That's not the real problem The real problem is that in*real life*, you ayes don't focus everything like on a cartoon, so you will get a (maybe very cool film) but with a very unnatural view, that eventiually will get your eyes tired trying to absorb every bit of information on it. Focus exists naturally as a filter to select the needed info and get lower priority to the rest.
While this is kinda true, there are quite a few magazines that have succesfully survived websites and blogs, but it all depends of the popularity of the theme. As a Delphi and C# programmer I have seen the 2 most important Delphi magazines disapear from the surface of the planet for a while ago. OTOH, C# (and.Net in general) magazines are going extremelly well, and I subscribe 3 C# magazines (paper, the real deal), and quite a few webzines.
Paper media is an expensive thing, and the minimum number of exemplars you must sell to make some money from itto justify all the costs is quite high, so it's not a surprise that general IT magazines to explain Windows to my uncle are selling well, or PC Gamer for my teenager brother, etc. Linuzzz OTOH is quite a small market in comparation, so here we have it... It's not to hard to understand.
Hmm... Really, I see no problem with this info. If the comparation had be done by some OS group, it would give the adventage to Linuxxx (pick your distro here). The true is that there is no black and white, but there is a lot of gray there in between for any OS.
Now, substitute Linuzzzz by OSX in that report and change places and you will see that this is the same fud that Apple has been giving out for ages now regarding OSX and Windows....
I really don't mind ads on the side of the page. Hell, I don't even mind flash ads if they are not so big and without sound (aghh). But having to watch 30 sec ads before a video, just to see something that I'm not even sure I will like, this is a think I don't tolerate. Oh well... Money is king.
This is FUD of the highest quality. I'm sitting now with my Vista edition listening to some Iron Maiden's mpr (DRM free of course) and using Windows Media Player 11. I'm measuring the network speed by sending a 34 GB files to the server with the player working and without it. The dspeed is being measured using BMST (Bandwidth Meter Speed Test). No difference at all.
Of course you can write anything you want negatve about MS in/. and any sheep will just believe it without further inverstigation....
Oh, so a Google person is against letting MS projects in in the OS market? What a surprise! The company that has more than 90% of the market of information search? I want to eat the cake alone!
Oh, you mean like THIS. Sorry, boy but Apple seems to be starting their photocopyers a little too late. This feature has been included in XP since forever.
Back on topic: the problem is not reinventing the wheel. I'm sure those kids wrote a hell of an algorithm ot one or two great ideas. Nobody gives money for free, and I'm sure they deserved it.
The original article is no more than FUD and speculation... Corporate Linuzz? I though THAT thing (whatever that is) existed before MS got it's deal with Novell... RedHat anyone? And that is a bad thing why? There will always be corporated Linuzzz distributions whoever is working on it, be it MS, RedHat, or some new player. The real deal is, let it be? Don't want it? Don't use it, but for satan's sake, let anybody who wants use it without bitching!!!
It's not like somebody is desecrating the Holy Bible, (even if sometimes it seems so judging by some comments here!). Hell, i'm a proud Windows user but I use a lot of Open Source, Freeware, 3rd party software and even (of the horror) Apple software without problems. Why must some linuzzz folk be so purit. It's all about chosing, so chose NOT to use "corporated" distros, and let everybody who wants use it!
They sure have their reasons. As a company, I'm sure Google can see above stupid ideological reasons (Open vs Close). Many people forget that Google is a company and profit IS their number one goal. So they should not be discarding the best of 2 products just because there are some propietary components....
Purist may puke by just thinking about this, but sane persons would just forget funny ideals and get the work done by chosing the tool that fits better for this case.
Whatever it is, they are in their perfect rights to do what they want with THEIR code.
This is actually the tendence that worries me. These days many people (thankfully not everybody) think they have the RIGHT to get everything for free. One bitches because product X is not Open Source (Ohh what a crime!!!). The other bitches because X (which VERY GENEROUSLY was giving many years of hard work to people who don't even write a line of code) is taking their hard work back for Y reasons (yes, making a buck for many years of hard work is not a bad thing , you know)
Another funny thing: I was talking to a man here at work. The man is a a rabious defender of OS. He wouldn't touch a non- OS program, he almost cried when MS made a deal with Novell, he screams how much he hates Photoshop and how great Gimp is (just because is OS)... And guess what? He develops a very good backup solution for databases and he takes good money for it. He was having some difficulties adding features. Knowing how good of an OS supporter he was I had the nerve to suggest to him to open the source of his program. ARE YOU FUCKING MAD?- he said. DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD I WORK FOR THIS SHIT? AND I WOULD GIVE IT TO THE DOGS?....
Moral of the story. If you work hard for your work and wnat to share , so be it. If you want to get your work back iand this is posible, just do it. You have the right. people will bitch, people will call you a shit, people will hate you... And yet, the majority of them won't share a shit either giving the oportunity.
I may be dense but why should I care about what OS a company is putting on their machines? Leaving the ideological reasons out, an OS is no more thatn a tool and only I should care about it. I will never understand people that get an orgasm because Linuzzz OSX, Solaris or whatever object of their desire is getting more exposure. Just use it and if you dont like it, uninstall it and istall whatever does it for yoy.
After 10 years of driving an Open I am now driving a Nissan. I am pleasing with it, but I be damned if i care if Nissan is worldwide being adopted as the cure of cancer or not. I just drive my damn Nissan and don't care if my neighbor drive a Volvo or hate japanese cars....
Actually this is not a surprise seeing the stability, security and performance of the last versions of IIS. I am one of them who has migrated from Apache to IIS7 and I'm not looking back.
/late night rant on/Actually there is a large number of individuals who are supportes of the free/os movement for ideological reasons: "it's all about freedom" they cry, "let's us all decide what to use", "information wants to be free", "yadda yadda"... And then, when somebody chose to use Exchange or Vista or whatever they are the first to jump and cry foul....Wasn't it about freedom after all? Well, they made their choise, so what's the freaking problem then? It's actualy very amusing. Bytes ate bytes. Software is software and a tool is just a tool and everything that is above childish ideological reasons... Let's people use whatever they want, and believe me, the world will be a less hateful place./late night rant off/
Excluding religious points.. why not? Exchange is nowdays a VERY MATURE colaboration system and the de-facto standard for business in many places. What's the diference? Use Exchange, GMail, POP3 or whatever you want. It's all about freedome, isn't it?
Could everybody get back to coding and kiss politics goodbye? WTF is everybody doing these days? It seems like every single programming in the world is now a politician... Long gone are the days where programming was considered a noble art of logics and things were so uncomplicated... Humans are a strange animal, indeed... Instead of producing more, we must complicate things and waste our valuable with egoistic intrigues, politics, strange licence deals, and... oh well...
Stop the horses cowboy. The majority of the developers for Linuzzzzzzzzzzzz are writing multiplatform applications. Which of course include Windows. And OsX and whatever.
There's nothing wrong with the quality of Windows this days but this is another discussion.
Everybody has their right as a producer of software to dictate their own rules. MacOSX can run on Intel. Apple wants it to run on Apple hardware only. That's perfect and they have the righ. And I don't see many people bitching about it.
MS wants to produce games for Vista only and that's underatable from a marlketing point of view. It's their right and has nothing to do with the DOJ as the grandparent cried.
Limitations exist in software, political and technical limitations. Hell , even the GPL is a very limiting licence about how I can use the source. Deal with it: software is a CONTRACT between parts. Don't want to use Microsoft Software? Well, choose your poison: Apple (and even MORE limiting platform, license wise, or any Linuzzzz favour: it's a contract and you CANNOT use Linuzzz as you wish: there are limits as well.
Sure, go and cry to mom and dad.... Cery me a river. It's their OS and their games and they can for all they want to create a license to say that the game can only be run on a blue moon. Don't like it? Don't buy it. But it's their right and cracking it don't do better: it's ilegal anyway. Of course crying foul is much easier, but I'm sure iLife can also run on MacOS 9 *technically*. But Apple don't care. And it's their right.
Gee, I wish that people could once for all underatand that running an OS or a game is NOT A HUMAN RIGHT, but a contract between parts.
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The dosing device goes together with laser therapy apparatus comprising only low-energy semiconductor and gas lasers. Its control mode is set with regard to the functional condition of the patient's body, the disease dynamics and stage.
The same way if they will use ANY format, wav, mp3, ogg, fuckit, mp4 or whatever, there is the same posibility to be sued. No format is perfect and there will always people unhappy about the used format. So stop playing games "my daddy is stonger than yours" and stop crying a river and be a man once in your life and let everybody choose the freaking format they want, be it open, close, yellow , sour or whatever they want. Freedom is NOT about what you think is better for everybody. Freedon is about accepting that people are free to do what they want even if it's not the best for the majority. So shut the f**** off. What? You pay taxes and don't want that format? So do I and I don't care in this case. Repeat after me: you are not the only one...
The only perfect solution for me was the one that I made myself. I too was searching for a catalog to store my discs, books, DVDs, et all. I reviewed 12 programs for Windows (I don't use Linuzzzzz and don't plan to use it) and none of them hwas good enough for me. So I set up a database with some tables for my media, created the relations betweeen tables, and then I created a web end for my IIS using ASP.NET.
Now I can from any computer in the world access my database of media items, add, modify and delete them. I have even created a service that consults the free music database to get the song titles when I enter an album title. Yes, it takes some work, but believe me , it's a LOT more satisfying than using a 3rd party software with a lot of features I don't need. And acceesing the database via web i SWEEET.
Not using an "approved" license doesn't mean that the program is not OS. That only means that the program is not Open Source by the rules of (insert the tyranic powers you like here). I can write a program and publish it with the source with the license "Do whatever you want with it but don't call me "Shirley"". And this IS an Open Source program like it or not.
Politics sucks , but software politics sucks infinitly more. And don't get me started about software religions, of which Open Source is one of it's maximal exponents... ewwwkkk.
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That's not the real problem The real problem is that in*real life*, you ayes don't focus everything like on a cartoon, so you will get a (maybe very cool film) but with a very unnatural view, that eventiually will get your eyes tired trying to absorb every bit of information on it. Focus exists naturally as a filter to select the needed info and get lower priority to the rest.
Paper media is an expensive thing, and the minimum number of exemplars you must sell to make some money from itto justify all the costs is quite high, so it's not a surprise that general IT magazines to explain Windows to my uncle are selling well, or PC Gamer for my teenager brother, etc. Linuzzz OTOH is quite a small market in comparation, so here we have it... It's not to hard to understand.
Bah, It's not like he made it's battery replaceable.
Now, substitute Linuzzzz by OSX in that report and change places and you will see that this is the same fud that Apple has been giving out for ages now regarding OSX and Windows....
I really don't mind ads on the side of the page. Hell, I don't even mind flash ads if they are not so big and without sound (aghh). But having to watch 30 sec ads before a video, just to see something that I'm not even sure I will like, this is a think I don't tolerate. Oh well... Money is king.
Of course you can write anything you want negatve about MS in /. and any sheep will just believe it without further inverstigation....
Oh, so a Google person is against letting MS projects in in the OS market? What a surprise! The company that has more than 90% of the market of information search? I want to eat the cake alone!
Back on topic: the problem is not reinventing the wheel. I'm sure those kids wrote a hell of an algorithm ot one or two great ideas. Nobody gives money for free, and I'm sure they deserved it.
It's not like somebody is desecrating the Holy Bible, (even if sometimes it seems so judging by some comments here!). Hell, i'm a proud Windows user but I use a lot of Open Source, Freeware, 3rd party software and even (of the horror) Apple software without problems. Why must some linuzzz folk be so purit. It's all about chosing, so chose NOT to use "corporated" distros, and let everybody who wants use it!
Purist may puke by just thinking about this, but sane persons would just forget funny ideals and get the work done by chosing the tool that fits better for this case.
This is actually the tendence that worries me. These days many people (thankfully not everybody) think they have the RIGHT to get everything for free. One bitches because product X is not Open Source (Ohh what a crime!!!). The other bitches because X (which VERY GENEROUSLY was giving many years of hard work to people who don't even write a line of code) is taking their hard work back for Y reasons (yes, making a buck for many years of hard work is not a bad thing , you know)
Another funny thing: I was talking to a man here at work. The man is a a rabious defender of OS. He wouldn't touch a non- OS program, he almost cried when MS made a deal with Novell, he screams how much he hates Photoshop and how great Gimp is (just because is OS)... And guess what? He develops a very good backup solution for databases and he takes good money for it. He was having some difficulties adding features. Knowing how good of an OS supporter he was I had the nerve to suggest to him to open the source of his program. ARE YOU FUCKING MAD?- he said. DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD I WORK FOR THIS SHIT? AND I WOULD GIVE IT TO THE DOGS?....
Moral of the story. If you work hard for your work and wnat to share , so be it. If you want to get your work back iand this is posible, just do it. You have the right. people will bitch, people will call you a shit, people will hate you... And yet, the majority of them won't share a shit either giving the oportunity.
Making money is not a crime folks....
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After 10 years of driving an Open I am now driving a Nissan. I am pleasing with it, but I be damned if i care if Nissan is worldwide being adopted as the cure of cancer or not. I just drive my damn Nissan and don't care if my neighbor drive a Volvo or hate japanese cars....
Actually this is not a surprise seeing the stability, security and performance of the last versions of IIS. I am one of them who has migrated from Apache to IIS7 and I'm not looking back.
/late night rant on/Actually there is a large number of individuals who are supportes of the free/os movement for ideological reasons: "it's all about freedom" they cry, "let's us all decide what to use", "information wants to be free", "yadda yadda"... And then, when somebody chose to use Exchange or Vista or whatever they are the first to jump and cry foul....Wasn't it about freedom after all? Well, they made their choise, so what's the freaking problem then? It's actualy very amusing. Bytes ate bytes. Software is software and a tool is just a tool and everything that is above childish ideological reasons... Let's people use whatever they want, and believe me, the world will be a less hateful place. /late night rant off/
Excluding religious points.. why not? Exchange is nowdays a VERY MATURE colaboration system and the de-facto standard for business in many places. What's the diference? Use Exchange, GMail, POP3 or whatever you want. It's all about freedome, isn't it?
Could everybody get back to coding and kiss politics goodbye? WTF is everybody doing these days? It seems like every single programming in the world is now a politician... Long gone are the days where programming was considered a noble art of logics and things were so uncomplicated... Humans are a strange animal, indeed... Instead of producing more, we must complicate things and waste our valuable with egoistic intrigues, politics, strange licence deals, and... oh well...
Everybody has their right as a producer of software to dictate their own rules. MacOSX can run on Intel. Apple wants it to run on Apple hardware only. That's perfect and they have the righ. And I don't see many people bitching about it.
MS wants to produce games for Vista only and that's underatable from a marlketing point of view. It's their right and has nothing to do with the DOJ as the grandparent cried.
Limitations exist in software, political and technical limitations. Hell , even the GPL is a very limiting licence about how I can use the source. Deal with it: software is a CONTRACT between parts. Don't want to use Microsoft Software? Well, choose your poison: Apple (and even MORE limiting platform, license wise, or any Linuzzzz favour: it's a contract and you CANNOT use Linuzzz as you wish: there are limits as well.
Gee, I wish that people could once for all underatand that running an OS or a game is NOT A HUMAN RIGHT, but a contract between parts.
The dosing device goes together with laser therapy apparatus comprising only low-energy semiconductor and gas lasers. Its control mode is set with regard to the functional condition of the patient's body, the disease dynamics and stage.
The same way if they will use ANY format, wav, mp3, ogg, fuckit, mp4 or whatever, there is the same posibility to be sued. No format is perfect and there will always people unhappy about the used format. So stop playing games "my daddy is stonger than yours" and stop crying a river and be a man once in your life and let everybody choose the freaking format they want, be it open, close, yellow , sour or whatever they want. Freedom is NOT about what you think is better for everybody. Freedon is about accepting that people are free to do what they want even if it's not the best for the majority. So shut the f**** off. What? You pay taxes and don't want that format? So do I and I don't care in this case. Repeat after me: you are not the only one...
Now I can from any computer in the world access my database of media items, add, modify and delete them. I have even created a service that consults the free music database to get the song titles when I enter an album title. Yes, it takes some work, but believe me , it's a LOT more satisfying than using a 3rd party software with a lot of features I don't need. And acceesing the database via web i SWEEET.
Politics sucks , but software politics sucks infinitly more. And don't get me started about software religions, of which Open Source is one of it's maximal exponents... ewwwkkk.
It's their product, so they do what they want. So do you and I with our products and nobody cares.