1. How big is the Dell (physical dimensions)? 2. How much power does the Dell consume on average? 3. How much noise does each of these use? 4. How stylish does the Dell look? 5. How come you only put a DVD/CD-RW in the Dell?
You have to compare like for like. Show me a price example with a PC that is equally small, noiseless and uses as little power, and THEN we can start comparing prices.
In addition. The Apple computer does not have to be exactly as cheap as the PC, because people WILL buy an Apple at a premium because of the software and integration.
I'm not impressed with the $89 savings you showed with the Dell, even if it has a faster processor.
As someone already posted.. the microkernel issue might change this, but a monolithic kernel can't just use a GPL'd driver, because the GPL does NOT allow linking with closed source application.
You are not allowed to use a GPL'd library as part of a closed source application even if you open up your changes to the library.
You are however allowed to ship GPL'd software together with your closed source OS (like Apple does), as long as all the applications are seperate entities. (Although Apple also releases the source of their BSD/Mach-based core).
If the driver is run as a usermode application (which may very well be what happens with the driver in the AmigaOS microkernel, I'm no expert) then it can be distributed without opening the kernel.
What a troll this post is. Adding a different splash screen is almost zero effort from the programmer and this kind of competition is just made for two purposes:
1) Promote Gimp and get publicity 2) Make the non-programming community feel involved, by letting them make a splash screen.
What is so freaking wrong about this? 16-bit support will come eventually, but could be really hard work that none of the volunteers that make it, have gotten around to yet.
While some splash screens are a waste of resources, a simple splash screen is not.
If an application takes more than a few seconds to start, the simple fact is that many, many users will click on the icon again, starting two instances of the program.
Slight visual feedback is very often not enough.
If a splash screen is done properly, there is no reason to hate it as much. It should behave like other windows and there should be an "--no-splash" option, which Gimp already has.
Nothing. Ad-Aware's advertised main function is to remove adware.
This lawsuit is about some adware going outside the boundaries of their advertised function, and removing other adware and only telling the users by the fine print of the EULA.
iTunes was released by Apple in January 2001 and filed as a trademark in October 2000, before he registered his domain. iTunes.co.uk was registred in 1998, a long time before itunes.co.uk. It is however not clear whether it was owned by Apple before october 2000.
Given the huge Apple rumour mill, it is not impossible that the product name was even known a few months before the launch.
This is not clear and should be something for the lawyers. You seem to have just as much bias as Apple fans.
While I do agree that on general kids should be in school, and certain measures should be put up to make them.
However, nothing gets seriously broken by kids skipping classes very occasionally. How square are the kids supposed to be?
Kids that are allowed a certain freedom and have some possibility of opposing authority grow up far more interesting.
Just think how interesting you find a person who has never skipped class, never talked back at their parents etc.
The truth is, the parental generation have always tried to impose severe restrictions on the younger generation, and the younger generation have always broken them. This is the way of life. The moment we make it impossible for kids to break their parents rules, we have changed the game in a way I don`t think we see the consequences of.
It is ironic that we impose millions of laws and regulations, but the majority actually disrespects people that always live by them.
There are certain things every (semi) interesting person have done. If you have never done any of the following you need to get out more: 1. Skip class 2. Go above the speed limit 3. Take a u-turn where it wasn't allowed, but noone was around. 4. Drink or smoke without being allowed to do so 5. Sneak in somewhere you don't belong.
I will put up rules for my children and I will be fairly strict about some of them. But if my children never breaks my rules I would be suspicious that they are hiding something major, or disappointed that my kids grew up to be that square.
A well balanced human being bends or breaks rules now and then, but know which rules they really should abide by. The important lesson is to teach the children which rules are absolute, and which can be bent a little.
Ximian people have never claimed that KDE was going away. That was the conclusion of others (less well informed).
This offering from Novell however seems to default to GNOME but includes KDE, unlike SuSE which defaults to KDE.
The flash animation shows off GNOME, and their OpenOffice.org-version is GNOMEified, with GNOME-icons and the new GNOME file-selector.
Their main applications are a gnomified OpenOffice.org, Evolution (gnome), and Mozilla Firefox (uses gtk widgets), GAIM (gtk/gnome), Red Carpet and Yast. Yast is the only Qt application given any advertisement. All the rest is GTK+/GNOME or made to look like it is.
"Films like "Amelie" succeed because they are well-made and entertaining despite the subtitles, not because of them."
Excuse me, but this seems to me like a statement of ignorance.
Why is it that subtitles are somehow associated with being poor quality? Is this implying that only the USA produces good films?
The european (and asian) film production is incredibly rich and not just incomprihensible art-films, but often very entertaining.
Sadly (for the US) it seems they very rarely make it in the US, because of for instance:
* An expectation of a certain formula for the film * An inability/unwillingness to read subtitles * Nationalism * Cultural differences * The (at least perceived) sillyness of dubbing
Dubbing films is big in most parts of Europe, while subtitling is the norm for Scandinavia and some other countries in Europe. The result is that most of Europe is open to a very large amount of films, that the USA ignores. Some of these are much more innovative and creative than Hollywood-productions. England, sadly, seems to be closer to the US in this respect.
"Microsoft stole the GUI idea from Apple (who had lifted it from Xerox)"
If you mean "lifted" as in stole, you are entirely incorrect. Apple hired Xerox PARC employees, and visited Xerox PARC while paying Xerox quite a bit of money for the privilege.
Xerox PARC thoroughly agreed to this, because they were a research center, and did not want to develop any commercial products themselves. And everything was certainly not invented by Xerox Parc. Apple did quite a bit themselves.
You are describing the PREVIOUS behaviour of Nautilus, before GNOME 2.6, which is a little bit odd in an article about GNOME 2.6.
The new behaviour is to use the file-endings (if any) while listing the directory and sniff the file when trying to open it.
This is an important security feature that helps against scripts disguising themselves as other files. Remember that there is nothing stopping you from creating a bash-script with "rm -rf ~/" with the name family.jpg.
Windows have lots of problems with this because the default behaviour is to hide the file endings making family.jpg.exe look just like family.jpg, and since UNIX does not work exclusively by file-endings, ignoring this aspect would make this even worse than on Windows platforms.
Don't forget that in a lot of European countries, the republicans and the Bush admistration are considered to be right-wing extremists. In fact, Michael Moore is considered to be pretty moderate although provocative.
If you want to argue about what radical politics have brought the world, you should first define what radical is.
True, it can't possibly be disturbing that the EU does not want the US spying on them after the US misused the trust completely during incidents like the Airbus/Boeing scandal.
You can't possibly question the motives of a country trying to protect against spies from friendly countries, when those friendly countries actually ARE spying on them.
"C'mon Apple, OS X is "based on Unix", so how hard could it be to port iTunes over to Linux and Unix?"
I've seen this a few times and you misunderstand the issues here. Sure OSX is UNIX, but the entire graphical environment is proprietary. It is trivial to port a console application between them, but hard to port a graphical application. Apple would also have to port quicktime since iTunes is based on that.
Porting a graphical application from OSX to any X11-based UNIX is normally no easier than converting an application from Qt to GTK+. Although with the existance of GNUStep, which is very similar to cocoa, it might not be that bad.
In fact even rendering a single frame decomposes easily into lots of seperate task, because it involves raytracing backwards from every single pixel trying to calculate it's colour. And furthermore, each of these tracings are completely seperate and just begs to be parallelised.
Raytracing is sometimes referred to as "embarrasingly parallel", because of this.
Mathematical dependencies is the real destroyer of parallelism. Any situation where the next calculation depends on the result on the previous is a typical serial calculation that would do badly on any super-computer and might as well be run on a single single scalar processor like the Athlon or P4.
We Europeans criticise the US heavily these days because we expect so much more from you than we expect from China. We expect China to be oppressive and applaud every change in a positive direction.
However we expect the US to be more open, and criticise every change in the negative direction, which there have been quite a lot of lately.
Stating that we ignore China's atrocities just because you don't like being criticised is just plain wrong.
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Patrick Volkerding, the heart and soul of Slackware is sick, and have requested that users of Slackware buy it to help cover his medical expenses.
He doesn't ask for charity, only that people who use it, actually BUY it instead of just relying on BitTorrent.
Personally I don't use Slackware, but if you are a user, you know what to do.
1. How big is the Dell (physical dimensions)?
2. How much power does the Dell consume on average?
3. How much noise does each of these use?
4. How stylish does the Dell look?
5. How come you only put a DVD/CD-RW in the Dell?
You have to compare like for like. Show me a price example with a PC that is equally small, noiseless and uses as little power, and THEN we can start comparing prices.
In addition. The Apple computer does not have to be exactly as cheap as the PC, because people WILL buy an Apple at a premium because of the software and integration.
I'm not impressed with the $89 savings you showed with the Dell, even if it has a faster processor.
As someone already posted.. the microkernel issue might change this, but a monolithic kernel can't just use a GPL'd driver, because the GPL does NOT allow linking with closed source application.
You are not allowed to use a GPL'd library as part of a closed source application even if you open up your changes to the library.
You are however allowed to ship GPL'd software together with your closed source OS (like Apple does), as long as all the applications are seperate entities. (Although Apple also releases the source of their BSD/Mach-based core).
If the driver is run as a usermode application (which may very well be what happens with the driver in the AmigaOS microkernel, I'm no expert) then it can be distributed without opening the kernel.
What a troll this post is. Adding a different splash screen is almost zero effort from the programmer and this kind of competition is just made for two purposes:
1) Promote Gimp and get publicity
2) Make the non-programming community feel involved, by letting them make a splash screen.
What is so freaking wrong about this? 16-bit support will come eventually, but could be really hard work that none of the volunteers that make it, have gotten around to yet.
While some splash screens are a waste of resources, a simple splash screen is not.
If an application takes more than a few seconds to start, the simple fact is that many, many users will click on the icon again, starting two instances of the program.
Slight visual feedback is very often not enough.
If a splash screen is done properly, there is no reason to hate it as much. It should behave like other windows and there should be an "--no-splash" option, which Gimp already has.
Nothing. Ad-Aware's advertised main function is to remove adware.
This lawsuit is about some adware going outside the boundaries of their advertised function, and removing other adware and only telling the users by the fine print of the EULA.
Brand name products are often produced by a third party and then branded afterwards. This is nothing new, move along, nothing to see here.
iTunes was released by Apple in January 2001 and filed as a trademark in October 2000, before he registered his domain. iTunes.co.uk was registred in 1998, a long time before itunes.co.uk. It is however not clear whether it was owned by Apple before october 2000.
Given the huge Apple rumour mill, it is not impossible that the product name was even known a few months before the launch.
This is not clear and should be something for the lawyers. You seem to have just as much bias as Apple fans.
Peeps who use the term "peeps", 33.5%
While I do agree that on general kids should be in school, and certain measures should be put up to make them.
However, nothing gets seriously broken by kids skipping classes very occasionally. How square are the kids supposed to be?
Kids that are allowed a certain freedom and have some possibility of opposing authority grow up far more interesting.
Just think how interesting you find a person who has never skipped class, never talked back at their parents etc.
The truth is, the parental generation have always tried to impose severe restrictions on the younger generation, and the younger generation have always broken them. This is the way of life. The moment we make it impossible for kids to break their parents rules, we have changed the game in a way I don`t think we see the consequences of.
It is ironic that we impose millions of laws and regulations, but the majority actually disrespects people that always live by them.
There are certain things every (semi) interesting person have done. If you have never done any of the following you need to get out more:
1. Skip class
2. Go above the speed limit
3. Take a u-turn where it wasn't allowed, but noone was around.
4. Drink or smoke without being allowed to do so
5. Sneak in somewhere you don't belong.
I will put up rules for my children and I will be fairly strict about some of them. But if my children never breaks my rules I would be suspicious that they are hiding something major, or disappointed that my kids grew up to be that square.
A well balanced human being bends or breaks rules now and then, but know which rules they really should abide by. The important lesson is to teach the children which rules are absolute, and which can be bent a little.
Ximian people have never claimed that KDE was going away. That was the conclusion of others (less well informed).
This offering from Novell however seems to default to GNOME but includes KDE, unlike SuSE which defaults to KDE.
The flash animation shows off GNOME, and their OpenOffice.org-version is GNOMEified, with GNOME-icons and the new GNOME file-selector.
Their main applications are a gnomified OpenOffice.org, Evolution (gnome), and Mozilla Firefox (uses gtk widgets), GAIM (gtk/gnome), Red Carpet and Yast. Yast is the only Qt application given any advertisement. All the rest is GTK+/GNOME or made to look like it is.
"Films like "Amelie" succeed because they are well-made and entertaining despite the subtitles, not because of them."
Excuse me, but this seems to me like a statement of ignorance.
Why is it that subtitles are somehow associated with being poor quality? Is this implying that only the USA produces good films?
The european (and asian) film production is incredibly rich and not just incomprihensible art-films, but often very entertaining.
Sadly (for the US) it seems they very rarely make it in the US, because of for instance:
* An expectation of a certain formula for the film
* An inability/unwillingness to read subtitles
* Nationalism
* Cultural differences
* The (at least perceived) sillyness of dubbing
Dubbing films is big in most parts of Europe, while subtitling is the norm for Scandinavia and some other countries in Europe. The result is that most of Europe is open to a very large amount of films, that the USA ignores. Some of these are much more innovative and creative than Hollywood-productions. England, sadly, seems to be closer to the US in this respect.
It is only true if the precision of your 2's is really bad. :-)
You have to have a combined relative error of:
\epsilon_{rel} = (5-4)/4 = 0.25
This is very, very rarely an acceptable error.
"The fact that its listed on this site, right next to the java port of ogg theora is fishy.."
You might be right, but surely you can come up with better evidence than THIS to back up your suggestion.
Being listed right next to Ogg Theora? WTF is that for evidence?
I think it would allow for prosecuting owners of computer systems allowing them to be used for piracy, as long as they don't do anything to stop it.
My guess is that willingly means that you are doing the piracy, but knowingly just means you let it happen.
Thus, your employer or parents can be prosecuted if they knew anything about your file sharing without doing anything.
But IANAL.
"Microsoft stole the GUI idea from Apple (who had lifted it from Xerox)"
If you mean "lifted" as in stole, you are entirely incorrect. Apple hired Xerox PARC employees, and visited Xerox PARC while paying Xerox quite a bit of money for the privilege.
Xerox PARC thoroughly agreed to this, because they were a research center, and did not want to develop any commercial products themselves. And everything was certainly not invented by Xerox Parc. Apple did quite a bit themselves.
Yes, yes, sure it is a tradition, uhm, we do it ALL the time. Now turn your capitalist *cough* butt here.
You will respect my securitey!
You are describing the PREVIOUS behaviour of Nautilus, before GNOME 2.6, which is a little bit odd in an article about GNOME 2.6.
The new behaviour is to use the file-endings (if any) while listing the directory and sniff the file when trying to open it.
This is an important security feature that helps against scripts disguising themselves as other files. Remember that there is nothing stopping you from creating a bash-script with "rm -rf ~/" with the name family.jpg.
Windows have lots of problems with this because the default behaviour is to hide the file endings making family.jpg.exe look just like family.jpg, and since UNIX does not work exclusively by file-endings, ignoring this aspect would make this even worse than on Windows platforms.
Besides, you can override this in the new system.
Bush Sr., Reagan, etc. Basically the entire Republican party is in many ways very extreme in the right-wing compared to many parts of Western Europe.
Don't forget that in a lot of European countries, the republicans and the Bush admistration are considered to be right-wing extremists. In fact, Michael Moore is considered to be pretty moderate although provocative.
If you want to argue about what radical politics have brought the world, you should first define what radical is.
True, it can't possibly be disturbing that the EU does not want the US spying on them after the US misused the trust completely during incidents like the Airbus/Boeing scandal.
You can't possibly question the motives of a country trying to protect against spies from friendly countries, when those friendly countries actually ARE spying on them.
"C'mon Apple, OS X is "based on Unix", so how hard could it be to port iTunes over to Linux and Unix?"
I've seen this a few times and you misunderstand the issues here. Sure OSX is UNIX, but the entire graphical environment is proprietary. It is trivial to port a console application between them, but hard to port a graphical application. Apple would also have to port quicktime since iTunes is based on that.
Porting a graphical application from OSX to any X11-based UNIX is normally no easier than converting an application from Qt to GTK+. Although with the existance of GNUStep, which is very similar to cocoa, it might not be that bad.
In fact even rendering a single frame decomposes easily into lots of seperate task, because it involves raytracing backwards from every single pixel trying to calculate it's colour. And furthermore, each of these tracings are completely seperate and just begs to be parallelised.
Raytracing is sometimes referred to as "embarrasingly parallel", because of this.
Mathematical dependencies is the real destroyer of parallelism. Any situation where the next calculation depends on the result on the previous is a typical serial calculation that would do badly on any super-computer and might as well be run on a single single scalar processor like the Athlon or P4.
Oh come on. This should be rather obvious.
We Europeans criticise the US heavily these days because we expect so much more from you than we expect from China. We expect China to be oppressive and applaud every change in a positive direction.
However we expect the US to be more open, and criticise every change in the negative direction, which there have been quite a lot of lately.
Stating that we ignore China's atrocities just because you don't like being criticised is just plain wrong.