The real reason IMO is that USA probably doesn't need to make big investments in high speed. USA is really huge, so the natural choice for transporting passengers are airlines (and once your airlines are optimized for that, it becomes a good choice even for not-so-long trips). For goods, the best/only practical choice is rail (and the USA rail system is really good at that), and in these cases high speed doesn't matter that much. So except for the places where population density is high, high speed in USA doesn't seems that attractive.
Sigh. Of course high speed rail is expensive. So were today's "normal speed" rail lines in the past. China's rail network is really crappy or non existent, so when they decided to improve their rail network, they invested in the latest rail technology - high speed rail. In the case of China, investing in "normal speed rail" (technology from several decades ago) is a waste of time and money. USA and other developed countries have a great "normal speed" rail system, so they don't need to waste huge amounts of money in high speed rail. This is the main reason why China has the largest high speed rail network.
When Clinton was president he passed a law that forbid to sell assault weapons, which Bush let expire in 2004. As soon as it expired, violence and traffic of guns in Mexico increased. Mexico has asked Obama to restore that law, but nobody in Washington seems to care. (or maybe they are trying to avoid annoying to all that people who thinks that the fix to a gun problem is to throw more guns at it)
'VMWare lobby', WTF? The real problem were things like this and this:
The fact is (and this is a _fact_): Xen is a total mess from a development standpoint. I talked about this in private with Jeremy. Xen pollutes the architecture code in ways that NO OTHER subsystem does. And I have never EVER seen the Xen developers really acknowledge that and try to fix it.
Thomas pointed to patches that add _explicitly_ Xen-related special cases that aren't even trying to make sense. See the local apic thing.
So quite frankly, I wish some of the Xen people looked themselves in the mirror, and then asked themselves "would _I_ merge something ugly like that, if it was filling my subsystem with totally unrelated hacks for some other crap"?
Seriously.
If it was just the local APIC, fine. But it may be just the local APIC code this time around, next time it will be something else. It's been TLB, it's been entry_*.S, it's been all over. Some of them are performance issues.
I dunno. I just do know that I pointed out the statistics for how mindlessly incestuous the Xen patches have historically been to Jeremy. He admitted it. I've not seen _anybody_ say that things will improve.
Xen has been painful. If you give maintainers pain, don't expect them to love you or respect you.
So I would really suggest that Xen people should look at _why_ they are giving maintainers so much pain.
Linus
BTW, I have absolutely no doubt that NetBSD and Solaris merged Xen faster than anyone else.
For me, Bill Gates is the symbol of the dynamic (and yes, also monopolist) Microsoft that got his OS on every personal computing device on earth. He was part of the Microsoft that was able kill any competitor cloning his software and improving it until it was the best choice, even if the tech was not the best. The most close thing these days is Google's Chrome (yes, IMO the tech under it -Javascript/DOM- is crap)
Plans to make QT a real community project already existed before Stephen Elop was made CEO of Nokia. And I would be very happy to see 3rd parties developing big chunks of QT - that would mean it can survive without Nokia.
"Web sites and HTML5 run best when they run natively, on a browser optimized for the operating system on your device," said Hachamovitch. "We built IE9 from the ground up for HTML5 and for Windows to deliver the most native HTML5 experience and the best Web experience on Windows".
Translation: IE only runs in Windows, so it's better. In fact, IE is so native that it doesn't support Webgl. Take that, Firefox and Chrome!
It is not "that bad" because I can use it, even if I don't enjoy it. It feels similar to Windows, I can use it, but I would prefer not to. What I mean is that it's not going to be a major obstacle for gnome users, only annoying (of course, for many geeks "annoying" is a big problem)
Gnome shell is not that bad. It has at least one good thing, it is not confusing. The user always know where he can find things and how to operate the desktop. But it is very, very annoying, it imposes a determined behaviour, and you can't escape from it. Either you surrender to it, or you hate it.
As I said in other post, it wouldn't be that bad if it was configurable, I could configure it to make it work as I want. But developers seem to think that alternative use cases shouldn't be allowed.
100% agree. IMO, gnome shell wouldn't be that bad if it was configurable, but users aren't allowed to configure anything. My feed reader has a systray icon with a number that tells me the number of unread posts. With a traditional desktop the systray icon is always visible and I know if I have unread posts, but gnome-shell decided that the systray must be an extra lower panel that hides automatically. The upper panel has a lot of unused space 100% of the time, and the systray could be put there, but configuring things is not allowed in the default configuration. Even the accesibility icon can't be removed.
Now I understand why Linus called them "interface nazis". Gnome shell makes OS X look like a OS for geeks.
I have been reading about firefox leaks for years, yet I have never seen them. I have always thought it must be a problem with some configurations, or a myth/antifirefox propaganda.
Actually, it didn't. All the polls were predicting a solid Greens+SPD victory months before this disaster happened.
Also, Merkel and the german conservative party is anti-nuclear - they only differ with the progressive parties in how fast the reactors must be shut down, but they agree with them that Germany must not build more reactors.
fewer of their patches will be incorporated upstream
Red Hat already submits all their stuff to mainline. They do it themselves, and they do it in advance, before they incorporate it to their product. How they pack their.SRPMs does not affect to how they upstream their code.
Oracle isn't going to have much trouble reverse-engineering the patches back out,
I doubt it.
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That doesn't explain why it wasn't designed to replace generators or provide alternative power sources quickly. It amazes me that it took so many days to solve it, and they needed to install a new 1.5 kilometers long cable. Which was hard and took several days, because there was too many radiation in some reactors.
Why aren't all reactors required to have a 1.5 km emergency cable? Why they pretend that prevention will always work?
B.A.T.M.A.N. mesh protocol (which helps to provide network connectivity in the presence of natural disasters, military conflicts or Internet censorship)
Looking at what happened recently in Japan, Lybia or Egypt...it seems a feature that I would like to have in my system. Just in case...
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The real reason IMO is that USA probably doesn't need to make big investments in high speed. USA is really huge, so the natural choice for transporting passengers are airlines (and once your airlines are optimized for that, it becomes a good choice even for not-so-long trips). For goods, the best/only practical choice is rail (and the USA rail system is really good at that), and in these cases high speed doesn't matter that much. So except for the places where population density is high, high speed in USA doesn't seems that attractive.
Sigh. Of course high speed rail is expensive. So were today's "normal speed" rail lines in the past. China's rail network is really crappy or non existent, so when they decided to improve their rail network, they invested in the latest rail technology - high speed rail. In the case of China, investing in "normal speed rail" (technology from several decades ago) is a waste of time and money. USA and other developed countries have a great "normal speed" rail system, so they don't need to waste huge amounts of money in high speed rail. This is the main reason why China has the largest high speed rail network.
Prohibitions are a problem? Actually, i think the "right to bear arms" is one of the main issues. 70% of the guns used by narcos come from USA.
When Clinton was president he passed a law that forbid to sell assault weapons, which Bush let expire in 2004. As soon as it expired, violence and traffic of guns in Mexico increased. Mexico has asked Obama to restore that law, but nobody in Washington seems to care. (or maybe they are trying to avoid annoying to all that people who thinks that the fix to a gun problem is to throw more guns at it)
'VMWare lobby', WTF? The real problem were things like this and this:
The fact is (and this is a _fact_): Xen is a total mess from a development
standpoint. I talked about this in private with Jeremy. Xen pollutes the
architecture code in ways that NO OTHER subsystem does. And I have never
EVER seen the Xen developers really acknowledge that and try to fix it.
Thomas pointed to patches that add _explicitly_ Xen-related special cases
that aren't even trying to make sense. See the local apic thing.
So quite frankly, I wish some of the Xen people looked themselves in the
mirror, and then asked themselves "would _I_ merge something ugly like
that, if it was filling my subsystem with totally unrelated hacks for some
other crap"?
Seriously.
If it was just the local APIC, fine. But it may be just the local APIC
code this time around, next time it will be something else. It's been TLB,
it's been entry_*.S, it's been all over. Some of them are performance
issues.
I dunno. I just do know that I pointed out the statistics for how
mindlessly incestuous the Xen patches have historically been to Jeremy. He
admitted it. I've not seen _anybody_ say that things will improve.
Xen has been painful. If you give maintainers pain, don't expect them to
love you or respect you.
So I would really suggest that Xen people should look at _why_ they are
giving maintainers so much pain.
Linus
BTW, I have absolutely no doubt that NetBSD and Solaris merged Xen faster than anyone else.
Microsoft is the small fish here.
...QT continues developing announcing cool features, like the QML scene graph (post from today)
Ray Ozzie? The guy who created Lotus Notes and recently tried to re-create it using RSS?
For me, Bill Gates is the symbol of the dynamic (and yes, also monopolist) Microsoft that got his OS on every personal computing device on earth. He was part of the Microsoft that was able kill any competitor cloning his software and improving it until it was the best choice, even if the tech was not the best. The most close thing these days is Google's Chrome (yes, IMO the tech under it -Javascript/DOM- is crap)
In fact, Osama had two wifes living with him. He didn't "need" porn.
Plans to make QT a real community project already existed before Stephen Elop was made CEO of Nokia. And I would be very happy to see 3rd parties developing big chunks of QT - that would mean it can survive without Nokia.
Ubuntu could have become the de-facto linux system for phones and tablets, but Android was faster.
This is a minor release...
KDE has not followed that path, and at the same time they have fixed most of the UI annoyances of KDE 3.X.
"Web sites and HTML5 run best when they run natively, on a browser optimized for the operating system on your device," said Hachamovitch. "We built IE9 from the ground up for HTML5 and for Windows to deliver the most native HTML5 experience and the best Web experience on Windows".
Translation: IE only runs in Windows, so it's better. In fact, IE is so native that it doesn't support Webgl. Take that, Firefox and Chrome!
I'm afraid you are wrong. I wish Gnome 3 would look and feel like OS X.
Compared to Gnome 3, OS X is a OS for geeks that love to change settings and personalize their desktops.
It is not "that bad" because I can use it, even if I don't enjoy it. It feels similar to Windows, I can use it, but I would prefer not to. What I mean is that it's not going to be a major obstacle for gnome users, only annoying (of course, for many geeks "annoying" is a big problem)
Gnome shell is not that bad. It has at least one good thing, it is not confusing. The user always know where he can find things and how to operate the desktop. But it is very, very annoying, it imposes a determined behaviour, and you can't escape from it. Either you surrender to it, or you hate it.
As I said in other post, it wouldn't be that bad if it was configurable, I could configure it to make it work as I want. But developers seem to think that alternative use cases shouldn't be allowed.
100% agree. IMO, gnome shell wouldn't be that bad if it was configurable, but users aren't allowed to configure anything. My feed reader has a systray icon with a number that tells me the number of unread posts. With a traditional desktop the systray icon is always visible and I know if I have unread posts, but gnome-shell decided that the systray must be an extra lower panel that hides automatically. The upper panel has a lot of unused space 100% of the time, and the systray could be put there, but configuring things is not allowed in the default configuration. Even the accesibility icon can't be removed.
Now I understand why Linus called them "interface nazis". Gnome shell makes OS X look like a OS for geeks.
I have been reading about firefox leaks for years, yet I have never seen them. I have always thought it must be a problem with some configurations, or a myth/antifirefox propaganda.
Actually, it didn't. All the polls were predicting a solid Greens+SPD victory months before this disaster happened.
Also, Merkel and the german conservative party is anti-nuclear - they only differ with the progressive parties in how fast the reactors must be shut down, but they agree with them that Germany must not build more reactors.
fewer of their patches will be incorporated upstream
Red Hat already submits all their stuff to mainline. They do it themselves, and they do it in advance, before they incorporate it to their product. How they pack their .SRPMs does not affect to how they upstream their code.
Oracle isn't going to have much trouble reverse-engineering the patches back out,
I doubt it.
Try updating your graphic driver, it can fix it.
The iPad is a tablet, but not all tablets are iPads!
Where is my cookie?
That doesn't explain why it wasn't designed to replace generators or provide alternative power sources quickly. It amazes me that it took so many days to solve it, and they needed to install a new 1.5 kilometers long cable. Which was hard and took several days, because there was too many radiation in some reactors.
Why aren't all reactors required to have a 1.5 km emergency cable? Why they pretend that prevention will always work?
B.A.T.M.A.N. mesh protocol (which helps to provide network connectivity in the presence of natural disasters, military conflicts or Internet censorship)
Looking at what happened recently in Japan, Lybia or Egypt...it seems a feature that I would like to have in my system. Just in case...