This is because Google encourages its employees to work on projects that don't particularly have to do with what they're currently working on for their job. So they've all got these little "side-projects" that they work on, and if a bunch of them all like what another is doing, they work together on it and eventually they try to make it part of Google. That's how GMail started out, I hear.
"Standardization. What is the current standard distribution of Linux? Wow, take your pick, because there is none. If a company that specializes in the consumer market such as Google adds their name to a specific distribution and configured it for mass use, it would, I predict, stand a really good chance of becoming the Linux of Choice(TM) for most average desktop users."
No. I would probably never switch, and certainly there will never be a distro to suit everyone's needs/wants. Mandrakesoft and SuSE have already tried - they've done wonders for ease-of-use, but they hinder the power and control that many Linux users want over their system.
If you really think that there could/should be a "one size fits all" Linux distro, I think you should read this thread. Basically some guy had a similar idea as you (his idea was dropping support for certain distros and focusing on the "main" distros) and criticized some of the differences in all the distros, and everyone chewed him out for it.
That said, though. . . I really am all for Google making their own distro, if that's what they are going to do. I may or may not use it, who knows (personally I like Slackware), but if some people do prefer Google OS over Slackware or Ubuntu. . . fine by me.
Are you aware that MS is trying to "fucking bury" Google? That's the whole point of all those MSN Search ads you see on TV.
As you said yourself, Google is a smart company. They're not a sitting duck. MSN Search sucks, IMO, but MS has a huge budget to throw into it to make it better - in the meantime Google has no way of striking back at MS - who already has MSN Maps, Encarta Online, MSN, MSNBC, Hotmail, and a multitude of other things.
Why would Google want their own Linux distro? Because their biggest fear is MS, and MS' biggest fear (other than Google) is losing their Windows cash-cow to Linux. They wouldn't do it to make money, they'd do it to ensure that they don't lose any money.
Look around you. MS knows Linux is a threat - why don't you? "Get the Facts", "Linux is a Cancer", "Let's Fucking Kill Google the Ever-Popular Linux Dot-Com", "Hunt down the Xbox users who mod their Xbox for Linux", "Let's hide the fact that Hotmail started out on open-source software", "Oh, we're funding a Linux lab but you're still supposed to think Linux is bad". . .
Maybe Google will partner with Ubuntu. Although I doubt it - probably they'll work together on some stuff or use each other's source (as many other distros sometimes do) but more than likely they're going to be working towards different things. Plus, Google probably wouldn't want to discriminate against other distros (I prefer Slackware myself, but I have no problem if Google wants to support Ubuntu - others might though.)
As far as Google's plans for Linux. . . I don't think I'm far off when I say "make Steve Ballmer eat his words for saying he'll 'fucking bury Google'".;^)
No, they're not - they didn't even catch the person who stole it.
It even says in TFA:
"Genovese would have had a viable defense had he gone to trial, because the documents were widely available on peer-to-peer networks at the time of the sale, said Mark Rasch, a former Justice Department cybercrime prosecutor.
'This guy didn't participate in the misappropriation, and probably didn't conspire with anybody to misappropriate it,' said Rasch, a vice president at security company Solutionary."
I'm sure it's available on P2P. . . but do you really think MS doesn't also have fake versions on P2P? Plus, it's probably a HUGE download, so it'd take forever on P2P - but I'm assuming the guy is burning it to a CD when he sells it or making it available through a high-speed connection.
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"IMHO, you should try things like this just for the heck of it. It's the hacker/tinkerer spirit. If you use journaled filesystems, there's very little risk of data loss in case of crashes."
Normally I do, but I just don't want to be stuck with Linux not booting anymore at a time when I don't have much time to sit down and figure those sorts of things out.
I've never used Linux's "suspend" feature, but the way I understand it, when you suspend it loads a direct copy of what's in memory to swap - and then when you boot up again it loads this "image" back into memory.
Sounds to me like it doesn't even need to start up all those daemons and stuff again - it just completely replaces what's in memory, and you keep going from where you left off.
The only question I have about it (and the reason I've never tried it) is what happens when you actually shut down or reboot the computer - does Linux know that there's no image for it to "resume" from? I mostly run Linux, but I dual-boot to a WinXP partition for games.
"Apple bought NeXT, but NeXT management (e.g, Steve Jobs and Avie Tevanian) found itself seated in control of Apple"
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer - Jobs was there from the start. He might've left, but I believe Apple started doing poorly when he left - so when he came back they were probably glad to put him back in control.
I wouldn't consider it "fringe" or "geeky" to want that kind of privacy. There are thousands of Internet credit card transactions every day, and many banks have online management tools. Also, if you want to check your e-mail through a computer on someone else's network without having to worry about the possibility of your e-mail/contact info being stolen or having someone else read your e-mail.
Normally you might be right, but in this case the rating got bumped up to "AO"("Adults Only") causing Wal-Mart and other stores to take it off the shelves.
Oh. I was under the impression that the question was about a home file server (which might be in a normal PC case, depending on how many hard drives he puts in there - one or two 250GB HDs would be just fine for home use, unless you're doing some real serious stuff).
You can still use the Windows API and not have to custom-make everything, and still hand-code an application. Also, I didn't mean to suggest "don't use form designers", I was trying to suggest that you should at least look through the auto-generated code to make sure it's secure.
Are you sure VB is considered a "world class" language? I don't see much anything written in VB except for very small applications. Good luck getting something as big as Quicken, Outlook, or DOOM III written in VB and running at C++ speeds. And I don't know what VB app you're talking about that runs at "near C++ speeds " - I've yet to see that, as even with small apps there is a difference in speed.
And, no, VB didn't make the computer more useful. There were/are plenty of other BASIC interpreters just as useful. The only one you know about, though, is VB because MS made a big deal about putting VB/VBScript into every application. Who did that help, other than virus creators?
"Fact: Unless you write every single bit yourself (no assembler, no compiler, no external libraries), you have no idea if the code is secure."
I hope you're not a programmer.
Computer programs are bound to have bugs. I understand that. But does that make it better to just trust VB or VC++ or whatever to write all your code for you, and just assume that it's secure? IMO, no. At the very least you should look through the code to make sure you can't find any security problems with it. No one else is going to know/care what tools you used so you might as well make sure as best you can that the problem isn't sloppy coding.
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This is because Google encourages its employees to work on projects that don't particularly have to do with what they're currently working on for their job. So they've all got these little "side-projects" that they work on, and if a bunch of them all like what another is doing, they work together on it and eventually they try to make it part of Google. That's how GMail started out, I hear.
No. I would probably never switch, and certainly there will never be a distro to suit everyone's needs/wants. Mandrakesoft and SuSE have already tried - they've done wonders for ease-of-use, but they hinder the power and control that many Linux users want over their system.
If you really think that there could/should be a "one size fits all" Linux distro, I think you should read this thread. Basically some guy had a similar idea as you (his idea was dropping support for certain distros and focusing on the "main" distros) and criticized some of the differences in all the distros, and everyone chewed him out for it.
That said, though. . . I really am all for Google making their own distro, if that's what they are going to do. I may or may not use it, who knows (personally I like Slackware), but if some people do prefer Google OS over Slackware or Ubuntu. . . fine by me.
Are you aware that MS is trying to "fucking bury" Google? That's the whole point of all those MSN Search ads you see on TV.
As you said yourself, Google is a smart company. They're not a sitting duck. MSN Search sucks, IMO, but MS has a huge budget to throw into it to make it better - in the meantime Google has no way of striking back at MS - who already has MSN Maps, Encarta Online, MSN, MSNBC, Hotmail, and a multitude of other things.
Why would Google want their own Linux distro? Because their biggest fear is MS, and MS' biggest fear (other than Google) is losing their Windows cash-cow to Linux. They wouldn't do it to make money, they'd do it to ensure that they don't lose any money.
Look around you. MS knows Linux is a threat - why don't you? "Get the Facts", "Linux is a Cancer", "Let's Fucking Kill Google the Ever-Popular Linux Dot-Com", "Hunt down the Xbox users who mod their Xbox for Linux", "Let's hide the fact that Hotmail started out on open-source software", "Oh, we're funding a Linux lab but you're still supposed to think Linux is bad". . .
As far as Google's plans for Linux. . . I don't think I'm far off when I say "make Steve Ballmer eat his words for saying he'll 'fucking bury Google'". ;^)
It could also be why most people prefer to just get Netflix and rip the DVDs themselves.
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It even says in TFA:
"Genovese would have had a viable defense had he gone to trial, because the documents were widely available on peer-to-peer networks at the time of the sale, said Mark Rasch, a former Justice Department cybercrime prosecutor.
'This guy didn't participate in the misappropriation, and probably didn't conspire with anybody to misappropriate it,' said Rasch, a vice president at security company Solutionary."
I'm sure it's available on P2P. . . but do you really think MS doesn't also have fake versions on P2P? Plus, it's probably a HUGE download, so it'd take forever on P2P - but I'm assuming the guy is burning it to a CD when he sells it or making it available through a high-speed connection.
NetRAVEN5000 is the richest, smartest, sexiest person alive. His ACT score is a 35. His IQ is 10,923. He can benchpress almost 90x his own weight, and he owns 5 Porche 911s, 3 Cadillac Devilles, and quite a few Chrysler 300C's.
Although they might not be so thrilled that you broke their MRI machine. . .
Normally I do, but I just don't want to be stuck with Linux not booting anymore at a time when I don't have much time to sit down and figure those sorts of things out.
Sounds to me like it doesn't even need to start up all those daemons and stuff again - it just completely replaces what's in memory, and you keep going from where you left off.
The only question I have about it (and the reason I've never tried it) is what happens when you actually shut down or reboot the computer - does Linux know that there's no image for it to "resume" from? I mostly run Linux, but I dual-boot to a WinXP partition for games.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer - Jobs was there from the start. He might've left, but I believe Apple started doing poorly when he left - so when he came back they were probably glad to put him back in control.
I wouldn't consider it "fringe" or "geeky" to want that kind of privacy. There are thousands of Internet credit card transactions every day, and many banks have online management tools. Also, if you want to check your e-mail through a computer on someone else's network without having to worry about the possibility of your e-mail/contact info being stolen or having someone else read your e-mail.
How is that any different from what it says on Wikipedia?
According to Wikipedia's article on Hot Coffee you need the patch to actually see any nudity.
Sex is a perfectly normal thing. Everyone at least thinks about it at some point in their life. Killing? Not so normal.
Wouldn't it have had to be in the source code in order to appear in the binary?
Normally you might be right, but in this case the rating got bumped up to "AO"("Adults Only") causing Wal-Mart and other stores to take it off the shelves.
From the first page you mentioned, it sounds like Mozilla does, in fact, conform pretty well to Web standards.
Oh. I was under the impression that the question was about a home file server (which might be in a normal PC case, depending on how many hard drives he puts in there - one or two 250GB HDs would be just fine for home use, unless you're doing some real serious stuff).
From the site:
# CSS support: Excellent
# DHTML support: Excellent
# DOM: Level 1
So, what do they see wrong with FF/Mozilla, as far as Web standards go?
You can still use the Windows API and not have to custom-make everything, and still hand-code an application. Also, I didn't mean to suggest "don't use form designers", I was trying to suggest that you should at least look through the auto-generated code to make sure it's secure.
Are you sure VB is considered a "world class" language? I don't see much anything written in VB except for very small applications. Good luck getting something as big as Quicken, Outlook, or DOOM III written in VB and running at C++ speeds. And I don't know what VB app you're talking about that runs at "near C++ speeds " - I've yet to see that, as even with small apps there is a difference in speed.
And, no, VB didn't make the computer more useful. There were/are plenty of other BASIC interpreters just as useful. The only one you know about, though, is VB because MS made a big deal about putting VB/VBScript into every application. Who did that help, other than virus creators?
I hope you're not a programmer.
Computer programs are bound to have bugs. I understand that. But does that make it better to just trust VB or VC++ or whatever to write all your code for you, and just assume that it's secure? IMO, no. At the very least you should look through the code to make sure you can't find any security problems with it. No one else is going to know/care what tools you used so you might as well make sure as best you can that the problem isn't sloppy coding.