What they are saying is that they don't want to bother testing their products any more and they are looking for suckers who will do their work for them.
There's a difference between allow and support. Allow means "go ahead, but we won't support you". Most of these appliances have a Windows setup disk for the truly disinclined, but mostly you can just ignore all that and fire up a web browser. The setup disk makes support a lot easier. Some devices require use of the setup disk and that's a problem.
I don't think that making a nice autorun setup disk is as well-defined a procedure on Linux as it is on Windows or OSX, especially if you want it to run on SuSE, RedHat, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. "automagically". LSB is nice and all, but it doesn't go far enough.
Having some sort of semi-automatic Internet install is nice, but it doesn't work for the person who buys a nifty laptop kerjigger on the road and wants to use it right now without messing with the Internet, especially if it's a network connectivity device.
I mess with VMware images a lot for work. Suspending and unsuspending them makes my raid-0 setup work really hard, the amount of data being transferred is very large. On my laptop, VMware suspends feel like they're writing to floppy disk. This drive would make a tremendous difference. They should make them in laptop form factors, too; this makes laptops actually usable for some tasks.
I've always felt that MS Access is a really shitty implementation of a really good idea. Yes, it was backed by an SQL database, but you can do spreadsheet stuff, too, and behind the scenes you could tie it all together and make it look nice. Another nice feature is that managers, with no programming experience and just a bit of SQL knowledge, can create and generate their own reports without having to bother a developer. Alas, the SQL engine has many fatal flaws, the scripting language is junk, and the GUI is just too quirky and weird. The report stuff is pretty nice, though.
Unfortunately nobody else has ever tried to do it right. The pieces are all out there, but they're not integrated.
I may be a diehard Red Sox fan, but I still cheer when a Yankee makes a good play.
This is an example of that new Quality stuff that Microsoft just invented. This new Quality thing is sooo cooool that it removes the need for any kind of regression testing. We can look forward to more Quality in the future from Microsoft as they decide to not bother testing more and more of their products.
Give it a break. Everyone with half a brain, Intel included, knows that the P4 architecture was a stupid idea. Intel dropped it a long time ago, why don't you? Maybe you should invest a little pwoer in a spell checker.
Even if a compiler generates miserably inefficient code, it is valuable if the code is correct. It ia a valuable tool to use for the verification of other compilers. It can also be used as part of a compiler bootstrapping process. Since its code size is probably a small fraction of GCC's, it may make a better teaching tool. If people are actually going to use it, given that it must coexist in a world with much more mature compilers, it will itself probably become much more mature in a relatively short period of time. GCC currently has no competitors in the free realm and has suffered from neglect in the past. A little competition may keep the developers on their toes and prevent another egcs.
Because you didn't read the article! Laser record scanners have to spin the record around, this one scans it in place, so you can scan broken records or old Edison cylinders.
When the Comcast installer came to my house, we used my Mac to set up the service. IE was required. I didn't have it installed, so we had to go through some song-and-dance to get a connection going so we could download it. The installer was a nice guy, but he was surprised that everyone didn't just use IE. He seemed genuinely surprised that any other browsers even existed. I deleted it as soon as we were done.
Now that Microsoft has discontinued IE for the Mac, what's to be done?
Their low-end phone is $20 and it's just a phone. No camera, no MP3, no contract. The buttons are raised and tactile, unlike many more expensive phones. Reception is not great, but what do you want for $20?
Mine went through the washer and I just bought another for $20 and transferred the number.
Is on a guy who comes into your house, rifles through all your stuff, and suggests what you should buy. Of course, his integrity is not to be questioned.
Your vision is a common one. This is precisely why there is an Open Office file format. They reached out to the community to get input from everyone on an inclusive format, rich enough for ever everyone's needs. Microsoft was invited to make contributions but they declined. They saw the inherent threat and replied with a "standard" of their own. It's a total botch-up and everyone with half a brain knows that. So now they will switch to their play-nice-but-screw-it-up angle that they've done with every other standard that they've come across.
There are plenty of licenses out there. Don't like GPL? Fine, don't play in their sandbox. BSD has a nice place to play, too, and you can keep your toys if you want. You might get a little lonely, though.
It's funny with people: you threaten to take away their donuts and their soda, and they get all riled up, but you take away their civil liberties, and they don't seem to care very much.
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I find leaks in my bicycle tubes with soap and water. Why don't they spray soap all over it and look for the bubbles?
What they are saying is that they don't want to bother testing their products any more and they are looking for suckers who will do their work for them.
No fly, jump good!
There's a difference between allow and support. Allow means "go ahead, but we won't support you". Most of these appliances have a Windows setup disk for the truly disinclined, but mostly you can just ignore all that and fire up a web browser. The setup disk makes support a lot easier. Some devices require use of the setup disk and that's a problem.
I don't think that making a nice autorun setup disk is as well-defined a procedure on Linux as it is on Windows or OSX, especially if you want it to run on SuSE, RedHat, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. "automagically". LSB is nice and all, but it doesn't go far enough.
Having some sort of semi-automatic Internet install is nice, but it doesn't work for the person who buys a nifty laptop kerjigger on the road and wants to use it right now without messing with the Internet, especially if it's a network connectivity device.
I mess with VMware images a lot for work. Suspending and unsuspending them makes my raid-0 setup work really hard, the amount of data being transferred is very large. On my laptop, VMware suspends feel like they're writing to floppy disk. This drive would make a tremendous difference. They should make them in laptop form factors, too; this makes laptops actually usable for some tasks.
I've always felt that MS Access is a really shitty implementation of a really good idea. Yes, it was backed by an SQL database, but you can do spreadsheet stuff, too, and behind the scenes you could tie it all together and make it look nice. Another nice feature is that managers, with no programming experience and just a bit of SQL knowledge, can create and generate their own reports without having to bother a developer. Alas, the SQL engine has many fatal flaws, the scripting language is junk, and the GUI is just too quirky and weird. The report stuff is pretty nice, though.
Unfortunately nobody else has ever tried to do it right. The pieces are all out there, but they're not integrated.
I may be a diehard Red Sox fan, but I still cheer when a Yankee makes a good play.
This is an example of that new Quality stuff that Microsoft just invented. This new Quality thing is sooo cooool that it removes the need for any kind of regression testing. We can look forward to more Quality in the future from Microsoft as they decide to not bother testing more and more of their products.
No they didn't. They gave it back. Blackwater is still operating in Iraq. Read today's paper, not yesterday's.
If you don't need a permit in Iraq, why would you need one on the moon?
I agree totally. "FewerWatts" sounds like something that is immediately followed by "Nerd alert! Nerd alert!"
Give it a break. Everyone with half a brain, Intel included, knows that the P4 architecture was a stupid idea. Intel dropped it a long time ago, why don't you? Maybe you should invest a little pwoer in a spell checker.
I'm looking at Volume 3, X Windows System User's Guide, on my bookshelf, right now, and it's most certainly red.
Sun gets bad press for not developing free software...
Sun gets bad press for developing free software...
Tough crowd.
Even if a compiler generates miserably inefficient code, it is valuable if the code is correct. It ia a valuable tool to use for the verification of other compilers. It can also be used as part of a compiler bootstrapping process. Since its code size is probably a small fraction of GCC's, it may make a better teaching tool. If people are actually going to use it, given that it must coexist in a world with much more mature compilers, it will itself probably become much more mature in a relatively short period of time. GCC currently has no competitors in the free realm and has suffered from neglect in the past. A little competition may keep the developers on their toes and prevent another egcs.
Because you didn't read the article! Laser record scanners have to spin the record around, this one scans it in place, so you can scan broken records or old Edison cylinders.
When the Comcast installer came to my house, we used my Mac to set up the service. IE was required. I didn't have it installed, so we had to go through some song-and-dance to get a connection going so we could download it. The installer was a nice guy, but he was surprised that everyone didn't just use IE. He seemed genuinely surprised that any other browsers even existed. I deleted it as soon as we were done.
Now that Microsoft has discontinued IE for the Mac, what's to be done?
Their low-end phone is $20 and it's just a phone. No camera, no MP3, no contract. The buttons are raised and tactile, unlike many more expensive phones. Reception is not great, but what do you want for $20?
Mine went through the washer and I just bought another for $20 and transferred the number.
Is on a guy who comes into your house, rifles through all your stuff, and suggests what you should buy. Of course, his integrity is not to be questioned.
Your vision is a common one. This is precisely why there is an Open Office file format. They reached out to the community to get input from everyone on an inclusive format, rich enough for ever everyone's needs. Microsoft was invited to make contributions but they declined. They saw the inherent threat and replied with a "standard" of their own. It's a total botch-up and everyone with half a brain knows that. So now they will switch to their play-nice-but-screw-it-up angle that they've done with every other standard that they've come across.
He should have been using cubic zirconias instead of diamonds in that Batman movie.
There are plenty of licenses out there. Don't like GPL? Fine, don't play in their sandbox. BSD has a nice place to play, too, and you can keep your toys if you want. You might get a little lonely, though.
Exactly.
"We don't let people bring shotguns to work, but pistols are okay".
It's funny with people: you threaten to take away their donuts and their soda, and they get all riled up, but you take away their civil liberties, and they don't seem to care very much.
and was found slumped dead over a toilet.
Remember before Mozilla was done, everyone used to complain about how crappy Netscape was, and how it really needed lots of work.
Then Mozilla, Galeon, Firefox, etc. came out, and everyone dropped Netscape like a hot stone.
Any work put into making Netscape better was just wasted.
GEGL is not done yet. Perhaps history will repeat itself?