Until ATI gets their act together with their linux drivers, I'm not buying ATI.
Also, Nvidia has added MP4 video acceleration to it's linux drivers, so I can see full HD with my old P4@2.4GHz. When we have something similar from ATI I'll reconsider.
I am not asking for it to work like Windows. I'm saying that if you want acceptance on the desktop, that desktop needs to work for the things mainstream users want to do.
Well, it does. Ubuntu has a very capable office suite and connects flawlessly to the internet. So there you go.
Your argument is like saying that electric cars shouldn't try to go mainstream because people would need to adapt to the battery recharge procedure and because the gauge says "Battery" instead of "fuel". Or because the gas pump cannot be used on them.
Well, you guessed right, my tongue in cheek comment suggests that this girl is border line. Not because she couldn't adapt to Ubuntu, but because instead of trying to find out what the situation was asking someone with more knowledge than her, she went straight to TV to publicize her limitations.
Novice windows users ask other people when they can't manage some tasks. So I contend that this girl wouldn't do much better with a Windows box.
In any case, this is not the mainstream user that desktop Linux is looking for right now. Desktop Linux is looking for users with at least some ability to adapt to changes. At the end of the day, whatever good Ubuntu is, it will not be an exact copy of Windows. That is what many people like you is asking for and that is just not possible. Do you want all of the crashes and viruses and registry bloat? I don't think so. If you want a free exact copy of Windows, just pirate it.
"In tests, the researchers implanted cylinders with a diameter of 8.5 millimetres into mice and two weeks later injected the animals with highly aggressive melanoma cells."
This sounds ok for research, but in real life you would detect the cancer first and then implant the capsule.
The logical way to carry that experiment would be to implant the cancerous cells first and then, after some time, implant the capsule. I guess they would have done it first that way and if it is not on the report, that means that it didn't work as expected. That also means that this is just (very good) research, but they will need a lot more to come up with a working therapy.
I also live in a country where there is a universal health service (Spain) but I don't agree with you. The reason is that with this system we stop the market from pricing treatments. Basically a farma megacorp just needs to buy the right official and they are in. No competition.
The problem this causes is long term. We are very close to some sort of bioengineering singularity where your life expectancy (and mine) gets expanded faster than you actually age. This would come to pass faster if we allow a market economy to allocate the right resources at the right hands. That means that yes, you would need to deal with a private company for your health needs, and yes, it would mean that you could get no coverage at all if you fail to manage it properly, but in the long term, it also means that you would get life saving treatments into market faster.
Also, it would mean that the health industry would stop to be considered a drag to the economy and it would be considered a growth engine. Instead of considering health expenditure wasted money, like it is now, it would be considered a growth engine for the economy. I don't really get why expending money buying a car in US is accounted by politicians as a way to grow the economy and treating an illness is considered wasted money.
Please read Longevitymeme. There is a lot of technical information there, but also some political opinion about why a free market for health care and less regulation (yes, I know this is not trendy now) would be good long term.
Well, I agree with all you say, but I think you have forgotten that netbooks are bought by non technical people that just wants them to work out of the box and tend not to have time to maintain them.
If we define notebooks as small laptops with processors in the Atom class, then Microsoft has a very big problem with there with Vista and even with XP I would say. It is not only the fact that Vista is too slow in that hardware. It is also that it gets slower with use. The registry gets full of garbage, and all kinds of crapware stick to windows systems. Given time this would bring to its knees any computer in that hardware class.
And for those that say that next year Moore's law will fix it, I don't think this would be fixed in a year or two. Maybe three, maybe more. This is a very long time in this industry.
I am curious about what this will mean for Linux on the desktop as there is also the cost issue. We have a clearly inferior (in that hardware) operating system that costs money against a free and Free operating system.
Everyone here seems to work under the assumption that heavy bittorrent users would be worse off in a world with download caps or metered bandwidth. I don't think so. It would force companies to compete to give good service with clear contracts where they actually tell you what they are really selling. This is bound to increase, not decrease, the availability of real bandwidth per dollar for most users, included us computer geeks.
Does this apply to politicians, wealthy people and corporations?
What I fear is that for regular people there will be no privacy but government, corporations and wealthy people will keep working in secrecy and that is too big an asymmetry. They would know everything about us and we would now nothing relevant about them. This would allow them to control our lives completely.
If there is going to be no privacy, lets start with full transparency from government actions, and that means everything, and full disclosure of every financial transaction from wealthy individuals and corporations. And no, terrorism is not a excuse to keep important information from taxpayers.
If they have nothing to hide, they shouldn't mind. Isn't that what they say to us?
If I were the RIAA I would be donating money to the effort the united nations are making to stop Somali pirates. That way they could try to keep the word "piracy" for their own corporate use. Right now, with the news of the pirates real kidnapping and killing, people has to be wondering why the same word is used for someone that makes a copy of a file.
If we are looking at silverlight as a flash replacement, it is just a flash clone with no market share, so that makes it a non starter. Also, flash comes installed by default this days on every operating system and browser. Silverlight doesn't. That is enough of a show stopper on itself.
If on the other hand, we are looking at it as a way to code the client side of business apps with a rich interface using a strongly typed, compiled language, it could have some potential, except for one thing. No printing support. Printing support is essential for business apps and Silverlight doesn't provide it, at all.
If that is the case, then there must be a huge lot of IT applications that are not mission critical enough to spend the money necessary to keep them from blowing up but still provide some value to the company. This applications can go to the cloud.
So there you go, you found a use case for the cloud.
I am not a lawyer, but what about a button that would launch a script that would download the sources from some country where keeping the source code to the "illegal" codecs is legal, then compile and install?
You could have a window showing after the button explaining that this is illegal in some countries and to check with your lawyer, with continue and cancel buttons.
Then it would be your own responsibility if you happen to be in the wrong country and you decide to install such software.
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Until ATI gets their act together with their linux drivers, I'm not buying ATI.
Also, Nvidia has added MP4 video acceleration to it's linux drivers, so I can see full HD with my old P4@2.4GHz. When we have something similar from ATI I'll reconsider.
I am not asking for it to work like Windows. I'm saying that if you want acceptance on the desktop, that desktop needs to work for the things mainstream users want to do.
Well, it does. Ubuntu has a very capable office suite and connects flawlessly to the internet. So there you go.
Your argument is like saying that electric cars shouldn't try to go mainstream because people would need to adapt to the battery recharge procedure and because the gauge says "Battery" instead of "fuel". Or because the gas pump cannot be used on them.
Well, you guessed right, my tongue in cheek comment suggests that this girl is border line. Not because she couldn't adapt to Ubuntu, but because instead of trying to find out what the situation was asking someone with more knowledge than her, she went straight to TV to publicize her limitations.
Novice windows users ask other people when they can't manage some tasks. So I contend that this girl wouldn't do much better with a Windows box.
In any case, this is not the mainstream user that desktop Linux is looking for right now. Desktop Linux is looking for users with at least some ability to adapt to changes. At the end of the day, whatever good Ubuntu is, it will not be an exact copy of Windows. That is what many people like you is asking for and that is just not possible. Do you want all of the crashes and viruses and registry bloat? I don't think so. If you want a free exact copy of Windows, just pirate it.
If you want to blame someone it would be Verizon. They should provide a Ubuntu disk to assist with the internet configuration.
And the answer "We don't provide Ubuntu disks because nobody uses Ubuntu and everyone uses Windows because everyone uses Windows" is not good enough.
Not with the current generation of netbooks.
This is not the mainstream we want :-)
We want the mainstream with IQ > 70
"In tests, the researchers implanted cylinders with a diameter of 8.5 millimetres into mice and two weeks later injected the animals with highly aggressive melanoma cells."
This sounds ok for research, but in real life you would detect the cancer first and then implant the capsule.
The logical way to carry that experiment would be to implant the cancerous cells first and then, after some time, implant the capsule. I guess they would have done it first that way and if it is not on the report, that means that it didn't work as expected. That also means that this is just (very good) research, but they will need a lot more to come up with a working therapy.
Latency seems to be pretty high, doesn't it?
...or at least good specs, there will be lots of people developing for this thing. At least one, me :-)
And bananas, terrorists eat bananas too.
I also live in a country where there is a universal health service (Spain) but I don't agree with you. The reason is that with this system we stop the market from pricing treatments. Basically a farma megacorp just needs to buy the right official and they are in. No competition.
The problem this causes is long term. We are very close to some sort of bioengineering singularity where your life expectancy (and mine) gets expanded faster than you actually age. This would come to pass faster if we allow a market economy to allocate the right resources at the right hands. That means that yes, you would need to deal with a private company for your health needs, and yes, it would mean that you could get no coverage at all if you fail to manage it properly, but in the long term, it also means that you would get life saving treatments into market faster.
Also, it would mean that the health industry would stop to be considered a drag to the economy and it would be considered a growth engine. Instead of considering health expenditure wasted money, like it is now, it would be considered a growth engine for the economy. I don't really get why expending money buying a car in US is accounted by politicians as a way to grow the economy and treating an illness is considered wasted money.
Please read Longevitymeme. There is a lot of technical information there, but also some political opinion about why a free market for health care and less regulation (yes, I know this is not trendy now) would be good long term.
Well, I agree with all you say, but I think you have forgotten that netbooks are bought by non technical people that just wants them to work out of the box and tend not to have time to maintain them.
If you bought it preinstalled (the case for netbooks) you get fully supported hardware.
If we define notebooks as small laptops with processors in the Atom class, then Microsoft has a very big problem with there with Vista and even with XP I would say. It is not only the fact that Vista is too slow in that hardware. It is also that it gets slower with use. The registry gets full of garbage, and all kinds of crapware stick to windows systems. Given time this would bring to its knees any computer in that hardware class.
And for those that say that next year Moore's law will fix it, I don't think this would be fixed in a year or two. Maybe three, maybe more. This is a very long time in this industry.
I am curious about what this will mean for Linux on the desktop as there is also the cost issue. We have a clearly inferior (in that hardware) operating system that costs money against a free and Free operating system.
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http://www.wesnoth.org/
Everyone here seems to work under the assumption that heavy bittorrent users would be worse off in a world with download caps or metered bandwidth. I don't think so. It would force companies to compete to give good service with clear contracts where they actually tell you what they are really selling. This is bound to increase, not decrease, the availability of real bandwidth per dollar for most users, included us computer geeks.
Does this apply to politicians, wealthy people and corporations?
What I fear is that for regular people there will be no privacy but government, corporations and wealthy people will keep working in secrecy and that is too big an asymmetry. They would know everything about us and we would now nothing relevant about them. This would allow them to control our lives completely.
If there is going to be no privacy, lets start with full transparency from government actions, and that means everything, and full disclosure of every financial transaction from wealthy individuals and corporations. And no, terrorism is not a excuse to keep important information from taxpayers.
If they have nothing to hide, they shouldn't mind. Isn't that what they say to us?
If it turns fast enough...
If I were the RIAA I would be donating money to the effort the united nations are making to stop Somali pirates. That way they could try to keep the word "piracy" for their own corporate use.
Right now, with the news of the pirates real kidnapping and killing, people has to be wondering why the same word is used for someone that makes a copy of a file.
If we are looking at silverlight as a flash replacement, it is just a flash clone with no market share, so that makes it a non starter. Also, flash comes installed by default this days on every operating system and browser. Silverlight doesn't. That is enough of a show stopper on itself.
If on the other hand, we are looking at it as a way to code the client side of business apps with a rich interface using a strongly typed, compiled language, it could have some potential, except for one thing. No printing support. Printing support is essential for business apps and Silverlight doesn't provide it, at all.
If that is the case, then there must be a huge lot of IT applications that are not mission critical enough to spend the money necessary to keep them from blowing up but still provide some value to the company. This applications can go to the cloud.
So there you go, you found a use case for the cloud.
I it just me that thought that a wierd Artificial Intelligence was recording and releasing songs?
I am not a lawyer, but what about a button that would launch a script that would download the sources from some country where keeping the source code to the "illegal" codecs is legal, then compile and install?
You could have a window showing after the button explaining that this is illegal in some countries and to check with your lawyer, with continue and cancel buttons.
Then it would be your own responsibility if you happen to be in the wrong country and you decide to install such software.
... and each one will have it's own processor core.
... its dimensions are 1 by 4 by 9