Eh, Solaris still has a lot of value. I view the 64-bit PC market as kind of questionable by relation to purchasing the known entity of a Solaris server.
That said, I see the argument for doing that (I personally would), but don't see as many businesses doing that as one would believe.
*counts Solaris machines in his lab at work* --Many *counts Linux machines in his lab at work* --A few *counts Solaris machines he has fielded for clients* --Many *counts Linux machines he has fielded for clients* --0 *counts Solaris machines fielded to run his applications* --Hundreds *counts Linux machines fielded for his application* --1 (and I own it)
I'd like to see more people running Linux, and I cant' seem to find a hard figure anywhere (I searched), but anecdotal evidence tells me that Solaris is pretty "mainstream."
That bed... perhaps. However, I stayed at a rather nice hotel once that had similar lighting over the bed. If the console were replaced with something a bit more... subtle, and the lights were moved a bit, it would be pretty pimp.
Conceived six years ago, its first connections were laid six weeks ago. It may take two decades and hundreds of billions of dollars to build
Uhmm, Congress... Seriously, cut this out. Do you think that any business could ever operate this way? What do you plan on doing with a hundred billion dollar WIRED network in TWENTY YEARS. You have way better things to do with your money than this.
Please, stop. Send us to Mars. Do something that we'll get something out of.
Is this yet another good reason for running Firefox?
Yes. As we all know, because Firefox is open source, it is naturally bug-free. While we're at it, I'd also like to suggest running your machine with telnet, ftp, nfs and XDMCP all forwarded through your firewall/router. After all, Linux is also super-secure!
Don't forget, Linux, much like Solaris, is completely immune to viruses!
What about Aqua makes you want to replace it with icewm?
I use Linux as my primary OS, but everyone seems to go to Mac because they like Aqua, not to mention the millions of Aqua knock-off themes available for almost every window manager.
Ahh, the certainty and conviction of your faith in both Terrasoft and the community of Linux enthusiasts using Mac platform is both reassuring and heartwarming.
1) Stand in line (short line where I voted) 2) Get your ID checked at a table marked by name. 3) You're handed what looks like a church raffle ticket. 4) You walk to another counter, are handed a paper ballot with a seal on it (not the York County Seal). It says "York County Official Ballot." 5) Wait in another short line, walk to a booth that looks something like a school desk with a divider around it and a desk lamp. 6) Fill in the bubbles in pen. 7) Walk to the entrance, drop your ballot in a machine named "accuvote" that sucks it in.
Yeah, I'm sad to see the direction that/. has taken on many fronts.
I moved over to K5 a few years ago, and the same thing happened, only quicker.
Then I started reading/. again, because at least it hadn't gone as far as K5 had.
That said, the reason for all of this is the expanded readership of/. The only reason that politics is such a popular topic here is because the demographic changed./. didn't change their ideals so much (any site that becomes a business is there to make money guys), the readership changed and obviously wants these stories.
By modifying your preferences, however, you can remove all of the politics stories from your front page. Think about it, by having a politics section,/. gets to make their cash, and you get a nifty flag to supress this garbage.
I am in the process of picking a bag for my notebook for up at graduate school. It's a dell 9100, so I need a big bag, and I want room for a textbook or 2 and a couple notebooks. Which Timbuk2 bag did you have? Was it roomy enough for this sort of usage? Does it have compartments?
1) Keep your nice stuff away from the door. If you are REALLY on a destructive dorm floor, you will probably get at least one nice splash of undesireable fluid on your door.
2) Keep your nice stuff off of your floor. If someone sets off the sprinklers in your hallway, it will fill your room up to about an inch before you can count on it being turned off.
I would imagine that the fact that it does not happen all of the time is what makes it annoying. If it happened all of the time, it would be the correct, expected behavior.
It still would be at best awkward to choose java for certain tasks.
This conversation is getting to be like conversations with Perl programmers who wish to use Perl for everything. I am not trashing java... I just think that you would be better suited to use C++ for some applications.
C is not constrained to writing operating systems. C can be used to write just about anything.
Java, however, cannot be compiled to native CPU code. Given that it could be, your control over the RAM of that system would be clumsy at best. Also, device drivers and such, would all be impossible to write.
C, however, could be used to write a web application.
You're going to benchmark the value of a programming language by its ability to render a web site?
Doesn't that seem like judging the value of a television set by how well your DVD player shows videos on it?
You're defining the entire value of a programming language, by relation to other programming languages, by its ability to perform a distinct subset of tasks that could be performed with equal ease with a set of libraries for many other languages given that interest were great enough for such libraries to exist.
My goal is to have a system that works for what I need it to do. Therefore, for me as an individual, it will never be time to take up arms with a crowd of usability experts and make Linux more user friendly. I can do what I need on it. If your goal is to push Linux onto other people's desktops, then yes, it is time to do that.
The only REAL benefit that I see to that is a restoration of competition in the desktop market, not the destruction of M$. The industry could benefit from a real 3 or more desktop market. It could also benefit from a 3 or more processor market. For that matter, it could benefit from a market where not everyone must speak Intel in order to succeed.
The TRUE benfit will come when everyone communicates to each other using open standards, and the choice of platform becomes a real choice again. Open Source is a good idea, but the whole thing will suck just as bad if everyone uses Linux as it does now when everyone uses Windows.
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Eh, Solaris still has a lot of value. I view the 64-bit PC market as kind of questionable by relation to purchasing the known entity of a Solaris server.
That said, I see the argument for doing that (I personally would), but don't see as many businesses doing that as one would believe.
Solaris is quite mainstream.
*counts Solaris machines in his lab at work*
--Many
*counts Linux machines in his lab at work*
--A few
*counts Solaris machines he has fielded for clients*
--Many
*counts Linux machines he has fielded for clients*
--0
*counts Solaris machines fielded to run his applications*
--Hundreds
*counts Linux machines fielded for his application*
--1 (and I own it)
I'd like to see more people running Linux, and I cant' seem to find a hard figure anywhere (I searched), but anecdotal evidence tells me that Solaris is pretty "mainstream."
Previous versions of Solaris were quite expensive...
Solaris 9
Solaris 8
Before the Dawn of Time
That bed... perhaps. However, I stayed at a rather nice hotel once that had similar lighting over the bed. If the console were replaced with something a bit more... subtle, and the lights were moved a bit, it would be pretty pimp.
Conceived six years ago, its first connections were laid six weeks ago. It may take two decades and hundreds of billions of dollars to build
Uhmm, Congress... Seriously, cut this out. Do you think that any business could ever operate this way? What do you plan on doing with a hundred billion dollar WIRED network in TWENTY YEARS. You have way better things to do with your money than this.
Please, stop. Send us to Mars. Do something that we'll get something out of.
Is this yet another good reason for running Firefox?
Yes. As we all know, because Firefox is open source, it is naturally bug-free. While we're at it, I'd also like to suggest running your machine with telnet, ftp, nfs and XDMCP all forwarded through your firewall/router. After all, Linux is also super-secure!
Don't forget, Linux, much like Solaris, is completely immune to viruses!
What about Aqua makes you want to replace it with icewm?
I use Linux as my primary OS, but everyone seems to go to Mac because they like Aqua, not to mention the millions of Aqua knock-off themes available for almost every window manager.
Apple users could be glad
Soon we could see ISOs
Ahh, the certainty and conviction of your faith in both Terrasoft and the community of Linux enthusiasts using Mac platform is both reassuring and heartwarming.
A bit different here in Yorktown.
1) Stand in line (short line where I voted)
2) Get your ID checked at a table marked by name.
3) You're handed what looks like a church raffle ticket.
4) You walk to another counter, are handed a paper ballot with a seal on it (not the York County Seal). It says "York County Official Ballot."
5) Wait in another short line, walk to a booth that looks something like a school desk with a divider around it and a desk lamp.
6) Fill in the bubbles in pen.
7) Walk to the entrance, drop your ballot in a machine named "accuvote" that sucks it in.
No BSOD though.
It worked when I tried it.
Yeah, I'm sad to see the direction that /. has taken on many fronts.
/. again, because at least it hadn't gone as far as K5 had.
/. The only reason that politics is such a popular topic here is because the demographic changed. /. didn't change their ideals so much (any site that becomes a business is there to make money guys), the readership changed and obviously wants these stories.
/. gets to make their cash, and you get a nifty flag to supress this garbage.
I moved over to K5 a few years ago, and the same thing happened, only quicker.
Then I started reading
That said, the reason for all of this is the expanded readership of
By modifying your preferences, however, you can remove all of the politics stories from your front page. Think about it, by having a politics section,
Can anyone say true VR?
Wait, wait, wait... REAL VIRTUAL REALITY, I think that Merriam Webster would say that this is a very confuzzling sentence.
Software folks deserve compensation just as much as hardware folks.
Trust me, you're not paying for the price of the component when you drop $100 on an aluminum box with slots cut into it.
I am in the process of picking a bag for my notebook for up at graduate school. It's a dell 9100, so I need a big bag, and I want room for a textbook or 2 and a couple notebooks. Which Timbuk2 bag did you have? Was it roomy enough for this sort of usage? Does it have compartments?
I've been browsing around ebags.com, which seems to be a good source of data on bags (though I'm interested in messenger style bags).
What's more, the project is supposed to add a "social aspect" to online gaming that hasn't been seen before
Ohhh, a "social aspect" to online gaming. I've never heard anybody pitch that before.
Oh, sure, you, with your "almost a 4 digit number."
everyone's favorite obscure 1980's Star Wars ripoff
Can anybody explain to me how The Last Starfighter was remotely like Star Wars?
1) Keep your nice stuff away from the door. If you are REALLY on a destructive dorm floor, you will probably get at least one nice splash of undesireable fluid on your door.
2) Keep your nice stuff off of your floor. If someone sets off the sprinklers in your hallway, it will fill your room up to about an inch before you can count on it being turned off.
I would imagine that the fact that it does not happen all of the time is what makes it annoying. If it happened all of the time, it would be the correct, expected behavior.
I work on a project coding in java.
It's a great language.
I'm not trashing it.
It still would be at best awkward to choose java for certain tasks.
This conversation is getting to be like conversations with Perl programmers who wish to use Perl for everything. I am not trashing java... I just think that you would be better suited to use C++ for some applications.
Not really.
C is not constrained to writing operating systems. C can be used to write just about anything.
Java, however, cannot be compiled to native CPU code. Given that it could be, your control over the RAM of that system would be clumsy at best. Also, device drivers and such, would all be impossible to write.
C, however, could be used to write a web application.
Thanks!
You're going to benchmark the value of a programming language by its ability to render a web site?
Doesn't that seem like judging the value of a television set by how well your DVD player shows videos on it?
You're defining the entire value of a programming language, by relation to other programming languages, by its ability to perform a distinct subset of tasks that could be performed with equal ease with a set of libraries for many other languages given that interest were great enough for such libraries to exist.
...and then I'll tell you it can join the club of "cool" languages.
My goal is to have a system that works for what I need it to do. Therefore, for me as an individual, it will never be time to take up arms with a crowd of usability experts and make Linux more user friendly. I can do what I need on it. If your goal is to push Linux onto other people's desktops, then yes, it is time to do that.
The only REAL benefit that I see to that is a restoration of competition in the desktop market, not the destruction of M$. The industry could benefit from a real 3 or more desktop market. It could also benefit from a 3 or more processor market. For that matter, it could benefit from a market where not everyone must speak Intel in order to succeed.
The TRUE benfit will come when everyone communicates to each other using open standards, and the choice of platform becomes a real choice again. Open Source is a good idea, but the whole thing will suck just as bad if everyone uses Linux as it does now when everyone uses Windows.