Comment Re:Hi I'm Linux (Score 1) 366
you realise that fullscreen flash works perfectly on linux, right?
right?
come on slashdot, you're supposed to be nerds!
you realise that fullscreen flash works perfectly on linux, right?
right?
come on slashdot, you're supposed to be nerds!
I suppose no one would buy a PC with a "slow down" button on the front...
considering the word photograph comes from the greek word phos (light), bouncing anything other than photons off an object cannot be called a photograph.
Electrograph is probably more accurate
ahh but the energy you use to run the heater comes from coal, which produces CO2, which traps the heat from the heater (as well as other heat sources), heating up your house ever so slightly.
In fact you could say your electric heater is more than 100% efficient.
anybody want a peanut?
you're looking at it the wrong way, all heaters are 100% efficient! eventually...
I have embedded the unscaled photos in this post.
Millions of them
can't really call it a photograph if it was taken with electrons rather than light.
I wonder how they can tell the electron is blue?
pfft, he didn't even read the title
more often not an open source app. They release a windows exe and a tar.gz binary + libraries. Some release
damn. lost my tags =(
As someone who works in a large financial institution and who's job is basically to assess SaaS vendors to whom we give data to, I wish this was true. However, I'll tell you what happens in the real world:
1) Someone comes up to me with a project. "We need to give <restricted data X> to <5 man garden shed operation Y> to perform <task Z>"
2) I say "never heard of this company before. We need to go over and check them out, They're in <country W>, it will cost $10k to get me there and back."
3) project goes: "we can't afford that, we only have a budget of $5k for the entire project"
4) I say "too bad, the risk is too high, we can't engage the vendor"
5) project says "we have already entered into a contract with them and they've been doing <task Z> for two months already"
6) project escalates to risk management who rubber stamp approval for the deviation.
7) ???
8) Profit!
9) <restricted data X> leaks data like a sieve. my company gets bad media attention and gets hit with multi-million dollar fines from regulators. Senior management come to me and ask "why did you let this happen?".
The truth of the matter is, in a large company it is so much cheaper to simply outsource anything you can. The person who is running the project doesn't care about the quality of the solution, their only concern is to deliver to scope, on time, and on budget. By the time the whole thing goes cactus shaped they're long out of the picture.
Software as a Service in reality meets very little barrier to adoption.
As someone who works in a large financial institution and who's job is basically to assess SaaS vendors to whom we give data to, I wish this was true. However, I'll tell you what happens in the real world:
1) Someone comes up to me with a project. "We need to give to to perform "
2) I say "never heard of this company before. We need to go over and check them out, They're in , it will cost $10k to get me there and back."
3) project goes: "we can't afford that, we only have a budget of $5k for the entire project"
4) I say "too bad, the risk is too high, we can't engage the vendor"
5) project says "we have already entered into a contract with them and they've been doing for two months already"
6) project escalates to risk management who rubber stamp approval for the deviation.
7) ???
8) Profit!
9) leaks data like a sieve. my company gets bad media attention and gets hit with multi-million dollar fines from regulators. Senior management come to me and ask "why did you let this happen?".
The truth of the matter is, in a large company it is so much cheaper to simply outsource anything you can. The person who is running the project doesn't care about the quality of the solution, their only concern is to deliver to scope, on time, and on budget. By the time the whole thing goes cactus shaped they're long out of the picture.
Software as a Service in reality meets very little barrier to adoption.
actually sunburn is caused by ultraviolet light, not visible light.
ubuntu. hands down, I tried a few different distros and ubuntu was the one that just worked. I install it on my laptop and every piece of hardware works with no issues. Plus any issue you have a quick google solves 9 times out of 10.
why is this post modded troll? it's absolutely correct. As much as people say "package managers solve everything", the truth is installing any software that is not packaged for your distribution in some way is a royal pain in the butt. The other main issue I have with Ubuntu (my linux distribution of choice) is that the software is stuck at a particular version. Why doesn't canonical put out firefox 3.5 and openoffice.org 3 for what is the latest Ubuntu?
The number of times I've tried to run some little app and it actually turned out to be easier to download the windows version and then run it under WINE than it has to download the Linux version, it's quite shocking.
What needs to happen to fix this solution?
LSB is a good start. It needs to be expanded and used more.
We need a unified repository system.
We need an easy (one click) way of adding a repository and installing a package from it
the ideal situation is one where a vendor needs to compile and package one linux version of their software. Put it in a repository that can be accessed by anyone. User just clicks the link and it installs the software, and the repo so that they get future updates. This system would be miles ahead of anything offered by Windows/Linux/Mac. There have been numerous attempts at solving this issue but what we need is a solution run and backed by the big boys (Red Hat, Canonical, Novell). Really if the solution works on all three of those distributions, it will work pretty much everywhere, and be supported by vendors.
Kleeneness is next to Godelness.
