A Smart `center' means a more complex center, more things to go wrong, lower reliability.
Routing problems are common enough now. Imagine what will happen if configuring a router involves 10 times as many options to control all that intelligence... _O_
Just because they crash less than Windoze, that doesn't mean they don't crash at all.
The most reliable OS I have used hard is the 16 bit Psion OS on the 3 series, 3 years of constant use and only one crash (and that hardware related). EPOC on the 5 is doing well too.
_O_
I don't think so, because you wouldn't say "they runs" or "they is going".
This is because English agreement rules are grammatically based, not semantically based. So the verb as to agree with the number of the pronoun, not of the thing referred to.
Someone nicked my favorite mug. They are going to regret they were born when I find them.
Rather than
(?)
Someone nicked my favorite mug. They is going to regret they was born when I find them.
I think the latter is what you get in some dialects, but not the main ones.
Not strange, think of gender in French, you need to know the gender of the word to get the agreement right, not the sex (if any) of the thing referred to. IIRC there are languages where it is the other way around, but it's been a long time since I was reading this stuff.
_O_
When did you CD Player had to run external programs?
Every time I put a CD in?:-)
Note that M$ had complete control of what they chose to demo, they didn't have to cope with arbitrary code being thrown at them (not that the latter shou;ld be a problem for a real OS). _O_
the machine that crashed was the first ever
working prototype.
You realy think they waited until they had something that sort of worked and immediatly put it out in public?
he machine was running pre-alpha code
An even more bizzare idea. Pre alpha software would be still-being-constructued software not yet ready to be tested by the development team. So, you are saying M$ let outsiders play with software which even the developers wouldn't try and use in anger...
Congratulations, you have just discovered the big secret M$ has been trying to bury:-).
If YOU think that computers shouldn't crash then you're living in a dream
world.
If you think computers should, I recommend a job ast M$. The rest of us think crashes are faults.
I see no reason why this would be a "good indication" of what can be expected at launch.
If they can't be arsed to test it properly even for a high profile event they clearly haven't moved from their normal development process -- release crap and let the users test it.
_O_
Consoles crash all the time, they always have and always will.
The `big deal' is that they shouldn't. If you acce[t thi missbehaviour you have been got to. My CD player doesn't crash, my microwave doesn't crash.
Additionally the fact that they didn't sufficiantly test the hardware they were going to show to the world at a high profile event is a good indication of their quality control standards and what can be expected in production (remember the Win95 crash when Bill was demoing it). _O_
On one hand, nobody will get XBox bundled with anything
I was under the impression that the basic model of the console game industry is that the hardware is massively subsidised and they make their money on the games.
In effect the X box will be `bundled' with the games. _O_
I think Microsoft is going to have to swallow hard and accept the fact that while Joe Sixpack may find his computer complex and
doesn't find it odd that it crashes every once in a while, he is going to be horribly insulted when his game console crashes.
At one time I'm sure we would have said that no one would accept an OS which crashed every few hours.
MS's marketing department has a good track record of changing customer expectations to be `we desrve to be shafted, please let us pay more so you can do it harder'.
If they can sell that to professionals and corporations, selling the same to J Random 14 year old shouldn't be a challenge. _O_
No search or seiszure is involved here. If this organisation asks you to agree to have your music use tracked before letting you buy their product, you have the option of saying yes or no. If you say yes, you are giving them the information voluntarilly.
Shock! My cable TV company knows what Pay Per View movies I watch!
The issue here is not one of rights, and fools who start yabbering on about rights and old bits of paper are just throwing up dust which hides the real issues of concentration of ownership. _O_
Cornell's copy of the U.S. Constitution contains a Fourth Amendment to protect some forms of privacy and a Ninth Amendment to
provide for loose construction of the rights of the people,
And which of these says `citizens who voluntarilly give personal information to some company shall have the right to whinge if the company knows things about them'? _O_
So, after the students have gone through the trudgery of learning Java as their first language, why would you switch over to another
If they are supposed to be teaching them programming they should teachthem to a new language every few months (while keeping going with one to teach bigger concepts with). However swapping between two such similar languages seems pointless. Shove 'em through prolog haskel assembler and microcode.
_O_
populations always grow to meet their
supply of food, whether that population consists of rats in a cage or humans in the wild is immaterial.
This is false. Human population growth/shrinkage is corrolated with soial factors like women's education levels rather than food supply. If it wasn't there owul be a population explosion in the US, rather than a waistline explosion.
If this is going to replace a cell phone, it had better be long enough to reach from your mouth to your ear.
Why? I haven't seen a cellphone that big for years. My old bricklike one is ear-to-cheek. My current one is ear to end of ear, with a flip out microphone. The Nokia 8210 which I looked at when I got this one is the same length but without the flip down mike.
If it's not big enough to have at least a 3x4 grid of spots you press reliably, you're not going to have much fun dialing it
Chord keyboard. (again, my cellphone is half way there, combining the keypad with a slider on the side to type letters)
There seems to be an assumption here that India is just a mass of starving people like a LiveAid video from the Ethiopian famine. This is a country which produces more movies than hollywood, is taking high tech work from US and European companies, has a big enough market and enough self identity to force MTV to change their output etc.
This isn't an aid project, it's a commercial product. If they sell these things then there is clearly a use for them. If there is no use they won't sell any. It's certainly a better idea than most of the.com companies which have been blowing up all over the `developed' world.
having said which think it's far too expensive to do what they seem to want. What we (worldwide) do need is a realy cheap really ubiquitous computing device. Something on the order of a gameboy, those things must cost next to nothing to manufacture by now. Get it down to $20, Make the human interface easy and the programmer interface public. _Then_ we'll have for computing what we already have for music. Imagine wanderring into your local shop and picking through a rack of what guys in villages in mali have been hacking up.
I'd rather take my chances on Mir! Oh wait, too late....
Actually Mir was fine until they installed Windows on it as a trial run for ISS. 10 minutes later it got a virus and burining it up in the atmosphere was the only way to prevent it infecting the entire solar system.
FreeBSD as a desktop system (Score:1)
by MwtrV on Saturday March 31, @06:37PM BST (#161)
(User #311470 Info)
I installed FreeBSD out of disgust with Linux.
I discovered the following:
My soundcard sounded absolutely horrible under FreeBSD and in Linux it sounds crystal clear (even better then Windows.) Is there a
clear explaination for that being the case? No, and I don't care.
Second, where is the documentation for DRI and, furthermore, the user pages that would tell someone how to go about doing such?
Without DRI, there is no accelerated X. The fact that BSDs are including XFree 3.3.6 is a sign that they haven't yet adopted the new
architecture because there isn't any emphasis placed on making the kernel DRI friendly. Sure, it's in current, but current may or
Lastly, ports itself is great in concept, but in actuality who wants to spend cpu cycles waiting for dependency after dependency to compile
CPU cycles are much cheaper than download bandwidth. I'd rather download source and compile than download the compiled RPM.
(actually I just got a 24/7 connection so this is no longer true for me, but I think it's still going to be the case for most people).
It's not as if this is Windows. The system is totally usable while that compilation is happening. The compilation is also probably faster than the download of a compiled package.
All in all I can't see any argumet in favout of pre-compiled packages.
I simply filter out anything with a vbs attatchment. [...] It has NOTHING to do with the OS used, and everything to do with the administrator.
It certainly has nothing to do with the OS. It has everything to do with the noxious application software. If MS did outlook for [insert favorate sane OS here] it would be as bad.
Having the admin filter users' mail is not a sane answer. How do you explain to the CEO that you dropped that vital piece of email on the floor because the accountant included a tiny piece of vbs.
If the administrator lets users run outlook, _that_ is the problem.
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Routing problems are common enough now. Imagine what will happen if configuring a router involves 10 times as many options to control all that intelligence...
_O_
What planet are you on?
Just because they crash less than Windoze, that doesn't mean they don't crash at all.
The most reliable OS I have used hard is the 16 bit Psion OS on the 3 series, 3 years of constant use and only one crash (and that hardware related). EPOC on the 5 is doing well too.
_O_
I don't think so, because you wouldn't say "they runs" or "they is going".
This is because English agreement rules are grammatically based, not semantically based. So the verb as to agree with the number of the pronoun, not of the thing referred to.
Rather than I think the latter is what you get in some dialects, but not the main ones.Not strange, think of gender in French, you need to know the gender of the word to get the agreement right, not the sex (if any) of the thing referred to. IIRC there are languages where it is the other way around, but it's been a long time since I was reading this stuff.
_O_
If the computer crashes the OS is broken. (the app may or may not be broken too of course).
_O_
Every time I put a CD in?:-)
Note that M$ had complete control of what they chose to demo, they didn't have to cope with arbitrary code being thrown at them (not that the latter shou;ld be a problem for a real OS).
_O_
You realy think they waited until they had something that sort of worked and immediatly put it out in public?
he machine was running pre-alpha code
An even more bizzare idea. Pre alpha software would be still-being-constructued software not yet ready to be tested by the development team. So, you are saying M$ let outsiders play with software which even the developers wouldn't try and use in anger...
You work for Sony don't you:-)
_O_
Congratulations, you have just discovered the big secret M$ has been trying to bury:-).
If YOU think that computers shouldn't crash then you're living in a dream world.
If you think computers should, I recommend a job ast M$. The rest of us think crashes are faults.
I see no reason why this would be a "good indication" of what can be expected at launch.
If they can't be arsed to test it properly even for a high profile event they clearly haven't moved from their normal development process -- release crap and let the users test it.
_O_
Um, no. This may be "OK" for desktop computers, [...]
You have to remember that to M$ (like Netscrape) `beta' means `alpha'. They presumably don't bother with alpha tests.
_O_
The `big deal' is that they shouldn't. If you acce[t thi missbehaviour you have been got to. My CD player doesn't crash, my microwave doesn't crash.
Additionally the fact that they didn't sufficiantly test the hardware they were going to show to the world at a high profile event is a good indication of their quality control standards and what can be expected in production (remember the Win95 crash when Bill was demoing it).
_O_
I was under the impression that the basic model of the console game industry is that the hardware is massively subsidised and they make their money on the games.
In effect the X box will be `bundled' with the games.
_O_
At one time I'm sure we would have said that no one would accept an OS which crashed every few hours.
MS's marketing department has a good track record of changing customer expectations to be `we desrve to be shafted, please let us pay more so you can do it harder'.
If they can sell that to professionals and corporations, selling the same to J Random 14 year old shouldn't be a challenge.
_O_
Is it out for the PlayStation yet?
_O_
No search or seiszure is involved here. If this organisation asks you to agree to have your music use tracked before letting you buy their product, you have the option of saying yes or no. If you say yes, you are giving them the information voluntarilly.
Shock! My cable TV company knows what Pay Per View movies I watch!
The issue here is not one of rights, and fools who start yabbering on about rights and old bits of paper are just throwing up dust which hides the real issues of concentration of ownership.
_O_
And which of these says `citizens who voluntarilly give personal information to some company shall have the right to whinge if the company knows things about them'?
_O_
You would be better off watching daytime TV.
_O_
The shuttles problem is that it was made with `modern technology' of the time. The result is a fragile mess and ghuge checklists.
Build a replacement with old and understood technology (which is probably still an advance on the STS)
_O_
Has been building a log table in secret and that has thrown the mass distribution off.
_O_
If they are supposed to be teaching them programming they should teachthem to a new language every few months (while keeping going with one to teach bigger concepts with). However swapping between two such similar languages seems pointless. Shove 'em through prolog haskel assembler and microcode.
_O_
This is false. Human population growth/shrinkage is corrolated with soial factors like women's education levels rather than food supply. If it wasn't there owul be a population explosion in the US, rather than a waistline explosion.
Why? I haven't seen a cellphone that big for years. My old bricklike one is ear-to-cheek. My current one is ear to end of ear, with a flip out microphone. The Nokia 8210 which I looked at when I got this one is the same length but without the flip down mike.
If it's not big enough to have at least a 3x4 grid of spots you press reliably, you're not going to have much fun dialing it
Chord keyboard. (again, my cellphone is half way there, combining the keypad with a slider on the side to type letters)
This isn't an aid project, it's a commercial product. If they sell these things then there is clearly a use for them. If there is no use they won't sell any. It's certainly a better idea than most of the .com companies which have been blowing up all over the `developed' world.
having said which think it's far too expensive to do what they seem to want. What we (worldwide) do need is a realy cheap really ubiquitous computing device. Something on the order of a gameboy, those things must cost next to nothing to manufacture by now. Get it down to $20, Make the human interface easy and the programmer interface public. _Then_ we'll have for computing what we already have for music. Imagine wanderring into your local shop and picking through a rack of what guys in villages in mali have been hacking up.
Actually Mir was fine until they installed Windows on it as a trial run for ISS. 10 minutes later it got a virus and burining it up in the atmosphere was the only way to prevent it infecting the entire solar system.
CPU cycles are much cheaper than download bandwidth. I'd rather download source and compile than download the compiled RPM.
(actually I just got a 24/7 connection so this is no longer true for me, but I think it's still going to be the case for most people).
It's not as if this is Windows. The system is totally usable while that compilation is happening. The compilation is also probably faster than the download of a compiled package.
All in all I can't see any argumet in favout of pre-compiled packages.
cvsup and rebuild isn't too painful. I went from 4.1 to 4.2 beta with no significant work.
It certainly has nothing to do with the OS. It has everything to do with the noxious application software. If MS did outlook for [insert favorate sane OS here] it would be as bad.
Having the admin filter users' mail is not a sane answer. How do you explain to the CEO that you dropped that vital piece of email on the floor because the accountant included a tiny piece of vbs.
If the administrator lets users run outlook, _that_ is the problem.