I do use LInux and WIndows and OS/X The thing with WIndows is you are hard pressed to not find a good program to do the task you need. Office is better than OpenOffice. OpenOffice is very usable and I do use it but it is just not as good as MS Office. Solidworks and Autodesk I think ProE has a Linux version but most CAD users use WIndows these days.
Think of all the restaurant sites that where dumb enough to have flash heavy websites. For the small developer they will make a mint writing mobile friendly sites. It is kind of funny that the sites you may most want to look up on a Mobile device are often the worst sites to try and use on mobile.
That is just it, Flash is not a robust core on mobile. Take video for example, Flash drops a good percentage of frames on the Atrix which is not a slow devices. Then you have the fact that most flash games just will not work on mobile devices. There is no mouse and pointer on mobile devices and most Flash games depend on that type of input. Then you have the battery draining issues. Then you have the fact that Adobe has failed to fix the performance issues of flash And the final blow was when Hulu blocked mobile devices! It would seem that they think a tablet running on wifi is different than a latptop running on wifi. So the idea of full web experience was shot down. The final problem was that Flash will never be a standard on the mobile platform. There are just too many devices just do not support it. Their you have it Flash died on mobile because of performance issues, Adobe's failure to fix the issues, lack of vendor support, and it's failure to deliver on it's full web experience.
Why thank me for the truth. I guess I should have looked up the length of the Ohio but oh well. Frankly it is a wonder that the US only ever lost two SSNs and no SSBNs over the years. Thanks for you service.
Submariners tend to be very good on the average. It comes down to the fact that they live in roughly a 1000' long steel pipe under water with a nuclear reactor, high explosives, and on SSBNs a hundred plus nuclear war heads sitting on 24 big honking rockets. Mistakes are very costly in that environment:)
Not really. The Wii was not start of the art when it came out and did very well. I don't hear people screaming for better graphics than the PS/3 or the 360. Combine that with the rise of casual games and yes it could run a console well enough for many users. The high end market could and frankly is shrinking. You can get good video cards and I do mean good cards for around $120 now that will run games very well on the average monitor. You only need the high end cards for 27" high resolution monitors like the Apple Thunderbolt monitor and others that share that resolution.
High end was a dumb thing to add. PCs in general yes. If can pump out 1080p it will be good enough for 99.7% of current PC users. Are people going to run CAD or high end video games on it? Probably not. Gamers just don't seem to get just how small of a percentage of PC users they are. For a good long time PCs will probably be stuck at 1080p for the majority of monitors since TVs will keep the cost of the panels low for a good while.
The Devil you know is better than the angel you don't. You will always be faster and more efficient with a UI you know than one that you do not. I remember a friend looking at my Amiga back in 1985 and saying that DOS looked more "professional" than Workbench. Every time I move to a new system the first feeling I have is why doesn't it work the way I expect it too! I force myself to get over it and and move on.
"Today, thanks to the Internet, we can summon the collective intelligence of millions. " Just go and read the comments on the story and the average CNN story to see just how little intelligence that is. Some times if you add in enough loud dumb it will over whelm the smart.
Dude don't get your knickers in a knot. My post was mostly pro mainframe. I just said that a cloud based solution like Rackcloud or E2C might work as far as an easy to scale system. I also pointed out that a port of mainframe software to such a system would probably be far more expensive than running it on a mainframe.
I actually just downloaded DragonFly to try it out. For me the answer would be Ubuntu Server or Centos. Both have worked well for me and the big thing is I know Linux much better than I know BSD. For the most part I would say that both are good choices depending on the user. Of course ZFS is really interesting and I have heard about Jails but have never used them.
My guess is that you have not done the math. Any company that has a mainframe will also have a team of bean counters. They will check the cost of those extra cycles to adding hardware and even look at the taxes involved. Of course cloud based solution may works as well but if you already have the code on a mainframe you would have to also look at the cost of the port and testing to make it work.
That has never happened to my systems. Now it is a small sample but maybe you should try a modern stable distro and not one that is cutting edge. i will admit that I do not understand why anyone runs a server on Fedroa when Centos, Ubuntu Server, and Deban are available.
Not to be mean but I do have wonder about this statement. "Sure, it's quicker to build a Linux box, do a "yum install x y z" and toss it out into the wild as a fully functional server, but the extra time required to really get a FreeBSD box tuned will come back in spades through performance and stability metrics."
What if you spend that extra time to also tune the Linux box. I am not a BSD hater but last time I checked Linux had better support for SMP and in my experience it has been very stable and performs very well. Not to say that BSD is a bad choice. FreeNAS runs on it and FreeBSD also supports ZFS which are both pluses IMHO but I just don't know if one can say that it is a "Better" choice than Linux for the desktop or server. And no I really do not want to start a flame war but I do have to wonder. Frankly a good reason to use FreeBSD over Linux is that "It is secure, it works, and I know it." The same is true for OpenBSD, and Linux IMHO.
Oh and DragonFly BSD is supposed to be fixing SMP. I have a bit of fondness for Matt Dillion. He was involved in the Amiga community at the same time I was.
They are explosives. At least solid fuel is more or less. The US is actually one of the more relaxed nations when it comes to HPR. In some nations of the EU you have to jump through all sorts of hoops just to go past an F motor. Hybrids are easier to build since the fuel and oxidizer is less regulated. Of course just how easy to you want it to be to get enough rocket fuel for a big honking rocket like this? The fact that it was done legally shows how open the FAA and ATF are to this kind of thing.
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It also includes Vietnam. And when have the Marines had to operate Harriers out of grass strips. BTW you so do not want to operate a Harrier off of a Grass or dirt strip. You are going to have real issues with FOD if you do. Off a road or parking lot is an option. VSTOL is a nice capability but the price of it is really high, in this case it may be too high. Could the Marines do CAS with carrier based F-35s? I would say yes.
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Marines fly F-18s from carriers now. Marines have been flying CAS long before their was a Harrier so no they do not have to have them on the Assault ships. You are right they the do need replacements very badly but they need to replace the F-18s they use the most. They did not get the E/F Super Hornet and their Hornets are really getting close to EOL.
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The problem is that our current aircraft are old. Let me explain it to everyone how old. The F-15's first flight was in 1972. Entered service in 1976. It is some of the finest 1960s technology on the planet. It is still in service because of upgrades but their comes a time when you just have to build new. The F-16 FF 1974 and entered service in 1978 again some what updated but not new tech. F-18 was a derivative of the F-17 which competed with the F-16 so first flight is about the same and entered service in 1983. The Super Hornet is much newer at 1995 and 1999 for entry into service. The B-52 first flight I believe was actually in 1952 and the last builds where in the early 1960s. As a rule the military flys aircraft for a very long time so they get their and ours money of of them. Now you could take the F-15 and put new radar on it and put new engines in it but the truth is that the the actual airframe is the cheap part. You would pay probably 70% of the cost of a new build to get about %50 of the improvement. Then you have the cost of suppliers. As planes get older parts go out of production. You could even have issues with alloys and plastics going out of production. So at some point it is just better to build new. Now the F-35 had a nightmare spec added to it when they decided to require VSTOL. That through a lot of new and better problems in the mix. Then add in the super advanced avionics and it went through the roof. Frankly the VSTOL should just be dropped but that would tick off the UK,Italy, and Spain which are both counting on it to replace the Harrier. If it helps the same problems where seen in the F-15, F-14, F-106, and F-111. The F-111 was actually thought of as a total disaster but went on to a long service life and did very well. As too UAVs there is a problem with them still and that is bandwidth. You can not control 100 UAVs in air to air combat at a distance yet. And frankly AI UCAVS scare the crap out of me at this time.
Funny but someone in my office got a 4s and is not noticing the battery issue. Do you really think that if it was universal and easy to find it wouldn't have been?
I thought the Enterprise used a duatronic hypervisor. Just kidding. VirtualBox can be used for more than just desktop VMs but you are correct that it really isn't competitive with VMWare.
What counts as "Helps violate human rights?" Is not being tracked a human right? What about 911 calls on cells where they can find the location of the call to send help? What about Microsoft? I bet those systems run windows. Maybe the GNU project if they use Linux and or GCC to write the code? Maybe Asus or Foxconn for making the motherboards that the code runs on? Maybe Intel and AMD for making the chips that the code runs one? Or Seagate for making the hardrives that they use to store the data? Or........ How involved must it be? Hey I am not supporting Irans actions or these European companies that seems to support and profit by them, but if you are going to want to set yourself up as judge or anyone else you better have some clear rules. When one is a tool maker you must live with the fact that sometimes people will use tools in ways you do not want them too.
"Also, does anyone seriously think that a project of this size would be approved without an air tight argument that the experiment will operate in a domain where there are likely to be measurable results?" Yes I do. I think they have a reasonable argument that the experiment will operate in a domain where their are likely to be results. That is why it is called and experiment. It might fail to get results but that too is a result.
This got me wondering though. At what point in science does a race become advanced enough that they should move some experiments off planet just for sake of safety? This test is not at the level yet but as the energy levels go up and up one has to wonder when having a base on the moon or in the Astroid belt becomes a good idea. See Castle Bravo as an example of what can happen when physics goes wrong.
Like I said NOT THIS TEST but at some point I wonder if it will be wise to build some of this stuff off planet.
The beta of 5 was out for developers for a good bit of time and no one reported it. You might be suppressed what can go unnoticed in testing. There was a WP7 update that bricked 10% of all WP7 phones. When you consider that Microsoft has very strick platform requirements and only had 3 models of WP7 phones on the market that is pretty bad. A fast draining battery is just no that bad compared to bricking the phone.
I am guessing that it was caused by an interaction of iCloud and location services that just didn't show up in testing. Frankly two weeks to determine that the bug is real, find the cause, and get a beta update out to fix it is pretty dang good.
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That page is distrowatch. It is more about Open Source distros than Linux.
Linux just tends to top the chart.
If the big bang was more energetic than as supernova why did it only create Hydrogen and Helium? Why not at least some Lithium?
I do use LInux and WIndows and OS/X
The thing with WIndows is you are hard pressed to not find a good program to do the task you need.
Office is better than OpenOffice. OpenOffice is very usable and I do use it but it is just not as good as MS Office.
Solidworks and Autodesk I think ProE has a Linux version but most CAD users use WIndows these days.
Think of all the restaurant sites that where dumb enough to have flash heavy websites. For the small developer they will make a mint writing mobile friendly sites. It is kind of funny that the sites you may most want to look up on a Mobile device are often the worst sites to try and use on mobile.
That is just it, Flash is not a robust core on mobile.
Take video for example, Flash drops a good percentage of frames on the Atrix which is not a slow devices.
Then you have the fact that most flash games just will not work on mobile devices. There is no mouse and pointer on mobile devices and most Flash games depend on that type of input.
Then you have the battery draining issues.
Then you have the fact that Adobe has failed to fix the performance issues of flash
And the final blow was when Hulu blocked mobile devices! It would seem that they think a tablet running on wifi is different than a latptop running on wifi. So the idea of full web experience was shot down.
The final problem was that Flash will never be a standard on the mobile platform. There are just too many devices just do not support it.
Their you have it Flash died on mobile because of performance issues, Adobe's failure to fix the issues, lack of vendor support, and it's failure to deliver on it's full web experience.
Why thank me for the truth. I guess I should have looked up the length of the Ohio but oh well. Frankly it is a wonder that the US only ever lost two SSNs and no SSBNs over the years. Thanks for you service.
Submariners tend to be very good on the average. It comes down to the fact that they live in roughly a 1000' long steel pipe under water with a nuclear reactor, high explosives, and on SSBNs a hundred plus nuclear war heads sitting on 24 big honking rockets. Mistakes are very costly in that environment :)
Not really. The Wii was not start of the art when it came out and did very well. I don't hear people screaming for better graphics than the PS/3 or the 360. Combine that with the rise of casual games and yes it could run a console well enough for many users. The high end market could and frankly is shrinking. You can get good video cards and I do mean good cards for around $120 now that will run games very well on the average monitor. You only need the high end cards for 27" high resolution monitors like the Apple Thunderbolt monitor and others that share that resolution.
High end was a dumb thing to add. PCs in general yes. If can pump out 1080p it will be good enough for 99.7% of current PC users. Are people going to run CAD or high end video games on it? Probably not.
Gamers just don't seem to get just how small of a percentage of PC users they are. For a good long time PCs will probably be stuck at 1080p for the majority of monitors since TVs will keep the cost of the panels low for a good while.
The Devil you know is better than the angel you don't. You will always be faster and more efficient with a UI you know than one that you do not. I remember a friend looking at my Amiga back in 1985 and saying that DOS looked more "professional" than Workbench. Every time I move to a new system the first feeling I have is why doesn't it work the way I expect it too! I force myself to get over it and and move on.
"Today, thanks to the Internet, we can summon the collective intelligence of millions. "
Just go and read the comments on the story and the average CNN story to see just how little intelligence that is.
Some times if you add in enough loud dumb it will over whelm the smart.
Dude don't get your knickers in a knot. My post was mostly pro mainframe. I just said that a cloud based solution like Rackcloud or E2C might work as far as an easy to scale system. I also pointed out that a port of mainframe software to such a system would probably be far more expensive than running it on a mainframe.
I actually just downloaded DragonFly to try it out.
For me the answer would be Ubuntu Server or Centos. Both have worked well for me and the big thing is I know Linux much better than I know BSD.
For the most part I would say that both are good choices depending on the user. Of course ZFS is really interesting and I have heard about Jails but have never used them.
My guess is that you have not done the math. Any company that has a mainframe will also have a team of bean counters. They will check the cost of those extra cycles to adding hardware and even look at the taxes involved. Of course cloud based solution may works as well but if you already have the code on a mainframe you would have to also look at the cost of the port and testing to make it work.
That has never happened to my systems. Now it is a small sample but maybe you should try a modern stable distro and not one that is cutting edge. i will admit that I do not understand why anyone runs a server on Fedroa when Centos, Ubuntu Server, and Deban are available.
Not to be mean but I do have wonder about this statement. "Sure, it's quicker to build a Linux box, do a "yum install x y z" and toss it out into the wild as a fully functional server, but the extra time required to really get a FreeBSD box tuned will come back in spades through performance and stability metrics."
What if you spend that extra time to also tune the Linux box. I am not a BSD hater but last time I checked Linux had better support for SMP and in my experience it has been very stable and performs very well.
Not to say that BSD is a bad choice. FreeNAS runs on it and FreeBSD also supports ZFS which are both pluses IMHO but I just don't know if one can say that it is a "Better" choice than Linux for the desktop or server.
And no I really do not want to start a flame war but I do have to wonder.
Frankly a good reason to use FreeBSD over Linux is that "It is secure, it works, and I know it." The same is true for OpenBSD, and Linux IMHO.
Oh and DragonFly BSD is supposed to be fixing SMP. I have a bit of fondness for Matt Dillion. He was involved in the Amiga community at the same time I was.
They are explosives. At least solid fuel is more or less.
The US is actually one of the more relaxed nations when it comes to HPR. In some nations of the EU you have to jump through all sorts of hoops just to go past an F motor.
Hybrids are easier to build since the fuel and oxidizer is less regulated.
Of course just how easy to you want it to be to get enough rocket fuel for a big honking rocket like this? The fact that it was done legally shows how open the FAA and ATF are to this kind of thing.
It also includes Vietnam. And when have the Marines had to operate Harriers out of grass strips. BTW you so do not want to operate a Harrier off of a Grass or dirt strip. You are going to have real issues with FOD if you do. Off a road or parking lot is an option.
VSTOL is a nice capability but the price of it is really high, in this case it may be too high. Could the Marines do CAS with carrier based F-35s? I would say yes.
Marines fly F-18s from carriers now. Marines have been flying CAS long before their was a Harrier so no they do not have to have them on the Assault ships. You are right they the do need replacements very badly but they need to replace the F-18s they use the most. They did not get the E/F Super Hornet and their Hornets are really getting close to EOL.
The problem is that our current aircraft are old. Let me explain it to everyone how old.
The F-15's first flight was in 1972. Entered service in 1976. It is some of the finest 1960s technology on the planet.
It is still in service because of upgrades but their comes a time when you just have to build new.
The F-16 FF 1974 and entered service in 1978 again some what updated but not new tech.
F-18 was a derivative of the F-17 which competed with the F-16 so first flight is about the same and entered service in 1983. The Super Hornet is much newer at 1995 and 1999 for entry into service.
The B-52 first flight I believe was actually in 1952 and the last builds where in the early 1960s.
As a rule the military flys aircraft for a very long time so they get their and ours money of of them.
Now you could take the F-15 and put new radar on it and put new engines in it but the truth is that the the actual airframe is the cheap part. You would pay probably 70% of the cost of a new build to get about %50 of the improvement. Then you have the cost of suppliers. As planes get older parts go out of production. You could even have issues with alloys and plastics going out of production.
So at some point it is just better to build new.
Now the F-35 had a nightmare spec added to it when they decided to require VSTOL. That through a lot of new and better problems in the mix. Then add in the super advanced avionics and it went through the roof.
Frankly the VSTOL should just be dropped but that would tick off the UK,Italy, and Spain which are both counting on it to replace the Harrier.
If it helps the same problems where seen in the F-15, F-14, F-106, and F-111. The F-111 was actually thought of as a total disaster but went on to a long service life and did very well.
As too UAVs there is a problem with them still and that is bandwidth. You can not control 100 UAVs in air to air combat at a distance yet. And frankly AI UCAVS scare the crap out of me at this time.
Funny but someone in my office got a 4s and is not noticing the battery issue.
Do you really think that if it was universal and easy to find it wouldn't have been?
I thought the Enterprise used a duatronic hypervisor.
Just kidding.
VirtualBox can be used for more than just desktop VMs but you are correct that it really isn't competitive with VMWare.
What counts as "Helps violate human rights?" ........
Is not being tracked a human right? What about 911 calls on cells where they can find the location of the call to send help?
What about Microsoft? I bet those systems run windows.
Maybe the GNU project if they use Linux and or GCC to write the code?
Maybe Asus or Foxconn for making the motherboards that the code runs on?
Maybe Intel and AMD for making the chips that the code runs one?
Or Seagate for making the hardrives that they use to store the data?
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How involved must it be? Hey I am not supporting Irans actions or these European companies that seems to support and profit by them, but if you are going to want to set yourself up as judge or anyone else you better have some clear rules. When one is a tool maker you must live with the fact that sometimes people will use tools in ways you do not want them too.
"Also, does anyone seriously think that a project of this size would be approved without an air tight argument that the experiment will operate in a domain where there are likely to be measurable results?"
Yes I do. I think they have a reasonable argument that the experiment will operate in a domain where their are likely to be results. That is why it is called and experiment. It might fail to get results but that too is a result.
This got me wondering though. At what point in science does a race become advanced enough that they should move some experiments off planet just for sake of safety? This test is not at the level yet but as the energy levels go up and up one has to wonder when having a base on the moon or in the Astroid belt becomes a good idea. See Castle Bravo as an example of what can happen when physics goes wrong.
Like I said NOT THIS TEST but at some point I wonder if it will be wise to build some of this stuff off planet.
The beta of 5 was out for developers for a good bit of time and no one reported it. You might be suppressed what can go unnoticed in testing. There was a WP7 update that bricked 10% of all WP7 phones. When you consider that Microsoft has very strick platform requirements and only had 3 models of WP7 phones on the market that is pretty bad. A fast draining battery is just no that bad compared to bricking the phone.
I am guessing that it was caused by an interaction of iCloud and location services that just didn't show up in testing. Frankly two weeks to determine that the bug is real, find the cause, and get a beta update out to fix it is pretty dang good.