Things are falling apart pretty rapidly here in Arnette TX. Yesterday in the supermarket there were two guys fighting over the last can of tinned pineapple. They started shoving, then one smashed the other in the face with the tin, grabbed his basket and left him on the floor clutching his bloody face.
The national guard finally arrived this morning, but they seem more interested in keeping control of the food than in protecting anyone from the rioters.
I've got that old saying stuck in my head, the one about the world only ever being three missed meals away from anarchy. By my count we're at around 1 1/2 right now...God help us all.
The CPU transitions were handled at a much lower-level - the CPU was emulated, but not the OS, so even emulated software was running in the native OS. Apart from the performance drop, running apps in Rosetta (the PPC emulator) is pretty seamless; you can try it out by choosing an app, File->Get Info, then checking the 'Open in Rosetta' checkbox.
But yeah, the OS9->OSX transition did something similar to what Microsoft's describing. I only hope that Microsoft manage it a bit more gracefully than Apple did, 'cos that had serious usability problems and was a pretty jarring experience overall.
'Feature-complete' is a bug, not a feature in this instance. Embedding audio, video, SWF and 3D in PDFs is a truly retarded notion, and using acroread enables and encourages it.
The more people who use viewers that ignore these misbegotten 'features', the sooner they'll shrivel up and blow away.
True enough; nowadays, the average Slashdot-dwelling MS basher will try to make some kind of reasoned, evidence-backed argument instead of just huffing loudly and saying "this is typical".
They have to start weening the public off of the idea that Steve Jobs sits in a big room, thinking up ideas that later become the products people crave.
Yeah, agree mostly, and I have no doubt that post-Jobs they will continue to do all that good stuff - refreshing the hardware, coming up with a new look to replace aluminium+glass, adding fribble-frabble to OS X and so on.
But it's hard to imagine an Apple led by (eg) Phil Schiller, creating new products on a par with OSX, iLife, the iPhone, the iPod and so on.
Apple had smart people working there in the wilderness years too, and a fat lot of good it did them without a coherent long-term strategy and a bit of vision at the top.
In fact, they seem to strongly prefer to only announce products once they're ready to ship (or very nearly so), the sole exception I can think of being the OS.
The same question would apply to any filesystem. You're actually asking why FUSE exists at all, and the answer is, to reduce complexity (at the cost of performance).
My experience so far has been that the majority of moderators are not equipped to judge answers on correctness (else they'd have answered themselves), so they score based on tone.
So if you google the question and post a 2-para precis of the top hit in a friendly tone, you get lots of points. Post a correct answer in a curt tone, and you go -ve very quickly.
Well I like helping people out as much as any geek, but I'll be buggered if I have to suck up while I'm doing it. And if you think karma-whoring is bad on Slashdot, try giving people a power-based incentive for doing it and then see what happens.
You know... AMD pretty much invented the 64 bit x86 you are using now. Intel was betting on Itanic and had to run to implement AMD64 before AMD took too much of the server market.
So having multiple implementations of a standard can lead to competition and innovation, to the benefit of the user? Gotcha.
That does rather seem to be a argument for Mono though; are you sure that's what you meant to say?
That's debatable, a clone of Java isn't that much interesting IMHO.
It has a VM and curly brackets, therefore it's a Java clone?
Mmmh, x86 the ISA isn't totally under the control of Intel, as shown by the x86-64 extension that AMD made and that Intel was forced to take.
That could equally happen here, except that Mono will never get the marketshare (=leverage) to make it happen, and ironically part of the reason for that has got to be the staggeringly closed-minded bleatings of the rabid Linux fanboy crowd.
MDI is clearly a very good programmer, but he hasn't shown that his viewpoint about Microsoft dumb is reasonable..
That's a good reason to call someone 'terribly dumb'?
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DNF also exists and is playable. Most vapourware exists in some form or other; that doesn't disqualify it from being vapourware.
Things are falling apart pretty rapidly here in Arnette TX. Yesterday in the supermarket there were two guys fighting over the last can of tinned pineapple. They started shoving, then one smashed the other in the face with the tin, grabbed his basket and left him on the floor clutching his bloody face.
The national guard finally arrived this morning, but they seem more interested in keeping control of the food than in protecting anyone from the rioters.
I've got that old saying stuck in my head, the one about the world only ever being three missed meals away from anarchy. By my count we're at around 1 1/2 right now...God help us all.
The CPU transitions were handled at a much lower-level - the CPU was emulated, but not the OS, so even emulated software was running in the native OS. Apart from the performance drop, running apps in Rosetta (the PPC emulator) is pretty seamless; you can try it out by choosing an app, File->Get Info, then checking the 'Open in Rosetta' checkbox.
But yeah, the OS9->OSX transition did something similar to what Microsoft's describing. I only hope that Microsoft manage it a bit more gracefully than Apple did, 'cos that had serious usability problems and was a pretty jarring experience overall.
'Feature-complete' is a bug, not a feature in this instance. Embedding audio, video, SWF and 3D in PDFs is a truly retarded notion, and using acroread enables and encourages it.
The more people who use viewers that ignore these misbegotten 'features', the sooner they'll shrivel up and blow away.
Dude, a fresh install of the OS eats 6 Gb of HDD. You think that the 'bloated' argument is even in-play?
It's still there. Create a new user, select 'Managed with parental controls' for the type and enable 'Simple finder' in the options.
If you're using CFLs indiscriminately, you're applying the technology suboptimally.
Suboptimal but overwhelmingly better than what went before is fine by me.
A rarely and briefly-used hallway light, for example, would be better served by an incandescent.
You don't think that the difference in cost would be pretty negligible?
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If selling their soul to do business in China wasn't crossing the line then I don't see how this could be.
What would it say about the US aircraft industry if he travelled in a foreign airliner?
It would say that Airbus met their needs better than Boeing, by a big margin.
But yeah, this is clearly meant to light a fire under Boeing.
I'm not your average joe MS basher
True enough; nowadays, the average Slashdot-dwelling MS basher will try to make some kind of reasoned, evidence-backed argument instead of just huffing loudly and saying "this is typical".
They have to start weening the public off of the idea that Steve Jobs sits in a big room, thinking up ideas that later become the products people crave.
Yeah, agree mostly, and I have no doubt that post-Jobs they will continue to do all that good stuff - refreshing the hardware, coming up with a new look to replace aluminium+glass, adding fribble-frabble to OS X and so on.
But it's hard to imagine an Apple led by (eg) Phil Schiller, creating new products on a par with OSX, iLife, the iPhone, the iPod and so on.
Apple had smart people working there in the wilderness years too, and a fat lot of good it did them without a coherent long-term strategy and a bit of vision at the top.
Eh, no, not really.
In fact, they seem to strongly prefer to only announce products once they're ready to ship (or very nearly so), the sole exception I can think of being the OS.
Macworld Boston - that's the one. If the collection starts from 1998 then it must not include this one [youtube.com].
Lol, the spontaneous applause whenever anyone mentions directors resigning tells a story in itself.
You have installed MacFUSE, but not any FSes. Get sshfs here.
The same question would apply to any filesystem. You're actually asking why FUSE exists at all, and the answer is, to reduce complexity (at the cost of performance).
My experience so far has been that the majority of moderators are not equipped to judge answers on correctness (else they'd have answered themselves), so they score based on tone.
So if you google the question and post a 2-para precis of the top hit in a friendly tone, you get lots of points. Post a correct answer in a curt tone, and you go -ve very quickly.
Well I like helping people out as much as any geek, but I'll be buggered if I have to suck up while I'm doing it. And if you think karma-whoring is bad on Slashdot, try giving people a power-based incentive for doing it and then see what happens.
This appears to have been true at the time of the initial extradition request, but not any more. Sucks to be him...
You know... AMD pretty much invented the 64 bit x86 you are using now. Intel was betting on Itanic and had to run to implement AMD64 before AMD took too much of the server market.
So having multiple implementations of a standard can lead to competition and innovation, to the benefit of the user? Gotcha.
That does rather seem to be a argument for Mono though; are you sure that's what you meant to say?
That's debatable, a clone of Java isn't that much interesting IMHO.
It has a VM and curly brackets, therefore it's a Java clone?
Mmmh, x86 the ISA isn't totally under the control of Intel, as shown by the x86-64 extension that AMD made and that Intel was forced to take.
That could equally happen here, except that Mono will never get the marketshare (=leverage) to make it happen, and ironically part of the reason for that has got to be the staggeringly closed-minded bleatings of the rabid Linux fanboy crowd.
MDI is clearly a very good programmer, but he hasn't shown that his viewpoint about Microsoft dumb is reasonable..
That's a good reason to call someone 'terribly dumb'?
Sigh. I must be new here.
there are other ways to build rich internet applications
To clarify, you are talking about Flash here, right? If there's another comparable alternative, please correct me.
Anyway, to summarise your post:
1) Don't use Silverlight, use Flash
2) Flash is worse than Silverlight.
3) I hate Microsoft.
(1)+(2) = nonsense, leaving (3) which answers the GP's question nicely.
I love Gnome and I understand Mono is a somewhat simpler (than C++) way to build programs for it, but is it really necessary?
Dunno about 'necessary', but .net and C# are good stuff, and I think it's good that they're available on non-Microsoft platforms.
I just find it's terribly dumb to let both your specification and the reference implementation to be under the control of your worst enemy.
By this logic, AMD should stop making x86 CPUs. BTW, it's not nice to call people dumb, especially when the evidence is overwhelmingly against it.
As for Silverlight... Yuck.
I presume that 'yuck' is entirely an expression of your feelings towards Microsoft, and not about anything concrete.
Is Brian May a LaTeX user? Perhaps he could write a song about it.
I Want to Break Free?
Chinese Torture?
I'm Going Slightly Mad?
I wonder if he used a radio-ga-ga telescope to get his data?
Indeed, he did. I believe he also harnessed a SETI@home-like distributed effort to filter the radio ga-ga from the radio goo-goo and radio bla-bla.