What a retarded statement that is. So earth quakes and tsunamis are unnatural now? The only "natural" about the "balance" is that it isn't, and never has bee very balanced. I want to punch someone whenever I hear a retard talking about the "natural" balance. Humans are natural too. What we do is natural balance. These morons draw a line in "the world" today and say "this is the natural state of things". Retards.
Actually, I'm just providing a factual data point based on fairly extensive experience
Actually, you are not. Your sample is extremely biased, and as a base for discussion utterly worthless. If you are a computer geek you should have taken a class on statistics, and in that class you would have learned that your statement above is utter nonsense.
Linux browser usage has been flat at about 4-5% for the past 3-5 years. Most people who use a desktop OS will use it to browse. Some admins out there, hopefully not too many though, will also browse from their Linux-.based app servers. This means that the market share for Linux on the desktop is 5% at the very best. Probably a tad lower. Given your opinions on this, the only confirmation bias seen here is yours.
We do know that Linux has a high usage factor among geeks, and a corresponding low usage factor in "the real world". So, this pushes the "Linux on the Desktop in the Real World" number even lower. Probably well below 4%, quite likely below 3% as well. In other words. That is just a "margin of error" from non existant.
Oh, and sorry, I forgot to mention it. My main project at the moment is putting in place a new testing platform for a very large (under constant development for the past 25 years) PL/SQL solution running on IBM iron. The testing platform will most likely be based on RSpec and Cucumber. Try to guess what platforms they will be running on.
Religious sixteen year olds like you really need some more time in the real world.
Sigh. The first part of assumption is ass and you clearly are one.
Since 1997 I have mostly made my living putting together Java software where the test and build system ran on Linux, where Solaris was the main deployment platform until about 2008, when other platforms became about as important, but zero Windows installations. Our developers used either Linux or Windows boxes, their choice. In 2009 I got involved with another company where most of my work was on JBoss on Linux, Oracle on IBM and some Windows integration. I like quite a bit of the stuff Microsoft does at the moment, and on a number of technologies they are a significant improvement over all competition. The phone is one, some of the server stuff is another. Windows server 2012, for example, is (going to be when it is released), a huge step forward for almost all system admins, and decades ahead of Linux for enterprises.
If you can't get Windows configured to keep going for more than a year, then you are computer illiterate. As with most computer geeks I am the "sysadmin" of my extended family. They never have virii. It isn't that bloody hard to make sure they are not Administrators. You just have to make sure you have remote access to their PC so you can manage it.
The reason Linux hasn't taken off is because nobody but us have ever heard of it.
Balderdash. The reasons Linux hasn't taken off are many. For one, there is no major company pushing it for the desktop. Another is that the Linux desktop is a horrible mess and far too configuration friendly for normal usage by "normal" users. A very important one is that there are no apps for Linux. There is no equivalent to Lightroom, there is no equivalent to Photoshop (please, please do not say "Gimp"). There is no video editing software for Linux. There is no integration between apps. There is no serious contender to Office. Really. I mean it. Even with the hated ribbon MS Office beats any free alternative.
Every normal I've know who I installed Linux for has loved it
Someone who only uses it to browse the web then I guess.
Well, since 2000 I've been working for four companies; all of them supported linux as their main desktop OS, so go figure
No need to go figure anything at all. You are seeking out Linux companies. They are a tiny minority of companies. The only percentage lower than companies running Linux as their main desktop is the number of home users who do so. This is not counting vertical appliances of which there are quite a few, but that is not the same as "Linux on the desktop(TM)"
It is? I thought Android was a phone, not a desktop computer. Oh, well, perhaps I was wrong. Android on anything but a phone is pie-in-the-sky dreaming. Wake me up when it actually exists. Outside of specialty shops.
Here is the fact about the Linux desktop. It sucks. It has always sucked, and it is never going to stop sucking. When running Eclipse and other applications, it is completely random if Copy/Paste between the apps works or not. Still. In 2012. As an example.
The average user (and you are surely not one of them) has serious problems navigating a WIndows or a Mac desktop. Linux is about two orders of magnitude harder. "Linux on the desktop" is not "Linux on the desktop for a tiny minority of expert users and some vertical appliances", it is "Linux on the desktop for the masses". The latter is never going to happen. Not as long as the GUI teams for Linux are utterly out of touch with what the typical PC user needs. One of the most important things they need to have removed is configurability and flexibility.
Ah, I haven't had a good ROTFL in a long time. Some time in the '90s I guess. Thanks.
Wait until... Linux is eating into their desktop business...
Yes, and that will be two days after pigs grow wings and fly.
PS, I love Linux as a server, and it runs my Rails stuff very well, but "Linux on the Desktop"? Seriously? Does anyone believe in that anymore?
Microsoft makes big bucks from their server stuff. Really big money. Linux on the server is more of a threat to MS than is (an extremely theoretical) Linux on the desktop. Still they do it in Azure. Looks like you just proved that you are a clueless git (no, not the distributed kind that Torvalds did).
Sigh. Religious morons always plant their foot firmly in their mouth. The answer to your question, probably more than any other cloud service. You see, there is this thing called the iCloud. The thing where "all" iPhone users store their stuff, pictures, documents, you name it. iCloud is also known under the name "Azure".
Whatever the problem is, the environuts will supply a solution that invariably involves me reducing my driving, or buying a wholly uninteresting car. Never mind that cars are not the cause of much of any global problems. Environuts will always blame cars. Since science now has shown that effect can come before cause the 775 event is has to be the result of me driving an SUV.
And it's fair to say that Obama broke a lot of promises... It's not his fault; he's naive and inexperienced
I am not sure I would use naive and inexperienced as words to describe the first president in history who has (openly) supported the murder of US citizens abroad with no process (due or otherwise) whatsoever. Obama is about as bad fiscally as GWB was, but when it comes to the US constitution, Obama has trampled on that more than GWB did, and I didn't think that was possible. Obama is a huge disappointment, and all alternatives are equally bad.
+1 for Play. It makes Java almost as much fun as Ruby and Rails. Stick with Java for a while and when you are comfortable about moving out of your comfort zone, you move onto Scala. You will never look back. The people recommending PHP are nuts. Don't listen to them. You'd be better off with Visual Basic.NET (which is terrible).
How crazy do you have to be to file DMCA take-down notices with the website providers over your blog photo as your FIRST option
It is his first, only and final option. She can then take appropriate action. He acted 100% appropriately. Please note that this "attorney" has multiple infractions. She has been using other peoples work with a complete disregard for ownership.
Both cases you cited, the owner is deprived of real property
Not really. In case number two, the owner was deprived of some cheap paint and a canvas, not much else. If it was a Picasso, that paint and that canvas was valued at zero compared to the value of the work that went in to the painting. Picasso reportedly once made a quick sketch at someone's request and then asked an exorbitant amount of money for it. The requester protested stating that Picasso only spent about 3 minutes on the sketch and that it could not possibly be worth that amount of money. Picasso answered that this was not the case. He had spent thirty years on that sketch. He was right.
It's like stealing software and claiming that nobody lost any money. It is bullshit. The photographer lost money he was owed due to her actions, or at least recognition. Both are valuable commodities if you try to make a living as an artist, which even with photographers is damned hard. Creating the picture took him years and years of work. She stole it. She needs to suffer for that.
Correction: They radiated him, and in do doing, in sweet-spot cases, they created Super Snoopy, with cape and all, and now they won't tell us what the sweet-spots are.
So the answer to my question is that you have no clue? You can not provide a single example. I figured as much. When the religious nuts come screaming, there is no way to engage you in a rational debate. But thanks for proving that you are a clueless religious not.
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What a retarded statement that is. So earth quakes and tsunamis are unnatural now? The only "natural" about the "balance" is that it isn't, and never has bee very balanced. I want to punch someone whenever I hear a retard talking about the "natural" balance. Humans are natural too. What we do is natural balance. These morons draw a line in "the world" today and say "this is the natural state of things". Retards.
Actually, I'm just providing a factual data point based on fairly extensive experience
Actually, you are not. Your sample is extremely biased, and as a base for discussion utterly worthless. If you are a computer geek you should have taken a class on statistics, and in that class you would have learned that your statement above is utter nonsense.
Linux browser usage has been flat at about 4-5% for the past 3-5 years. Most people who use a desktop OS will use it to browse. Some admins out there, hopefully not too many though, will also browse from their Linux-.based app servers. This means that the market share for Linux on the desktop is 5% at the very best. Probably a tad lower. Given your opinions on this, the only confirmation bias seen here is yours.
We do know that Linux has a high usage factor among geeks, and a corresponding low usage factor in "the real world". So, this pushes the "Linux on the Desktop in the Real World" number even lower. Probably well below 4%, quite likely below 3% as well. In other words. That is just a "margin of error" from non existant.
Yes, you can order an Android box any time you want to. My point is: Nobody does.
As I was saying, you are seeking out typical Linux-based companies.
Oh, and sorry, I forgot to mention it. My main project at the moment is putting in place a new testing platform for a very large (under constant development for the past 25 years) PL/SQL solution running on IBM iron. The testing platform will most likely be based on RSpec and Cucumber. Try to guess what platforms they will be running on.
Religious sixteen year olds like you really need some more time in the real world.
Funny. Do you have any other amusing stories to tell? "Outside of specialty shops"
Sigh. The first part of assumption is ass and you clearly are one.
Since 1997 I have mostly made my living putting together Java software where the test and build system ran on Linux, where Solaris was the main deployment platform until about 2008, when other platforms became about as important, but zero Windows installations. Our developers used either Linux or Windows boxes, their choice. In 2009 I got involved with another company where most of my work was on JBoss on Linux, Oracle on IBM and some Windows integration. I like quite a bit of the stuff Microsoft does at the moment, and on a number of technologies they are a significant improvement over all competition. The phone is one, some of the server stuff is another. Windows server 2012, for example, is (going to be when it is released), a huge step forward for almost all system admins, and decades ahead of Linux for enterprises.
If you can't get Windows configured to keep going for more than a year, then you are computer illiterate. As with most computer geeks I am the "sysadmin" of my extended family. They never have virii. It isn't that bloody hard to make sure they are not Administrators. You just have to make sure you have remote access to their PC so you can manage it.
The reason Linux hasn't taken off is because nobody but us have ever heard of it.
Balderdash. The reasons Linux hasn't taken off are many. For one, there is no major company pushing it for the desktop. Another is that the Linux desktop is a horrible mess and far too configuration friendly for normal usage by "normal" users. A very important one is that there are no apps for Linux. There is no equivalent to Lightroom, there is no equivalent to Photoshop (please, please do not say "Gimp"). There is no video editing software for Linux. There is no integration between apps. There is no serious contender to Office. Really. I mean it. Even with the hated ribbon MS Office beats any free alternative.
Every normal I've know who I installed Linux for has loved it
Someone who only uses it to browse the web then I guess.
Conversely, every time I have worked at a place where Windows was the standard desktop, it's been some ponderous old enterprise or government site
You should drop the religion, stop the cool-aid abuse and take a trip to the real world some time.
Well, since 2000 I've been working for four companies; all of them supported linux as their main desktop OS, so go figure
No need to go figure anything at all. You are seeking out Linux companies. They are a tiny minority of companies. The only percentage lower than companies running Linux as their main desktop is the number of home users who do so. This is not counting vertical appliances of which there are quite a few, but that is not the same as "Linux on the desktop(TM)"
Yes. It's called Android
It is? I thought Android was a phone, not a desktop computer. Oh, well, perhaps I was wrong. Android on anything but a phone is pie-in-the-sky dreaming. Wake me up when it actually exists. Outside of specialty shops.
Linux has been my main desktop OS since 2001
Here is the fact about the Linux desktop. It sucks. It has always sucked, and it is never going to stop sucking. When running Eclipse and other applications, it is completely random if Copy/Paste between the apps works or not. Still. In 2012. As an example.
The average user (and you are surely not one of them) has serious problems navigating a WIndows or a Mac desktop. Linux is about two orders of magnitude harder. "Linux on the desktop" is not "Linux on the desktop for a tiny minority of expert users and some vertical appliances", it is "Linux on the desktop for the masses". The latter is never going to happen. Not as long as the GUI teams for Linux are utterly out of touch with what the typical PC user needs. One of the most important things they need to have removed is configurability and flexibility.
Ah, I haven't had a good ROTFL in a long time. Some time in the '90s I guess. Thanks.
Wait until ... Linux is eating into their desktop business...
Yes, and that will be two days after pigs grow wings and fly.
PS, I love Linux as a server, and it runs my Rails stuff very well, but "Linux on the Desktop"? Seriously? Does anyone believe in that anymore?
Microsoft makes big bucks from their server stuff. Really big money. Linux on the server is more of a threat to MS than is (an extremely theoretical) Linux on the desktop. Still they do it in Azure. Looks like you just proved that you are a clueless git (no, not the distributed kind that Torvalds did).
Sigh. Religious morons always plant their foot firmly in their mouth. The answer to your question, probably more than any other cloud service. You see, there is this thing called the iCloud. The thing where "all" iPhone users store their stuff, pictures, documents, you name it. iCloud is also known under the name "Azure".
Whatever the problem is, the environuts will supply a solution that invariably involves me reducing my driving, or buying a wholly uninteresting car. Never mind that cars are not the cause of much of any global problems. Environuts will always blame cars. Since science now has shown that effect can come before cause the 775 event is has to be the result of me driving an SUV.
Mrs Johnson's cat got caught up in a tree again.
And it's fair to say that Obama broke a lot of promises ... It's not his fault; he's naive and inexperienced
I am not sure I would use naive and inexperienced as words to describe the first president in history who has (openly) supported the murder of US citizens abroad with no process (due or otherwise) whatsoever. Obama is about as bad fiscally as GWB was, but when it comes to the US constitution, Obama has trampled on that more than GWB did, and I didn't think that was possible. Obama is a huge disappointment, and all alternatives are equally bad.
+1 for Play. It makes Java almost as much fun as Ruby and Rails. Stick with Java for a while and when you are comfortable about moving out of your comfort zone, you move onto Scala. You will never look back. The people recommending PHP are nuts. Don't listen to them. You'd be better off with Visual Basic.NET (which is terrible).
How crazy do you have to be to file DMCA take-down notices with the website providers over your blog photo as your FIRST option
It is his first, only and final option. She can then take appropriate action. He acted 100% appropriately. Please note that this "attorney" has multiple infractions. She has been using other peoples work with a complete disregard for ownership.
Both cases you cited, the owner is deprived of real property
Not really. In case number two, the owner was deprived of some cheap paint and a canvas, not much else. If it was a Picasso, that paint and that canvas was valued at zero compared to the value of the work that went in to the painting. Picasso reportedly once made a quick sketch at someone's request and then asked an exorbitant amount of money for it. The requester protested stating that Picasso only spent about 3 minutes on the sketch and that it could not possibly be worth that amount of money. Picasso answered that this was not the case. He had spent thirty years on that sketch. He was right.
It's like stealing software and claiming that nobody lost any money. It is bullshit. The photographer lost money he was owed due to her actions, or at least recognition. Both are valuable commodities if you try to make a living as an artist, which even with photographers is damned hard. Creating the picture took him years and years of work. She stole it. She needs to suffer for that.
Boo fucking boo when I come and borrow your car just because I want to. Retard.
You need to take your medication now, and tell your mother that you should not be using the internet when un-medicated.
As long as I get the cape...
Correction: They radiated him, and in do doing, in sweet-spot cases, they created Super Snoopy, with cape and all, and now they won't tell us what the sweet-spots are.
QED
So the answer to my question is that you have no clue? You can not provide a single example. I figured as much. When the religious nuts come screaming, there is no way to engage you in a rational debate. But thanks for proving that you are a clueless religious not.