How many releases of Firefox have there been? It stands to reason one would download each new release, in order to stay up to date. In addition, one often has to redownload it when configuring another machine, or setting up a machine after having reformatted it.
I've no idea how many times I've downloaded Firefox, but 40 doesn't seem like an unreasonable number at all.
I'd guess (hope?) that many of those software packages had gone through extensive usability testing, and the reason for the garish colours was that it minimizes eye strain for the poor people staring at them for 8 hours a day.
Also, kind of interesting your bank uses software programmed for Win95 - I thought most banks used OS/2:)
Oddly enough, every rumor site I visited prior to the event suggested there'd be new Mac Minis, and an iPod boom-box gadget of some sort. Most of them also mentioned there would NOT be an iBook released at this time.
Except fast food won't be exported, they'll just set up a McDonald's in India.. and all those fancy plasma TVs aren't made in America, so the American working man won't benefit, but the big American companies will..
Except by the time these kids graduate high school (it sounds as though the article is referring to grade schools), Windows, Linux and every other OS will be so different from what they used in school, it won't really matter.
The DVD player part for the origional PS2 required a driver loaded off the memory card. How would this be any different?
No, only the remote Sony released required this. If you used the PS2 controller, you didn't even need to have a memory card for playing DVDs. Your idea of releasing now, and upgrading later is intriguing though.:)
I was saying that it is stupid to try and negate the argument the blogger was making by saying you can go from ACC --> CD --> mp3
Except I don't think anyone was trying to suggest there was no quality loss when burning the tracks to CD, and re-ripping them to Mp3. They were trying to make the point that you're NOT screwed when (if?) Apple decides to abandon the format, goes out of business, etc, etc.
Can't chmod/etc without being root anyway, since it's owned by root:root.
But if they have access to "sudo chmod", which is what was suggested, the command IS run as root.
I've had a few minor difficulties with that; from what I can tell, the only reason chown is not generally available to normal users is the chance that someone could chown a file in his own home directory to somebody else and then be unable to touch it and need to get help from the admin to fix it.
chown IS available to normal users, and the scenario you described is certainly doable.
Early versions of Solaris x86 were mere afterthoughts to Sun, and they weren't optimized for the x86 platform at all. Remember, Solaris x86 was DEAD for a short time after the release of Solaris 9 (only a very vocal community convinced Sun it was worth their time to release it). Sun seriously re-engineered Solaris 10 to actually make it perform well on x86 (specifically AMD64) hardware. When half of your product line is comprised of Opteron servers, you make sure your flagship OS runs well on them!
Off-topic, but did you order the Service Processor (the ILOM)? If so, can you tell me which Ethernet port it uses, the nForce or the Broadcom? Sun just says it uses Ethernet port 2. It'd be perfect if it uses the nForce port. But, I thought the FreeBSD nve driver supported the new nForce 4 ethernet chipsets.
I've been seriously considering buying one, to install FreeBSD on it, and move my mail services out of Dreamhost to a co-lo. What I really like is that Sun let's you buy it without any drives (they want $300 for a 250gb SATA drive!), so you can just fill it up on your own. Sadly, you can't get it without any ram (512mb by default), but I think the included ram doesn't add much to the cost anyway.
Actually, once the login screen appears, OS X is finished loading all the services it's going to load. One of the reasons the boot-up process is faster is likely Launchd, which tries to load services in parallel, rather than linearly, like most UNIX systems do.
As for the Powerbook knowing what hardware its running on, and Ubuntu having to check memory/harddisk/cdrom, that's a load of crap. Ubuntu doesn't check any of those things, the BIOS does. Ubuntu will take whatever is reported from the BIOS (or OpenBoot in the case of a Mac) and run with it, the same as OS X. Not to mention, all of those are replaceable on the Mac, so wouldn't OS X have to check for the changes as well?
They never even asked if they could buy, play or watch this sort of filth because they simply knew it was not an going to happen under my roof.
And exactly what kind of games were available to your kids when they were growing up? In your original post, you mentioned you're a grandfather now, I'd guess your children would be in their early 20s by now. I'd think the worst they would've encountered as children would've been the original Doom. So I'm not sure what sort of games you'd have been protecting them from.
Back to your original post, I also don't see what good preventing them from watching MTV did. I think they still played music videos when your children were growing up, but even if not, aside from having zero entertainment value, there's nothing particularly BAD about it. There's nothing particularly GOOD about it (especially now), but I don't see anything detrimental coming from it.
Personally, I'm glad my parents educated me on make believe vs. reality, rather than shielding me away from "objectionable" content. I don't think anyone was suggesting children should have access to this material, I think they're just suggesting parents be responsible, rather than the state. Personally, I don't see a problem with forbidding the stores from selling these things to minors - if the parents have to purchase the material, they should be able to make an informed decision as to whether or not the child is ready. However, I think too many parents would just buy it to shut the kid up.
From your posts, I get the idea you were a very strict parent - I wonder what your kids did behind your back, without you knowing.
Why should it fall on the engineers? Didn't the QA team have a role in this? Had the damn thing been properly tested, they'd have discovered and fixed the problem long ago.
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How many releases of Firefox have there been? It stands to reason one would download each new release, in order to stay up to date. In addition, one often has to redownload it when configuring another machine, or setting up a machine after having reformatted it.
I've no idea how many times I've downloaded Firefox, but 40 doesn't seem like an unreasonable number at all.
I'd guess (hope?) that many of those software packages had gone through extensive usability testing, and the reason for the garish colours was that it minimizes eye strain for the poor people staring at them for 8 hours a day.
:)
Also, kind of interesting your bank uses software programmed for Win95 - I thought most banks used OS/2
Oddly enough, every rumor site I visited prior to the event suggested there'd be new Mac Minis, and an iPod boom-box gadget of some sort. Most of them also mentioned there would NOT be an iBook released at this time.
So, I'm curious - exactly who is "everybody?"
Because everyone agrees 100% with everything their employer says and does, right?
Except fast food won't be exported, they'll just set up a McDonald's in India.. and all those fancy plasma TVs aren't made in America, so the American working man won't benefit, but the big American companies will..
That's OK.. our standard of living won't be higher for long...
Ahh, that is something I'm not aware of. I've a first gen North American PS2, wgucg works without the driver.
Except by the time these kids graduate high school (it sounds as though the article is referring to grade schools), Windows, Linux and every other OS will be so different from what they used in school, it won't really matter.
The DVD player part for the origional PS2 required a driver loaded off the memory card. How would this be any different?
:)
No, only the remote Sony released required this. If you used the PS2 controller, you didn't even need to have a memory card for playing DVDs. Your idea of releasing now, and upgrading later is intriguing though.
I was saying that it is stupid to try and negate the argument the blogger was making by saying you can go from ACC --> CD --> mp3
Except I don't think anyone was trying to suggest there was no quality loss when burning the tracks to CD, and re-ripping them to Mp3. They were trying to make the point that you're NOT screwed when (if?) Apple decides to abandon the format, goes out of business, etc, etc.
The latest, not quite ready for prime-time release you mean?
"Enlightenment, as of DR0.17 (which hasn't been released yet. latest developent snapshots are 0.16.999) is our next-generation window manager."
They have to move those titles somehow...
Can't chmod /etc without being root anyway, since it's owned by root:root.
But if they have access to "sudo chmod", which is what was suggested, the command IS run as root.
I've had a few minor difficulties with that; from what I can tell, the only reason chown is not generally available to normal users is the chance that someone could chown a file in his own home directory to somebody else and then be unable to touch it and need to get help from the admin to fix it.
chown IS available to normal users, and the scenario you described is certainly doable.
'Last Kiss' isn't a Pearl Jam song. It was written by Wayne Cochran, and I think it was first recorded by J. Frank Wilson & The Cavaliers.
Or OmniWeb :)
Well, I guess that's good news - the more broken port is assigned to the SP, rather than the less broken ethernet port :)
Hopefully it's not too long before either the nve or forcedeth drivers become usable. Thanks!
Early versions of Solaris x86 were mere afterthoughts to Sun, and they weren't optimized for the x86 platform at all. Remember, Solaris x86 was DEAD for a short time after the release of Solaris 9 (only a very vocal community convinced Sun it was worth their time to release it). Sun seriously re-engineered Solaris 10 to actually make it perform well on x86 (specifically AMD64) hardware. When half of your product line is comprised of Opteron servers, you make sure your flagship OS runs well on them!
Off-topic, but did you order the Service Processor (the ILOM)? If so, can you tell me which Ethernet port it uses, the nForce or the Broadcom? Sun just says it uses Ethernet port 2. It'd be perfect if it uses the nForce port. But, I thought the FreeBSD nve driver supported the new nForce 4 ethernet chipsets.
I've been seriously considering buying one, to install FreeBSD on it, and move my mail services out of Dreamhost to a co-lo. What I really like is that Sun let's you buy it without any drives (they want $300 for a 250gb SATA drive!), so you can just fill it up on your own. Sadly, you can't get it without any ram (512mb by default), but I think the included ram doesn't add much to the cost anyway.
Actually, once the login screen appears, OS X is finished loading all the services it's going to load. One of the reasons the boot-up process is faster is likely Launchd, which tries to load services in parallel, rather than linearly, like most UNIX systems do.
As for the Powerbook knowing what hardware its running on, and Ubuntu having to check memory/harddisk/cdrom, that's a load of crap. Ubuntu doesn't check any of those things, the BIOS does. Ubuntu will take whatever is reported from the BIOS (or OpenBoot in the case of a Mac) and run with it, the same as OS X. Not to mention, all of those are replaceable on the Mac, so wouldn't OS X have to check for the changes as well?
They never even asked if they could buy, play or watch this sort of filth because they simply knew it was not an going to happen under my roof.
And exactly what kind of games were available to your kids when they were growing up? In your original post, you mentioned you're a grandfather now, I'd guess your children would be in their early 20s by now. I'd think the worst they would've encountered as children would've been the original Doom. So I'm not sure what sort of games you'd have been protecting them from.
Back to your original post, I also don't see what good preventing them from watching MTV did. I think they still played music videos when your children were growing up, but even if not, aside from having zero entertainment value, there's nothing particularly BAD about it. There's nothing particularly GOOD about it (especially now), but I don't see anything detrimental coming from it.
Personally, I'm glad my parents educated me on make believe vs. reality, rather than shielding me away from "objectionable" content. I don't think anyone was suggesting children should have access to this material, I think they're just suggesting parents be responsible, rather than the state. Personally, I don't see a problem with forbidding the stores from selling these things to minors - if the parents have to purchase the material, they should be able to make an informed decision as to whether or not the child is ready. However, I think too many parents would just buy it to shut the kid up.
From your posts, I get the idea you were a very strict parent - I wonder what your kids did behind your back, without you knowing.
You missed an important line in your quote. Right before the paragraph the blurp you pasted, it says:
"and yet another review I found on the company:"
Why should it fall on the engineers? Didn't the QA team have a role in this? Had the damn thing been properly tested, they'd have discovered and fixed the problem long ago.
Right, because people don't get mugged in Toronto or Vancouver, or any other large Canadian cities.
Heh.. have you ever caught Fox News? :)