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Desktop Linux Is Dead 1348

digitaldc writes with this quote from PCWorld: "It kills me to say this: The dream of Linux as a major desktop OS is now pretty much dead. Despite phenomenal security and stability — and amazing strides in usability, performance, and compatibility — Linux simply isn't catching on with desktop users. And if there ever was a chance for desktop Linux to succeed, that ship has long since sunk. ... Ultimately, Linux is doomed on the desktop because of a critical lack of content. And that lack of content owes its existence to two key factors: the fragmentation of the Linux platform, and the fierce ideology of the open-source community at large."

Comment Re:Doomsday Machine (Score 1) 638

Actually the idea in the article that it was to keep the USSR generals and stuff from doing stupid things like launching first attacks because it would make sure they could always strike back was quite interesting.

In other words, the whole point of a doomsday weapon was not lost because they kept it a secret.

I still think, however, that it's not a practical deterrent for reasons that movie makes all too obvious.

Comment Re:and yet NYC still has traffic jams (Score 1) 882

I was driving in France last week aswell, and I wonder... Why do the french insist on driving the middle lane in a 3 lane speedway, even when the right lane is completelly free. At one point I drove on the right lane, well within the speed limit, for at least 4 KM, passing cars that drove bumper to bumper on the middle and left lane.

Comment Re:Web-based admin night be nice (Score 1) 1089

Why stop with system administration through a web interface. Basically all types of applications, like their own office suite, could run through the web interface. Through a specialized local webserver, named application server, local and remote applications could run transparently for the user, Google could choose to store the most basic software units of their office suite at the clients computer for basic off-line usage (don't know if that is already a provided functionality). Think of a window manager with browser capabilities embedded.

Comment Smart decision (Score 1) 222

Sometimes it is good to have various standards within the same area, because of conflicting interests, etc. But when new or modified standards resolve these conflicts, the best this would be to merge with or adapted the new standard. It would be nice if this could happen with more standards (and licences for that matter), just to keep things a bit clean.

Comment Re:This is why there are closed source "solutions" (Score 1) 640

"Getting "everyone" to agree on a single standard often times proves to be next to impossible. What ends up happening is that a large player in the market *coughMICROSOFTcough* ends up doing things their way."

If all the others, including apple, implements ogg and youtube announces the conversion to ogg, Microsoft can't stay behind.

Comment What if??? (Score 1) 778

What if every does:

* login in their youtube account
* click the Quicklist link on the top right of the page.
* Click Viewing history
* Click Clear viewing history

Off course it is possible to just set a deletion flag to the history records, but I'm guessing it really removes the entries.

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