Same reason there are few American cars in Europe; they're made for 2 different worlds.
America is made up of big people, big country, and cheap gas. Japan is pretty much the opposite, smaller people, expensive gas (with some rules on displacement) and not a lot of roads or parking spaces. Japanese cars never sold here until gas was so expensive people would try anything as long as it was cheap. The Japanese then adjusted their cars to american driving styles. The first Japanese mini-vans never sold here, it's gotten 2 or 3 generations to get it right.
The European condition is similar, just not as extreme. All the cars are smaller. The Ford Mondeo died here (as the Contour) because it was too damn small for us USAians, in Europe it's considered pretty big. Here, the Contour was sold as a cheapo Tempo replacement, whereas in Europe it's pretty upmarket. The new Mondeo is actually pretty sweet, sadly not sold here, except in Jaguar X-Type form. The Focus, sold everywhere, is a subcompact here, a pretty normal size car in Europe. Most folks have cars smaller. One advantage to the Focus is that in Europe it's sold more upmarket, so that it's actually much more refined than a typical American subcompact. Sucks that it got a bad rep for the first year recalls (Focus 1.0, wait for 1.01 I guess). In Europe VW sells a smaller version of the Golf called the Gol, because the Golf is too big for most folks.
So the cars are targetted differently, and tend to be very expensive here for the equivalent American car. That and the price for parts makes pretty much only luxury cars worth having here. Peugot doesn't sell really expensive cars, neither does Renault. Renault also got a lot of bad press for the Le Car, which in Europe was the pretty hot R5. Here, it was decontented and eviscerated, and noone wanted it. Same story for the Ford Sierra Cosworth, which came here as the much unloved Merkur XR4Ti.
Phoenix was renamed because Phoenix BIOS began to add browser capabilities, therefore the Phoenix BIOS folks said there may be confusion. I doubt if people will ever think of a Ford Thunderbird as a major browser platform, so there is less of a chance of confusion.
A lot of people think "the Cathedral and the Bazaar" is about OpenSource vs. commercial, when it was pretty much about OpenSource vs. the closed style of a lot of the FSF projects, specifically gcc. gcc development slowed radically after 2.7.2, barely making to 2.8. egcs forked slightly before 2.8, picked the worthwhile stuff from 2.8, and started advancing pretty quickly. So quickly, the "real" gcc never kept up, and essentially died, with the fork becoming the mainline. The GNU jumping out of the egg is from egcs, which was supposed to be pronounced "eggs".
The situations are similar, widely used project going slow, people get frustrated. Some folks worried about a fork, but they should calm down and realize that the project is bound in some respects by standards (ANSI C and C++ in gcc's case, the X protocol in XWin's case) and as long as they follow standards, your stuff will just work.
Not sure what you mean here, anymore than Linux is just a hobby system. Linus doesn't sell anything, it's tken from him and the maintainers and packaged by others.
Commercial support for BSD isn't what it is for Linux, thats true. If thats your only criterion for comparison, I guess it is "hobby", much like Linux was. The reason for this is more accident than anything; Linux didn't have to fight a lawsuit over the UNIX name. Linus himself has said that he would have used BSD if it wasn't encumbered at the time. Instead he made Linux.
FreeBSD does have a longer history. For years it had a better VM, so much so that Linux binaries would run better on FreeBSD under load than on a Linux system. Besides a stabler VM, the scheduler is more mature, and they don't tend to do huge changes in the middle of a stable branch (the VM and scheduler changes in the 2.4 branch) nor did they have a file system corruption bug in a stable branch.
Probably as much a joke as anything, but why would you want to do this? Then you'd still have the copies when things got paged out to, umm, RAM. FreeBSD allows you to compile the kernel for no swap at all. This way you'd have to have everything in RAM (not a problem with too much RAM) and would never try to page.
but what does "-preempt " have to do with this. what does this option do? Int unix always preemtive?
Short answer: Userland processes can always be preempted. This patch allows the kernel to be preempted (as a side effect the kernel also has to be reentrant). It may help some latency issues (don't get blocked in the kernel so much) though decrease overall throughput (more time spent on context switches instead of real work). Not quite usre how it helps massive parallelism, probably allows the kernel to be split more efficiently.
Thats not that suprising, since Itanium is explicitly designed to be backwards compatible with PA-RISC. From the initial drawing on napkins in bars, Itanium was to replace PA-RISC and run HP-UX. They helped design the chips. Itanium II is more HP than Intel design from what I remember. HP actually had 64 bit design experience with PA-RISC and it shows in Itanium II. Carly Fiorina's plan saw R & D as a cost, not an investment, and has essentially killed all R & D and HP will now use commodity parts. Many people think this is a mistake, and now HP is up shit creek because the wanted economies of scale aren't even close to materializing. Itanium the 1st was a dog and though Itanium II is better, it's still workable only with huge megacaches. The whole EPIC thing requires very smart compiler writers, and will take a while before it comes out. People aren't buying them
Oddly enough, HP increased some performance by doing the opposite of EPIC in some PA-RISC chip: instead of forcing parallelism at compile time, there's a dynamic recompilation at runtime where you know what paths you are taking and you can optimize. The Sun compiler can use some runtime data and feed it to the optimizer, but this was happening all in-chip.
Normal American Express really doesn't have a 'credit' limit, it's a charge card. (The Optima is different, a true credit card) You pay your balance every month, or get socked big time with fees. There are charge limits, but even for normal folks like you or me (if I had one) it's already pretty high, because there's lesser of a credit risk. Think less of "using credit cards to stretching your paycheck til the next one comes, and maybe get that big TV over time", more of "OK, either carry one card, or enough cash in my pocket to make one ass cheek 6 inches higher than the other". There's no revolving credit, either you pay it off in a month, or they sic dogs on you.
This is one of the reasons AmEx isn't as accepted. AmEx can't make money on interest, so they charge retailers a bit more than Visa or MasterCard do. Retailers given a choice of paying more or less, tend to pick paying less and don't use Amex unless their clientele really demands it.
There are some differences based on levels, but by the time you get past gold there's really no limit, and it's just status. Black cards are given only to big movers and shakers, and more money than God types. I think Russell Simmons has one.
Go Lula! Didn't the US try to interfere with his election somewhat? We were scared of his leftist tendencies; at one time Lula advocated defaulting on all foreign loans to save money on interest payments. This made the US nervous, and subtly implied bad things would happen to the US Brasilian relationship if he was elected. Even so, Lula was elected with the second largest majority in the western hemisphere, 2nd only to Reagan. If you think populations, Brasil is so big that the real competition is still just US/Brasil, but maybe Bush should think of that before he forces the "will of his people" on another people when he didn't even get the popular vote. He won't, but maybe he should.
The thing to realize is, the US has shown many times it is not an advocate of democracy as much as it is for stability in general, and stability of its own interests in particular. The major reason for the Iraq war is not oil, or stopping torture (there are worse regimes, and we turned a blind eye when Iraq was our ally). There was already an Iraqi uprising, we didn't support it, and it got crushed. The war is about projecting American strength to have the world fall in line, and about removing an unstable element in the middle east. Unfortunately, though wanting stability is a good thing, the way the US is going about it is probably a text on how NOT to accomplish this.
The scary thing is, could Mike Hawash be me? I've thought of donating to charities, specifically Islamic ones. I have a decent amount of muslim friends, and I think it's important for the American people to show goodwill to the middle east. Have them have an image of Americans as generous and caring, not the only image be an M16 muzzle flash. I think this is the true future of America in the (hopefully shortlived) diplomacy mess that is the (also hopefully shortlived, PLEASE let there be a strong candidate in 2004) Bush administration.
Will anyone have the cojones to impeach Bush? The man who said his job is upholding the Constitution took the Constitutional power to declare war away from Congress. Don't give me crap about the congressional Resolution. There's congressional resolutions on Elmer Dinkley day and renaming Belgian frites to freedom fries. None mean anything. Congress has the power. Bush took it. Nothing will happen though.
Written by a proud American who feels that the Bush admin is the worst administration in recent memory. Can people seperate loving America and loving the current caretaker? A lot of people, including Bush, can't seem to.
How long has Mac OS supported Firewire? 15 years or something like that? Not 15 years, since the tech's not that old. Considering Apple invented the technology, it's reasonable that they had an implementation fairly quickly. FireWire is actually an Apple trademark, the generic term is IEEE1394.
I seem to recall an article recently that some clocks in Brazil were off becuase the line wasn't up to snuff. I think the power was off so much that some cycles weren't being counted, so the clocks ran way slow.
Then there's the story about the engineering students that noticed their professor never wore a watch, so they rigged something up to the power line to alter its frequency. They ran the clock fast he kept talking faster and faster to keep pace with the clock. I forgot how far they got before he noticed, but from what I remember, they had him compressing the class pretty much.
By every account I've read, most of the Gecko codebase is a mess.
I don't want to sound too harsh, since I haven't contributed any code and while I've only been on a handful of large coding projects and I know what the mess they are, but wasn't this the reason why they ditched the Netscape 5 code? Kind of sad that they lost so much time going from one bad code base to another one, just one thats a mess for a different reason. I do like Mozilla though, been using it regularly since M14, my default browser when it started getting stable around M18. I can't go back to Netscape, and I don't like IE.
Apparently Apache with 2.0.45. Not quite released yet, the home page hasn't been updated. it may not be "officially" released. Probably just priming the mirrors.
Do retailers have to pay a percentage to accept credit card payments?
Yes, depends on the card and accepting bank what the percentages are. American Express is the highest rate, that's why you see fewer shops taking American Express - just more expensive to use. Some gas stations tried to pass this cost on to consumers, they got killed in the marketplace.
Now, just because PayPal is charged money doesn't mean they aren't tacking on additional fees.
Charging money for a week is no different than charging money indefinitely. It's no different for a week, then after it's very different.
Jokes aside, if you charge for a week, you're charging for the early access service. If you charge indefinitely, you're charging for the product. Two very different things. In my state they'd be taxed differently, so the state calls them different.
BitTorrent is a great tool which RedHat can use to get their bandwidth costs under control so they can focus on their core business, whatever that may be.
I think part of their business may be charging for early access to software downloads.
Everyone says "OpenSource is great, no need for charging for software, charge for services". Then RedHat comes out with a value add service - you can download something a bit early before being stuck in a queue, and now everyone says "no, thats not cool, we have to wait a whole WEEK."
As far as using BitTorrent to save them bandwidth, there's nothing stopping you from using BitTorrent in a week either. The same benefits can be had a week from now without subverting a RedHat revenue stream.
Personally, if I had a business, I'd still probably download from Redhat servers anyway, just to avoid possible trojans.
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but the name does make sense in Paris where I hear they have just a teeny dog doo problem on the roads and sidewalks.
The best is seeing the guys on the mo-peds with the doggy-doo vacuums, sucking up the shit. I took a pic, the guy must have thought "such a tourist".
So how come there are no French cars in the US?
Same reason there are few American cars in Europe; they're made for 2 different worlds.
America is made up of big people, big country, and cheap gas. Japan is pretty much the opposite, smaller people, expensive gas (with some rules on displacement) and not a lot of roads or parking spaces. Japanese cars never sold here until gas was so expensive people would try anything as long as it was cheap. The Japanese then adjusted their cars to american driving styles. The first Japanese mini-vans never sold here, it's gotten 2 or 3 generations to get it right.
The European condition is similar, just not as extreme. All the cars are smaller. The Ford Mondeo died here (as the Contour) because it was too damn small for us USAians, in Europe it's considered pretty big. Here, the Contour was sold as a cheapo Tempo replacement, whereas in Europe it's pretty upmarket. The new Mondeo is actually pretty sweet, sadly not sold here, except in Jaguar X-Type form. The Focus, sold everywhere, is a subcompact here, a pretty normal size car in Europe. Most folks have cars smaller. One advantage to the Focus is that in Europe it's sold more upmarket, so that it's actually much more refined than a typical American subcompact. Sucks that it got a bad rep for the first year recalls (Focus 1.0, wait for 1.01 I guess). In Europe VW sells a smaller version of the Golf called the Gol, because the Golf is too big for most folks.
So the cars are targetted differently, and tend to be very expensive here for the equivalent American car. That and the price for parts makes pretty much only luxury cars worth having here. Peugot doesn't sell really expensive cars, neither does Renault. Renault also got a lot of bad press for the Le Car, which in Europe was the pretty hot R5. Here, it was decontented and eviscerated, and noone wanted it. Same story for the Ford Sierra Cosworth, which came here as the much unloved Merkur XR4Ti.
Phoenix was renamed because Phoenix BIOS began to add browser capabilities, therefore the Phoenix BIOS folks said there may be confusion. I doubt if people will ever think of a Ford Thunderbird as a major browser platform, so there is less of a chance of confusion.
Obligatory bad "That 70's Show" reference.
Kelso:
But it's an El Camino! Thats Spanish for "The Camino!"
Superbirds always were my fave, much more than firebirds. Go Hemi Mopar!
Your Delta Tau Chi name is Pinto.
Why Pinto?
WHY NOT!!!
Microsoft Zippo (TM), a new proprietary USB-based external removable media device.
And it lights cigarettes too?
A lot of people think "the Cathedral and the Bazaar" is about OpenSource vs. commercial, when it was pretty much about OpenSource vs. the closed style of a lot of the FSF projects, specifically gcc. gcc development slowed radically after 2.7.2, barely making to 2.8. egcs forked slightly before 2.8, picked the worthwhile stuff from 2.8, and started advancing pretty quickly. So quickly, the "real" gcc never kept up, and essentially died, with the fork becoming the mainline. The GNU jumping out of the egg is from egcs, which was supposed to be pronounced "eggs".
The situations are similar, widely used project going slow, people get frustrated. Some folks worried about a fork, but they should calm down and realize that the project is bound in some respects by standards (ANSI C and C++ in gcc's case, the X protocol in XWin's case) and as long as they follow standards, your stuff will just work.
To be honest, BSD is mostly a hobby system.
Not sure what you mean here, anymore than Linux is just a hobby system. Linus doesn't sell anything, it's tken from him and the maintainers and packaged by others.
Commercial support for BSD isn't what it is for Linux, thats true. If thats your only criterion for comparison, I guess it is "hobby", much like Linux was. The reason for this is more accident than anything; Linux didn't have to fight a lawsuit over the UNIX name. Linus himself has said that he would have used BSD if it wasn't encumbered at the time. Instead he made Linux.
FreeBSD does have a longer history. For years it had a better VM, so much so that Linux binaries would run better on FreeBSD under load than on a Linux system. Besides a stabler VM, the scheduler is more mature, and they don't tend to do huge changes in the middle of a stable branch (the VM and scheduler changes in the 2.4 branch) nor did they have a file system corruption bug in a stable branch.
I could even put the swap space ON THE RAMDISK!
Probably as much a joke as anything, but why would you want to do this? Then you'd still have the copies when things got paged out to, umm, RAM. FreeBSD allows you to compile the kernel for no swap at all. This way you'd have to have everything in RAM (not a problem with too much RAM) and would never try to page.
but what does "-preempt " have to do with this. what does this option do? Int unix always preemtive?
Short answer:
Userland processes can always be preempted. This patch allows the kernel to be preempted (as a side effect the kernel also has to be reentrant). It may help some latency issues (don't get blocked in the kernel so much) though decrease overall throughput (more time spent on context switches instead of real work). Not quite usre how it helps massive parallelism, probably allows the kernel to be split more efficiently.
Long answer:
there are links below.
Even hp has hpux running on Itanium.
Thats not that suprising, since Itanium is explicitly designed to be backwards compatible with PA-RISC. From the initial drawing on napkins in bars, Itanium was to replace PA-RISC and run HP-UX. They helped design the chips. Itanium II is more HP than Intel design from what I remember. HP actually had 64 bit design experience with PA-RISC and it shows in Itanium II. Carly Fiorina's plan saw R & D as a cost, not an investment, and has essentially killed all R & D and HP will now use commodity parts. Many people think this is a mistake, and now HP is up shit creek because the wanted economies of scale aren't even close to materializing. Itanium the 1st was a dog and though Itanium II is better, it's still workable only with huge megacaches. The whole EPIC thing requires very smart compiler writers, and will take a while before it comes out. People aren't buying them
Oddly enough, HP increased some performance by doing the opposite of EPIC in some PA-RISC chip: instead of forcing parallelism at compile time, there's a dynamic recompilation at runtime where you know what paths you are taking and you can optimize. The Sun compiler can use some runtime data and feed it to the optimizer, but this was happening all in-chip.
Normal American Express really doesn't have a 'credit' limit, it's a charge card. (The Optima is different, a true credit card) You pay your balance every month, or get socked big time with fees. There are charge limits, but even for normal folks like you or me (if I had one) it's already pretty high, because there's lesser of a credit risk. Think less of "using credit cards to stretching your paycheck til the next one comes, and maybe get that big TV over time", more of "OK, either carry one card, or enough cash in my pocket to make one ass cheek 6 inches higher than the other". There's no revolving credit, either you pay it off in a month, or they sic dogs on you.
This is one of the reasons AmEx isn't as accepted. AmEx can't make money on interest, so they charge retailers a bit more than Visa or MasterCard do. Retailers given a choice of paying more or less, tend to pick paying less and don't use Amex unless their clientele really demands it.
There are some differences based on levels, but by the time you get past gold there's really no limit, and it's just status. Black cards are given only to big movers and shakers, and more money than God types. I think Russell Simmons has one.
Go Lula! Didn't the US try to interfere with his election somewhat? We were scared of his leftist tendencies; at one time Lula advocated defaulting on all foreign loans to save money on interest payments. This made the US nervous, and subtly implied bad things would happen to the US Brasilian relationship if he was elected. Even so, Lula was elected with the second largest majority in the western hemisphere, 2nd only to Reagan. If you think populations, Brasil is so big that the real competition is still just US/Brasil, but maybe Bush should think of that before he forces the "will of his people" on another people when he didn't even get the popular vote. He won't, but maybe he should.
The thing to realize is, the US has shown many times it is not an advocate of democracy as much as it is for stability in general, and stability of its own interests in particular. The major reason for the Iraq war is not oil, or stopping torture (there are worse regimes, and we turned a blind eye when Iraq was our ally). There was already an Iraqi uprising, we didn't support it, and it got crushed. The war is about projecting American strength to have the world fall in line, and about removing an unstable element in the middle east. Unfortunately, though wanting stability is a good thing, the way the US is going about it is probably a text on how NOT to accomplish this.
The scary thing is, could Mike Hawash be me? I've thought of donating to charities, specifically Islamic ones. I have a decent amount of muslim friends, and I think it's important for the American people to show goodwill to the middle east. Have them have an image of Americans as generous and caring, not the only image be an M16 muzzle flash. I think this is the true future of America in the (hopefully shortlived) diplomacy mess that is the (also hopefully shortlived, PLEASE let there be a strong candidate in 2004) Bush administration.
Will anyone have the cojones to impeach Bush? The man who said his job is upholding the Constitution took the Constitutional power to declare war away from Congress. Don't give me crap about the congressional Resolution. There's congressional resolutions on Elmer Dinkley day and renaming Belgian frites to freedom fries. None mean anything. Congress has the power. Bush took it. Nothing will happen though.
Written by a proud American who feels that the Bush admin is the worst administration in recent memory. Can people seperate loving America and loving the current caretaker? A lot of people, including Bush, can't seem to.
5. For far too long, power has been concentrated in the hands of "root" and his "wheel" oligarchy.
RMS doesn't like wheel all that much neither.
Conservatives use Jesux. Of course, it uses the Bo[u]rn[e]-Again SHell.
How long has Mac OS supported Firewire? 15 years or something like that?
Not 15 years, since the tech's not that old. Considering Apple invented the technology, it's reasonable that they had an implementation fairly quickly. FireWire is actually an Apple trademark, the generic term is IEEE1394.
I seem to recall an article recently that some clocks in Brazil were off becuase the line wasn't up to snuff. I think the power was off so much that some cycles weren't being counted, so the clocks ran way slow.
Then there's the story about the engineering students that noticed their professor never wore a watch, so they rigged something up to the power line to alter its frequency. They ran the clock fast he kept talking faster and faster to keep pace with the clock. I forgot how far they got before he noticed, but from what I remember, they had him compressing the class pretty much.
ah my dreams are foiled.. pf in a bsd distro that people "support"
Soon maybe
By every account I've read, most of the Gecko codebase is a mess.
I don't want to sound too harsh, since I haven't contributed any code and while I've only been on a handful of large coding projects and I know what the mess they are, but wasn't this the reason why they ditched the Netscape 5 code? Kind of sad that they lost so much time going from one bad code base to another one, just one thats a mess for a different reason. I do like Mozilla though, been using it regularly since M14, my default browser when it started getting stable around M18. I can't go back to Netscape, and I don't like IE.
which is why I use Crazy Browser
If Crazy Browser thinks people hate popups enough to want to turn them off, why did crazybrowser.com just give me a huge full screen popup?
Apparently Apache with 2.0.45.
Not quite released yet, the home page hasn't been updated. it may not be "officially" released. Probably just priming the mirrors.
Do retailers have to pay a percentage to accept credit card payments?
Yes, depends on the card and accepting bank what the percentages are. American Express is the highest rate, that's why you see fewer shops taking American Express - just more expensive to use. Some gas stations tried to pass this cost on to consumers, they got killed in the marketplace.
Now, just because PayPal is charged money doesn't mean they aren't tacking on additional fees.
Charging money for a week is no different than charging money indefinitely.
It's no different for a week, then after it's very different.
Jokes aside, if you charge for a week, you're charging for the early access service. If you charge indefinitely, you're charging for the product. Two very different things. In my state they'd be taxed differently, so the state calls them different.
BitTorrent is a great tool which RedHat can use to get their bandwidth costs under control so they can focus on their core business, whatever that may be.
I think part of their business may be charging for early access to software downloads.
Everyone says "OpenSource is great, no need for charging for software, charge for services". Then RedHat comes out with a value add service - you can download something a bit early before being stuck in a queue, and now everyone says "no, thats not cool, we have to wait a whole WEEK."
As far as using BitTorrent to save them bandwidth, there's nothing stopping you from using BitTorrent in a week either. The same benefits can be had a week from now without subverting a RedHat revenue stream.
Personally, if I had a business, I'd still probably download from Redhat servers anyway, just to avoid possible trojans.
Welcome to the way the GPL works. RedHat knows this plenty well. This freedom is a good thing.
Doesn't GPL allow charging for distribution? Isn't that what RedHat is doing, charing for their distribution?