I guess google will be keeping track of what all those holiday shoppers/travelers are googling? This is so much better than doing marketing research the old way... Not that I'm a skeptic... but I believe there is an evil, ulterior motive.
i have to break it to y'all... but this isn't really steve's work. of course he's a genius, but no one (including the press) has mentioned that the last author is Holger Mueller. in the (physical and biological) sciences there's a fairly well established protocol that the first author is the one who did the actual work and the last author is the leader of the project. of course, there's exceptions to the rule and these are always stated in the footnotes.
i think this is an example of the press just trying to use someones name to get more attention.... as usual.
has it occurred to anyone that it may have nothing to do with chemical interactions at the level they're describing it? there's a fairly well known study with old nuns, where it was shown that active minds are less likely to get alzheimers. could it be that the stimulated brains of coffee drinkers is the real protective effect? if so, perhaps soda-fueled developers will also have lower rates of alzheimers.
I've installed Open Solaris on 3 different laptops (hp nc6400, dell inspiron 300m, toshiba u205) and 2 desktops (dell workstation with quad xeon and sun ultra 20) and here's my take:
1) open solaris is a really cool idea and i am happy sun has taken this step forward
2) although it installs really easy, the lack of audio drivers (in particular for standard intel chipset) is upsetting. a tech guy at sun told me they are fixing this in the next release.
3) someone posted that it comes with codecs??? really... the only way i thought you could play mp3's is to deal with fluendo $$$. i never got mp3's to work.
4) the package manager is REALLY nice, but much much slower than e.g. synaptic.
5) if you're used to linux, some things are really challenging in Open Solaris, for example, devices. In linux, it's easy to find your usb drive (e.g./dev/sdb2) and mount from command line. pardon my general inexperience with solaris, but i found it impossible to sort through the many many many virtual dev that OS uses. long story short... my quick and easy linux tricks don't work in solaris which make trouble shooting VERY difficult.
5) wireless was hit or miss... on some laptops, no problem at all. on others - nightmare (i guess this is the case for linux too)
6) acpi (on laptops) is flaky, but same for linux sometimes too.
PROS) i like that sun is trying to give us a complete open source world: open solaris, open office, open jdk, mysql, netbeans, etc.. THAT in itself is so cool: to have one company trying to give you the whole integrated package. all these things together make for a really great laptop/desktop
CONS) your linux skills might not apply when troubleshooting and given x hours of free time in the day, you may not want to dive into solaris... also, sun's customer support (even with my free trial of ultra 20) is horrible. be prepared to be tossed around to dozen's of customer support people, each of whom seem to know less than you do.
FINALWORD) give it a whirly-ding. it's a great experience and i think the more people that try/use/comment/fix open solaris, the better it will become. i just wish sun would have thought of open sourcing solaris 10 years ago when it could have grown up to be what linux is right now.
oh please... xfce is riddled with gnome apps and gnome libs. whatever happens to gnome will eventually happen to xfce. that being said... i love xfce and think it's the best out there.
"Gnome is competing with OSX, Vista, KDE 4, and others"...yes...these are all slow, bloated, eye-candy-rich environments. You must be happy that after years of development, gnome can be included in such a caste. i don't deny that linux needs some "shine" to get more appeal in the mass market. but as gnome assymptotically approaches winsux vista, it will be harder to tell the difference. wouldn't it better to read -> "Gnome blows away OSX, Vista, KDE 4, and others"??? There's lots of things I like about gnome...but it gets harder every year to convince myself it's worth it...
what's wrong with the gnome developers??? do we need more eye candy and bloat to make gnome even suckier? instead of all that crap... why don't you make a lighter, faster gnome. and i would just LOVE it if evolution (ok... i know this is not gnome... but it IS the "official" gnome email) would work right. focus on the real issues... not the eye candy. if i wanted a bloated sack, i'd re-install windows.
i use evolution at work where EVERYTHING is ms. it's the only way i can integrate my linux box with the rest stuff going on here. that being said. evolution is buggy and unreliable. it frequently messes things up royally, like calendering and scheduling and often looses connection with the ms backend. i'm sure the problem is not entirely evolution, but it still sux when you're just trying to get work done. especially in an ms environment where evolution is supposed to shine....
this is how it's supposed to be. someone "has" to be the expert and it's probably an academic. although stephen wolfram was once an academic, he is no longer. he hasn't published a "real" peer reviewed paper in years. in fact, he has no business claiming to do science, "new" or otherwise.
wolfram is a software company, and stephen wolfram is a business man and charlatan scientist. by trying to pretend otherwise, he has gotten what he deserved: public humiliation. way to go! p.s. v6.0 mathematica is a bloated sac! thanx for making it worse.
btw/ i'm an arrogant academic.
What a great way for IBM and google to get the best and brightest to solve all kinds of problems for FREE! Well, it costs them $30 million a year, but that's probably nothing compared to having their OWN employees develop something. Industry has been raping and pillaging academia for years (e.g. the Pharma industry) so why not extend that opportunity to the computer world. GENIUS!
I'll have to hand it to IB-Goo (sick forshadowing???), they sure are generous donating all the that computing power (which no doubt they own and control). You wouldn't want to let those researchers have full control of a thing like this... they might do something REALLY good with it and then IB-Goo will NEVER make any money off those good ideas.
I'm not sure how much $$$ Stanford gets for the google IP developed there, but of course, that was back in the day BEFORE "cloud" computing was invented. Such primitive times those days were... such primitive times.... How did we ever live before the heady days of "cloud" computing.
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we all know that will happen someday ... :)
I guess google will be keeping track of what all those holiday shoppers/travelers are googling? This is so much better than doing marketing research the old way ... Not that I'm a skeptic ... but I believe there is an evil, ulterior motive.
... or Zenwalk ... problem solved... about 10 years ago.
FurHat Linux
i have to break it to y'all ... but this isn't really steve's work. of course he's a genius, but no one (including the press) has mentioned that the last author is Holger Mueller. in the (physical and biological) sciences there's a fairly well established protocol that the first author is the one who did the actual work and the last author is the leader of the project. of course, there's exceptions to the rule and these are always stated in the footnotes.
i think this is an example of the press just trying to use someones name to get more attention.... as usual.
has it occurred to anyone that it may have nothing to do with chemical interactions at the level they're describing it? there's a fairly well known study with old nuns, where it was shown that active minds are less likely to get alzheimers. could it be that the stimulated brains of coffee drinkers is the real protective effect? if so, perhaps soda-fueled developers will also have lower rates of alzheimers.
I've installed Open Solaris on 3 different laptops (hp nc6400, dell inspiron 300m, toshiba u205) and 2 desktops (dell workstation with quad xeon and sun ultra 20) and here's my take: 1) open solaris is a really cool idea and i am happy sun has taken this step forward 2) although it installs really easy, the lack of audio drivers (in particular for standard intel chipset) is upsetting. a tech guy at sun told me they are fixing this in the next release. 3) someone posted that it comes with codecs??? really ... the only way i thought you could play mp3's is to deal with fluendo $$$. i never got mp3's to work.
4) the package manager is REALLY nice, but much much slower than e.g. synaptic.
5) if you're used to linux, some things are really challenging in Open Solaris, for example, devices. In linux, it's easy to find your usb drive (e.g. /dev/sdb2) and mount from command line. pardon my general inexperience with solaris, but i found it impossible to sort through the many many many virtual dev that OS uses. long story short ... my quick and easy linux tricks don't work in solaris which make trouble shooting VERY difficult.
5) wireless was hit or miss ... on some laptops, no problem at all. on others - nightmare (i guess this is the case for linux too)
6) acpi (on laptops) is flaky, but same for linux sometimes too.
PROS) i like that sun is trying to give us a complete open source world: open solaris, open office, open jdk, mysql, netbeans, etc.. THAT in itself is so cool: to have one company trying to give you the whole integrated package. all these things together make for a really great laptop/desktop
CONS) your linux skills might not apply when troubleshooting and given x hours of free time in the day, you may not want to dive into solaris ... also, sun's customer support (even with my free trial of ultra 20) is horrible. be prepared to be tossed around to dozen's of customer support people, each of whom seem to know less than you do.
FINALWORD) give it a whirly-ding. it's a great experience and i think the more people that try/use/comment/fix open solaris, the better it will become. i just wish sun would have thought of open sourcing solaris 10 years ago when it could have grown up to be what linux is right now.
irb> puts 'but ruby is so easy'
...OR...
public class JavaRules {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println("no...java is better!");
}
}
$javac foo.java
$java foo
oh please ... xfce is riddled with gnome apps and gnome libs. whatever happens to gnome will eventually happen to xfce. that being said... i love xfce and think it's the best out there.
"Gnome is competing with OSX, Vista, KDE 4, and others" ...yes...these are all slow, bloated, eye-candy-rich environments. You must be happy that after years of development, gnome can be included in such a caste. i don't deny that linux needs some "shine" to get more appeal in the mass market. but as gnome assymptotically approaches winsux vista, it will be harder to tell the difference. wouldn't it better to read ->
"Gnome blows away OSX, Vista, KDE 4, and others"???
There's lots of things I like about gnome...but it gets harder every year to convince myself it's worth it...
what's wrong with the gnome developers??? do we need more eye candy and bloat to make gnome even suckier? instead of all that crap ... why don't you make a lighter, faster gnome. and i would just LOVE it if evolution (ok ... i know this is not gnome ... but it IS the "official" gnome email) would work right. ... not the eye candy. if i wanted a bloated sack, i'd re-install windows.
focus on the real issues
i use evolution at work where EVERYTHING is ms. it's the only way i can integrate my linux box with the rest stuff going on here. that being said. evolution is buggy and unreliable. it frequently messes things up royally, like calendering and scheduling and often looses connection with the ms backend. i'm sure the problem is not entirely evolution, but it still sux when you're just trying to get work done. especially in an ms environment where evolution is supposed to shine....
this is how it's supposed to be. someone "has" to be the expert and it's probably an academic. although stephen wolfram was once an academic, he is no longer. he hasn't published a "real" peer reviewed paper in years. in fact, he has no business claiming to do science, "new" or otherwise. wolfram is a software company, and stephen wolfram is a business man and charlatan scientist. by trying to pretend otherwise, he has gotten what he deserved: public humiliation. way to go! p.s. v6.0 mathematica is a bloated sac! thanx for making it worse. btw/ i'm an arrogant academic.
What a great way for IBM and google to get the best and brightest to solve all kinds of problems for FREE! Well, it costs them $30 million a year, but that's probably nothing compared to having their OWN employees develop something. Industry has been raping and pillaging academia for years (e.g. the Pharma industry) so why not extend that opportunity to the computer world. GENIUS! I'll have to hand it to IB-Goo (sick forshadowing???), they sure are generous donating all the that computing power (which no doubt they own and control). You wouldn't want to let those researchers have full control of a thing like this ... they might do something REALLY good with it and then IB-Goo will NEVER make any money off those good ideas.
I'm not sure how much $$$ Stanford gets for the google IP developed there, but of course, that was back in the day BEFORE "cloud" computing was invented. Such primitive times those days were ... such primitive times.... How did we ever live before the heady days of "cloud" computing.