I think the whole point of Apple's business model is to appeal to that segment of the population that doesn't want a commodity computer. The typical Apple user (in my experience) doesn't even care that their computer is a general purpose computing device. They have applications they require to work and as long as those apps work, the computer is merely an appliance or tool.
The fact that these computers just work without any futzing about justifies their price as far as these users are concerned.
I am not a Mac user, but I often find myself recommending Macs to people who ask my opinion. After I ask them what they want to use a computer for, very often a Mac is the best fit.
As a Debian user, you will miss the package management.
The gentoo developers have ported portage to OSX. If you find that portage is an acceptable substitute for debian's package management, then there you go.
According to the key statistics page for AMD on finance.yahoo.com, it looks like AMD is making money. What's the problem? Is it that they have twice as much debt as they have cash on hand?
Gaming stores that started out as comic stores often have this mentality. Once they realize that gaming books are references, as opposed to investments, they generally lighten up some. When you have something you're interested in, ask them if they have a copy (used or new) that you browse through. If they're not gamers themselves, they may not understand how gamers shop.
That's why it's so important to support your local gaming shop. When something new comes out, I always flip through it at the store to determine if it's something worth buying and I've never been hassled. If you get everything online and the local stores disappear due to lack of community support, you will always be at the mercy of whatever content Amazon (or whoever) decides to make available to you.
Also, people who run local gaming shops are far more likely to have a personal interest in the material than large retailers (like Walden's). Get to know them and they can be a wonderful resource for getting introduced to new systems.
The number of sites using ActiveX seems to be on the decline. I'd like to think that polite emails sent to webmasters is raising the overall awareness of what technologies are acceptable to use in a web page, but I suspect that it's happening because webmasters are starting to use non-MS web authoring tools.
2.4.x has been rock solid for me and 2.6.x just doesn't offer anything to me that makes me compelled to move to it (in fact I had issues w/my ethernet cards working under it).
I ran 2.4 until I finally had a machine I wanted to configure sound on. After migrating that machine to 2.6, I'm not going back since it seems to add new life to my old hardware (low latency and better I/O handling).
That, and it's much easier to configure the kernel with the new organization of options in 'make menuconfig'.
It's better. You can add a module without rebuilding the kernel or rebooting your system. I haven't used any "install wizards" or anything, but I'm sure they exist (look at SUSE or Mandrake or Fedora. I'm sure they have something).
Could you be more specific about what you think the short-comings of Linux are? It's possible that your concerns are being addressed by someone and it would give them a chance to respond.
It shouldn't happen on Linux because the image in memory isn't tied to the image on disk. On the other hand, Solaris (unless they've changed this recently) uses the disk image and so changing the disk image out from under a running process will probably cause that process to crash.
I don't know what Windows does.
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our embedded linux is not much more than a kernel and busybox.
I've worked with machines that use busybox (Axis network cameras, mostly) and it is always a completely horrible experience. Is there some reason that device makers like busybox besides the fact that it doesn't take much space?
A business has to make enough money to cover its expenses (like hosting fees). One sale is unlikely to do that. If Spamcop shuts down sites before enough sales are made to cover the business' expenses, then the business becomes unsustainable.
The gentoo developers realize that the size of the portage tree can be painful to work with and have implimented a band-aid to ease your pains some if you know what you're doing. You can use RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM to identify parts of the portage tree that you don't care about and when you sync, it will ignore these.
This can be dangerous since it means that not all parts of your portage tree will be updated to the same level, but if you're careful, this can dramatically reduce the amount of time you system spends syncing the portage tree.
Quit pretending that Red Hat is so far above Sun in this manner. I don't think Sun's FUD is ver productive or useful, but it's not any bloody different than any other one of the players in this space.
The post you are replying to makes no mention of RedHat. It seems you are attacking a statement that was never made.
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Brilliant? As far as authentication goes, Passport doesn't have ideas that
aren't already present in Kerberos (which has been around a lot longer).
Most of the latest games that aren't available for Macs aren't really
appropriate for children anyways.
Macs have plenty of educational games available.
I don't see a problem.
Forgive my ignorance, but what is a .ds_store file?
I think the whole point of Apple's business model is to appeal to that segment
of the population that doesn't want a commodity computer. The typical Apple
user (in my experience) doesn't even care that their computer is a general
purpose computing device. They have applications they require to work and as
long as those apps work, the computer is merely an appliance or tool.
The fact that these computers just work without any futzing about justifies
their price as far as these users are concerned.
I am not a Mac user, but I often find myself recommending Macs to people who
ask my opinion. After I ask them what they want to use a computer for, very
often a Mac is the best fit.
As a Debian user, you will miss the package management.
The gentoo developers have ported portage to OSX. If you find that portage
is an acceptable substitute for debian's package management, then there you
go.
A previous poster said that AMD had 8% of the server market, up from 6.9%
last year (last quarter?).
It's not market dominance, but it is greater than 5%.
According to the key statistics page for AMD on finance.yahoo.com, it looks like
AMD is making money. What's the problem? Is it that they have twice as much
debt as they have cash on hand?
Except that Intel has never really competed on price.
Their response always seems to be a marketing ploy (which doesn't benefit
the consumer at all).
Maybe AMD's strength will force their hand.
Except that Intel has already sold more x86 64bit processors than AMD.
Where can I find these numbers?
If this trend amplifies, be ready for a huge inflation in the US.
Can you please explain how a switch in the world's reserver currency
leads to huge inflation in the US?
Gaming stores that started out as comic stores often have this mentality.
Once they realize that gaming books are references, as opposed to investments,
they generally lighten up some. When you have something you're interested in,
ask them if they have a copy (used or new) that you browse through. If they're
not gamers themselves, they may not understand how gamers shop.
Educate them.
That's why it's so important to support your local gaming shop. When something
new comes out, I always flip through it at the store to determine if it's
something worth buying and I've never been hassled. If you get everything
online and the local stores disappear due to lack of community support, you
will always be at the mercy of whatever content Amazon (or whoever) decides to
make available to you.
Also, people who run local gaming shops are far more likely to have a personal
interest in the material than large retailers (like Walden's). Get to know
them and they can be a wonderful resource for getting introduced to new systems.
The number of sites using ActiveX seems to be on the decline. I'd like to
think that polite emails sent to webmasters is raising the overall awareness
of what technologies are acceptable to use in a web page, but I suspect that
it's happening because webmasters are starting to use non-MS web authoring
tools.
Either way, I like the trend.
2.4.x has been rock solid for me and 2.6.x just doesn't offer anything to me that makes me compelled to move to it (in fact I had issues w/my ethernet cards working under it).
I ran 2.4 until I finally had a machine I wanted to configure sound on. After
migrating that machine to 2.6, I'm not going back since it seems to add new
life to my old hardware (low latency and better I/O handling).
That, and it's much easier to configure the kernel with the new organization
of options in 'make menuconfig'.
I'd just like to add fvwm to that list. It's small, both on disk and in memory.
Unfortunately, the default configuration is pretty ugly.
It's better. You can add a module without rebuilding the kernel or rebooting
your system. I haven't used any "install wizards" or anything, but I'm sure
they exist (look at SUSE or Mandrake or Fedora. I'm sure they have something).
Could you be more specific about what you think the short-comings of Linux
are? It's possible that your concerns are being addressed by someone and
it would give them a chance to respond.
Emulation (and translation) seems to work pretty well these days.
What is the result when you try to run Quickbooks under Wine?
You say that as if fueling cars is the only thing we use oil for.
We use lots of oil to create electricity, so increasing the amount of
electricity generated by alternative means will reduce one source of
oil demand.
That depends on the OS you're running on.
It shouldn't happen on Linux because the image in memory isn't tied to the
image on disk. On the other hand, Solaris (unless they've changed this
recently) uses the disk image and so changing the disk image out from under
a running process will probably cause that process to crash.
I don't know what Windows does.
our embedded linux is not much more than a kernel and busybox.
I've worked with machines that use busybox (Axis network cameras, mostly) and
it is always a completely horrible experience. Is there some reason that
device makers like busybox besides the fact that it doesn't take much space?
I propose a new moderation: +1 Scary If True
A business has to make enough money to cover its expenses (like hosting fees).
One sale is unlikely to do that. If Spamcop shuts down sites before
enough sales are made to cover the business' expenses, then the business
becomes unsustainable.
The gentoo developers realize that the size of the portage tree can be painful
to work with and have implimented a band-aid to ease your pains some if you
know what you're doing. You can use RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM to identify parts of the
portage tree that you don't care about and when you sync, it will ignore these.
This can be dangerous since it means that not all parts of your portage tree
will be updated to the same level, but if you're careful, this can dramatically
reduce the amount of time you system spends syncing the portage tree.
Quit pretending that Red Hat is so far above Sun in this manner. I don't think Sun's FUD is ver productive or useful, but it's not any bloody different than any other one of the players in this space.
The post you are replying to makes no mention of RedHat.
It seems you are attacking a statement that was never made.