Personally.. I hate solaris. I have heard all the arguments like.. it's great if you spend all this time tweaking it, etc.. but the fact is it comes out of the box unusable.. almost nothing but vi installed.. Fine for a server environment but you pretty much need either a bunch of time to install and customize it to make it usable or just use linux for development and pop it over onto solaris at the last minute. Which pretty much makes the x86 offering useless. I can see why they cancelled it.
"no conveyance of ideas, expression, or anything else that could possibly amount to speech. The court finds that video games have more in common with board games and sports than they do with motion pictures."
I wonder what four games he examined. Of coarse not every game amounts to speech or expression.. but either did the movie Titanic or most other hollywood drivel, yet somehow they are protected.
I spend so much time at work that sometimes I question paying for internet access at home at all but do so only because it is so cheap. If their plan is to drive any power users from using their network then the idea is perfect. Most of those who are in IT related jobs not only have other sources of high speed internet connectivity but are more likely to demand high bandwidth at home.
I know the home-box may be different.. but is the xbox's hard drive really large enough to do TIVO type stuff??
I know that WMF is probably smaller and higher quality than whatever TIVO is using.. but is that enough?
Traditionally, whenever a console producer has split their target by having 32x and PLUS models and memory expansion packs it has eventually killed them.. or at least meant the beggining of the end.. I can't imagine MS stepping into that.
The binary representation of ASN.1 is supposed to be quite good at representing XML.
If you have a schema for your data, then it can simplify the data by making assumptions about the order and format of the data.. at least that is my understanding.. and of coarse it's no longer verbose and human readable..
A lot of people seem to be saying that this move won't cut down on piracy.. they will just pirate american copies..
I think that is a given! I think their whole problem is that the costs of maintaining an asian version for each product, a sales force and tech support team, etc is costing them more than they are getting from the asian market. If they want to pirate the software.. at least they can pirate the US version.
As much as I like the fact that the kernel can be so easily customized in many ways this has hurt it's adopted by the general public.
The fact that I might have to recompile my kernel just to include support for a new piece of hardware is a real pain in the ass.
Any chance that this would become a thing of the past becomes less and less the easier the rebuilding of the kernel becomes.
As much as I like linux, WindowsXPs incredible plug and play capabilities are always going to be better than recompiling the kernel no matter how easy it becomes.
I suppose that from my perspective, there was much less to an O/S when I was a kid. There wasn't much to learn about using a TSR-80..
I think a lot of people are missing the fact that these computers need to be accessible by the average kid who isn't overly interested in computers. It's not fair to compare ourselves as kids ( who ended up being IT professionals in most cases ) to other kids.
I suppose as long as an operating system allows casual users to function without learning the nitty-gritty it should be fine.. and yes.. I suppose Gnome or KDE are good for that.
Great idea.. but perhaps Red Hat is missing the points. I can't believe that even the largest supporter of linux would think that a child could use linux.
Even windows is too complicated for most kids, prompting those weird kiddy front-ends that simulate a classroom.. But is RedHat willing to develop that as well? Or are we talking about kindergarden kids running gnome??
I wonder if a company like wolfram would donate mathematica for an endevour like this. It's unrealistic to try and make money of third world developement.. and if the ultimate goal here is to move these countries out of the third world, getting them hooked on the product would be great for the future.
Strangely enough.. It seems that for the most part I think the ps2 is just plain fragile. I treat my PS2 like a home theatre component.. never move it, etc.. I have had no problems. A friend of mine occasionally moves it, etc.. and he is up to his third..
To a certain extent we do the same with breast size or clear skin or any other physical characteristic. I don't know how broad your definition of explosive is.. but the proliferation of breast implants is no less harmful than that possible should IQ be made as important as beauty.
Perhaps they would just use MIPS or something.. or some sort of benchmark. Often companies like Apple and Sun resort to this so their low clock values don't sound bad.
Out of curiousity.. If you take stripped down installs of both and compare( but you pretty much have to use X in order to keep to comparison fare), who wins in terms of memory usage?
All I was getting at is that it's hard to compare that two.. and often people throw out these numbers and bash windows simply for not being as customizable.. in the server world it's easy to say that it's silly to waste cpu cycles on a GUI.. but when you starting comparing Linux as a desktop OS things get different.
That's fine..
But you can't criticize windows by starting with everything installed (IIS, ect.. ) and compare it to a stripped down linux workstation install..
and I am willing to bet that is what is happening here.. Otherwise how can the mem usage be up to 171megs at boot?
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I live in canada so 90210 was the only real postal code I know.. I use it whenever I go to a non canada friendly site.
Personally.. I hate solaris. I have heard all the arguments like.. it's great if you spend all this time tweaking it, etc.. but the fact is it comes out of the box unusable.. almost nothing but vi installed.. Fine for a server environment but you pretty much need either a bunch of time to install and customize it to make it usable or just use linux for development and pop it over onto solaris at the last minute. Which pretty much makes the x86 offering useless. I can see why they cancelled it.
"no conveyance of ideas, expression, or anything else that could possibly amount to speech. The court finds that video games have more in common with board games and sports than they do with motion pictures."
I wonder what four games he examined. Of coarse not every game amounts to speech or expression.. but either did the movie Titanic or most other hollywood drivel, yet somehow they are protected.
I thought Sierra owned Valve? What is the whole "Looks like the giants are behind the times" reference about?
I spend so much time at work that sometimes I question paying for internet access at home at all but do so only because it is so cheap. If their plan is to drive any power users from using their network then the idea is perfect. Most of those who are in IT related jobs not only have other sources of high speed internet connectivity but are more likely to demand high bandwidth at home.
Not to say I am happy about it or anything..
I know the home-box may be different.. but is the xbox's hard drive really large enough to do TIVO type stuff??
I know that WMF is probably smaller and higher quality than whatever TIVO is using.. but is that enough?
Traditionally, whenever a console producer has split their target by having 32x and PLUS models and memory expansion packs it has eventually killed them.. or at least meant the beggining of the end.. I can't imagine MS stepping into that.
The article states that the lcd can display 800x600.. not 640x480..
The binary representation of ASN.1 is supposed to be quite good at representing XML.
If you have a schema for your data, then it can simplify the data by making assumptions about the order and format of the data.. at least that is my understanding.. and of coarse it's no longer verbose and human readable..
A lot of people seem to be saying that this move won't cut down on piracy.. they will just pirate american copies..
I think that is a given! I think their whole problem is that the costs of maintaining an asian version for each product, a sales force and tech support team, etc is costing them more than they are getting from the asian market. If they want to pirate the software.. at least they can pirate the US version.
As much as I like the fact that the kernel can be so easily customized in many ways this has hurt it's adopted by the general public.
The fact that I might have to recompile my kernel just to include support for a new piece of hardware is a real pain in the ass.
Any chance that this would become a thing of the past becomes less and less the easier the rebuilding of the kernel becomes.
As much as I like linux, WindowsXPs incredible plug and play capabilities are always going to be better than recompiling the kernel no matter how easy it becomes.
Does SGI even own OpenGL??
It's an open standard.. isn't that what the OPEN stands for?
Has anyone actually seen a BEIA device around? As much as it is sad that BEOS itself is dead.. I think using it for embedded systems is a great idea!!
I may be gullible here.. but are you really being serious?
That's pretty crippling as far as I am concerned..
I mean.. compare that to a ps-one..
Good point.
I suppose that from my perspective, there was much less to an O/S when I was a kid. There wasn't much to learn about using a TSR-80..
I think a lot of people are missing the fact that these computers need to be accessible by the average kid who isn't overly interested in computers. It's not fair to compare ourselves as kids ( who ended up being IT professionals in most cases ) to other kids.
I suppose as long as an operating system allows casual users to function without learning the nitty-gritty it should be fine.. and yes.. I suppose Gnome or KDE are good for that.
Great idea.. but perhaps Red Hat is missing the points. I can't believe that even the largest supporter of linux would think that a child could use linux.
Even windows is too complicated for most kids, prompting those weird kiddy front-ends that simulate a classroom.. But is RedHat willing to develop that as well? Or are we talking about kindergarden kids running gnome??
I wonder if a company like wolfram would donate mathematica for an endevour like this. It's unrealistic to try and make money of third world developement.. and if the ultimate goal here is to move these countries out of the third world, getting them hooked on the product would be great for the future.
Strangely enough.. It seems that for the most part I think the ps2 is just plain fragile. I treat my PS2 like a home theatre component.. never move it, etc.. I have had no problems. A friend of mine occasionally moves it, etc.. and he is up to his third..
Perhaps that is the problem..
Isn't the MS .NET thing all about this?
Everything compiles to a common language with a proper object linking model right?
I get the feeling that you can right a handler for a button press in whatever language you like.. ( MS Supported of coarse!! )
To a certain extent we do the same with breast size or clear skin or any other physical characteristic. I don't know how broad your definition of explosive is.. but the proliferation of breast implants is no less harmful than that possible should IQ be made as important as beauty.
Perhaps they would just use MIPS or something.. or some sort of benchmark. Often companies like Apple and Sun resort to this so their low clock values don't sound bad.
Why is this -1?? Sounds reasonable to me..
Good point..
Out of curiousity.. If you take stripped down installs of both and compare( but you pretty much have to use X in order to keep to comparison fare), who wins in terms of memory usage?
All I was getting at is that it's hard to compare that two.. and often people throw out these numbers and bash windows simply for not being as customizable.. in the server world it's easy to say that it's silly to waste cpu cycles on a GUI.. but when you starting comparing Linux as a desktop OS things get different.
That's fine..
But you can't criticize windows by starting with everything installed (IIS, ect.. ) and compare it to a stripped down linux workstation install..
and I am willing to bet that is what is happening here.. Otherwise how can the mem usage be up to 171megs at boot?
What does this have to do with replacing windows 2000 on the desktop??