No, it's simply poor journalism. There's very little in the piece that can't be gleaned from a transcript. If the journalist had done his job, a quick response from a RedHat representative would have been included. Marcello Tosatti might have contributed a quip. Will his maintenance team support Red Hat's modifications?
You let your children watch adult dvds in the car? That's certainly a bit libertine. In my car, only the driver and front passenger screens show adult content-- the kids get books.
The local CompUSA is trying to hawk a 500 MHz icebook for $1000... It's a loaded machine, too. 10 GB Hard Drive. CD Rom, 128 Megabytes of memory. And it runs 9.2.2 like a dream.
It's possible that your negative experience was the result of inept projectionists.
IIRC, "The man who wasn't there" was filmed with color stock, and digitally reduced to black and white, as Kodak and the other film companies had neglected the research and development of quality B&W film.
The quality of celluloid always seems to be underrated. I have a dvd of "North by Northwest" (1959) that looks every bit as clean and crisp as "Almost Famous" (2001).
The worst DVDs are sourced from the laserdisc, or from a old print.
Ah yes. ye olde dictionnaire proofe. Most philosophers would contend that defining virtue (or for non Randians, vice) is a problem beyond the reach of dictionary editors.
It's also considered polite to properly label your links. Accoring to dictionary.com "greed" is distinguished by a insatiable desire, while a "greedy" action is shortsighted and intemperate. Labeling the link to "greed, defined" with "greedy" was an interesting stylistic choice.
Earthlink scanned 1,062,756 times, finding 29,540,618 instances of spyware. 23,826,785 of those were "Adware Cookies, which store personal information (like your surfing habits, usernames and passwords, and areas of interest) and share the information with other Web sites." Earthink SpyAudit
Now, if you eliminate the "adware cookies" as dubious, you're still left with the headline "The average PC contains 5.4 instances of "Adware, System Monitors, and Trojan Horses." Still tabloidish enough to get a rise out of most slashdotters.
There are two kinds of software companies--those who are blissfully unaware of multi-user computing, and those that have developed nasty little license administration servers to charge for such activity. Wolfram, for instance, charges through the nose if a user wants to run more than one instance of Mathematica.
I use VNC occasionally, as I have a fairly powerful desktop machine in one room, and a somewhat underpowered laptop that I use elsewhere. But the OS I use, MacOSX 10.3, is somewhat uncooperative. 10.3 looks horrible with 256 colors, and you lose the benefits of expose.
X11 apps might work well across the network-- but not every programmer debugs and optimizes cross network performance.
MS released its version of BASIC in 1975. Xerox donated the infamous laser printer (with the broken, closed source driver) to the AI Lab in 1980. GNU was announced in 1983. The GPL was first promulgated in 1985, with emacs-16.56.
The net hints that the gpl stems from a attempt to close the source of and commercialize a version of emacs that Stallman had contributed to. But it also hints that this gosling-unipress myth is wrong.
umm, sure. I haven't used Windows in a long time, but DLL Hell was a common theme.
Maple V was linked to an obsolete version of libc. In an ideal world, I could have recompiled against the newer libc (fixing bugs along the way), instead of trying to track down the old version..
(not to disparage the programmers too much. They did at least produce a linux version, and afaik, they complied with all the relevant licensing crap, mostly by relying on Motif and BSD style libraries.)
If they don't include source code, they're not really supporting linux.
I mean, if Waterloo Maple had bothered to include source, I could have gotten their program to work on my system without resorting to silly windows style tricks such as installing obsolete binaries...
Fine. Use BSD programs. Just don't come crying to us when you suddenly need the source code.
The GPL was developed because RMS was tired of working with closed binaries. (It's somewhat ironic that the BSD distros are somewhat more source centered than linux distributions, but at least with linux, there's a legal guarantee, should the user wish to return to the glorious days of building from source..)
Cray has never competed on that basis. Supercomputing is all about making certain problems soluable within a reasonable amount of time. If the problem is more sensitive to memory latency and bandwidth, it may run faster on a cray than on a large beowulf system.
And if that extra speed is worth grant money, extra profits, up to date intelligence or simulation flexibility, then the Cray may be worth it.
Slaves used to pick seeds from the cotton, but the cotton gin enabled planters to allocate the majority of their slaves to other tasks. Apparently, the seed removal task was so time consuming that in the years previous to the gin's adoption, it was becoming increasingly uneconomical to run a cotton plantation. Blame Eli Whitney for revivifying the barbarous practice of keeping slaves.
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No, it's simply poor journalism. There's very little in the piece that can't be gleaned from a transcript. If the journalist had done his job, a quick response from a RedHat representative would have been included. Marcello Tosatti might have contributed a quip. Will his maintenance team support Red Hat's modifications?
Without such analysis, it's merely marketing.
Absurdist retellings of stupid jokes, poor transitional clauses, inept paraphrasing...
Obviously you're somewhat unfamiliar with last month's hysteria over adult dvds in cars.
It sounds as though someone took the time to backport it through the babelfish translation engine a few times.
You let your children watch adult dvds in the car? That's certainly a bit libertine. In my car, only the driver and front passenger screens show adult content-- the kids get books.
I thought the mac had a pair of rs422s...
The local CompUSA is trying to hawk a 500 MHz icebook for $1000... It's a loaded machine, too. 10 GB Hard Drive. CD Rom, 128 Megabytes of memory. And it runs 9.2.2 like a dream.
It's possible that your negative experience was the result of inept projectionists.
IIRC, "The man who wasn't there" was filmed with color stock, and digitally reduced to black and white, as Kodak and the other film companies had neglected the research and development of quality B&W film.
The quality of celluloid always seems to be underrated. I have a dvd of "North by Northwest" (1959) that looks every bit as clean and crisp as "Almost Famous" (2001).
The worst DVDs are sourced from the laserdisc, or from a old print.
Ah yes. ye olde dictionnaire proofe. Most philosophers would contend that defining virtue (or for non Randians, vice) is a problem beyond the reach of dictionary editors.
It's also considered polite to properly label your links. Accoring to dictionary.com "greed" is distinguished by a insatiable desire, while a "greedy" action is shortsighted and intemperate. Labeling the link to "greed, defined" with "greedy" was an interesting stylistic choice.
Earthlink scanned 1,062,756 times, finding 29,540,618 instances of spyware. 23,826,785 of those were "Adware Cookies, which store personal information (like your surfing habits, usernames and passwords, and areas of interest) and share the information with other Web sites." Earthink SpyAudit
Now, if you eliminate the "adware cookies" as dubious, you're still left with the headline "The average PC contains 5.4 instances of "Adware, System Monitors, and Trojan Horses." Still tabloidish enough to get a rise out of most slashdotters.
Quite right. If you know where to look, the cost of Windows is minimal. A few baht, no more.
There are two kinds of software companies--those who are blissfully unaware of multi-user computing, and those that have developed nasty little license administration servers to charge for such activity. Wolfram, for instance, charges through the nose if a user wants to run more than one instance of Mathematica.
I use VNC occasionally, as I have a fairly powerful desktop machine in one room, and a somewhat underpowered laptop that I use elsewhere. But the OS I use, MacOSX 10.3, is somewhat uncooperative. 10.3 looks horrible with 256 colors, and you lose the benefits of expose.
X11 apps might work well across the network-- but not every programmer debugs and optimizes cross network performance.
I kicked around the concept of having a big, honkin' X "server" and two X terminals.
It probably didn't work all that well because the usual model is to have two X servers, and client apps running on the central machine...
They weren't that difficult to reverse engineer. Of course, at least one of the stories was impossible to win.
MS released its version of BASIC in 1975. Xerox donated the infamous laser printer (with the broken, closed source driver) to the AI Lab in 1980. GNU was announced in 1983. The GPL was first promulgated in 1985, with emacs-16.56.
The net hints that the gpl stems from a attempt to close the source of and commercialize a version of emacs that Stallman had contributed to. But it also hints that this gosling-unipress myth is wrong.
Why would you use Linux, it has no GUI!
Idiot. Motif is used as a GUI. Besides, Maple had a perfectly usable CLI client when xmaple was inappropriate.
If mainstream computing means dealing with closed source forks, count me out.
umm, sure. I haven't used Windows in a long time, but DLL Hell was a common theme.
Maple V was linked to an obsolete version of libc. In an ideal world, I could have recompiled against the newer libc (fixing bugs along the way), instead of trying to track down the old version..
(not to disparage the programmers too much. They did at least produce a linux version, and afaik, they complied with all the relevant licensing crap, mostly by relying on Motif and BSD style libraries.)
"Support Linux, get sued!"
If they don't include source code, they're not really supporting linux.
I mean, if Waterloo Maple had bothered to include source, I could have gotten their program to work on my system without resorting to silly windows style tricks such as installing obsolete binaries...
Fine. Use BSD programs. Just don't come crying to us when you suddenly need the source code.
The GPL was developed because RMS was tired of working with closed binaries. (It's somewhat ironic that the BSD distros are somewhat more source centered than linux distributions, but at least with linux, there's a legal guarantee, should the user wish to return to the glorious days of building from source..)
Really? Perhaps simple hydrocarbons, such as ethane or acetylene, but petroleum?
bang for the buck? huh?
Cray has never competed on that basis. Supercomputing is all about making certain problems soluable within a reasonable amount of time. If the problem is more sensitive to memory latency and bandwidth, it may run faster on a cray than on a large beowulf system.
And if that extra speed is worth grant money, extra profits, up to date intelligence or simulation flexibility, then the Cray may be worth it.
Slaves used to pick seeds from the cotton, but the cotton gin enabled planters to allocate the majority of their slaves to other tasks. Apparently, the seed removal task was so time consuming that in the years previous to the gin's adoption, it was becoming increasingly uneconomical to run a cotton plantation. Blame Eli Whitney for revivifying the barbarous practice of keeping slaves.