'Better' in this sense is aesthetic. Its an opinion. If there is a huge bloom of foliage and birds it is considered 'good'. Greenpeace will love it. If there is a huge bloom of cockroaches or locust and the land is defoliated we will be blamed for the 'damage', even though it in itself is the success of one form of life.
So what is good or bad depends on either the diversity of various species and concentrated lifeforms in the area or it has an aesthetic meaning regarding the author's opinion of what a good piece of land should look like (name your favorite species of flowers, birds and big game animals).
The presence of humans in itself is a success. Apart from the 6.5 billion of us we host uncountable disease bacteria, flea, ticks, roaches, flies, mosquitoes, virii, rats, pets and all the animals who benefit from them or prey on them. We even host fungii on our bodies. These in itself is a successful bloom of various species. Just because its not all green with birds singing does not mean its 'bad'. It only means it has low aesthetic value.
Its not just slackware, there was a project to simplify slackware further called 'slack' IIRC. It died fast, but Slackware like its maintainer is still alive and kicking.
I'd love to see slackware get a major lease in life just like its two competitors in 1996, redhat and debian. Its a crowded market there now with arch linux, puppy and many other smaller and embedded distros getting in the 'simple' Linux market. Slackware is the single best distro for learning Linux, reminds me of minix even. Everthing else is either complicated or embedded.
And you'll have to keep upgrading the MS Girlfriend hoping the new version is more stable.
Back in our days Wife 1.0 on DEC PDP-11 would run forever if the hardware could keep her running. It generated a lot of heat and was expensive, but it did the job and there was never a reason to upgrade. Trust me, MS Girlfriend is all bling bling while the ugly OS on the PDP-11 will always run on weaker hardware.
Oh they get it. There are millions paying for Windows XP professional today and office 2003 professional for a grand total of $700 even though they hate paying. Its because they have the money, they have the need and Windows XP home and Office 2003 Basic just dont cut it.
Microsoft knows what its doing and Gates will make more money. Thats a good thing since the higher the cost of Windows, the closer we get to the threshold of software developers building for Linux/BSD/others and once we get to that threshold, Microsoft might as well sell WindowsXP Pro + Office 2003 Pro for $50. They wont sell many.
I think the underlying reason is the severe lack of standards.
Say I'm a software developer. I need to make an app for 'Linux'. How do I put in the icons? How does the installer work? Things like that.
Think of the pains nVidia is going through with their drivers, compilation and all. I wouldnt want MY source code released if I were adobe. Linux lacks in standards that are being alleviated with some new GUI and path frameworks, but theyre late. I need to download an app, double click and click next next next and its done. To uninstall I'd doubleclick something and its gone. Dont get me wrong I love the
wget app.tgz;tar xvfz app.tgz;cd app-0.1;configure;make;make install;debug;edit config;configure;make clean;make install;make cleanall;patch;configure;make;make install PREFIX=prefix...mechanism, but it does not a desktop installation method make.
I'll be real honest with you. I might buy it once, but I'll probably hack/crack it to keep it going two motherboards later. And I'll always keep my XP copy around just in case.
Fuck it. I think I'll apply for a microsoft job. I have new ideas. If the CPU usage over a month exceeds 50% the cost is doubled. 1.5 times the license for dual cores (oracle style) and I'll limit the ram usage to 4GB.
Gotta move to Linux, you dont even NEED 4GB for a pretty GUI.
Well expose viagra and cialis to enough libyan children, and you just might make a profit.
After all, who woulda thunk some nigerian in a cafe could score $100000 off an american in america?
If nothing else, some libyan kid sick of homework could infect and bring down the whole network to avoid study, similar to kids pulling the fire alarm in schools.
Why mention India? Intel works in many countries. Ever heard of Intel discovers @@#$@# in Canada? Or the UK or whatever?
Intel researches new chip (with absolutely no further info provided on the chip) in India!!! (OMG! Hate them hate them!)
Slashdot, the geek CNN. Makes many decisionmakers take sides of companies instead of just buying the quality product, think of the hatred for Microsoft it generates usually in an unobjective way. Intel is far from the only company researching anything outside of the USA.
I'm guessing Google is imagining quite a beowulf cluster of drillbits for their farms. I know Sun didnt make money from their super expensive per-cpu-hour datacenter, but even I was looking for cpu hours to rent to do an iterative compile of uclinux. I ended up spending the money getting an Athlon64 (when it was new) and just waited it out.
You sir havent discovered the joys of using a Core2 Duo chip with the latest round of graphics cards and a.75 TB drive. The original P4 @ 2.7 is rather crap. But then again maybe the apps you use dont need more than a PII really.
Its probably not the winters. Up here in Toronto the population is growing fast and housing is expensive. Same in Vancouver, and lets not even talk about Calgary.
I'd sooner rather have a microSD slot in the phone. A miniSD card is $25 CAD for a gig. By the time this phone comes out it'll be cheaper still. I hope the 24MB is really the RAM.
No seriously. If you can get 1GeV in 3cm and 10GeV in a few meters, the LHC is redundant before it got completed.
It would kick ass if a group of undergrads somewhere complete an accelerator with the energy of the LHC and start testing the weak theory days before the LHC becomes operational. What was the cost of it again?
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He can always use the MR2A16A chips if he can make his own circuitboard.
These are MRAM chips. Fast as flash but as reliable as ram. Write, page and thrash all you want.
There is a large list of Democrats they'd like to shoot down, including Iran's current president.
Remember he WAS elected.
Sure they would! Just not on Earth.
You dont think all these people will leave without their PDAs laptops and picturebooks now do you?
'Better' in this sense is aesthetic. Its an opinion. If there is a huge bloom of foliage and birds it is considered 'good'. Greenpeace will love it. If there is a huge bloom of cockroaches or locust and the land is defoliated we will be blamed for the 'damage', even though it in itself is the success of one form of life.
So what is good or bad depends on either the diversity of various species and concentrated lifeforms in the area or it has an aesthetic meaning regarding the author's opinion of what a good piece of land should look like (name your favorite species of flowers, birds and big game animals).
The presence of humans in itself is a success. Apart from the 6.5 billion of us we host uncountable disease bacteria, flea, ticks, roaches, flies, mosquitoes, virii, rats, pets and all the animals who benefit from them or prey on them. We even host fungii on our bodies. These in itself is a successful bloom of various species. Just because its not all green with birds singing does not mean its 'bad'. It only means it has low aesthetic value.
So they will release MS LILO Vista for free downloading. Cool.
I cant wait till they release cfdisk.
Its not just slackware, there was a project to simplify slackware further called 'slack' IIRC. It died fast, but Slackware like its maintainer is still alive and kicking.
I'd love to see slackware get a major lease in life just like its two competitors in 1996, redhat and debian. Its a crowded market there now with arch linux, puppy and many other smaller and embedded distros getting in the 'simple' Linux market. Slackware is the single best distro for learning Linux, reminds me of minix even. Everthing else is either complicated or embedded.
Thats only an opinion about your 'off-line' lives. I guess its a tradeoff.
Grammer Nazi: to much of a video game? Oh you're just to much.
Even better.
Its OK to return what you buy from McDonalds after use if it is not too healthy.
Talk about Karma whoring.
I'm pretty sure most anyone reading this article on Slashdot knows what an RTOS is.
The remaining few know where wikipedia is
And you'll have to keep upgrading the MS Girlfriend hoping the new version is more stable.
Back in our days Wife 1.0 on DEC PDP-11 would run forever if the hardware could keep her running. It generated a lot of heat and was expensive, but it did the job and there was never a reason to upgrade. Trust me, MS Girlfriend is all bling bling while the ugly OS on the PDP-11 will always run on weaker hardware.
Oh they get it. There are millions paying for Windows XP professional today and office 2003 professional for a grand total of $700 even though they hate paying. Its because they have the money, they have the need and Windows XP home and Office 2003 Basic just dont cut it.
Microsoft knows what its doing and Gates will make more money. Thats a good thing since the higher the cost of Windows, the closer we get to the threshold of software developers building for Linux/BSD/others and once we get to that threshold, Microsoft might as well sell WindowsXP Pro + Office 2003 Pro for $50. They wont sell many.
You're right.
...mechanism, but it does not a desktop installation method make.
I think the underlying reason is the severe lack of standards.
Say I'm a software developer. I need to make an app for 'Linux'. How do I put in the icons? How does the installer work? Things like that.
Think of the pains nVidia is going through with their drivers, compilation and all. I wouldnt want MY source code released if I were adobe. Linux lacks in standards that are being alleviated with some new GUI and path frameworks, but theyre late. I need to download an app, double click and click next next next and its done. To uninstall I'd doubleclick something and its gone. Dont get me wrong I love the
wget app.tgz;tar xvfz app.tgz;cd app-0.1;configure;make;make install;debug;edit config;configure;make clean;make install;make cleanall;patch;configure;make;make install PREFIX=prefix
I'll be real honest with you. I might buy it once, but I'll probably hack/crack it to keep it going two motherboards later. And I'll always keep my XP copy around just in case.
Fuck it. I think I'll apply for a microsoft job. I have new ideas. If the CPU usage over a month exceeds 50% the cost is doubled. 1.5 times the license for dual cores (oracle style) and I'll limit the ram usage to 4GB.
Gotta move to Linux, you dont even NEED 4GB for a pretty GUI.
Well expose viagra and cialis to enough libyan children, and you just might make a profit.
After all, who woulda thunk some nigerian in a cafe could score $100000 off an american in america?
If nothing else, some libyan kid sick of homework could infect and bring down the whole network to avoid study, similar to kids pulling the fire alarm in schools.
Presented by (Blue + Brown) Dark Purple guys!
And I can crack that joke because I'm from Pakistan.
Wow. I knew there were undertones in the heading.
Why mention India? Intel works in many countries. Ever heard of Intel discovers @@#$@# in Canada? Or the UK or whatever?
Intel researches new chip (with absolutely no further info provided on the chip) in India!!! (OMG! Hate them hate them!)
Slashdot, the geek CNN. Makes many decisionmakers take sides of companies instead of just buying the quality product, think of the hatred for Microsoft it generates usually in an unobjective way. Intel is far from the only company researching anything outside of the USA.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
I'm guessing Google is imagining quite a beowulf cluster of drillbits for their farms. I know Sun didnt make money from their super expensive per-cpu-hour datacenter, but even I was looking for cpu hours to rent to do an iterative compile of uclinux. I ended up spending the money getting an Athlon64 (when it was new) and just waited it out.
I'll be extinct by then.
You mean the DNA tests for the past few decades havent been 100% ?!?
This sounds like Intel's marketing department.
Wait till you hear of Intel's new Commodore 64. Its a 64-core chip on its way to the 80 core.
You sir havent discovered the joys of using a Core2 Duo chip with the latest round of graphics cards and a .75 TB drive.
The original P4 @ 2.7 is rather crap. But then again maybe the apps you use dont need more than a PII really.
Its probably not the winters. Up here in Toronto the population is growing fast and housing is expensive. Same in Vancouver, and lets not even talk about Calgary.
I'd sooner rather have a microSD slot in the phone.
A miniSD card is $25 CAD for a gig. By the time this phone comes out it'll be cheaper still. I hope the 24MB is really the RAM.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
No seriously. If you can get 1GeV in 3cm and 10GeV in a few meters, the LHC is redundant before it got completed.
It would kick ass if a group of undergrads somewhere complete an accelerator with the energy of the LHC and start testing the weak theory days before the LHC becomes operational. What was the cost of it again?
I still enjoy some beethoven.