It's a bad idea because what happens when the driver ABI changes?
I've got a solution for you: DON'T CHANGE THE DAMN DRIVER ABI EVERY FEW KERNELS! Other OSes manage to do just well using the same driver ABI for many many years, why not Linux?
I use Google toolbar for the form spellchecker and also for the ability to search for keywords in my GMail emails. The GMail integration is a killer feature.
Why ? For me, "it just works", so why would I be interested in changing? Oh and yes, I've been a user of Linux and FreeBSD for over 4 years now, but I am still using Windows as my primary desktop platform. Use the right tool for the job.
"Take for example, nVidia.. nVidia was going to release source for their graphics drivers. They said no, when they saw that SGI had a "stake" in it. nVidia said something to the effect "SGI will sue us if we release it". SGI came back and said that there's nothing we can sue you over. Yet to this day, anybody with an nVidia card is chained to nVidia driver updates."
Ugh, you are so full of it... Complicated software like videocard drivers from NVIDIA are using a lot of things patented by other companies. NVIDIA pays royalties and licensing fees to these companies in order to be able to use said patented technology in their driver software. They do not have the authority to release their drivers as opensource, because that surely wouldn't fly with the companies that live off licensing their tech to companies like NVIDIA.
Now before you jump down my throat, let me explain a few things to you. Apparently telemarketing in the US is quite different from telemarketing in Finland (which is where I live). I am not calling up completely random people and offering them things they don't need because I find this a waste of their time (why buy things you don't need) and my time, because with such methods you are unlikely to generate much sales and therefore income.
What I (and my fellow co-worker telemarkers) do is call up long-time customers of 2 of the biggest GSM providers in Finland. These people are paying ridiculous prices for their GSM phone use because they don't know any better or because they are too used to their current GSM provider. What we offer them is GSM service quality that equals that of the big and expensive provider companies, for half the price or even less. Basically we offer people a chance to reduce their mobile phone bills. Last week I sold a GSM contract to this young chick (23 years old): she was getting 100-110 euro/month mobile phone bills from her current GSM provider. Now that she took up my offer, her phone bills will be about 36 euro/month.
The only thing she will have to do is change the SIM card our GSM provider will send her. Her phone number stays the same. No "opening" or "transition" fees of any kind. Zero. Nada. This young lady will now be able to spend 70 euro/month on things more exciting than mobile phone bills.
Can you honestly call this kind of marketing calls a bad thing?
> > Hi Mauricio,
> > > > I am interested in your background for our full-time UNIX/Solaris sys. > admin > > position at Mircosoft.
Somehow I just got this feeling that you pulled this "email conversation" out of your ass. I highly doubt a recruiter from Microsoft would make a typo like that.
Word is they couldn't even get Half-Life 1 to run on Macs because there was too much platform-specific code. I'd assume the same issue occurred in HL2 (there was an Xbox "port", but that's really just a repackaging of a windows app).
Well, they did get HL1 running on PS2 and Dreamcast so I am guessing "much platform-specific code" couldn't have been the issue.
[Disclaimer: not a single byte of my code can be found in the official kernel tree, so take my words with a grain of salt. Still, I don't really imagine Linus using mouse for anything but cut&paste]
Yes, I know these links don't directly state he is a KDE user, but do a search for KDE on those pages and draw your own conclusions. You can use Google to see Linus has even reported bugs to the KDE team.
I couldn't find any data on what these companies are WORTH to see how easily Cisco could acquire Nokia, but Nokia revenues for 2004 were at 29.3 billion euro whilst Cisco revenues were at 22 billion euro. I am not exactly sure Cisco could swallow Nokia and not choke on it big time.
about GNOME is: why can't they fix and polish existing applications, instead of COMPLETELY REPLACING them with new applications like they do now. People do not want to change 1/3 of their desktop applications every year, I know I don't.
But who the hell is Michael Roberson, founder of Linspire to tell Apple's Steve Jobs how to run a successful computer company? Linspire has how much revenue/profit and how many users?
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1. Article says 100 Mbps is 50 times faster than what they have now. Thus, they have 2 Mbps cable.
2. I have 6 Mbps cable. I know people within 20-30 miles of me with 8 or 10 Mbps cable. SBC delivers 3 Mbps dsl, and delivered 6 Mbps to a select few quick enough to jump on the deal.
Does anyone else find it hard to believe that they will leapfrog technologies like that? Or, that even once those companies start selling the equipment (the article, after all, quotes an equipment manufacturer, *not* an ISP) that deployment will be instant?
They are obviously just saying that the vast majority of new consumer-level broadband connections opened in Finland right now are 2 MBps connections. In Finland, it's not a problem for the general consumer to get a 10 MBps internet connection at home or even 24MBps. Where I live (Tampere, Finland) a 8 MBit connection is 45 euro/month with a 24 MBit connection costing 63 euro/month.
I will probably get modded down below the floor for this one, but after reading so many articles praising Firefox and preaching the impending death of Internet Explorer I just have to get this off my chest:
Am I really the only one here who is thinking that with every single version past the very last 0.9 releases Firefox has been GOING DOWN THE SHITTER? Don't get me wrong, I've been a Firefox user since the 0.8 days and truth be told it's still my primary browser (I am posting this from 1.0.5), but I think the quality of QA the latter Firefox releases have been getting quite frankly sucks and I am not talking about the security issues here. With every new release Firefox is becoming more and more unstable and these days version 1.0.5 is crashing at least 2-3 times a day for me. Yeah, surely Firefox has been getting all these nice new features and UI polish, but when it comes to stability, the 0.9 branch beats the newer builds hands down. Just a short rant and perhaps food for thought.
Spare me the "PEBCAK!" and the "You must be running an M$ OS, LOL!", thank you.
If you ever wrote a book and hoped to make a living off it, how would you feel if I redistributed a copy of that very book to every single individual who would've otherwise have to purchase it? How would you feel if you started demandinding your hard-earned money after that, only to be told that "information wants to be free"?
Could you possibly talk more of these "sikrit APIs"? What Microsoft products use them? Where are they located? You DO realise that the _ENTIRE_ Windows source code is avaible to akademia as well as goverment entities?
The minimac ships with a Radeon 9200. Core Image which is the new graphics system coming in OSX Tiger, requires at least a Radeon 9600. Do the math. Of couse it will run, but you won't be seeing any of the fancy effects.
I thought the first two movies (Phantom Menace? and Attack of the Clones? I think?) were okay... mediocre.
Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones were not the first 2 movies. The first 3 movies were A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back followed by Return of the Jedi.
"This argument has been done to death. If you copy a piece of artwork with a pencil, you're most likely not creating an EXACT replica. With digital media, it's trivial to produce copies that are indistinguishable from the original."
This is where I disagree. You can't digitally replicate the cd/dvd case and the included booklets and whilst you CAN create lossless FLAC rips of your CDs, very rare people do so. A CD burned from 192kbps MP3s is definately NOT the same as the "real thing".
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I've got a solution for you: DON'T CHANGE THE DAMN DRIVER ABI EVERY FEW KERNELS! Other OSes manage to do just well using the same driver ABI for many many years, why not Linux?
I use Google toolbar for the form spellchecker and also for the ability to search for keywords in my GMail emails. The GMail integration is a killer feature.
So, can you point to some operating system kernel written in Perl?
Not accepting 20 million when you can get 40 million for your shares is called common sense, not greed.
Why ? For me, "it just works", so why would I be interested in changing? Oh and yes, I've been a user of Linux and FreeBSD for over 4 years now, but I am still using Windows as my primary desktop platform. Use the right tool for the job.
Ugh, you are so full of it... Complicated software like videocard drivers from NVIDIA are using a lot of things patented by other companies. NVIDIA pays royalties and licensing fees to these companies in order to be able to use said patented technology in their driver software. They do not have the authority to release their drivers as opensource, because that surely wouldn't fly with the companies that live off licensing their tech to companies like NVIDIA.
Now before you jump down my throat, let me explain a few things to you. Apparently telemarketing in the US is quite different from telemarketing in Finland (which is where I live). I am not calling up completely random people and offering them things they don't need because I find this a waste of their time (why buy things you don't need) and my time, because with such methods you are unlikely to generate much sales and therefore income.
What I (and my fellow co-worker telemarkers) do is call up long-time customers of 2 of the biggest GSM providers in Finland. These people are paying ridiculous prices for their GSM phone use because they don't know any better or because they are too used to their current GSM provider. What we offer them is GSM service quality that equals that of the big and expensive provider companies, for half the price or even less. Basically we offer people a chance to reduce their mobile phone bills. Last week I sold a GSM contract to this young chick (23 years old): she was getting 100-110 euro/month mobile phone bills from her current GSM provider. Now that she took up my offer, her phone bills will be about 36 euro/month.
The only thing she will have to do is change the SIM card our GSM provider will send her. Her phone number stays the same. No "opening" or "transition" fees of any kind. Zero. Nada. This young lady will now be able to spend 70 euro/month on things more exciting than mobile phone bills.
Can you honestly call this kind of marketing calls a bad thing?
Somehow I just got this feeling that you pulled this "email conversation" out of your ass. I highly doubt a recruiter from Microsoft would make a typo like that.
Well, they did get HL1 running on PS2 and Dreamcast so I am guessing "much platform-specific code" couldn't have been the issue.
Actually, Linus Torvalds is a KDE user.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=161
http://dot.kde.org/1057763789/
Yes, I know these links don't directly state he is a KDE user, but do a search for KDE on those pages and draw your own conclusions. You can use Google to see Linus has even reported bugs to the KDE team.
I couldn't find any data on what these companies are WORTH to see how easily Cisco could acquire Nokia, but Nokia revenues for 2004 were at 29.3 billion euro whilst Cisco revenues were at 22 billion euro. I am not exactly sure Cisco could swallow Nokia and not choke on it big time.
about GNOME is: why can't they fix and polish existing applications, instead of COMPLETELY REPLACING them with new applications like they do now. People do not want to change 1/3 of their desktop applications every year, I know I don't.
P.S: Why is this in the BSD section anyway?
I disagree with the opinion that it's an opinion most people would not agree with.
But who the hell is Michael Roberson, founder of Linspire to tell Apple's Steve Jobs how to run a successful computer company? Linspire has how much revenue/profit and how many users?
No, FreeBSD runs THIS.
They are obviously just saying that the vast majority of new consumer-level broadband connections opened in Finland right now are 2 MBps connections. In Finland, it's not a problem for the general consumer to get a 10 MBps internet connection at home or even 24MBps. Where I live (Tampere, Finland) a 8 MBit connection is 45 euro/month with a 24 MBit connection costing 63 euro/month.
I will probably get modded down below the floor for this one, but after reading so many articles praising Firefox and preaching the impending death of Internet Explorer I just have to get this off my chest:
Am I really the only one here who is thinking that with every single version past the very last 0.9 releases Firefox has been GOING DOWN THE SHITTER? Don't get me wrong, I've been a Firefox user since the 0.8 days and truth be told it's still my primary browser (I am posting this from 1.0.5), but I think the quality of QA the latter Firefox releases have been getting quite frankly sucks and I am not talking about the security issues here. With every new release Firefox is becoming more and more unstable and these days version 1.0.5 is crashing at least 2-3 times a day for me. Yeah, surely Firefox has been getting all these nice new features and UI polish, but when it comes to stability, the 0.9 branch beats the newer builds hands down. Just a short rant and perhaps food for thought.
Spare me the "PEBCAK!" and the "You must be running an M$ OS, LOL!", thank you.
The right to steal?
If you ever wrote a book and hoped to make a living off it, how would you feel if I redistributed a copy of that very book to every single individual who would've otherwise have to purchase it? How would you feel if you started demandinding your hard-earned money after that, only to be told that "information wants to be free"?
So when exactly did human stop being an animal as well?
Could you possibly talk more of these "sikrit APIs"? What Microsoft products use them? Where are they located? You DO realise that the _ENTIRE_ Windows source code is avaible to akademia as well as goverment entities?
Except that you can download the JAVA source code. It's not under an ODSL license though.
How was IIS cheaper then Apache?
The minimac ships with a Radeon 9200. Core Image which is the new graphics system coming in OSX Tiger, requires at least a Radeon 9600. Do the math. Of couse it will run, but you won't be seeing any of the fancy effects.