There is a program that does this already, it's called virtual PC. It allows you to double click an exe on the desktop and have it open up, etc.
I don't think this will open the door for Windows emulation, but probably for dual booting - which should get rid of the "I can't play games on Mac!" folks (except most are just jealous that they can't afford a mac).
Microsoft is doing nothing of the sort. Microsoft borrowed from the Apple ui, not the Linux. Yes, X has been around since the 80's... but at that point, UNIX was not a contender for the desktop market AT ALL (hence Linux being created so Linus could use a UNIX-like OS in his dorm, with more features than Minix). At that point, when things could have been borrowed, Gates wouldn't have even thought of UNIX, as he wasn't even thinking of taking over the mainframe world. His only competition was Apple, which he duped into giving out secrets (ala Pirates of Silicon Valley)...
1. If you change the Mobo, ram, hard drive, or any other big hardware, Windows wants you to reactivate. If you do it over three times, Windows makes you call microsoft
2. Automated lady really is a pain. She never finds the CD key like she promises she'll try to, then when you talk to a real person they only want the first five digits, instead of the whole freaking thing
The only reason it wouldn't be widespread is if you always use the same hardware every time you install. If you just reinstall on your Dell, then it won't happen. But if you've actually changed things, or got a new system without an OS, you will have the problems mentioned above.
X was around before linux, check wikipedia man. 1984. MIT. Before X was W, and there was a GUI before that too.
I don't want to count how many types you put "*nix" in there. It's ok to say Unix, or POSIX compliant, or learn to write english without referring to the subject every two words.
I'm in the same boat. I like Linux, but I don't like it on the desktop. I use it for like a day on the desktop and I'm unsatisfied. I love it on servers though, and I like the terminal. Anything I really need the unix terminal for I can usually do through cygwin just fine.
"even on very nice LCD monitors I get headaches. This is because I habitually read scrolling text. This works on CRTs, but ghosting and inferior response rates blur everything. I bought a LCD monitor a while ago and I learned this. I bought a CRT to replace it and gave the LCD to a friend."
I am the reverse. I get headaches on a CRT after maybe an hour of use. It doesn't matter the model, refresh (though low refresh dries my eyes out), resolution or anything else. It will give me a headache and blur my vision. I looked forward to working on my laptop at work only because I could work all day without having issues. I recently (four months ago?) bought a nice Hyundai Imagequest L90D+ monitor as my old 19inch CRT was going out and had been for a while. It's 8ms response, never seen any ghosting, including watching line upon line compile during a Gentoo install... no I'm not a ricer, nor have I seen any blur. It also has almost true black (when the screen glows black there is a little glow, but not much more than my old CRT did), great color etc. I got it on a nice sale at Newegg for around $300. Maybe more than a CRT, but I think it was justified. This is not to try to say why you should buy an LCD... only my experience.
Last time I visited Intel (their Oregon campus closest to Nike - don't remember the actual name), they had a whole bunch of computers in the cages that were in various states of Red Hat, Fedora, SuSE and Debian installs. In the cages, I didn't see anything running Windows except for the company PC's that the engineers did their actual work on (which there weren't very many compared to the others). The Linux stuff was for testing.
They were installing it on workstations and some of the other stuff, like blade servers.
I like the dump truck analogy. I cannot see a person getting hit by an object and having the courts point out the sign saying that it's not the truck company's responsibility. I could kill someone and hang a sign on my door saying "Not Responsible for Murder", but it wouldn't make a difference.
I think with the trucks though, if they had a sign saying "Stay back 20 feet", along with the disclaimer, they might not be considered responsible, as the other driver was making the choice to violate the warning.
In the same way, I think that the licenses do stand up for the most part, as they often say things like "Do not use this software in life threatening zones" or something similar. In that case, it is the end user who still used it, and should be responsible.
Well my analogy at the end didn't work quite right. You could hold the manufacturers responsible if it was a defect in the product that allowed it to be tampered with (say, "hit the bolt with a hammer and it opens right up"). However, if it was left open by the bank then the bank is responsible either way... even if it was contracted.
I guess, then, that the thing with contracted work is that you are also, hopefully, helping to correctly impliment it. In that case, a flaw should be attributed to you.
Software is not going to be perfect. It is always going to have bugs, it is always going to have vulnerabilities. The level of danger in most cases depends on the administrator (or at least, the person running the software on the host end). If a person were able to break into your bank's software, then your bank is responsible. Your bank choose to use the software, your bank allowed for holes in their security.
Yes, the developer holds some blame for the vulnerability in the program, but they cannot be held responsible for a choice to use it and what may come of that. There is an exception though; contracted work. If you are contracted by a company to make a piece of software, if it fails then you are directly responsible. They did not "make the choice" to use something you had released, they asked you to make something for them to use.
If a robber was able to steal the contents of the safety deposit box at the bank, you would not hold the manufacturer of the safe responsible. If, however, the bank enlisted their own designers to make a custom safe, the bank could in turn hold those designers responsible (assuming they didn't leave the door open).
Or if you're in New England, you will be invited out on some rich democrat's yaught and few from a silver spoon, as they were for most of their lives. Of course, you can also have a fake smile plastered onto your face, and, just like them, when your wife makes a comment that you don't like (Such as "I don't think my husband OR George Bush is up to the job"), you can just stop having her anywhere near the spotlight.
"I'm ruled by a rich, white prime minister, instead of a rich, white President. I don't know French but I can converse fluently in American... I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack, because even though no one realizes that we're just as guilty as anyone else for the fate of the third world, everyone blames America."
-Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie
Ever looked at an internet map? While it is indeed an international infrastructure, most of those nations use the US as a jumping off point. Maybe we should just cut off the rest of the world, most of the US wouldn't notice a difference (except maybe a lack of some BBC news, and a lot less spam)... let you guys figure out your own version, then you don't have to deal with our rules:)
Man, that's from this generation. Get with the times, hackers of the future will say:
The Fun Guy writes ta tizzle us The NSF has awarded $48 million ta tha University of Chicago ta operate n expand TeraGrid over tha nizzy fizzle years . You gotta check dis shit out yo. TeraGrid is a national-scale system of interconnected cracka tizzle scientists n pimp is using ta solve some of they mizzost challeng'n problems , ya feel me?. TeraGrid is tha worlds largest open computa, storage n network'n system. Only tha U.S. Department of Energys weapons laboratizzles have pusha systems, W-H-to-tha-izzich is dedicated ta classified research . Ya fuck with us, we gots to fuck you up. Currently, tha TeraGrids powa is jizzle over 60 teraflops.
I would suggest that you possibly use correct punctuation, it might make you seem older than a High School graduate/Sophomore (whichever you prefer, really).
Keep in mind, Starbucks does not count as an office, or an IT job.
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There is a program that does this already, it's called virtual PC. It allows you to double click an exe on the desktop and have it open up, etc.
I don't think this will open the door for Windows emulation, but probably for dual booting - which should get rid of the "I can't play games on Mac!" folks (except most are just jealous that they can't afford a mac).
AFAIK, IBM isn't IBM's competition.
Microsoft is doing nothing of the sort. Microsoft borrowed from the Apple ui, not the Linux. Yes, X has been around since the 80's... but at that point, UNIX was not a contender for the desktop market AT ALL (hence Linux being created so Linus could use a UNIX-like OS in his dorm, with more features than Minix). At that point, when things could have been borrowed, Gates wouldn't have even thought of UNIX, as he wasn't even thinking of taking over the mainframe world. His only competition was Apple, which he duped into giving out secrets (ala Pirates of Silicon Valley)...
You sir, are an idiot. Two things:
1. If you change the Mobo, ram, hard drive, or any other big hardware, Windows wants you to reactivate. If you do it over three times, Windows makes you call microsoft
2. Automated lady really is a pain. She never finds the CD key like she promises she'll try to, then when you talk to a real person they only want the first five digits, instead of the whole freaking thing
The only reason it wouldn't be widespread is if you always use the same hardware every time you install. If you just reinstall on your Dell, then it won't happen. But if you've actually changed things, or got a new system without an OS, you will have the problems mentioned above.
X was around before linux, check wikipedia man. 1984. MIT. Before X was W, and there was a GUI before that too.
I don't want to count how many types you put "*nix" in there. It's ok to say Unix, or POSIX compliant, or learn to write english without referring to the subject every two words.
It totally changed my love life... I'm Steve, and I'm a supervillian.
I'm in the same boat. I like Linux, but I don't like it on the desktop. I use it for like a day on the desktop and I'm unsatisfied. I love it on servers though, and I like the terminal. Anything I really need the unix terminal for I can usually do through cygwin just fine.
"even on very nice LCD monitors I get headaches. This is because I habitually read scrolling text. This works on CRTs, but ghosting and inferior response rates blur everything. I bought a LCD monitor a while ago and I learned this. I bought a CRT to replace it and gave the LCD to a friend." I am the reverse. I get headaches on a CRT after maybe an hour of use. It doesn't matter the model, refresh (though low refresh dries my eyes out), resolution or anything else. It will give me a headache and blur my vision. I looked forward to working on my laptop at work only because I could work all day without having issues. I recently (four months ago?) bought a nice Hyundai Imagequest L90D+ monitor as my old 19inch CRT was going out and had been for a while. It's 8ms response, never seen any ghosting, including watching line upon line compile during a Gentoo install... no I'm not a ricer, nor have I seen any blur. It also has almost true black (when the screen glows black there is a little glow, but not much more than my old CRT did), great color etc. I got it on a nice sale at Newegg for around $300. Maybe more than a CRT, but I think it was justified. This is not to try to say why you should buy an LCD... only my experience.
Last time I visited Intel (their Oregon campus closest to Nike - don't remember the actual name), they had a whole bunch of computers in the cages that were in various states of Red Hat, Fedora, SuSE and Debian installs. In the cages, I didn't see anything running Windows except for the company PC's that the engineers did their actual work on (which there weren't very many compared to the others). The Linux stuff was for testing.
They were installing it on workstations and some of the other stuff, like blade servers.
Are you saying there is something wrong with Steve names? Hmm? Hmm?
I'm in the same boat as Taco, same name everywhere, but I'm unique for the moment.
I'm thinking of joining the tinfoil frat (Lambda Lambda Lambda, o' course)
Well, Oregon State is home to the OSUOSL.... it's used by everyone from Gentoo to Mozilla, suse and freenode... No idea why PSU was involved...
Ever ran a Microsoft Exchange standard edition server? That'll certainly kill your office a few times a year, regardless of training.
You forgot about gizoogle man.
But how will they distribute it?
Well.... if we retrofit all humans and natural processes with Linux, you could solve problems AND have quite an extensive zombie network!
I like the dump truck analogy. I cannot see a person getting hit by an object and having the courts point out the sign saying that it's not the truck company's responsibility. I could kill someone and hang a sign on my door saying "Not Responsible for Murder", but it wouldn't make a difference.
I think with the trucks though, if they had a sign saying "Stay back 20 feet", along with the disclaimer, they might not be considered responsible, as the other driver was making the choice to violate the warning.
In the same way, I think that the licenses do stand up for the most part, as they often say things like "Do not use this software in life threatening zones" or something similar. In that case, it is the end user who still used it, and should be responsible.
Well my analogy at the end didn't work quite right. You could hold the manufacturers responsible if it was a defect in the product that allowed it to be tampered with (say, "hit the bolt with a hammer and it opens right up"). However, if it was left open by the bank then the bank is responsible either way... even if it was contracted. I guess, then, that the thing with contracted work is that you are also, hopefully, helping to correctly impliment it. In that case, a flaw should be attributed to you.
Software is not going to be perfect. It is always going to have bugs, it is always going to have vulnerabilities. The level of danger in most cases depends on the administrator (or at least, the person running the software on the host end). If a person were able to break into your bank's software, then your bank is responsible. Your bank choose to use the software, your bank allowed for holes in their security.
Yes, the developer holds some blame for the vulnerability in the program, but they cannot be held responsible for a choice to use it and what may come of that. There is an exception though; contracted work. If you are contracted by a company to make a piece of software, if it fails then you are directly responsible. They did not "make the choice" to use something you had released, they asked you to make something for them to use.
If a robber was able to steal the contents of the safety deposit box at the bank, you would not hold the manufacturer of the safe responsible. If, however, the bank enlisted their own designers to make a custom safe, the bank could in turn hold those designers responsible (assuming they didn't leave the door open).
Didn't you know? Al Gore runs on Linux 2.2. He's missing a couple of modules though, such as personality.ko, but he's mostly stable.
Or if you're in New England, you will be invited out on some rich democrat's yaught and few from a silver spoon, as they were for most of their lives. Of course, you can also have a fake smile plastered onto your face, and, just like them, when your wife makes a comment that you don't like (Such as "I don't think my husband OR George Bush is up to the job"), you can just stop having her anywhere near the spotlight.
Canada?
"I'm ruled by a rich, white prime minister, instead of a rich, white President. I don't know French but I can converse fluently in American... I can proudly sew my country's flag on my backpack, because even though no one realizes that we're just as guilty as anyone else for the fate of the third world, everyone blames America." -Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie
Ever looked at an internet map? While it is indeed an international infrastructure, most of those nations use the US as a jumping off point. Maybe we should just cut off the rest of the world, most of the US wouldn't notice a difference (except maybe a lack of some BBC news, and a lot less spam)... let you guys figure out your own version, then you don't have to deal with our rules :)
Man, that's from this generation. Get with the times, hackers of the future will say:
The Fun Guy writes ta tizzle us The NSF has awarded $48 million ta tha University of Chicago ta operate n expand TeraGrid over tha nizzy fizzle years . You gotta check dis shit out yo. TeraGrid is a national-scale system of interconnected cracka tizzle scientists n pimp is using ta solve some of they mizzost challeng'n problems , ya feel me?. TeraGrid is tha worlds largest open computa, storage n network'n system. Only tha U.S. Department of Energys weapons laboratizzles have pusha systems, W-H-to-tha-izzich is dedicated ta classified research . Ya fuck with us, we gots to fuck you up. Currently, tha TeraGrids powa is jizzle over 60 teraflops.
I would suggest that you possibly use correct punctuation, it might make you seem older than a High School graduate/Sophomore (whichever you prefer, really).
Keep in mind, Starbucks does not count as an office, or an IT job.