I think Vista will flop in business. They'll be promised intangible incentives, so the naïve will chase after the pied piper, only for any gold to promptly dissapear to be replaced by the thousands of shitty problems such people deserve for digging themselves so deep into being dependant on a single product you don't control, and coding with no reserve for compatibility and portability.
Wiser businesses will be scared shitless and carry on business as usual with XP, until a service pack has been released and Microsoft are willing to *pay* to send in their ninjaneers to convert all their computers and other free support. Of course, most the shitty problems will still remain.
Few home users except some very ignorant users will *upgrade* to Vista. Those buying anew from Dell won't have any choice. I think a lot of ppl will choose to buy anew rather than upgrade, simply because upgrading is rather scary to them.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. please. Of course for microsoft consumers, they don't know the difference, they don't really care that their XP takes ten minutes to boot (and why should they? isn't it like that for everyone) or if they have more pop-ups than my toaster. If Vista won't let them terrorise their friends computers on MSN by letting them send scripts, why get it?
Can't remember for the life of me who said this.. someone very rich and powerful was offered a throne / the opportunity to run for election. They replied "why should i step down?"
1. Less sluggish 2. Not spam you with adverts for games 3. Consume less disk space 4. Allow you to trade games / sell your account 5. not be a prequisite to playing a game 6. not hog memory 7. be less ugly -eg blend in to native widgets 8. be ported to *nix 9. not use internet explorer 10. not download so much shit
There's is no way *ever* that any single device could hold all the world's media at any time. We produce media to fill all avaliable space. When technology creates capacity, a demand is created to use it. Once there was only the home service and the world service on the radio. Even I remember when we there were only four TV channels here, because that was all the bandwidth would allow, now we have cable and digital TV and the selection is ridiculous..
Media expands to fill all avaliable space, that is sum of all the data storage devices around the world. Your iPod model X will always be an insignifacant quotient of that sum, and so will never be able to hold everything. It's as if someone asked "so how much video do you think there is?" - "maybe about a hundred gigs tops".
Please consider the amount of data from the following: imdb lists 0.8 million titles. all the bands on last.fm the million users of flickr with thousands of photos each all the shit uploaded to youtube everyday and the thousands of TV channels globally, broadcast 24/7.
They have *no* idea. Production is proportional to capacity.
I read the article, and I still couldn't tell you what it says. It talks about bazaar, and Gnome and development, but it has no content! I don't think it said *anything*. From the book: Harmless.
I challenge thee to summariser it.
This is what (/usr/bin/ots) a text summariser said (interesting to note it tents to focus on cathedral-style, bazaar-style, and gnome bashing)
A few years back, Eric S. Entitled The Cathedral and the Bazaar, he wrote about how the Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) community does what it wants when it wants to. In Cathedral-style projects, your not-so-friendly neighborhood PHB (fueled by the lies from various ugly hunch-backed minions), although wrong 120% of the time, says what goes in a project. Backed by the Free Software Foundation and the FOSS community as a whole, the GNOME project for many years just added lots and lots of feature creep and otherwise unnamed bloat.
The GNOME project lacked true vision for those years, and feature creep and other long term development problems rushed in to fill that hole. Problem is, many projects are just like GNOME. Incidentally, few Cathedral-style projects suffer from lack of vision: those that do simply die off and are never heard from again. Bazaar-style development allows projects to be in a zombie state for long periods of time, where it is vastly expensive for a Cathedral-style project to do the same. someone with vision (corrupt or not) would control a project, driving development behind it, and have the project reach goals in specific time frames.
Everyone here is talking about PGP encrypted mail.
I know there's problems with security legislation in the USA, and it's patented/restricted somehow. I would use gnupg for email if I had anyone to use it with. I only come across it in signed software.
Do you think signed/encrypted mail has a part to play in the new email? Email as we have it is WANK, with all the spam and shit. Something needs to be done. Perhaps a system could really on signing email with a unique key from a sender. Then there's an delocalised system of authenticating/rating senders, such that spammers are near immediately blacklisted, and everyone's real email is protected.
What is needed is a worldwide legal effort to prosecute criminal gangs. And campaigns for awareness. Most ppl think some eleven year old geeky kid is sending them spam and trying to hack their computer with viruses, when a organised gang is already *in* their computer, using it to send eveyone else spam.
This is stupid. Like Apple records persisting solely to sue Apple Computer. There's no overlap in business beyond the name - no-one looking for 70s beatles recordings on ebay is going to get confused and buy a powerbook instead.
Also, the utube site is not difficult to find as below. It *is* difficult accessing it, it's been slashdotted! But there's certainly no overlap in business. http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=utube
update-manager --help
-c, --check-dist-upgrades Check if a new distribution release is available
-d, --devel-release Check if upgrading to the latest devel release is possible
First please don't write confusing articles by using negatives like that. eg: Updates are bad, but not in linux., but not in edgy.
The update worked for me. Fine. And my mum pulled the plug on my computer half way through. I had a similar situation updating Fedora from CD, when half the discs were corrupt. Updating linux is piss easy - thank you package managers - they're only older than me. Fedora: yum for rpm. Debian: apt for dpkg. If you've succeeded in installing something, an update is no harder. man apt-get
This is ubuntuforums, remember. When some ppl say "trouble" there they mean having to edit a text file or run some shit in bash. There's no such thing as trouble in linux, so long as you can get a shell. And unless you're stupid enough to leave only one buggy kernel you built yourself using make randomconfig, you won't get a kernel panic.
It's crazed. You have ppl writing shell scripts to build firefox two for those who've wet themselves about it and can't wait for a package to appear in the repos, who can't tell you what the G in GNU stands for.
On the preferences window. Ridiculously inconsistent. What is 'main' supposed to contain? It has startup stuff, which makes sense as the first entry, but then it has incomplete download preferences. The rest of it coming under the vague "content". I can't imagine how the option to use SSL 3 came under 'advanced' and not 'security'.
The grammar and phrasing is terrible, it reads like a *bad* translation. The capitalisation throughout is appalling. "Find in This Page", "Restore to Default", "Switch Text Direction". No other interface uses Title Case for menu entries. Certain not the Special Case for Book Titles.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ What happened to freedom 0? No commercial usage. That's more restrictive than disney. These guys are *afraid* of putting their work in the public domain. What do they think will be done with it, if it's not going to be employed commercially? They've restricted their success, the film won't go anywhere beyond this internet without it. To succeed they must let their work pass from amateur to professional, which means allowing commercial use.
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The grass on this side of the fence is so damn fucking green.
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686)
bittorrent is for piratelinuxporn
I think Vista will flop in business. They'll be promised intangible incentives, so the naïve will chase after the pied piper, only for any gold to promptly dissapear to be replaced by the thousands of shitty problems such people deserve for digging themselves so deep into being dependant on a single product you don't control, and coding with no reserve for compatibility and portability.
Wiser businesses will be scared shitless and carry on business as usual with XP, until a service pack has been released and Microsoft are willing to *pay* to send in their ninjaneers to convert all their computers and other free support. Of course, most the shitty problems will still remain.
Few home users except some very ignorant users will *upgrade* to Vista. Those buying anew from Dell won't have any choice. I think a lot of ppl will choose to buy anew rather than upgrade, simply because upgrading is rather scary to them.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. please. Of course for microsoft consumers, they don't know the difference, they don't really care that their XP takes ten minutes to boot (and why should they? isn't it like that for everyone) or if they have more pop-ups than my toaster. If Vista won't let them terrorise their friends computers on MSN by letting them send scripts, why get it?
We now need a new tag, shittyjournalism.
Can't remember for the life of me who said this.. someone very rich and powerful was offered a throne / the opportunity to run for election. They replied "why should i step down?"
1. Less sluggish
2. Not spam you with adverts for games
3. Consume less disk space
4. Allow you to trade games / sell your account
5. not be a prequisite to playing a game
6. not hog memory
7. be less ugly -eg blend in to native widgets
8. be ported to *nix
9. not use internet explorer
10. not download so much shit
There's is no way *ever* that any single device could hold all the world's media at any time. We produce media to fill all avaliable space. When technology creates capacity, a demand is created to use it. Once there was only the home service and the world service on the radio. Even I remember when we there were only four TV channels here, because that was all the bandwidth would allow, now we have cable and digital TV and the selection is ridiculous..
Media expands to fill all avaliable space, that is sum of all the data storage devices around the world. Your iPod model X will always be an insignifacant quotient of that sum, and so will never be able to hold everything. It's as if someone asked "so how much video do you think there is?" - "maybe about a hundred gigs tops".
Please consider the amount of data from the following:
imdb lists 0.8 million titles.
all the bands on last.fm
the million users of flickr with thousands of photos each
all the shit uploaded to youtube everyday
and the thousands of TV channels globally, broadcast 24/7.
They have *no* idea. Production is proportional to capacity.
Play the piano, the guitar, the sax. Fingercise
I read the article, and I still couldn't tell you what it says. It talks about bazaar, and Gnome and development, but it has no content! I don't think it said *anything*. From the book: Harmless.
I challenge thee to summariser it.
This is what (/usr/bin/ots) a text summariser said (interesting to note it tents to focus on cathedral-style, bazaar-style, and gnome bashing)
A few years back, Eric S. Entitled The Cathedral and the Bazaar, he wrote about how the Free/Open Source Software (FOSS) community does what it wants when it wants to. In Cathedral-style projects, your not-so-friendly neighborhood PHB (fueled by the lies from various ugly hunch-backed minions), although wrong 120% of the time, says what goes in a project. Backed by the Free Software Foundation and the FOSS community as a whole, the GNOME project for many years just added lots and lots of feature creep and otherwise unnamed bloat.
The GNOME project lacked true vision for those years, and feature creep and other long term development problems rushed in to fill that hole. Problem is, many projects are just like GNOME. Incidentally, few Cathedral-style projects suffer from lack of vision: those that do simply die off and are never heard from again. Bazaar-style development allows projects to be in a zombie state for long periods of time, where it is vastly expensive for a Cathedral-style project to do the same. someone with vision (corrupt or not) would control a project, driving development behind it, and have the project reach goals in specific time frames.
from 'dows 95 to 98 earlier this year, when Mozilla dropped compatibility in firefox 2.
Check.this.shit
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
Everyone here is talking about PGP encrypted mail.
I know there's problems with security legislation in the USA, and it's patented/restricted somehow. I would use gnupg for email if I had anyone to use it with. I only come across it in signed software.
Do you think signed/encrypted mail has a part to play in the new email? Email as we have it is WANK, with all the spam and shit. Something needs to be done. Perhaps a system could really on signing email with a unique key from a sender. Then there's an delocalised system of authenticating/rating senders, such that spammers are near immediately blacklisted, and everyone's real email is protected.
What is needed is a worldwide legal effort to prosecute criminal gangs. And campaigns for awareness. Most ppl think some eleven year old geeky kid is sending them spam and trying to hack their computer with viruses, when a organised gang is already *in* their computer, using it to send eveyone else spam.
I still read exams as emacs.
How many civilians have been killed as a consequence of the invasion?
I had ME installed, thought I would upgrade to XP..
apt-get dist-upgrade
dependancy nightmare!
This is stupid. Like Apple records persisting solely to sue Apple Computer. There's no overlap in business beyond the name - no-one looking for 70s beatles recordings on ebay is going to get confused and buy a powerbook instead.
Also, the utube site is not difficult to find as below. It *is* difficult accessing it, it's been slashdotted! But there's certainly no overlap in business.
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=utube
Like shit, the US have control of the internet. No-one does.
You can't stop the signal.
update-manager --help
-c, --check-dist-upgrades Check if a new distribution release is available
-d, --devel-release Check if upgrading to the latest devel release is possible
First please don't write confusing articles by using negatives like that. eg: Updates are bad, but not in linux., but not in edgy.
The update worked for me. Fine. And my mum pulled the plug on my computer half way through. I had a similar situation updating Fedora from CD, when half the discs were corrupt. Updating linux is piss easy - thank you package managers - they're only older than me. Fedora: yum for rpm. Debian: apt for dpkg. If you've succeeded in installing something, an update is no harder. man apt-get
This is ubuntuforums, remember. When some ppl say "trouble" there they mean having to edit a text file or run some shit in bash. There's no such thing as trouble in linux, so long as you can get a shell. And unless you're stupid enough to leave only one buggy kernel you built yourself using make randomconfig, you won't get a kernel panic.
It's crazed. You have ppl writing shell scripts to build firefox two for those who've wet themselves about it and can't wait for a package to appear in the repos, who can't tell you what the G in GNU stands for.
On the preferences window. Ridiculously inconsistent.
What is 'main' supposed to contain? It has startup stuff, which makes sense as the first entry, but then it has incomplete download preferences. The rest of it coming under the vague "content". I can't imagine how the option to use SSL 3 came under 'advanced' and not 'security'.
The grammar and phrasing is terrible, it reads like a *bad* translation. The capitalisation throughout is appalling. "Find in This Page", "Restore to Default", "Switch Text Direction". No other interface uses Title Case for menu entries. Certain not the Special Case for Book Titles.
I know the arctic monkeys are shite, but I really wouldn't call this the end of music.
A five-hundred blade razor, shaped to perfectly to fit your face. Take a run up..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Men_Don't_Wear_P laid
Universal, Warner Bros, paramount, MGM being more permissive than the worser of the creative commons licenses would allow.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
What happened to freedom 0? No commercial usage. That's more restrictive than disney. These guys are *afraid* of putting their work in the public domain. What do they think will be done with it, if it's not going to be employed commercially? They've restricted their success, the film won't go anywhere beyond this internet without it. To succeed they must let their work pass from amateur to professional, which means allowing commercial use.
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