It seems like the law is just stupid. The DEA agents are just doing their job -- requiring anything which can be used in the production of dangerous drugs to be secured -- but this guy has been doing this for 30 years and no one has stolen his iodine yet.
Will they be requiring all car owners to have a 24-hour security service watching their cars? After all, they could be stolen and used in a crime. We need to get reasonable here.
Wasn't Linux originally based on Minux? I remember reading something about that in the 90's when I installed my first linux install from 25 or so floppies.
No, not really. Its Darwin core is as much a BSD variant as FreeBSD is. Of course, it depends on what you mean by "based on."
Don't forget that Mach OS was originally designed specifically as a BSD with Mach as a replacement kernel.
Wikipedia: "Mac OS X is based upon the Mach kernel.[13] Certain parts from FreeBSD's and NetBSD's implementation of Unix were incorporated in NeXTSTEP, the core of Mac OS X.
Thank you! The Windows appologists sometimes resort to ridculous claims (Window HP(?) is free to OEMs).
I just purchased a laptop from Fujitsu without an OS and it was exactly 50 euros cheaper than the same model with Windows 7. So, the Microsoft "Tax" is 50 Euros. Actually, I think you actually get a lot of software for that money, but, the laptop works beautifully with Ubuntu 10.04LT and is much crisper, boots quickly, and, of course, is less virus prone.
I was wondering about that myself. "By whom" is correct, but "whomever wants to..." is not. What does one do when you combine the two? I tend to think the correct syntax would have been "can be forked by whoever wanted to". Where are the English majors when you need them?
The real problem with BSD as a mass movement has always been it's approach and management style.
Isn't that also its advantage? FreeBSD (at least, I don't know the others) is very consistent, well documented and clean. It's always in the top 10 of Netcraft's highest uptime stats.
My recent experience and a previous experience with large corporate software efforts showed me how counter-productive such metrics are:
I used to work for a computer company with over 100,000 employees which used six-sigma to measure programming effectiveness. So, what the developers did, was to create a lot of programs from templates rather than creating common libraries and to put as little code on one line as possible. Getting the number of lines of code up was the goal so that the errors per lines of code would look better. Completely counter productive at the development level.
Recently, at the management level, in preparation for a presentation with top management, metrics and results are simply manipulated at the tool reporting (jira) level to get the results you need.
To get good quality software, you have to have good technical people managing the process and promote people based mostly on that ability but that's not the way corporate America works.
It's funny they had to fix it by copying the method from Windows though.
A number of motherboard manufacturers decided not to "advertise" that they supported ASPM and somehow MS knows of this before anyone else. I agree with the approach linux took: mimic Windows behavior to help locate the bug.
We've are a linux shop (running a java application) since 2000 and never looked back. It just runs and requires almost no admin. Up until recently I wrote the software (1.3 million lines of code to date) and managed the machines remotely. I rarely had to do anything with the roughly 100 linux boxes. But we had to hire a guy full time to manage the 20 or so Windows boxes that we use for the die-hards.
Because you can't play games on Linux, and my development environments (Visual Studio and PHPEdit) aren't available for other than Windows.
I noticed that the JDK for JavaFX with Netbeans is also only available under Windows. They've been promising Linux and Solaris support for years but it's still only available for Windows.
Thanks, interesting graph. China just passed the US and it's on a steep upward climb.
I live in Germany which has managed to have a very small CO2 footprint while maintaining a pretty high standard of living. It shows that it can be done.
Due to massive reduction programs, most of the world keeps CO2 at most slightly increasing, and in some cases lowering. Except for China who's doubling their pollution every ten years.
I think we need to keep China in perspective: they have 5 times the US population and they have a manufacturing economy ("the world's factory") and even with that they just passed the US in total CO2 output which means the US still creates almost 5 times as much CO2 per capita as China. That doesn't mean the US is bad, per se. Rather I think it shows that the standard of living in the US is simply higher for most of the population. Most of China's population is still poor.
Still, though, we shouldn't be pointing the CO2 finger at China. I'd have this romantic and hopeful view that the US will continue to be the innovators and be on the leading edge of technological change for green energy with huge solar farms in Arizona producing a large portion of the country's electricity. I can dream, right? And sometimes dreams come true...
I think Einsteins point was that the really truly great strokes of genius will happen before 30. Sure many physicists will peak later but they won't be the ones developing a relativity theory.
We have an internal application and I could chose which OS I wanted back in 2001. I really wanted FreeBSD -- it just seemed faster and more coherent. Configuring the system and various userland settings worked similarly whereas Linux was all over the place. But, I was writing the application in Java and FreeBSD didn't support it natively then.
Is there native support for JDK 6 or... dare I ask... 7?
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It seems like the law is just stupid. The DEA agents are just doing their job -- requiring anything which can be used in the production of dangerous drugs to be secured -- but this guy has been doing this for 30 years and no one has stolen his iodine yet.
Will they be requiring all car owners to have a 24-hour security service watching their cars? After all, they could be stolen and used in a crime. We need to get reasonable here.
Wasn't Linux originally based on Minux? I remember reading something about that in the 90's when I installed my first linux install from 25 or so floppies.
No, not really. Its Darwin core is as much a BSD variant as FreeBSD is. Of course, it depends on what you mean by "based on."
Don't forget that Mach OS was originally designed specifically as a BSD with Mach as a replacement kernel.
Wikipedia: "Mac OS X is based upon the Mach kernel.[13] Certain parts from FreeBSD's and NetBSD's implementation of Unix were incorporated in NeXTSTEP, the core of Mac OS X.
Do you REALLY want me to provide citations?
I'd love to see some citations of Windows 7 Start costing $8 and HP costing $15.
Or, if you will:
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/09/microsoft-oems-pay-about-50-for-each-copy-of-windows.ars
It IS free as the cost of Win 7 HP has been published several times, it is $15 a copy.
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/09/newegg-reveals-windows-7-oem-prices.ars
"Earlier this month, we learned OEMs pay Microsoft about $50 for each copy of Windows."
Thank you! The Windows appologists sometimes resort to ridculous claims (Window HP(?) is free to OEMs).
I just purchased a laptop from Fujitsu without an OS and it was exactly 50 euros cheaper than the same model with Windows 7. So, the Microsoft "Tax" is 50 Euros. Actually, I think you actually get a lot of software for that money, but, the laptop works beautifully with Ubuntu 10.04LT and is much crisper, boots quickly, and, of course, is less virus prone.
I was wondering about that myself. "By whom" is correct, but "whomever wants to ..." is not. What does one do when you combine the two? I tend to think the correct syntax would have been "can be forked by whoever wanted to". Where are the English majors when you need them?
The real problem with BSD as a mass movement has always been it's approach and management style.
Isn't that also its advantage? FreeBSD (at least, I don't know the others) is very consistent, well documented and clean. It's always in the top 10 of Netcraft's highest uptime stats.
My recent experience and a previous experience with large corporate software efforts showed me how counter-productive such metrics are:
I used to work for a computer company with over 100,000 employees which used six-sigma to measure programming effectiveness. So, what the developers did, was to create a lot of programs from templates rather than creating common libraries and to put as little code on one line as possible. Getting the number of lines of code up was the goal so that the errors per lines of code would look better. Completely counter productive at the development level.
Recently, at the management level, in preparation for a presentation with top management, metrics and results are simply manipulated at the tool reporting (jira) level to get the results you need.
To get good quality software, you have to have good technical people managing the process and promote people based mostly on that ability but that's not the way corporate America works.
Thanks. It would appear, then, that most other DB's, especially, I'm guessing, DB's like MySQL and Postgresql use page level locking, I'm guessing.
Oracle's superior locking model also in my experience produces less developer pain that many of the alternatives.
What is Oracle's superior locking model?
> but enterprises have different needs
Yes, like PostgreSQL
Thank you! My thoughts exactly.
These guys can't get enough.
It's funny they had to fix it by copying the method from Windows though.
A number of motherboard manufacturers decided not to "advertise" that they supported ASPM and somehow MS knows of this before anyone else. I agree with the approach linux took: mimic Windows behavior to help locate the bug.
We've are a linux shop (running a java application) since 2000 and never looked back. It just runs and requires almost no admin. Up until recently I wrote the software (1.3 million lines of code to date) and managed the machines remotely. I rarely had to do anything with the roughly 100 linux boxes. But we had to hire a guy full time to manage the 20 or so Windows boxes that we use for the die-hards.
Because you can't play games on Linux, and my development environments (Visual Studio and PHPEdit) aren't available for other than Windows.
I noticed that the JDK for JavaFX with Netbeans is also only available under Windows. They've been promising Linux and Solaris support for years but it's still only available for Windows.
It sounds like you are comparing Solaris/Sparc to Linux/X86 and I'm not sure that's a fair comparison.
For example, in the linked article.
Thanks, interesting graph. China just passed the US and it's on a steep upward climb.
I live in Germany which has managed to have a very small CO2 footprint while maintaining a pretty high standard of living. It shows that it can be done.
Due to massive reduction programs, most of the world keeps CO2 at most slightly increasing, and in some cases lowering. Except for China who's doubling their pollution every ten years.
I think we need to keep China in perspective: they have 5 times the US population and they have a manufacturing economy ("the world's factory") and even with that they just passed the US in total CO2 output which means the US still creates almost 5 times as much CO2 per capita as China. That doesn't mean the US is bad, per se. Rather I think it shows that the standard of living in the US is simply higher for most of the population. Most of China's population is still poor.
Still, though, we shouldn't be pointing the CO2 finger at China. I'd have this romantic and hopeful view that the US will continue to be the innovators and be on the leading edge of technological change for green energy with huge solar farms in Arizona producing a large portion of the country's electricity. I can dream, right? And sometimes dreams come true ...
I think Einsteins point was that the really truly great strokes of genius will happen before 30. Sure many physicists will peak later but they won't be the ones developing a relativity theory.
That was good!
How is java support these days?
We have an internal application and I could chose which OS I wanted back in 2001. I really wanted FreeBSD -- it just seemed faster and more coherent. Configuring the system and various userland settings worked similarly whereas Linux was all over the place. But, I was writing the application in Java and FreeBSD didn't support it natively then.
Is there native support for JDK 6 or ... dare I ask ... 7?
I RTFA'd and I still find his comment apropos.
Anyway, as I understand it, the big difference between OSX and FreeBSD is that OSX doesn't use X. Is that correct?
I think they should just change the name to "Apfel" or "Pomme" or "Apel".
I wonder if that would be enough for Apple?