BS! I have a Powerbook G3. You still have to be careful what you install on it, cause it flakes out and crashes sometimes.
What caused me the most grief? Ahem...upgrading from MacOS 8.0 to MacOS 9.0. You'd think _that'd_ be tested thoroughly by Apple, right?
The point is that nearly all major software companies do _not_ have a good process for generating error free code.
And partially, that's our (the consumers) fault. Do you go out and buy the latest version of Microsoft Office, even though the only "improvements" are a whole whack of features you never use? Or
Do you think the general public would buy a new version that was advertised as "no new features, but we made it faster, smaller and cleaned up all the bugs!"
Oh yes, definitely. It's not the workers per se, it's not the need for "innovation", it's the process.
Yes, as someone pointed out, look at Honda. Why is it a best seller? Because even if _slightly_ more expensive, it's damn good and reliable.
It's not like Honda cars lack innovation, heck they're practically at the front!
And it's not like you can blame it on the union workers or whatever, because Honda churns out cars from US and Canada, and these are way more reliable and better initial build quality than cars churned out by, say, GM.
If you push up the software quality, make sure it rarely (never?) crashes, and you do proper studies to make sure it works the way people expect it to work, then our economy goes bust!
- No more tech. support jobs
- No more "Word 97 for Dummies" books
- No more "Learn Windows 95 in 1 week!" books
- Much less upgrading because that word processor you purchased 5 years ago still works like it should and there are no bugs to fix, contains _only_ the features you use, so no upgrade needed
Look at the car industry. All you ever do is gas up and take in for maintenance every 12-24000km.
(Okay, unless you're one of those dummies who bought a Chevy Cavalier...)
First, how can someone just walk into the building and get at an executive laptop? That's just plain dumb. First line of defense is physical security.
Now, I've seen a lot of posts saying "keep it on the server". That doesn't really work for a lot of situations. I know, because we have that at our company (which a lot of other companies would like to displace or get info from;)
Think about it, why do you want a laptop? To take it on the road. When you're on the road, you won't always have a network connection. Especially if it's through a private intranet. Even if you do have dial-up access, you wanna work on that 4MB Word.doc over 56k? Don't think so...
(To make matter worse, the NT servers we use aren't that reliable. I'm hammering away at my work, while the other guys are stuck twiddling their thumbs waiting for the server to come back up)
And yes, no kidding, get yerself a Thinkpad. You can password these hard drives. It's fairly secure, because if you forget your password, not even IBM can help you recover it. (They provide a big, fat warning about that). The only way to get at the data is to dismantle the disk drive and pull out the platters and plunk it into another drive mechanism....
Carver Mead is no joke, and this stuff really does work. You get away with so many MPixels because it splits the light into R-G-B with a separate sensor for each.
We get a lot of software from Germany, particularly from HP. (I work in Canada). I can say that there seems to be a very definite, uhh.., "German flavour" to the programming style.
Though I am fluent in English, I also grew up with another language, and my style seems subtly different from my peers who are "English-only".
I can certainly imagine there might be cultural effects on the programming style.
We still use gas for many reasons: 1) It's better. Gas actually has a higher specific energy than most other liquid fuels and certainly better efficiency. (i.e. Does it matter if SuperFuel X burns 30% cleaner if it is also 30% less efficient?)
2) We have infrastructure. A while back here, diesel started getting a bit of noise. Except...there's only a few places for Joe Average to fill up on diesel. This is a problem.
3) Fuel cells: Just WHERE/HOW does one get the hydrogen? Split it from water? With electricity you mean? That comes from a coal or oil fired power plant? In the BIG VIEW, often the fuel cells can be just as bad, if not done properly.
Yah, these guys are clueless. There's something wrong with their setup too. -190C for Liquid Nitrogen. BULLSHIT!
Liquid nitrogen is at roughly -77C
The cheapest way to cool your entire motherboard is to buy one of those special scientific fridges used for keeping, for example, your DNA samples ultra-cool.
Sanyo? sells them, and last I checked, they came in around $600-700 CDN, cheaper than their 2 gallons of Flourinert! It keeps a very steady temperature of down to -60C for some of them. Just make sure your mobo's are dry before you put 'em in the box.
Sorry, but what kind of stupid question is this?? The "bandwidth" of the Earth, the atmosphere, the universe or whatever, is, for all intents and purposes, limitless.
The only problem we humans have is what frequency bands are already in use, and what are the limits of our technology.
There is no inherent limit. Yes, if you use exceedingly high frequencies, the attenuation tends to drop off very rapidly, in general, but that's not something that can't be worked around sooner or later.
Now this sort of question should've never been posted...
Hmm...yeah, I like that bit on the page about Linux being a "revolutionary" OS.
I'm not saying if it was good or bad, but Linux certainly wasn't revolutionary. How can it be when it is supposed to be a cheap clone for i386 machines of the already existing UNIX? Of more interest was the development _method_ used for Linux, but even that wasn't new as the GNU guys had been doing the same thing already.
BS. As usual, the only thing MS is doing well is the marketing and hype.
The PS2 movies that were shown MANY MONTHS back were NOT pre-rendered, they were calculated on the fly. The fluidity of the movement was incredible, the resolution, detail were superb. The X-Box movies? Lots of "stuff" in the scene, yeah, but the motions suck, and to boot, this stuff is probably running a pre-rendered movie. If it weren't you can bet MS' PR department would be hyping that all over the place.
To boot, it doesn't look any better than the PS2, while the PS2 is available for sale NOW.
I'm still not sure MS really understands this market. For the same price, the hardware on X-BOX can't be better than what you can get a budget PC for (not unless MS is subsidizing the hardware!!). And if you can get a general purpose PC, that plays the same games as the X-Box, who wants an X-BOX??? More importantly, the style of games that works on a console for Joe Average is not the same style of games that works on a PC.
OS/2 is not supported (yet). But since DYNIX is the only one that will scale to 64-CPU, if you were IBM, wouldn't you just certify and run OS/2 on it? It's the only other Intel OS that will handle 64-way SMP RIGHT NOW. NT and 2000 officially support, what is it, 4 or 8-way SMP. But realistically, the gain drops right off after 2-CPU.
If you ever needed to support decent office apps, like word processors, off a 64-way Intel SMP machine... (why???) OS/2 would be the only way to go.
Heck no, those who still use OS/2 know that it is not going away. We've been in touch with the IBM programmers on Usenet and we've got the real story on what's going on. The bottom line is that OS/2 will continue to be updated and refreshed in the foreseeable future, and if it works for you, no reason to move.
Right. The links above are for for OS/390 and OS/2 (Rexx built in by default). Amiga's not the only one with Rexx. It's a fact of life on OS/2 as well. Just do a web search for Rexx and CGI scripts and see how many tutorials there are for AIX, OS/390 and OS/2. The sheer number lends support that Rexx is not a bad choice at all, despite it receiving much less "media attention" than Perl.
As far as the server is concerned (or any other app that allows external function calls), a Rexx script is just like a Perl script or a C program or Java or whatever.
Hey, give it a shot. It's freely downloadable for Linux. (Rexx is an open ANSI standard. Roll your own if you wish, but IBM's already done the job).
Yah, why not Rexx? It's just as easy, if not easier, than Perl. It's available for just about any platform (OS/2, Linux, AIX, WinXX, OS/390, Amiga)... and you can do funky platform dependent stuff too if you want. Want a short tutorial? http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~bebo/rexx/title.ht ml http://www.networking.ibm.com/icserver/pub/icswp g42.htm
I think most people misunderstand what's going on here. The story is about the SiO2 insulator thickness. This oxide sits under the gate of the transistor which is used to control the flow between the source and drain. This is 0.07um OXIDE THICKNESS, which is NOT the same as the gate length. The gate length is the usual parameter quoted when referring to a process (i.e. 0.25um, 0.18um, etc).
The problem is that if the gate oxide is too thin, you really screw up the transistor. All sorts of nasty reliability problems with hot carrier damange and what not. (Not to mention device performance). But you can't have super-thick oxides relative to the gate width. There would be millions of tiny thin, but tall patterns which you have to expose, wash and deposit properly and it just doesn't work.
As much as I use computers and like to be at the bleeding edge of every development, I still want good old fashioned PRINTED manuals.
We've got some software that comes with software-only manuals in the company. Inevitably what happens is that people just print it out anyways. It would make the customer a LOT happier to heft a real manual in the box.
I see 2 main issues to software docs: - No screen is as good as a printed piece of paper to read. Yet. And I've got some darn fine LCD's at my disposal. (including a 13.7" baby that will handle 1280x1024) - It is WAY more convenient to flip through pages by hand than using any search function.
Why AREXX? IBM already has Object REXX (backward compatible with "classic" REXX) for free download for Linux. REXX itself is an ANSI standard anyways See here: http://www-4.ibm.com/software/ad/obj-rexx/downlo ad.html#forfree
Of course, my personal preference is to just go get OS/2 v4 which comes with ORexx built in...
Yeah, yeah, a lot of people think OS/2 is dead, but it's not. I use a lot of computers day in and out as part of my job. Win95/98, WinNT, Solaris, MacOS, HP-UX, even Linux (heck I even have that on all my machines). My personal choice of OS? Still OS/2. For the best COMBINATION of stability, ease of use, ease of install and administration, OS/2 wins hands down.
IBM cannot give up on OS/2 because it derives very significant revenue from OS/2. Here are some of IBM's biggest customers: http://rover.wiesbaden.netsurf.de/~meile/los2cl. html
OS/2 has no drivers? No way! I still run OS/2 nicely on the latest home-brew PC's and laptops from IBM and Toshiba. I actually _don't_ have Linux on all the machines because I can't get Linux drivers for all the hardware.
No Applications for OS/2? Also false! No games, maybe, but application-wise, you can get pretty big name and useful apps for just about everything. It is at least on par with Linux (though not for long).
No support? Very, very false! IBM regularly releases Fixpacks for OS/2 which are available FREE of charge. They contain bug-fixes and sometimes new functionality. In fact, the latest Fixpak (FP13) was released just last week or so. How's _that_ for support? IBM still officially supports OS/2 for all its Thinkpad laptops (except the i-series)
By the way, this announcement about convenience packs is not related to the new Warp _5_ client. It is in addition to. The best info we have from IBM is that Warp _5_ is still being worked on, but as typical, they are very tight lipped about everything until release date is closer.
OS/2 co-exists nicely with all OS, it's got a bunch of free development tools (GNU!) and a decent install won't even take more than 200MB of your drive space.
If OS/2 is dead, you better let these people know: http://www.warptech.org/WTSessions.html because these technical sessions (complete with speakers from IBM itself) are overbooked.
OS/2 is _still_ a great OS. I still run it on the newest desktops and laptops with no problems.
IBM can not afford to stop work on OS/2...contrary to popular belief, OS/2 is still very much alive and well. IBM draws (as of last year) over $1billion in direct and indirect services related to OS/2.
It may not be on _your_ desktop, but take a look here and see where it is used: http://rover.wiesbaden.netsurf.de/~meile/los2cl. html
Hey there, maybe you'd like to keep up with the times? Taiwan is no backwater sweatshop country that you seem to make it out to be.
No.# 1 and 3 semiconductor manufacturers in the world are located there. TSMC is No.#1, we deal with them all the time, and they have _happy_ employees. One year, they handed out at average of $60,000US in bonuses (yeah, you read that right, $60k in US greenbacks on top of salary).
_You_ may not heard of AOpen, also from Taiwan, but it is an arm of Acer, quite possibly the 3rd biggest PC & components manufacturer in the world, who supplies many of the OEM parts and "white box" stuff for guys like IBM et al. They most certainly treat their employees well, else they wouldn't hang around.
Hey, what happened to that lawsuit from Microsoft temps about unfair treatment, eh?
"Overseas" companies, as you put it, do not disregard their workers any more than "here", especially in the hi-tech business. They cannot afford to, as talented people move wherever they wish. There's no such thing as "here" and "there", it's all global.
A more common misconception is that Linux's so-called GUI's are good enough for most users.
If you have done any reasonable research into human-computer interfaces, and have used a whole smattering of OS GUI's, from Windows, to Mac to BeOS, OS/2 and the various *NIX's, Linux GUI's (of which there are only KDE and GNOME, window managers don't count) are insufficient.
Often times it _is_ easier to head to the command prompt because the GUI doesn't facilitate a certain task easily. Tasks which have already been solved on other GUI's...
The install is not as important, because it's only done once. And if Linux heads to the desktop, not even done by the end-user as it will be pre-loaded.
Probably not quite yet. This code appears to have been ported from OS/2's JFS, and JFS is not the "main" file system in use. You need to have at least a minimal HPFS partition because JFS is still not bootable.
JFS has been on the latest OS/2 version since last year. It also includes LVM.
Max. partition size has been upped to 2 TERABYTES for OS/2... and I'm sure you disk hogs will be happy to know, the maximum FILE size is also 2 TERABYTES. Yes, you can have one huge file taking up the whole partition (overhead excluded I guess).
You can find more information on JFS, OS/2 at: http://www-4.ibm.com/software/os/warp/library/au rowp.html
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BS! I have a Powerbook G3. You still have to be careful what you install on it, cause it flakes out and crashes sometimes.
What caused me the most grief? Ahem...upgrading from MacOS 8.0 to MacOS 9.0. You'd think _that'd_ be tested thoroughly by Apple, right?
The point is that nearly all major software companies do _not_ have a good process for generating error free code.
And partially, that's our (the consumers) fault. Do you go out and buy the latest version of Microsoft Office, even though the only "improvements" are a whole whack of features you never use? Or
Do you think the general public would buy a new version that was advertised as "no new features, but we made it faster, smaller and cleaned up all the bugs!"
Oh yes, definitely. It's not the workers per se, it's not the need for "innovation", it's the process.
Yes, as someone pointed out, look at Honda. Why is it a best seller? Because even if _slightly_ more expensive, it's damn good and reliable.
It's not like Honda cars lack innovation, heck they're practically at the front!
And it's not like you can blame it on the union workers or whatever, because Honda churns out cars from US and Canada, and these are way more reliable and better initial build quality than cars churned out by, say, GM.
If you push up the software quality, make sure it rarely (never?) crashes, and you do proper studies to make sure it works the way people expect it to work, then our economy goes bust!
- No more tech. support jobs
- No more "Word 97 for Dummies" books
- No more "Learn Windows 95 in 1 week!" books
- Much less upgrading because that word processor you purchased 5 years ago still works like it should and there are no bugs to fix, contains _only_ the features you use, so no upgrade needed
Look at the car industry. All you ever do is gas up and take in for maintenance every 12-24000km.
(Okay, unless you're one of those dummies who bought a Chevy Cavalier...)
First, how can someone just walk into the building and get at an executive laptop? That's just plain dumb. First line of defense is physical security.
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.doc over 56k? Don't think so...
Now, I've seen a lot of posts saying "keep it on the server". That doesn't really work for a lot of situations. I know, because we have that at our company (which a lot of other companies would like to displace or get info from
Think about it, why do you want a laptop? To take it on the road. When you're on the road, you won't always have a network connection. Especially if it's through a private intranet. Even if you do have dial-up access, you wanna work on that 4MB Word
(To make matter worse, the NT servers we use aren't that reliable. I'm hammering away at my work, while the other guys are stuck twiddling their thumbs waiting for the server to come back up)
And yes, no kidding, get yerself a Thinkpad. You can password these hard drives. It's fairly secure, because if you forget your password, not even IBM can help you recover it. (They provide a big, fat warning about that). The only way to get at the data is to dismantle the disk drive and pull out the platters and plunk it into another drive mechanism....
http://www.carbonbased.com.au/Cssec.htm
So fine, it's not open source. But it uses DES encryption and it's available now.
This is a link LAST YEAR from EE Times:
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http://www.eoenabled.com/edtn/out.asp?a=EET&i=C
Carver Mead is no joke, and this stuff really does work. You get away with so many MPixels because it splits the light into R-G-B with a separate sensor for each.
We get a lot of software from Germany, particularly from HP. (I work in Canada). I can say that there seems to be a very definite, uhh.., "German flavour" to the programming style.
Though I am fluent in English, I also grew up with another language, and my style seems subtly different from my peers who are "English-only".
I can certainly imagine there might be cultural effects on the programming style.
We still use gas for many reasons:
1) It's better. Gas actually has a higher specific energy than most other liquid fuels and certainly better efficiency. (i.e. Does it matter if SuperFuel X burns 30% cleaner if it is also 30% less efficient?)
2) We have infrastructure. A while back here, diesel started getting a bit of noise. Except...there's only a few places for Joe Average to fill up on diesel. This is a problem.
3) Fuel cells: Just WHERE/HOW does one get the hydrogen? Split it from water? With electricity you mean? That comes from a coal or oil fired power plant? In the BIG VIEW, often the fuel cells can be just as bad, if not done properly.
Yah, these guys are clueless.
There's something wrong with their setup too.
-190C for Liquid Nitrogen. BULLSHIT!
Liquid nitrogen is at roughly -77C
The cheapest way to cool your entire motherboard is to buy one of those special scientific fridges used for keeping, for example, your DNA samples ultra-cool.
Sanyo? sells them, and last I checked, they came in around $600-700 CDN, cheaper than their 2 gallons of Flourinert!
It keeps a very steady temperature of down to -60C for some of them. Just make sure your mobo's are dry before you put 'em in the box.
Sorry, but what kind of stupid question is this??
The "bandwidth" of the Earth, the atmosphere, the universe or whatever, is, for all intents and purposes, limitless.
The only problem we humans have is what frequency bands are already in use, and what are the limits of our technology.
There is no inherent limit. Yes, if you use exceedingly high frequencies, the attenuation tends to drop off very rapidly, in general, but that's not something that can't be worked around sooner or later.
Now this sort of question should've never been posted...
Hmm...yeah, I like that bit on the page about Linux being a "revolutionary" OS.
I'm not saying if it was good or bad, but Linux certainly wasn't revolutionary. How can it be when it is supposed to be a cheap clone for i386 machines of the already existing UNIX?
Of more interest was the development _method_ used for Linux, but even that wasn't new as the GNU guys had been doing the same thing already.
BS. As usual, the only thing MS is doing well is the marketing and hype.
The PS2 movies that were shown MANY MONTHS back were NOT pre-rendered, they were calculated on the fly. The fluidity of the movement was incredible, the resolution, detail were superb.
The X-Box movies? Lots of "stuff" in the scene, yeah, but the motions suck, and to boot, this stuff is probably running a pre-rendered movie. If it weren't you can bet MS' PR department would be hyping that all over the place.
To boot, it doesn't look any better than the PS2, while the PS2 is available for sale NOW.
I'm still not sure MS really understands this market. For the same price, the hardware on X-BOX can't be better than what you can get a budget PC for (not unless MS is subsidizing the hardware!!). And if you can get a general purpose PC, that plays the same games as the X-Box, who wants an X-BOX???
More importantly, the style of games that works on a console for Joe Average is not the same style of games that works on a PC.
OS/2 is not supported (yet).
But since DYNIX is the only one that will scale to 64-CPU, if you were IBM, wouldn't you just certify and run OS/2 on it? It's the only other Intel OS that will handle 64-way SMP RIGHT NOW.
NT and 2000 officially support, what is it, 4 or 8-way SMP. But realistically, the gain drops right off after 2-CPU.
If you ever needed to support decent office apps, like word processors, off a 64-way Intel SMP machine... (why???) OS/2 would be the only way to go.
Heck no, those who still use OS/2 know that it is not going away. We've been in touch with the IBM programmers on Usenet and we've got the real story on what's going on. The bottom line is that OS/2 will continue to be updated and refreshed in the foreseeable future, and if it works for you, no reason to move.
Right. The links above are for for OS/390 and OS/2 (Rexx built in by default). Amiga's not the only one with Rexx. It's a fact of life on OS/2 as well. Just do a web search for Rexx and CGI scripts and see how many tutorials there are for AIX, OS/390 and OS/2. The sheer number lends support that Rexx is not a bad choice at all, despite it receiving much less "media attention" than Perl.
As far as the server is concerned (or any other app that allows external function calls), a Rexx script is just like a Perl script or a C program or Java or whatever.
Hey, give it a shot. It's freely downloadable for Linux. (Rexx is an open ANSI standard. Roll your own if you wish, but IBM's already done the job).
Yah, why not Rexx? It's just as easy, if not easier, than Perl. It's available for just about any platform (OS/2, Linux, AIX, WinXX, OS/390, Amiga)... and you can do funky platform dependent stuff too if you want.t ml p g42.htm
Want a short tutorial?
http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~bebo/rexx/title.h
http://www.networking.ibm.com/icserver/pub/icsw
I think most people misunderstand what's going on here.
The story is about the SiO2 insulator thickness. This oxide sits under the gate of the transistor which is used to control the flow between the source and drain.
This is 0.07um OXIDE THICKNESS, which is NOT the same as the gate length. The gate length is the usual parameter quoted when referring to a process (i.e. 0.25um, 0.18um, etc).
The problem is that if the gate oxide is too thin, you really screw up the transistor. All sorts of nasty reliability problems with hot carrier damange and what not. (Not to mention device performance).
But you can't have super-thick oxides relative to the gate width. There would be millions of tiny thin, but tall patterns which you have to expose, wash and deposit properly and it just doesn't work.
As much as I use computers and like to be at the bleeding edge of every development, I still want good old fashioned PRINTED manuals.
We've got some software that comes with software-only manuals in the company. Inevitably what happens is that people just print it out anyways. It would make the customer a LOT happier to heft a real manual in the box.
I see 2 main issues to software docs:
- No screen is as good as a printed piece of paper to read. Yet. And I've got some darn fine LCD's at my disposal. (including a 13.7" baby that will handle 1280x1024)
- It is WAY more convenient to flip through pages by hand than using any search function.
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IBM already has Object REXX (backward compatible with "classic" REXX) for free download for Linux. REXX itself is an ANSI standard anyways
See here:
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/ad/obj-rexx/downl
Of course, my personal preference is to just go get OS/2 v4 which comes with ORexx built in...
Yeah, yeah, a lot of people think OS/2 is dead, but it's not. I use a lot of computers day in and out as part of my job. Win95/98, WinNT, Solaris, MacOS, HP-UX, even Linux (heck I even have that on all my machines).
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My personal choice of OS? Still OS/2. For the best COMBINATION of stability, ease of use, ease of install and administration, OS/2 wins hands down.
IBM cannot give up on OS/2 because it derives very significant revenue from OS/2. Here are some of IBM's biggest customers:
http://rover.wiesbaden.netsurf.de/~meile/los2cl
OS/2 has no drivers? No way! I still run OS/2 nicely on the latest home-brew PC's and laptops from IBM and Toshiba. I actually _don't_ have Linux on all the machines because I can't get Linux drivers for all the hardware.
No Applications for OS/2? Also false! No games, maybe, but application-wise, you can get pretty big name and useful apps for just about everything. It is at least on par with Linux (though not for long).
No support? Very, very false! IBM regularly releases Fixpacks for OS/2 which are available FREE of charge. They contain bug-fixes and sometimes new functionality. In fact, the latest Fixpak (FP13) was released just last week or so. How's _that_ for support? IBM still officially supports OS/2 for all its Thinkpad laptops (except the i-series)
By the way, this announcement about convenience packs is not related to the new Warp _5_ client. It is in addition to. The best info we have from IBM is that Warp _5_ is still being worked on, but as typical, they are very tight lipped about everything until release date is closer.
OS/2 co-exists nicely with all OS, it's got a bunch of free development tools (GNU!) and a decent install won't even take more than 200MB of your drive space.
If OS/2 is dead, you better let these people know:
http://www.warptech.org/WTSessions.html
because these technical sessions (complete with speakers from IBM itself) are overbooked.
OS/2 is _still_ a great OS.
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I still run it on the newest desktops and laptops with no problems.
IBM can not afford to stop work on OS/2...contrary to popular belief, OS/2 is still very much alive and well. IBM draws (as of last year) over $1billion in direct and indirect services related to OS/2.
It may not be on _your_ desktop, but take a look here and see where it is used:
http://rover.wiesbaden.netsurf.de/~meile/los2cl
Hey there, maybe you'd like to keep up with the times? Taiwan is no backwater sweatshop country that you seem to make it out to be.
No.# 1 and 3 semiconductor manufacturers in the world are located there. TSMC is No.#1, we deal with them all the time, and they have _happy_ employees. One year, they handed out at average of $60,000US in bonuses (yeah, you read that right, $60k in US greenbacks on top of salary).
_You_ may not heard of AOpen, also from Taiwan, but it is an arm of Acer, quite possibly the 3rd biggest PC & components manufacturer in the world, who supplies many of the OEM parts and "white box" stuff for guys like IBM et al.
They most certainly treat their employees well, else they wouldn't hang around.
Hey, what happened to that lawsuit from Microsoft temps about unfair treatment, eh?
"Overseas" companies, as you put it, do not disregard their workers any more than "here", especially in the hi-tech business. They cannot afford to, as talented people move wherever they wish. There's no such thing as "here" and "there", it's all global.
A more common misconception is that Linux's so-called GUI's are good enough for most users.
If you have done any reasonable research into human-computer interfaces, and have used a whole smattering of OS GUI's, from Windows, to Mac to BeOS, OS/2 and the various *NIX's, Linux GUI's (of which there are only KDE and GNOME, window managers don't count) are insufficient.
Often times it _is_ easier to head to the command prompt because the GUI doesn't facilitate a certain task easily. Tasks which have already been solved on other GUI's...
The install is not as important, because it's only done once. And if Linux heads to the desktop, not even done by the end-user as it will be pre-loaded.
Probably not quite yet. This code appears to have been ported from OS/2's JFS, and JFS is not the "main" file system in use.
You need to have at least a minimal HPFS partition because JFS is still not bootable.
JFS has been on the latest OS/2 version since last year. It also includes LVM.
... and I'm sure you disk hogs will be happy to know, the maximum FILE size is also 2 TERABYTES. Yes, you can have one huge file taking up the whole partition (overhead excluded I guess).
u rowp.html
Max. partition size has been upped to 2 TERABYTES for OS/2
You can find more information on JFS, OS/2 at:
http://www-4.ibm.com/software/os/warp/library/a