First of all, Premiums Are Not Subsidies. The spanish government doesn't pay a single penny for renewable energy (it doesn't even concedes loans to companys, like Obama is doing). The money for renewable energy isn't paid from taxpayer's money, so cutting premiums can't return back even a single Euro to the government. So it has not sense to claim that premiums are being cutted because of public debt issues because renewable premiums aren't paid with public debt, they are paid by the companies that distribute (but don't generate) the power, and they are quite low (2c€/KWh).
Second, our anual government budget for this year is 350000€ millions. The premiums cut has been of 1300€ millions. That's a 0.003%. The total amount of premiums paid in 2009 to renewable energy before the cut was (according to the Industry minister) 6000€ millions. That's a 0.017% of our 2010 public budget. Hardly a problem even if was paid with public money (which it wasn't)
Phone 7 is in many ways a new mobile operative system, it doesn't even run software from old windows mobile versions (and you can't port your old C++ programs because native code programs are forbidden/restricted to big partners). So it's not surprising to find big differences with windows mobile. Wikipedia says it doesn't even support a socket API.
They could do this if Windows wasn't a crappy product that has a browser tightly with the OS. Firefox (and many other sane software) can have multiple versions installed and used at the same time (the Firefox Portable Edition for example). But due to the way IE is "designed", somehow it needs to be "integrated" to work properly. That's why trying a IE beta is such pain, you are forced to get rid of your stable version and keep a unstable version that can break multiple things.
It's mainly Xen who is trying to get Xen supported in Fedora 13, more than the contrary. If the Xen guys manage to get Xen merged in the kernel Fedora probably won't have problems enabling it or offering alternative packages to use it. But KVM is still the focus.
RPM is much faster these days, but yum (well, interpreted python) is still slow, and it doesn't handle dependencies like APT can do. However it has several nice features that were easy to implement in yum and that apt systems still lack. Delta updates are used by default, for example. And with a plugin you can get transactional upgrades in Btrfs or LVM. The Yum utils are also quite powerful. I also like that yum can do almost-everything while in.deb systems you need to use apt-get, apt-cache, dpkg and others (or use aptitude, which is another layer). After 8 years of APT, I didn't miss it when I migrated to Fedora 12.
I don't think Apple "wants" to enforce anything. Apple probably doesn't gives a fuck about codecs, but they need to ship products with decent video (that means H.264, at least until now) and be sure that they won't be sued. That means you need to follow the MPEG-LA rules. That's why Apple is there, much like mobile manufacturers have patent pools to use GSM safely.
Well, googletv is able to do more things than what I do with my computer hooked up to my TV. You can google for tv shows, choose the best choice, press a button, and googletv will sintonize the channel automatically (or show a GUI to record the show in the future). Goodbye, channel numbers! I don't know if there're other "media centers" that can do this, but it looked pretty amazing to me.
Obviously, Btrfs also does volume management without LVM. It even manages to do better than ZFS in some areas, for example Btrfs can reduce the pool capacity easily thanks to back references (a new and cool fs technique which is being incorporated to Btrfs), whereas ZFS still can't reduce the capacity of a pool and it will take a lot of complexity to implement it (you really should read the link)
Indeed. Btrfs is still making disk format changes. They aren't very serious, but hey, they are there. Not a sign of stability, no matter how much cheksumming you throw at it.
You also must notice that Virtualbox has a couple of proprietary features that are only available if you pay them: Support for USB and RDP. This is the typical Sun open source business model, open source it but require copyright assignment to all external code contributions, so that Sun can release an alternative version with propietary addons (which even the external contributors have to pay for)
According to the person who found it, this iPhone was running iPhone OS 4.0 before the iPhone 4.0 announcement. The person was able to play with it and see the iPhone 4.0 features. Then, Apple remotely killed the phone before we got access to it. We were unable to restore [...]
Is Red Hat profitable? Sure. But they're not anywhere near as profitable or successful as Oracle has been
Sure, but IMO that's an advantage of open source. The most profitable way of selling software is propietary software. But that's only an advantage if you are a bussines man trying to get as much money as you can from your customers. But your customers have a very different POV, and they probably love Red Hat because it provides a huge value to the IT world with few monetary resources. Red Hat will never make as much money as Microsoft or Oracle does, but that doesn't mean they aren't succesful.
"Fat binaries" are just a tar-like file with binaries of several architectures. It's not rocket science. Apple needs such things because of the way they make their machines, but Linux has supported multiple architectures for a long time, and has fixed it in the package manager.
It's horrible. I'd like my framework methods to b less than 30 characters long, please. Sorry to promote MS here, but I happen to like method names like OnInit and OnLoad.
So those reasons (and the MVC pattern) are the strongest you have to think that Cocoa is "god-awful"?
Suse will also support KVM in SLES11 SP1 and expects that long term it will "become equivalent to Xen". Ubuntu and Fedora also support KVM. Xen doesn't care about what distros do (they don't care about getting all their code merged in mainline either), they seem to think that they can ignore what mainstream OSes do, just like VMWare. I suppose they will die some day, I'm not using third party software if I can get the same funcionality with the OS.
A big problem here is the fact that we still don't know why Irak is under attack, besides Saddam being a dictator and being supposedly able to attack USA. Yes, things like this happen in a war, but in the case of Iraq this is just another nail in the coffin. Americans are tired of this stupid war, the world is tired of this stupid war.
The license don't matter in this case. Even if Opensolaris was 100% GPL, Oracle still would release Solaris with propietary addons. They can do that because they own the copyright (if you want to get a patch into the opensolaris repositories, you need to give first your copyrights with Sun/Oracle). The license doesn't matter to them. Sun/Oracle can release propietary versions of Solaris, but nobody else can - that's the sad truth behind Sun's "open source".
I don't think we are going to go back anymore to the old days of client-side apps. There's a big difference today, the growing ubiquity of network access. Decades ago we didn't have internet (or it was crappy, slow and too inexpensive), every once in a while a new computer generation focused in client-side software because networks didn't really matter that much. With the ubiquity of internet I don't think we we'll see that again. We are starting to see MB/s of internet bandwith, it won't be too long until we have bandwith comparable to what local IDE DMA disks could offer in 2000.
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First of all, Premiums Are Not Subsidies. The spanish government doesn't pay a single penny for renewable energy (it doesn't even concedes loans to companys, like Obama is doing). The money for renewable energy isn't paid from taxpayer's money, so cutting premiums can't return back even a single Euro to the government. So it has not sense to claim that premiums are being cutted because of public debt issues because renewable premiums aren't paid with public debt, they are paid by the companies that distribute (but don't generate) the power, and they are quite low (2c€/KWh).
Second, our anual government budget for this year is 350000€ millions. The premiums cut has been of 1300€ millions. That's a 0.003%. The total amount of premiums paid in 2009 to renewable energy before the cut was (according to the Industry minister) 6000€ millions. That's a 0.017% of our 2010 public budget. Hardly a problem even if was paid with public money (which it wasn't)
Well, it isn't violating more patents than the H.264 codebase itself....
IE6 has approximatedly a 10% of browser share, and it's falling quickly. Why bother.
Not surprising, at least, Gmail has a scroll bar. I mean, a real scrollbar, which apparently they are not cool enought for Wave.
Phone 7 is in many ways a new mobile operative system, it doesn't even run software from old windows mobile versions (and you can't port your old C++ programs because native code programs are forbidden/restricted to big partners). So it's not surprising to find big differences with windows mobile. Wikipedia says it doesn't even support a socket API.
They could do this if Windows wasn't a crappy product that has a browser tightly with the OS. Firefox (and many other sane software) can have multiple versions installed and used at the same time (the Firefox Portable Edition for example). But due to the way IE is "designed", somehow it needs to be "integrated" to work properly. That's why trying a IE beta is such pain, you are forced to get rid of your stable version and keep a unstable version that can break multiple things.
It's mainly Xen who is trying to get Xen supported in Fedora 13, more than the contrary. If the Xen guys manage to get Xen merged in the kernel Fedora probably won't have problems enabling it or offering alternative packages to use it. But KVM is still the focus.
RPM is much faster these days, but yum (well, interpreted python) is still slow, and it doesn't handle dependencies like APT can do. However it has several nice features that were easy to implement in yum and that apt systems still lack. Delta updates are used by default, for example. And with a plugin you can get transactional upgrades in Btrfs or LVM. The Yum utils are also quite powerful. I also like that yum can do almost-everything while in .deb systems you need to use apt-get, apt-cache, dpkg and others (or use aptitude, which is another layer). After 8 years of APT, I didn't miss it when I migrated to Fedora 12.
I don't think Apple "wants" to enforce anything. Apple probably doesn't gives a fuck about codecs, but they need to ship products with decent video (that means H.264, at least until now) and be sure that they won't be sued. That means you need to follow the MPEG-LA rules. That's why Apple is there, much like mobile manufacturers have patent pools to use GSM safely.
Well, googletv is able to do more things than what I do with my computer hooked up to my TV. You can google for tv shows, choose the best choice, press a button, and googletv will sintonize the channel automatically (or show a GUI to record the show in the future). Goodbye, channel numbers! I don't know if there're other "media centers" that can do this, but it looked pretty amazing to me.
Obviously, Btrfs also does volume management without LVM. It even manages to do better than ZFS in some areas, for example Btrfs can reduce the pool capacity easily thanks to back references (a new and cool fs technique which is being incorporated to Btrfs), whereas ZFS still can't reduce the capacity of a pool and it will take a lot of complexity to implement it (you really should read the link)
Indeed. Btrfs is still making disk format changes. They aren't very serious, but hey, they are there. Not a sign of stability, no matter how much cheksumming you throw at it.
You also must notice that Virtualbox has a couple of proprietary features that are only available if you pay them: Support for USB and RDP. This is the typical Sun open source business model, open source it but require copyright assignment to all external code contributions, so that Sun can release an alternative version with propietary addons (which even the external contributors have to pay for)
Fedora 11, i think.
According to the person who found it, this iPhone was running iPhone OS 4.0 before the iPhone 4.0 announcement. The person was able to play with it and see the iPhone 4.0 features. Then, Apple remotely killed the phone before we got access to it. We were unable to restore [...]
It doesn't sounds like marketing to me.
Is Red Hat profitable? Sure. But they're not anywhere near as profitable or successful as Oracle has been
Sure, but IMO that's an advantage of open source. The most profitable way of selling software is propietary software. But that's only an advantage if you are a bussines man trying to get as much money as you can from your customers. But your customers have a very different POV, and they probably love Red Hat because it provides a huge value to the IT world with few monetary resources. Red Hat will never make as much money as Microsoft or Oracle does, but that doesn't mean they aren't succesful.
"Fat binaries" are just a tar-like file with binaries of several architectures. It's not rocket science. Apple needs such things because of the way they make their machines, but Linux has supported multiple architectures for a long time, and has fixed it in the package manager.
What if the new google docs is faster and has desktop-like performance?
It's horrible. I'd like my framework methods to b less than 30 characters long, please. Sorry to promote MS here, but I happen to like method names like OnInit and OnLoad.
So those reasons (and the MVC pattern) are the strongest you have to think that Cocoa is "god-awful"?
Suse will also support KVM in SLES11 SP1 and expects that long term it will "become equivalent to Xen". Ubuntu and Fedora also support KVM. Xen doesn't care about what distros do (they don't care about getting all their code merged in mainline either), they seem to think that they can ignore what mainstream OSes do, just like VMWare. I suppose they will die some day, I'm not using third party software if I can get the same funcionality with the OS.
Red hat will not support Itanium in RHEL6. So that 85% will be a 100% in the future.
A big problem here is the fact that we still don't know why Irak is under attack, besides Saddam being a dictator and being supposedly able to attack USA. Yes, things like this happen in a war, but in the case of Iraq this is just another nail in the coffin. Americans are tired of this stupid war, the world is tired of this stupid war.
The license don't matter in this case. Even if Opensolaris was 100% GPL, Oracle still would release Solaris with propietary addons. They can do that because they own the copyright (if you want to get a patch into the opensolaris repositories, you need to give first your copyrights with Sun/Oracle). The license doesn't matter to them. Sun/Oracle can release propietary versions of Solaris, but nobody else can - that's the sad truth behind Sun's "open source".
I don't think we are going to go back anymore to the old days of client-side apps. There's a big difference today, the growing ubiquity of network access. Decades ago we didn't have internet (or it was crappy, slow and too inexpensive), every once in a while a new computer generation focused in client-side software because networks didn't really matter that much. With the ubiquity of internet I don't think we we'll see that again. We are starting to see MB/s of internet bandwith, it won't be too long until we have bandwith comparable to what local IDE DMA disks could offer in 2000.
I wouldn't say that Mono sucks. It's certainly behind .NET, but it's not the average crappy FOSS clone.