I do believe the user base at home will decline heavily (Free Product vs Highly priced crap), but the corporate business wont trust a Google OS for many years to come
I think you're half right - business won't trust a Google based OS for years, but the marketshare issues wil be at businesses. A business doesn't care whether they run Windows or Linux, just that it works, so if they can put their Linux servers in and everything continues to provide the business with the service they require, they may well do so - simply because they refresh hardware and software regularly and would be relatively happy to go with the cheaper option.
The cost of migrating all those special apps is possibly the biggest reason it hasn't happened already.
Home users - they may like instant on linux bios boots, but they still need windows to play those games even if their web, email and photos are just as good on Linux.
I think Launchpad actually has one of the best systems for dealing with this because it allows anybody to submit patches and new versions and the community can vote on and select patches.
I like this, Sourceforge should implement it immediately!
I also think there are a lot of OSS projects out there that that have fallen into disuse (I don't refer to the popular ones), perhaps SF should have a policy of only accepting projects that have 2 owners, like a chairman and secretary for a public company, so there is always someone who can tell you to sod off when you suggest a patch. (and if you have no friends, you should be able to pick from a list of 'non-executive' volunteers).
but a language with a little rigidity, checking, and simplicity to it wouldn't hurt, would it?)
nope. lets get a simple C JIT compiler into the browser! It wouldn't have to do everything, just compile function by function as needed. These functions could be called from javascript so you'd have speed and scripting in one small tidy package - its not as if the C runtime is a large library by today's standards.
Meanwhile I am trying to find a way to get Firefox to STOP automatic animation
yep, and when this is a true standard, I've no doubt there will be options to control it better. That'll be far better solution than adblock or other 'all or nothing' (relatively speaking) filtering controls.
well, it does *now*, everyone's started linking to it in their "why is Bing so biased", and "Bing is rubbish", and "Why Bing isn't biased after all, honest, no really" blog articles.
I suppose that is the killer app feature that will ensure its adoption by web design agencies around the world. Goodbye flash and silverlight, you won't be missed.
Now.. just don't tell them that the state of the art in adblocking technologies will quickly have a solution.
and ever since, its been style over substance from MS. Unfortunately, they've got him working on Azure now, hopefully he's just doing that for a laugh.
are you sure there'd be much difference. The cost of Windows 7 in China is quite low at $60. I couldn't comment on how many Chinese will pirate it anyway.
The deal, announced last week, will mean that Microsoft's Bing search engine will power Yahoo's search site and Yahoo will sell premium search ad services for both companies
I think that answers it nicely. You'll be wanting this instead.
NT was a microkernel, as originally designed and implemented by Dave Cutler and his team for Windows NT 3.51, however, they started putting more and more into the kernel from its old position in userspace starting from NT4. The most notable was the inclusion of the graphics subsystem into the kernel, which made NT4 less stable, but faster.
I couldn't say how much of Vista/Windows7 is microkernel, but considering they re-architected a lot so we could be protected from the evils of pirate music and video, its probably a fully monolithic kernel now.
yeah, 'cos just what we want for Linux GUI standardisation is *another* GUI app, and one that can't be used from existing applications too.
Suggesting Mono as a standard GUI for everything is a stupid and pointless idea. All it will do is fragment GUI development on Linux ever further, making... oh wait, I see what you're trying to do here....
Now, if you'd said lets all use QT, I'd understand you were trying to consolidate development. It does, after all, have bindings for practically every language in existence (probably not Mono, but that closed monoculture would be the only one). Then development would be easier and more productive all round, and you could play nicely with other developers instead of living in a Mono-only sandpit.
Ah yes... that old bastard. its only 6 gig on my 32-bit Vista at home. I resent it taking up an entire DVD, just to backup stuff I'm already backing up!
At least administrators are used to backing up lots more data than they used to, and tape hardware is.. well, not that cheap.
Thing is, I've never seen it work, when SQL Server decided to go tits up, I still had to fire up the CD and repair the installation.
IIRC Vista had a new, super, improved shutdown ruotine that would do just that: on shutdown, apps were given a certain amount of time to sort out their affairs, if they didn't - Vista shut them down regardless. (maybe I'm thinking of the power save / sleep mode).
My worst thing about it is updates - you must restart to install updates appears, so I think I'll wait and shut it down later just before bedtime. So bedtime comes, I shut down, and it reboots because it wants to install the updates there and then and can't wait with the power off until the morning. So I have to shutdown... wait while it reboots.. then shutdown before I can go to bed. Useless.
I thought about that too - I mean, what mediawiki really needs is a way to constrain a page into a 8.5 x 11 sized page and then give users a nice WYSIWYG editor.. (a bit like Word:-) ). But then I thought a bit more - text is good, and with stylesheets even HTML can be made into something that looks good and prints out nicely, look at all the blogs with their formatting that work. If that kind of style/templating system could make it into mediawiki then we really would have an alternative to Word and desktop-based applications.
The point is that you still need to print things, but you also want them stored on the server for searching and easy viewing (that latter rules out sharepoint), and version control with audit. Currently the focus is on the printing and the ease of use is secondary. Switch that around and you have the Office killer app.
1. they've been busted for something else and are now in gaol. Conficker patiently bides its time waiting for the stars to be right and its dark master(s) to be freed.
2. they've given up on that crappy little botnet and are working busily on a new, much stronger, more powerful one.
3. It was never invented by Russian mobsters, but by the Bush administration, intending to hack all the voting machines and deliver unto George a third term.
4. someone forgot their password, it was written on a little post-it by the monitor, which was vacuumed up by their mum when she did some spring cleaning.
5. The inventors had their fun with Microsoft and the internet, but now they've discovered girls and beer.
Microsoft, however, does not even approach the line, no matter how one defines the term.
nonsense, Microsoft's new definition of the term open simple refers to the inclusivity of the number of people who are affected by their licences. If the definition of openness means it is available to everyone equally, then the new definition from MS makes perfect sense.
Their software is completely open: absolutely anyone can do nothing with it.:-)
IIRC, it was never 3d first-person games that drove hardware development, but space-flight shoot-em ups. Titles like Wing Commander really drove the need for better and better graphics hardware, in fact, Wing Commander was the one that made the 386 chip a necessity and apparently made people upgrade to play it.
cheers for that - I didn't realise they did some after Aftermath!
that said, my favourite of all the X-COm (and one I still occasionally play) is Apocalypse, the graphics are "good for 1990" but the gameplay is still one of the best I've ever played, the aliens slowly get better to keep things interesting all the way through, and the whole thing just works really well. I'd love to see that refreshed, updated and more of the politics that they were going to include added in.
I think we can only do that when we remove the innate tendency of certain organisations and groups to "spin" the truth in ways that suit their public image.
(and no, I'm not bashing MS here, but politicians, marketeers, salesmen, and lawyers too!)
Maybe he means, "you'll remember how good Aero Glass was, compared to the shite we've made of the UI in 7".
I can't see it working any other way, usually people have a fondness for something bad in their past because they used it a lot and grew accustomed to its flaws. Not all things - no-one looks back at Word crashing and losing their documents with any fondness (in fact, I think that flaw still haunts Office), but things you could work around or deal with in some way. Technically, they'd be remembering the workarounds they cleverly implemented themselves...
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I do believe the user base at home will decline heavily (Free Product vs Highly priced crap), but the corporate business wont trust a Google OS for many years to come
I think you're half right - business won't trust a Google based OS for years, but the marketshare issues wil be at businesses. A business doesn't care whether they run Windows or Linux, just that it works, so if they can put their Linux servers in and everything continues to provide the business with the service they require, they may well do so - simply because they refresh hardware and software regularly and would be relatively happy to go with the cheaper option.
The cost of migrating all those special apps is possibly the biggest reason it hasn't happened already.
Home users - they may like instant on linux bios boots, but they still need windows to play those games even if their web, email and photos are just as good on Linux.
I think Launchpad actually has one of the best systems for dealing with this because it allows anybody to submit patches and new versions and the community can vote on and select patches.
I like this, Sourceforge should implement it immediately!
I also think there are a lot of OSS projects out there that that have fallen into disuse (I don't refer to the popular ones), perhaps SF should have a policy of only accepting projects that have 2 owners, like a chairman and secretary for a public company, so there is always someone who can tell you to sod off when you suggest a patch. (and if you have no friends, you should be able to pick from a list of 'non-executive' volunteers).
but a language with a little rigidity, checking, and simplicity to it wouldn't hurt, would it?)
nope. lets get a simple C JIT compiler into the browser! It wouldn't have to do everything, just compile function by function as needed. These functions could be called from javascript so you'd have speed and scripting in one small tidy package - its not as if the C runtime is a large library by today's standards.
Meanwhile I am trying to find a way to get Firefox to STOP automatic animation
yep, and when this is a true standard, I've no doubt there will be options to control it better. That'll be far better solution than adblock or other 'all or nothing' (relatively speaking) filtering controls.
well, it does *now*, everyone's started linking to it in their "why is Bing so biased", and "Bing is rubbish", and "Why Bing isn't biased after all, honest, no really" blog articles.
I suppose that is the killer app feature that will ensure its adoption by web design agencies around the world. Goodbye flash and silverlight, you won't be missed.
Now.. just don't tell them that the state of the art in adblocking technologies will quickly have a solution.
and ever since, its been style over substance from MS. Unfortunately, they've got him working on Azure now, hopefully he's just doing that for a laugh.
are you sure there'd be much difference. The cost of Windows 7 in China is quite low at $60. I couldn't comment on how many Chinese will pirate it anyway.
Reportedly it was for not being able to run fast enough
If only China had the same attitude towards Windows...
From TFS:
The deal, announced last week, will mean that Microsoft's Bing search engine will power Yahoo's search site and Yahoo will sell premium search ad services for both companies
I think that answers it nicely. You'll be wanting this instead.
NT was a microkernel, as originally designed and implemented by Dave Cutler and his team for Windows NT 3.51, however, they started putting more and more into the kernel from its old position in userspace starting from NT4. The most notable was the inclusion of the graphics subsystem into the kernel, which made NT4 less stable, but faster.
I couldn't say how much of Vista/Windows7 is microkernel, but considering they re-architected a lot so we could be protected from the evils of pirate music and video, its probably a fully monolithic kernel now.
agreed. Its *the* worst thing about KDE.
About as annoying as everything in Windows being blahblahbah.NET now.
yeah, 'cos just what we want for Linux GUI standardisation is *another* GUI app, and one that can't be used from existing applications too.
Suggesting Mono as a standard GUI for everything is a stupid and pointless idea. All it will do is fragment GUI development on Linux ever further, making ... oh wait, I see what you're trying to do here....
Now, if you'd said lets all use QT, I'd understand you were trying to consolidate development. It does, after all, have bindings for practically every language in existence (probably not Mono, but that closed monoculture would be the only one). Then development would be easier and more productive all round, and you could play nicely with other developers instead of living in a Mono-only sandpit.
yeah, but everyone knows you have to clean your gun regularly or it'll stop working properly.
which is a lot like Windows too, shame the detailed disassembly instructions are never included in the box.
Ah yes... that old bastard. its only 6 gig on my 32-bit Vista at home. I resent it taking up an entire DVD, just to backup stuff I'm already backing up!
At least administrators are used to backing up lots more data than they used to, and tape hardware is .. well, not that cheap.
Thing is, I've never seen it work, when SQL Server decided to go tits up, I still had to fire up the CD and repair the installation.
IIRC Vista had a new, super, improved shutdown ruotine that would do just that: on shutdown, apps were given a certain amount of time to sort out their affairs, if they didn't - Vista shut them down regardless. (maybe I'm thinking of the power save / sleep mode).
My worst thing about it is updates - you must restart to install updates appears, so I think I'll wait and shut it down later just before bedtime. So bedtime comes, I shut down, and it reboots because it wants to install the updates there and then and can't wait with the power off until the morning. So I have to shutdown... wait while it reboots.. then shutdown before I can go to bed. Useless.
I guess 6 was something to do with the NSA and their mind control rays, but they had it censored before you had even typed your post. :)
I thought about that too - I mean, what mediawiki really needs is a way to constrain a page into a 8.5 x 11 sized page and then give users a nice WYSIWYG editor.. (a bit like Word :-) ). But then I thought a bit more - text is good, and with stylesheets even HTML can be made into something that looks good and prints out nicely, look at all the blogs with their formatting that work. If that kind of style/templating system could make it into mediawiki then we really would have an alternative to Word and desktop-based applications.
The point is that you still need to print things, but you also want them stored on the server for searching and easy viewing (that latter rules out sharepoint), and version control with audit. Currently the focus is on the printing and the ease of use is secondary. Switch that around and you have the Office killer app.
Possible scenarios:
1. they've been busted for something else and are now in gaol. Conficker patiently bides its time waiting for the stars to be right and its dark master(s) to be freed.
2. they've given up on that crappy little botnet and are working busily on a new, much stronger, more powerful one.
3. It was never invented by Russian mobsters, but by the Bush administration, intending to hack all the voting machines and deliver unto George a third term.
4. someone forgot their password, it was written on a little post-it by the monitor, which was vacuumed up by their mum when she did some spring cleaning.
5. The inventors had their fun with Microsoft and the internet, but now they've discovered girls and beer.
Microsoft, however, does not even approach the line, no matter how one defines the term.
nonsense, Microsoft's new definition of the term open simple refers to the inclusivity of the number of people who are affected by their licences. If the definition of openness means it is available to everyone equally, then the new definition from MS makes perfect sense.
Their software is completely open: absolutely anyone can do nothing with it. :-)
yeah, but maybe his wife killed *him*? I guess she couldn't take one more day of having rpm builds explained to her instead of going out for dinner.
IIRC, it was never 3d first-person games that drove hardware development, but space-flight shoot-em ups. Titles like Wing Commander really drove the need for better and better graphics hardware, in fact, Wing Commander was the one that made the 386 chip a necessity and apparently made people upgrade to play it.
cheers for that - I didn't realise they did some after Aftermath!
that said, my favourite of all the X-COm (and one I still occasionally play) is Apocalypse, the graphics are "good for 1990" but the gameplay is still one of the best I've ever played, the aliens slowly get better to keep things interesting all the way through, and the whole thing just works really well. I'd love to see that refreshed, updated and more of the politics that they were going to include added in.
There is the open source 'remake': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UFO:_Alien_Invasion
Can we please move on as a culture?
I think we can only do that when we remove the innate tendency of certain organisations and groups to "spin" the truth in ways that suit their public image.
(and no, I'm not bashing MS here, but politicians, marketeers, salesmen, and lawyers too!)
Maybe he means, "you'll remember how good Aero Glass was, compared to the shite we've made of the UI in 7".
I can't see it working any other way, usually people have a fondness for something bad in their past because they used it a lot and grew accustomed to its flaws. Not all things - no-one looks back at Word crashing and losing their documents with any fondness (in fact, I think that flaw still haunts Office), but things you could work around or deal with in some way. Technically, they'd be remembering the workarounds they cleverly implemented themselves...