Shouldn't the drunk be taken into account in a failover plan? Granted, it is unlikely, but the whole point of a failover is making sure that if one server is not available (IE motherboard failed, died in a fire, or pissed on by a drunken soon to be ex-employee) that you FAIL OVER to the other server or server farm.
This coupled with the fact that most people wouldn't know enough to install an operating system let alone the drivers thereafter. This is why I am glad that Dell is going to start selling Ubuntu pre-installed.
You are right, Linux has come a long way on this front, but there still needs to be more of a standard if Linux wants to start getting "average user" market share. Users have enough trouble installing simple apps on Windows as it is, there is no way average people are going to know "I'm using Ubuntu, I should use apt-get not yum", and "I need to add this repository first". I know there are GUI tools as well, but they are still different enough to frustrate average people.
Until you can have packages that can install with a few clicks across every distribution without errors, Linux will not be ready for average users. Unfortunately, this means you will have to make all distributions relatively similar - not only is this not going to happen, it is one the fundamental reasons that Linux is great for geeks.
After we dusted the surface with the first few manned missions where insertion didn't quite work as planned (like many of the robotic missions have done), then perhaps.
Then most of us decided that dating was a waste of time, and we should just go back to reading Slashdot.
... that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings in Europe will own them.
Wouldn't "faster evolution" also mean that species would be wiped out quicker, thus less chance of finding life? I agree with your general point, until we actually find life there is absolutely no way of knowing.
Do many of these actually end up in court? From what I understand, after an audit, BSA gives you a reasonable amount of time to gain compliance before you actually get hit with any fees.
It really is too bad Bit Torrent is being banned because of early adoption by Pirates. Granted, I became familiar with it years ago when I was Pirating a lot of things, but over the past year and a half or so the only thing I've really used it for was downloading perfectly legal Linux ISO's - with results always outperforming a typical FTP download.
I hope that Bit Torrent can gain mainstream support (browser plugins, etc) before it is written off as strictly a "Piracy" protocol.
If everyone had guns, or at least everyone thought everyone had guns I bet things like this would rarely happen. People would be less likely to go on shooting sprees if they thought everyone was packin'. Yeah, cause it sounds like the guy who did this before he turned the gun on himself was pretty scared of someone else killing him first.
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Shouldn't the drunk be taken into account in a failover plan? Granted, it is unlikely, but the whole point of a failover is making sure that if one server is not available (IE motherboard failed, died in a fire, or pissed on by a drunken soon to be ex-employee) that you FAIL OVER to the other server or server farm.
Best scene in the whole movie!
This coupled with the fact that most people wouldn't know enough to install an operating system let alone the drivers thereafter. This is why I am glad that Dell is going to start selling Ubuntu pre-installed.
You are right, Linux has come a long way on this front, but there still needs to be more of a standard if Linux wants to start getting "average user" market share. Users have enough trouble installing simple apps on Windows as it is, there is no way average people are going to know "I'm using Ubuntu, I should use apt-get not yum", and "I need to add this repository first". I know there are GUI tools as well, but they are still different enough to frustrate average people.
Until you can have packages that can install with a few clicks across every distribution without errors, Linux will not be ready for average users. Unfortunately, this means you will have to make all distributions relatively similar - not only is this not going to happen, it is one the fundamental reasons that Linux is great for geeks.
Sure, but Coke alone isn't too good for getting drunk.
... that within 100 years computers will be twice as powerful, 10,000 times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings in Europe will own them.
Just thought I would break the old tinfoil hat, and remind you that someone could scan those and put them into a networked computer.
You mean from the crippled children?
I saw that this is possible, but wouldn't you actually have to be drunk while taking the test for it to actually show up?
Is his name Peter, and did he recently visit an occupational hypnotherapist who died of a heart attack?
Do many of these actually end up in court? From what I understand, after an audit, BSA gives you a reasonable amount of time to gain compliance before you actually get hit with any fees.
It really is too bad Bit Torrent is being banned because of early adoption by Pirates. Granted, I became familiar with it years ago when I was Pirating a lot of things, but over the past year and a half or so the only thing I've really used it for was downloading perfectly legal Linux ISO's - with results always outperforming a typical FTP download.
I hope that Bit Torrent can gain mainstream support (browser plugins, etc) before it is written off as strictly a "Piracy" protocol.
Congratulations on restating the point of the OP, verbatim.
Also, Dude, chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature. Asian-American, please.
It's obvious that the decline in the number pirates has been largely responsible for global warming.