyone to use Windows. But isn't that basically because of the fundamental difference in their business? Google doesn't make money from selling an OS, Google makes money - basically - from you using them to search. They DO push their search. They do a good job with making other web apps that push their search (and their advertising, etc), granted. Microsoft, on the other hand, has a vested interest in pushing people to use Windows.
Except for a principle-based argument, I don't see one as really better than the other... i.e., they both have the same object. I don't think Google is an altruistic company hoping to create good feelings and free exchange of information so that open source can get better. Perhaps some workers there do, sure. But I think Google ... wants to make money. And Microsoft, too. And they are going about it two different ways.
:) Smiley face to indicate friendliness, not snarkiness. hehe.
It's looking to me like Monaco wins the per-capita award, with Ireland a close second. I envy China's per-capita debt... but I don't think I envy the plight of the typical Chinese citizen. India is lower than China, interestingly.
Nice to know our debt as % of GDP isn't as bad as a lot of other countries, too, I guess.
But it'd still be nice to not have such striking budget deficits. Not just deficits, but PLANNING to increase it. That seems ridiculous to me. I understand if "things happen" and we end up increasing it, but planning a deficit is ... eh.
Outlook Live works without IE, I used it ... either in FireFox or Chrome.
I don't know much about Sync and the iPhone.
Ever tried running iTunes on anything but Mac and Windows? Hmmm.
As for the LiveMesh thing, I was under the understanding that you could access it from any browser (relatively speaking... I use Chrome personally and it works fine). I never expected to actually be able to do the program that you run on the Windows box itself to work on OSX though. Are you saying you can't access the LiveMesh website functionally from OSX+browser? Or are you saying that a Windows-only product doesn't work on OSX? You may as well complain that FinalCut Pro doesn't work on Windows...
Short answer: Microsoft is in the business of trying to get people to use their products. Yes, in some cases that means they like vendor lockins. However, if you are trying to sell an operating system, offering features with that operating system is a pretty good way to do it. Does Linux have a LiveMesh equivalent that is easy (as in Create Account, Download Program, Install, and you're done) to do and has a reliable web presence? Not that I know of... does Google? Not that I know of...
And as for Google products, it took them a while for Chrome. How many non-web applications do they have? I can think of Chrome ... Gears, which I don't think is on Linux? ... and their desktop search (or desktop gadgets). I don't know about gadgets on Linux or OSX. I think desktop search was on Linux, but I don't completely recall.
Huh. Didn't notice that. :) That would be a problem.
Yes. Their Live Mesh is actually quite useful. Their SkyDrive is 25gb, one of the larger free online drives I've found. Their Microsoft Sync appears to work fairly decently. Hotmail has been improving. Outlook Live is actually pretty decent as well. And yes, Windows 7 is pretty nice so far, IMO.
Google's products are good, too. A lot of them, anyways.
3 of those 5 it turned out showed awareness to normal stimuli and were either mislabeled by doctors, or their condition changed.
That's scary. I'm glad they underwent this procedure which in turn showed they actually were aware to normal stimuli.
Tolkien wanted to write, basically, English mythology. He saw King Arthur's stories as a conglomerate of other nations myths squished into England and didn't really like them. (something like that)
And I hate to break it to you (well, no I don't) but a lot of "ancient" cultures took great care to record genealogies. Easy case in point: the Bible. Look at all the genealogies in there. And what makes it more fascinating is that, presumably, these cultures had to memorize them when they passed it down orally, before writing it down...
Completely not caring about who you came from seems to be a relatively recent thing.
Furthermore, Tolkien appeared to write basically an entire history ... and history is full of genealogies as well. So his books were. Anyways, he didn't list too many of them in Lord of the Rings. Just a few, tracing back to great dwarves or great elves. And of course, the hobbit culture was very genealogically minded, since they took great pride in being whatever family they were (e.g., Baggins, Sackville-Baggins, Proudfoot, Took, Brandybuck, etc... and they all had their stereotypes).
The LotR books were more about history (in which Tolkien's worldview comes through, which is where you get the good vs. evil, power-corrupting, a creation account, the Valar/Maiar, and even the sadness of tearing down forests and beautiful trees [e.g., Saruman]) than anything. Which myths tend to be about...
People may *have* known "Red Hat" in the past (I guess) because it seemed to be one of the only Linux companies ever in the news... I personally knew about Red Hat before I tried Mandrake and SuSE. But Ubuntu seems to be on the tip of everyone's tongue (if they even know what "Linux" is), now. And a lot of people mispronounce it, too. For some reason, they like spelling/pronouncing it Ubunto...
It's not just you. Unfortunately, we're not in the government. They appear to have a different view. Or maybe they just like scams?
according to distrowatch, it is. Of course, I recognize that in many production environments, they are likely not reporting to distrowatch, and probably things like RHEL and SLES (and CentOS, Gentoo, etc) are fairly popular... but Ubuntu is definitely one of the most popular "normal person" Linux distro. If people have heard of Linux and only know what distribution, they seem to know Ubuntu. Not openSuSE or RedHat.
Also the difference is that global warming has been studied for 40 years
I don't think global warming was being studied 40 years ago. I think they were seeing a different trend. This link is from the examiner but contains links to Time and Newsweek, both of which comment on what science was predicting. Yes, Al Gore says that it was clear 40 years ago. Al Gore says a lot of things.
because Globbal warming studies have been looked at by many different scientist and many studies have been done that show that all the data we have points to global warming being influenced by C02 emissions.
ALL the data? That's a big claim. Do you have a scientific paper that says that, or are you saying that?
As for C02 emissions, I'm not sure how many people debate that the global climate is effected, in some way, by C02. The question is whether or not man releases enough C02 that it actually effects nature. It appears it's up to politicians to convince us of that... something they appear to be quite willing to do...
I'm not sure the originator of Facebook had "enough resources."
Alec Guinness was cool. His movies always seemed to be rather sad at the end, though... seems "it" never worked out. Man in the White Suit, Lavender Hill Mob, Ladykillers, and Kind Hearts and Cornets all ended rather badly for the main protagonist. Among others. :)
You ignore morality. Some people refuse to do things because they believe they are wrong.
However, when people SEE something happen in a video they're probably more likely to believe it than when a newscaster says it. The brain processes this information in a different way.
Agreed. Most people seem to "observe" things that visually far more than aurally.
And yes, Fox, CNN, and pretty much all news groups have a commercial interest in garnering viewers, so exciting news definitely generates more revenue...
Which is why celebrity news, I suppose, seems so popular, too.
viewer may base its opinion on video footage.
"May" ... it seems that almost everyone DOES. In fact, it seems many people base their opinions on movies in theaters. I have no doubt they base opinions on video footage (animated or not) when they see news, far more than any actual facts that may (or may not) be recited by the newscaster...
Good point about HoMM being Windows only, forgot about that. That would make sense why Linux is way ahead of Mac in this case :) Fun stuff, thanks!
Any idea what OSs are typical? It'd be interesting to see the difference between Poland and "global" with respect to OS's (e.g., is Mac as popular in Poland?)