Because Seamonkey makes it easier ( we know where in preferences it is) to make it open newwins instead of newtabs for us curmudgeonly old fucks. I personally can't STAND tabbed browsing - now if someone released an addon that closed the current tab when you hit the close button on the window..... then I might like tabbed browsing, it's just not worth trying to break 15+ year old habits of closing the window when you want to go back to the original link page when I have something that both works the way I am used to and has security updates.
I was going to say this upthread a bit. AMD will pull an Apple, just like when Apple had MS bail them out ( MS didn't want the extra hassle of being a pure monopoly ) and either ask Intel for "help" in engineering or R&D ( This may actually be a good thing, AMD gets money / die shrinking insights ETC and Intel would probably demand GFX processor technology to improve the onboard crap they make now) Or Intel will just offer to help them ( same terms as above ) and both go their merry ways.
Don't get me wrong, I like Intel ( as far as I'm concerned everything past the K6 from AMD was either crap or was just kind of BLAH and didn't offer anything I NEEDED ) but I like the fact that AMD is around to keep Intel in line... maybe Intel would go batshit insane on prices without AMD, maybe they wouldn't, I don't want to find out.
Yes, well, that's why the sciences are generally avoided in the U.S. in recent times. I see it in the University I am currently at, students drop the hard sciences classes because " converting is too hard" or "this metric stuff doesn't make sense / I don't know how big a Mg really is" and go to some stupid useless shit that everyone else is doing like MBA programs. We don't need the influx 100s of thousands of MBAs nearly as much as we need the whole diversity of the hard sciences.
So one thing that would improve for the general citizen ( more the "important" general citizen anyways ) would be easier post High school education. Even the older generation would benefit, one example from my prior career: I worked in a weld shop, everything was done with imperial blueprints because we had only done work for local / U.S. companies. Well, the shit hit the fan when we got blueprints in from international customers / companies and it was in metric. Most of the older guys had no idea how to interpret metric units, and it was mostly us younger guys in our early to mid 20's ( at the time ) to go through and teach them how to convert / guesstimate what the thing was supposed to look like in the end. If they already knew metric we would have saved tons and tons of man hours of wasted time meaning we could have charged less and gotten larger contracts sooner. So indirectly not knowing metric cost the company money.
Changing everything over..would cause a great deal of turmoil....take a lot of time, cause years of confusion for many....and exactly, what would be the perceived benefit for this cost?
I can't think of much....
I can think of some doozies: 1: Our sciences educations wouldn't be slipping as far into the toilet as they are now. 2: we would have an easier time inter-operating with other countries scientists during research and that leads to... 2: we wouldn't be unintentionally slamming multimillion / billion dollar space research stuff into planets due to a piss poor metric > imperial conversions after working with other countries on the machinery.
Seriously, here in the U.S. _NOT_ switching / phasing into metric is stupid, just as stupid as the English driving on the left of the road when 98% of the rest of the world drives on the right of the road. If we want to actually grow in the global economy we need to be able to talk the talk as well as walk the walk, other countries learn english as a second language so they can do business with us, we should reciprocate and learn their measurement systems as well. The metric teachings when I was in school... they could make a cat laugh they had been so bad.
Uhh, dude... piracy has been around since computing began. In the olden days it was known as "sneaker-net" ( NOTE: also had a non-piracy use for sharing information as well ). Where do you think "Don't copy that floppy" came from?
Here in WI. we generally pay for X money for up to Y gallons ( usually 3K-6K ) and if you go over you buy one more unit at either a reduced rate or the same rate.
This is no different than not hiring Mexicans if they have been Mexican in the last 12 months. Oops, you celebrated cinco de mayo, that's not an American holiday... you're fired. Companies are not allowed to discriminate against people doing LEGAL things that aren't on company time / property.
They would be perfectly in their rights to say you can't smoke on their property without being fired but are not within their rights to say you can't smoke / drink / wear the color magenta / do yoga / sleep on your back ( or side or whatever way the CEO feels is "wrong" ) at home.
As far as I know, ATT and verizon bend over backwards to make you lose old plans they think aren't profitable, and force you to spend money.
As far as I know about Verizon trying to make you spend money is only recent - I've been with them for ~10 years. If you are an old fart with Verizon like me, you have to give up your unlimited data UNLESS you buy your new phone outright at full price. Now I normally don't use a ton of data, but if they want to play games I can start tethering and guzzling bandwidth when I get my new phone.....
Briefly went to SuSe 10 when it was the only distro that worked well with my Trident card in a very old laptop. Ditched it when 10.1 come alone and was slower than a rotting dead mule.
By that time Debian Sarge just went stable and I installed Etch( testing ) and have run Debian Testing ever since.
Well, in my case I would have to disagree with your disagreement. I got a longish term contract over all the people with B.S. degrees simply because I had 8+ years experience doing what the job required. I didn't even bother getting a single certification, just have owned my own successful consulting business since late 1998-99. You would be surprised at how many places are more interested in actual results rather than a piece of paper that says you can regurgitate what your professors want to hear.
That said, if it was me against say someone with a B.S. or M.S. + 10+ years experience and lots of proven project leads ETC. it would be stupid to think they would not consider the other person first. Then again, maybe I would interview better or have better interpersonal skills honed since I own my own business too... HR looks at tons of things other than JUST "degree, yes - interview or degree, no - toss application".
Well, either you got lucky or I, and lots of other people, pack our archives oddly. There was either a KB article or a dev blog at MS about mspeng.exe ( thats the scanner process ) chewing the crap out of your CPU. That was what the claim was anyways, that it was doing a random scan in a large archive. I do have some rather large archives, as well as some huge files( think 50-80GB+ backup disk clones ). It has gotten better recently, but I still do get infrequent spike where mspeng.exe just sits and chews 95-99% of both my cores. Other than that occasional hiccup it has worked pretty good so far.
No, it wasn't insightful. It was a one word post, had absolutely nothing to do with the original question, and was posted just as a general freebie troll / flamebait post ( hence the AC ).
While ideally you would run Linux if you are worried about security ( and EVERYONE, no matter what OS they use should be ) since it is generally more secure than Windows has proven itself in the past ( W7 is 1000x better than ME/2K/XP and you can't even compare 3.1/95/98 to it ) Linux sometimes just plain doesn't work out yet.
One example right now it WIFI on my campus. I have been messing around for over a week and a half trying to get PEAP to work with my adapter, I finally found out today after getting a ton of logging done that it SEEMS like my wireless driver (Ath9k) for some reason doesn't support the PEAP keys... on kernel 3.1 through 3.6RC6 at the very least. Win7 and Macs have no problems connecting. Guess what I have to use if I want internet access through WIFI and not USB tethering to my phone? I wish I could get this laptop connected, I like KDE BasKet a lot better than Evernote, even though both are quite usable. That and I'm more comfortable in Debian, I've been using it for years on my server and laptops and all but one of my desktop PCs.
Well then you obviously don't have any mid to large size archives on your disk. MSE chokes and uses tons of CPU ( a known issue, supposedly "has gotten better" , not that you would notice a whole lot... ) on rar / or zip files and sometimes cab files when it scans random files in the background and lands on the archive. I've had it choke off a dual core 3.2Ghz processor so bad I thought I was back on a 486DX again with the program load / wait times.
That said it SEEMS to do a decent job, either that or I'm not going to the shady side of the 'net. Malwarebytes doesn't find much other than the occasional cookie it doesn't like the looks of on either of my machines that run Windows.
I was using ClamAV for quite a while, and still would if it had a decent RT scanner.
You are incorrect that the death penalty is not a deterrent. Have you ever heard of someone that was put to death, coming back to life and committing another crime?
And you seem to be misunderstanding the word deterrent. It means the crime that was committed would not have been committed if there was - in this case- the death penalty. Obviously that is not the case if the crime WAS committed and the person gets the death penalty. It doesn't mean that the same person would commit the crime again, that is recidivism.
Constitutionally in the U.S.A. this is not true. To put it in the most base context, this is the same as the judge ordering her to smash her printing press because she printed something ( that is either true, or her opinion) that some people disagreed with - which is unconstitutional. It would violate her first amendment rights.
The proper way to legally go about it would be for the judge to ask Facebook to delete the post that he / she thought was excessively inflammatory. Facebook could then decide to comply or not as they see fit. I'm actually surprised that the ACLU ( American Civil Liberties Union) is not jumping all over this....
It depends on the context. Just saying " i'm gonna go kill a bunch of kids" for no reason could be construed as terrorism threats, but does not always equal actual threats. Especially if it is written in response to another post or the main story it can easily be sarcasm / satire E.G " I'm gonna go kill a bunch of X and be rich then" in response to something stating people might be killed for something expensive but common is sarcasm if not satire.
Ever heard the "if you don't have anything good to say, just shut up" ? Works every time. It'd have helped the moron that is now in jail.
Freedom of speech. If I disagree with something I have every right to express my opinion to the public through whatever means I have at my disposal - this includes even my views if they differ from the Federal Government[1]. While ESPN.com is a privately owned website, that only means they can delete views they do not agree with. E.G. an ESPN.com editor doesn't agree with me that the Browns would be better served if the current manager had a massive coronary and died on the field, ESPN could delete the post but should not, and CAN NOT have me arrested for stating my opinion.
As it is, right now we do not have the actual posts made, or the context that they had been made in. The actual posts, and especially the context they had been made in can change actual meaning by quite a lot.
[1] Want to see this in action? Look at any political campaign, every single one is trashing and badmouthing the opponent.
Your point? I'm a proffesional photographer, I make people happy, I'm also the contracted backup engineer for a fortune 500 company branch. That means I'm happy doing my job, you on the other hand type out post that make it sound like if your panties get in any tighter of a bunch you will castrate yourself.
Troll rating: posts: meh, 2 - trying too hard content: boring, -1 - even your insults are boring. You almost sound like a Canadian trying to break free of your politeness shackels. re-readability: 1-shot - droll, boring, and unimaginative. Would not read again. over all score: 1, yawn - Go back to troll school son. Overall meme view of your troll attempt: "Son, I am disappoint."
Well, at least I can install Windows and run the tools to make money. Too bad you can't go and apt-get install social-skills-dev and do some development on your own huh?
Well, then enjoy your lack of quite a bit of software. Software is a tool, not a religion. If you can make something that millions are willing to pay for and can support it, it makes no sense whatsoever to just give the whole thing away since you lose the revenue stream that pays your developers. And no, the "community" won't develop it for you, won't pay for usability testing and UI design or the myriads of other things that you have to sink 10s to hundreds of thousands of dollars or more into... see GIMP below.
I for one would love to be able to run my copy of Photoshop on Linux without trying to make it work in WINE ( and most don't, not nearly as well anyways). As it is I have to keep a Windows machine around for it. GIMP just doesn't cut it, and that has been OSS for how long now? The UI is a horrible eye bleeding mess, some of the core functions I use either aren't available or seriously mess up my entire workflow, other than the UI looking like the north end of a southbound horse nothing is "in the right spot" in the menus / UI since I have used the "industry standard" Application for 10+ years. And it took YEARS for them to get a single window mode even though user had been screaming for it since day 1. If there was a native port of PS that looks and acts the same as on Windows I would dump the last crusty WinMachine I have in a heartbeat.
Supposing LSB Desktop were suddenly to define a particular desktop environment and many other things that are expected on Windows and OS X, including the mechanics of package handling and dependency resolution...
Why would you need to define a specific desktop? You would only need to define that to support the standard you have to have a freedesktop supported desktop - and that should include KDE / GNOME / XFCE / and maybe Unity ( don't know don't use it ) which are the major ones that ship with distros. Also just because it is a standard it doesn't mean that you can't un-install it or just use something else - it just won't be supported, much like the alternative shells for Windows.
but does the binary have to run or just work if you configure; make; make install again?
First of all, if you do that it's no longer the same binary.
So? If most of your software is FOSS and can be recompiled, why do you care if it's the same binary or not?
And this is why big name software for the most part won't support Linux.... hence the low desktop usage, which in turn causes big companies to not want to support Linux.
That and kernel module support is another big one. There is no god damn reason the that module support has to be changed every minor point release. Well other than the kernel devs giving people who won't / can't open source the drivers a big headache from wondering if their code will compile against 3.2.11 like it did against 3.2.10. This could be solved kind of simply enough, just give a outward pointing $WHATEVER interface that is stable and doesn't change that lets drivers connect to it and you can change whatever paths you want inside the kernel daily and it won't matter. As far as I'm concerned it should be stable for major point changed - 3.2.1 - 3.2.99999999 should be stable, if you want / need to change something mail out to the mailing lists whatever is going to be changing a bit ahead of the change and bump the version to 3.3.0.
Same goes for X, if we had stable / and or legacy support interfaces on both X and the kernel we wouldn't have as many problems with dropped support for older cards meaning we have to either dump the card or take the crapshoot that the OSS drivers will work with that particular card on par with what the older binary drivers did ( radeon and intel are decentish nowadays, the OSS nvidia one is kinda spotty though )
I personally don't want the NC license gone. I currently release photos several places, my landscapes and random stuff is CC-ND-NC and my free stock is CC-NC with a request for sending my account a link of finished work. I don't see how removing the non-commercial clauses would be in any way shape or form beneficial.
Ditching the NC would mean I would have to use some other license OR come up with my own so people can't just take my stuff and give attribution to make money off of my work ( currently they have to BUY it if they are interested ).
Good gawd there are some bad admins out there. I have had a contract with a fortune 500 company to do their backup work and in house dev builds on a satalite branch with ~30 servers for about 5 years now. Well, they found a "cheaper" admin contract so declined to renew my contract about 3 years ago. Fast forward 1.5 months, I get a call asking - and I quote - "How much are we going to have to pay you to contract with us NOW". Turns out that the "administrator" managed to screw up all the automation and redundancy I had built in( I mostly have to run a few scripts and babysit in case of errors), didn't even notice that nothing was being backed up, and lost a full moths of sales / data / dev work. It took them almost 2 weeks to restore everything from my last backup + get what they could rebuild rebuilt from the places around the company that the data may have been originally. I never asked the total cost but it has to have been in the tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars. Needless to say, I get paid QUITE a bit more now... and they haven't had a single barf worse than a disk going down and losing less 24 hours of data since I came back.
I don't know about where you work / what shady operations you run with, but we don't let clueless idiot users either reboot or have physical access to our servers - you know, what the article is talking about- in any of the places I contract to. Either you are vetted to know WTF you are doing or you don't get to so much as SEE the machines.
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Because Seamonkey makes it easier ( we know where in preferences it is) to make it open newwins instead of newtabs for us curmudgeonly old fucks. I personally can't STAND tabbed browsing - now if someone released an addon that closed the current tab when you hit the close button on the window..... then I might like tabbed browsing, it's just not worth trying to break 15+ year old habits of closing the window when you want to go back to the original link page when I have something that both works the way I am used to and has security updates.
Sounds like classic PEBKAC to me since the full KDE suite loads faster than that on my 1Ghz netbook.
And you can make it as basic as you want, even down to using openbox as your window manager in KDE if you don't like kwin.
I was going to say this upthread a bit. AMD will pull an Apple, just like when Apple had MS bail them out ( MS didn't want the extra hassle of being a pure monopoly ) and either ask Intel for "help" in engineering or R&D ( This may actually be a good thing, AMD gets money / die shrinking insights ETC and Intel would probably demand GFX processor technology to improve the onboard crap they make now) Or Intel will just offer to help them ( same terms as above ) and both go their merry ways.
Don't get me wrong, I like Intel ( as far as I'm concerned everything past the K6 from AMD was either crap or was just kind of BLAH and didn't offer anything I NEEDED ) but I like the fact that AMD is around to keep Intel in line... maybe Intel would go batshit insane on prices without AMD, maybe they wouldn't, I don't want to find out.
Yes, well, that's why the sciences are generally avoided in the U.S. in recent times. I see it in the University I am currently at, students drop the hard sciences classes because " converting is too hard" or "this metric stuff doesn't make sense / I don't know how big a Mg really is" and go to some stupid useless shit that everyone else is doing like MBA programs.
We don't need the influx 100s of thousands of MBAs nearly as much as we need the whole diversity of the hard sciences.
So one thing that would improve for the general citizen ( more the "important" general citizen anyways ) would be easier post High school education. Even the older generation would benefit, one example from my prior career:
I worked in a weld shop, everything was done with imperial blueprints because we had only done work for local / U.S. companies. Well, the shit hit the fan when we got blueprints in from international customers / companies and it was in metric. Most of the older guys had no idea how to interpret metric units, and it was mostly us younger guys in our early to mid 20's ( at the time ) to go through and teach them how to convert / guesstimate what the thing was supposed to look like in the end. If they already knew metric we would have saved tons and tons of man hours of wasted time meaning we could have charged less and gotten larger contracts sooner. So indirectly not knowing metric cost the company money.
Changing everything over..would cause a great deal of turmoil....take a lot of time, cause years of confusion for many....and exactly, what would be the perceived benefit for this cost?
I can't think of much....
I can think of some doozies:
1: Our sciences educations wouldn't be slipping as far into the toilet as they are now.
2: we would have an easier time inter-operating with other countries scientists during research and that leads to...
2: we wouldn't be unintentionally slamming multimillion / billion dollar space research stuff into planets due to a piss poor metric > imperial conversions after working with other countries on the machinery.
Seriously, here in the U.S. _NOT_ switching / phasing into metric is stupid, just as stupid as the English driving on the left of the road when 98% of the rest of the world drives on the right of the road. If we want to actually grow in the global economy we need to be able to talk the talk as well as walk the walk, other countries learn english as a second language so they can do business with us, we should reciprocate and learn their measurement systems as well. The metric teachings when I was in school... they could make a cat laugh they had been so bad.
Uhh, dude... piracy has been around since computing began. In the olden days it was known as "sneaker-net" ( NOTE: also had a non-piracy use for sharing information as well ). Where do you think "Don't copy that floppy" came from?
Here in WI. we generally pay for X money for up to Y gallons ( usually 3K-6K ) and if you go over you buy one more unit at either a reduced rate or the same rate.
Discrimination lawsuit time!
This is no different than not hiring Mexicans if they have been Mexican in the last 12 months. Oops, you celebrated cinco de mayo, that's not an American holiday... you're fired. Companies are not allowed to discriminate against people doing LEGAL things that aren't on company time / property.
They would be perfectly in their rights to say you can't smoke on their property without being fired but are not within their rights to say you can't smoke / drink / wear the color magenta / do yoga / sleep on your back ( or side or whatever way the CEO feels is "wrong" ) at home.
As far as I know, ATT and verizon bend over backwards to make you lose old plans they think aren't profitable, and force you to spend money.
As far as I know about Verizon trying to make you spend money is only recent - I've been with them for ~10 years. If you are an old fart with Verizon like me, you have to give up your unlimited data UNLESS you buy your new phone outright at full price. Now I normally don't use a ton of data, but if they want to play games I can start tethering and guzzling bandwidth when I get my new phone.....
Started with RedHat 5something
Went to Gentoo for a few years
Briefly went to SuSe 10 when it was the only distro that worked well with my Trident card in a very old laptop. Ditched it when 10.1 come alone and was slower than a rotting dead mule.
By that time Debian Sarge just went stable and I installed Etch( testing ) and have run Debian Testing ever since.
Well, in my case I would have to disagree with your disagreement. I got a longish term contract over all the people with B.S. degrees simply because I had 8+ years experience doing what the job required. I didn't even bother getting a single certification, just have owned my own successful consulting business since late 1998-99. You would be surprised at how many places are more interested in actual results rather than a piece of paper that says you can regurgitate what your professors want to hear.
That said, if it was me against say someone with a B.S. or M.S. + 10+ years experience and lots of proven project leads ETC. it would be stupid to think they would not consider the other person first. Then again, maybe I would interview better or have better interpersonal skills honed since I own my own business too... HR looks at tons of things other than JUST "degree, yes - interview or degree, no - toss application".
Well, either you got lucky or I, and lots of other people, pack our archives oddly. There was either a KB article or a dev blog at MS about mspeng.exe ( thats the scanner process ) chewing the crap out of your CPU. That was what the claim was anyways, that it was doing a random scan in a large archive.
I do have some rather large archives, as well as some huge files( think 50-80GB+ backup disk clones ). It has gotten better recently, but I still do get infrequent spike where mspeng.exe just sits and chews 95-99% of both my cores. Other than that occasional hiccup it has worked pretty good so far.
No, it wasn't insightful. It was a one word post, had absolutely nothing to do with the original question, and was posted just as a general freebie troll / flamebait post ( hence the AC ).
While ideally you would run Linux if you are worried about security ( and EVERYONE, no matter what OS they use should be ) since it is generally more secure than Windows has proven itself in the past ( W7 is 1000x better than ME/2K/XP and you can't even compare 3.1/95/98 to it ) Linux sometimes just plain doesn't work out yet.
One example right now it WIFI on my campus. I have been messing around for over a week and a half trying to get PEAP to work with my adapter, I finally found out today after getting a ton of logging done that it SEEMS like my wireless driver (Ath9k) for some reason doesn't support the PEAP keys... on kernel 3.1 through 3.6RC6 at the very least. Win7 and Macs have no problems connecting. Guess what I have to use if I want internet access through WIFI and not USB tethering to my phone? I wish I could get this laptop connected, I like KDE BasKet a lot better than Evernote, even though both are quite usable. That and I'm more comfortable in Debian, I've been using it for years on my server and laptops and all but one of my desktop PCs.
Well then you obviously don't have any mid to large size archives on your disk. MSE chokes and uses tons of CPU ( a known issue, supposedly "has gotten better" , not that you would notice a whole lot... ) on rar / or zip files and sometimes cab files when it scans random files in the background and lands on the archive. I've had it choke off a dual core 3.2Ghz processor so bad I thought I was back on a 486DX again with the program load / wait times.
That said it SEEMS to do a decent job, either that or I'm not going to the shady side of the 'net. Malwarebytes doesn't find much other than the occasional cookie it doesn't like the looks of on either of my machines that run Windows.
I was using ClamAV for quite a while, and still would if it had a decent RT scanner.
You are incorrect that the death penalty is not a deterrent. Have you ever heard of someone that was put to death, coming back to life and committing another crime?
And you seem to be misunderstanding the word deterrent. It means the crime that was committed would not have been committed if there was - in this case- the death penalty. Obviously that is not the case if the crime WAS committed and the person gets the death penalty. It doesn't mean that the same person would commit the crime again, that is recidivism.
Constitutionally in the U.S.A. this is not true.
To put it in the most base context, this is the same as the judge ordering her to smash her printing press because she printed something ( that is either true, or her opinion) that some people disagreed with - which is unconstitutional. It would violate her first amendment rights.
The proper way to legally go about it would be for the judge to ask Facebook to delete the post that he / she thought was excessively inflammatory. Facebook could then decide to comply or not as they see fit. I'm actually surprised that the ACLU ( American Civil Liberties Union) is not jumping all over this....
It depends on the context. Just saying " i'm gonna go kill a bunch of kids" for no reason could be construed as terrorism threats, but does not always equal actual threats. Especially if it is written in response to another post or the main story it can easily be sarcasm / satire E.G " I'm gonna go kill a bunch of X and be rich then" in response to something stating people might be killed for something expensive but common is sarcasm if not satire.
Ever heard the "if you don't have anything good to say, just shut up" ? Works every time. It'd have helped the moron that is now in jail.
Freedom of speech. If I disagree with something I have every right to express my opinion to the public through whatever means I have at my disposal - this includes even my views if they differ from the Federal Government[1]. While ESPN.com is a privately owned website, that only means they can delete views they do not agree with. E.G. an ESPN.com editor doesn't agree with me that the Browns would be better served if the current manager had a massive coronary and died on the field, ESPN could delete the post but should not, and CAN NOT have me arrested for stating my opinion.
As it is, right now we do not have the actual posts made, or the context that they had been made in. The actual posts, and especially the context they had been made in can change actual meaning by quite a lot.
[1] Want to see this in action? Look at any political campaign, every single one is trashing and badmouthing the opponent.
Your point? I'm a proffesional photographer, I make people happy, I'm also the contracted backup engineer for a fortune 500 company branch. That means I'm happy doing my job, you on the other hand type out post that make it sound like if your panties get in any tighter of a bunch you will castrate yourself.
Troll rating:
posts: meh, 2 - trying too hard
content: boring, -1 - even your insults are boring. You almost sound like a Canadian trying to break free of your politeness shackels.
re-readability: 1-shot - droll, boring, and unimaginative. Would not read again.
over all score: 1, yawn - Go back to troll school son.
Overall meme view of your troll attempt: "Son, I am disappoint."
Well, at least I can install Windows and run the tools to make money. Too bad you can't go and apt-get install social-skills-dev and do some development on your own huh?
Well, then enjoy your lack of quite a bit of software. Software is a tool, not a religion. If you can make something that millions are willing to pay for and can support it, it makes no sense whatsoever to just give the whole thing away since you lose the revenue stream that pays your developers. And no, the "community" won't develop it for you, won't pay for usability testing and UI design or the myriads of other things that you have to sink 10s to hundreds of thousands of dollars or more into... see GIMP below.
I for one would love to be able to run my copy of Photoshop on Linux without trying to make it work in WINE ( and most don't, not nearly as well anyways). As it is I have to keep a Windows machine around for it. GIMP just doesn't cut it, and that has been OSS for how long now? The UI is a horrible eye bleeding mess, some of the core functions I use either aren't available or seriously mess up my entire workflow, other than the UI looking like the north end of a southbound horse nothing is "in the right spot" in the menus / UI since I have used the "industry standard" Application for 10+ years. And it took YEARS for them to get a single window mode even though user had been screaming for it since day 1. If there was a native port of PS that looks and acts the same as on Windows I would dump the last crusty WinMachine I have in a heartbeat.
Why would you need to define a specific desktop? You would only need to define that to support the standard you have to have a freedesktop supported desktop - and that should include KDE / GNOME / XFCE / and maybe Unity ( don't know don't use it ) which are the major ones that ship with distros. Also just because it is a standard it doesn't mean that you can't un-install it or just use something else - it just won't be supported, much like the alternative shells for Windows.
So? If most of your software is FOSS and can be recompiled, why do you care if it's the same binary or not?
And this is why big name software for the most part won't support Linux.... hence the low desktop usage, which in turn causes big companies to not want to support Linux.
That and kernel module support is another big one. There is no god damn reason the that module support has to be changed every minor point release. Well other than the kernel devs giving people who won't / can't open source the drivers a big headache from wondering if their code will compile against 3.2.11 like it did against 3.2.10. This could be solved kind of simply enough, just give a outward pointing $WHATEVER interface that is stable and doesn't change that lets drivers connect to it and you can change whatever paths you want inside the kernel daily and it won't matter. As far as I'm concerned it should be stable for major point changed - 3.2.1 - 3.2.99999999 should be stable, if you want / need to change something mail out to the mailing lists whatever is going to be changing a bit ahead of the change and bump the version to 3.3.0.
Same goes for X, if we had stable / and or legacy support interfaces on both X and the kernel we wouldn't have as many problems with dropped support for older cards meaning we have to either dump the card or take the crapshoot that the OSS drivers will work with that particular card on par with what the older binary drivers did ( radeon and intel are decentish nowadays, the OSS nvidia one is kinda spotty though )
I personally don't want the NC license gone. I currently release photos several places, my landscapes and random stuff is CC-ND-NC and my free stock is CC-NC with a request for sending my account a link of finished work. I don't see how removing the non-commercial clauses would be in any way shape or form beneficial.
Ditching the NC would mean I would have to use some other license OR come up with my own so people can't just take my stuff and give attribution to make money off of my work ( currently they have to BUY it if they are interested ).
Good gawd there are some bad admins out there. I have had a contract with a fortune 500 company to do their backup work and in house dev builds on a satalite branch with ~30 servers for about 5 years now. Well, they found a "cheaper" admin contract so declined to renew my contract about 3 years ago. Fast forward 1.5 months, I get a call asking - and I quote - "How much are we going to have to pay you to contract with us NOW". Turns out that the "administrator" managed to screw up all the automation and redundancy I had built in( I mostly have to run a few scripts and babysit in case of errors), didn't even notice that nothing was being backed up, and lost a full moths of sales / data / dev work. It took them almost 2 weeks to restore everything from my last backup + get what they could rebuild rebuilt from the places around the company that the data may have been originally. I never asked the total cost but it has to have been in the tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars. Needless to say, I get paid QUITE a bit more now... and they haven't had a single barf worse than a disk going down and losing less 24 hours of data since I came back.
I don't know about where you work / what shady operations you run with, but we don't let clueless idiot users either reboot or have physical access to our servers - you know, what the article is talking about- in any of the places I contract to. Either you are vetted to know WTF you are doing or you don't get to so much as SEE the machines.