The "Network Effect" topic is very much related to piracy. I happen to agree that network effect has happened in certain circumstances, but not that it is always a gain to the company getting the "free advertizing".
There are already several threads advocating network effect, and its benefits. Just because the GP post wasn't a reply to one of them does not make it off-topic.
I only have a couple servers, so it's not a big deal to pull in a fix from unstable when I need it. Yes, the security fixes for testing is an issue -- I usually pull the package from unstable in that case also.
My apt setup prefers testing, so the nice thing is that once the packages are in sync in unstable and testing apt will only pull from testing.
You should compare Debian's unstable with Fedora's rawhide.
If you had used Debian testing, you would have had far fewer problems, I can assure you of that.
I have been running my production servers on testing for the last 5 years. There were only minor problems -- and a couple larger problems with libnss-ldap and samba 3.x before 3.0.2 or so.
I did not compare the gas prices in the US with anywhere else in the world.
The fact is that the deregulation of the refinery companies has lead to actions that will help the switch to alternatives. That is market forces at work. Pure and simple.
Working at a computer recycling company for the last few months, I work with a *lot* of PIIIs and older processors. Having memory speeds closer to the speed of the L2 (more than 2GB/s for most PIII CPUs) would surely improve the speed of the system dramatically.
Short term, stupid people will get more stupid and more abundant. Advertisers and businesses will promote stupidity. Long term, they will all become useless eaters when fusion reactors come online and manufacturing methods outstrip their abilities.
And what manufacturing methods will be available when fusion power becomes available?
It all comes down to the definition of sizes of organizations.
What some people call "small" others call "big" -- let me explain.
Let's try looking at this scale:
* Small Business
* Medium Business
* Large Business
* Small Enterprise
* Medium Enterprise
* Large Enterprise
An example of small business would be your local liquor store down the street.
There is a wide, fuzzy line between large business and small enterprise, but many would agree that you get into enterprise type situations when you have a WAN (which implies multiple locations).
"Small" in kjh1's post is "big enough to have custom software and more than one programmer". That would rate at least as "medium business" on the above scale.
Right now, open source is moving through the scale from the middle out. So it is moving into the very large (think carrier grade Linux) and just getting started in the small.
Jabber is "Not Invented Here". So that makes it worthless and crappy.
Just because they are open sourcing some of their tech does not mean that they are willing to give up on something they have invested *years* developing.
Many "5.8 GHz" phones I have seen transmit from the phone to the base station on 5 GHz, and the base station to the phone at 2.4 GHz. (It might be the other way around, but you get the idea). If WiFi interference is your concern, many supposed 5 GHz phones are no comfort.
Most likely it is 5Ghz from the base station to the handset and 2.4Ghz from the handset to the base station.
The base station has to use more power to get the signal to go through walls at 5Ghz and they use 2.4Ghz from the handset to extend the battery life.
Not to mention the concerns about radiation from the handsets going into the brain... So the less power coming from the handset the better.
Unfortunately in Gecko there is not a single memory leak. It would be nice if there was just one that was called in a loop somewhere, but it isn't that easy.
Most releases have fixed at least one memory leak.
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The "Network Effect" topic is very much related to piracy. I happen to agree that network effect has happened in certain circumstances, but not that it is always a gain to the company getting the "free advertizing".
There are already several threads advocating network effect, and its benefits. Just because the GP post wasn't a reply to one of them does not make it off-topic.
Thank you.
Actually, that was Half-Life.
Damn, you already said it. So...
Me too!
I didn't know a circle had five points to it...
I only have a couple servers, so it's not a big deal to pull in a fix from unstable when I need it. Yes, the security fixes for testing is an issue -- I usually pull the package from unstable in that case also.
My apt setup prefers testing, so the nice thing is that once the packages are in sync in unstable and testing apt will only pull from testing.
My mom is a heavy user of weather.com -- seriously, she sometimes goes to it multiple times per day.
She has not had any problems with it to my knowledge.
You should compare Debian's unstable with Fedora's rawhide.
If you had used Debian testing, you would have had far fewer problems, I can assure you of that.
I have been running my production servers on testing for the last 5 years. There were only minor problems -- and a couple larger problems with libnss-ldap and samba 3.x before 3.0.2 or so.
Say the word "gimp" to anyone not already a computer geek, and you'll have to spend a couple minutes explaining the history of the name.
Say "Acrylic" and they already think it has to do with something artistic.
Yes, I know GIMP spawned GTK, and all of the other projects prefixed with a "g".
Just make a new name starting with a "g". How about "grylic"? j/k But pick something that is some word related to the arts.
One dept can hate FOSS while another dept can love it, and contribute. MS is not singular.
I did not compare the gas prices in the US with anywhere else in the world.
The fact is that the deregulation of the refinery companies has lead to actions that will help the switch to alternatives. That is market forces at work. Pure and simple.
That doesn't help, and it is not true -- everyone will always be someone else's last choice.
So you're basically saying that without the regulation free market effects are starting to work encouraging people to want alternatives...
I don't like the idea that I'd end up with someone who picked me as their second/last choice.
ooooh!
Where can I find one of these?
Working at a computer recycling company for the last few months, I work with a *lot* of PIIIs and older processors. Having memory speeds closer to the speed of the L2 (more than 2GB/s for most PIII CPUs) would surely improve the speed of the system dramatically.
Short term, stupid people will get more stupid and more abundant. Advertisers and businesses will promote stupidity. Long term, they will all become useless eaters when fusion reactors come online and manufacturing methods outstrip their abilities.
And what manufacturing methods will be available when fusion power becomes available?
History has shown that betting against MS is not a good bet. MS only gets bigger and richer.
And a little more history will show that the same has been said about many regimes -- Xerox, IBM, DEC, etc.
It all comes down to the definition of sizes of organizations.
What some people call "small" others call "big" -- let me explain.
Let's try looking at this scale:
* Small Business
* Medium Business
* Large Business
* Small Enterprise
* Medium Enterprise
* Large Enterprise
An example of small business would be your local liquor store down the street.
There is a wide, fuzzy line between large business and small enterprise, but many would agree that you get into enterprise type situations when you have a WAN (which implies multiple locations).
"Small" in kjh1's post is "big enough to have custom software and more than one programmer". That would rate at least as "medium business" on the above scale.
Right now, open source is moving through the scale from the middle out. So it is moving into the very large (think carrier grade Linux) and just getting started in the small.
There's only one good thing I can say about more government spending.
At least you're not gay since you like to suck off their tit.
NIH.
Jabber is "Not Invented Here". So that makes it worthless and crappy.
Just because they are open sourcing some of their tech does not mean that they are willing to give up on something they have invested *years* developing.
It seems like "However" you do.
Many "5.8 GHz" phones I have seen transmit from the phone to the base station on 5 GHz, and the base station to the phone at 2.4 GHz. (It might be the other way around, but you get the idea). If WiFi interference is your concern, many supposed 5 GHz phones are no comfort.
Most likely it is 5Ghz from the base station to the handset and 2.4Ghz from the handset to the base station.
The base station has to use more power to get the signal to go through walls at 5Ghz and they use 2.4Ghz from the handset to extend the battery life.
Not to mention the concerns about radiation from the handsets going into the brain... So the less power coming from the handset the better.
Unfortunately in Gecko there is not a single memory leak. It would be nice if there was just one that was called in a loop somewhere, but it isn't that easy.
Most releases have fixed at least one memory leak.
Actually, there is a lot Firefox can do to speed up execution -- like cut the memory usage in half.
That's true.
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I have been posting and I haven't had to type in anything from an image tilted 5 degrees with a bunch of static (or whatever
So, what does it mean when the sig is funnier than the post?
These ocean thermal plants also release CO2 into the air (brought up from the depths), although not as much as does a fossil fuel plant.
How do you release the CO2 if it never hits the air?