Linux is just a kernel, if we're talking about "operating sytems" the BSD and Linux distros mostly have the same stuff and capabilities and run 95% the same apps. Most open source developers work on things that would run on any Unix, and over half of them on stuff that can run under windows either natively or under a posix library. BSD has had the head start too, and there's BSD ideas and code in most modern OS.
good news, the corporations where I worked 75% of the users hadn't bothered to put any effort into learning Windows either, they know the basics of operating exactly zero operating systems, so they are still free to learn one system.
easier to see if they are becoming obsessed with something bad if computer out in plain view. Easier to see if some "weirdo" is stalking them in chat room. Just like keeping the tv viewing out in plain view, it helps with identifying problems.
And if there's an emergency, and person is far from phone that's unhooked, they might be screwed since you have to hang up before dialing out again. I'm sure repair guy coming in the next day would find it funny & ironic justice if slashdotter left trail of blood from basement bedroom to within 3 feet of unhooked phone in kitchen then perished.
It's about 20,000 to one, four orders of magnitude. Commercial reactors only have about 3% enriched fuel rods. We need to get into the right kind Thorium breeder reactors for the short haul, no material produced that is useful for weapons, and much less waste. For the long haul I think solar is the only smart way to go.
knowing the basics of how the major system in one's car work might just keep you from being fleeced by a shady mechanic. Or even allow you to do simple diagnosis and repairs yourself. Or maybe save it from overheating on a 100 degree + F day. I'm a very unmechanically inclined person, but over the years I've spotted a voltage regulator going faulty, sticky coolant thermostat, a clogged defective oil filter installed by major car care chain, low transmission fluid, sticky starter solenoid, vacuum leak just to name a few.
Ignorance can be dangerous. even with microwave ovens. People get maimed and killed *daily* because of their ignorance of machinery, basic physics, biology, chemistry, medicine. You somehow seem to be saying it's good and normal to want to ignorant of how and why things work. I say it's potentially dangerous, expensive and bad.
heh, at the national lab where I worked in the mid 90's there was a multiplayer jet fighter game on the SGI's that was banned because it saturated the network. It was cooler than the flight simulator available on Microsoft OS of the time, though Flight Simulator was fun too.
There were plenty of superior easy-to-use OS with GUI before windows 95 (and don't say windows 3.1 counts in this discussion). I can name six superior OS with GUI desktop from 1995 and before off the top of my head. If it weren't for Microsoft, we'd have a decent OS being ubiquitous instead of this garbage.
for developing asian and south american and third world countries? are you sure? Maybe in the U.S.A., but in case you haven't noticed our economy and world influence and IT growth prospects (amoung about 100 other industries) are in decline.
what a load of hooey, there's plenty of easy to use GUi based OS in the last 15 years that were superior in every way to windows and even easier to use. How many commercial desktop OS have you used besides Wnidows. OS/2 was superior. IRIX was superior. MacOS was superior. NextStep was superior. Microsoft OS (really glorified program loaders since a true Operating System fully manages the resources of the computer) are buggy, insecure, bloated, hard to use garbage in comparison, get on a REAL operating system sometime !
bullshit, and at the time windows 95 came out a decent PC was over $3,000. Four years earlier I obtained a NeXTStation for $2800 (30% educational discount), and it had a MUCH more polished and crisp/responsive GUI than Microsoft has EVER been able to produce (and on a 25MHz 68040 too). Right about '95, at work I had SGI Indy for less than $5,000 and IRIX GUI was also lightyears ahead of 95. I've noticed the only people who are hardline about the superiority of windows are those who haven't worked on say five or six alternative OS. Ignorance is not knowledge.
they didn't know who Batman was, but let him have police power with license to kill, maim, and destroy public and private property; an aircraft pilot's license; a heavy-water moderated nuclear reactor; weapons of mass destruction including explosives, launch systems, artillery, armored vehicles, biological and chemical agents.....hey, come to think of it, isn't that kind of like what we did with George W Bush?
no problem, the whole thing should be spoken with heavy german accent anyway in tribute to SuSE's origins, and thus all the 's' pronounced like 'z', and trailing silent e's made vocal as schwa.
what's your favorite commercial and non-commercial Linux distro and why? And if I could sneak in an extra question, do you have *BSD and OSX in your lab?
I have an idea that expands on yours. For large shipments, we'll have United Parcel Smashers (UPS), which will have "hubs" staffed largely by irresponsible young men who will delight in how far they can throw and how much they can abuse the packages as they stuff them into dark brown trucks. They will drive hell-for-leather to remote places and make people sign for their roughed-up goods. And charge money for this.
yeah, we've got nothing on those 19th century horseless carriages with their electronic fuel injection into multiple valves, high energy ignition, automatic transmissions and torque converters, radial tires, air conditioning, power seats and windows, safety belts and airbags, power brakes and steering. No sirrie bob.
I was speaking as one very interested in the history of music, hip hop is derived from (amoung many other things) jazz & R&B. It IS a form of music. You know, suppose I said I didn't like polka & mentioned it was partially derived from waltz, seems I would get posters complaining I look down on central european culture and shame on me for not thinking it's real music....
sure, there's plenty of things good from hiphop culture, I just don't like rap, is all. I do like many forms of jazz & R&B, which also are tied in with hiphop culture.
funny you mention women, I've yet to *ever* see a woman in a car listening to rap, it's mostly appealing to young men. Maybe you should give the gals a chance to choose what's on the stereo, bet most would prefer some romantic pop or R&B outside of the dance floor
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Linux is just a kernel, if we're talking about "operating sytems" the BSD and Linux distros mostly have the same stuff and capabilities and run 95% the same apps. Most open source developers work on things that would run on any Unix, and over half of them on stuff that can run under windows either natively or under a posix library. BSD has had the head start too, and there's BSD ideas and code in most modern OS.
good news, the corporations where I worked 75% of the users hadn't bothered to put any effort into learning Windows either, they know the basics of operating exactly zero operating systems, so they are still free to learn one system.
easier to see if they are becoming obsessed with something bad if computer out in plain view. Easier to see if some "weirdo" is stalking them in chat room. Just like keeping the tv viewing out in plain view, it helps with identifying problems.
And if there's an emergency, and person is far from phone that's unhooked, they might be screwed since you have to hang up before dialing out again. I'm sure repair guy coming in the next day would find it funny & ironic justice if slashdotter left trail of blood from basement bedroom to within 3 feet of unhooked phone in kitchen then perished.
It's about 20,000 to one, four orders of magnitude. Commercial reactors only have about 3% enriched fuel rods. We need to get into the right kind Thorium breeder reactors for the short haul, no material produced that is useful for weapons, and much less waste. For the long haul I think solar is the only smart way to go.
knowing the basics of how the major system in one's car work might just keep you from being fleeced by a shady mechanic. Or even allow you to do simple diagnosis and repairs yourself. Or maybe save it from overheating on a 100 degree + F day. I'm a very unmechanically inclined person, but over the years I've spotted a voltage regulator going faulty, sticky coolant thermostat, a clogged defective oil filter installed by major car care chain, low transmission fluid, sticky starter solenoid, vacuum leak just to name a few.
Ignorance can be dangerous. even with microwave ovens. People get maimed and killed *daily* because of their ignorance of machinery, basic physics, biology, chemistry, medicine. You somehow seem to be saying it's good and normal to want to ignorant of how and why things work. I say it's potentially dangerous, expensive and bad.
heh, at the national lab where I worked in the mid 90's there was a multiplayer jet fighter game on the SGI's that was banned because it saturated the network. It was cooler than the flight simulator available on Microsoft OS of the time, though Flight Simulator was fun too.
There were plenty of superior easy-to-use OS with GUI before windows 95 (and don't say windows 3.1 counts in this discussion). I can name six superior OS with GUI desktop from 1995 and before off the top of my head. If it weren't for Microsoft, we'd have a decent OS being ubiquitous instead of this garbage.
for developing asian and south american and third world countries? are you sure? Maybe in the U.S.A., but in case you haven't noticed our economy and world influence and IT growth prospects (amoung about 100 other industries) are in decline.
what a load of hooey, there's plenty of easy to use GUi based OS in the last 15 years that were superior in every way to windows and even easier to use. How many commercial desktop OS have you used besides Wnidows. OS/2 was superior. IRIX was superior. MacOS was superior. NextStep was superior. Microsoft OS (really glorified program loaders since a true Operating System fully manages the resources of the computer) are buggy, insecure, bloated, hard to use garbage in comparison, get on a REAL operating system sometime !
bullshit, and at the time windows 95 came out a decent PC was over $3,000. Four years earlier I obtained a NeXTStation for $2800 (30% educational discount), and it had a MUCH more polished and crisp/responsive GUI than Microsoft has EVER been able to produce (and on a 25MHz 68040 too). Right about '95, at work I had SGI Indy for less than $5,000 and IRIX GUI was also lightyears ahead of 95. I've noticed the only people who are hardline about the superiority of windows are those who haven't worked on say five or six alternative OS. Ignorance is not knowledge.
send astronauts who smoke, 33% of them will die from that anyway.
I don't have to click an agreement box before I get to see Sun source anymore? If I do than it's not open source.
yeah, my korean wife thought I said to wok the dog
they didn't know who Batman was, but let him have police power with license to kill, maim, and destroy public and private property; an aircraft pilot's license; a heavy-water moderated nuclear reactor; weapons of mass destruction including explosives, launch systems, artillery, armored vehicles, biological and chemical agents.....hey, come to think of it, isn't that kind of like what we did with George W Bush?
no problem, the whole thing should be spoken with heavy german accent anyway in tribute to SuSE's origins, and thus all the 's' pronounced like 'z', and trailing silent e's made vocal as schwa.
java/j2ee stuff for one
what's your favorite commercial and non-commercial Linux distro and why? And if I could sneak in an extra question, do you have *BSD and OSX in your lab?
I have an idea that expands on yours. For large shipments, we'll have United Parcel Smashers (UPS), which will have "hubs" staffed largely by irresponsible young men who will delight in how far they can throw and how much they can abuse the packages as they stuff them into dark brown trucks. They will drive hell-for-leather to remote places and make people sign for their roughed-up goods. And charge money for this.
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We already have auto-complete (which I find annoying so I turn it off), this might be a better version of that.
yeah, we've got nothing on those 19th century horseless carriages with their electronic fuel injection into multiple valves, high energy ignition, automatic transmissions and torque converters, radial tires, air conditioning, power seats and windows, safety belts and airbags, power brakes and steering. No sirrie bob.
which is a BSD. which is really a Unix, though the people who made Unix into Unix(tm) won't let us say that
I was speaking as one very interested in the history of music, hip hop is derived from (amoung many other things) jazz & R&B. It IS a form of music. You know, suppose I said I didn't like polka & mentioned it was partially derived from waltz, seems I would get posters complaining I look down on central european culture and shame on me for not thinking it's real music....
sure, there's plenty of things good from hiphop culture, I just don't like rap, is all. I do like many forms of jazz & R&B, which also are tied in with hiphop culture.
funny you mention women, I've yet to *ever* see a woman in a car listening to rap, it's mostly appealing to young men. Maybe you should give the gals a chance to choose what's on the stereo, bet most would prefer some romantic pop or R&B outside of the dance floor