Of the three companies you mentioned, Microsoft is the least closed. Especially with regards to SilverLight, it looks like a new standard is being defined and broadly accepted. On that one, I would give high props to MS.
And for those interested, Silverlight will be legal on Linux.
Apologists point to a few scientific things that "Islam" brought to the world in some past golden age.
I will set the record straight: NO.
-ONE muslim made major contributions, around year 900 (can't remember the date right now). -HIS achievements were mostly IGNORED BY MUSLIMS, but eventually gained a foothold in Europe. -Almost everything else "invented" by Muslims was in fact STOLEN from JEWS and OTHER COMMUNITIES. -Being conquerors, Muslims brought science they got from one place to other places. That's similar to saying Europe did a favor to Africa by conquering and civilizing it.
Apple is losing market share, even after moving to "cheaper" grounds with the Intel architecture.
What keeps Apple floating and well is the iPod. With the iPod Touch they seem to have a solid lead on the innovation front to help them maintain their market share. But if the iPod should fail, good bye Apple.. Good riddance too!
I did notice that a lof of people I see on the streets don't use the iPod, but other MP3 players. Has Apple begun to lose there as well, despite the ads and the hype? In one year, we might know...
Vista brings many new things to the table, especially in terms of increased usability. Some people need more time to adapt and move to the new OS, and Microsoft listened to them.
I'm not really surprised since Microsoft's success has always been based on paying attention to its customers and being an enabler of computers for most people rather than a disabler, like all unix and unix derivative operating systems organizations.
I was running Ubuntu for 4-5 months and it was an "OK" experience. Most things in the box worked right out of the box. With the notable exception of printer sharing.
The Open Source applications included by default did a good enough job. Many things not included but that could be installed with the package manager worked. Many others didn't, like Bluetooth support. I noticed that there were no application worth talking about when it came to doing anything multimedia. Even Myth-TV was a total disapointment with hundreds of megs to download (it needs a lot of extra junky software) and hours to setup.
And then I noticed how completely broken is sound mixing on Linux...
So I switched to Vista, the best OS the planet has ever seen.
Does Vista have any flaws? Probably. The Open Source zealots rip their shirts complaining about it. Maybe they hopelessely witness Linux disapearing in the shadow of Vista. Or maybe there's a basis to their whinning. Probably not the latter though sice they can't provide any example of what's bad with Vista that can't be easily brushed off..
Windows is about using applications. Linux is about enjoying the OS.
For 99.999% of people, and 100% of organizations, I recommend Vista. I don't recommend Linux.
They thought that with Linux they could make it for $100, but Linux wasn't good enough, so now it's $188... Oh well, live and learn.
The main problem with the OLPC, in my view, is that it's pretty nasty for the environment. Being a complete commodity, it just adds more garbage on top of heap that burdens our planet. Why wouldn't the teabaggers that do this project just refurbish old IBM laptops and change the parameters of the project a little? I guess that wouldn't be as glorious...
Wow, that's quite a higher number. If we take this into account, Apple becomes almost dead last.
Back to School is the Apple equivalent of Easter. Parents buy their kids little bunnies and duckies, but two weeks later, they end up left to die on their own...
I wish that Apple stories were more grounded in facts than in sensasionalism...
It's pretty clear that one of the main uses of Linux is to boot stolen copies of Windows. We all know about the prevalence of software and IP theft in China. Therefore it's only natural that we should see this intersection in that part of the world.
I'm always concerned about all the propaganda that comes out of the pro-Linux camp concerning its number of users. Should those who use Linux only as a boot loader be counted? After all, Linux is barely usable on its own...
Linux ready for the desktop? When it's used to boot into Windows, yeah.
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No wonder Linus T. is dead set against GPL v3.
It won't take long before Microsoft makes it illegal to download and run copies of Linux if this goes ahead. At least in the US...
For one thing, the GPL v3 does not address the 235 Microsoft patent violation present in Linux.
The OLPC doesn't have to only teach children about turning on computers and provide them with internet access to pornography. In this case, it will teach, by its absence, the value of not being communist and/or terrorists.
Anyway, can we trust Cuba with the OLPC? Network 1 million of them and 2 years later they have an atomic bomb simulator.
The US is better than the rest of the world combined in almost everything. So why even consider mentioning China or the EU when discussing important things? Are we going to include African spear chucking next time we talk about rocket science, too?
What science has China ever produced (no need to mention 1-2 things from thousands of years ago)? All they do is steal everything and give nothing back, other than selling to us cheap products built by a slave labor force.
So please get off your high horses and understand and agree with the fact that almost anything that ends up benefiting humanity comes first and foremost from the coffers of the US government. BTW, as a US taxpayer, I benefit your existence everyday. But don't mention it, thanks!
It's about time people start realizing this. It's the most proprietary company on the face of the planet. More so than Microsoft, so dreaded here.
Can you run MacOS on non-apple hardware, including in a VM-Ware session? Answer: no.
But why? For the same reason MS doesnt feel like opening office formats too much. But when it's apple, the appologists, evangelists and shills invent every possible excuse under the sun.
Apple, it's for hypocrites. Thank God Apple staggers at 2% of the market share. Humanity still prevails.
Many of the previous posts mention how it is impossible for the current system to change anything for the better. Think:
-constitutional ammendments, including gay marriage -impeachment
These simply cannot happen. And why is that? Easy: the biggest advantage for some people of democracy and bureaucracy at large is that they moves away responsibility from them. For instance, it's not the president who told lies about WMD in Iraq, it's the CIA clerck who put things together wrong.
If the system is flexible enough to do a lot of good stuff, but not flexible enough to ammend itself when it really should, what should we do? It must be shaken from the ground up and only the supreme leader of the nation can do this. Of course, we need to set a time limit! But until then, the system will continue to decay, regardless of who's in power, because it will never change.
The world lived in dark ages until the creation of the USA. Maybe that event should be appended to the Genesis, but I digress.
I find that a lot of people have a lot of advice when it comes to the US. How to handle the economy, how to run elections, etc etc. Yet, it seems to me as though the US is basically Number 1 at just about everything, including science and research. By number 1, I really mean better than the rest of the world together.
So while nothing is perfect, even in the US, I do think that we are doing it quite right.
So please, let's start respecting patents and lets stop violating them at every opportunity. Maybe then, Linux wouldn't be a Unix wannabe with a touch of Windows, but something new and creative.
It seems that Linus has been sprinkling microsoft IP into the stolen SCO code to make it harder to detect.
I'm thinking it's no coincidence he changed source management about that time as well. Nothing like deleting past versions to hide the tracks.
But let the bygones be bygones. Linux can still evolve by lifting portions of Solaris now that is has been made open by Sun. D-Trace, ZFS, zones are probably just around the corner for Linux. No legal issues this time!
ps: What's Xandros? Is it another distribution? I use Centos and Ubuntu..
After all, how many billion dollars did MS spend to make Windows XP and Vista the best operating systems this universe has ever seen? And some people thought they could just go and steal everything without having Microsoft fight back?
235 patents.
I say again: 235 patents.
Considering how rock solid Windows has been since Windows 2000, and that Linux is still a little flaky, I'm guessing the kernel developers didn't have access to the stability patents by Microsoft.
Well, I'm really only surprised that LG didnt just license Windows instead and be rid of all the issues at once.
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Of the three companies you mentioned, Microsoft is the least closed. Especially with regards to SilverLight, it looks like a new standard is being defined and broadly accepted. On that one, I would give high props to MS.
And for those interested, Silverlight will be legal on Linux.
It's no surprise that the system was running Linux. Oh well, live and learn. Linux can't be trusted on sensitive systems.
Apologists point to a few scientific things that "Islam" brought to the world in some past golden age.
I will set the record straight: NO.
-ONE muslim made major contributions, around year 900 (can't remember the date right now).
-HIS achievements were mostly IGNORED BY MUSLIMS, but eventually gained a foothold in Europe.
-Almost everything else "invented" by Muslims was in fact STOLEN from JEWS and OTHER COMMUNITIES.
-Being conquerors, Muslims brought science they got from one place to other places. That's similar to saying Europe did a favor to Africa by conquering and civilizing it.
Now you know the truth.
Apple is losing market share, even after moving to "cheaper" grounds with the Intel architecture.
What keeps Apple floating and well is the iPod. With the iPod Touch they seem to have a solid lead on the innovation front to help them maintain their market share. But if the iPod should fail, good bye Apple.. Good riddance too!
I did notice that a lof of people I see on the streets don't use the iPod, but other MP3 players. Has Apple begun to lose there as well, despite the ads and the hype? In one year, we might know...
Vista brings many new things to the table, especially in terms of increased usability. Some people need more time to adapt and move to the new OS, and Microsoft listened to them.
I'm not really surprised since Microsoft's success has always been based on paying attention to its customers and being an enabler of computers for most people rather than a disabler, like all unix and unix derivative operating systems organizations.
I was running Ubuntu for 4-5 months and it was an "OK" experience. Most things in the box worked right out of the box. With the notable exception of printer sharing.
The Open Source applications included by default did a good enough job. Many things not included but that could be installed with the package manager worked. Many others didn't, like Bluetooth support. I noticed that there were no application worth talking about when it came to doing anything multimedia. Even Myth-TV was a total disapointment with hundreds of megs to download (it needs a lot of extra junky software) and hours to setup.
And then I noticed how completely broken is sound mixing on Linux...
So I switched to Vista, the best OS the planet has ever seen.
Does Vista have any flaws? Probably. The Open Source zealots rip their shirts complaining about it. Maybe they hopelessely witness Linux disapearing in the shadow of Vista. Or maybe there's a basis to their whinning. Probably not the latter though sice they can't provide any example of what's bad with Vista that can't be easily brushed off..
Windows is about using applications. Linux is about enjoying the OS.
For 99.999% of people, and 100% of organizations, I recommend Vista. I don't recommend Linux.
Windows handles multiple cores much better than Linux... Must be because of the poor scheduler in Linux.
:D
I can imagine a cluster of Microsoft Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, though!!
For more information: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserver2003/enterprise/clustering.mspx
Considering the sad state of the scheduler in Linux, I would recommend not to fork the kernel, but instead ABANDON THE LINUX KERNEL.
Really, it's not that good. And it's not that special. Just dump it and use Solaris instead.
In addition to being better technically, Solaris stands to become freer than Linux with the adoption by Sun of the GPL3.
In the meantime: http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki
Yet IBM did and put it in Linux, and then got away scot free... But as with OJ, karma will catch up to them eventually.
Why is stealing so popular on Slashdot? Software, music, granny purses, etc...
They thought that with Linux they could make it for $100, but Linux wasn't good enough, so now it's $188... Oh well, live and learn.
The main problem with the OLPC, in my view, is that it's pretty nasty for the environment. Being a complete commodity, it just adds more garbage on top of heap that burdens our planet. Why wouldn't the teabaggers that do this project just refurbish old IBM laptops and change the parameters of the project a little? I guess that wouldn't be as glorious...
Vista having an enhanced command prompt makes Linux lose its single advantage.
:(
RIP Linux 2008 -- Was never ready for the desktop
Wow, that's quite a higher number. If we take this into account, Apple becomes almost dead last.
Back to School is the Apple equivalent of Easter. Parents buy their kids little bunnies and duckies, but two weeks later, they end up left to die on their own...
I wish that Apple stories were more grounded in facts than in sensasionalism...
And so is its license. Linux is a cesspool of bobs and bits.
Its support center will be flooding with calls about printers and wireless network not working...
Does Lenovo have a plan to deal with all the returned laptops caused by the defective OS? At least Microsoft dealt promptly with the XBOX 360 issues.
It's pretty clear that one of the main uses of Linux is to boot stolen copies of Windows. We all know about the prevalence of software and IP theft in China. Therefore it's only natural that we should see this intersection in that part of the world.
I'm always concerned about all the propaganda that comes out of the pro-Linux camp concerning its number of users. Should those who use Linux only as a boot loader be counted? After all, Linux is barely usable on its own...
Linux ready for the desktop? When it's used to boot into Windows, yeah.
No wonder Linus T. is dead set against GPL v3.
It won't take long before Microsoft makes it illegal to download and run copies of Linux if this goes ahead. At least in the US...
For one thing, the GPL v3 does not address the 235 Microsoft patent violation present in Linux.
Oh well, it had a good run. RIP.
Q: Do they work with Linux?
The OLPC doesn't have to only teach children about turning on computers and provide them with internet access to pornography. In this case, it will teach, by its absence, the value of not being communist and/or terrorists.
Anyway, can we trust Cuba with the OLPC? Network 1 million of them and 2 years later they have an atomic bomb simulator.
The US is better than the rest of the world combined in almost everything. So why even consider mentioning China or the EU when discussing important things? Are we going to include African spear chucking next time we talk about rocket science, too?
What science has China ever produced (no need to mention 1-2 things from thousands of years ago)? All they do is steal everything and give nothing back, other than selling to us cheap products built by a slave labor force.
So please get off your high horses and understand and agree with the fact that almost anything that ends up benefiting humanity comes first and foremost from the coffers of the US government. BTW, as a US taxpayer, I benefit your existence everyday. But don't mention it, thanks!
It's about time people start realizing this. It's the most proprietary company on the face of the planet. More so than Microsoft, so dreaded here.
Can you run MacOS on non-apple hardware, including in a VM-Ware session? Answer: no.
But why? For the same reason MS doesnt feel like opening office formats too much. But when it's apple, the appologists, evangelists and shills invent every possible excuse under the sun.
Apple, it's for hypocrites. Thank God Apple staggers at 2% of the market share. Humanity still prevails.
T_A
ps: MacOS X is a piece of crap.
Many of the previous posts mention how it is impossible for the current system to change anything for the better. Think:
-constitutional ammendments, including gay marriage
-impeachment
These simply cannot happen. And why is that? Easy: the biggest advantage for some people of democracy and bureaucracy at large is that they moves away responsibility from them. For instance, it's not the president who told lies about WMD in Iraq, it's the CIA clerck who put things together wrong.
If the system is flexible enough to do a lot of good stuff, but not flexible enough to ammend itself when it really should, what should we do? It must be shaken from the ground up and only the supreme leader of the nation can do this. Of course, we need to set a time limit! But until then, the system will continue to decay, regardless of who's in power, because it will never change.
The world lived in dark ages until the creation of the USA. Maybe that event should be appended to the Genesis, but I digress.
I find that a lot of people have a lot of advice when it comes to the US. How to handle the economy, how to run elections, etc etc. Yet, it seems to me as though the US is basically Number 1 at just about everything, including science and research. By number 1, I really mean better than the rest of the world together.
So while nothing is perfect, even in the US, I do think that we are doing it quite right.
So please, let's start respecting patents and lets stop violating them at every opportunity. Maybe then, Linux wouldn't be a Unix wannabe with a touch of Windows, but something new and creative.
It seems that Linus has been sprinkling microsoft IP into the stolen SCO code to make it harder to detect.
I'm thinking it's no coincidence he changed source management about that time as well. Nothing like deleting past versions to hide the tracks.
But let the bygones be bygones. Linux can still evolve by lifting portions of Solaris now that is has been made open by Sun. D-Trace, ZFS, zones are probably just around the corner for Linux. No legal issues this time!
ps: What's Xandros? Is it another distribution? I use Centos and Ubuntu..
After all, how many billion dollars did MS spend to make Windows XP and Vista the best operating systems this universe has ever seen? And some people thought they could just go and steal everything without having Microsoft fight back?
235 patents.
I say again: 235 patents.
Considering how rock solid Windows has been since Windows 2000, and that Linux is still a little flaky, I'm guessing the kernel developers didn't have access to the stability patents by Microsoft.
Well, I'm really only surprised that LG didnt just license Windows instead and be rid of all the issues at once.
"If it can run Linux, it's a lemon."
Of course it is. The Linux pushers always blame the machine instead of the POS OS.