That's an easy one. A few month ago news.com had a nice story called "Microsoft's Holy War on Java" summarizing what happened. That alone should be enough for a sizable paper. Then there's also DHTML and the much-hyped XML. Both of them allow a certain company to proprierarize standards. As for intellectual property and stuff, you can write about the domain name rules. About a month ago there was a story on/. about theos.com. The OpenBSD developer was sued by Theos Software for having theos.com domain even though he registered it before the company even existed. Of course there are also people who register a domain with the only purpose to sell it to someone else. You could also write about spam...
Don't you guys remember all these movies where the AI takes over the world? Like Terminator, for instance, or Matrix? Well, now it can finally become a reality. According, to the article, the leech computer can actually think for itself, without having to be told what to do. Just think of the implications... I say if AI does take over the world, it would have to be biological.
Linus himself said that he'd probably not have started Linux if DOS was not as crappy as it was. So yeah, I guess in a really twisted way, M$ is the father of Linux.
Free Speech issues aside, how can anyone possibly know of every web site in the world that is deemed "offensive"??? And the ISPs are gonna be held accountable for that? It looks like those politicians got their heads firmly implanted up their asses.
There has already been said enough about the Free Speech implications of this law, so I will not repeat it here.
With all these different incompatible standards coming and going, I'll just stick to CD-RW. At least then I'll be sure anyone will be able to read the media. + blank CDs are dirt cheap.
I sure hope DVD-RAM takes off - it's backwards compatible with DVD-ROM and all CD formats. It's a shame we still have to use 3.5" floppies!
I never tried it myself. Do they have a demo I can download? I want to see what it's like. I absolutely agree with you regarding the non-free software. I'd pay if it's a good product. But I can't justify paying for something that is poorly designed and written.
THAT is what I want to know. Hate to say this, but the current WordPerfect for Linux is crap, much worse then the Windows version. Star Office is even worse. It's even more bloated then Windows itself -- a perfect example of poor design. However, as soon as Corel releases an office suite for Linux that is as good as their WP Suite 8 for Windows, I will have no reason to boot winblows any more.
Wow! I initially thought that this new distribution from Corel was nothing but hype. But since they are basing it on Debian, technologically the best distro, they might be on to something! Looks like they do know what they are doing. I'm anctious to find out what they are cooking...
reading comprehension: THERE IS NO COMPARISON. The *only* comparison they make is the amount of memory Linux and NT can use. Every other point in the article is "linux sucks", but no specific superior alternative is named.
Missing from Linux are high-availability features that would let one Linux server step in and take over if another failed;
I'm not an expert on the subject but I've seen the high-availability howto at www.linux.org/help, so I know it's possible. Can somebody else comment on the subject?
full-fledged support for computers with multiple processors;
uhhm, did they even test this??? Last I checked Linux beats the crap out of NT on SMP...
and a "journaling" file system that is necessary to quickly reboot a crashed machine without having to laboriously reconstruct the computer's system files.
OK, that's true. Linux doesn't have jornaled file system. On the plus side, it doesn't crash very often... NT does have a journaled file system, but for some reason it took longer for NT to test the file system after the crash then for Linux to run fsck after the maximal mount count.
Currently Linux can't use more than 2 gigabytes of memory, and in some cases only 1 GB. Windows NT, on the other hand, can address 4 GB of memory
This is either a deliberate lie or a lack of knowledge (or both). First notice that he doesn't specify the hardware. It is assumed that there is only x86 in the world. Also notice the difference between "use" and "address". Linux *can* address 4 gig of RAM on x86, just like NT. The memory is split between kernel and user memory. By default the split is 2-2, but you can change it to 1-3 (1 for kernel 3 for user) by recompiling the kernel. NT works in *exact same way* with only one difference: you can't recompile the kernel. In order to get a 1-3 split you need to buy "enterprise edition".
Now, Linux also runs on 64 bit platforms, such as Alpha, SPARC and PPC, and it can take full advantage of 64 bit memory architecture. On these platforms Linux can address 2^64 bytes of memory -- I don't even know how much that is...
NT also runs on Alpha. But (surprise, surprise!) it's memory model is 32 bit. That means that even on a 64 bit platform NT cannot address more then 4 gig of RAM!
This whole article is pure BS. Notice that they pretty much just say "Linux sucks" without thorough comparison of any kind. Does anybody know where to send email for rebuttal?
the site is indeed legit. I looked through it and it seems to be a nice site. They even have forums for Linux and BeOS fans. Intrestingly enough, they have slashdot-style polls with a 'huh?' answer being an option. (gee, where did they get this idea from?). Oh, and this is somewhat related, they have an article Babayan vs Intel which I didn't read. They also had a poll about this and something like 50% believe it's for real. The article might be a joke. Or maybe it's just so they get more hits? Who knows?
I cannot judge the author's knowledge of German (because I don't speak it myself), but his post does have a valid point (although greatly exaggerated). SuSE is definitely superior to RedHat. I tried both distros and I liked SuSE much more. I found RedHat to be quite buggy and misconfigured which gave me an impression that it was a quick hack rather then a Linux distribution. But comparing RedHat to M$ is definitely a stretch...
I looked at the new layout and, frankly, I prefer the old one. However, I would never think of flaming Scoop. He put a lot of work in freshmeat and I'm happy he maintains it. I guess people who flamed him don't realize that he doesn't owe anybody to continue maintaining it, nor does he get any money from doing so. Flames (see the poll) are not acceptable. Constructive critisism + suggesstions are. So why don't we get the names of the flamers and point them out their mistakes, shall we?...:-)
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That's an easy one. /. about theos.com. The OpenBSD developer was sued by Theos Software for having theos.com domain even though he registered it before the company even existed. Of course there are also people who register a domain with the only purpose to sell it to someone else.
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A few month ago news.com had a nice story called "Microsoft's Holy War on Java" summarizing what happened. That alone should be enough for a sizable paper.
Then there's also DHTML and the much-hyped XML. Both of them allow a certain company to proprierarize standards.
As for intellectual property and stuff, you can write about the domain name rules. About a month ago there was a story on
You could also write about spam...
hope that helps
Don't you guys remember all these movies where the AI takes over the world? Like Terminator, for instance, or Matrix? Well, now it can finally become a reality. According, to the article, the leech computer can actually think for itself, without having to be told what to do. Just think of the implications... I say if AI does take over the world, it would have to be biological.
Am I the only one who's paranoid?
Linus himself said that he'd probably not have started Linux if DOS was not as crappy as it was. So yeah, I guess in a really twisted way, M$ is the father of Linux.
Free Speech issues aside, how can anyone possibly know of every web site in the world that is deemed "offensive"??? And the ISPs are gonna be held accountable for that? It looks like those politicians got their heads firmly implanted up their asses.
There has already been said enough about the Free Speech implications of this law, so I will not repeat it here.
With all these different incompatible standards coming and going, I'll just stick to CD-RW. At least then I'll be sure anyone will be able to read the media. + blank CDs are dirt cheap.
I sure hope DVD-RAM takes off - it's backwards compatible with DVD-ROM and all CD formats. It's a shame we still have to use 3.5" floppies!
I never tried it myself. Do they have a demo I can download? I want to see what it's like.
I absolutely agree with you regarding the non-free software. I'd pay if it's a good product. But I can't justify paying for something that is poorly designed and written.
THAT is what I want to know. Hate to say this, but the current WordPerfect for Linux is crap, much worse then the Windows version. Star Office is even worse. It's even more bloated then Windows itself -- a perfect example of poor design. However, as soon as Corel releases an office suite for Linux that is as good as their WP Suite 8 for Windows, I will have no reason to boot winblows any more.
Are you listening, Corel?
Wow! I initially thought that this new distribution from Corel was nothing but hype. But since they are basing it on Debian, technologically the best distro, they might be on to something! Looks like they do know what they are doing.
I'm anctious to find out what they are cooking...
With 54% of web sites in the world running Apache and 80% of mail servers in the world running Sendmail that's kinda hard to believe...
reading comprehension: THERE IS NO COMPARISON.
The *only* comparison they make is the amount of memory Linux and NT can use. Every other point in the article is "linux sucks", but no specific superior alternative is named.
Missing from Linux are high-availability features that would let one Linux server step in and take over if another failed;
I'm not an expert on the subject but I've seen the high-availability howto at www.linux.org/help, so I know it's possible. Can somebody else comment on the subject?
full-fledged support for computers with multiple processors;
uhhm, did they even test this??? Last I checked Linux beats the crap out of NT on SMP...
and a "journaling" file system that is necessary to quickly reboot a crashed machine without having to laboriously reconstruct the computer's system files.
OK, that's true. Linux doesn't have jornaled file system. On the plus side, it doesn't crash very often... NT does have a journaled file system, but for some reason it took longer for NT to test the file system after the crash then for Linux to run fsck after the maximal mount count.
Currently Linux can't use more than 2 gigabytes of memory, and in some cases only 1 GB. Windows NT, on the other hand, can address 4 GB of memory
This is either a deliberate lie or a lack of knowledge (or both). First notice that he doesn't specify the hardware. It is assumed that there is only x86 in the world. Also notice the difference between "use" and "address". Linux *can* address 4 gig of RAM on x86, just like NT. The memory is split between kernel and user memory. By default the split is 2-2, but you can change it to 1-3 (1 for kernel 3 for user) by recompiling the kernel. NT works in *exact same way* with only one difference: you can't recompile the kernel. In order to get a 1-3 split you need to buy "enterprise edition".
Now, Linux also runs on 64 bit platforms, such as Alpha, SPARC and PPC, and it can take full advantage of 64 bit memory architecture. On these platforms Linux can address 2^64 bytes of memory -- I don't even know how much that is...
NT also runs on Alpha. But (surprise, surprise!) it's memory model is 32 bit. That means that even on a 64 bit platform NT cannot address more then 4 gig of RAM!
This whole article is pure BS. Notice that they pretty much just say "Linux sucks" without thorough comparison of any kind. Does anybody know where to send email for rebuttal?
Do you think $500M is big money for Gates? Give me a break! It's probably less then 50 bucks for me.
the site is indeed legit. I looked through it and it seems to be a nice site. They even have forums for Linux and BeOS fans. Intrestingly enough, they have slashdot-style polls with a 'huh?' answer being an option. (gee, where did they get this idea from?).
Oh, and this is somewhat related, they have an article Babayan vs Intel which I didn't read. They also had a poll about this and something like 50% believe it's for real.
The article might be a joke. Or maybe it's just so they get more hits? Who knows?
I cannot judge the author's knowledge of German (because I don't speak it myself), but his post does have a valid point (although greatly exaggerated). SuSE is definitely superior to RedHat. I tried both distros and I liked SuSE much more. I found RedHat to be quite buggy and misconfigured which gave me an impression that it was a quick hack rather then a Linux distribution. But comparing RedHat to M$ is definitely a stretch...
I looked at the new layout and, frankly, I prefer the old one. However, I would never think of flaming Scoop. He put a lot of work in freshmeat and I'm happy he maintains it. I guess people who flamed him don't realize that he doesn't owe anybody to continue maintaining it, nor does he get any money from doing so. Flames (see the poll) are not acceptable. Constructive critisism + suggesstions are. So why don't we get the names of the flamers and point them out their mistakes, shall we?... :-)