I was split between if the person was being sarcastic or if the person was being arrogant. I decided to play that he/she was writing straight. I could very well have been wrong. I assume now that you're right since one of the moderators gave the person a troll;).
My friends have not had the issues you described but they have a pretty beefy setup (particularly their Ram & video cards which seems to be the bottleneck for games). I think it depends on the system. I know mine wouldn't hold up very well but then again mine will still be kicking after theirs has been retired due to using Linux distros.:)
But surfing outside our informed group here, websites talk about recent fantastic record results and outlooks for Microsoft, among other things fueled by strong Windows growth. People talk about faster adoption rate and less problems with Vista than XP, over 100 million users, MS being rated as one of the most respected companies, and other shit like that. Isn't it possible that you have it backwards and slashdot users are the ones who have the proverbial head in the clouds. Slashdot does have a predisposition to be anti-Microsoft so I tend to take most Microsoft news here with a grain of salt. The opposite holds for *nix-like news, it's usually in a flattering light so you have to take that with a grain of salt as well. I think you're correct about slashdot readers being well informed but the information is not always balanced.
I have two friends (computer science majors) who have installed Vista and are enjoying the experience. Of course this is purely anecdotally but what isn't? Also don't understimate the DirectX 10 factor that Vista has to draw the PC gamers.
Thank goodness. I was looking for comments on the article (which was what the summary was pointing to after all) but all the other comments were bitching about the laptop itself. The grammar didn't bother me but looking back at the article you're absolutely right about the pictures. They (at least most) look like something you'd use for a splash page on a website instead of showing proper perspective.
I think I can speak for the GP in that he agrees with you since I'm pretty sure he knows he misspoke;) However I get more annoyed with the moderators who give +'s to the 'Does run Linux', 'You must be new here' comments. I'll stop there.
What you say makes sense to me personally since I enjoy reading books. If a new book was offered online I would welcome being able to read a chapter online to see if I wanted to buy it. I tend to wait till books come to the library because I don't want to buy a book that I won't read again. They'd certainly get more money out of me.
Don't forget to compare the amount of _stable_ releases of Linux kernels (anyone have a number?) versus the GNU Hurd (zero). Didn't HURD development start almost a decade before Linus started on his work?
It could be different areas have different states of unlock. This would lead to the percentage being somewhere between the two extreme ends (low and high % of unlock). I'd imagine this would be the case and possibly Dubai is on the high end (meaning the average is somewhere below it).
It sounds like it's talking about memory management for external fragmentation. Here is an article that looks like it is talking about those patches. Here is a site that seems to explain memory management pretty well. I could try explaining stuff myself but I'd probably miss some of the nuances (I'm no OS expert by any stretch).
If people wanted reliable software, we'd all be using OpenBSD I was on freeBSD for a brief stint but found myself working harder than I wanted to, to get the system fully set up (whereas Fedora is much more 'user friendly'). I do have to say though that there's a particular piece of software that worked pretty well on freeBSD but crashes on Fedora. I may switch back to a BSD, for that reason, when I don't need a system running for school.
Is openBSD the OS that you run (since you mention it in your comment)? Also, I am aware that there are distros of BSD like desktopBSD that have a window manager already included... which may be a route I'd go.
The servers are linux (because of an access issue. The computers being hurt by this are windows. At least that's how I read the article (see quote from article below).
According to a press release issued earlier this month by Finjan, a security research firm, compromised Web servers are infecting thousands of visitors daily with malware that turns their Windows machines into unwitting bots to do the bidding of an as yet unidentified criminal organization. Security firms ScanSafe and SecureWorks have since added their own takes on the situation, though with varying estimates on the number of sites affected. All reports thus far say the compromised servers are running Linux and Apache.
Copied verbatim from KDE's manifesto (emphasis mine)
Portability
KDE and its libraries are intended to be portable to all Unix-like platforms. KDE seeks to avoid ties with any platform specific interfaces where possible, and when not possible to provide code for all platforms. In fact KDE is available for GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Sun-Solaris, and many other platforms. It takes a lot of effort to make sure code is portable across different environments. Each time you tweak it for one environment you have to make sure that it didn't break for things that worked previous. Since Apple doesn't try to make their GUI portable for most Unix-like environments they can focus their efforts on other things.
And it is much better for the users who don't have to worry about finding drivers (much)
and getting random hardware to work. I'm not really sure how you can twist the fact that
owning a PC is quite often a pain in the ass into something that is "impressive." People have installed Linux distros with KDE on the Mac hardware without any problem because of that
fact. On the other hand Leopard can't be installed on 'random hardware'. _That_ is what I find
impressive. You're going to have poor driver support, proprietary drivers that can't be used in that situation etc.
I never 'twisted those facts' so I'm not sure what you're driving at there. If your point is that you don't agree
with my conclusion that's fine. We're allowed to have different opinions.
Because Slashdot memes were mentioned in the story, are Slashdot memes exactly off-topic? I, for one, would moderate all those as off topic. Frankly there's no 'value added' after the umpteenth 'you must be new here', 'does it run on linux' etc (at least too me). My mileage may vary and I'm probably in the minority here. Like normal I refer a xkcd blag that's on the same vein. (Signal-to-noise ratio and limiting certain phrases).
Granted, Apple has integrated their GUI VERY tightly with the kernel but what you think of as Leopard is the GUI+darwin. When people say they bought the OS I just think of it as them buying a very pretty GNOME or KDE. If you really wanted to you could build darwin (and their are open source distros using darwin). If I'm incorrect someone please correct me.
I actually find GNOME and KDE to be more impressive then apple's products because they work with MANY distros whereas Apple constrains it to one. Same idea with their hardware. It's much easier to program when you can limit the portability.
Agreed.
By the summary I thought it was going to explain how to understand art. My mind is way to literal and focused on mathematics so I tend not to grasp the kind of nuances that make of the 'artsy-fartsy' stuff. I thought was I would learn about the 'buzzwords' that describe art so I can intelligently talk to cute artsy chicks. This just reinforces my geeky-ness (which I don't need any help with).:(
I'm trying out Fedora 8 right now. If they don't make it absurdly easy to upgrade I will pick some distro (Linux or BSD) that does incrementals. Thanks for that note on Gentoo. I'll keep that in mind as an alternative.
Another thing...
My university does not push Windows updates to all the computers until they have been tested on test machines. Is this because Microsoft is any worse then Apple? No. OSs are complex pieces of software. Whoever is the administrator on the machine should be doing something similar on Mac production machines. That sysadmin failed at their job, not Apple.
Mod the parent up. This is the same logic for anyone in a similar situation.
For example, I had Dapper Drake on my computer for a long time. Last fall I was getting sick of being stuck at Thunderbird/Firefox 1.5 (and I don't feel like manually updating software packages and get out of sync of the repositories). Now I'm in school for a computer science degree and use my system to develop the programming assignments.
Did I do a major upgrade and risk breaking things mid-semester? No. I waited to over Christmas break. Would I likely have been okay? Probably. Was it worth the risk? No. I know my example is a little extreme (upgrading a distro) but the same logic holds for upgrading a component that a system critical item relies on... and that allows is true.
You could very well be right. The good programmers are going to discover things out for themselves anyways. After that initial theory is laid down (in my opinion) a lot of the ideas can be picked by yourself. Our curriculum is very C/C++/Java centric (with the notable exception being AI and a class in VB.NET [which is for non-majors anyways]). I was able to pick up VB.NET/VBSCRIPT fairly quickly while working in IT as an undergraduate.
However, in AI we were introduced to LISP (for manipulating lists) and prolog (for knowledge representation). I'm not sure if I'd be aware of them otherwise. I think people do tend to overreact to things. Kind of like the stock market. All this worry is focused on it and now look at it. It's self-fulfilling in my eyes.
Are there any concrete examples of schools with curricula that do that? Assuming that you're asking because you're curious, don't know. Technical schools may be an example?
Assuming that you're questioning if I'm conjecturing or not... then yes, it's just a conjecture. Maybe a better turn of phrase would be something like:
Using multiple languages in a program is likely beneficial to the students. This is because they'll have a better idea of what is available and it'll help them better decide the right tool for the job (I'm not trying to be a smart-ass. It is just hard to judge the tone of a written phrase)
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I was split between if the person was being sarcastic or if the person was being arrogant. I decided to play that he/she was writing straight. I could very well have been wrong. I assume now that you're right since one of the moderators gave the person a troll ;).
My friends have not had the issues you described but they have a pretty beefy setup (particularly their Ram & video cards which seems to be the bottleneck for games). I think it depends on the system. I know mine wouldn't hold up very well but then again mine will still be kicking after theirs has been retired due to using Linux distros. :)
I have two friends (computer science majors) who have installed Vista and are enjoying the experience. Of course this is purely anecdotally but what isn't? Also don't understimate the DirectX 10 factor that Vista has to draw the PC gamers.
Thank goodness. I was looking for comments on the article (which was what the summary was pointing to after all) but all the other comments were bitching about the laptop itself. The grammar didn't bother me but looking back at the article you're absolutely right about the pictures. They (at least most) look like something you'd use for a splash page on a website instead of showing proper perspective.
I think I can speak for the GP in that he agrees with you since I'm pretty sure he knows he misspoke ;) However I get more annoyed with the moderators who give +'s to the 'Does run Linux', 'You must be new here' comments. I'll stop there.
What you say makes sense to me personally since I enjoy reading books. If a new book was offered online I would welcome being able to read a chapter online to see if I wanted to buy it. I tend to wait till books come to the library because I don't want to buy a book that I won't read again. They'd certainly get more money out of me.
Don't forget to compare the amount of _stable_ releases of Linux kernels (anyone have a number?) versus the GNU Hurd (zero). Didn't HURD development start almost a decade before Linus started on his work?
It could be different areas have different states of unlock. This would lead to the percentage being somewhere between the two extreme ends (low and high % of unlock). I'd imagine this would be the case and possibly Dubai is on the high end (meaning the average is somewhere below it).
It sounds like it's talking about memory management for external fragmentation. Here is an article that looks like it is talking about those patches. Here is a site that seems to explain memory management pretty well. I could try explaining stuff myself but I'd probably miss some of the nuances (I'm no OS expert by any stretch).
I refer you to here.
You're correct and I've already acknowledged I was incorrect several hours ago..
I admit, I jumped the gun. I'm done conjecturing until more information comes in. I usually get annoyed when people do so, so I really have no excuse.
I take that back. :/ It seems like there's too many unknowns to jump to conclusions. I'm done conjecturing ... it won't serve any point at this time.
Granted, Apple has integrated their GUI VERY tightly with the kernel but what you think of as Leopard is the GUI+darwin. When people say they bought the OS I just think of it as them buying a very pretty GNOME or KDE. If you really wanted to you could build darwin (and their are open source distros using darwin). If I'm incorrect someone please correct me.
I actually find GNOME and KDE to be more impressive then apple's products because they work with MANY distros whereas Apple constrains it to one. Same idea with their hardware. It's much easier to program when you can limit the portability.
Agreed. By the summary I thought it was going to explain how to understand art. My mind is way to literal and focused on mathematics so I tend not to grasp the kind of nuances that make of the 'artsy-fartsy' stuff. I thought was I would learn about the 'buzzwords' that describe art so I can intelligently talk to cute artsy chicks. This just reinforces my geeky-ness (which I don't need any help with). :(
I'm trying out Fedora 8 right now. If they don't make it absurdly easy to upgrade I will pick some distro (Linux or BSD) that does incrementals. Thanks for that note on Gentoo. I'll keep that in mind as an alternative.
Another thing... My university does not push Windows updates to all the computers until they have been tested on test machines. Is this because Microsoft is any worse then Apple? No. OSs are complex pieces of software. Whoever is the administrator on the machine should be doing something similar on Mac production machines. That sysadmin failed at their job, not Apple.
Mod the parent up. This is the same logic for anyone in a similar situation.
... and that allows is true.
For example, I had Dapper Drake on my computer for a long time. Last fall I was getting sick of being stuck at Thunderbird/Firefox 1.5 (and I don't feel like manually updating software packages and get out of sync of the repositories). Now I'm in school for a computer science degree and use my system to develop the programming assignments.
Did I do a major upgrade and risk breaking things mid-semester? No. I waited to over Christmas break. Would I likely have been okay? Probably. Was it worth the risk? No. I know my example is a little extreme (upgrading a distro) but the same logic holds for upgrading a component that a system critical item relies on
You could very well be right. The good programmers are going to discover things out for themselves anyways. After that initial theory is laid down (in my opinion) a lot of the ideas can be picked by yourself. Our curriculum is very C/C++/Java centric (with the notable exception being AI and a class in VB.NET [which is for non-majors anyways]). I was able to pick up VB.NET/VBSCRIPT fairly quickly while working in IT as an undergraduate.
However, in AI we were introduced to LISP (for manipulating lists) and prolog (for knowledge representation). I'm not sure if I'd be aware of them otherwise. I think people do tend to overreact to things. Kind of like the stock market. All this worry is focused on it and now look at it. It's self-fulfilling in my eyes.
Assuming that you're questioning if I'm conjecturing or not
Well said. I'll have to find some balanced books on the topic to read up on it more.