Opera ist pretty awsome. If the best browser would win, then we would have more Opera installations than Firefox. So Safari will get users, because of marketing.
Look at the license of the libs you want to link to, not the underlying OS. You can run and sell Linux with your code if the program simply runs on top of the operating system. There are many, many people selling servers with Linux and proprietary programs combined. But when you link (especially statically) into libs, it doesn't matter if you run Windows, BSD or Linux.
But I get the feeling that this is too simple and you might have wanted to know something different. Please comment.
Most likely you would have gotten better results if you would have spent less, alas have better acountability. If you would have spent $120B my guess is that you would have another war like Iraq at the same time, because all that money needs to be spent. And if not on spying on a new enemy on what else? And that new enemy has to be fought as well. After all you have to justify that huge budget.
Actually half your points are "conspiracy theory". That is really bad, because it makes dismissing your comment very easy, after all you are just a nutty conspiracy theorist. Maybe half of the conspiracy nutty half have some truth to them, but they are not common knowledge.
The real point is that the West (including the US) has always been dealing with the devil and keeping a delicate balance between doing small "bad" for the greater good and doing good (and sometimes forgettig what that greater good was and doing only bad). So when Bush comes around talking about good and evil I have no clue why he is not thrown into rehab immediatly.
I mean seriously, what are US voters smoking? Other leaders also tell a lot of BS, but not even remotely as much as W.
Should the GPL force the device makers to make it possible for everyone to open up and hack the devices, or should it merely force them to open the code, so you can recreate the device with you own hardware.
After all you can use GPL code to lock the device down. Just make it only accept signed patches only through secure channels.
Actually, although I am very much opposed to stupid politics like kidnapping and such stuff, it would change nothing about the attackers of 9/11. Those nutjobs were religious zealots, they don't care about politics. They just attacked the freedom. And they very much succeeded. Guantanamo and that kinda stuff is exactly the opposite of the freedom we are supposed to stand for. And it wouldn't have been possible without the attacks.
The terrorists have won. Freedom was defeated. We can go home now.
Apart from that it might reduce the support infrastructure of terrorists if the USA gained their good image back. Because people would maybe fret on those nutjobs instead of thinking "They will hit the right guys". Though I really don't know how many years of "good/better" foreign politics it would take now to get that image back.
Linux has more perfomance testing on x86 than OpenSolaris (so you are not as likely to run into a bad bottleneck). On Linux you can create a RAID-1,-4,-5 and -6 under Multiple Device Driver Support in the kernel. You can then use mkraid to include all the drives you want. This code in not new at all. It was stable in 2.4, maybe even in 2.2
After that you just create a filesystem on top of the raid. If you don't like ext3 or don't trust it, there is always xfs. I had some rough times with reiserfs, xfs, and ext3 and for all the experience I had I would go xfs for long running server environments (and now get flamed for this little bit, use ext3 all you want).
The advantage is that you use very well tested code.
The problem comes with hotswapping. I don't know if the drivers are up to that yet. But I also highly doubt that OpenSolaris SATA drivers for some low price chip in a low price storage box can deal with hotswapping. So Linux might be faster on that one.
That is a setup I would compare to a plug'n play SAN solution. And it totally depends on the environment. If the Linux box goes down for some reason for a couple hours/days, how much will that cost you? If it is more than twice the SAN-solution, you might just buy the SAN and if it fails just pull the disks and put them in the new one. I dunno if that would work on Linux.
Actually the heroes were the whole point of the improvement. With it came whole new strategic elements. In a Starcraft match the only thing matters is who can control the most units and hit the most keys per minute (second). In WC3 strategy matters much more. After all it is called a strategy game.
Have you noticed how easy an Ubuntu install has gotten? If someone is really new to computers Ubuntu is MUCH easier to install and set up than Windows.
But:
People that know a little more about computers will know Windows, especially, because people that need to work on their computers will have Windows installed, because most of the time the program that they need to work with (other than office or browsing) will be a Windows product.
So for support that newb has no one to turn to.
Plus: Printers,Webcams,... all the little "toys" newbs want soon after they become not so much newb have Windows stickers on the box.
All that were tested in magazines that I read about were configured badly (you still had to do some stuff to get everything to work) and the modem never worked. Apart from the modem often times other things didn't work either. I hope Dell is different.
By describing the hype around an incident (that is VERY uncommon) where it would be good if more people had guns but in which many people call for tighter restrictions on the sale of guns I simply proved that the vast majority of people are pretty stupid (I wouldn't even exclude myself, since I also proved to myself that I am stupid many times before). Many very stupid people even carry those NRA membership cards.
I agree that stupid people shouldn't handle guns. We are getting somewhere... Let's see where that will lead us, shall we?
I used to think so, but when a friend of mine recently tried...
He is a graphics designer by trade and has Windows at home (he hates Macs, but has to deal with them, because every single designer shop in Germany uses them). He wanted to build something in 3D and tried to install the Windows version. It wouldn't even install due to some Python related problem (Python seems to be for the plugins, but why would it break the basic install anyways?). I tried to help him over the phone and he installed different versions of Python to no avail.
Then I advised him to try the previous version and it didn't work either. There was very little documentation on the web. He uses Windows XP and has nothing out of the ordinary running and uses standard hardware.
I guess not many people tried even installing the Windows version much less use it.
Good thing I use Debian. For most important stuff I need there are responsible maintainers that check the packages bevore uploading and respond to bug reports...
Guns are dagerous. Period. I feel much safer if they are not around. Funny thing is, if a school shooting actually does happen, it is the only time where it would be much safer if more people had guns. But that is the only time that current gun laws are questioned. And then every nut points to the obvious that if someone had a gun they may have had a chance to stop the shooting.
Another proof that people are stupid. And stupid people should not handle guns. Case closed.
I know this might sound strange to you, but some people don't have a machine yet. And some of them get their first machine now from Dell. And if me or a friend or family member would be one of those I would make sure to get Windows XP instead of Vista.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Women have total control over who are their children. Estimates about children in families that are not the biological children of their "dads" range in the 10%, but could be higher.
Scientists now believe that women instinctively choose the best father of their offspring while at the same time trying to get a hold of a "keeper", many times those are not the same person. This also happens with many bird species that were formerly perceived to be mongamic. With modern dna mapping scince got very interesting insights. Large studies with humans obviously have some problems.
I am pretty happy with my Radeon 9550. It has a fairly small passive cooler, so I guess it doesn't produce so much heat and I have
Open
Source
3D
Drivers
I was/am looking at a 7600GT (the version from MSI has a passive cooler that covers the whole front of the card, which was tested to be more effective than the heat pipe solutions), but opens source is so damn convenient, since you don't have to compile extra proprietary modules (it worked pretty well back when I used Nvidia with Debian, but it was always a pita).
Please, please, p l e a s e AMD or Nvidia open up those damn specs.
My dad called me last month and asked me why he couldn't open the pdf telecom bill that was mailed to him. He tried to double click, but it didn't work.
Actually BeOS went down because of the lack of apps. Adobe never ported Photoshop and Steinberg never ported Cubase even though there was talk about both. Maybe a company with a fruit as its logo had something to do with the Photoshop port never coming through, but I dunno, maybe some other Slashdotter can shed some light on the history of BeOS.
With the current free software that rivals proprietary software in both quality and features in many fields and that seems to be made for porting fringe operating systems seem to stand a much better chance. Just look at Ubuntu. Personally I am running Debian as my desktop OS.
Parent may not be right about Access being responsible for the downfall of BeOS, but now, that BeOS actually may have a chance (I heard that Firefox was ported for example) they may be responsible for it never coming back.
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especially in the EU and the US, where we have huge subsidies for farmers to buy herbicides to grow more stuff.
Maybe they will buy the robot to destroy it just like the oil producers buy every car running on water to destroy it.
Opera ist pretty awsome. If the best browser would win, then we would have more Opera installations than Firefox. So Safari will get users, because of marketing.
Look at the license of the libs you want to link to, not the underlying OS. You can run and sell Linux with your code if the program simply runs on top of the operating system. There are many, many people selling servers with Linux and proprietary programs combined. But when you link (especially statically) into libs, it doesn't matter if you run Windows, BSD or Linux.
But I get the feeling that this is too simple and you might have wanted to know something different. Please comment.
Most likely you would have gotten better results if you would have spent less, alas have better acountability. If you would have spent $120B my guess is that you would have another war like Iraq at the same time, because all that money needs to be spent. And if not on spying on a new enemy on what else? And that new enemy has to be fought as well. After all you have to justify that huge budget.
Actually half your points are "conspiracy theory". That is really bad, because it makes dismissing your comment very easy, after all you are just a nutty conspiracy theorist. Maybe half of the conspiracy nutty half have some truth to them, but they are not common knowledge.
The real point is that the West (including the US) has always been dealing with the devil and keeping a delicate balance between doing small "bad" for the greater good and doing good (and sometimes forgettig what that greater good was and doing only bad). So when Bush comes around talking about good and evil I have no clue why he is not thrown into rehab immediatly.
I mean seriously, what are US voters smoking? Other leaders also tell a lot of BS, but not even remotely as much as W.
That's why I use xfs in those environments. I have no idea why ext3 keeps crapping out on those.
Should the GPL force the device makers to make it possible for everyone to open up and hack the devices, or should it merely force them to open the code, so you can recreate the device with you own hardware.
After all you can use GPL code to lock the device down. Just make it only accept signed patches only through secure channels.
Actually, although I am very much opposed to stupid politics like kidnapping and such stuff, it would change nothing about the attackers of 9/11. Those nutjobs were religious zealots, they don't care about politics. They just attacked the freedom. And they very much succeeded. Guantanamo and that kinda stuff is exactly the opposite of the freedom we are supposed to stand for. And it wouldn't have been possible without the attacks.
The terrorists have won. Freedom was defeated. We can go home now.
Apart from that it might reduce the support infrastructure of terrorists if the USA gained their good image back. Because people would maybe fret on those nutjobs instead of thinking "They will hit the right guys". Though I really don't know how many years of "good/better" foreign politics it would take now to get that image back.
Linux has more perfomance testing on x86 than OpenSolaris (so you are not as likely to run into a bad bottleneck). On Linux you can create a RAID-1,-4,-5 and -6 under Multiple Device Driver Support in the kernel. You can then use mkraid to include all the drives you want. This code in not new at all. It was stable in 2.4, maybe even in 2.2
After that you just create a filesystem on top of the raid. If you don't like ext3 or don't trust it, there is always xfs. I had some rough times with reiserfs, xfs, and ext3 and for all the experience I had I would go xfs for long running server environments (and now get flamed for this little bit, use ext3 all you want).
The advantage is that you use very well tested code.
The problem comes with hotswapping. I don't know if the drivers are up to that yet. But I also highly doubt that OpenSolaris SATA drivers for some low price chip in a low price storage box can deal with hotswapping. So Linux might be faster on that one.
That is a setup I would compare to a plug'n play SAN solution. And it totally depends on the environment. If the Linux box goes down for some reason for a couple hours/days, how much will that cost you? If it is more than twice the SAN-solution, you might just buy the SAN and if it fails just pull the disks and put them in the new one. I dunno if that would work on Linux.
If not, why is it on /.?
Why should anyone buy a player that doesn't run Rockbox? www.rockbox.org
Maybe a stick with mp3 build in for 15 bucks. But anything else?
Actually the heroes were the whole point of the improvement. With it came whole new strategic elements. In a Starcraft match the only thing matters is who can control the most units and hit the most keys per minute (second). In WC3 strategy matters much more. After all it is called a strategy game.
Some ppl care about freedom, some don't.
Have you noticed how easy an Ubuntu install has gotten? If someone is really new to computers Ubuntu is MUCH easier to install and set up than Windows.
But:
People that know a little more about computers will know Windows, especially, because people that need to work on their computers will have Windows installed, because most of the time the program that they need to work with (other than office or browsing) will be a Windows product.
So for support that newb has no one to turn to.
Plus: Printers,Webcams,... all the little "toys" newbs want soon after they become not so much newb have Windows stickers on the box.
All that were tested in magazines that I read about were configured badly (you still had to do some stuff to get everything to work) and the modem never worked. Apart from the modem often times other things didn't work either. I hope Dell is different.
By describing the hype around an incident (that is VERY uncommon) where it would be good if more people had guns but in which many people call for tighter restrictions on the sale of guns I simply proved that the vast majority of people are pretty stupid (I wouldn't even exclude myself, since I also proved to myself that I am stupid many times before). Many very stupid people even carry those NRA membership cards.
I agree that stupid people shouldn't handle guns. We are getting somewhere... Let's see where that will lead us, shall we?
I used to think so, but when a friend of mine recently tried...
He is a graphics designer by trade and has Windows at home (he hates Macs, but has to deal with them, because every single designer shop in Germany uses them). He wanted to build something in 3D and tried to install the Windows version. It wouldn't even install due to some Python related problem (Python seems to be for the plugins, but why would it break the basic install anyways?). I tried to help him over the phone and he installed different versions of Python to no avail.
Then I advised him to try the previous version and it didn't work either. There was very little documentation on the web. He uses Windows XP and has nothing out of the ordinary running and uses standard hardware.
I guess not many people tried even installing the Windows version much less use it.
Good thing I use Debian. For most important stuff I need there are responsible maintainers that check the packages bevore uploading and respond to bug reports...
Guns are dagerous. Period. I feel much safer if they are not around. Funny thing is, if a school shooting actually does happen, it is the only time where it would be much safer if more people had guns. But that is the only time that current gun laws are questioned. And then every nut points to the obvious that if someone had a gun they may have had a chance to stop the shooting.
Another proof that people are stupid. And stupid people should not handle guns. Case closed.
I know this might sound strange to you, but some people don't have a machine yet. And some of them get their first machine now from Dell. And if me or a friend or family member would be one of those I would make sure to get Windows XP instead of Vista.
I wouldn't be so sure about that. Women have total control over who are their children. Estimates about children in families that are not the biological children of their "dads" range in the 10%, but could be higher.
Scientists now believe that women instinctively choose the best father of their offspring while at the same time trying to get a hold of a "keeper", many times those are not the same person. This also happens with many bird species that were formerly perceived to be mongamic. With modern dna mapping scince got very interesting insights. Large studies with humans obviously have some problems.
I am pretty happy with my Radeon 9550. It has a fairly small passive cooler, so I guess it doesn't produce so much heat and I have
Open
Source
3D
Drivers
I was/am looking at a 7600GT (the version from MSI has a passive cooler that covers the whole front of the card, which was tested to be more effective than the heat pipe solutions), but opens source is so damn convenient, since you don't have to compile extra proprietary modules (it worked pretty well back when I used Nvidia with Debian, but it was always a pita).
Please, please, p l e a s e AMD or Nvidia open up those damn specs.
36%
Lies, damn lies, statistics...
I am running Firefox on Debian, but let me assure you, I am the only one as far as I can see.
My dad called me last month and asked me why he couldn't open the pdf telecom bill that was mailed to him. He tried to double click, but it didn't work.
Turned out not to be a pdf after all...
Good thing I installed Ubuntu!
Actually BeOS went down because of the lack of apps. Adobe never ported Photoshop and Steinberg never ported Cubase even though there was talk about both. Maybe a company with a fruit as its logo had something to do with the Photoshop port never coming through, but I dunno, maybe some other Slashdotter can shed some light on the history of BeOS.
With the current free software that rivals proprietary software in both quality and features in many fields and that seems to be made for porting fringe operating systems seem to stand a much better chance. Just look at Ubuntu. Personally I am running Debian as my desktop OS.
Parent may not be right about Access being responsible for the downfall of BeOS, but now, that BeOS actually may have a chance (I heard that Firefox was ported for example) they may be responsible for it never coming back.
Yes, that was a good one.
But the guys that modded you Insightful instead of Funny really made my day. I am still snickering writing this post.