Does anyone know by what metric they figured [that the Solaris OE is the #1 UNIX platform]? Sales volume?
I'm guessing Sun's press release refers to sales volume among UNIX® brand products. The GNU/Linux operating environment is not a UNIX brand system, and neither is any of the free BSD systems. The Solaris operating environment is, and it just might have the greatest sales volume among UNIX brand systems.
You wouldn't pay a lousy 20 bucks for a mature, rock stable open source operating system?
I won't pay for an operating system unless I can guarantee that it has driver support for my hardware. That's why I pay for Microsoft Windows and pay for those Linux distributions that I have tested on my hardware.
The Solaris 9 x86 download is a $20 charge. The SPARC download is available at no charge.
There's a difference here: There have to be more drivers included with an x86 operating system distribution because there are so many different variations of x86 hardware, unlike with the SPARC platform where Sun Microsystems and SPARC Intl. are pretty much in control. Drivers take disc space. Granted, drivers won't fill a CD, and the Solaris OE has always lacked drivers for the newest hardware, but it's still something to be considered.
As to whether the Solaris 9 operating environment for the x86 platform qualifies as gratis with a $20 shipping charge, it depends on whether Sun has licensed it for free redistribution to any third party.
If spammers are selling lists of those who have opted out, here's a way to keep those lists from doing any harm: Require those who sell lists of e-mail addresses to include, in any list of addresses, whether or not the user has opted out of any UCE communication. Require those who buy lists of e-mail addresses and then spam those addresses to disclose from whom the spammer bought the address. Then ban spamming those who have opted out.
it is pretty slimy to hold a patent for 12 years and just now start to enforce it
If a patent holder delays legal action against an infringer for several years, the doctrine of laches takes away the right of the patent holder to receive damages for infringements that occurred before the patent holder filed the lawsuit.
Intellectual Property is just that. Property. To be enforced through force like any other property.
If the U.S. government treats copyrights and patents as property (constitutionally, it shouldn't), then why does the government not charge property tax?
The facts? Certainly NOT to be found on the web site you gave us, which is run by a business that makes lots of money by filing frivolous lawsuits to get blameless people to pay for the clumsiness of others.
If you don't believe a site you accuse of being run by ambulance chasers, would you believe the Association of Trial Lawyers of America? Or are they ambulance chasers as well?
Drinkable coffee is 140 degrees or cooler. McDonald's coffee was 180 degrees, enough to cause third-degree burning of skin. The lady who sued McDonald's initially sought only to recover her medical costs plus legal fees, a fraction of the half-million USD that the courts awarded her.
I can condense this part of the class into "don't do stupid shit." Of course the school prefered spending 3-4 weeks on it rather than my 5 seconds.
I agree "don't do stupid shit" takes fewer than five seconds to say, but I predict the inevitable next question: "What is stupid shit?" The school spent 3-4 weeks on explaining to the little children exactly what "stupid shit" is.
The G4 are the 7xxx series: 7410, 7441, 7445, 7451, 7455.
What's curious is that the PowerPC G4 (7400 series) processors have part numbers eerily similar to the names of discrete logic parts: 7410 is a triple 3-input nand gate; 7441 and 7445 are 4-bit BCD to 7-segment LCD signal converters; 7451 is a dual AND-OR-INVERT gate; 7455 is a 2 wide 4-input AND-OR-INVERT gate.
I'm talking about a home or office containing two computers, one new and one old, or two different computers at home and school or at home and the office. You won't be able to move files from the old machine to the new one unless you put them in the same building (difficult if the home machine is a desktop) and run Cat-5 cable from one to the other.
Reminds me of those other battery munching handhelds called "Lynx", "Game Gear", and "Turbo Express" that failed in the USA market precisely because they ate batteries too quickly.
The Game Boy Advance SP charges its Li-ion battery through the headphone jack. So unless some third party comes out with a splitter, you can't play on a GBA SP with headphones while recharging the battery.
Doom 1 runs at 120x120 pixels with a good frame rate on the 16.78 MHz ARM7TDMI processor in the GBA. If you want to see what even that slow speed (one-sixth of what the N-Gage has) can do, check out some of the GBA demos from Assembly '02.
The Z-80 dates back from more than 15 years ago, right? We still use them in some of our products.
Do you work at Nintendo? The Game Boy and Game Boy Color systems have a Z80 clone processor, and the GBA switches into Z80 mode when it senses a GBC cartridge.
Even though PCs can boot from a floppy, making a bootable CD in Roxio 4 requires a floppy drive, as the bootable CD wizard simply reads 1440 KB worth of raw sectors from drive A:.
Get a print server for your old printers (two-ports can be had for under $100, and networking them is a snap), and buy a CD-RW drive.
That addresses the specific issues of printers and Zip drives, but it does not address the issue of other parallel port legacy hardware such as Super NES controller adapters, GBA/PC link cables, and some Game Boy Advance cart writers.
Will the 0.02% of the population using dumb-terminals on their home PCs please stand up?
How else is a developer supposed to debug a full-screen application without a terminal to run the debugger's interface on?
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Does anyone know by what metric they figured [that the Solaris OE is the #1 UNIX platform]? Sales volume?
I'm guessing Sun's press release refers to sales volume among UNIX® brand products. The GNU/Linux operating environment is not a UNIX brand system, and neither is any of the free BSD systems. The Solaris operating environment is, and it just might have the greatest sales volume among UNIX brand systems.
You wouldn't pay a lousy 20 bucks for a mature, rock stable open source operating system?
I won't pay for an operating system unless I can guarantee that it has driver support for my hardware. That's why I pay for Microsoft Windows and pay for those Linux distributions that I have tested on my hardware.
The Solaris 9 x86 download is a $20 charge. The SPARC download is available at no charge.
There's a difference here: There have to be more drivers included with an x86 operating system distribution because there are so many different variations of x86 hardware, unlike with the SPARC platform where Sun Microsystems and SPARC Intl. are pretty much in control. Drivers take disc space. Granted, drivers won't fill a CD, and the Solaris OE has always lacked drivers for the newest hardware, but it's still something to be considered.
The software is free...
SCSL is not a free software license by the GNU definition, nor is it an OSI approved open source license.
As to whether the Solaris 9 operating environment for the x86 platform qualifies as gratis with a $20 shipping charge, it depends on whether Sun has licensed it for free redistribution to any third party.
During his service in the U.S. Congress, Al Gore did take the initiative in transforming a private network of military and scientific institutions into the commercial Internet. Even Vint Cerf has acknowledged the former Vice President's contribution.
"I invented the Internet" debunked
But one of Thomas Crapper's employees did invent an improved flush toilet.
MSN is such a shitty site, that no one reads it anyway, except for IE users who don't know how to reset their home page.
And for users who log out of Passport services such as Hotmail. The Passport logout page redirects straight to Guest's view of http://www.msn.com/.
If spammers are selling lists of those who have opted out, here's a way to keep those lists from doing any harm: Require those who sell lists of e-mail addresses to include, in any list of addresses, whether or not the user has opted out of any UCE communication. Require those who buy lists of e-mail addresses and then spam those addresses to disclose from whom the spammer bought the address. Then ban spamming those who have opted out.
it is pretty slimy to hold a patent for 12 years and just now start to enforce it
If a patent holder delays legal action against an infringer for several years, the doctrine of laches takes away the right of the patent holder to receive damages for infringements that occurred before the patent holder filed the lawsuit.
Intellectual Property is just that. Property. To be enforced through force like any other property.
If the U.S. government treats copyrights and patents as property (constitutionally, it shouldn't), then why does the government not charge property tax?
The facts? Certainly NOT to be found on the web site you gave us, which is run by a business that makes lots of money by filing frivolous lawsuits to get blameless people to pay for the clumsiness of others.
If you don't believe a site you accuse of being run by ambulance chasers, would you believe the Association of Trial Lawyers of America? Or are they ambulance chasers as well?
Drinkable coffee is 140 degrees or cooler. McDonald's coffee was 180 degrees, enough to cause third-degree burning of skin. The lady who sued McDonald's initially sought only to recover her medical costs plus legal fees, a fraction of the half-million USD that the courts awarded her.
Read more facts about the McDonald's coffee lawsuit.
I can condense this part of the class into "don't do stupid shit." Of course the school prefered spending 3-4 weeks on it rather than my 5 seconds.
I agree "don't do stupid shit" takes fewer than five seconds to say, but I predict the inevitable next question: "What is stupid shit?" The school spent 3-4 weeks on explaining to the little children exactly what "stupid shit" is.
The G4 are the 7xxx series: 7410, 7441, 7445, 7451, 7455.
What's curious is that the PowerPC G4 (7400 series) processors have part numbers eerily similar to the names of discrete logic parts: 7410 is a triple 3-input nand gate; 7441 and 7445 are 4-bit BCD to 7-segment LCD signal converters; 7451 is a dual AND-OR-INVERT gate; 7455 is a 2 wide 4-input AND-OR-INVERT gate.
This is a limitation of Roxio, though. I make bootable cds all the time in nero
I could buy a floppy drive for the price of a single seat Nero license.
We're talking about new computers here
I'm talking about a home or office containing two computers, one new and one old, or two different computers at home and school or at home and the office. You won't be able to move files from the old machine to the new one unless you put them in the same building (difficult if the home machine is a desktop) and run Cat-5 cable from one to the other.
Usage times: - Games up to 3 - 6 h
Reminds me of those other battery munching handhelds called "Lynx", "Game Gear", and "Turbo Express" that failed in the USA market precisely because they ate batteries too quickly.
The GBA SP is reported to run for 10 hours with the internal light on.
GBA SP
The Game Boy Advance SP charges its Li-ion battery through the headphone jack. So unless some third party comes out with a splitter, you can't play on a GBA SP with headphones while recharging the battery.
Will the Nokia N-Gage have the same handicap?
104mhz arm?
Doom 1 runs at 120x120 pixels with a good frame rate on the 16.78 MHz ARM7TDMI processor in the GBA. If you want to see what even that slow speed (one-sixth of what the N-Gage has) can do, check out some of the GBA demos from Assembly '02.
The Z-80 dates back from more than 15 years ago, right? We still use them in some of our products.
Do you work at Nintendo? The Game Boy and Game Boy Color systems have a Z80 clone processor, and the GBA switches into Z80 mode when it senses a GBC cartridge.
But ALL Macs have networking.
I'm still paying off the Mac I bought in 1996, which did not have a NIC.
Even though PCs can boot from a floppy, making a bootable CD in Roxio 4 requires a floppy drive, as the bootable CD wizard simply reads 1440 KB worth of raw sectors from drive A:.
I think these things require boot floppy *images*, not necessarily an actual boot floppy.
No. Roxio 4 requires a floppy, not an image.
A CD-R can hold up to 99 sessions.
For $2, I could buy enough CD-R discs to hold the contents of 2,500 blank floppies. Beat that AC.
Get a print server for your old printers (two-ports can be had for under $100, and networking them is a snap), and buy a CD-RW drive.
That addresses the specific issues of printers and Zip drives, but it does not address the issue of other parallel port legacy hardware such as Super NES controller adapters, GBA/PC link cables, and some Game Boy Advance cart writers.
Will the 0.02% of the population using dumb-terminals on their home PCs please stand up?
How else is a developer supposed to debug a full-screen application without a terminal to run the debugger's interface on?