No computer company or technology is an island into itself. Everyone wants to sell. Only Microsoft, for the most part, generates products that are truly proprietary
Apple is as proprietary as they come. Sure they use OSS for their benefit, but they make sure that their products will only work with their platform. Apple gives lackluster support to third party hardware. Now most mac fanboys will say, well Apple has to make money somewhere but if MS gave preference to their hardware over other manufactures, people would be going nuts. In short, Apple does not play well with others.
If Apple is so committed to OSS, why don't they release the source for what makes a mac different or good, Acqua anyone? If apple is committed to openness, their software should support multiple vendors even when apple has a competitive advantage as in the case with the superdrive.
When I first moved to Linux, the biggest issue for me was installing software. Anytime I downloaded an RPM it would ask me for 5 other rpms. Installing one program, turned it to an hour long process of searching for all these other rpms. Even compiling from source, almost all of the time I'm missing some development library.
Make installing software on linux as easy as Windows and OSX. I want to double click on a package and have it install itself and any dependicies. I want a packaging system that I can use on any linux distro with the same package, and most importantly, that most software releases will use it so I don't have to wait for software X to come out for my distro if the source doesn't compile.
and yes I'm familiar with apt, emerge, and the fact the logistics of what I want are a nightmare.
This would never work, period. The whole point of having your own shown in the case of Linuxworld and Macworld is to showcase YOUR products. There would be way too much competition for floorspace and other squabbles are just the tip of the iceberg.
Larger size != profits, this is now the common mentality that plagues business today. Many of the same problems that led to Comdex's demise would occur if their was one big supershow.
Dropping off anything, at the printing company I use to work at, if our truck driver wanted to drop anything off at the javitt center he would either have to wait 4 hours or pay the dock manager $200.
So then all the people in favor of calling Linux GNU/LINUX can say they are running the KDE/GNOME window enviroment on the GNU/Linux operating system. Lets all try to make the name structure as akward and complicated as possible to deter normal people from trying OSS let alone pronouncing it.
Products in the same class, I'm not comparing desktop processors to workstation processors or mobile processors to discount processors. I think the later phrase you mentioned is an appropriate description of yourself.
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Western Digital 80GB Caviar with 8MB Cache
Why would you use a single IDE HD when you have SCSI built in the motherboard? In my experience storage upgrades always provided tremendous speed improvements. Disk access is always a big bottleneck. If your going to have a "high-end" workstation, you need at least SCSI, preferably SCSI RAID. If you want to go barebones, at least have IDE-RAID with a really good backup plan.
And WTF do Quake 3 benchmarks have to do with a workstation?
You can get broadband for the same price as dialup access when you consider the cost of an extra phone line. I've switched many relatives to broadband, after taking a look at their monthly phone bills. Almost all of them have separate phone lines for Internet access.
For example my mother was paying $20/month for a second phone line and $20/month for her ISP. We got rid of her second phone line and the ISP for a cable modem that costs the same, $40/month.
Another phenomenon that phone companies and ISP's have to worrying about is people not having a landline at all. Most people I'm friends with (age 22-28) do not have a landline, but instead use a cell phone exclusively. There are lots of benefits of using a cell phone only. For people with roommates, you don't have to worry about splitting up the phone bill or dealing with calling cards. On a cost basis, I would rather pay $75 for a really good cell plan than a landline with no long distance for $40 and a cheap cell plan for $35.
Most of the people who I know who use a cell phone exclusively are also cable modem subscribers. Those who are not, just use work for personal Internet access. Of the people I do know with landlines, most of them have to have them in order to dial-in to their company's network because of the absence of a Internet VPN.
I've been landline free for three years now, with no regrets.
Was this posted by an Intel PR guy? Seriously, when is a new product by any company not the most power powerful, the greatest, or the best ever? I don't think there has ever been a case where a company released a new product and said that it was substandard compared to its previous offering.
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I love the kde enviroment, I was finally able to get 3.1 to compile yesterday and I was very impressed. I use KDE as my window enviroment, but almost all my apps are gtk. With the notable exceptions of konq, konsole and koncd, all my other most used apps use gtk: evolution, gaim, eclipse. I would imagine that this is the norm for most KDE users. Why bother reinventing the wheel?
Judging by the current posts, there seems to be a lot of confusion. The Athlon64 is AMD's 64 bit desktop offering, which will now be coming out in the early fall instead late spring.
So the point isn't that FLAC is new... the point is that FLAC is OSS, and has joined forces with an organization backing such efforts. The SHN codec is not OSS
Most people don't use OSS because it is open, they use it because it is better. The problem with FLAC is that shorten is established as the standard and there are shorten encoders/decoders available at no cost. The only way FLAC is going to be able to thrive is if it does something better. I was seriously considering moving my 500 GB SHN collection to FLAC, but after doing a few test encodes, I concluded that it wasn't worth the hassle. If FLAC were to give me 75% compression ratio that would free up 125 GB for me and would definitely be worth the hassle. But as it stands now, I'm not going to spend a few days converting my SHN collection just for the sake of it using an open file format and this is coming from someone who uses OSS for just about everything (except Photoshop and Sound Forge) .
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Instead of buying overpriced soda from a website, go to Sam's club and buy 5 cases of Jolt for the same price as one case of "Bawls."
I was there yesterday as well, there were a lot of good looking booths, Ximian's was probably the best ascetically. I went to both keynotes that day and the Golden Penguin bowl. Hector Ruiz's keynote was interesting, the Cray supercomputer running AMD was neat, but most of the presentation was marketing/pr, instead of anything informative but the AMD "Dr. Grip" style pens were nice.
The AMD booth was nice; they had some nifty opteron hardware up and running. A lot of the more interesting presentations were given on the show floor, Migel from Ximian had a session on Mono, but his mic wasn't working so we could hardly hear what he was saying. There was also a nifty lowdown on JXTA, Sun's open source P2P architecture. There were some others that looked promising as well, but you can only do so much in one day.
The second keynote was from Redhat's CIO talking about Linux and the finance industry. A good speech, but nothing earth shattering. The TCO examples and the architecture speel were nice, but for people are sitting in the audience at Linuxworld, they probably know this already. The Morgan Stanley case study was interesting, but nothing to get excited about, the adoption of Linux in the finance industry is old news.
The Golden Penguin bowl was boring, I don't know how they pick the guests, but quite a few of them didn't know some real easy questions. The question choice was lousy too. Most of the questions were either really obvious or really obscure to the point were not one person out of the six knew the answer. I left in the middle of the second round.
Overall, it was a good time but nothing crazy. I didn't see any celebrity developers, there were no earth shattering announcements. The biggest excitement for me during the day was opening up kismet and seeing 40 802.11b access points. I would like to thank Ximian for leaving their AP open with DHCP to the public. I would also like to than Redhat, I used their free hat to wipe off the soda that I spilled on my notebook.
If your looking to Java for cross-platform development and cli is not your thing, Eclipse is a nice IDE that works nicely on windows and linux. Its also open source.
The powerbook keyboard is better than average, but is not phenomenal by any means. As the owner of a subcompact Fujitsu P-2000 and a Powerbook G4, I actually prefer the Fujitsu keyboard and I'm a keyboard snob, I only use IBM model M's or sun type 6 on the desktop.
I can't believe the parent Mac fanboy post got modded up. How the hell is the powerbook keyboard sexy? Seriously, some of you guys need to stop masturbating to switch ads.
Nope, that's the beauty of the GPL. Because the source code is in the public domain, other developers can step in and advance the application further or organizations that depend on that code can hire their own people. With a closed source solution, if a company stops development and/or support, your screwed. Especially now, when its more profitable for software companies to force upgrades by abandoning support and updates for older products.
One hell of a paradigm shift! Unfortunately bureaucratic organizations suffer from a phenomenon known as groupthink, plus people and especially organizations hate to admit they were wrong.
If MS moves towards Linux then there is still hope that the republican party will move towards the legalization of drugs, the Catholic Church will embrace birth control, and the Bush Administration will read the constitution.
Would the community be able to release a good consumer oriented distro? Community efforts have led to the release of great software, but there is a tendency to focus on solutions for the people writing the software, which is only natural. How would usability, graphics, and interface design folks be integrated in to a development team for Mandrake?
Most of the OSS projects that are polished enough for the average joe are products that were either started as closed sourced and opened up or are managed by a OSS company. Mozilla and Staroffice are good examples of closed -> open. Ximian's products are good examples of OSS managed by a company.
What is a good example of a community application that was developed entirely by a community and has the polish and interface of a major closed soured project and is targeted towards the average clueless user? I guess Gnome and KDE could be good examples but what other apps are out there besides window environments? There is lots of great OSS software out there but not many community projects have a professional look and are targeted towards non-techies.
Mandrake should do like OpenBSD and not make ISO images available.
Well then all new users would flock to other distros such as Red Hat since they can download an ISO. Your approach would work for existing users, but under this approach Mandrake's growth would come to a screeching halt. If mandrake did not have an ISO available, I would have never tried the distro and subsequently would have never joined the mandrake club. Potential users especially coming from windows need to be able to evaluate the product without having to purchase it. Crippled evaluation versions will not work because the users Mandrake is targeting are not the type that would be willing to go through the hassle of installing an OS just for evaluation. Solutions such as Suse's eval CD are interesting in the sense that a user can see what things look like, but people need to use the finished product before purchase.
I don't know where you got the idea that Apple is building a P2P network, but they are definitely NOT! The next release of itunes will feature streaming, which has nothing to do with P2P, its a great example of client server.
Why would a P2P network need support? If the technology is good and the interface is right, there is no need for support. Not like Apple would do such a thing anyway, if they were every to build any type of file sharing application it would be Mac only, in other feeble attempt to get people to switch. This is yet another example of why Apple's hardware focus conflicts with their software development.
Modify slashcode so that if a user submits a dupe, he/she is banned from submitting a story for X amount of days. This would still leave a gaping hole because anonymous users could post dupes, but it would be better than the current situation. Perhaps slashcode should have automatic duplication checking? Some code that would check stories from say the past 2 weeks and look for inordinate amount of matching words and/or phrases? I would do it myself, but I'm not a PERL haxor. Anyone here know
PERL?Slashcode is an open source project, fix it! If we took the gross of the amount of hours spent writing about duplicate slashdot posts and put it in to slashcode development for duplicate story checking, dups would be nonexistent.
Don't even come close to filling up small hard drives by today's standards. I've built about ten systems for friends and family over the past few years looking for a good deal. Most of them have 20 or 40 GB drives, with less than 25% usage after a few years and a bloated windows install. Even my "normal friends" with Kazaa and a broadband connection never really fill their drives.
Not to say it isn't a great leap for the/. crowd, I have about 90% utilization with 500 GB of storage at home. SHN and DIVX take up the bulk of my storage capacity. I know it sounds like "640k is enough for anybody," but the average desktop user does not need a 100 GB hard drive, even the casual P2P and multimedia user will not fill that up. Obviously 100GB will become a necessity with the 50GB minimum install of windows 2007.
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Apple is as proprietary as they come. Sure they use OSS for their benefit, but they make sure that their products will only work with their platform. Apple gives lackluster support to third party hardware. Now most mac fanboys will say, well Apple has to make money somewhere but if MS gave preference to their hardware over other manufactures, people would be going nuts. In short, Apple does not play well with others.
If Apple is so committed to OSS, why don't they release the source for what makes a mac different or good, Acqua anyone? If apple is committed to openness, their software should support multiple vendors even when apple has a competitive advantage as in the case with the superdrive.
Make installing software on linux as easy as Windows and OSX. I want to double click on a package and have it install itself and any dependicies. I want a packaging system that I can use on any linux distro with the same package, and most importantly, that most software releases will use it so I don't have to wait for software X to come out for my distro if the source doesn't compile.
and yes I'm familiar with apt, emerge, and the fact the logistics of what I want are a nightmare.
Larger size != profits, this is now the common mentality that plagues business today. Many of the same problems that led to Comdex's demise would occur if their was one big supershow.
Dropping off anything, at the printing company I use to work at, if our truck driver wanted to drop anything off at the javitt center he would either have to wait 4 hours or pay the dock manager $200.
KDE/GNOME
So then all the people in favor of calling Linux GNU/LINUX can say they are running the KDE/GNOME window enviroment on the GNU/Linux operating system. Lets all try to make the name structure as akward and complicated as possible to deter normal people from trying OSS let alone pronouncing it.
Products in the same class, I'm not comparing desktop processors to workstation processors or mobile processors to discount processors. I think the later phrase you mentioned is an appropriate description of yourself.
Western Digital 80GB Caviar with 8MB Cache
Why would you use a single IDE HD when you have SCSI built in the motherboard? In my experience storage upgrades always provided tremendous speed improvements. Disk access is always a big bottleneck. If your going to have a "high-end" workstation, you need at least SCSI, preferably SCSI RAID. If you want to go barebones, at least have IDE-RAID with a really good backup plan.
And WTF do Quake 3 benchmarks have to do with a workstation?
For example my mother was paying $20/month for a second phone line and $20/month for her ISP. We got rid of her second phone line and the ISP for a cable modem that costs the same, $40/month.
Another phenomenon that phone companies and ISP's have to worrying about is people not having a landline at all. Most people I'm friends with (age 22-28) do not have a landline, but instead use a cell phone exclusively. There are lots of benefits of using a cell phone only. For people with roommates, you don't have to worry about splitting up the phone bill or dealing with calling cards. On a cost basis, I would rather pay $75 for a really good cell plan than a landline with no long distance for $40 and a cheap cell plan for $35.
Most of the people who I know who use a cell phone exclusively are also cable modem subscribers. Those who are not, just use work for personal Internet access. Of the people I do know with landlines, most of them have to have them in order to dial-in to their company's network because of the absence of a Internet VPN.
I've been landline free for three years now, with no regrets.
Was this posted by an Intel PR guy? Seriously, when is a new product by any company not the most power powerful, the greatest, or the best ever? I don't think there has ever been a case where a company released a new product and said that it was substandard compared to its previous offering.
I love the kde enviroment, I was finally able to get 3.1 to compile yesterday and I was very impressed. I use KDE as my window enviroment, but almost all my apps are gtk. With the notable exceptions of konq, konsole and koncd, all my other most used apps use gtk: evolution, gaim, eclipse. I would imagine that this is the norm for most KDE users. Why bother reinventing the wheel?
The Opteron's debut is set for April 22nd .
Will not be upgrading his ps2 cluster for quite some time.
Most people don't use OSS because it is open, they use it because it is better. The problem with FLAC is that shorten is established as the standard and there are shorten encoders/decoders available at no cost. The only way FLAC is going to be able to thrive is if it does something better. I was seriously considering moving my 500 GB SHN collection to FLAC, but after doing a few test encodes, I concluded that it wasn't worth the hassle. If FLAC were to give me 75% compression ratio that would free up 125 GB for me and would definitely be worth the hassle. But as it stands now, I'm not going to spend a few days converting my SHN collection just for the sake of it using an open file format and this is coming from someone who uses OSS for just about everything (except Photoshop and Sound Forge) .
Instead of buying overpriced soda from a website, go to Sam's club and buy 5 cases of Jolt for the same price as one case of "Bawls."
At a $3000 price point, you would be much better off with Denon.
The AMD booth was nice; they had some nifty opteron hardware up and running. A lot of the more interesting presentations were given on the show floor, Migel from Ximian had a session on Mono, but his mic wasn't working so we could hardly hear what he was saying. There was also a nifty lowdown on JXTA, Sun's open source P2P architecture. There were some others that looked promising as well, but you can only do so much in one day.
The second keynote was from Redhat's CIO talking about Linux and the finance industry. A good speech, but nothing earth shattering. The TCO examples and the architecture speel were nice, but for people are sitting in the audience at Linuxworld, they probably know this already. The Morgan Stanley case study was interesting, but nothing to get excited about, the adoption of Linux in the finance industry is old news.
The Golden Penguin bowl was boring, I don't know how they pick the guests, but quite a few of them didn't know some real easy questions. The question choice was lousy too. Most of the questions were either really obvious or really obscure to the point were not one person out of the six knew the answer. I left in the middle of the second round.
Overall, it was a good time but nothing crazy. I didn't see any celebrity developers, there were no earth shattering announcements. The biggest excitement for me during the day was opening up kismet and seeing 40 802.11b access points. I would like to thank Ximian for leaving their AP open with DHCP to the public. I would also like to than Redhat, I used their free hat to wipe off the soda that I spilled on my notebook.
If your looking to Java for cross-platform development and cli is not your thing, Eclipse is a nice IDE that works nicely on windows and linux. Its also open source.
I can't believe the parent Mac fanboy post got modded up. How the hell is the powerbook keyboard sexy? Seriously, some of you guys need to stop masturbating to switch ads.
Nope, that's the beauty of the GPL. Because the source code is in the public domain, other developers can step in and advance the application further or organizations that depend on that code can hire their own people. With a closed source solution, if a company stops development and/or support, your screwed. Especially now, when its more profitable for software companies to force upgrades by abandoning support and updates for older products.
If MS moves towards Linux then there is still hope that the republican party will move towards the legalization of drugs, the Catholic Church will embrace birth control, and the Bush Administration will read the constitution.
Most of the OSS projects that are polished enough for the average joe are products that were either started as closed sourced and opened up or are managed by a OSS company. Mozilla and Staroffice are good examples of closed -> open. Ximian's products are good examples of OSS managed by a company.
What is a good example of a community application that was developed entirely by a community and has the polish and interface of a major closed soured project and is targeted towards the average clueless user? I guess Gnome and KDE could be good examples but what other apps are out there besides window environments? There is lots of great OSS software out there but not many community projects have a professional look and are targeted towards non-techies.
Well then all new users would flock to other distros such as Red Hat since they can download an ISO. Your approach would work for existing users, but under this approach Mandrake's growth would come to a screeching halt. If mandrake did not have an ISO available, I would have never tried the distro and subsequently would have never joined the mandrake club. Potential users especially coming from windows need to be able to evaluate the product without having to purchase it. Crippled evaluation versions will not work because the users Mandrake is targeting are not the type that would be willing to go through the hassle of installing an OS just for evaluation. Solutions such as Suse's eval CD are interesting in the sense that a user can see what things look like, but people need to use the finished product before purchase.
Why would a P2P network need support? If the technology is good and the interface is right, there is no need for support. Not like Apple would do such a thing anyway, if they were every to build any type of file sharing application it would be Mac only, in other feeble attempt to get people to switch. This is yet another example of why Apple's hardware focus conflicts with their software development.
Modify slashcode so that if a user submits a dupe, he/she is banned from submitting a story for X amount of days. This would still leave a gaping hole because anonymous users could post dupes, but it would be better than the current situation. Perhaps slashcode should have automatic duplication checking? Some code that would check stories from say the past 2 weeks and look for inordinate amount of matching words and/or phrases? I would do it myself, but I'm not a PERL haxor. Anyone here know PERL? Slashcode is an open source project, fix it! If we took the gross of the amount of hours spent writing about duplicate slashdot posts and put it in to slashcode development for duplicate story checking, dups would be nonexistent.
Not to say it isn't a great leap for the /. crowd, I have about 90% utilization with 500 GB of storage at home. SHN and DIVX take up the bulk of my storage capacity. I know it sounds like "640k is enough for anybody," but the average desktop user does not need a 100 GB hard drive, even the casual P2P and multimedia user will not fill that up. Obviously 100GB will become a necessity with the 50GB minimum install of windows 2007.