I've had habits, realized it and stopped them. It's called will power. If a person isn't willing to try to help themselves I don't feel sorry for them.
So a processor that is over 4 times the clock speed, the p4, is only twice as fast and one that is over 3 times the clock speed, the Athlon, is less than twice as fast. Do the spec tests put a systems memory bandwidth to use or are they small? I'm guessing with large data sets that they gap would close.
You're right it is the apps. There is a certain amount of conceit that goes into thinking that because something is better that people will flock to it. Witness OS/2 vs Windows. OS/2 was vastly superior to Windows but who has the market share and the apps? Your average consumer doesn't care what the operating system is, they just want to run the software that they find useful. It's a small group of people that care about the operating system. How many people cared that Betamax was superior to VHS? A lot of money needs to be pumped in to Linux to bring about one common interface that is well documented and easy to code for. I think that if somebody were to really provide a real cross platform development system that they could actually target multiple platforms and if Linux gets as polished as the MacOS and Windows you might see something. If you had a 2 PC's at CompUSA, identical except for the operating system, and with all the same applications looking and working like consumers expect them too Linux might have a shot. The vast majority of consumers see a computer as an appliance and treat it as such. An example of the kind of functionality that is needed is being able to throw a blank cd-r into my drive and just drag files to the cd icon on the linux desktop to burn them. I can do this on my girlfriends iBook, I'd love to be able to do it under Linux.
I always ship COD, cash only. If they aren't willing to do that i.e. give cash when they receive the product you can be assured that something isn't right.
IBM doesn't have to demonstrate anything. IBM is selling services and support for Linux, this can include software but if you think that IBM is going to wholesale gpl what they own you are severely mislead.
Everybody is free to disagree. You're right,everybody starts at the beginning. I disagree that that the understanding is there if one has to always have it explained. There are plenty of CS grads that couldn't tell you what a cpu does when it powers up and that is more of what I'm getting at. I personally have felt that I learned more on my own that I did from some professors and I took objection to somebody whining about their understanding coming from one person. If somebody really wants to know they will find a way, not blame their understanding on the problems of others.
Or maybe you should consider a different career if you can't grasp the concepts on your own? Just a thought. If you need it to be "dumned down" it might be that you really don't understand it at it's heart and you are doing yourself(plus your customers) a disservice. There are a ton of IS majors for a reason, that way they can pretend like they really know what a computer is.
There is a performance hit, your hardware is just fast enough for you to not notice. The journaling has to use CPU cycles it ain't magic. Try running ext3 on a P150 with 80 megs of ram, I have, you can really tell the difference between it and ext2.
Millions of people still use that software. Imagine if a car manufacturer refused to make replacement parts for a car that had millions of models still on the roads.
I watched a video of somebody skydiving where the shute failed to deploy and lived. The skydiver was tumbling in the air and the only explination I can give from watching the video is that the ground was tangent to the curve he was in, he tumbled along the ground and started screaming when he realized he was alive.
You aren't related to anybody at slashdot are you? Yes, as the density increases the terminal velocity decreases, hence he will still be traveling at terminal velocity. sheesh
How com VA seems to be the only advertiser on Slashdot? Doesn't seem to say a lot about how well the ads on slashdot are going. OK, I'm exagerating, I see a think geek ad every once in awhile too.
You obviously can't read and don't know how to use logic. He pointed out that the games have a fixed set of "limited situations". Theoretically "real life" can have an infinite amount of "situations". I don't play games much anymore, it was a youthful thing for me, but they could always be figured out, much like you can brute force crack 56bit encryption quickly now with a modern computer.
I've been using XFree/Cygwin for quite some time. It's great, I just run it on my Win2k box and can simply alt-tab to my full screen gdm/xdmcp login session on my Linux box. It's nice and fast over my full duplex 100 switch, feels like I'm sitting at the console.
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I've had habits, realized it and stopped them. It's called will power. If a person isn't willing to try to help themselves I don't feel sorry for them.
So a processor that is over 4 times the clock speed, the p4, is only twice as fast and one that is over 3 times the clock speed, the Athlon, is less than twice as fast. Do the spec tests put a systems memory bandwidth to use or are they small? I'm guessing with large data sets that they gap would close.
Uhhh Ed... Mac OS X is a 'Unix like' Operating System based on BSD, the GUI isn't X but X isn't 'Unix' either.
You're right it is the apps. There is a certain amount of conceit that goes into thinking that because something is better that people will flock to it. Witness OS/2 vs Windows. OS/2 was vastly superior to Windows but who has the market share and the apps? Your average consumer doesn't care what the operating system is, they just want to run the software that they find useful. It's a small group of people that care about the operating system. How many people cared that Betamax was superior to VHS? A lot of money needs to be pumped in to Linux to bring about one common interface that is well documented and easy to code for. I think that if somebody were to really provide a real cross platform development system that they could actually target multiple platforms and if Linux gets as polished as the MacOS and Windows you might see something. If you had a 2 PC's at CompUSA, identical except for the operating system, and with all the same applications looking and working like consumers expect them too Linux might have a shot. The vast majority of consumers see a computer as an appliance and treat it as such. An example of the kind of functionality that is needed is being able to throw a blank cd-r into my drive and just drag files to the cd icon on the linux desktop to burn them. I can do this on my girlfriends iBook, I'd love to be able to do it under Linux.
I always ship COD, cash only. If they aren't willing to do that i.e. give cash when they receive the product you can be assured that something isn't right.
IBM doesn't have to demonstrate anything. IBM is selling services and support for Linux, this can include software but if you think that IBM is going to wholesale gpl what they own you are severely mislead.
I think that's sweet that you really believed them... really I do. You obviously don't understand economics and business.
Everybody is free to disagree. You're right,everybody starts at the beginning. I disagree that that the understanding is there if one has to always have it explained. There are plenty of CS grads that couldn't tell you what a cpu does when it powers up and that is more of what I'm getting at. I personally have felt that I learned more on my own that I did from some professors and I took objection to somebody whining about their understanding coming from one person. If somebody really wants to know they will find a way, not blame their understanding on the problems of others.
Or maybe you should consider a different career if you can't grasp the concepts on your own? Just a thought. If you need it to be "dumned down" it might be that you really don't understand it at it's heart and you are doing yourself(plus your customers) a disservice. There are a ton of IS majors for a reason, that way they can pretend like they really know what a computer is.
Your question is completely irrelevant to Microsoft's "trustworthy computing" intitative and Ballmers comments about the code of conduct at Microsoft.
There is a performance hit, your hardware is just fast enough for you to not notice. The journaling has to use CPU cycles it ain't magic. Try running ext3 on a P150 with 80 megs of ram, I have, you can really tell the difference between it and ext2.
Millions of people still use that software. Imagine if a car manufacturer refused to make replacement parts for a car that had millions of models still on the roads.
You sound like a poor sap that was spanked by him and you're still very bitter about it.
Hmmm, my Moto phone seems to work at 800 in digital mode and AMPS mode along with 1900 too.
you obviously haven't had sex for prolonged periods...
Yes : http://www.theonion.com/onion3510/european_romanti c.html
I watched a video of somebody skydiving where the shute failed to deploy and lived. The skydiver was tumbling in the air and the only explination I can give from watching the video is that the ground was tangent to the curve he was in, he tumbled along the ground and started screaming when he realized he was alive.
You aren't related to anybody at slashdot are you? Yes, as the density increases the terminal velocity decreases, hence he will still be traveling at terminal velocity. sheesh
I guess I need to watch what I write, in place of VA think SourceForge... still waking up.
I know... It was sarcasm, it went along with the "Doesn't seem to say a lot about how well the ads on slashdot are going"
How com VA seems to be the only advertiser on Slashdot? Doesn't seem to say a lot about how well the ads on slashdot are going. OK, I'm exagerating, I see a think geek ad every once in awhile too.
Do you really expect people to pay for this content?
You obviously can't read and don't know how to use logic. He pointed out that the games have a fixed set of "limited situations". Theoretically "real life" can have an infinite amount of "situations". I don't play games much anymore, it was a youthful thing for me, but they could always be figured out, much like you can brute force crack 56bit encryption quickly now with a modern computer.
My original installation just required grabbing the XFree packages and running the install script, not polished but certainly not hard.
I've been using XFree/Cygwin for quite some time. It's great, I just run it on my Win2k box and can simply alt-tab to my full screen gdm/xdmcp login session on my Linux box. It's nice and fast over my full duplex 100 switch, feels like I'm sitting at the console.