Other than compatibility has been broken numerous times. Kind of like saying Win95 is the same as WinXP because the UI looks similar and they're both called "Windows".
From one extreme to the other. Your company supplied computer probably costed 1/4 the price of the Mac. For 1/2 the price of the Mac or 2x the price of company computer, you can build your own with much better parts than the Mac.
At least Valve is teaming up with Intel to help Intel create working opensource drivers for Intel IGP, which is getting decently powerful.
I would be willing to use an IvyBridge or faster Intel IGP to make a Linux "gaming" box.
Something I read during the big 600m MegaMillions thing: Most people who win the lottery blow through the entire sum in under 5 years and come out with debt to boot.
why buy something for $100 that lasts forever when you can buy one a Walmart for $9.99 and replace it every six months?
Because I have $20 in my pocket, I need that $10 item otherwise I can't make money and I need to make the other $10 get me two weeks of food. Six months from now, I will be in the same boat and s till unable to get the $100 version that doesn't break.
The idealistic goal is that there will be 100% unemployment. We are working towards that goal. The base amount of unemployment will continue to rise as supply for basic needs surpasses demand.
Finally, cheap manufacturing from Asia has lead to a situation where it's cheaper to replace consumer products than to repair them
Look at the bright side, we're getting lots of raw materials from Asia. I bet our landfills are a gold mine of Asian resources. Some day we can recycle them.
I don't do much of my own work, but as a kid, I remember my had having me use a stud finder to mark the walls with chalk so we knew were to drill to mount heavy items. Worked fine for me.
I know someone who stopped getting flu shots after three years in a row they got sick for two weeks with full-blow flu symptoms. I'm sure they're a corner case.
Don't forget to add a motor to the dish to allow it to track the satellite across the sky. You'll also need a second dish so it can start tracking the next satellite, otherwise you will lose connection for a bit as the other satellite leave line-of-site.
They will also have to add this same ability to the satellite so it can track base stations.
They use clustered file systems which have nothing to do with EXT/BTRFS/ZFS. If you're looking for a easy to manage, resilient, local filesystem, ZFS is about the only game in town.
I'll be using ZFS myself. I don't know what kind of trade-offs it would entail, but I would like to have something like the Win8 StoragePool where the software raid sits on-top of the pool instead of underneath it. Assuming it's not a huge trade off, the idea of "slabs" sounds good in theory.
I'm glad BTRFS is still getting love. Otherwise ZFS seems to be the only option in town for large manageable storage.
It was my understanding that Intel's graphics drivers are open-sourced along with the hardware specs. I thought the open-source philosophy is to fork and fix.
As much as I love opensource, I find it kind of funny/sad how the end users complain about getting open-source drivers and how open-source is so much better, then when the drivers are provided they just complain about how bad the drivers are.
This isn't true. Lots of companies have built out private networks in the ROW.
I'm sure they have, but in the state that I live, common policy is that Cable, Telephone, Gas, Electric, and Water has an automatic RoW Easement to any property located in city limits. Any other type of utility must get the property owner's permission to use the RoW.
If you are a new internet only start-up and you are not a certified Telephone or Cable company, you will not be covered by the blanket RoW and you must get individual permission to dig up other people's property.
You might say that someone could come in and ask the power company if they can use their poles and do aerial fiber. But two things:
1) RoW does not apply to 3rd parties. The power company may not allow another company to install their fiber on some's property, the fiber must be owned by the power company because they are on someone else's property.
2) Most of the cites near me have underground power.
Around here, telecom has rights to dig up a good portion of your private property. Something like 10' from the road is fair-game.
I recently had a telcom come in with a backhoe and dig a hole deep enough for an average sized worker to jump into and I could not see his helmet anymore. They didn't need any permission from us. Luckily it was from a local ISP who is rolling out fiber, so I was happy. Finally get rid of Charter once the fiber goes live.
That's only for established telcoms. Upstart ISPs have to get permission from each private property owner. One can easily see how it's hard to compete with telcoms when you have to get permission from thousands of property owners. All it takes is one person to say "You can't dig through my land if you don't pay me", to hold up a multi-million dollar roll-out of fiber.
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So macs have been using the same OS since 2000?
Other than compatibility has been broken numerous times. Kind of like saying Win95 is the same as WinXP because the UI looks similar and they're both called "Windows".
From one extreme to the other. Your company supplied computer probably costed 1/4 the price of the Mac. For 1/2 the price of the Mac or 2x the price of company computer, you can build your own with much better parts than the Mac.
"Direct3D and OpenGL are basically identical these days"
/sigh
I want to say "I wish OpenGL supported multiple calling threads", but how many Windows games support DX11 and make use of multiple threads...
First step first. Lets get good opensource drivers, or at least decent binaries.
At least Valve is teaming up with Intel to help Intel create working opensource drivers for Intel IGP, which is getting decently powerful. I would be willing to use an IvyBridge or faster Intel IGP to make a Linux "gaming" box.
rewards for doing jumping exploits to solve puzzles
That's because in GW1, you couldn't jump! :p
Email authentication is just another form of single sign-on
A single point to secure.
Something I read during the big 600m MegaMillions thing: Most people who win the lottery blow through the entire sum in under 5 years and come out with debt to boot.
why buy something for $100 that lasts forever when you can buy one a Walmart for $9.99 and replace it every six months?
Because I have $20 in my pocket, I need that $10 item otherwise I can't make money and I need to make the other $10 get me two weeks of food. Six months from now, I will be in the same boat and s till unable to get the $100 version that doesn't break.
The idealistic goal is that there will be 100% unemployment. We are working towards that goal. The base amount of unemployment will continue to rise as supply for basic needs surpasses demand.
Finally, cheap manufacturing from Asia has lead to a situation where it's cheaper to replace consumer products than to repair them
Look at the bright side, we're getting lots of raw materials from Asia. I bet our landfills are a gold mine of Asian resources. Some day we can recycle them.
I don't do much of my own work, but as a kid, I remember my had having me use a stud finder to mark the walls with chalk so we knew were to drill to mount heavy items. Worked fine for me.
Single data points are king in arguments.
A general wiring specification is hardly on a level playing field with creating the internet
The sum of the internet is greater than it's parts. Every role was important, but most weren't anything much more ingeniousness than the others.
Add "on the internet" and they can patent it with no questions asked.
I know someone who stopped getting flu shots after three years in a row they got sick for two weeks with full-blow flu symptoms. I'm sure they're a corner case.
Don't forget to add a motor to the dish to allow it to track the satellite across the sky. You'll also need a second dish so it can start tracking the next satellite, otherwise you will lose connection for a bit as the other satellite leave line-of-site.
They will also have to add this same ability to the satellite so it can track base stations.
Sounds a bit messy.
all I want is mirroring :P BTRFS may become what I need by the time I create my file server. I'll be keeping an eye on it.
Relative to the market size, BSD has about the same amount of resources getting poured into it from corp. Licensing has little to do with it.
The only local filesystem choice with snap-shotting, bit-rot protection, and end-to-end data-validation, with an enterprise track-record.
They use clustered file systems which have nothing to do with EXT/BTRFS/ZFS. If you're looking for a easy to manage, resilient, local filesystem, ZFS is about the only game in town.
I'll be using ZFS myself. I don't know what kind of trade-offs it would entail, but I would like to have something like the Win8 StoragePool where the software raid sits on-top of the pool instead of underneath it. Assuming it's not a huge trade off, the idea of "slabs" sounds good in theory.
I'm glad BTRFS is still getting love. Otherwise ZFS seems to be the only option in town for large manageable storage.
It was my understanding that Intel's graphics drivers are open-sourced along with the hardware specs. I thought the open-source philosophy is to fork and fix.
As much as I love opensource, I find it kind of funny/sad how the end users complain about getting open-source drivers and how open-source is so much better, then when the drivers are provided they just complain about how bad the drivers are.
This isn't true. Lots of companies have built out private networks in the ROW.
I'm sure they have, but in the state that I live, common policy is that Cable, Telephone, Gas, Electric, and Water has an automatic RoW Easement to any property located in city limits. Any other type of utility must get the property owner's permission to use the RoW.
If you are a new internet only start-up and you are not a certified Telephone or Cable company, you will not be covered by the blanket RoW and you must get individual permission to dig up other people's property.
You might say that someone could come in and ask the power company if they can use their poles and do aerial fiber. But two things:
1) RoW does not apply to 3rd parties. The power company may not allow another company to install their fiber on some's property, the fiber must be owned by the power company because they are on someone else's property.
2) Most of the cites near me have underground power.
Around here, telecom has rights to dig up a good portion of your private property. Something like 10' from the road is fair-game.
I recently had a telcom come in with a backhoe and dig a hole deep enough for an average sized worker to jump into and I could not see his helmet anymore. They didn't need any permission from us. Luckily it was from a local ISP who is rolling out fiber, so I was happy. Finally get rid of Charter once the fiber goes live.
That's only for established telcoms. Upstart ISPs have to get permission from each private property owner. One can easily see how it's hard to compete with telcoms when you have to get permission from thousands of property owners. All it takes is one person to say "You can't dig through my land if you don't pay me", to hold up a multi-million dollar roll-out of fiber.
It's damn near impossible for an up-start.