Dude, buying iTunes Music isn't progressive, iTunes is basically the record labels, shoehorned into the internet. Eventually I hope bands will use recordings purely as (freely resdistributeable) marketing, and make their money off live recordings and merch.
Well that's just it, Windows isn't designed like that, so don't use Windows, it's that simple. There's absolutely no excuse for the insecurity of Windows, even if there may be excuses for people who still use it.
Have you tried a GUI on *nix anytime recently? They ARE intuitive, enough for people that aren't tech savvy to use, and I have first-hand evidence to back that statement up.
Whether it's hidden or not depends on what distribution you use, and how much information you read and learn (I've only been using Linux for a year and a half, and I knew sudo was capable of this within the first few months). I agree that it fails the grade for people who refuse to or cannot learn how to edit config files, but it's not that the config file format is confusing, it's that the first party documentation is confusing, in my opinion. If I wanted to learn how to do it though, I'm confident that I could figure it out in about 30-60 minutes, which I don't think is unreasonable for a config file. Yes, it would be better if there was a GUI that could configure it for you, but the fuctionality is there.
a. More shades between "root" and "user". Waaay too often I get asked for the root password for things I'd like to delegate, but not give away total control. Linux is great when you're either one person or administering a bunch of people that only get approved applications, inbetween is not that great.
We have that, it's called sudo. The config file documentation is a bit confusing, but there are understandable tutorials online.
My cell has a Fido logo on it, but it doesn't mean that the hardware is incapable of working on another provider. Of course, I'd have to unlock the phone before I could do that.
Way to form a coherent argument. First you say that pedophiles don't need to stalk specific children, because they don't care which child they abuse. Then you say that pedophiles usually abuse relatives, which directly contradicts the first thing you said.
My experience is the opposite. The only thing that doesn't work out of the box is my wireless, which I can set up in minutes. Everything else I need is in the package list, and it takes me one click for each app that I want to install from that, as opposed to hunting down the most up to date versions of a bunch of setup executeables, and then clicking through each individually, and then having to wait for the install to happen in front of me before moving onto the next application I want to install.
Run it under VMWare? There's more than one free software application that can view doc files without virtualising a computer, perhaps it would be easier to use one of them.
Uh, no, Bob contacts Alice first in the diagram - that VoIP call arrow in the first picture isn't data being sent, it's just an indicator of what's going on. If you don't agree, look at it this way, the arrow is black, not red or green, and it doesn't pass through any of the firewalls, therefore, it's not data being sent.
I agree with you that it's not as well supported as on Windows, but your assertion that you can't provide your own set of drivers with a hardware release is completely false. There are quite a few out of tree drivers, I use one myself for my webcam, and the big difference between that and Windows from the user's perspective is that development tools need to be on the user's machine in order to make it work. Of course, it also happens to be much easier to install those on a Linux system than on Windows.
If that's the case, then why is Linux able to support a variety of hardware configurations without having fundamental design issues the way Windows does?
This just in: Microsoft team A resorts to rooting Windows in order to fix the problems introduced by some 21 man team B somewhere else in the company that they can't get in touch with.
Anonymous or not, you're totally right. If you invade a country full of people who aren't very fond of you, and then stay in there indefinitely, why wouldn't the residents start trying to evict you? And that whole every-Iraqi-we-kill-is-one-less-terrorist argument is the most shortsighted argument in this whole debacle. You can't destroy terrorism by taking lives, it's an ideology, and it will live on as long as you're pissing people off enough to take vengeance on you. Obviously it existed before 2001, but by going in and invading countries after, they're just fueling the flames. The only way to 'win' through armed conflict is either genocide, or full military occupation or something just as ridiculous. Obviously the US isn't just going to blow the middle east off the map (not that they can, thankfully), but then why are they invading a country, motivating thousands to rally against them? They will eventually be forced to realize that the only thing they can do is retreat and try to use diplomacy to ensure that less people are motivated to kill people in Western society, and now that job is harder than if they hadn't sent a couple hundred thousand troops into the middle east.
Yes, but what is the point of "reporting" hours if you work away from work? How is anyone going to know if you're working as many as you're reporting? Why waste the effort even trying to track how many hours someone is working? As is specified in the article, hours worked != productivity. Too many seem to confuse the two without even realizing it (I'm not saying that about you, just people in general)
It was only this past summer that CEO Anderson got a full briefing, and total understanding, about what was happening. "We purposely waited until the tipping point before we took it to him," says Thompson. Until then he wasn't well-versed on the 13 ROWE commandments. No.1: People at all levels stop doing any activity that is a waste of their time, the customer's time, or the company's money. No.7: Nobody talks about how many hours they work. No.9: It's O.K. to take a nap on a Tuesday afternoon, grocery shop on Wednesday morning, or catch a movie on Thursday afternoon.
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Dude, buying iTunes Music isn't progressive, iTunes is basically the record labels, shoehorned into the internet. Eventually I hope bands will use recordings purely as (freely resdistributeable) marketing, and make their money off live recordings and merch.
Well that's just it, Windows isn't designed like that, so don't use Windows, it's that simple. There's absolutely no excuse for the insecurity of Windows, even if there may be excuses for people who still use it.
Ouch, I've never seen it that bad. My biggest gripe with it was the manual mounting.
it definitely works with ext3, but as of the last time I used it, you have to manually mount the drive yourself using the mount command it installs.
One snag: the OLPC contains an X86 CPU.
Err.. Itanium was far from replacing the PC, it was very expensive, and not aimed at the desktop market at all.
No actually, the closest they'll get is an enhanced derivative version of Abiword.
Have you tried a GUI on *nix anytime recently? They ARE intuitive, enough for people that aren't tech savvy to use, and I have first-hand evidence to back that statement up.
Whether it's hidden or not depends on what distribution you use, and how much information you read and learn (I've only been using Linux for a year and a half, and I knew sudo was capable of this within the first few months). I agree that it fails the grade for people who refuse to or cannot learn how to edit config files, but it's not that the config file format is confusing, it's that the first party documentation is confusing, in my opinion. If I wanted to learn how to do it though, I'm confident that I could figure it out in about 30-60 minutes, which I don't think is unreasonable for a config file. Yes, it would be better if there was a GUI that could configure it for you, but the fuctionality is there.
Do you realize that you can define exactly which commands sudo will run, on a per-user or group basis?
My cell has a Fido logo on it, but it doesn't mean that the hardware is incapable of working on another provider. Of course, I'd have to unlock the phone before I could do that.
Way to form a coherent argument. First you say that pedophiles don't need to stalk specific children, because they don't care which child they abuse. Then you say that pedophiles usually abuse relatives, which directly contradicts the first thing you said.
My experience is the opposite. The only thing that doesn't work out of the box is my wireless, which I can set up in minutes. Everything else I need is in the package list, and it takes me one click for each app that I want to install from that, as opposed to hunting down the most up to date versions of a bunch of setup executeables, and then clicking through each individually, and then having to wait for the install to happen in front of me before moving onto the next application I want to install.
All of my most highly sought after applications are free, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
Run it under VMWare? There's more than one free software application that can view doc files without virtualising a computer, perhaps it would be easier to use one of them.
Uh, no, Bob contacts Alice first in the diagram - that VoIP call arrow in the first picture isn't data being sent, it's just an indicator of what's going on. If you don't agree, look at it this way, the arrow is black, not red or green, and it doesn't pass through any of the firewalls, therefore, it's not data being sent.
I agree with you that it's not as well supported as on Windows, but your assertion that you can't provide your own set of drivers with a hardware release is completely false. There are quite a few out of tree drivers, I use one myself for my webcam, and the big difference between that and Windows from the user's perspective is that development tools need to be on the user's machine in order to make it work. Of course, it also happens to be much easier to install those on a Linux system than on Windows.
If that's the case, then why is Linux able to support a variety of hardware configurations without having fundamental design issues the way Windows does?
You clearly just have money to burn.
Anonymous or not, you're totally right. If you invade a country full of people who aren't very fond of you, and then stay in there indefinitely, why wouldn't the residents start trying to evict you? And that whole every-Iraqi-we-kill-is-one-less-terrorist argument is the most shortsighted argument in this whole debacle. You can't destroy terrorism by taking lives, it's an ideology, and it will live on as long as you're pissing people off enough to take vengeance on you. Obviously it existed before 2001, but by going in and invading countries after, they're just fueling the flames. The only way to 'win' through armed conflict is either genocide, or full military occupation or something just as ridiculous. Obviously the US isn't just going to blow the middle east off the map (not that they can, thankfully), but then why are they invading a country, motivating thousands to rally against them? They will eventually be forced to realize that the only thing they can do is retreat and try to use diplomacy to ensure that less people are motivated to kill people in Western society, and now that job is harder than if they hadn't sent a couple hundred thousand troops into the middle east.
Yes, but what is the point of "reporting" hours if you work away from work? How is anyone going to know if you're working as many as you're reporting? Why waste the effort even trying to track how many hours someone is working? As is specified in the article, hours worked != productivity. Too many seem to confuse the two without even realizing it (I'm not saying that about you, just people in general)
no, no clocking in... from TFA:
Note rule 7.