If you're ever in Washington D.C., stop by the Smithsonian Museum of American History and check out the basement. They have the UNIVAC I, as well as portions of the ENIAC, and probably most of the other pieces of computing history you've ever used or heard of.
It's really incredible. I spent several hours in awe, walking through there.
They've even got the earliest of early: relatives to Babbage's difference engine, etc. I highly recommend it for anyone who has any geek in them at all.
But that's only helpful if Photoshop won't do scripting or batch processing or macros or whatever they would have decided to call it.
It does.
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My point is that the typical MacOS user doesn't care at all about "low-level functions of the OS"; in fact, much of the design of MacOS is meant to hide that from the user.
Show a MacOS user "tar -xvzf gimp.xxxyyyzzz.tgz", and their eyes will glaze over before you ever get to the 2nd command.
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GIMP is almost as easy to install as Photoshop, has about half the functionality, and has a very buggy and limited interface. All of its ideas were taken from Photoshop. Oh, and it loses portions of the interface periodically, and crashes regularly.
In fact, the only advantage I can think of is the price.
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Show that to a MacOS user, and they'll laugh in your face.
Don't forget to put a bit bucket under the open cable when you go looking for the token. That way, you can catch any data that falls out, and pour it back in the cable before reattaching it.
Thank you, Captain Obvious. However, you disregarded the point in your oversimplification.
Yes, the Internet is a network of machines connecting directly to other machines (peer-to-peer network topology), but most applications of the network are not peer-to-peer. That's the point.
The only real, widespread, mainstream application of peer-to-peer filesharing systems seems to be piracy of intellectual property. 'talk' isn't going to convince anyone otherwise.
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Linus was obviously trying to make some kind of a point by responding to the Mundie speech. But because of his childish, sarcastic manner, the point was lost on all but those who are already blind in the light of Linus.
As for all of your blathering about Linux, Linux was never mentioned in the Mundie speech, Linus' response, or my post. But while we're on the subject, maybe this article will relieve your hallucinations about how Linus Torvalds doesn't care about the success of Linux in the business world. Wake up.
. . . that Linus feels the need to respond so childishly.
[As a quick note, this is not a troll or flamebait, though it will likely be modded as such.]
Please, set aside for a moment the fact that Linus is god and M$ is the devil. Linus makes some very astute observations in his message, but for a reader who is not already sold on the gospel of Lin, it comes off as childish, snotty, and rude. A few examples:
Gee, what a surprise.
I wonder if Mundie has ever heard of Sir Isaac Newton?
I'd rather listen to Newton than to Mundie. He may have been dead for almost three hundred years, but despite that he stinks up the room less.
Valid points, yes, but this kind of attitude is not what OSS needs to get respect in the business world. And, yes, ultimately what OSS needs to succeed is respect by the general, non-Slashdot population.
From a purely academic standpoint, OO database systems seem like a better solution. They are elegant, and designed to integrate perfectly with the application. However, most of the reasons for using them are also the reasons for not using them:
Complexity. These systems are much more difficult to design than RDBMS. The application must be designed first, then the data structures must accomodate that. This kind of design is very expensive.
RDBMSs are generic. Since an OO system is designed for a specific application, it's difficult to use that system for anything else. A well-designed, properly normalized RDBMS can be used for many different applications. When a DB is going to fill many terabytes, you don't want to have multiple copies of it for each distinct reporting application.
Schema changes. As mentioned in the article, schema changes are a nightmare with an OO system. In a relational system, some changes can be made with no impact on existing applications. Others are relatively uncomplicated compared to similar OO changes.
Skills availability. Yes, the old management problem. Everyone knows SQL; nobody knows OO.
It's just not worth it. Given the dramatically higher costs associated with designing and maintaining an OO system, most applications just don't need the incremental performance gains associated with it. Very specialized, very high performance systems would benefit, but smaller or more general systems would not.
Microsoft has pretty much won this console war before it begins. Exclusivity is a huge thing in the gaming world . . . especially for a game that will almost certainly be a blockbuster.
Regardless of the technology (and the XBox tech looks pretty good), Microsoft has played the gaming business better than anyone else ever has. Microsoft has decided they want to break into this market, and they're well on their way to domination. The XBox will have a huge selection of software when it arrives, and I expect they'll get exclusivity for a few more key titles. The PS2 is in trouble . . . let's hope Nintendo can compete.
I thought the whole point of transistors was to get away from tubes! And isn't it going to be a pain to find and replace those tiny little tubes when they burn out?
Everyone seems to be jumping to the conclusion that this is somehow Microsoft's fault. Where's the article that even says the systems were running NT/2000? If that is known, is there anything stating that the problem was caused by an OS defect?
I mean really, people. Sure, we've all had bad M$ experiences, but blame the NASA engineers for a poorly designed redundancy, and let them blame their supplier.
I like the idea of having separate components to do everything. True, they could integrate better, but I like the idea of replacing just my VCR with the next big thing, then a year later, replacing just my CD player.
Having it all integrated would be convenient, but would imply that all the technology would age at the same rate. Not so . . . my stereo receiver could be 15 years old and still kickin' fine, but my cable modem needs to be replaced every couple of years at least (as bandwidth improves).
Maybe a "magic box" that has component cards that can be swapped in and out, much like a mainframe's architecture . . . but you'd still be stuck with one vendor.
Overall, screw the magic box, and give me my closet full of gear.
This is really funny. It's too bad most of the the people who would actually care to see the "alternative" information wouldn't be caught dead using a::Cue:::Cat:: to begin with, but it's a nice sentiment.
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Every so often on Slashdot, you hear about a new invention that's really going to change the world.
This isn't one of them.
I bet you could buy 1000 batteries for the price of one of these shirts (that ain't gonna survive 1000 washings).
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I saw that too . . . never did figure out how to recover from it (besides just reformatting) . . .
The release of Castle Wolfenstein would be an anniversary worth mentioning; not this.
It's really incredible. I spent several hours in awe, walking through there.
They've even got the earliest of early: relatives to Babbage's difference engine, etc. I highly recommend it for anyone who has any geek in them at all.
And, like most of Washington, it's free.
It does.
Show a MacOS user "tar -xvzf gimp.xxxyyyzzz.tgz", and their eyes will glaze over before you ever get to the 2nd command.
In fact, the only advantage I can think of is the price.
Show that to a MacOS user, and they'll laugh in your face.
What are you talking about? I don't see the fnord.
Impressive. You just get better and better at this every time, don't you?
Don't forget to put a bit bucket under the open cable when you go looking for the token. That way, you can catch any data that falls out, and pour it back in the cable before reattaching it.
Yes, the Internet is a network of machines connecting directly to other machines (peer-to-peer network topology), but most applications of the network are not peer-to-peer. That's the point.
The only real, widespread, mainstream application of peer-to-peer filesharing systems seems to be piracy of intellectual property. 'talk' isn't going to convince anyone otherwise.
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As for all of your blathering about Linux, Linux was never mentioned in the Mundie speech, Linus' response, or my post. But while we're on the subject, maybe this article will relieve your hallucinations about how Linus Torvalds doesn't care about the success of Linux in the business world. Wake up.
"Pro-Napster" could mean either
- in support of the idea of free (as in speech) music, supported and executed by the artist community, or
- in support of the massive, widespread illegal trading of copyrighted material that takes place on Napster.
You should be able to find many speakers for the former, few (notable) speakers for the latter.This is marketing hype of the worst kind. If you look, I would be willing to bet you would also discover:
- 19 out of the 20 biggest Telco companies use Linux
- 19 out of the 20 biggest Telco companies use Windows NT
- 19 out of the 20 biggest Telco companies use HP printers
- 19 out of the 20 biggest Telco companies use Dell computers
- 19 out of the 20 biggest Telco companies use Gateway computers
- 19 out of the 20 biggest Telco companies use IBM computers
- 19 out of the 20 biggest Telco companies have some employees named Dave
. . . you get the idea.[As a quick note, this is not a troll or flamebait, though it will likely be modded as such.]
Please, set aside for a moment the fact that Linus is god and M$ is the devil. Linus makes some very astute observations in his message, but for a reader who is not already sold on the gospel of Lin, it comes off as childish, snotty, and rude. A few examples:
- Gee, what a surprise.
- I wonder if Mundie has ever heard of Sir Isaac Newton?
- I'd rather listen to Newton than to Mundie. He may have been dead for almost three hundred years, but despite that he stinks up the room less.
Valid points, yes, but this kind of attitude is not what OSS needs to get respect in the business world. And, yes, ultimately what OSS needs to succeed is respect by the general, non-Slashdot population.Regardless of the technology (and the XBox tech looks pretty good), Microsoft has played the gaming business better than anyone else ever has. Microsoft has decided they want to break into this market, and they're well on their way to domination. The XBox will have a huge selection of software when it arrives, and I expect they'll get exclusivity for a few more key titles. The PS2 is in trouble . . . let's hope Nintendo can compete.
I thought the whole point of transistors was to get away from tubes! And isn't it going to be a pain to find and replace those tiny little tubes when they burn out?
I mean really, people. Sure, we've all had bad M$ experiences, but blame the NASA engineers for a poorly designed redundancy, and let them blame their supplier.
Having it all integrated would be convenient, but would imply that all the technology would age at the same rate. Not so . . . my stereo receiver could be 15 years old and still kickin' fine, but my cable modem needs to be replaced every couple of years at least (as bandwidth improves).
Maybe a "magic box" that has component cards that can be swapped in and out, much like a mainframe's architecture . . . but you'd still be stuck with one vendor.
Overall, screw the magic box, and give me my closet full of gear.
Mine too. Fuck italics.
M$ would have gotten the joke back in 1978 . . .
This is really funny. It's too bad most of the the people who would actually care to see the "alternative" information wouldn't be caught dead using a ::Cue:::Cat:: to begin with, but it's a nice sentiment.
This isn't one of them.
I bet you could buy 1000 batteries for the price of one of these shirts (that ain't gonna survive 1000 washings).