... this whole patent mess will indeed require a martir that will set itself on fire to show how absurd it all is. The patents M$ is trying to enforce are stupid, as anyone with 1% of the brain still active can recognize.
It's sad.
Power users are being cornered ever since people started to look at Apple for vision.
I just had to switch from GNOME to KDE because GNOME (and Canonical) made a very good job at killing productivity.
I wouldn't expect this to see the light of kernel mainline ever, or at least not until Oracle stops selling their Enterprise Linux offering.
DTrace on Linux will probably be something like Ksplice where it's available only to paying customer (last I checked, correct me if I'm wrong).
Good thing this opens the doors within Oracle to consider migrating more of the Solaris features to Linux, even if it's only for OEL for the time being. Personally, while being a Solaris sysadmin, I'm not wasting my time on Solaris anymore and I certainly won't be bothering with Solaris 11 unless my employer shows the need. So far our next hardware refresh cycle is up for in 6 months and nobody bothered to ask Oracle for a quote. The word is that it's going to be Linux for everything.
Sorry, but yes. The theme is scalability which means individuals will be taking care of huge infrastructures and cannot waste time troubleshooting little compatibility glitches. We've found that keeping the environment homogeneous pays a lot in terms of keeping variables under control and if you need to change vendors, do it in big chunks and fast with the goal of returning to homogeneity quickly.
99% of all desktop users don't give a crap about Linux running on their hardware. They want Windows and, if they want Mac OS X, they will buy Apple's hardware.
But I heard this year is the year of Linux on the desktop, right? Right.
I'm also receiving all the parts needed to build a nuclear weapon but I still haven't figured out which one. Any ideas?
It must be capable of destroying all trolling in the universe (including the ones that/. accepts as news).
There is a ton of things that HTC, Samsung, Motorola can do to make their phones "feel" and "look" different, while still keeping Android underneath (taking care of things that the developers creating the look&feel aspects can take for granted).
Apple took Mach/BSD core and built a great UI on top of it... I don't think you can say a Macbook is just the same if you install FreeBSD on it. Or that FreeBSD is head to head in the desktop market. Anyway.. My point, things aren't so simple and having a solid foundation is not a signal that all innovation and differentiation in world has been achieved. A solid foundation is a welcome thing that propels developers to move forward.
People do care about hardware specs when their phones are much faster. But that's a long-term strategy. Eventually, just like with PCs, the hardware will be enough for 98% of the people in the world and it'll be hard to sell based on processor/memory specs alone.
An edge in the mobile space is achieved through: 1) a good design and 2) apps
They can differentiate themselves in those 2 areas with Android just fine.
You wanted those languages to be what, interpreted? Python? Of course they are low level system programming languages... but nowadays people seem to think that Javascript is perfect for everything, right?
Google+ is supposed to have 20mi accounts by now. How many makes it a 'striking number' ?
IMHO, their friends get counted 1000x to make up that virtual number.
I said I understood that it was not supposed to be practical research or immediately useful. Please read it again. "people like you"... thanks for assuming a lot.
Thanks for the first decent answer to this. I never said I don't want to know what's over the next hill. I do think the universe is pretty neat and that we should try to understand things better. I just asked if any of that kind of research created any other practical benefits. Much like the F1 racing teams research all kind of extreme engineering things to put a few cars in running in circles for no particular reason than entertainment... their research obviously translates into things we use daily. That's just it.. that's what I was trying to ask but there are too many pseudo-geniuses around here.
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I couldn't read anywhere in the article that the researchers claimed it was original work by young adult females.
Now that they will have statistics to show which extensions are most used (i.e. what users are missing the most). Will GNOME undo the mess?
Thanks, but no, thanks.... been happy with KDE4 after GNOME screwed GNOME3.
... this whole patent mess will indeed require a martir that will set itself on fire to show how absurd it all is. The patents M$ is trying to enforce are stupid, as anyone with 1% of the brain still active can recognize. It's sad.
Power users are being cornered ever since people started to look at Apple for vision. I just had to switch from GNOME to KDE because GNOME (and Canonical) made a very good job at killing productivity.
I wouldn't expect this to see the light of kernel mainline ever, or at least not until Oracle stops selling their Enterprise Linux offering.
DTrace on Linux will probably be something like Ksplice where it's available only to paying customer (last I checked, correct me if I'm wrong).
Good thing this opens the doors within Oracle to consider migrating more of the Solaris features to Linux, even if it's only for OEL for the time being. Personally, while being a Solaris sysadmin, I'm not wasting my time on Solaris anymore and I certainly won't be bothering with Solaris 11 unless my employer shows the need. So far our next hardware refresh cycle is up for in 6 months and nobody bothered to ask Oracle for a quote. The word is that it's going to be Linux for everything.
Like Slashdot would pass a chance to bash Microsoft.. ha!
Thanks for the personal attack. We are talking within company boundaries. Get a clue :-)
Sorry, but yes. The theme is scalability which means individuals will be taking care of huge infrastructures and cannot waste time troubleshooting little compatibility glitches. We've found that keeping the environment homogeneous pays a lot in terms of keeping variables under control and if you need to change vendors, do it in big chunks and fast with the goal of returning to homogeneity quickly.
99% of all desktop users don't give a crap about Linux running on their hardware. They want Windows and, if they want Mac OS X, they will buy Apple's hardware. But I heard this year is the year of Linux on the desktop, right? Right.
Great comment. I wish more people could be realistic like that here but /. is too concerned with bashing m$ (or anyone, for that matter).
There is prior art: Transformers.
I'm also receiving all the parts needed to build a nuclear weapon but I still haven't figured out which one. Any ideas? It must be capable of destroying all trolling in the universe (including the ones that /. accepts as news).
This is unintelligible.
There is a ton of things that HTC, Samsung, Motorola can do to make their phones "feel" and "look" different, while still keeping Android underneath (taking care of things that the developers creating the look&feel aspects can take for granted).
Apple took Mach/BSD core and built a great UI on top of it... I don't think you can say a Macbook is just the same if you install FreeBSD on it. Or that FreeBSD is head to head in the desktop market. Anyway.. My point, things aren't so simple and having a solid foundation is not a signal that all innovation and differentiation in world has been achieved. A solid foundation is a welcome thing that propels developers to move forward.
People do care about hardware specs when their phones are much faster. But that's a long-term strategy. Eventually, just like with PCs, the hardware will be enough for 98% of the people in the world and it'll be hard to sell based on processor/memory specs alone.
It seems everything is about patents nowadays. Perhaps by bying WebOS they get enough patents to help their Android offerings.
An edge in the mobile space is achieved through: 1) a good design and 2) apps They can differentiate themselves in those 2 areas with Android just fine.
I think 10 years is a fairly OK period for the price of anything to double. If there have been advances in technology, more so.
Too excited to type "Sprint" ?
You wanted those languages to be what, interpreted? Python? Of course they are low level system programming languages... but nowadays people seem to think that Javascript is perfect for everything, right?
"""Eric Schmidt has revealed that Google+ is an identity service, and the 'social network' bit is just bait."""
Looked for "bait" in the "news' source" and couldn't find any.... what's wrong with me? Or is it Slashdot accepting fabricated stories?
I'm on my comfy chair.
Google+ is supposed to have 20mi accounts by now. How many makes it a 'striking number' ? IMHO, their friends get counted 1000x to make up that virtual number.
I said I understood that it was not supposed to be practical research or immediately useful. Please read it again. "people like you"... thanks for assuming a lot.
Thanks for the first decent answer to this. I never said I don't want to know what's over the next hill. I do think the universe is pretty neat and that we should try to understand things better. I just asked if any of that kind of research created any other practical benefits. Much like the F1 racing teams research all kind of extreme engineering things to put a few cars in running in circles for no particular reason than entertainment... their research obviously translates into things we use daily. That's just it.. that's what I was trying to ask but there are too many pseudo-geniuses around here.