Most companies won't touch it...if they're running on Linux, they're going to go with a language that's native to the platform, like Java. If you're a home user, most relevant software written in.NET isn't going to work with it. This just seems like an extremely futile attempt. Is Miguel hoping that one day Microsoft will say "hey, we really like what you've been doing...come work for us!"?
In general use for example, I see no difference between the core i5 in my work machine, and then Pentium D in my oldest home box.
Holy jeez. You must not be making that Pentium D do much work. When I first started my job where I'm at now, they started me off on a Pentium D box, and holy shit did it suck. Having too many apps open would result in one choppy ass experience because of the FSB getting clogged up (due to the complete lack of any inner-core pipe, and thus all that traffic was simply sent over the FSB). When I was finally able to upgrade to a Core 2 Duo it made a world of difference.
I just recently did the 3x display setup as well. It's pretty kick ass. 24" in the center, with 20.1"ers on the sides. I'm doing it using 2 non-symmetrical video cards though (nvidia gtx260 and an nvidia gtx580..the 2 smaller monitors connect to the 260 and my bigger 24" connects to the 580). I was surprised how Windows 7 handled it right out of box with the previous nvidia drivers already installed. Since it's not an SLI setup, I can't actually use both cards to render graphics while gaming, but I do have the option to offload PhysX processing to the 260 (for games that actually use it...which isn't many).
If you really want to do this, I'd recommend using router software that supports a captive portal (so they are presented with a welcome page and must agree to your terms of use before they are allowed through your firewall) and VLANs. The idea is you can create a VLAN for your public wifi access, and another for your private network. People connecting to your public wifi network would be allowed only access to the Internet, and nothing else on your network (we don't want people snooping through your porn now do we).
Yup. This is also why I never pre-order games. Just ask the people that pre-ordered Duke Nukem Forever 10 years ago. Companies will get my money once I agree to purchase what they're actually selling.
I started my Master's about 18 months ago after graduating with a Bachelor's in 1995. Why? Cash. Simply put, after a bit over 15 years in the industry you can't advance too far from "Senior SysAdmin" without a Master's.
Absolute rubbish. Our previous software architect is easily the most brilliant software engineer that I have ever met and he didn't even have a bachelors degree. Now he's giving lectures about functional programming at campuses across the US (including MIT) and is a co-author of a book of the same subject matter (that will probably end up making an appearance on Slashdot in a few years).
On the flip side, I've seen people with a Master's in CS that couldn't even handle a SysAdmin gig. Just having the credentials doesn't necessarily make you a rock star in your field of study, it takes the willingness to push yourself and a genuine interest in what you're doing.
Not to shit on your parade, but I'd imagine the reason why you couldn't advance too far from "Senior SysAdmin" is simply because you either lack the proper skills for software development/engineering, or just simply don't push yourself hard enough to do something better.
Mod parent up. Also (not sure about the other vendors) but with the Dell iDRACs, you can even load virtual media (that is, you can feed the iDRAC controller a DVD/CD ISO so that it looks like it's a disc sitting in a local drive) and boot from it to perform a complete OS Install remotely if you had to.
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Why?
- Real, physical keyboard
- Easy access to the filesystem
- The ability to install whatever you want, and use the computer however you want
- Tons of languages, dev tools, and compilers (were) available for various languages
- I/O ports for useful tasks like printing...and so on. Osborne 1 is much more suited for geekery.
How about the real reason:
- It's not a device made by Apple
Say what you want, but lets be realistic here...that's the real reason.
I will definitely be buying this once it's out. And to those who think a keyboard/mouse is good enough...you've got to be kidding me. That is such a fugly setup for a HTPC that it's not even funny.
If the ROI's too low because of legal barriers to entry, then why bother?
And what barriers of entry would that be exactly? Software patents don't prevent somebody from penetrating a market. They only become a problem once somebody threatens legal action against you, which is usually the result of already being a market player and becoming successful (you can't get blood from a turnip, right?). It seems to me that for a company not based in the US, the worst that could happen (that the US could actually enforce) would be to grant an injunction against your infringing product(s), preventing it's sale within the borders of the US. You still keep all the money you've made.
It seems really foolish to exclude a huge market on the premise that something bad could happen...especially when at worst you're just back to where you started.
fact: the GDP in US is a quarter of the whole planet...
You scoff at that like it's a negligible number. Last I checked, a quarter of the entire planet's GDP is a helluva lot. You also neglect to realize that a big ass chunk of the 3/4 of the rest of the world is China, who barely recognizes copyright law and thus piracy is ramptant. So yea...good luck staying in business when you turn your back to one of the largest legitimate markets in the world and most users of your software are just simply pirating it.
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The fact that there's a fully supported jvm for it that isn't constantly trying to play catch-up with the upstream vendor.
Most companies won't touch it...if they're running on Linux, they're going to go with a language that's native to the platform, like Java. If you're a home user, most relevant software written in .NET isn't going to work with it. This just seems like an extremely futile attempt. Is Miguel hoping that one day Microsoft will say "hey, we really like what you've been doing...come work for us!"?
You can't even do this the way Ubuntu is configured. Kill X, and it restarts.
user@host:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
And to make it permanent:
user@host:~$ sudo update-rc.d -f gdm remove
Problem solved
It would be nice if they gave this some thought before millions of people get owned and WebGL gets a huge black eye......
WebGL has been supported in experimental form by Webkit and Mozilla since late 2010. Opera also supports WebGL. Microsoft is no where to be found.
Well, that sounds like a good first step.
In general use for example, I see no difference between the core i5 in my work machine, and then Pentium D in my oldest home box.
Holy jeez. You must not be making that Pentium D do much work. When I first started my job where I'm at now, they started me off on a Pentium D box, and holy shit did it suck. Having too many apps open would result in one choppy ass experience because of the FSB getting clogged up (due to the complete lack of any inner-core pipe, and thus all that traffic was simply sent over the FSB). When I was finally able to upgrade to a Core 2 Duo it made a world of difference.
Their families losing the right to sue Foxconn for shitloads of money.
So they're saying it was Ted Danson?
I just recently did the 3x display setup as well. It's pretty kick ass. 24" in the center, with 20.1"ers on the sides. I'm doing it using 2 non-symmetrical video cards though (nvidia gtx260 and an nvidia gtx580..the 2 smaller monitors connect to the 260 and my bigger 24" connects to the 580). I was surprised how Windows 7 handled it right out of box with the previous nvidia drivers already installed. Since it's not an SLI setup, I can't actually use both cards to render graphics while gaming, but I do have the option to offload PhysX processing to the 260 (for games that actually use it...which isn't many).
If you really want to do this, I'd recommend using router software that supports a captive portal (so they are presented with a welcome page and must agree to your terms of use before they are allowed through your firewall) and VLANs. The idea is you can create a VLAN for your public wifi access, and another for your private network. People connecting to your public wifi network would be allowed only access to the Internet, and nothing else on your network (we don't want people snooping through your porn now do we).
FYI I am a 4.0 university student who smokes weed.
Oh, no! Don't tell me you're one of those.
IPv6 adoption wasn't just going to happen overnight.
Yup. This is also why I never pre-order games. Just ask the people that pre-ordered Duke Nukem Forever 10 years ago. Companies will get my money once I agree to purchase what they're actually selling.
Mod parent up ;)
Sounds like French firewalls are about as affective as the French military.
I started my Master's about 18 months ago after graduating with a Bachelor's in 1995. Why? Cash. Simply put, after a bit over 15 years in the industry you can't advance too far from "Senior SysAdmin" without a Master's.
Absolute rubbish. Our previous software architect is easily the most brilliant software engineer that I have ever met and he didn't even have a bachelors degree. Now he's giving lectures about functional programming at campuses across the US (including MIT) and is a co-author of a book of the same subject matter (that will probably end up making an appearance on Slashdot in a few years).
On the flip side, I've seen people with a Master's in CS that couldn't even handle a SysAdmin gig. Just having the credentials doesn't necessarily make you a rock star in your field of study, it takes the willingness to push yourself and a genuine interest in what you're doing.
Not to shit on your parade, but I'd imagine the reason why you couldn't advance too far from "Senior SysAdmin" is simply because you either lack the proper skills for software development/engineering, or just simply don't push yourself hard enough to do something better.
Wake me up when these 10% actually complete their CS degree.
Mod parent up. Also (not sure about the other vendors) but with the Dell iDRACs, you can even load virtual media (that is, you can feed the iDRAC controller a DVD/CD ISO so that it looks like it's a disc sitting in a local drive) and boot from it to perform a complete OS Install remotely if you had to.
Why?
...and so on. Osborne 1 is much more suited for geekery.
- Real, physical keyboard
- Easy access to the filesystem
- The ability to install whatever you want, and use the computer however you want
- Tons of languages, dev tools, and compilers (were) available for various languages
- I/O ports for useful tasks like printing
How about the real reason:
- It's not a device made by Apple
Say what you want, but lets be realistic here...that's the real reason.
I will definitely be buying this once it's out. And to those who think a keyboard/mouse is good enough...you've got to be kidding me. That is such a fugly setup for a HTPC that it's not even funny.
Internal company political circle-jerking will quickly drive up the price of anything, regardless of how simple it could be.
If the ROI's too low because of legal barriers to entry, then why bother?
And what barriers of entry would that be exactly? Software patents don't prevent somebody from penetrating a market. They only become a problem once somebody threatens legal action against you, which is usually the result of already being a market player and becoming successful (you can't get blood from a turnip, right?). It seems to me that for a company not based in the US, the worst that could happen (that the US could actually enforce) would be to grant an injunction against your infringing product(s), preventing it's sale within the borders of the US. You still keep all the money you've made.
It seems really foolish to exclude a huge market on the premise that something bad could happen...especially when at worst you're just back to where you started.
Spoken like a true business man....
fact: the GDP in US is a quarter of the whole planet...
You scoff at that like it's a negligible number. Last I checked, a quarter of the entire planet's GDP is a helluva lot. You also neglect to realize that a big ass chunk of the 3/4 of the rest of the world is China, who barely recognizes copyright law and thus piracy is ramptant. So yea...good luck staying in business when you turn your back to one of the largest legitimate markets in the world and most users of your software are just simply pirating it.
Yeah, well, if you want to do any business in the US (which is a helluva market to just ignore), then yes it's even a European developer's nemesis.
Since it'll be awhile before you get to hear these gems again, here ya go:
(After Homer vents gas from a nuclear reactor and destroys crops of corn)
Farmer: Oh no, the corn! Paul Newman's gonna have ma' legs broke!
Mr. Burns: Homer, your bravery and quick thinking have turned a potential Chernobyl into a mere Three Mile Island. Bravo!
(After Homer causes a nuclear meltdown in a simulator)
Nuclear Safety Engineer: I don't understand it! There wasn't any nuclear material in that van!