ME wasn't that bad... most of the time it actually were deprecated drivers that made it crash... what was bad though was the unnecessary locking away of true DOS mode in the default boot menu
I was referring to ability, not age or time in service. Please don't ever become a manager.
Fair enough... thank you for pointing out I jumped to a conclusion from my experience! (no sarcasm)... And excuse me for attacking you like that... It surely didn't help my point but still this point holds up...
But still: Sadly most managers (let alone HR people!) tend to link age to ability... the other thing they look at when trying to judge the ability of a would-be-employee are certificates and the like (even though everybody knows that all of the most common and asked certifications can either be acquired relatively easily or outright bought for some amount of money)... more often than not this is enough to not be considered to be interviewed...
and so practically "junior" and "senior" are defined by age and certifications... if your CV doesn't look "senior" you'll hardly get a chance to prove that you are...
If you want someone who just keeps the same junk plodding on, wasting people's time and doing things badly, then you want a junior.
yeah, right... because a junior can't be any good and a senior can't be any bad... what's wrong with you?
seriously... most seniors I know are mostly busy covering up their ass i.e. making sure they can blame failure on someone else... at least those who went higher up in the hierarchy... but that's the nature of the beast... the higher you get, the more responsibility you have, which you have to spread out on your underlings... if anything goes wrong people will blame you, because you're the head so you better want to have someone else to blame or it's YOUR head that's gonna go because no one wants a failure to manage costly workforce.
Get some balls, say "this is wrong", provide a better alternative and fix it. And if the company won't let me, then I won't put up with their junk.
now THAT sounds mature (read "senior") *rolling eyes*
juniors on the other hand have more to gain and less to loose... THEY will try to get a better alternative, innovate, make progress... to get their selves promoted... so they suggest it to their senior... he'll either scrape their idea or he'll let them pass but on an isolated testing environment but only on top of what he's doing already.... and when the new implementation is finally ready the junior has to hope the senior will give him the credit due instead of taking it for himself...
tl;dl
i really hate how people thing years-in-job-time has anything to do with how got someone's doing his job... sure... there's correlation... but correlation != causality... frankly most people don't get that
Do we actually need all those agriculture products?
Yes, we do.
No, we don't.
What do you thing we need it for? Not starving? The worldwide food industry output is enough feed double the people on this planet and feed them well! But obviously that's not how it works. This is because humans are greedy and selfish and most are idiots on top of that.
> yeah except that it creates additional overhead from managing those windows to be on the "right" desktop...
That's a minimal bit of initial setup that's actually pretty trivial.
That's measured against constant ongoing inefficiencies created by most of the alternate approaches (like MacOS & Win7).
Compared to the default behaviour of Windows you may be right. But then again most Windows users run only a handful of applications at the same time thus the superbar is sufficient for their task switching needs. If you tend to puke windows all over your session (like I do) my approach should be even more effective than virtual desktops (also there's no "real" AND convenient virtual desktops for Windows) as you don't have ANY overhead in organizing and task switching is done in a way that fits the situation: alt-tab for rescently active windows, ctrl-meta-tab opens Exposé-clone with incremental window title search. Plus the other nice things I described
On MacOS I don't know. I'm not a user of it but AFAIK it's got Exposé and Spaces. The first one gives you an overview of open windows and the second one is virtual desktops essentially. I don't see on what basis you argue against that.
yeah except that it creates additional overhead from managing those windows to be on the "right" desktop... I use Windows and I found two tools that make window management a lot better than anything that's readily avaliable on Linux - or at least I'm not away of this... here's the workflow i found most effective
every window on the same desktop (no virtual desktop tool here)
taskbar on autohide
switch between rescent programs via alt-tab
switch to programs not used rescently via ctrl-meta-tab... for me that opens an expose like screen with incremental on-type search for a window title and selection via keyboard... no mouse needed. having 20 putty windows open? just start typing the servername, username or whatever is in the title of the window you'd like to switch to
arrange windows on any border or corner of the screen, maximize vertically or horizontally (in addition to what you can do by default) - all with the keyboard.... ctrl-meta-numKey to put it into any corner or border, ctrl-meta-down for max vertical, ctrl-meta-right for max horizontal...
launch programs, open documents, start putty sessions etc with launchy which comes up with ctrl-shift-space
plus some global hotkeys to my liking like ctrl-meta-m opens/activates thunderbird, ctrl-meta-a TBs address book, ctrl-meta-n TBs new mail window...
all hotkeys completely configurable... I just used ctrl-meta because I found it easy to press and not used by anything else...
that said: I really liked Gnome2 but Gnome3 (let alone Unity) is fubar... Sure there's MATE but I wouldn't bet that this will be around for too long - at least not in any usable state... Look at trinity... it's avaliable but it seems abandoned... same will be true for MATE... And XFCE is lightweight and all but I really want a full fledged DE but one that performs and one that lets me set it up to my liking... Gnome2 was this...
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And KDE is consistent, configurable and all but it also pisses me off for that thingy up right and nepomuk... Also even with a rather powerful machine KDE feels sluggish compared to Windows and no, I can't live with the slightest delay when there's no apparent reason for it... Desktop effects are one reason for this but I find KDE looses a big chunk of usability if you disable them all and completely... I never understood why they had to implement their own stuff there... Compiz worked well enough, even back then, and it was performing swiftly... the KDE effects on the other hand are still sluggish after all this time - even on a powerfull machine... And then there's this bug in the print dialog... Some distros incorporate a hackish fix that works for 99% of the users, some don't... KDE doesn't by itself because it's upstream but why would I give a shit about who's to blame as a user? All I know is that the KDE printing dialog doesn't respect a printers default settings and it doesn't save settings either... I don't care if it's QTs fault... There's a fix that does away with the problem for 99% of the people and KDE won't use it because it's an upstream bug... Thing is: Nokia gives a shit... They've known this bug for more like 3 years now and openly showed that they won't fix it... they're not even considering is seriously... They're ignoring it... KDE knows that and they're stubborn... Problem shifted to distros and some of those (including Ubuntu) shift it to the user... I mean: they could as well switch to open printing but they're not doing this either... now THAT's the reason Linux doesn't get a grip on the desktop... because politics by people with 10" sticks in their rectums get fought out on the
Fünf... Even if you don't have this character on your keyboard: If you want to educate someone you could at least have copied it from somewhere (charmap, google, whatev)
It's fascinating... Not too many years ago./ was a place where technophiles and geeks would share their knowledge... But today, for everyone to see, it's mainly a load of paranoid idiots spreading fud... looks like the (classical) media are doing very well shoving that "google invades your privacy more than a coloscopy invades your anus"-theme down peoples throats... ooooh and how much joy most people get from giving this deep-throat to the (classical) media...
but hey... nevermind... why thinking on your own when there's other people who willingly take this burden from you, right? after all: the media's main interest is to properly inform you so you make clever choices... they don't have lobby interests, right? why would they, after all?
right... hopefully there'll comes a time when taking all too shitty fud for granted and even spreading it significantly shortens once life-span...
paranoia is a medical condition... just saying...
you always have the latest version installed automatically... most people defer those unnerving update prompts to continue viewing porn with an exploitable version of flash...
plus: you can disable flash in crome, too, like any other addon... you don't even have to restart the browser for this to take effect...
Why does everyone thinks that GM is always about food? For example BASF is researching very carbohydrate-rich potatoes... For food? Hell no! You see: There's more things you can make out of these things... Like certain chemicals needed to make drugs or organic, compostable plastic... So stop being paranoid...
I know and support a lot of people who use their computers as a tool and not as a hobby.
The more tech-savvy (and even those only somewhat tech-savvy) have a good idea of how they want to interact with the computer - being pissed of by unnecessary graphical effect and/or limited configuration possibilities in newer versions of what they are using (be that Windows, Gnome, KDE, all the way down to specific applications - doesn't matter!).
The not so tech-savvy people (mostly older people, frankly) learned to use the desktop metaphor and when confronted with something different they're feeling and acting insecure because they don't have the mindset to adapt to such huge changes rapidly enough not to be complete thrown off by them. That's because they wouldn't have to. Those are the people who started working with computers in this century and use them as tools to get specific tasks done and nothing else. Frankly this means that the target audience for the intended improvements in usability in these new interfaces consists mostly of people who will have a hard time adapting to something so radically different.
For people who never really used a computer it makes no difference, of couse as they start from scratch anyway.
So I'm wondering whether those UI designers actually conducted some meaningful usability studies with some REAL people before getting to the drawing board trying to reach nerdgasm by ripping of broken UI concepts from apple et al.; heck, the reduced usability even doesn't have to do with people exclusively... basic issues arise even from ignoring what kind of input and output devices will be used... Metro Launcher on a 27" screen + mouse and keyboard? WTF? Unity is the same, as is Gnome3! Touch for regular office work? Not so much! More mouse then? Yeah... your wrists will thank those braindead ui designers... I'm not even arguing that keyboard navigation is usually faster - everyone knows that.
KDE shines here - I haven't seen such a good use of the activities (which can be used easily to accommodate to different form factors) concept anywhere else and while coming with sane default configurations for big and small screens where you wouldn't have to change anything you're still empowered to make it your own completely by mostly easy and well structured configuration options. Heck, even Windows shines here as there are a gazillion programs and more or less documented tweaks with which you can tune it for your needs.
So what exactly do you expect packages deliberately and explicitly offered as unstable and experimental to be? And for having some chosen packages in their latest and greatest version: Ever heard of apt pinning (or Gentoo for that matter)?
I hold Linus and his underlings responsible
Oh boy. How could one possibly argue with that... I mean: You can only argue with claims that posses some kind of logic or sense or meaning or such, can't you?
I like having two platforms to do scientific work on, [Linux and OS X] but I plan on spending more time on FreeBSD and less on Linux with the way Linux continues to move forward. Wake me up when Linus has a stable ABI and the ``binary blobs taints the kernel crap'' ends and perhaps Linux might gain 2% on the desktop.
So you're not only intentionally using unstable and experimental stuff all over your system and expect it to be stable, you're also holding Linux responsible for all that? That's like, erm, using jet fuel in a car and holding Carl Benz responsible not only for your engine blowing up but for all car crashes that happen, the pollution cars produce and virtually any other negative side effect of it. You can't be serious with all that in combination... Therefor I deduce that your post must be some kind of parody... At least I hope so.
BAM! You release that bitch harpy Celine Dion on us like a fricking Nazgul! And then when we were still reelin from that attack you hit us with Nickelback! WTF Canada!
First: I agree with those who question your motivation to try convince your CIO to use RHEL instead of CentOS... Still I want to suggest using Scientific Linux instead of CentOS. Why? Because SL is also a "free RHEL" like CentOS but it's backed by major research institutes around the world. The majority of development is done at CERN by paid developers. But what's more: CentOS had serious issues with their project lead in the past... SL didn't have those issues... Also the people from SL seem to be significantly faster in following upstream (ie. releasing new versions) than CentOS
It's probably because of legal problems, too. In Germany, for example, a fax is legally binding i.e. it holds the same credibility as a written letter and stuff whereas an email of a scanned document isn't regarded as conclusive. Of course propperly signed PDF documents are but those involve costs for getting a certificate that's accepted for such stuff as well as the need for tech skills to use that (and try to see it not from our geeky POV but from the view of an average secretary) or even more costly technical solutions to do that automagically... and the receiver has to be able to review that signature and to interpret if it's correct, i.e. a signed pdf or email is only regarded conclusive if the sender signs it with an accepted certificate AND if the receiver validates that signature and can proof that he did... it's insane, I know, but that's how it is
So does Gnome3, KDE4 and even XFCE and LXDE... what's left sucks even more if you want a desktop that is fast, comfortable, extensible, customizable and good-looking... Gnome2 was like that and KDE3 was like that, too... *sigh*
No it won't. While current versions of KDE aren't just as unstable and buggy as the first releases of KDE4 it's still slow, even on descent machines. It's a mess with the Linux desktop right now. Gnome2 will die, Gnome3 is nearly as bad as Unity and XFCE is a little too lightweight for being comfortable for the average joe... let alone LXDE and such. When KDE4 finally becomes as responsive and finally feels as smooth as Gnome2 did, THEN maybe it'll get some long due respect.
I think the general problem is the tablet hype. Sure they've arrived finally. But what unnerves me is that everyone sacrifices the ordinary PC experience in favor for the tablet experience when it comes to new desktop environments. When I'm using a mouse and a keyboard I don't want a touch optimized interface. And I don't want to start a "desktop app" from such an interface when I boot up my computer every time just to be able to use it. And touch screens are no solution either. Touch doesn't work for vertically mounted screens. What does work is the default Windows desktop GUI being used on a tablet with nothing but touch - at least for Windows 7 that's true (tried it on a WeTab... worked like a charm!)
If it is like the PCs I work on most of it would be twiddling its thumbs waiting for something to do or be a "just in case' cache of pretty much everything ever run on the machine? I generally like to slam the crap out of my PC but since going to 8Gb I've found most of it is just cache because i simply don't have enough data being worked on at any one time to need it. Right now checking ResMon I'm looking at 6300Mb being used for cache and only 1800Mb in actual use.
Mine Says: In Use: 6981MB, Cached: 8149MB, Free: 1220MB... And I don't do CAD, 3D-Modelling, Video-Editing or something like that.
As for TFA while i'm sure it'll be useful for someone like the military to simulate nukes going off for most folks it would be a big old "meh" as they simply don't have enough work for even their duals and triples, much less something thousands of times faster. There just hasn't been a "killer app" that would really slam a CPU in so long it isn't even funny, that is why Nvidia and AMD are pushing 3D and Eyefinity because even games just aren't slamming the shit out of chips like the old days.
Not true either. NVIDIA pushes 3D because they can and because 3D currently is the hottest new shit there is. AMD on the other hand pushes Eyefinity not only for enthusiast gamers but for bussiness, too. If you've ever worked with SAP, Datev or other bussiness software that needs huge amounts of screen real estate you might imagine how people could possibly appreciate having 3 or more big screens hooked up to the same box. Also NVIDIA has Tesla. And it's getting used. I just ordered a server with 2 M2090 (6GB) cards in it for testing(!) because our GPGPU guy hits walls with his 1,5GB top-of-the-line Fermi GPU. Also there are quite some GPU clusters out there nowadays. And it's not true that they're only used for military purposes. A lot of them are used for things like climate modelling, genetic research, physics simulations and what not.
Everyone keeps saying "Oh pads are killing PCs!" because the PC sales are down but frankly its bullshit, it is simply folks don't know what to do with what they got power wise so adding MORE power is simply a waste of money for zero gain. While speed for speed's sake like in TFA is cool and all unless we have another killer app that royally slams machines most folks simply don't need it. Hell even my mom that only checks recipes and uses email has a 3.2Ghz P4 with HT and a laptop, simply because I didn't know what else to do with the things, what more do we need?
This expresses your ignorance not only redundantly but also explicitly in addition to the former two paragraphs. You know... just because you and your mom don't know what to do with a computer other than checking emails, surfing Youtube, printing recipies and hack up invitations in Word doesn't mean that increasing processing power goes to waste. You don't even realise how the increase in processing power, memory and storage capacity over the last 10 years changed how we interact with information. Most people just take those things for granted, when they can't actually see the technology that makes this possible. That's sad. But what really bothers me is that there are people like you who even think there's no use for more because they wouldn't have a use for it... how egocentric
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ME wasn't that bad... most of the time it actually were deprecated drivers that made it crash... what was bad though was the unnecessary locking away of true DOS mode in the default boot menu
The reason I'm still exclusively MS on my PC is that fakeraid failed with Linux, back in the day.
has been some time since "back in the day"... fakeraid has worked flawlessly for me for... dunno... more than half a decade at least...
I was referring to ability, not age or time in service. Please don't ever become a manager.
Fair enough... thank you for pointing out I jumped to a conclusion from my experience! (no sarcasm)... And excuse me for attacking you like that... It surely didn't help my point but still this point holds up...
But still: Sadly most managers (let alone HR people!) tend to link age to ability... the other thing they look at when trying to judge the ability of a would-be-employee are certificates and the like (even though everybody knows that all of the most common and asked certifications can either be acquired relatively easily or outright bought for some amount of money)... more often than not this is enough to not be considered to be interviewed...
and so practically "junior" and "senior" are defined by age and certifications... if your CV doesn't look "senior" you'll hardly get a chance to prove that you are...
If you want someone who just keeps the same junk plodding on, wasting people's time and doing things badly, then you want a junior.
yeah, right... because a junior can't be any good and a senior can't be any bad... what's wrong with you?
seriously... most seniors I know are mostly busy covering up their ass i.e. making sure they can blame failure on someone else... at least those who went higher up in the hierarchy... but that's the nature of the beast... the higher you get, the more responsibility you have, which you have to spread out on your underlings... if anything goes wrong people will blame you, because you're the head so you better want to have someone else to blame or it's YOUR head that's gonna go because no one wants a failure to manage costly workforce.
Get some balls, say "this is wrong", provide a better alternative and fix it. And if the company won't let me, then I won't put up with their junk.
now THAT sounds mature (read "senior") *rolling eyes*
juniors on the other hand have more to gain and less to loose... THEY will try to get a better alternative, innovate, make progress... to get their selves promoted... so they suggest it to their senior... he'll either scrape their idea or he'll let them pass but on an isolated testing environment but only on top of what he's doing already.... and when the new implementation is finally ready the junior has to hope the senior will give him the credit due instead of taking it for himself...
tl;dl
i really hate how people thing years-in-job-time has anything to do with how got someone's doing his job... sure... there's correlation... but correlation != causality... frankly most people don't get that
Do we actually need all those agriculture products?
Yes, we do.
No, we don't.
What do you thing we need it for? Not starving? The worldwide food industry output is enough feed double the people on this planet and feed them well! But obviously that's not how it works. This is because humans are greedy and selfish and most are idiots on top of that.
> yeah except that it creates additional overhead from managing those windows to be on the "right" desktop...
That's a minimal bit of initial setup that's actually pretty trivial.
That's measured against constant ongoing inefficiencies created by most of the alternate approaches (like MacOS & Win7).
Compared to the default behaviour of Windows you may be right. But then again most Windows users run only a handful of applications at the same time thus the superbar is sufficient for their task switching needs. If you tend to puke windows all over your session (like I do) my approach should be even more effective than virtual desktops (also there's no "real" AND convenient virtual desktops for Windows) as you don't have ANY overhead in organizing and task switching is done in a way that fits the situation: alt-tab for rescently active windows, ctrl-meta-tab opens Exposé-clone with incremental window title search. Plus the other nice things I described
On MacOS I don't know. I'm not a user of it but AFAIK it's got Exposé and Spaces. The first one gives you an overview of open windows and the second one is virtual desktops essentially. I don't see on what basis you argue against that.
yeah except that it creates additional overhead from managing those windows to be on the "right" desktop... I use Windows and I found two tools that make window management a lot better than anything that's readily avaliable on Linux - or at least I'm not away of this... here's the workflow i found most effective
that said: I really liked Gnome2 but Gnome3 (let alone Unity) is fubar... Sure there's MATE but I wouldn't bet that this will be around for too long - at least not in any usable state... Look at trinity... it's avaliable but it seems abandoned... same will be true for MATE... And XFCE is lightweight and all but I really want a full fledged DE but one that performs and one that lets me set it up to my liking... Gnome2 was this...
BEWARE OF THE RANT THAT FOLLOWS
And KDE is consistent, configurable and all but it also pisses me off for that thingy up right and nepomuk... Also even with a rather powerful machine KDE feels sluggish compared to Windows and no, I can't live with the slightest delay when there's no apparent reason for it... Desktop effects are one reason for this but I find KDE looses a big chunk of usability if you disable them all and completely... I never understood why they had to implement their own stuff there... Compiz worked well enough, even back then, and it was performing swiftly... the KDE effects on the other hand are still sluggish after all this time - even on a powerfull machine... And then there's this bug in the print dialog... Some distros incorporate a hackish fix that works for 99% of the users, some don't... KDE doesn't by itself because it's upstream but why would I give a shit about who's to blame as a user? All I know is that the KDE printing dialog doesn't respect a printers default settings and it doesn't save settings either... I don't care if it's QTs fault... There's a fix that does away with the problem for 99% of the people and KDE won't use it because it's an upstream bug... Thing is: Nokia gives a shit... They've known this bug for more like 3 years now and openly showed that they won't fix it... they're not even considering is seriously... They're ignoring it... KDE knows that and they're stubborn... Problem shifted to distros and some of those (including Ubuntu) shift it to the user... I mean: they could as well switch to open printing but they're not doing this either... now THAT's the reason Linux doesn't get a grip on the desktop... because politics by people with 10" sticks in their rectums get fought out on the
Fünf... Even if you don't have this character on your keyboard: If you want to educate someone you could at least have copied it from somewhere (charmap, google, whatev)
...electric shocks for epileptic brains... brilliant idea, really... may introduce a seizure but hey, at least you now can remember it, right?
*colonoscopy...
It's fascinating... Not too many years ago ./ was a place where technophiles and geeks would share their knowledge... But today, for everyone to see, it's mainly a load of paranoid idiots spreading fud... looks like the (classical) media are doing very well shoving that "google invades your privacy more than a coloscopy invades your anus"-theme down peoples throats... ooooh and how much joy most people get from giving this deep-throat to the (classical) media...
but hey... nevermind... why thinking on your own when there's other people who willingly take this burden from you, right? after all: the media's main interest is to properly inform you so you make clever choices... they don't have lobby interests, right? why would they, after all?
right... hopefully there'll comes a time when taking all too shitty fud for granted and even spreading it significantly shortens once life-span...
paranoia is a medical condition... just saying...
you always have the latest version installed automatically... most people defer those unnerving update prompts to continue viewing porn with an exploitable version of flash... plus: you can disable flash in crome, too, like any other addon... you don't even have to restart the browser for this to take effect...
someone mod parent up pls
Why does everyone thinks that GM is always about food? For example BASF is researching very carbohydrate-rich potatoes... For food? Hell no! You see: There's more things you can make out of these things... Like certain chemicals needed to make drugs or organic, compostable plastic... So stop being paranoid...
I know and support a lot of people who use their computers as a tool and not as a hobby. The more tech-savvy (and even those only somewhat tech-savvy) have a good idea of how they want to interact with the computer - being pissed of by unnecessary graphical effect and/or limited configuration possibilities in newer versions of what they are using (be that Windows, Gnome, KDE, all the way down to specific applications - doesn't matter!). The not so tech-savvy people (mostly older people, frankly) learned to use the desktop metaphor and when confronted with something different they're feeling and acting insecure because they don't have the mindset to adapt to such huge changes rapidly enough not to be complete thrown off by them. That's because they wouldn't have to. Those are the people who started working with computers in this century and use them as tools to get specific tasks done and nothing else. Frankly this means that the target audience for the intended improvements in usability in these new interfaces consists mostly of people who will have a hard time adapting to something so radically different. For people who never really used a computer it makes no difference, of couse as they start from scratch anyway. So I'm wondering whether those UI designers actually conducted some meaningful usability studies with some REAL people before getting to the drawing board trying to reach nerdgasm by ripping of broken UI concepts from apple et al.; heck, the reduced usability even doesn't have to do with people exclusively... basic issues arise even from ignoring what kind of input and output devices will be used... Metro Launcher on a 27" screen + mouse and keyboard? WTF? Unity is the same, as is Gnome3! Touch for regular office work? Not so much! More mouse then? Yeah... your wrists will thank those braindead ui designers... I'm not even arguing that keyboard navigation is usually faster - everyone knows that. KDE shines here - I haven't seen such a good use of the activities (which can be used easily to accommodate to different form factors) concept anywhere else and while coming with sane default configurations for big and small screens where you wouldn't have to change anything you're still empowered to make it your own completely by mostly easy and well structured configuration options. Heck, even Windows shines here as there are a gazillion programs and more or less documented tweaks with which you can tune it for your needs.
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So what exactly do you expect packages deliberately and explicitly offered as unstable and experimental to be? And for having some chosen packages in their latest and greatest version: Ever heard of apt pinning (or Gentoo for that matter)?
I hold Linus and his underlings responsible
Oh boy. How could one possibly argue with that... I mean: You can only argue with claims that posses some kind of logic or sense or meaning or such, can't you?
I like having two platforms to do scientific work on, [Linux and OS X] but I plan on spending more time on FreeBSD and less on Linux with the way Linux continues to move forward. Wake me up when Linus has a stable ABI and the ``binary blobs taints the kernel crap'' ends and perhaps Linux might gain 2% on the desktop.
So you're not only intentionally using unstable and experimental stuff all over your system and expect it to be stable, you're also holding Linux responsible for all that? That's like, erm, using jet fuel in a car and holding Carl Benz responsible not only for your engine blowing up but for all car crashes that happen, the pollution cars produce and virtually any other negative side effect of it. You can't be serious with all that in combination... Therefor I deduce that your post must be some kind of parody... At least I hope so.
BAM! You release that bitch harpy Celine Dion on us like a fricking Nazgul! And then when we were still reelin from that attack you hit us with Nickelback! WTF Canada!
Don't forget Justin Bieber!
Qubes OS anyone?
First: I agree with those who question your motivation to try convince your CIO to use RHEL instead of CentOS... Still I want to suggest using Scientific Linux instead of CentOS. Why? Because SL is also a "free RHEL" like CentOS but it's backed by major research institutes around the world. The majority of development is done at CERN by paid developers. But what's more: CentOS had serious issues with their project lead in the past... SL didn't have those issues... Also the people from SL seem to be significantly faster in following upstream (ie. releasing new versions) than CentOS
You do realize you are responding to a troll, right? This guy is just some loser php "programmer" who knows jack and shit about real programming.
flamebait? what's that shit about allways picking on php? you could even do parallel programming in php
someone mod parent up please
It's probably because of legal problems, too. In Germany, for example, a fax is legally binding i.e. it holds the same credibility as a written letter and stuff whereas an email of a scanned document isn't regarded as conclusive. Of course propperly signed PDF documents are but those involve costs for getting a certificate that's accepted for such stuff as well as the need for tech skills to use that (and try to see it not from our geeky POV but from the view of an average secretary) or even more costly technical solutions to do that automagically... and the receiver has to be able to review that signature and to interpret if it's correct, i.e. a signed pdf or email is only regarded conclusive if the sender signs it with an accepted certificate AND if the receiver validates that signature and can proof that he did... it's insane, I know, but that's how it is
Yes, I agree, Unity sucks hard.
So does Gnome3, KDE4 and even XFCE and LXDE... what's left sucks even more if you want a desktop that is fast, comfortable, extensible, customizable and good-looking... Gnome2 was like that and KDE3 was like that, too... *sigh*
Maybe KDE will get some long due respect.
No it won't. While current versions of KDE aren't just as unstable and buggy as the first releases of KDE4 it's still slow, even on descent machines. It's a mess with the Linux desktop right now. Gnome2 will die, Gnome3 is nearly as bad as Unity and XFCE is a little too lightweight for being comfortable for the average joe... let alone LXDE and such. When KDE4 finally becomes as responsive and finally feels as smooth as Gnome2 did, THEN maybe it'll get some long due respect.
I think the general problem is the tablet hype. Sure they've arrived finally. But what unnerves me is that everyone sacrifices the ordinary PC experience in favor for the tablet experience when it comes to new desktop environments. When I'm using a mouse and a keyboard I don't want a touch optimized interface. And I don't want to start a "desktop app" from such an interface when I boot up my computer every time just to be able to use it. And touch screens are no solution either. Touch doesn't work for vertically mounted screens. What does work is the default Windows desktop GUI being used on a tablet with nothing but touch - at least for Windows 7 that's true (tried it on a WeTab... worked like a charm!)
If it is like the PCs I work on most of it would be twiddling its thumbs waiting for something to do or be a "just in case' cache of pretty much everything ever run on the machine? I generally like to slam the crap out of my PC but since going to 8Gb I've found most of it is just cache because i simply don't have enough data being worked on at any one time to need it. Right now checking ResMon I'm looking at 6300Mb being used for cache and only 1800Mb in actual use.
Mine Says: In Use: 6981MB, Cached: 8149MB, Free: 1220MB... And I don't do CAD, 3D-Modelling, Video-Editing or something like that.
As for TFA while i'm sure it'll be useful for someone like the military to simulate nukes going off for most folks it would be a big old "meh" as they simply don't have enough work for even their duals and triples, much less something thousands of times faster. There just hasn't been a "killer app" that would really slam a CPU in so long it isn't even funny, that is why Nvidia and AMD are pushing 3D and Eyefinity because even games just aren't slamming the shit out of chips like the old days.
Not true either. NVIDIA pushes 3D because they can and because 3D currently is the hottest new shit there is. AMD on the other hand pushes Eyefinity not only for enthusiast gamers but for bussiness, too. If you've ever worked with SAP, Datev or other bussiness software that needs huge amounts of screen real estate you might imagine how people could possibly appreciate having 3 or more big screens hooked up to the same box. Also NVIDIA has Tesla. And it's getting used. I just ordered a server with 2 M2090 (6GB) cards in it for testing(!) because our GPGPU guy hits walls with his 1,5GB top-of-the-line Fermi GPU. Also there are quite some GPU clusters out there nowadays. And it's not true that they're only used for military purposes. A lot of them are used for things like climate modelling, genetic research, physics simulations and what not.
Everyone keeps saying "Oh pads are killing PCs!" because the PC sales are down but frankly its bullshit, it is simply folks don't know what to do with what they got power wise so adding MORE power is simply a waste of money for zero gain. While speed for speed's sake like in TFA is cool and all unless we have another killer app that royally slams machines most folks simply don't need it. Hell even my mom that only checks recipes and uses email has a 3.2Ghz P4 with HT and a laptop, simply because I didn't know what else to do with the things, what more do we need?
This expresses your ignorance not only redundantly but also explicitly in addition to the former two paragraphs. You know... just because you and your mom don't know what to do with a computer other than checking emails, surfing Youtube, printing recipies and hack up invitations in Word doesn't mean that increasing processing power goes to waste. You don't even realise how the increase in processing power, memory and storage capacity over the last 10 years changed how we interact with information. Most people just take those things for granted, when they can't actually see the technology that makes this possible. That's sad. But what really bothers me is that there are people like you who even think there's no use for more because they wouldn't have a use for it... how egocentric