I live in the US, and in my high school, I'm currently taking a C++ Computer Science course. It counts as college credit, and I'd go on to say how it's really a joke of a course, about unimportant design principles, but that's besides the point...
Next Year, they're switching the course to java, Apparently all of the AP Computer Science courses are required to do it next year by order of the college board.
I couldn't tell you if it means anything about future java dominance, but it's probably an interesting tidbit nonetheless
It's funny. I always try to download a version behind when the release is younger than a week old. I don't encourage others to do it, since then it defeats the whole purpose of others getting killed by the bugs for me but usually, i notice that a lot of new release software ends up with some major bug. It's not really mozilla's fault, accidents happen, everyone knows that bug-free software is pretty much an impossible utopian ideal. But waiting generally works. Especially with critical stuff. I remember I almost upgraded to the latest kernel, the one that had the reiserfs bug that corrupted filesystems. Man was I happy I waited...
I especially like the SQL Server.NET-based file system
Am I the only one that thinks using a extremely resource hungry server as the backend for one of the most important parts of an OS seem kind of... wrong? Don't most modern OSes eat enough resources already?
If you really think about support, it's a mute point. With a windows network, do you think you don't need ITs on hand to handle all the nuances and problems with a school network. At the high school I attend, someone has to code the NT login scripts that map our server space, someone has to hunt down malfunctioning routers. Is Microsoft really that supportive anyway?
He even goes on to call source-based distros "immature". Perhaps in the Linux world, but how long has FreeBSD been around? It's okay to borrow ideas from other groups when those ideas seem to be working.
I'm pretty sure FreeBSD offers a set of binaries alongside the ports tree. Gentoo offers only the binaries required to compile the base system and then proceeds to compile it, and everything else, from scratch. Everything is optimized and whatnot, and it's probably easier to maintain the distro since there's no need for the developers to compile the binaries. The downside is it's slow to install/upgrade pkgs, especially if you've compiled glibc 3 times because it's been updated quickly. Also, occasinally I'll find things that fail to compile in the tree.
He even goes on to call source-based distros "immature". Perhaps in the Linux world, but how long has FreeBSD been around? It's okay to borrow ideas from other groups when those ideas seem to be working.
dselect's interface leaves some to be desired. I don't see the validity of your point, dselect has a HUGE database of packages in a non-intuitive text interface, if you don't know what you're looking for, I don't see how dselect helps at all.
and so is the RIAA, it doesn't seem too wrong to explain a workaround. I've never tried it, but kazaa has the option of tunnelling through a SOCKS proxy in the Firewall tab of the settings. I assume that would bypass any filtering server. If it works, you are limited by the bandwith of the proxy. You could also consider using a different P2P client; such as overnet or giFT.
I think RedHat released the broken gcc 2.96 for a reason. I think they feared that no one would be ready for the 3.x changeover, and by pushing 2.96, they would insure that most apps would be compatible and ready for the new gcc.
Also, since it's mildly broken, it gives developers an incentive to finish the real version fast and fix their mistakes, making software innovation faster... in a sort of sneaky underhanded way.
Then again, 2.95 had some bug with compiling bash on a certian arch or something, so that's probably the real reason... but still, it's fun to theorize.
Besides, look at apps like mplayer. They refused to code 2.96 workarounds. Their configure script won't even finish if it detects 2.96. That shows that no one is really locked into RedHat's 'Standards'
Democracy is usually categorized by the "Invisible Hand." The idea that government intervention is completely unnesessary and that the consumers will choose the greatest product themselves. One step down (or up, depending on your view) from that would be socialism, things like child labor laws, minimum wage, anti-monopoly laws, things that really do help people, all socialist ideas.
When we were truly capitalist? Actually...at one point in the past, we probably were, until they made it illegal to sell your children for slave labor...
It's mildly true that thinking alternatively doesn't make you any less brainwashed. Favoring the GPL is still favoring the GPL. Microsoft's Licenses and the GPL are extremes. Microsoft's solutions are closed and notouriously bug-ridden. Still, their solutions are nearly guarenteed to work out of the box. Solutions based under the GPL such as linux are STILL notouriously bug-ridden (linux has it's share of bugs, whether you admit it or not). The GPL forces people who use it to open their code. Now in a perfect open, academic utopia, this is great. But freedom comes at a price. People in buisiness can't afford to do this. If say... Photoshop was open-source, what stops anyone fromo taking the code, modifying it, and creating a new product? Freedom isn't always free, and GPL doesn't give you a choice to keep your sourcecode a trade secret (good or bad thing, that's up to you)
I don't really think Microsoft is forcing anything upon consumers/corporations themselves. If you don't want to run Microsoft software, don't. It's really very simple.
People tend to hit the extreme when they believe linux is better. Suddenly everyone running non-GPLed software supports facist regimes of capitalist corporations. It's simply not true. If the GPL is really about "choice," If you run linux, you are now using a new platform. True that it isn't proprietary, it's free, but odds are you will still have to upgrade it at some point, just like microsoft software. Though Kudos for free stuff, us linux people don't pay for the countless upgrades (maybe countless is a little less than I was thinking..). Windows is a business. Linux is a hobby. Besides the fact that linux is free, and windows isn't, they both offer similar solutions. I don't see where you're locked in at all. I can run PHP on windows. If I don't like windows, I can go use my PHP scripts on linux.
Really, some people are blowing this whole situation out of proportion. One C# course is not going to kill you. Most geeks know plenty of languages and it won't hurt to learn one more. Plus, you learn more from experience than you do in a classroom anyway. Anyone adept at programming can pick up a language quickly.
Microsoft is evil, I'll agree but don't say microsoft is removing your choice. Microsoft made and sells the software. There are plenty of server applications for both platforms.
As for desktop applications... linux is still maturing, loki showed that linux game sales weren't a very profitable enteprise. It isn't entirely Microsoft's fault that it has more software availible for windows.
For the record, I use linux but I wanted to show some objectivity.
When I was younger, I just did what I was suppposed to do, say the pledge, eat my lunch, color between the lines, etc. Once I got into around the 6th grade, I started to question why I would recite the pledge, I couldn't come up with a real reason, so I stopped.
Now, I'm in high school. I still don't recite the pledge. At first, the kids would actually laugh at me, as though I was trying to draw attention by being insubordinate. When I asked them why they recited the pledge, they didn't have an answer. In fact, after that, pretty much all the people in my homeroom stopped doing it (save a few devout catholics and some others).
Truthfully, I like the pledge for 1 reason. It's another 45 seconds or so that I can use to do my homework saving me the trouble of doing it at home =). Other than that, it has no relevance to me.
It's more than it seems. For $25, you can deintegrate IE from explorer altogether, and not install it. C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer no longer exists. The help system no longer works because it requires IE. There is a SIGNIFICANT speed up when doing this. I just installed the stripped down win98 on a 486 laptop and it now runs at a more than usable speed (16mb of ram, it's a miracle!). It doesn't stop at just IE, it'll let you remove the old MS-DOS components, ping/netstat/ftp/etc. No, it doesn't "just remove the icons."
Wouldn't it be nice if windows WAS packaged with all of the bloat, like IE or all the old MSDOS components, but you could choose NOT to install them? This seems perfectly viable to me, they merely add some uninstall code and some extra items to the add/remove windows components menu. Microsoft gets all it's "nesessary" components in, but you don't have to install them. Seems like a fine idea to me. In fact, someone's already gone and done it. So I don't think there is a really any viable argument that it can't be done.
One by one you have to recompile the kernel on each computer as they "expire." Could be worse, the nfs server could expire leaving all the nodes unable to boot. Expiring software, great idea eh?
That's sheer utter bullshit. You can't say that OSX has less applications available compared to linux. The big deal with OSX was that it was BSD. Most linux apps could recompile for it. You can run X on top of OSX, you can't say that there is a lack of applications for it. That's simply illogical.
I'm not a mac user, I am too poor to afford a mac. If I could afford it, I think I'd want to own at least one, just to mess around with, if anything. But there's nothing I can't stand more than uninformed remarks about things that people have obviously no idea about. No apps... psh... Did occur to you that Photoshop was originally for Macs? Yea, Photoshop, the leading tool in graphics design. Macs have all the apps you could need; from MS Office to xBill. I'm not saying Macs are perfect. Not by any means. I simply mean to remind you, Macintosh is not an inferior platform.
I've used all three and the OSS retail drivers. All of the drivers work, but I find the OSS retail drivers the best qualitiy. The kernel drivers seem to leave my Onboard Yamaha sound with pops and clicks, ALSA is slightly cleaner - with this slight static hiss introduced. Fiddling with the mixer and speaker volume settings, I can get it to a minimum noise level, but it's still there. The retail OSS drivers autdetect my soundcard, install and give me near perfect sound quality. Not bad for a closed source linux app. Although I'm slightly interested in this new autoconfiguration tool the kernel hackers have been talking about...
I live in NJ, I use verizon DSL (640/90). I am also locked into one of those contracts. I believe it's only for a year, but I got the modem free and a nice Logitech webcam. It uses PPPoE, dynamic IP and I have no trouble with it in Linux. The cable in the area is faster; some of my friends use it. But then again, It isn't reliable. If my DSL goes down (very rare), it is generally never down for more than 2 hours. I dunno about some people, but I'd rather have a stable 64kps than a varied 2k-150k.
Okay, I don't seem to understand this at all. You aren't required to BUY an onstar gizmo in your car. If you don't want it, don't buy it. If Customer #84392 likes to go to Bob's Stores, and this has helped them find Bob's Stores, this is a Good Thing (TM). Also, a misconception, it merely shows a logo or advertisement in the onstar console, there is no voice beconing you. I think there is a little bit too much paranoia. It's amazing how easy some people don't seem to realize the obvious. If you don't want it, you don't need it, don't buy it.
Someone else on that same board mentioned...
In the booklet for the 755C and similar models, there appears to be a "power on password" jumper next to the cmos battery sockets. Then.. later on, someone mentioned this (could be a troll, all caps.. but then again, could be foreign or something..) YOU MUST SUPPLY POWER TO THE HDD THEN SHORT OUT J11 J15 SHUT DOWN AND FDISK THEN FORMAT AND YOUR READFY TO GO Can't vouge for how true any of that is.. but it's worth a shot.
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I live in the US, and in my high school, I'm currently taking a C++ Computer Science course. It counts as college credit, and I'd go on to say how it's really a joke of a course, about unimportant design principles, but that's besides the point...
Next Year, they're switching the course to java, Apparently all of the AP Computer Science courses are required to do it next year by order of the college board.
I couldn't tell you if it means anything about future java dominance, but it's probably an interesting tidbit nonetheless
It's funny. I always try to download a version behind when the release is younger than a week old. I don't encourage others to do it, since then it defeats the whole purpose of others getting killed by the bugs for me but usually, i notice that a lot of new release software ends up with some major bug. It's not really mozilla's fault, accidents happen, everyone knows that bug-free software is pretty much an impossible utopian ideal. But waiting generally works. Especially with critical stuff. I remember I almost upgraded to the latest kernel, the one that had the reiserfs bug that corrupted filesystems. Man was I happy I waited...
If you really think about support, it's a mute point. With a windows network, do you think you don't need ITs on hand to handle all the nuances and problems with a school network. At the high school I attend, someone has to code the NT login scripts that map our server space, someone has to hunt down malfunctioning routers. Is Microsoft really that supportive anyway?
I'm pretty sure FreeBSD offers a set of binaries alongside the ports tree. Gentoo offers only the binaries required to compile the base system and then proceeds to compile it, and everything else, from scratch. Everything is optimized and whatnot, and it's probably easier to maintain the distro since there's no need for the developers to compile the binaries. The downside is it's slow to install/upgrade pkgs, especially if you've compiled glibc 3 times because it's been updated quickly. Also, occasinally I'll find things that fail to compile in the tree.
dselect's interface leaves some to be desired. I don't see the validity of your point, dselect has a HUGE database of packages in a non-intuitive text interface, if you don't know what you're looking for, I don't see how dselect helps at all.
Am I missing something?
and so is the RIAA, it doesn't seem too wrong to explain a workaround. I've never tried it, but kazaa has the option of tunnelling through a SOCKS proxy in the Firewall tab of the settings. I assume that would bypass any filtering server. If it works, you are limited by the bandwith of the proxy. You could also consider using a different P2P client; such as overnet or giFT.
I disagree.
Take what I say with a grain of salt but..
I think RedHat released the broken gcc 2.96 for a reason. I think they feared that no one would be ready for the 3.x changeover, and by pushing 2.96, they would insure that most apps would be compatible and ready for the new gcc.
Also, since it's mildly broken, it gives developers an incentive to finish the real version fast and fix their mistakes, making software innovation faster... in a sort of sneaky underhanded way.
Then again, 2.95 had some bug with compiling bash on a certian arch or something, so that's probably the real reason... but still, it's fun to theorize.
Besides, look at apps like mplayer. They refused to code 2.96 workarounds. Their configure script won't even finish if it detects 2.96. That shows that no one is really locked into RedHat's 'Standards'
Just a thought.
you're completely right, my bad. I meant Capitalism to begin with.
Although Democracy & Capitalism walk hand in hand.
Democracy is usually categorized by the "Invisible Hand." The idea that government intervention is completely unnesessary and that the consumers will choose the greatest product themselves. One step down (or up, depending on your view) from that would be socialism, things like child labor laws, minimum wage, anti-monopoly laws, things that really do help people, all socialist ideas.
When we were truly capitalist?
Actually...at one point in the past, we probably were, until they made it illegal to sell your children for slave labor...
Just a thought.
I'm just trying to offer an objective opinion..
It's mildly true that thinking alternatively doesn't make you any less brainwashed. Favoring the GPL is still favoring the GPL. Microsoft's Licenses and the GPL are extremes. Microsoft's solutions are closed and notouriously bug-ridden. Still, their solutions are nearly guarenteed to work out of the box.
Solutions based under the GPL such as linux are STILL notouriously bug-ridden (linux has it's share of bugs, whether you admit it or not). The GPL forces people who use it to open their code. Now in a perfect open, academic utopia, this is great. But freedom comes at a price. People in buisiness can't afford to do this. If say... Photoshop was open-source, what stops anyone fromo taking the code, modifying it, and creating a new product? Freedom isn't always free, and GPL doesn't give you a choice to keep your sourcecode a trade secret (good or bad thing, that's up to you)
I don't really think Microsoft is forcing anything upon consumers/corporations themselves. If you don't want to run Microsoft software, don't. It's really very simple.
People tend to hit the extreme when they believe linux is better. Suddenly everyone running non-GPLed software supports facist regimes of capitalist corporations. It's simply not true. If the GPL is really about "choice," If you run linux, you are now using a new platform. True that it isn't proprietary, it's free, but odds are you will still have to upgrade it at some point, just like microsoft software. Though Kudos for free stuff, us linux people don't pay for the countless upgrades (maybe countless is a little less than I was thinking..). Windows is a business. Linux is a hobby. Besides the fact that linux is free, and windows isn't, they both offer similar solutions. I don't see where you're locked in at all. I can run PHP on windows. If I don't like windows, I can go use my PHP scripts on linux.
Really, some people are blowing this whole situation out of proportion. One C# course is not going to kill you. Most geeks know plenty of languages and it won't hurt to learn one more. Plus, you learn more from experience than you do in a classroom anyway. Anyone adept at programming can pick up a language quickly.
Microsoft is evil, I'll agree but don't say microsoft is removing your choice. Microsoft made and sells the software. There are plenty of server applications for both platforms.
As for desktop applications... linux is still maturing, loki showed that linux game sales weren't a very profitable enteprise. It isn't entirely Microsoft's fault that it has more software availible for windows.
For the record, I use linux but I wanted to show some objectivity.
Wouldn't this be beneficial to microsoft? Every console you purchase, they lose money. So if you just don't purchase the console...
When I was younger, I just did what I was suppposed to do, say the pledge, eat my lunch, color between the lines, etc. Once I got into around the 6th grade, I started to question why I would recite the pledge, I couldn't come up with a real reason, so I stopped.
Now, I'm in high school. I still don't recite the pledge. At first, the kids would actually laugh at me, as though I was trying to draw attention by being insubordinate. When I asked them why they recited the pledge, they didn't have an answer. In fact, after that, pretty much all the people in my homeroom stopped doing it (save a few devout catholics and some others).
Truthfully, I like the pledge for 1 reason. It's another 45 seconds or so that I can use to do my homework saving me the trouble of doing it at home =). Other than that, it has no relevance to me.
It's more than it seems. For $25, you can deintegrate IE from explorer altogether, and not install it. C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer no longer exists. The help system no longer works because it requires IE. There is a SIGNIFICANT speed up when doing this. I just installed the stripped down win98 on a 486 laptop and it now runs at a more than usable speed (16mb of ram, it's a miracle!). It doesn't stop at just IE, it'll let you remove the old MS-DOS components, ping/netstat/ftp/etc. No, it doesn't "just remove the icons."
Just thought I should clear that up
Wouldn't it be nice if windows WAS packaged with all of the bloat, like IE or all the old MSDOS components, but you could choose NOT to install them? This seems perfectly viable to me, they merely add some uninstall code and some extra items to the add/remove windows components menu. Microsoft gets all it's "nesessary" components in, but you don't have to install them. Seems like a fine idea to me. In fact, someone's already gone and done it. So I don't think there is a really any viable argument that it can't be done.
One by one you have to recompile the kernel on each computer as they "expire." Could be worse, the nfs server could expire leaving all the nodes unable to boot. Expiring software, great idea eh?
That's sheer utter bullshit. You can't say that OSX has less applications available compared to linux. The big deal with OSX was that it was BSD. Most linux apps could recompile for it. You can run X on top of OSX, you can't say that there is a lack of applications for it. That's simply illogical.
I'm not a mac user, I am too poor to afford a mac. If I could afford it, I think I'd want to own at least one, just to mess around with, if anything. But there's nothing I can't stand more than uninformed remarks about things that people have obviously no idea about. No apps... psh... Did occur to you that Photoshop was originally for Macs? Yea, Photoshop, the leading tool in graphics design. Macs have all the apps you could need; from MS Office to xBill. I'm not saying Macs are perfect. Not by any means. I simply mean to remind you, Macintosh is not an inferior platform.
I've used all three and the OSS retail drivers. All of the drivers work, but I find the OSS retail drivers the best qualitiy. The kernel drivers seem to leave my Onboard Yamaha sound with pops and clicks, ALSA is slightly cleaner - with this slight static hiss introduced. Fiddling with the mixer and speaker volume settings, I can get it to a minimum noise level, but it's still there. The retail OSS drivers autdetect my soundcard, install and give me near perfect sound quality. Not bad for a closed source linux app. Although I'm slightly interested in this new autoconfiguration tool the kernel hackers have been talking about...
This shouldn't be a big concern, take the same precautions you always have, use a UPS or surge protector. The devices work fine through them.
-Scott
I live in NJ, I use verizon DSL (640/90). I am also locked into one of those contracts. I believe it's only for a year, but I got the modem free and a nice Logitech webcam. It uses PPPoE, dynamic IP and I have no trouble with it in Linux. The cable in the area is faster; some of my friends use it. But then again, It isn't reliable. If my DSL goes down (very rare), it is generally never down for more than 2 hours. I dunno about some people, but I'd rather have a stable 64kps than a varied 2k-150k.
-Scott
We are observing the object, period. If it's observed, then it completely destroys the principle.
:)
Duh
Okay, I don't seem to understand this at all. You aren't required to BUY an onstar gizmo in your car. If you don't want it, don't buy it. If Customer #84392 likes to go to Bob's Stores, and this has helped them find Bob's Stores, this is a Good Thing (TM). Also, a misconception, it merely shows a logo or advertisement in the onstar console, there is no voice beconing you. I think there is a little bit too much paranoia. It's amazing how easy some people don't seem to realize the obvious. If you don't want it, you don't need it, don't buy it.
-Scott
Someone else on that same board mentioned...
In the booklet for the 755C and similar models, there appears to be a "power on password" jumper next to the cmos battery sockets.
Then.. later on, someone mentioned this (could be a troll, all caps.. but then again, could be foreign or something..)
YOU MUST SUPPLY POWER TO THE HDD THEN SHORT OUT J11 J15 SHUT DOWN AND FDISK THEN FORMAT AND YOUR READFY TO GO
Can't vouge for how true any of that is.. but it's worth a shot.
-Scott