What we see here is that a small number of companies is responsible for a large portion of the total changes to the kernel. But there is a "long tail" of companies (500 of which do not appear in the above list) which have made significant changes.
Yup. The top 50 contributors (including groups for "none" and "unknown") add up to about 81.5%, meaning that those other 500 companies, added together, yield 18.5% of the code--more than any other single group.
Actually, slashdot has had VERY few dupes in the last several months. It was always a joke, then it got REALLY bad for a while, but I'm here just as much as ever and I haven't seen a dupe in quite a while. Not like it used to be at all.
Actually, it's just that they're better at covering up the small ones. The only ones we know about are the big, hey-you-can-see-that-from-space ones. In the USA, using the open-source disaster model, small ones make the news, which results in increased safety everywhere else.:-)
I'm not saying the 64-bit version DOESN'T work under a VM, I'm just saying that the 32-bit version DOES. I haven't tested it--I was mainly looking at the UI and stuff, nothing that would be affected by 32/64 bitness. If you've got time time and inclination to try both, go for it!:-)
As other responders have pointed out, you can try WIndows 7 Ultimate (Release candidate) for free for a year so you can answer all your own questions. The 32-bit version works fine under Sun's free VirtualBox so you don't even need to dedicate a machine to it, just a few GB of disk space.
I downloaded it and installed it on a few machines and used it for a good amount of time, and I'm sure it's stable and fast and whatever, but the UI still makes me want to gouge my eyes out. I hate it for a thousand different reasons. Thank God I don't have to use it at work.
I agree that it's deceptive but I haven't actually seen a food advertised as being "fat free" that had fat in it. I'm pretty sure the FDA and FTC are pretty picky about things like this. That said, I've seen plenty of not-especially-healthy foods, up to and including Red Vines, that advertise themselves as being "fat free." (Look closely at the pics on the front page of their site--you can actually see it on the packaging!) Hell, a five-pound bag of white sugar is 100% fat-free, doesn't mean it's a good idea to sit down and eat it.
I agree that advertisers are deceptive, but I also think everyone really should learn at least SOMETHING about nutrition (aka "the act of putting food in your face for the purpose of SUSTAINING YOUR LIFE.") Sugar != fat, ergo "fat free" != "you won't get fat from this." (OK, maybe we need a brief Logic course too. Start with "all dogs are animals but not all animals are dogs" and work our way up from there.) EVERYONE should laugh out loud (like I do) when they see the words "fat free" on sugary food.
Today, most of what we use the web for on a day-to-day basis aren't just web pages, they're applications. Wouldn't it be great, then, to start from scratch, and design something based on the needs of today's web applications and today's users? --Google,9/2/2008
And from today's FA:
But Mr. Andreessen suggested the new browser would be different, saying that most other browsers had not kept pace with the evolution of the Web, which had grown from an array of static Web pages into a network of complex Web sites and applications. "There are all kinds of things that you would do differently if you are building a browser from scratch," Mr. Andreessen said. --Marc Andreessen, 8/13/2009
It's as if he fell asleep reading the comic, dreamt about it, and woke up thinking he had an original idea. Then again, TFA says he said "most other browsers", so maybe he's specifically excluding Chrome?:-)
The first lesson is what stayed up: stand-alone radio systems and not much else. Cell phones failed. Cellular towers can not, in general, connect phone calls on their own, even if both phones are near the same tower. They communicate with a central switching computer to operate, and when that system doesn't respond, they're useless. But police and fire authorities still had internal communications via two-way radio.
Realizing that they'd need more two-way radio, authorities dispatched police to wake up the emergency coordinator of the regional ham radio club, and escort him to the community hospital with his equipment. Area hams dispatched ambulances and doctors, arranged for essential supplies, and relayed emergency communications out of the area to those with working telephones.
A guy on a list I used to be on used to ask REALLY dumb, easily-googlable questions. I mean, you could literally take the message subject, plug it into google, and get the answer. I wrote (but never deployed) a script that would take the subject of his message, google it, and reply to the list with the first page of search results in the body. (Something like "links --dump http://www.google.com/search?q=$1+$2+$3+$4+$5 | mail blah@example.org")
It really amuses me how all these different comments come up in every thread about search engines. Everyone's experience is different. Google is still very useful to me 99% of the time. As for AltaVista, I remember '96-'97 very well. I would usually use Yahoo first. If Yahoo only produced a small handful of results--literally, 10 or less, and no good ones--then I'd go to AltaVista and get tens of thousands of results. If I was lucky I'd find what I wanted in the first few pages, else I'd give up.
Google is still literally orders of magnitude than anything else I've tried. Disclaimer: I've pretty much used only Google for the last... um, however many years it's been since they came on the scene. I won't claim to have used it when they were still hosted at stanford.edu, but I heard about them early on (back when they had , probably from Slashdot, and I was impressed right away. I probably stopped using Yahoo altogether within a couple months.
If you're in Vegas, Hoover Dam, while not a museum per se, is pretty damn awesome and worth the short drive. And speaking of nukes, as long as you're out in the middle of nowhere, consider White Sands in New Mexico. And as long as you're in that part of the country, there's also Meteor Crater in Arizona. Neither are museums but both have high geek-value. Or, if I wanted to get snootier-than-thou, I'd point out that not all of the best things are in museums.
Exactly. Bullshit laws like this and "You can't live within 500 miles of a school" get passed, yet "life offenders" (aka "murderers") come out of jail every day and resume their lives just like any other felon. Out-fucking-standing.
And ad servers are SLOW. When I'm surfing on a machine that doesn't have adblocking and a page is loading slow, I look at the status indicator and invariably it's waiting for ads or google analytics. Which is why I block both on any machine I have access to.
If you RTFA, it says the app wasn't approved until the 'objectionable' words were removed from the dictionary.
Yeah, objectionable words like "screw" and "snatch." Yes, really. And even with all the "bad" words gone (actual bad words, like "fuck", and pretend bad words, like "screw") they STILL get a 17+ rating. WTF?!? Apple is REALLY being retarded on this one.
I'll give Apple the benefit of the doubt and assume that the 17+ rating was a dadaist statement on literacy and education in 21st century America.
One way to attack this: copyright infringement. This image that they serve up to Safari users is, according to Photoshop, identical to file:///Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/compass.icns which is surely copyrighted by Apple. This won't necessarily shut them down but it would draw some attention and maybe hurt them financially a bit.
Slashdot Mirror
http://thomashawk.com/2009/08/so-if-time-magazine-dc-comics-and-platon-didnt-send-flickr-a-dmca-takedown-notice-over-the-obama-joker-image-who-did.html
I look forward to the day when an entire Slashdot submission is just a blog's URL.
That's 100% marketing speak.
Yup. I laughed when I read the title of this story. Every Apple press release for the last decade or so has had boilerplate at the bottom that starts with "Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh."
What we see here is that a small number of companies is responsible for a large portion of the total changes to the kernel. But there is a "long tail" of companies (500 of which do not appear in the above list) which have made significant changes.
Yup. The top 50 contributors (including groups for "none" and "unknown") add up to about 81.5%, meaning that those other 500 companies, added together, yield 18.5% of the code--more than any other single group.
Actually, slashdot has had VERY few dupes in the last several months. It was always a joke, then it got REALLY bad for a while, but I'm here just as much as ever and I haven't seen a dupe in quite a while. Not like it used to be at all.
Actually, it's just that they're better at covering up the small ones. The only ones we know about are the big, hey-you-can-see-that-from-space ones. In the USA, using the open-source disaster model, small ones make the news, which results in increased safety everywhere else. :-)
I never thought it had to do with bandwidth. I saw URL shorteners become popular shortly after everyone started putting the title of the page into the URL for search engine optimization. It used to be that anyone's blog post would be like http://example.com/blog/2009/09/19 or http://example.com/blog.php?story=urls but now it's like http://example.org/blog/2009/08/19/why-url-shorteners-are-not-a-good-idea . Even Slashdot went this route--one of the URLs for this story is http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/19/120206/URL-Shortener-trim-To-Go-Community-Owned-Open-Source Note that the old style address, http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/08/19/120206 , also works. The rest is strictly for SEO. (Making it human readable is a nice side benefit, but SEO is the reason.)
I'm not saying the 64-bit version DOESN'T work under a VM, I'm just saying that the 32-bit version DOES. I haven't tested it--I was mainly looking at the UI and stuff, nothing that would be affected by 32/64 bitness. If you've got time time and inclination to try both, go for it! :-)
As other responders have pointed out, you can try WIndows 7 Ultimate (Release candidate) for free for a year so you can answer all your own questions. The 32-bit version works fine under Sun's free VirtualBox so you don't even need to dedicate a machine to it, just a few GB of disk space.
I downloaded it and installed it on a few machines and used it for a good amount of time, and I'm sure it's stable and fast and whatever, but the UI still makes me want to gouge my eyes out. I hate it for a thousand different reasons. Thank God I don't have to use it at work.
What if laststatusupdate.com for example, changes my facebook status from single (we all know this is slashdot) to passed away.
I'd also want a cron job that posts "still dead" randomly every 2-6 days.
I agree that it's deceptive but I haven't actually seen a food advertised as being "fat free" that had fat in it. I'm pretty sure the FDA and FTC are pretty picky about things like this. That said, I've seen plenty of not-especially-healthy foods, up to and including Red Vines, that advertise themselves as being "fat free." (Look closely at the pics on the front page of their site--you can actually see it on the packaging!) Hell, a five-pound bag of white sugar is 100% fat-free, doesn't mean it's a good idea to sit down and eat it.
I agree that advertisers are deceptive, but I also think everyone really should learn at least SOMETHING about nutrition (aka "the act of putting food in your face for the purpose of SUSTAINING YOUR LIFE.") Sugar != fat, ergo "fat free" != "you won't get fat from this." (OK, maybe we need a brief Logic course too. Start with "all dogs are animals but not all animals are dogs" and work our way up from there.) EVERYONE should laugh out loud (like I do) when they see the words "fat free" on sugary food.
PAGE FUCKING ONE:
Today, most of what we use the web for on a day-to-day basis aren't just web pages, they're applications. Wouldn't it be great, then, to start from scratch, and design something based on the needs of today's web applications and today's users?
--Google, 9/2/2008
And from today's FA:
But Mr. Andreessen suggested the new browser would be different, saying that most other browsers had not kept pace with the evolution of the Web, which had grown from an array of static Web pages into a network of complex Web sites and applications. "There are all kinds of things that you would do differently if you are building a browser from scratch," Mr. Andreessen said.
--Marc Andreessen, 8/13/2009
It's as if he fell asleep reading the comic, dreamt about it, and woke up thinking he had an original idea. Then again, TFA says he said "most other browsers", so maybe he's specifically excluding Chrome? :-)
... prepare for edit wars unlike any you've ever seen before.
Hmm... so you're saying I should take out this cron entry...
... that I added per the instructions in some stranger's .sig?
"Twitter Used To Control Botnet Machines"
It used to, but it doesn't anymore, right?
We need a new tag: "eventualoutbreakofcommonsense"
If you're trolling, you've got a lot to learn--that one was WAY too obvious.
April, 2009: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/22/2043235
From TFA:
The first lesson is what stayed up: stand-alone radio systems and not much else. Cell phones failed. Cellular towers can not, in general, connect phone calls on their own, even if both phones are near the same tower. They communicate with a central switching computer to operate, and when that system doesn't respond, they're useless. But police and fire authorities still had internal communications via two-way radio.
Realizing that they'd need more two-way radio, authorities dispatched police to wake up the emergency coordinator of the regional ham radio club, and escort him to the community hospital with his equipment. Area hams dispatched ambulances and doctors, arranged for essential supplies, and relayed emergency communications out of the area to those with working telephones.
I think Cmdrtaco should read TFA.
Give him a break. Maybe he's new here. ;-)
Not contributing back!? Dude, they gave us *google*.
And "just fucking google it" has started replacing RTFM. :-) See also "Let Me Google That For You."
A guy on a list I used to be on used to ask REALLY dumb, easily-googlable questions. I mean, you could literally take the message subject, plug it into google, and get the answer. I wrote (but never deployed) a script that would take the subject of his message, google it, and reply to the list with the first page of search results in the body. (Something like "links --dump http://www.google.com/search?q=$1+$2+$3+$4+$5 | mail blah@example.org")
It really amuses me how all these different comments come up in every thread about search engines. Everyone's experience is different. Google is still very useful to me 99% of the time. As for AltaVista, I remember '96-'97 very well. I would usually use Yahoo first. If Yahoo only produced a small handful of results--literally, 10 or less, and no good ones--then I'd go to AltaVista and get tens of thousands of results. If I was lucky I'd find what I wanted in the first few pages, else I'd give up.
Google is still literally orders of magnitude than anything else I've tried. Disclaimer: I've pretty much used only Google for the last... um, however many years it's been since they came on the scene. I won't claim to have used it when they were still hosted at stanford.edu, but I heard about them early on (back when they had , probably from Slashdot, and I was impressed right away. I probably stopped using Yahoo altogether within a couple months.
If you're in Vegas, Hoover Dam, while not a museum per se, is pretty damn awesome and worth the short drive. And speaking of nukes, as long as you're out in the middle of nowhere, consider White Sands in New Mexico. And as long as you're in that part of the country, there's also Meteor Crater in Arizona. Neither are museums but both have high geek-value. Or, if I wanted to get snootier-than-thou, I'd point out that not all of the best things are in museums.
Exactly. Bullshit laws like this and "You can't live within 500 miles of a school" get passed, yet "life offenders" (aka "murderers") come out of jail every day and resume their lives just like any other felon. Out-fucking-standing.
When the time comes, we'll need to add a fourth law of robotics: Stop fingering my wife!
And ad servers are SLOW. When I'm surfing on a machine that doesn't have adblocking and a page is loading slow, I look at the status indicator and invariably it's waiting for ads or google analytics. Which is why I block both on any machine I have access to.
If you RTFA, it says the app wasn't approved until the 'objectionable' words were removed from the dictionary.
Yeah, objectionable words like "screw" and "snatch." Yes, really. And even with all the "bad" words gone (actual bad words, like "fuck", and pretend bad words, like "screw") they STILL get a 17+ rating. WTF?!? Apple is REALLY being retarded on this one.
I'll give Apple the benefit of the doubt and assume that the 17+ rating was a dadaist statement on literacy and education in 21st century America.
Nice one. :-)
One way to attack this: copyright infringement. This image that they serve up to Safari users is, according to Photoshop, identical to file:///Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/compass.icns which is surely copyrighted by Apple. This won't necessarily shut them down but it would draw some attention and maybe hurt them financially a bit.