Some good points. However, switching chipsets is much less work than switching instruction sets. Didn't some people already have hacked versions of the new x86 OSX running on AMD hardware?
Also, IBM and Motorola obviously didn't find Apple worth fighting over. With x86, even if Intel and AMD aren't competing for the sake of Apple, they'll compete for the sake of the very large x86 market, and Apple will reap the rewards.
The kickbacks, exclusivity agreements, and advertising dollars are another story. But those issues could arise no matter what architecture you're using.
If AMD comes out with a better chip in terms of power usage, Apple can switch anytime. As such, going with Intel at the start implies no committment. If Intel starts treating them like dirt, they can go over to AMD, or even perhaps VIA. That's a choice they didn't have before with the PPC architecture.
Let's wait and see. These are indeed some bold statements, but I don't see that they would fly in the face of critical review. FSF has many different people in its ranks with different views. Certainly most FSF members may agree that software patents are a bad idea. But I doubt most would support revoking GPL rights to any company that has a software patent. Without the actual new GPL in front of me, it's difficult to say, but I think they will take a more directed approach. That is, using software patents to stifle GPL development revokes rights to other GPL products.
Again, we'll just have to wait and see how radical these proposals really are. Right now it's mostly speculation.
Yeah it seems that the question is rigged (esp. the 500 dollar part) to come out with mac mini as the answer. Not that the mac mini is a bad piece of hardware, just that the submitter likely knew the answer before asking the question.
Just pony up the cash for the real OSX experience, you damn cheapskates
While downloading OSX for i386 is certainly illegal, it's not an issue of cost. OSX for i386 can't even be purchased now (by end users) and will likely never be available for beige box PCs. So I'd hardly call these people "cheapskates".
fucking pirates. if this was my website i would remove this comment at once, and ban your whole subnet!
Thankfully, then, it's not your website. If you run a website, I'm sure threads and comments have a habit of disappearing. Those who get in the habit of deleting comments usually approach the practice with a "I know it when I see it" attitude. This usually turns into draconian moderation over time.
They used to do this. Odd kernel releases were development/experimental, even releases were stable/bug fix. That's why the kernel went from 2.0 to 2.2 to 2.4 to 2.6. Recently in the 2.6 branch though, they moved away from that model. Don't remember why.
This has been discussed many times. You can configure your kernel to omit sound, v4l, etc. Even if you do compile these things, they won't be included in your running kernel unless you load the modules.
What you want can be done by removing sound and other desktop stuff from the startup services. Most distros have a friendly way to do this. No kernel recompile necessary.
RAID-1 decreases read latency, since you effectively reading the data with two drive heads, and can just read from whichever drive will deliver the data faster.
No one's creative work "needs" anything. If you don't like what someone has made, then make your own. There's plenty of media and games out there I have no interest in, or that even downright annoy me. Do I say everyone should be making the types of games I like? No, different people have different tastes. I stick to the games I like, and others can do likewise.
Maybe some are. I spent plenty of time with thermistors on the ambient air around components and even on the components themselves. Open case was always 5-10 deg C cooler. And yes, the fans were mounted properly and doing their job.
Just leave the case open. Dissipation over such a large area will rid the case of heat faster than any number of mounted fans. It can also be more quiet, depending on what's actively cooled and how.
AMD seems to be saying that basic optimizations performed for Intel's architecture work well on AMD's processors, but that Intel's compiler adds code that avoids these optimizations at run time. In other words, Intel's compiler goes out of its way to avoid optimizing AMD's chips, when it would have been easier to be more agnostic about the processor at runtime.
Intel's out, I guess, is that there are x86 chips that are very limited in capabilities. K8 can do most of the things 686 can do, but VIA C3 can't. So Intel can avoid checking processor ID and make code that crashes on C3s, or share optimizations with processors that support it, or only optimize for Intel chips. They chose the last option.
That Schwartz was trying to talk to the audience is a valid point. However, Stallman is not known for doing anything to get into a paper. He will not contribute anything to an article that mentions "Linux" as opposed to "GNU/Linux". When he makes an editorial, he puts a free-to-copy footer that has to be preserved. So no, I don't think he does anything to get his name in a paper.
And assuming that the discussion is valid, who better to ask what type of "freedom" has inspired the free software movement than Stallman? I can't think of many.
Accidentally deleted some text there. Should read as follows:
Sure, a full changelog would be nice. But Linus, I imagine, isn't too worried about appearing "professional" here. A full changelog just isn't worth the effort. His time's better spent on actual kernel code.
This is the type of thing that happens when engineers manage projects rather than business people. That's not a criticism.
Sure, a full changelog would be nice. But Linus, I imagine, isn't too worried about appearing here isn't worth the effort. His time's better spent on actual kernel code.
This is the type of thing that happens when engineers manage projects rather than business people. That's not a criticism.
It's some compatibility thing that allows 32 bit apps to run on a 64-bit OS. Shouldn't be a problem for GPL drivers, but will break older proprietary drivers. I believe nvidia just updated their drivers to be compatible with 2.6.12. But VMWare still won't work, last I checked.
There are good reasons for robots.txt. I use it keep crawlers from hitting "spam" forums on my website which is where all solicitations go. That way no google (or other search engine) rank is gained by spamming the site.
I could just delete it all. But I'm trying to avoid deleting any posts.
They want entertainment to become prevalent on machines that the media companies have more control over than the users. This will eventually create a corporate utopia where every little thing is restricted and must be paid for to gain access to. Obviously, this corporate utopia will be a consumer dystopia. The average consumer won't even notice or care. They tend to drink whatever kool aid media companies serve them.
There's no deep, moral reason. Just that most would prefer being a booth babe to a stripper. Not that I've done a scientific survey or anything, but I'd be surprised to see things otherwise.
I imagine very few attendees are under the illusion that these women are doing this for anything but money. Yes, there are better jobs, but with so many people having dreams of being an actor/actress, and relatively few positions to fill, this certainly isn't the worst gig available. Better than strip clubs and Valtrex commercials anyway.
The very act of using a popular domain to set up a link farm is cybersquatting at its finest. I've seen some bad domain handovers, but this isn't one of them.
Having a 90% market share leads inexorably to the stalling of innovation.
I don't think this is true for open source projects. I know Apache doesn't have 90% market share, but it is dominant, and still continues active development. It is continually developed because the people working on it feel that it needs new features. Conversely, new features are not added where a package does everything it needs to do. Closest I can think of is grep. For things like Firefox, I expect that will be a long time in coming.
In contrast, commercial products keep adding features where they aren't really needed. I'm going to whip out the old example of MS Word. I'm sure someone's going to respond saying how invaluable some new whizbang feature just added to the latest version of MS Word is to them, but such people are certainly in the minority.
Microsoft didn't add anything to IE for so long because there was no money in it. They only reason they had a browser was to head off Netscape becoming a platform unto itself. Once Netscape was thoroughly squashed, no more reason to develop. Word is a standalone product, so it is subject to different rules. And finally, the entire OS is a mixed case because while there are those who upgrade, the vast majority of OS software is bought with a new PC. And with a virtual monopoly on OEM installs, MS could afford to let its OS stagnate for years.
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Some good points. However, switching chipsets is much less work than switching instruction sets. Didn't some people already have hacked versions of the new x86 OSX running on AMD hardware?
Also, IBM and Motorola obviously didn't find Apple worth fighting over. With x86, even if Intel and AMD aren't competing for the sake of Apple, they'll compete for the sake of the very large x86 market, and Apple will reap the rewards.
The kickbacks, exclusivity agreements, and advertising dollars are another story. But those issues could arise no matter what architecture you're using.
If AMD comes out with a better chip in terms of power usage, Apple can switch anytime. As such, going with Intel at the start implies no committment. If Intel starts treating them like dirt, they can go over to AMD, or even perhaps VIA. That's a choice they didn't have before with the PPC architecture.
Let's wait and see. These are indeed some bold statements, but I don't see that they would fly in the face of critical review. FSF has many different people in its ranks with different views. Certainly most FSF members may agree that software patents are a bad idea. But I doubt most would support revoking GPL rights to any company that has a software patent. Without the actual new GPL in front of me, it's difficult to say, but I think they will take a more directed approach. That is, using software patents to stifle GPL development revokes rights to other GPL products.
Again, we'll just have to wait and see how radical these proposals really are. Right now it's mostly speculation.
Yeah it seems that the question is rigged (esp. the 500 dollar part) to come out with mac mini as the answer. Not that the mac mini is a bad piece of hardware, just that the submitter likely knew the answer before asking the question.
I don't have to use google to set my useragent to "googlebot". Might be trademark infringement, but it can't be a TOS violation.
Thankfully, then, it's not your website. If you run a website, I'm sure threads and comments have a habit of disappearing. Those who get in the habit of deleting comments usually approach the practice with a "I know it when I see it" attitude. This usually turns into draconian moderation over time.
They used to do this. Odd kernel releases were development/experimental, even releases were stable/bug fix. That's why the kernel went from 2.0 to 2.2 to 2.4 to 2.6. Recently in the 2.6 branch though, they moved away from that model. Don't remember why.
This has been discussed many times. You can configure your kernel to omit sound, v4l, etc. Even if you do compile these things, they won't be included in your running kernel unless you load the modules.
What you want can be done by removing sound and other desktop stuff from the startup services. Most distros have a friendly way to do this. No kernel recompile necessary.
RAID-1 decreases read latency, since you effectively reading the data with two drive heads, and can just read from whichever drive will deliver the data faster.
No one's creative work "needs" anything. If you don't like what someone has made, then make your own. There's plenty of media and games out there I have no interest in, or that even downright annoy me. Do I say everyone should be making the types of games I like? No, different people have different tastes. I stick to the games I like, and others can do likewise.
Maybe some are. I spent plenty of time with thermistors on the ambient air around components and even on the components themselves. Open case was always 5-10 deg C cooler. And yes, the fans were mounted properly and doing their job.
Just leave the case open. Dissipation over such a large area will rid the case of heat faster than any number of mounted fans. It can also be more quiet, depending on what's actively cooled and how.
AMD seems to be saying that basic optimizations performed for Intel's architecture work well on AMD's processors, but that Intel's compiler adds code that avoids these optimizations at run time. In other words, Intel's compiler goes out of its way to avoid optimizing AMD's chips, when it would have been easier to be more agnostic about the processor at runtime.
Intel's out, I guess, is that there are x86 chips that are very limited in capabilities. K8 can do most of the things 686 can do, but VIA C3 can't. So Intel can avoid checking processor ID and make code that crashes on C3s, or share optimizations with processors that support it, or only optimize for Intel chips. They chose the last option.
That Schwartz was trying to talk to the audience is a valid point. However, Stallman is not known for doing anything to get into a paper. He will not contribute anything to an article that mentions "Linux" as opposed to "GNU/Linux". When he makes an editorial, he puts a free-to-copy footer that has to be preserved. So no, I don't think he does anything to get his name in a paper.
And assuming that the discussion is valid, who better to ask what type of "freedom" has inspired the free software movement than Stallman? I can't think of many.
Accidentally deleted some text there. Should read as follows:
Sure, a full changelog would be nice. But Linus, I imagine, isn't too worried about appearing "professional" here. A full changelog just isn't worth the effort. His time's better spent on actual kernel code.
This is the type of thing that happens when engineers manage projects rather than business people. That's not a criticism.
Sure, a full changelog would be nice. But Linus, I imagine, isn't too worried about appearing here isn't worth the effort. His time's better spent on actual kernel code.
This is the type of thing that happens when engineers manage projects rather than business people. That's not a criticism.
It's some compatibility thing that allows 32 bit apps to run on a 64-bit OS. Shouldn't be a problem for GPL drivers, but will break older proprietary drivers. I believe nvidia just updated their drivers to be compatible with 2.6.12. But VMWare still won't work, last I checked.
There are good reasons for robots.txt. I use it keep crawlers from hitting "spam" forums on my website which is where all solicitations go. That way no google (or other search engine) rank is gained by spamming the site.
I could just delete it all. But I'm trying to avoid deleting any posts.
They want entertainment to become prevalent on machines that the media companies have more control over than the users. This will eventually create a corporate utopia where every little thing is restricted and must be paid for to gain access to. Obviously, this corporate utopia will be a consumer dystopia. The average consumer won't even notice or care. They tend to drink whatever kool aid media companies serve them.
I imagine very few attendees are under the illusion that these women are doing this for anything but money. Yes, there are better jobs, but with so many people having dreams of being an actor/actress, and relatively few positions to fill, this certainly isn't the worst gig available. Better than strip clubs and Valtrex commercials anyway.
That's a NUMA opteron. You need to fill all the CPU sockets to access all that memory. Given the price of 8xx's, that's not very affordable.
The very act of using a popular domain to set up a link farm is cybersquatting at its finest. I've seen some bad domain handovers, but this isn't one of them.
It says right on the page that you can stripe or span the drives. So just get two of them and do that.
If you don't use the DC supply, the OS will likely go bonkers everytime it boots up.
In contrast, commercial products keep adding features where they aren't really needed. I'm going to whip out the old example of MS Word. I'm sure someone's going to respond saying how invaluable some new whizbang feature just added to the latest version of MS Word is to them, but such people are certainly in the minority.
Microsoft didn't add anything to IE for so long because there was no money in it. They only reason they had a browser was to head off Netscape becoming a platform unto itself. Once Netscape was thoroughly squashed, no more reason to develop. Word is a standalone product, so it is subject to different rules. And finally, the entire OS is a mixed case because while there are those who upgrade, the vast majority of OS software is bought with a new PC. And with a virtual monopoly on OEM installs, MS could afford to let its OS stagnate for years.