In my opinion and with the mix of jobs I run, my Linux system at home with a 120MHz pentium and 64MBytes RAM beats the NT system with 200MHz Pentium (pro?) and 128MByte RAM I use at work. At home I can be running 2 compilations and not see any performance hits in emacs or web browsing, whereas at work a single compilation shows a noticeable hit on other activities.
Fairer, but still in an MS "emulation" mode with Win9X clients and Samba. I wonder if the results would be different if instead of MS networking/Samba the tests just used 'open' internet protocols such as http and ftp?
Analysts have almost the same job as reporters, except they sell their findings to companies rather than print them for the world.
When I started work, the analyst was the person who analysed the requirements, proposed solutions and wrote the specification for the programmers to implement. Obviously the meaning has changed:-)
2.depict sexual conduct in a "patently offensive way" as defined by community standards;
Whose community? The sender's, the recipient's or a random community through which the message passes? Communities in different parts of the world have different standards, even in these days of global communications. So what may be obscene in the sender's community may be in the recipient's or vice versa.
It's just proof sterotypes are bad.
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Software installation is normally not bad. Using a tool such as SuSe's Yast installing a package is just point and click. Installing from source tar balls is not much harder.
cd/usr/local/src tar xzf app.tar.gz cd appdir ./configure make make install
This is no harder than using Installshield under windows.
What happened to IBM's Bamba? This seemed to offer better quality and smaller files than real, but apart from a few demo sites I have rarely encountered it in use.
Didn't he (and the press) do the same thing with OS/2?
To start with badmouth the features, then later when Windows implemented the same features (not always as well) they were heralded as being the best thing since sliced bread.
Is it still the case that cassettes cost more to produce (from the same master) than CDs? Yet CDs cost more to buy. The record companies take the view the audio quality is higer on CD so we should have to pay more than for the same music on tape.
And to prevent any claims of bias, invite each OS vendor to install and configure their own OS. That way, each OS should show the optimum performance, making a fair comparison.
Also look at CompuServe. When all access was charged per minute and when the only internet access was for email, the S/N ratio in forums was very good. IMHO the quality of the forums started declining when flat rate and internet access were introduced. Maybe it was just co-incidence.
With most ISPs (the exceptions being the information service providers such as CompuServe and AOL) you should be able to get exactly the same access using Linux as you do with Windows. As long as it will "talk" PPP, the OS you use to connect should be irrelevant.
You can't sue AT&T because someone phoned someone else and slandered.
But you can expect the phone company to be able to be able to identify (ie trace) abusive phone calls. They may not tell you the identity of the caller, and it might turn out to be a payphone, but they should be able to identify the source of calls. Likewise for internet. The ISPs should not be responsible for the actions of their customers, but they should be able to identify which of their customers (or whose account) is causing the problem
This does not address one of the problems with the new licence, viz that the logo etc is required to be shown and this is not possible for a text-mode player. So does this mean that only graphical players are allowed under the new licence?
The phone companies ARE being compensated for the calls made both to ISPs and for the data sent between ISPs. The caller pays for (either metered or inclusive charges) the calls using the local loop to the ISP, in the same way that they pay for any other call within their local calling area. The ISPs then rent leased circuits to transfer the data between themselves. Where do they get these leased circuits from? - That's right - from the phone companies!
Maybe one solution to this problem would be for the search engines to not "target" the banner ads shown depending on keywords in the search. Then neither the people associated with any trademark of a keyword which a user inputs, nor their competitors would be able to complain about unfair treatment.
Any banners shown by sites which are returned as a result of the search are, of course, nothing to do with the owners or operators of the search engines.
While the corporation is "in jail", all monies which would have have come into the corporation are paid directly to the government (to pay off national debt etc). If the corporation cannot survive with no income during its "incarceration", then it will have to declare bankruptcy and go out of business.
Such penalties might provide some disincentive for corporations to break the law.
Unless in the meanwhile the press "see the light" and switch to using Linux rather than Windows internally. If the editor and journalists happen to be running Lyx (or some other Tex frontend) rather than an MS wordprocessor to compose their copy......
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In my opinion and with the mix of jobs I run, my Linux system at home with a 120MHz pentium and 64MBytes RAM beats the NT system with 200MHz Pentium (pro?) and 128MByte RAM I use at work. At home I can be running 2 compilations and not see any performance hits in emacs or web browsing, whereas at work a single compilation shows a noticeable hit on other activities.
Fairer, but still in an MS "emulation" mode with Win9X clients and Samba. I wonder if the results would be different if instead of MS networking/Samba the tests just used 'open' internet protocols such as http and ftp?
What are the coresponding figures if you put the newbies in front of computers with the OS and applications already installed?
Do they find Windows any easier than *nix in these circumstances?
Maybe even a Win3.x or DOS box as Win9x and NT should be able to handle .html
Analysts have almost the same job as reporters, except they sell their findings to companies rather than print them for the world.
When I started work, the analyst was the person who analysed the requirements, proposed solutions and wrote the specification for the programmers to implement. Obviously the meaning has changed :-)
2.depict sexual conduct in a "patently offensive way" as defined by community standards;
Whose community? The sender's, the recipient's or a random community through which the message passes? Communities in different parts of the world have different standards, even in these days of global communications. So what may be obscene in the sender's community may be in the recipient's or vice versa.
Software installation is normally not bad.
/usr/local/src
./configure
Using a tool such as SuSe's Yast installing a package is just point and click. Installing from source tar balls is not much harder.
cd
tar xzf app.tar.gz
cd appdir
make
make install
This is no harder than using Installshield under windows.
What happened to IBM's Bamba? This seemed to offer better quality and smaller files than real, but apart from a few demo sites I have rarely encountered it in use.
Even so, I think it is a good idea to always run make clean after patching, so as to force everything to be recompiled.
Didn't he (and the press) do the same thing with OS/2?
To start with badmouth the features, then later when Windows implemented the same features (not always as well) they were heralded as being the best thing since sliced bread.
If he thinks having no central point of control is bad, would Bill prefer that we all continued to use mainframes rather than PCs?
Is it still the case that cassettes cost more to produce (from the same master) than CDs? Yet CDs cost more to buy. The record companies take the view the audio quality is higer on CD so we should have to pay more than for the same music on tape.
And to prevent any claims of bias, invite each OS vendor to install and configure their own OS. That way, each OS should show the optimum performance, making a fair comparison.
Also look at CompuServe. When all access was charged per minute and when the only internet access was for email, the S/N ratio in forums was very good. IMHO the quality of the forums started declining when flat rate and internet access were introduced. Maybe it was just co-incidence.
No the DOS memory limit was 1Mbyte, the 640K came from the architecture of the IBM PC which put the ROM area at 640K.
In the mid 80's I was using MSDOS on non-IBM compatible systems which provided a full 1Mbyte of addressing (the video wasn't memory mapped)
With most ISPs (the exceptions being the information service providers such as CompuServe and AOL) you should be able to get exactly the same access using Linux as you do with Windows. As long as it will "talk" PPP, the OS you use to connect should be irrelevant.
But you can expect the phone company to be able to be able to identify (ie trace) abusive phone calls. They may not tell you the identity of the caller, and it might turn out to be a payphone, but they should be able to identify the source of calls. Likewise for internet. The ISPs should not be responsible for the actions of their customers, but they should be able to identify which of their customers (or whose account) is causing the problem
This does not address one of the problems with the new licence, viz that the logo etc is required to be shown and this is not possible for a text-mode player. So does this mean that only graphical players are allowed under the new licence?
The phone companies ARE being compensated for the calls made both to ISPs and for the data sent between ISPs. The caller pays for (either metered or inclusive charges) the calls using the local loop to the ISP, in the same way that they pay for any other call within their local calling area. The ISPs then rent leased circuits to transfer the data between themselves. Where do they get these leased circuits from? - That's right - from the phone companies!
Maybe one solution to this problem would be for the search engines to not "target" the banner ads shown depending on keywords in the search. Then neither the people associated with any trademark of a keyword which a user inputs, nor their competitors would be able to complain about unfair treatment.
Any banners shown by sites which are returned as a result of the search are, of course, nothing to do with the owners or operators of the search engines.
While the corporation is "in jail", all monies which would have have come into the corporation are paid directly to the government (to pay off national debt etc). If the corporation cannot survive with no income during its "incarceration", then it will have to declare bankruptcy and go out of business.
Such penalties might provide some disincentive for corporations to break the law.
Unless in the meanwhile the press "see the light" and switch to using Linux rather than Windows internally. If the editor and journalists happen to be running Lyx (or some other Tex frontend) rather than an MS wordprocessor to compose their copy......