If you want to teach paradigms (which seems to be your intent) you probably should teach OZ/Mozart OZ in the classroom , which is a multi-paradigm language designed for education. Further it has a standard text which walks you through all the major paradigms over the course of about a year. That way you are only teaching syntax once, setting up one environment.....
I will even be kind enough to go first with a very basic example of something Windows can do that Linux cannot do at the core architectural level. Windows is based on the NT architecture, which is a hybrid kernel concept that allows it to host OS subsystems. This is also why the NT architecture has been called a client/server kernel concept. What this gives NT that Linux cannot do is the ability to natively run multiple OS subsystems concurrently that also can communicate with each other at the kernel level.
I wasn't the original poster but.... Windows NT 4.0 was 1996 and it included the kernel features you are talking about (I don't believe 1995s 3.51 did because it didn't support alpha but I may be wrong). So I don't know what the 1997 has to do with your point.
Now as far as a capability of Linux that isn't part of Windows: directly manipulate hardware from the GUI/CLI. I all the time have problems with getting windows to actual perform OS functions: * rescan the SCSI bus, * pass a packet to the ethernet card exactly as specified (i.e. have the ethernet card emit a specific stream of bytes) * allow me to pass a message to a piece of hardware the OS isn't seeing * allow me to access a drive by cylinder And yes, given how buggy PC hardware is, how buggy PC hardware is these issues have come up and on each of them I was able to diagnose and repair problems in Linux that I was not able to do in Windows. The core purpose of an OS is to be the interface between hardware and programs and Windows does not interface well between cmd.exe and hardware.
In addition the standard complaint about the lack of a powerful command line interface holds. The ability to script apps and stream between them is huge. There is nothing stopping the NT architecture from supporting this ability but the apps don't support it and the OSes (with the exception of Unix services for Windows) don't. And then you can build on this one more level up with termcap. There is no way that I know of to have cmd.exe (or for that matter most other terminal emulator) allow you to handle weirdness on the other side.
But in any case I don't disagree with you that the NT kernel has a better design than the Linux kernel. However the Linux kernel actually has more features. For example the number of filesystems actually supported, the number of network protocols actually supported.... There is no reason people couldn't reverse this, but they haven't.
In short the problem that windows has today is the same problem it had in 1995. Windows apps (with some exceptions like Office) do not offer "power user" features as part of the paradigm.
That argument would work well except for one thing. The opposition is concentrated in countries which are politically influential in terms of global petrochemical policy particularly the US. The opposition correlates negatively with: degree of public interest, degree of study.... It correlates positively with things like who they are employed by. There aren't two even matched groups, the peer reviewed scientific consensus is on one side and a group of paid lobbyists on the other.
Venus has about 90x as much atmosphere as the earth. The trend could end up with a planet about 20C higher than today with 10% oxygen it won't end up as venus.
Oracle is unlikely to sue RedHat. Its just not big enough and its wonderful for warding off anti-trust claims. Ubuntu, Mandriva.... aren't even on the radar. However Oracle is an interesting case. There are database OS patents. Oracle Linux might very well violate those. Novell would love Oracle to be busy in a war with Microsoft.
Its hard to do the balance we have no idea how this plays out. From a "civ" perspective you may be right over a very long time. Lets take a moderate scenario where the sorts of things you mention happens. Humanity knows how to build new cities and losing 1/3 or so of the cities over the next century is annoying, but not fatal. There is no good reason as new lands came into being we couldn't handle say 200m environment refugees per decade with permanent relocation and population shifting. What global warming that is not severe means is rapid change and by and large most people who have looked at this figure that the frictional costs will outweigh the benefits.
The problem with the severe scenarios is they could be very severe if they are just a tad bit worse than the above. If you raise the temperature of the oceans about 5C, you release the frozen methane hydrate the entire atmosphere will change, you'll lose about 2/3rds of the oxygen content (H2S bonds with O2) and the surface temperature could rise another 15C. The problem with global climate shift is it may shift quite a bit more than you'd like.
/. has always been a Linux site, and fairly openly. The Linux crowd partially moved over to OSX and so the site became more supportive. What exactly is the great insight here.
If you like to get a great value on your hardware, like to buy your own and tinker, and think several k for a high end computer is too much you will not be happy in the mac world.
I'm not exactly sure what you are asking, it doesn't even really sound like you are sure what you're asking. Anyway take a look at: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards which is pretty much standards for running KDE apps on Gnome and vice versa (as well as some other issues). At this point Gnome and KDE apps cooperate reasonably well with one another and KDE works as well Gnome as OO does so....
Surprised you responded so much after the fact. My wikipedia page and my/. have similar but not the same names (jbolden1517). If that offer to actually get involved email me via. wikipedia's email this user. I don't think there is any reason to put details of wikipedia politics in another community where things are just going to be confused.
What I said was the source didn't have to be freely available. You are now asking a different question about obscure but respected sources. If a regular editor with a good reputation in the area did that, he'd get away with it. If someone shows up (a new user or an IP), no if no one can verify it, it would go. The regular editors for an article are pretty good at smelling BS on the topics they write about.
I was an active contributor to wikipedia. The politics are what drove me off. Wikipedia has a really nasty hierarchy which abuses active editors. Political mistakes are punished harshly and pissing off the wrong people undoes many hours of good quality contributions. Lots of people have been driven off wikipedia by the politics, and others that feel enormous anger. At this point there is an entire community of formerly active contributors who have seething hatred towards wikipedia. I don't know of similar anger directed at say yahoo groups.
I've cited book references. There are plenty of citations on wikipedia to sources that are not freely and openly available. A high quality non free reference source trumps a lower quality free one.
I'm reading the comments here and this strikes me as missing the key point. Look at this user:
1) He is completely satisfied with windows he just wants a free OS. 2) His core app is Microsoft specific (office) 3) He wants to use windows specific multimedia 4) He doesn't care about any of the free software issues at all. For example he's fine with having his data locked up in proprietary formats.
Well yeah he'll like windows better. Why should he like Linux better? This article is just stupidly stating the obvious.
I think the solution is small market niche games. Back in the 1980s people wrote games and the most successful games sold a fraction of what a disaster sells today. Popcap is a great example of a successful niche player. There are tons of niches, from speciality interests (think about the diversity in games that existed 15-20 years ago), to specialty platforms (why isn't there even one good Solaris game?), to training type games. Small staff, small budgets, limited interests, small sales that easily make a profit.
I don't know why the indies go after general interest titles. There still is not a really good bridge engine on the market. There are something like 18 million people who like to play bridge once per month or more. There are some very untapped markets.
Yeah I have. Though pedophile may be a stretch. There most certainly where sexual discussion that occurred between people well over the age of majority and teenagers regarding sexual activities. For example there lesbian events where you 25 year olds and 15 year olds hooking up (not necc with each other but facilitating a minor having sex....). 20 years ago this would be "corrupting the morals of a minor" (a misdemeanor for treating a child like an adult) not pedophile. I'm not sure what they call it today.
I pay $10,700 in property taxes and you probably have a better home:-) (NJ). Anyway I can tell you as a former teacher if you were placing out of 2 years of college you were either: much better educated, much smarter, or went to a much better school on average; or your college was terrible. Lots of kids have trouble with pre-calc, lots of engineers have problems in calc. People who can place out of 2 years (which often means vector calculus, sequence and series, ode...) had a great high school education. Ultimately I understand you disagree and I can't explain where the root problem is.
You're right. That sounds like you would have been 2 years ahead. That's atypical. Either you went to one of the top 1-2% schools or you are well above average as a student. Either way, well done and you prove my point about low standards in college.
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Outside of banks, insurance companies.... how many companies were doing large scale computerized accounting in the 1970s?
If you want to teach paradigms (which seems to be your intent) you probably should teach OZ/Mozart OZ in the classroom , which is a multi-paradigm language designed for education. Further it has a standard text which walks you through all the major paradigms over the course of about a year. That way you are only teaching syntax once, setting up one environment.....
I'd say so as in: To pronounce clear of guilt or blame. To free from a charge or imputation of guilt. Guilt implies a criminal act or a sin.
As in they really did find a loophole. And yes GPLv3 closes this loophole.
I will even be kind enough to go first with a very basic example of something Windows can do that Linux cannot do at the core architectural level. Windows is based on the NT architecture, which is a hybrid kernel concept that allows it to host OS subsystems. This is also why the NT architecture has been called a client/server kernel concept. What this gives NT that Linux cannot do is the ability to natively run multiple OS subsystems concurrently that also can communicate with each other at the kernel level.
I wasn't the original poster but.... Windows NT 4.0 was 1996 and it included the kernel features you are talking about (I don't believe 1995s 3.51 did because it didn't support alpha but I may be wrong). So I don't know what the 1997 has to do with your point.
Now as far as a capability of Linux that isn't part of Windows: directly manipulate hardware from the GUI/CLI. I all the time have problems with getting windows to actual perform OS functions:
* rescan the SCSI bus,
* pass a packet to the ethernet card exactly as specified (i.e. have the ethernet card emit a specific stream of bytes)
* allow me to pass a message to a piece of hardware the OS isn't seeing
* allow me to access a drive by cylinder
And yes, given how buggy PC hardware is, how buggy PC hardware is these issues have come up and on each of them I was able to diagnose and repair problems in Linux that I was not able to do in Windows. The core purpose of an OS is to be the interface between hardware and programs and Windows does not interface well between cmd.exe and hardware.
In addition the standard complaint about the lack of a powerful command line interface holds. The ability to script apps and stream between them is huge. There is nothing stopping the NT architecture from supporting this ability but the apps don't support it and the OSes (with the exception of Unix services for Windows) don't. And then you can build on this one more level up with termcap. There is no way that I know of to have cmd.exe (or for that matter most other terminal emulator) allow you to handle weirdness on the other side.
But in any case I don't disagree with you that the NT kernel has a better design than the Linux kernel. However the Linux kernel actually has more features. For example the number of filesystems actually supported, the number of network protocols actually supported.... There is no reason people couldn't reverse this, but they haven't.
In short the problem that windows has today is the same problem it had in 1995. Windows apps (with some exceptions like Office) do not offer "power user" features as part of the paradigm.
That argument would work well except for one thing. The opposition is concentrated in countries which are politically influential in terms of global petrochemical policy particularly the US. The opposition correlates negatively with: degree of public interest, degree of study.... It correlates positively with things like who they are employed by. There aren't two even matched groups, the peer reviewed scientific consensus is on one side and a group of paid lobbyists on the other.
Venus has about 90x as much atmosphere as the earth. The trend could end up with a planet about 20C higher than today with 10% oxygen it won't end up as venus.
Oracle is unlikely to sue RedHat. Its just not big enough and its wonderful for warding off anti-trust claims. Ubuntu, Mandriva.... aren't even on the radar. However Oracle is an interesting case. There are database OS patents. Oracle Linux might very well violate those. Novell would love Oracle to be busy in a war with Microsoft.
I think Oracle not RedHat / Ubuntu is the target.
Its hard to do the balance we have no idea how this plays out. From a "civ" perspective you may be right over a very long time. Lets take a moderate scenario where the sorts of things you mention happens. Humanity knows how to build new cities and losing 1/3 or so of the cities over the next century is annoying, but not fatal. There is no good reason as new lands came into being we couldn't handle say 200m environment refugees per decade with permanent relocation and population shifting. What global warming that is not severe means is rapid change and by and large most people who have looked at this figure that the frictional costs will outweigh the benefits.
The problem with the severe scenarios is they could be very severe if they are just a tad bit worse than the above. If you raise the temperature of the oceans about 5C, you release the frozen methane hydrate the entire atmosphere will change, you'll lose about 2/3rds of the oxygen content (H2S bonds with O2) and the surface temperature could rise another 15C. The problem with global climate shift is it may shift quite a bit more than you'd like.
so I'm waiting for "the next big thing" in programming languages, hopefully something designed especially for writing concurrent systems.
Don't know if you get emails for responses but... Erlang sounds like what you are asking for
In large measure avid Mac users now were not Mac users in the 8.x/9.x days. There has been a very large shift in user base.
Your sentence isn't written using a latin alphabet it was written in English.
The above is essentially what you said.
X is a windowing protocol
TWM, Enlightenment... are Window Managers
Gnone, KDE are GUIS.
KDE for example used KWin as a window manager on top of X.
Wikipedia entry for more details .
ven if their share rises from 2% to 4%,
Their share has moved from 2% to 6% already gartner You'll need a new line now.
/. has always been a Linux site, and fairly openly. The Linux crowd partially moved over to OSX and so the site became more supportive. What exactly is the great insight here.
If you like to get a great value on your hardware, like to buy your own and tinker, and think several k for a high end computer is too much you will not be happy in the mac world.
I'm not exactly sure what you are asking, it doesn't even really sound like you are sure what you're asking. Anyway take a look at: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards which is pretty much standards for running KDE apps on Gnome and vice versa (as well as some other issues). At this point Gnome and KDE apps cooperate reasonably well with one another and KDE works as well Gnome as OO does so ....
David -
/. have similar but not the same names (jbolden1517). If that offer to actually get involved email me via. wikipedia's email this user. I don't think there is any reason to put details of wikipedia politics in another community where things are just going to be confused.
Surprised you responded so much after the fact. My wikipedia page and my
What I said was the source didn't have to be freely available. You are now asking a different question about obscure but respected sources. If a regular editor with a good reputation in the area did that, he'd get away with it. If someone shows up (a new user or an IP), no if no one can verify it, it would go. The regular editors for an article are pretty good at smelling BS on the topics they write about.
I was an active contributor to wikipedia. The politics are what drove me off. Wikipedia has a really nasty hierarchy which abuses active editors. Political mistakes are punished harshly and pissing off the wrong people undoes many hours of good quality contributions. Lots of people have been driven off wikipedia by the politics, and others that feel enormous anger. At this point there is an entire community of formerly active contributors who have seething hatred towards wikipedia. I don't know of similar anger directed at say yahoo groups.
I've cited book references. There are plenty of citations on wikipedia to sources that are not freely and openly available. A high quality non free reference source trumps a lower quality free one.
I'm reading the comments here and this strikes me as missing the key point. Look at this user:
1) He is completely satisfied with windows he just wants a free OS.
2) His core app is Microsoft specific (office)
3) He wants to use windows specific multimedia
4) He doesn't care about any of the free software issues at all. For example he's fine with having his data locked up in proprietary formats.
Well yeah he'll like windows better. Why should he like Linux better? This article is just stupidly stating the obvious.
I think the solution is small market niche games. Back in the 1980s people wrote games and the most successful games sold a fraction of what a disaster sells today. Popcap is a great example of a successful niche player. There are tons of niches, from speciality interests (think about the diversity in games that existed 15-20 years ago), to specialty platforms (why isn't there even one good Solaris game?), to training type games. Small staff, small budgets, limited interests, small sales that easily make a profit.
I don't know why the indies go after general interest titles. There still is not a really good bridge engine on the market. There are something like 18 million people who like to play bridge once per month or more. There are some very untapped markets.
Yeah I have. Though pedophile may be a stretch. There most certainly where sexual discussion that occurred between people well over the age of majority and teenagers regarding sexual activities. For example there lesbian events where you 25 year olds and 15 year olds hooking up (not necc with each other but facilitating a minor having sex....). 20 years ago this would be "corrupting the morals of a minor" (a misdemeanor for treating a child like an adult) not pedophile. I'm not sure what they call it today.
I pay $10,700 in property taxes and you probably have a better home :-) (NJ). Anyway I can tell you as a former teacher if you were placing out of 2 years of college you were either: much better educated, much smarter, or went to a much better school on average; or your college was terrible. Lots of kids have trouble with pre-calc, lots of engineers have problems in calc. People who can place out of 2 years (which often means vector calculus, sequence and series, ode...) had a great high school education. Ultimately I understand you disagree and I can't explain where the root problem is.
You're right. That sounds like you would have been 2 years ahead. That's atypical. Either you went to one of the top 1-2% schools or you are well above average as a student. Either way, well done and you prove my point about low standards in college.