Not to sound trollish but I have also seen benchmarks which show SQL-SERVER leading the pack for most bang for the buck. The Linux ones I have seen were overpriced by a large margin for price-performance ratio.
Keep in mind this was in 2001 or 2002 and may be outdated today.
The link above is on Oracle's website so its biased.
Except for 2 out of all of them at my local blockbuster I would disagree. They are for kids.
Real men use Xboxes or playstations for most games.
MarioKart and Zelda are not what they used to be back in the SNES days.
I find the adventure and elements of things missing in the new Zelda. They were there for the past Zelda games.
Go do a search about Wind Waker and see for yourself? No new items at all and the puzzles are more built to how you handle the controller than actual cognitive thinking. This is different from the Zelda's I remember in the past.
THese popups keep telling me my machine is infected with something called adaware. I deleted it so I would not have to worry about these so called spyware infections. Shame on lavasoft.
Thank god for all the good honest companies claiming they are there for stop spyware with their popups/
I got flamed here from KDE zealots over the usability study, even though I have a preference for KDE.
Gnome is getting better by each release. Its no longer the buggy non integrated manager it was during the 1.x days when enlightenment was used as teh manager and gnome as an extention. Shudder
Gnome 2.10 shows the UI material by SUN has paid off.
KDE in my opinion use to be better but is going downhill.
SuSE is providing UI testing and SUN is letting the KDE developers in on the same data Gnome is using.
Kde 4.0 will have a UI rewrite to cater to more users. I can't wait!
In the meantime I hope it gets quicker. Times for compiling kde on my athlon 1800 use to be 5-6 hours for kde 3.0 but now take 9!
IN FOSS people are not customers they are users. Plain and simple. People today are used to having people do it there way %100 of time whenever they purchase anything.
That is the difference.
You know what? Resources are limited and Gnome is doing the right thing by using the UI lab research donated by SUN.
Gnome hackers can not accomidate every user. It can't be done. But if a majority of users want something then it will be implemented. This would have been a better reply and more "business like".
What is cool about opensource is someone can have the power to change it if the majority is not interested. This woman does not realize that and perhaps the gnome guys should have told her that. In the meantime its back to work for the majority of users.
Wont work. For one all the commands will be trying to execute at once before the other is finished.
Unless I am wrong?
I was just thinking about this the other day. I want to write a script that would mount my ntfs flashdrive and sync data from a directory. Problem is as I thought of a way to do this is that I need the script to wait while finishing a certain task.
All the good games like GTA are only available for the playstation. Go to a blockbuster and look at the games? A few cool ones exist for the gamecube but most are made for little children.
Even mariokart now has babies in the game and carriages as vehicles you can select. UGH
I dont care about the innerworks if I am a (l)user.
I never said KDE was better or worse in all area's. I am only saying gnome is getting better and focusing on UI while KDE is lacking in this area.
However KDE 4.0 will focus on that after their own usability lab funding so the tables might turn.
To say gnome is not focusing on UI and ignoring its users is plainly false. THey may move slower and conservatively but each release focuses more and more on UI rather than internals.
Nintendo claims they are only for kids so they make cartoonly looking games like Zelda WIndmaker which frankly suck.
Read adults buy a PS2. Then Nintendo's marketing department looks at statistics which then show only little kids buy their games so again they focus their consoles on making games like Pokeman. Meanwhile they are losing money without realizing it.
It reminds me of old mac software publishers. Many included mac only versions or pc versions which included the mac version in the package. All the pc retailers stocked the pc/mac version and the idiots in the sales department then assumed people only wanted the pc version and the mac versions got cancelled.
Reagan cut all the funding and refused to cut any programs. He tried to blame the democrats for not cutting the programs but he refused to do it himself because it would be political suicide.
Clinton ballanced the budget and now the reverse is happening.
To me not wasting government resources should be non partisan. As you can tell I am a liberal but we all pay interest when our government has to borrow money. That is unfair and I do not like my tax dollars wasted on such an expendeture.
If you are going to have a tax cut then cut funding. If you want a social program increase than increase taxation. If you end up in a war then you need to create a war tax and have war bonds to pay for it. Not create a tax cut.
The democratics have never been about fiscal irresponsibility. It is a mantra used by the right back in 1980 but our debts have been low back then.
No I am not going to even bother to RTFA. I agree with the first comment here that its trollware and flamebait.
Gnome is alot more consistant than KDE and Sun donated a large usability study for gnome to improve its UI. The results are already showing with each release.
KDE use to be alot more flexible, integrated feel, and easy to use, but that is no longer the case anymore. This is coming from a KDE fan.
KDE has menu's everywhere and its hard to find particular settings and the titlebars are way too big, menu's too big, some of the fonts are ugly, and the problems are numerous compared to earlier versions. I looked at the newest build of KDevelop a few months ago and the UI was unbearable compared to earlier versions. Try reading the documentation and reading your code at the same time? Screen space is eaten up.
I do not intend to start a flamewar here. My point above was Gnome may not be perfect but its rapidly improving compared to its rival. THe UI study from SUN and the new 2.x is alot better and each new release focuses on usability rather than just bug fixes or features.
I look at where its heading rather than where it is. In my book gnome is winning the war currently but I will wait until KDE 4.0 comes which is rumored to have a completely redone UI.
Gnome is logically designed and highly flexible. In my opinion the only thing it lacks or the number of apps like KDE and perhaps some equilivant of KAppFinder for menu updating. Under MacOSX and WIndows, when you install an app it is included automatically in the taskbar. In this day and age all modern versions of Unix come shipped with KDE or Gnome or both. Menu updating should be included.
Gnome is on the right path and will be on par with Windows if its not already.
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For the dumbest story and worst book linked ever on slashdot.
No data to back it up and dumb references to making work like a video game. How any publisher let the green light on this is surprising.
How about communication skills and looking at work problems more cognitively since kids on video games have a great ability to do.
With the GDI and other issues, unix does not even include the graphics in the kernel. Linux is now the exception but it created some controversy claiming it would make it unstable.
Microkernel is a very small kernel. Processes called servers need to run.
Windows95 ran upon dos which was all written in assembler which made NT look alot better and more micro-like. But this confuses many people today when they think anything wiht protected memory and layers between the hardware and apps is a microkernel. Its still macro.
Everything from I/O to networking touches the hardware in some way. Not as much as a pure macrokernel but still not even close to a micro one.
Re:Linus is probably biased about Mach though....
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No not really.
NT was supposed to be microkernel like back in the OS2/NT days. But it's a macrokernel with a hal abstraction layer.
Even MacOSX is not a true mach like its nextstep predecessor.
Linus also said in userspace he really does not care what it runs. He cares only when writing kernel space code. He mentioned he liked Microsoft Office and powerpoint as an example.
Last, he is running Linux on it. Not MacOSX.
Also perhaps he wants to his his mac for home movies, photoshop, and other apps that are not related to hacking? Maybe his wife wants a nice, easy to use, and a reliable pc to run MS Office? A mac could fit the bill.
No offense but the GIMP sucks and digital camera's and camcorder support sucks on Linux. Lack of video editing software is a problem as well. MacOSX does come with some nice software for non nerds that is nice to have.
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Then what shall we call it?
I take it your one of those GNU/Linux purests right? Isn't there anything better to do with your time that debate silly names?
I can say Windows is not Windows. Its just the gui. Obviously that does not make sense.
Almost all the geeks I know call the kernel, the Linux kernel. Which kernel is it? There's nothing in a car other than an engine is how I look at it/
Linux is a full OS. A kernel just boots up. It does not do anything and its not a full system.
This is the same argument for calling Linux GNU/Linux.
But if society calls the whole system Linux including Linus himself than its Linux.
Not to sound trollish but I have also seen benchmarks which show SQL-SERVER leading the pack for most bang for the buck. The Linux ones I have seen were overpriced by a large margin for price-performance ratio.
Keep in mind this was in 2001 or 2002 and may be outdated today.
The link above is on Oracle's website so its biased.
Power is based on powerpc. Its a deritive of it.
You can not run AIX on power hardware because of extra registers on power that are not available on powerpc.
But likewise, I can also compile software that only runs on an Athlon that would not execute on a 386 so its a given.
There was one by Sony 5 years ago. Bad as battlefield Earth coming from the critics. OUCH!
Except for 2 out of all of them at my local blockbuster I would disagree. They are for kids.
Real men use Xboxes or playstations for most games.
MarioKart and Zelda are not what they used to be back in the SNES days.
I find the adventure and elements of things missing in the new Zelda. They were there for the past Zelda games.
Go do a search about Wind Waker and see for yourself? No new items at all and the puzzles are more built to how you handle the controller than actual cognitive thinking. This is different from the Zelda's I remember in the past.
So I can read the drives under Linux. Duh.
Fat32 is not supported by anything but WIndows. Also its useless to format them under ext2 since then winXP wont be able to read them.
Yes
THese popups keep telling me my machine is infected with something called adaware. I deleted it so I would not have to worry about these so called spyware infections. Shame on lavasoft.
Thank god for all the good honest companies claiming they are there for stop spyware with their popups/
Wicked!
Thanks. That is very helpfull.
I got flamed here from KDE zealots over the usability study, even though I have a preference for KDE.
Gnome is getting better by each release. Its no longer the buggy non integrated manager it was during the 1.x days when enlightenment was used as teh manager and gnome as an extention. Shudder
Gnome 2.10 shows the UI material by SUN has paid off.
KDE in my opinion use to be better but is going downhill.
SuSE is providing UI testing and SUN is letting the KDE developers in on the same data Gnome is using.
Kde 4.0 will have a UI rewrite to cater to more users. I can't wait!
In the meantime I hope it gets quicker. Times for compiling kde on my athlon 1800 use to be 5-6 hours for kde 3.0 but now take 9!
Problem is simple.
IN FOSS people are not customers they are users. Plain and simple. People today are used to having people do it there way %100 of time whenever they purchase anything.
That is the difference.
You know what? Resources are limited and Gnome is doing the right thing by using the UI lab research donated by SUN.
Gnome hackers can not accomidate every user. It can't be done. But if a majority of users want something then it will be implemented. This would have been a better reply and more "business like".
What is cool about opensource is someone can have the power to change it if the majority is not interested. This woman does not realize that and perhaps the gnome guys should have told her that. In the meantime its back to work for the majority of users.
Wont work. For one all the commands will be trying to execute at once before the other is finished.
Unless I am wrong?
I was just thinking about this the other day. I want to write a script that would mount my ntfs flashdrive and sync data from a directory. Problem is as I thought of a way to do this is that I need the script to wait while finishing a certain task.
Yes worst Zelda since Zelda2. Its horrible.
All the good games like GTA are only available for the playstation. Go to a blockbuster and look at the games? A few cool ones exist for the gamecube but most are made for little children.
Even mariokart now has babies in the game and carriages as vehicles you can select. UGH
The real games are for PS2.
I dont care about the innerworks if I am a (l)user.
I never said KDE was better or worse in all area's. I am only saying gnome is getting better and focusing on UI while KDE is lacking in this area.
However KDE 4.0 will focus on that after their own usability lab funding so the tables might turn.
To say gnome is not focusing on UI and ignoring its users is plainly false. THey may move slower and conservatively but each release focuses more and more on UI rather than internals.
But the problem is a self fullfilling prophesy.
Nintendo claims they are only for kids so they make cartoonly looking games like Zelda WIndmaker which frankly suck.
Read adults buy a PS2. Then Nintendo's marketing department looks at statistics which then show only little kids buy their games so again they focus their consoles on making games like Pokeman. Meanwhile they are losing money without realizing it.
It reminds me of old mac software publishers. Many included mac only versions or pc versions which included the mac version in the package. All the pc retailers stocked the pc/mac version and the idiots in the sales department then assumed people only wanted the pc version and the mac versions got cancelled.
That is debatable.
Reagan cut all the funding and refused to cut any programs. He tried to blame the democrats for not cutting the programs but he refused to do it himself because it would be political suicide.
Clinton ballanced the budget and now the reverse is happening.
To me not wasting government resources should be non partisan. As you can tell I am a liberal but we all pay interest when our government has to borrow money. That is unfair and I do not like my tax dollars wasted on such an expendeture.
If you are going to have a tax cut then cut funding. If you want a social program increase than increase taxation. If you end up in a war then you need to create a war tax and have war bonds to pay for it. Not create a tax cut.
The democratics have never been about fiscal irresponsibility. It is a mantra used by the right back in 1980 but our debts have been low back then.
No I am not going to even bother to RTFA. I agree with the first comment here that its trollware and flamebait.
Gnome is alot more consistant than KDE and Sun donated a large usability study for gnome to improve its UI. The results are already showing with each release.
KDE use to be alot more flexible, integrated feel, and easy to use, but that is no longer the case anymore. This is coming from a KDE fan.
KDE has menu's everywhere and its hard to find particular settings and the titlebars are way too big, menu's too big, some of the fonts are ugly, and the problems are numerous compared to earlier versions. I looked at the newest build of KDevelop a few months ago and the UI was unbearable compared to earlier versions. Try reading the documentation and reading your code at the same time? Screen space is eaten up.
I do not intend to start a flamewar here. My point above was Gnome may not be perfect but its rapidly improving compared to its rival. THe UI study from SUN and the new 2.x is alot better and each new release focuses on usability rather than just bug fixes or features.
I look at where its heading rather than where it is. In my book gnome is winning the war currently but I will wait until KDE 4.0 comes which is rumored to have a completely redone UI.
Gnome is logically designed and highly flexible. In my opinion the only thing it lacks or the number of apps like KDE and perhaps some equilivant of KAppFinder for menu updating. Under MacOSX and WIndows, when you install an app it is included automatically in the taskbar. In this day and age all modern versions of Unix come shipped with KDE or Gnome or both. Menu updating should be included.
Gnome is on the right path and will be on par with Windows if its not already.
For the dumbest story and worst book linked ever on slashdot.
No data to back it up and dumb references to making work like a video game. How any publisher let the green light on this is surprising.
How about communication skills and looking at work problems more cognitively since kids on video games have a great ability to do.
Since when does fiscal responsibility mean republican?
To be honest if it were not for Paris Hilton's lesbian sex tape with a former miss America I would have never heard of her.
And yes neither would most men. She became who she was by the tapes.
But I heard they have a new engine that can attack while still cloaked!
Taneunanbaum himself happens to disagree.
Its macrokernel.
With the GDI and other issues, unix does not even include the graphics in the kernel. Linux is now the exception but it created some controversy claiming it would make it unstable.
Microkernel is a very small kernel. Processes called servers need to run.
Windows95 ran upon dos which was all written in assembler which made NT look alot better and more micro-like. But this confuses many people today when they think anything wiht protected memory and layers between the hardware and apps is a microkernel. Its still macro.
Everything from I/O to networking touches the hardware in some way. Not as much as a pure macrokernel but still not even close to a micro one.
No not really.
NT was supposed to be microkernel like back in the OS2/NT days. But it's a macrokernel with a hal abstraction layer.
Even MacOSX is not a true mach like its nextstep predecessor.
I am not taking any side here.
I just hate dumb claims like "They suck..."
Both have tradeoff's
The CIA looks for individuals with weak personalities to double cross their governments for intelligence gathering.
A weak personality could leak and become a double agent.
Linus also said in userspace he really does not care what it runs. He cares only when writing kernel space code. He mentioned he liked Microsoft Office and powerpoint as an example.
Last, he is running Linux on it. Not MacOSX.
Also perhaps he wants to his his mac for home movies, photoshop, and other apps that are not related to hacking? Maybe his wife wants a nice, easy to use, and a reliable pc to run MS Office? A mac could fit the bill.
No offense but the GIMP sucks and digital camera's and camcorder support sucks on Linux. Lack of video editing software is a problem as well. MacOSX does come with some nice software for non nerds that is nice to have.