It is his money and he can do whatever he wants with it. He wanted Mir, and Mir would be OSS software. Good. We, in the Linux community, like pluralism. If he had finished it, I would try it and maybe I would use it. I certainly use Unity and I like it. I might be in the minority, but I don't harm anyone using it.
Nobody forces you to use Mir, Unity or Ubuntu. And if you use Ubuntu, it is for free. I don't understand the hate.
It seems that AC has this favorite project Wayland, and wants to force others to spend their money on what AC likes, and not what they like.
I am sorry to hear this. Unity is a desktop I like to play with, browse some sites, make a documents and so on. It is something different than KDE and Gnome and it adds to the plurality of Linux. The majority of/.ers didn't like it, but we will all be poorer without it.
And, no, I don't have the resources or the expertise to take it over. I will probably switch to KUbuntu.
Give the man a break.
He does not spend his money in private jets; he uses it to follow his dream about space. He has done incredible work, reusing suborbital rocket 4 times. He is of the mentality to do one thing at time, to make slow and steady progress. Which is fine as far as I am concerned.
And don't forget that he has a contract to build a rocket engine for the ULA. I don't think that the people in ULA are idiots, they are reasonably certain that Bezos will build the engine.
Ok, Musk has accomplished more, but who knows who will prevail at the end.
Maybe you should try modern features of fortran2008, it is clearer than C++. It may even help you write better C++ code. On a side note, how is auto much better than implicit declaration of variables of the 60s where you knew that a variable starting with j was integer?
When I read the article, it reminded me the "get the facts" campaign of Microshaft, when they were saying that Windoze has lower cost than Linux. Right...
Replace open-source software with free software and he has every right do to exactly this and be proud of it. I wish I could do the same thing where I live.
Yes, at first I was also worried. But then I RTFA and Musk does not say he is going anywhere else (than Mars). From what I gathered, he just wanted a new name for his Mars Colonial Transporter. Someone in Twitter suggested Millennium Falcon and Musk said that he loved the suggestions. The name Musk chose, Interplanetary Transport System, IMO is more formal something like NASA's SLS (Space Launch System).
And notice that "Colonial" is missing in the new name. Maybe, just maybe, Musk is trying to scale down his ambitions, not scale them up.
I don't trust/like the "cloud". I don't like AWS in particular. But if there was the slightest possibility that I had to use Oracle cloud, I would rather marry Amazon to escape.
Is it?
A friend of mine got her win7 computer to the repair shop, cause it wouldn't run Skype.
They just reinstalled windows and billed her for 20 or 30 euros.
The same can be done with linux.
Unless if you imply I, or anyone else, should waste my time trying to find what's wrong with her windows box for free.
Except that if it were a passenger plane, it took off, landed, delivered passengers and luggage to their destinations (pilots too), took off again, landed to an airport in the middle of the desert, stopped, engines off, then some gear failed, it fell, then caught fire, and exploded.
It DOES count when and where it goes boom. If it had exploded when it took of it would have been a disaster, now it is a minor nuisance.
OK. My colleague still uses Windows. After less than a year since the latest reinstall, the computer takes 5 minutes to boot. It takes ages to load firefox. It is barely usable. I told her I have to reinstall Windows again and she has to backup all her files as we have done before. It is a nuisance (her words). I told her that she will not have any problems with Linux (word processing, internet, email, some web applications, nothing more). No, she stays with the nuisance (her words), than try something else.
Another colleague of mine bought a x86 based tablet running windows. He wanted it so that he could run an application we were developing in Java. It never worked. I told him it would be easy to port the Java application in Android since it is based on Java (well Dalvik), all we had to do was to change the UI (6 menus with 3 to 8 items on each menu). He refused to try anything but windows.
OK. It seems obvious if Windows want to expand to other users, they should not piss off those users with stupid "little" issues.
They do not support their older hardware. For example in my job we still use an NVIDIA card of 2006 era (I don't remember which exactly). When I installed the latest version of OpenSuSE one year ago, the proprietary driver did not support it. I switched to Nouveau and never had any problem (perhaps because I don't play 3D games). I have a modern desktop with the latest software in older hardware. Good luck with windows.
The result is surprising to say the least, as installation not only went impressively fast but Windows 10 also works fast as long as you’re not launching a very demanding app such as Photoshop.
My wife's very same netbook runs GIMP, LibreOffice, Firefox and video player concurrently and well under SuSE 13.1
Oh, and under Win7 it takes ages to boot (you do have an antivirus, right?), so I will take the story with a grain of salt or two.
Sure. But the same is true about GOTOs. You CAN write reliable code using GOTOs, if you have self discipline. But in practice 99% of code with GOTOs is abused. Hence the idiom "GOTO is evil".
The thing is that if Struktur AG has all the patents involved, then under GPL (and LGPL) the authors automatically give all recipients a license to all the patents (if I understand the legalese of GPL correctly).
Remember Clarke's Laws (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws):
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
OK, DeGrasse is not elderly (just 55 years old), but still...
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It is his money and he can do whatever he wants with it. He wanted Mir, and Mir would be OSS software. Good. We, in the Linux community, like pluralism. If he had finished it, I would try it and maybe I would use it. I certainly use Unity and I like it. I might be in the minority, but I don't harm anyone using it.
Nobody forces you to use Mir, Unity or Ubuntu. And if you use Ubuntu, it is for free. I don't understand the hate.
It seems that AC has this favorite project Wayland, and wants to force others to spend their money on what AC likes, and not what they like.
I am sorry to hear this. Unity is a desktop I like to play with, browse some sites, make a documents and so on. It is something different than KDE and Gnome and it adds to the plurality of Linux. The majority of /.ers didn't like it, but we will all be poorer without it.
And, no, I don't have the resources or the expertise to take it over. I will probably switch to KUbuntu.
Give the man a break. He does not spend his money in private jets; he uses it to follow his dream about space. He has done incredible work, reusing suborbital rocket 4 times. He is of the mentality to do one thing at time, to make slow and steady progress. Which is fine as far as I am concerned.
And don't forget that he has a contract to build a rocket engine for the ULA. I don't think that the people in ULA are idiots, they are reasonably certain that Bezos will build the engine.
Ok, Musk has accomplished more, but who knows who will prevail at the end.
Maybe you should try modern features of fortran2008, it is clearer than C++. It may even help you write better C++ code. On a side note, how is auto much better than implicit declaration of variables of the 60s where you knew that a variable starting with j was integer?
When I read the article, it reminded me the "get the facts" campaign of Microshaft, when they were saying that Windoze has lower cost than Linux. Right...
Replace open-source software with free software and he has every right do to exactly this and be proud of it. I wish I could do the same thing where I live.
Yes, at first I was also worried. But then I RTFA and Musk does not say he is going anywhere else (than Mars). From what I gathered, he just wanted a new name for his Mars Colonial Transporter. Someone in Twitter suggested Millennium Falcon and Musk said that he loved the suggestions. The name Musk chose, Interplanetary Transport System, IMO is more formal something like NASA's SLS (Space Launch System). And notice that "Colonial" is missing in the new name. Maybe, just maybe, Musk is trying to scale down his ambitions, not scale them up.
I don't trust/like the "cloud". I don't like AWS in particular. But if there was the slightest possibility that I had to use Oracle cloud, I would rather marry Amazon to escape.
I was under the same impression, until I actually worked with windows 8, and 10 :)
Is it?
A friend of mine got her win7 computer to the repair shop, cause it wouldn't run Skype. They just reinstalled windows and billed her for 20 or 30 euros.
The same can be done with linux.
Unless if you imply I, or anyone else, should waste my time trying to find what's wrong with her windows box for free.
We, the people, will make it be, despite your aspirations.
Except that if it were a passenger plane, it took off, landed, delivered passengers and luggage to their destinations (pilots too), took off again, landed to an airport in the middle of the desert, stopped, engines off, then some gear failed, it fell, then caught fire, and exploded.
It DOES count when and where it goes boom. If it had exploded when it took of it would have been a disaster, now it is a minor nuisance.
OK. My colleague still uses Windows. After less than a year since the latest reinstall, the computer takes 5 minutes to boot. It takes ages to load firefox. It is barely usable. I told her I have to reinstall Windows again and she has to backup all her files as we have done before. It is a nuisance (her words). I told her that she will not have any problems with Linux (word processing, internet, email, some web applications, nothing more). No, she stays with the nuisance (her words), than try something else.
Another colleague of mine bought a x86 based tablet running windows. He wanted it so that he could run an application we were developing in Java. It never worked. I told him it would be easy to port the Java application in Android since it is based on Java (well Dalvik), all we had to do was to change the UI (6 menus with 3 to 8 items on each menu). He refused to try anything but windows.
OK. It seems obvious if Windows want to expand to other users, they should not piss off those users with stupid "little" issues.
They do not support their older hardware. For example in my job we still use an NVIDIA card of 2006 era (I don't remember which exactly). When I installed the latest version of OpenSuSE one year ago, the proprietary driver did not support it. I switched to Nouveau and never had any problem (perhaps because I don't play 3D games). I have a modern desktop with the latest software in older hardware. Good luck with windows.
It sounds like system D.
The result is surprising to say the least, as installation not only went impressively fast but Windows 10 also works fast as long as you’re not launching a very demanding app such as Photoshop.
My wife's very same netbook runs GIMP, LibreOffice, Firefox and video player concurrently and well under SuSE 13.1
Oh, and under Win7 it takes ages to boot (you do have an antivirus, right?), so I will take the story with a grain of salt or two.
Because I can.
SpaceX proves that you are wrong.
Sure. But the same is true about GOTOs. You CAN write reliable code using GOTOs, if you have self discipline. But in practice 99% of code with GOTOs is abused. Hence the idiom "GOTO is evil".
Spread sheet is evil.
Now, may I have the returned glasses (for free)?
I downloaded the library to see some random code. Here is the very first file I (randomly) chose (putw.c):
#define _GNU_SOURCE
#include
int putw(int x, FILE *f)
{
return (int)fwrite(&x, sizeof x, 1, f)-1;
}
Cheers.
Now troll is the story itself.
Nice.
On the contrary. 99 years copyright is a very recent phenomenon.
The thing is that if Struktur AG has all the patents involved, then under GPL (and LGPL) the authors automatically give all recipients a license to all the patents (if I understand the legalese of GPL correctly).
Remember Clarke's Laws (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws):
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
OK, DeGrasse is not elderly (just 55 years old), but still...