According to W3Schools, FireFox has 20% of the browser market while IE has about 65%. That means that there is roughly 1 FireFox user for every 3 IE users (depending on how accurate the W3Schools sampling is).
Ponder that for a moment before you claim that IE is still dominant and that FireFox is ignorable.
Don't pass judgement on this chip yet. You haven't even seen how they intend on positioning it yet. We know it will be made in relatively vast quantities for a new chip since it is being used in the PS3. The fact that it will experience some economy of scale at the beginning is a little unusual for a new chip, so the normal expectations shouldn't apply.
Problem is, I don't know what expectations to set. I'm not a fan of x86, but I don't see how it could be replaced yet.
The point that you seem to be missing is that there are lots of people who value the quality and longevity of Apple hardware. You might be happy with a cheap $700 laptop that lasts 2 or 3 years, but some people will pay extra to have a machine that they can expect to run for 6 or more years. Apple laptops are popular among Linux users for the same reason that IBM Thinkpads are popular among Linux users: the hardware is well supported by Linux, is of superior quality, and is a pleasure to use.
Um, if multiple battles are fought over the same terrritory, then both armies are fighting in multiple battles. Therefore, by your logic, they must both lose.
Perhaps you could elaborate and clear this up for me.
This is non-trivial with CVS or CMVC's revisioning system unless you know the version number of all the files in the entire repo and extract those version numbers.
If you have the foresight to tag your source tree, or you happen to know the date that you want to grab (cvs log foo.c, will greatly assist in this if you keep usuable logs). SVN does it better, but it's not really all that hard with CVS.
Hospitals routinely eat the costs of uninsured patients. I believe there are laws that make it illegal for a hospital to refuse necessary care based on whether or not the patient is insured or not (read: can pay or not).
Perhaps someone in search of karma can hunt down some links that explain the legal obligations of Hospitals in this regard.
Which might mean something if SCO had a case. There's been no indication, however, that that is the case.
Another thing you might consider is that if MS gave more funds to SCO now, even the mainstream media would make a big deal out of it. I don't think MS wants that.
The problem is the system is not designed not to break on update.
There's no need to run etc-update on all 200 machines. Determine the desired changes (if any) on the test machine and script them. Then when you're ready to roll out software updates, running the script is sufficient to configure them all instantly.
After successful emerge you get "n files in/etc need updating". And until you update them, some essential services will be down.
That's just wrong. Those services are in the same state they were before you updated the software. New changes won't take effect until you edit the config files and restart the services dependent on them.
That would imply that the GPL contradicts itself somewhere. I'm unaware of any contradictions and it seems likely that if there were a contradiction in the GPL, someone would have found it by now and made a stink of it.
I think what everyone is saying is that even if games don't take full advantage of having multiple CPUs available, they will still see some advantage since other processes won't be competing for the same CPU as the game.
Once init has started, you have the full thread-supporting linux environment at your disposal. Gentoo, for instance, will let you run all your init scripts in parallel (still respecting dependencies, of course).
Expect other distros to begin doing this soon (if they're not already).
Imagine a machine that could duplicate any wedding cake you place in it at essentially no cost. The initial cake might cost $1,000,000 worth of time, effort, facilities, and raw materials, but once the initial cake exists, an infinite number of identical cakes can be produced for no additional cost. Also assume that just about anyone who wants one, can easily acquire one of these machines.
The only way the master cake decorator can make money selling cakes is if it is illegal to duplicate wedding cakes with this ubiquitous machine. If no such laws exist or the laws are unenforced, then the master cake decorator must instead earn a living not selling cakes, but performing the service of customizing cakes for people who don't want the standard cake and are willing to pay him to make the desired changes. The master cake decorator no longer produces a good in the traditional sense, but instead performs a service. Sure, anyone can write names on a cake, but to some people it will be worth it to pay someone to have it done well.
The only difference between the above ficticious cake scenario and the software industry is that poorly written names on cakes don't actually have the potential to make the cake worthless/inettible while poorly customized software can make the software worthless/unusable.
With source code, there is no scarcity in the way that there is scarcity with other products. If a baker bakes 1000 cakes, he can only sell 1000 cakes before he is cakeless. A programmer, on the other hand, can write code and share that code with an infinite number of people.
With this in mind, trying to treat any philosophy of open source as an economic model is doomed since the basis of economic theory is the management of scarcity and in open source, there is no scarcity. Any comparison will be shallow at best, and misleading at worst.
Laptop memory is usually more expensive than regular memory since it is a smaller form factor. If the Mac Mini uses laptop memory, then you have a legitimate complaint. Otherwise, you don't.
From the pictures of the Mac Mini internals, it looked to me like it took a single stick of regular memory. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
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Apparently not. I appologize.
The post you're replying to is almost certainly talking about the odometer
in your dashboard.
According to W3Schools, FireFox has 20% of the browser market while IE has
about 65%. That means that there is roughly 1 FireFox user for every 3 IE
users (depending on how accurate the W3Schools sampling is).
Ponder that for a moment before you claim that IE is still dominant and that
FireFox is ignorable.
Are you claiming that Linux boxes require more support than windows boxes?
That certainly has not been my experience.
Could you please explain what you were trying to say in the previous post?
Don't pass judgement on this chip yet. You haven't even seen how they intend on
positioning it yet. We know it will be made in relatively vast quantities for
a new chip since it is being used in the PS3. The fact that it will experience
some economy of scale at the beginning is a little unusual for a new chip, so
the normal expectations shouldn't apply.
Problem is, I don't know what expectations to set. I'm not a fan of x86, but
I don't see how it could be replaced yet.
The point that you seem to be missing is that there are lots of people who
value the quality and longevity of Apple hardware. You might be happy with a
cheap $700 laptop that lasts 2 or 3 years, but some people will pay extra
to have a machine that they can expect to run for 6 or more years. Apple
laptops are popular among Linux users for the same reason that IBM Thinkpads
are popular among Linux users: the hardware is well supported by Linux,
is of superior quality, and is a pleasure to use.
Um, if multiple battles are fought over the same terrritory, then both armies are fighting
in multiple battles. Therefore, by your logic, they must both lose.
Perhaps you could elaborate and clear this up for me.
This is non-trivial with CVS or CMVC's revisioning system unless you know the version number of all the files in the entire repo and extract those version numbers.
If you have the foresight to tag your source tree, or you happen to know the
date that you want to grab (cvs log foo.c, will greatly assist in this if you
keep usuable logs). SVN does it better, but it's not really all that hard with
CVS.
I'm skeptical.
How much RAM does this 386 of yours have?
How big is the hard drive?
Does it even have a CDRom?
I, personally, have never seen a 386 that has enough RAM to even load KDE, let
alone run it in any capacity.
Hospitals routinely eat the costs of uninsured patients. I believe there are
laws that make it illegal for a hospital to refuse necessary care based on
whether or not the patient is insured or not (read: can pay or not).
Perhaps someone in search of karma can hunt down some links that explain
the legal obligations of Hospitals in this regard.
Which might mean something if SCO had a case. There's been no indication,
however, that that is the case.
Another thing you might consider is that if MS gave more funds to SCO now,
even the mainstream media would make a big deal out of it. I don't think
MS wants that.
It's a trick! Get an axe!
The problem is the system is not designed not to break on update.
/etc need updating". And until you update them, some essential services will be down.
There's no need to run etc-update on all 200 machines. Determine the desired
changes (if any) on the test machine and script them. Then when you're ready
to roll out software updates, running the script is sufficient to configure
them all instantly.
After successful emerge you get "n files in
That's just wrong. Those services are in the same state they were before you
updated the software. New changes won't take effect until you edit the config
files and restart the services dependent on them.
What does the release form cover?
That would imply that the GPL contradicts itself somewhere. I'm unaware of
any contradictions and it seems likely that if there were a contradiction
in the GPL, someone would have found it by now and made a stink of it.
I think what everyone is saying is that even if games don't take full advantage
of having multiple CPUs available, they will still see some advantage since
other processes won't be competing for the same CPU as the game.
Once init has started, you have the full thread-supporting linux environment
at your disposal. Gentoo, for instance, will let you run all your init
scripts in parallel (still respecting dependencies, of course).
Expect other distros to begin doing this soon (if they're not already).
One thing that most people have not mentioned is that the MacMini will be a smashing success in Japan
Anybody know what sort of penetration Macs have in the Japanese market?
How about the South Korean market?
I don't think I've ever read anything about Macs being anywhere other than
North America and Europe.
Imagine a machine that could duplicate any wedding cake you place in it at
essentially no cost. The initial cake might cost $1,000,000 worth of time,
effort, facilities, and raw materials, but once the initial cake exists, an
infinite number of identical cakes can be produced for no additional cost.
Also assume that just about anyone who wants one, can easily acquire one of
these machines.
The only way the master cake decorator can make money selling cakes is if
it is illegal to duplicate wedding cakes with this ubiquitous machine. If no
such laws exist or the laws are unenforced, then the master cake decorator
must instead earn a living not selling cakes, but performing the service of
customizing cakes for people who don't want the standard cake and are willing
to pay him to make the desired changes. The master cake decorator no longer
produces a good in the traditional sense, but instead performs a service.
Sure, anyone can write names on a cake, but to some people it will be worth it
to pay someone to have it done well.
The only difference between the above ficticious cake scenario and the
software industry is that poorly written names on cakes don't actually have
the potential to make the cake worthless/inettible while poorly customized software
can make the software worthless/unusable.
With source code, there is no scarcity in the way that there is scarcity with
other products. If a baker bakes 1000 cakes, he can only sell 1000 cakes before
he is cakeless. A programmer, on the other hand, can write code and share that
code with an infinite number of people.
With this in mind, trying to treat any philosophy of open source as an
economic model is doomed since the basis of economic theory is the management
of scarcity and in open source, there is no scarcity. Any comparison will
be shallow at best, and misleading at worst.
Are you serious or is this a joke?
Laptop memory is usually more expensive than regular memory since it is
a smaller form factor. If the Mac Mini uses laptop memory, then you have
a legitimate complaint. Otherwise, you don't.
From the pictures of the Mac Mini internals, it looked to me like it took
a single stick of regular memory. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
You're confused (or just plain wrong). Mac OSX has the userland from
FreeBSD and a micro-kernel based on (i think) MACH. No FreeBSD kernel.
Gentoo and Debian don't come with service contracts, companies are not interested in them.
*Looks around the department in this Fortune 150 company and counts well
over a dozen gentoo boxes in the lab and on desktops*
Excuse me? Businesses aren't interested in non-commercial distros?
When did this happen?
Where is Microsoft Land?