Please tell me you're not suggesting Mac was first and foremost. I imagine if MS needed to decompile they had a large host of other players to pick from.
but they picked Mac. It's not anti-MS fanboyism, it's documented. MS got with it because Apple had the worst contract lawyers on earth.
In short, Apple asked MS to write applications for Mac, since it was poorly documented at the time, MS asked access to the sources. Apple complied, and never bothered to check what kind of uses the contract granted.
Of course, MS didn't just copied and recompiled (it wouldn't worked, it was lots of 68000 assembly language, and they used the astounding 32-bit words quite cleverly), so they did reimplement most the system keeping the architecture, and throwing out some pretty sophisticated things that just couldn't be done well in 16-bit 80186. (like the amazing 'regions' functionality of QuickDraw, which resulted in significant differences in mouse handling smoothness)
so very true, VMWare Server 1 was Ok, i used it for some small servers for a while, with the intention of migrating to Xen; but a hardware failure prompted us to move in a hurry.... to VMWare Server 2. _total_disgrace_ no amount of tuning could give us the lost performance. slashed half of the VMs, and still users complained.
the final and best solution was migrating to a server-class KVM install. far easier than Xen and great performance.
Honestly, I don't know anyone who uses Flash for things other than video...
It's also quite good to provide HTML5 capabilities to prehistoric browsers. a great example is svgWeb, which lets you use SVG in any (almost) browser. if possible, will be native SVG, if not, it loads a flash renderer.... or for better-than-terrible uploads, SWFuploader is a real lifesaver.... or for local storage, as per PersistJS
IOW, in a perfect world, nobody would need it. but we do.
Only two pairs are used in standard duplex Ethernet. The other four conductors are occasionally used for Power over Ethernet. See the pinout.
That was true only on 10/100BaseT. Gigabit Ethernet uses all four pairs, bidirectionally. PoE uses the same wires as the data, adding a constant voltage to the differential signal.
Mr Graphic Designer Man: "Linux still doesn't do proper color management."
Me: "I don't know what that means. You may be right."
Funny that you mention that; I've throughly compared several CMS engines, from Adobe, Apple, Esko (formerly Barco), Efi (makers of the Fiery) and LittleCMS (the OS CMS used everywhere Linux need color management). Believe it or not, LCMS was right there with Efi on quality, a little better than Adobe, and waaay better than Esko (Apple was erratic, it seems to be a modification of Efi's engine). And it ran circles around everything else on terms of performance and resource utilization.
So, quality _can_ be better on OSS, but it won't dispel long help myths.
there are lots of hard-to-explain cases where somebody can see perfectly; but can't detect movement, or where can't recognize the border between shapes, and therefore is unable to make sense of what sees, etc.
You do realize the inherent conflict of interest in criticism from a competitor right?
yeah, don't listen to the competitor's arguments! also, don't listen to the defendant attorney in court cases!
c'mon, it's always important to read both sides. if they're the best they could say; but one of them is full of ad hominem's or similar bad arguments, then it's a good sign the the other side has a better point.
can someone photoshop up an apple logo crossed with a terminator head
i thought you were referring to the evil robocop vision overlay, which was a resedit (an early mac developer tool) menu with the apple menu at the top left replaced by a skull.
not exactly; rsync sends whole files when you use it to copy local directories. That is, when there's no network involved. No matter how fast your LAN is, rsync will default to do its delta magic to send to another machine
of course, there's a command line to override it either way
For me at least, the problem is not that it's an MS-originated tech; but the fact that it's an MS-controlled tech.
A small counterpoint: XMLHttpRequest, the base call behind al things AJAX, is MS-originated; but it has evolved from that, and it's a widely complied de-facto standard. In fact, IE8 accepts the non-MS variant.
Mono, OTOH, is a great reimplementation of.NET/C#; but is in most aspects following the obvious leader, which is MS. Just read some of Miguel's blogs. He's perennially awed of each microsoft improvement, and rushes to copy it. He does it brilliantly, and I wouldn't be surprised if he does it better than MS; but he still follows, not leads.
Recently, thought, Mono has gained a few improvements over.NET, such as static compiling (compile to static machine code that can run without the VM), and SIMD optimizations (to transparently use SSEx, big performance improvements on some kind of media-heavy loads). Let's hope him and his team well, so that Mono could start to erode.NETs dominance on windows too.
Personally, not holding my breath, and I don't want Mono on my machines.
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I think this is going to become relevant again: The Problem With Trusted Computing
Please tell me you're not suggesting Mac was first and foremost. I imagine if MS needed to decompile they had a large host of other players to pick from.
but they picked Mac. It's not anti-MS fanboyism, it's documented. MS got with it because Apple had the worst contract lawyers on earth.
In short, Apple asked MS to write applications for Mac, since it was poorly documented at the time, MS asked access to the sources. Apple complied, and never bothered to check what kind of uses the contract granted.
Of course, MS didn't just copied and recompiled (it wouldn't worked, it was lots of 68000 assembly language, and they used the astounding 32-bit words quite cleverly), so they did reimplement most the system keeping the architecture, and throwing out some pretty sophisticated things that just couldn't be done well in 16-bit 80186. (like the amazing 'regions' functionality of QuickDraw, which resulted in significant differences in mouse handling smoothness)
so very true, VMWare Server 1 was Ok, i used it for some small servers for a while, with the intention of migrating to Xen; but a hardware failure prompted us to move in a hurry.... to VMWare Server 2. _total_disgrace_ no amount of tuning could give us the lost performance. slashed half of the VMs, and still users complained.
the final and best solution was migrating to a server-class KVM install. far easier than Xen and great performance.
Honestly, I don't know anyone who uses Flash for things other than video...
It's also quite good to provide HTML5 capabilities to prehistoric browsers. a great example is svgWeb, which lets you use SVG in any (almost) browser. if possible, will be native SVG, if not, it loads a flash renderer. ... or for better-than-terrible uploads, SWFuploader is a real lifesaver. ... or for local storage, as per PersistJS
IOW, in a perfect world, nobody would need it. but we do.
dotCMS is (like most other 'CMS's out there) a WebCMS, while Alfresco is a Document manager (which can publish to web, but it's not the main use).
It's a big difference, in fact i don't know why they're called the same. The functionality intersection is very thin.
Only two pairs are used in standard duplex Ethernet. The other four conductors are occasionally used for Power over Ethernet. See the pinout.
That was true only on 10/100BaseT. Gigabit Ethernet uses all four pairs, bidirectionally. PoE uses the same wires as the data, adding a constant voltage to the differential signal.
Mr Graphic Designer Man: "Linux still doesn't do proper color management."
Me: "I don't know what that means. You may be right."
Funny that you mention that; I've throughly compared several CMS engines, from Adobe, Apple, Esko (formerly Barco), Efi (makers of the Fiery) and LittleCMS (the OS CMS used everywhere Linux need color management). Believe it or not, LCMS was right there with Efi on quality, a little better than Adobe, and waaay better than Esko (Apple was erratic, it seems to be a modification of Efi's engine). And it ran circles around everything else on terms of performance and resource utilization.
So, quality _can_ be better on OSS, but it won't dispel long help myths.
what about a bacon plasma torch?
The eye certainly doesn't have any processors of any sort in there.
It has a detector and some wiring in to the brain.
wrong. the retina does a lot of quite useful processing on the image before sending quite high-level data to the brain: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina#Spatial_Encoding
there are lots of hard-to-explain cases where somebody can see perfectly; but can't detect movement, or where can't recognize the border between shapes, and therefore is unable to make sense of what sees, etc.
Qt. No need for anything else.
In fact, it could be argued that Qt apps are _far_ more native than .Net
really? can you give an example?
great, put the antenna far from your brain and into your pocket. no useful organs in the waist area...
You do realize the inherent conflict of interest in criticism from a competitor right?
yeah, don't listen to the competitor's arguments! also, don't listen to the defendant attorney in court cases!
c'mon, it's always important to read both sides. if they're the best they could say; but one of them is full of ad hominem's or similar bad arguments, then it's a good sign the the other side has a better point.
just like sending data by wire is WAY more efficient than doing it by air.
it still doesn't mean its more convenient.
"be an expert in everything" or "be an island"
s/or/and/
As Douglas Adams wisely told us, no one who wants to be president should ever be allowed to become the president.
That was actually Plato, in "The Republic" (written almost 2,400 years ago!).
that's what repeaters are made of.
that, and a laser to pump the energy needed for amplification, a power supply for the laser, (long!) wires for the power supply....
Personally, I would rather think of my phone as a remote desktop client for servers whose power supplies are safely away from my cajones.
yeah, keep the power away from drawers!
It is working really well in China!
6,000 years of literal continuity, the biggest unified population on earth... makes me envious of their culture and language.
So, they're not as overweight as Europeans and Americans, but they're working on this too ;-)
... T2 part. 8 multi-thread cores, a single FPU unit shared by all cores...
You're thinking about the T1, the T2 has one FPU per core
can someone photoshop up an apple logo crossed with a terminator head
i thought you were referring to the evil robocop vision overlay, which was a resedit (an early mac developer tool) menu with the apple menu at the top left replaced by a skull.
Build a fly's brain that can control a real fly's functions and I might start to believe you.
would you settle for an eel?
hopefully they would offer again the no-windows models.
not exactly; rsync sends whole files when you use it to copy local directories. That is, when there's no network involved. No matter how fast your LAN is, rsync will default to do its delta magic to send to another machine
of course, there's a command line to override it either way
For me at least, the problem is not that it's an MS-originated tech; but the fact that it's an MS-controlled tech.
.NET/C#; but is in most aspects following the obvious leader, which is MS. Just read some of Miguel's blogs. He's perennially awed of each microsoft improvement, and rushes to copy it. He does it brilliantly, and I wouldn't be surprised if he does it better than MS; but he still follows, not leads.
.NET, such as static compiling (compile to static machine code that can run without the VM), and SIMD optimizations (to transparently use SSEx, big performance improvements on some kind of media-heavy loads). Let's hope him and his team well, so that Mono could start to erode .NETs dominance on windows too.
A small counterpoint: XMLHttpRequest, the base call behind al things AJAX, is MS-originated; but it has evolved from that, and it's a widely complied de-facto standard. In fact, IE8 accepts the non-MS variant.
Mono, OTOH, is a great reimplementation of
Recently, thought, Mono has gained a few improvements over
Personally, not holding my breath, and I don't want Mono on my machines.