I can't believe that anyone here really believes that Mark Cuban is really a tech visionary. He's a great salesman and a compulsive liar. Put those together and you get what he really is . . . a con artist.
Don't waste any more neural output on this guy. Enough people have paid their hard-earned savings/investments and free time to fund his shenanigans. Where is that 4 Billion dollars of value that yahoo paid for broadcast.com? No where useful. It's been wasted on stupid hobbies, sports teams, hookers and shallow pet-rocks like his blogging. (The hookers are there because the guy is too smarmy to have legitamate human contact). This guy epitomizes the worst part of the dot-com boom. Engineers brought real value, entrepreneurs took risks to advance information technology, and snakes like this guy hurt everybody.
I've been on the other side of the table during business deals with this guy. He knows quite a bit about technology and he uses it exclusively to steal funding from venture funds who are trying to do the right thing who don't know any better. In the process he likes to sound like an engineer to fool the business guys and ridicule legitamate engineers who try to speak the truth. Did we buy his crap? NO WAY. Did other people who were more ready to get bent over the negotiating table. . . you betcha. He is very good at wasting a lot of time and taking peoples money. Don't let him waste your time.
If you spent any more time thinking about Mark Cuban, it should be figuring out how to keep his hands out of your pockets.
I agree with most of you points except one. . more Sysadmins know Linux than Solaris at this point. Commodity hardware swamped the market with both Linux boxes and Linux admins.
Instead of a win for Darwin, this would actually be a win for Lamarck (whom Darwin discredited). If the acquired behavior seen in these monkeys is passed on to their offspring, it would prove Lamarck's "Theory of Aquired Characteristics".
Here's a reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarck
Sun hardware has additional, wonderful resiliency features like - allowing cpu's to "fail-over" to other cpus in case of failure. The same holds true for memory, network interfaces, etc. Solaris is aware of these hardware features and can "map out" the bad memory and cpus on the fly (or allow swap-in replacements). The engineers can then replace the broken cpus/memory/interfaces WITHOUT BRINGING THE MACHINE DOWN. This lends itself to an environment than can enjoy nearly 100% uptime. Finally, since Sun has been doing the "lots of cpus" thing for many years, their process management and scalability tends to be much better.
I don't work for Sun, I'm just an SA that deals with both Solaris and Linux boxes. You don't pick sun for just "lots of cpus", you pick it for a very scalable OS and amazing hardware that allows for a very, very solid datacenter. If downtime costs a lot (ie. you lose a lot of money for being down), you should have Sun and/or IBM zseries hardware. Unfortunately those features cost a lot and most times you can use Linux clustering instead for a fraction of the cost and a high percentage of the availability.
1) I'm not IBM. I don't represent ANY software/hardware company.
2) I care about applications and people like me who want to use good software tools. . . I don't even mind paying for "free" software and supporting the authors. Writing poetry for free and performing performance art doesn't sabotage poets and other artists. Software is the same. The technology world is not a zero-sum game as Microsoft would have you believe.
Paradigm shifts (unix->dos->windows->linux) don't happen very often, and you need a lot of geurilla tactics to even have a fighting chance.
Let me get this straight. Since people don't switch to other platforms often, you are suggesting that Linux becomes as much like Microsoft Windows as possible? And that the Linux community engages in geurilla tactics and "fight" Microsoft?
What would be the incentive to switch? I, for one, use Linux because it is BETTER than Windows for almost everything I need to do (and, unlike Microsoft, is actively engaged in inventing/developing the the great features that will push computer usage forward for everyone). I engage in the community because they aren't engaged in geurilla tactics and fighting/sabotaging everyone. The last thing I need is for Linux to become a tech-slave to Microsoft's Win32NG department and its users to start acting like a bunch of *ssholes.
Some people are too young to remember WHY we left Unix on the big-iron all those years ago
Commercial Unix boomed and continued growing all through the 90's (up to the tech bust that hurt everyone) - and with Linux and MacOSX, Unix is growing faster than ever. Most people run Linux on the same "iron" that people run Windows on. Unix is not legacy, its the most innovative, fastest-growing OS today.
People are legitamately concerned about the legality of this project.
Calling mono perfectly legal when mono stands on shaky legal grounds is a disservice to the community. Not only is "Windows.Forms" a protected term belonging to Microsoft but the entire toolkit is based on patent-protected APIs etc. Why hasn't Novell asked Microsoft to issue a statement protecting Mono yet? Since this will be a Java-killer when the open-source crowd embraces it, I would think that this would be the least they could do.
Until I see that Microsoft (the owner of the IP) won't try to sabotage this product I will try to get as many open-source people I can to steer clear so their hard-work won't be coopted or made illegal.
Intellij is widely regarded as one of the best IDEs out there and it runs on Linux: http://www.intellij.com
Also Sun's Netbeans and Java Studio are quite good as well (Netbeans is free). http://www.netbeans.org
Finally another great non-free IDE/Editor is Visual Slickedit. It runs on just about any platform that exists (including Linux). http://www.slickedit.com
That's not Occam's razor- although it is commonly misunderstood as such.
Occam's razor is: "plurality should not be posited without necessity." OR simply "Don't do something with more if you can do it with less".
Your quote, "don't attribute to malice that which is explained by simple incompetence." is a misquote of Hanlon's Razor and is actually probably borrowed from the sci-fi Robert Heinlein (both men say "stupidity", not incompetence). See: http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/h/HanlonsRa zor.ht ml
I fully believe in Occam's Razor, I think Hanlon's Razor is crap. I think Hanlon's razor is very popular with management types who like to encourage a sort of moral laziness in the workplace that reduces the need for actual maintenance of good-will, competence, and personal responsibility. Walking around and assuming everyone else does bad things because they are incompetent is unbelievably arrogant and is usually wrong.
The point is that you can run MANY sessions from the same server, detatch from any of them, see a list of active sessions, and reattach at a later time. That is why people compare it to "screen" on the command line.
VNC can't do that at all.
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How do you think that that electricity is regulated and metered? By hand? How do you think that that the distribution points are monitored and controled? By hand? How do you think that the electric-plants run their offices. . . etc. etc. etc. You need computers to run the infrastructure they are building.
Linux isn't just something that sits on your desk at home like most Windows computers. It is actually QUITE approporiate that they are considering Linux at the same time they are building the nation's infrastructure. It's most common use these days is _as_ server infrastructure.
I'm getting some guys together to port Microsoft Money to Linux. We think its going to be a really interesting project and Microsoft will really love having their stuff ported for free! We don't think they'll care when we give it away for free either so we aren't asking for any patent releases or anything!
I disagree that the desktop is getting worse for both KDE/Gnome. . . I think that the memory issues are a little more complicated than that.
My real gripes with memory management are four-fold.
The system-buffering is ridiculous at times. . . (buffer-cache is NOT the best use of memory in all cases).
The browsers use too much damn memory cache by default. If your desktop is crawling, try restarting your browser - It will be obvious what a pig it is. This is made worse by the fact that file-browsers use the same libraries/code. and
Finally X is fast, X is flexible, X is my favorite, but X takes up too much memory and balloons over time (yeah I know some of it is video RAM -- but not all). Now that we have great anti-alised fonts, alpha transparency, etc. etc., maybe X.org will work on memory efficiency next. . . That should improve everyone's experience across the board, no matter which desktop you use.
The terminals that come with KDE and gnome are ridiculously bloated. I always use something like "aterm" when doing command-line work. Believe it or not, if you run 4 or more terminal windows, it will make a huge difference in your overall memory usage (and no, I don't think that tabbed terminals help -- I like to see all my screens at once).
On a seperate note, I've noticed that KDE overall has gotten faster and more efficient, not slower in the last 3 releases. I've seen the opposite in Gnome.
Gnome unfortunately has never been memory efficient for me and seems to have a ton of memory leaks (I love the look of it and I'm rooting for the team - maybe except for the mono guys - , but it feels really cobbled together to me and I can't stand when it bogs down because of memory leaks here and there). I also don't see mono as the fix for that -- better memory management for the individual components would suffice.
Also 192 MB of RAM is much higher than the usable minimum for Mandrake 10.0 + KDE. I use 128 MB of RAM with a newish KDE (two minor releases behind - so the newer once should be even faster) and it is quite comfortable (it is better than both the current GNOME and the later versions of GNOME/KDE). I've used gentoo on the same machine in the past and it was even faster. The only thing that I do is use "aterm" instead of the bloated terminal shells (gnome terminal and kterminal are both ridiculously bloated and offer almost nothing over aterm) -- it makes a big difference.
As the ancient saying goes: "If you play with a snake, you get bit."
I really like Sun, but this serves them right after paying SCO and acting holier-than-thou about IP rights re: Linux (even though they had the means to know and probably did know that the claims weren't true).
By the way, that same saying holds true for the Microsoft crowd. . . but they probably know that already.
The article states that FCC doesn't work. . . but doesn't acknowledge that innappropriate market influence is the CAUSE of its problems. Knowing that, why not fix it instead of aboloshing it?
Just because it is currently run by crooks doesn't mean that we don't need this regulatory body to watch over our shared communication resources. . . actually it means that market forces have actually CORRUPTED a regulatory body that was meant to defend the people's trust. . . and we should insulate it further from the markets.
It's obvious. . . as far as media regulation goes, Michael Powell is the most popular girl in school. . . and its not because he's pretty.
It should come as no surprise when countries that control the manufacturing base of the planet have the power to set standards at will.
I would guess that as we lose more and more control of the production of our products that we end up following the standards set elsewhere - especially after we experience a dip in purchasing power when our IP and standards are coopted by these same countries that don't respect our trademark/IP laws. Even the simplest supply-chain model dictates that monopolies in the chain dominate the chain. And at this rate - that won't be us.
I wonder what the free-market-niks will say when China teaches us a lesson in closed-market abusive monopolized production power. I would like to be the first to thank the mindless US "markets are omniscient" buffoons in power. . . thanks for setting us up for macro-economic slavery, you greedy, myopic, grease-paint-academic sellouts.
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I can't believe that anyone here really believes that Mark Cuban is really a tech visionary. He's a great salesman and a compulsive liar. Put those together and you get what he really is . . . a con artist.
Don't waste any more neural output on this guy. Enough people have paid their hard-earned savings/investments and free time to fund his shenanigans. Where is that 4 Billion dollars of value that yahoo paid for broadcast.com? No where useful. It's been wasted on stupid hobbies, sports teams, hookers and shallow pet-rocks like his blogging. (The hookers are there because the guy is too smarmy to have legitamate human contact). This guy epitomizes the worst part of the dot-com boom. Engineers brought real value, entrepreneurs took risks to advance information technology, and snakes like this guy hurt everybody.
I've been on the other side of the table during business deals with this guy. He knows quite a bit about technology and he uses it exclusively to steal funding from venture funds who are trying to do the right thing who don't know any better. In the process he likes to sound like an engineer to fool the business guys and ridicule legitamate engineers who try to speak the truth. Did we buy his crap? NO WAY. Did other people who were more ready to get bent over the negotiating table. . . you betcha. He is very good at wasting a lot of time and taking peoples money. Don't let him waste your time.
If you spent any more time thinking about Mark Cuban, it should be figuring out how to keep his hands out of your pockets.
I agree with most of you points except one. . more Sysadmins know Linux than Solaris at this point. Commodity hardware swamped the market with both Linux boxes and Linux admins.
I'm holding out for the next Osborne. . . I hear its going to be way better!
Instead of a win for Darwin, this would actually be a win for Lamarck (whom Darwin discredited). If the acquired behavior seen in these monkeys is passed on to their offspring, it would prove Lamarck's "Theory of Aquired Characteristics".
Here's a reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarck
Sun hardware has additional, wonderful resiliency features like - allowing cpu's to "fail-over" to other cpus in case of failure. The same holds true for memory, network interfaces, etc. Solaris is aware of these hardware features and can "map out" the bad memory and cpus on the fly (or allow swap-in replacements). The engineers can then replace the broken cpus/memory/interfaces WITHOUT BRINGING THE MACHINE DOWN. This lends itself to an environment than can enjoy nearly 100% uptime. Finally, since Sun has been doing the "lots of cpus" thing for many years, their process management and scalability tends to be much better.
I don't work for Sun, I'm just an SA that deals with both Solaris and Linux boxes. You don't pick sun for just "lots of cpus", you pick it for a very scalable OS and amazing hardware that allows for a very, very solid datacenter. If downtime costs a lot (ie. you lose a lot of money for being down), you should have Sun and/or IBM zseries hardware. Unfortunately those features cost a lot and most times you can use Linux clustering instead for a fraction of the cost and a high percentage of the availability.
1) I'm not IBM. I don't represent ANY software/hardware company.
2) I care about applications and people like me who want to use good software tools. . . I don't even mind paying for "free" software and supporting the authors. Writing poetry for free and performing performance art doesn't sabotage poets and other artists. Software is the same. The technology world is not a zero-sum game as Microsoft would have you believe.
Paradigm shifts (unix->dos->windows->linux) don't happen very often, and you need a lot of geurilla tactics to even have a fighting chance.
Let me get this straight. Since people don't switch to other platforms often, you are suggesting that Linux becomes as much like Microsoft Windows as possible? And that the Linux community engages in geurilla tactics and "fight" Microsoft?
What would be the incentive to switch? I, for one, use Linux because it is BETTER than Windows for almost everything I need to do (and, unlike Microsoft, is actively engaged in inventing/developing the the great features that will push computer usage forward for everyone). I engage in the community because they aren't engaged in geurilla tactics and fighting/sabotaging everyone. The last thing I need is for Linux to become a tech-slave to Microsoft's Win32NG department and its users to start acting like a bunch of *ssholes.
Some people are too young to remember WHY we left Unix on the big-iron all those years ago
Commercial Unix boomed and continued growing all through the 90's (up to the tech bust that hurt everyone) - and with Linux and MacOSX, Unix is growing faster than ever. Most people run Linux on the same "iron" that people run Windows on. Unix is not legacy, its the most innovative, fastest-growing OS today.
Who knew Microsoft was so funny and charming!
I bet that customers really appreciate a good sense of humor while they are being bent over the shop-counter.
Don't fall to far in love, though, you're bound to end up with a virus and feeling end-used.
PS: How many systems did Visio PING? Ha, ha, ha, Oh, stop! No really. . . stop.
mod parent up. This is correct.
Knowing the relations between those two countries you can expect exactly one eye to be missing from a Pakistani now.
Next they'll work on teeth.
People are legitamately concerned about the legality of this project.
Calling mono perfectly legal when mono stands on shaky legal grounds is a disservice to the community. Not only is "Windows.Forms" a protected term belonging to Microsoft but the entire toolkit is based on patent-protected APIs etc. Why hasn't Novell asked Microsoft to issue a statement protecting Mono yet? Since this will be a Java-killer when the open-source crowd embraces it, I would think that this would be the least they could do.
Until I see that Microsoft (the owner of the IP) won't try to sabotage this product I will try to get as many open-source people I can to steer clear so their hard-work won't be coopted or made illegal.
Intellij is widely regarded as one of the best IDEs out there and it runs on Linux:
http://www.intellij.com
Also Sun's Netbeans and Java Studio are quite good as well (Netbeans is free).
http://www.netbeans.org
Finally another great non-free IDE/Editor is Visual Slickedit. It runs on just about any platform that exists (including Linux).
http://www.slickedit.com
That's not Occam's razor- although it is commonly misunderstood as such.
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Occam's razor is:
"plurality should not be posited without necessity." OR simply "Don't do something with more if you can do it with less".
Your quote, "don't attribute to malice that which is explained by simple incompetence." is a misquote of Hanlon's Razor and is actually probably borrowed from the sci-fi Robert Heinlein (both men say "stupidity", not incompetence). See:
http://www.jargon.net/jargonfile/h/HanlonsR
I fully believe in Occam's Razor, I think Hanlon's Razor is crap. I think Hanlon's razor is very popular with management types who like to encourage a sort of moral laziness in the workplace that reduces the need for actual maintenance of good-will, competence, and personal responsibility. Walking around and assuming everyone else does bad things because they are incompetent is unbelievably arrogant and is usually wrong.
Is it just me or did you write that review in LISP?
The point is that you can run MANY sessions from the same server, detatch from any of them, see a list of active sessions, and reattach at a later time. That is why people compare it to "screen" on the command line.
VNC can't do that at all.
How do you think that that electricity is regulated and metered? By hand? How do you think that that the distribution points are monitored and controled? By hand? How do you think that the electric-plants run their offices. . . etc. etc. etc. You need computers to run the infrastructure they are building.
Linux isn't just something that sits on your desk at home like most Windows computers. It is actually QUITE approporiate that they are considering Linux at the same time they are building the nation's infrastructure. It's most common use these days is _as_ server infrastructure.
Ever read Fahrenheit 451? How do you think they get those wall-televisions to work?
Telemundo unamerican? Telemundo is broadcast out of New Jersey. Get with the program, frenchy!
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Why would you run Linux on the Apple boxes? Wouldn't OSX be just as good?
I'm getting some guys together to port Microsoft Money to Linux. We think its going to be a really interesting project and Microsoft will really love having their stuff ported for free! We don't think they'll care when we give it away for free either so we aren't asking for any patent releases or anything!
Who's with me?
Not at all. If you aren't using your memory for anything, why should it sit around going to waste? It ought to be used to cache disk blocks
That assumes that reclaming cache is a low-cost or no-cost operation. Is it really that lightweight?
I disagree that the desktop is getting worse for both KDE/Gnome. . . I think that the memory issues are a little more complicated than that.
My real gripes with memory management are four-fold.
On a seperate note, I've noticed that KDE overall has gotten faster and more efficient, not slower in the last 3 releases. I've seen the opposite in Gnome.
Gnome unfortunately has never been memory efficient for me and seems to have a ton of memory leaks (I love the look of it and I'm rooting for the team - maybe except for the mono guys - , but it feels really cobbled together to me and I can't stand when it bogs down because of memory leaks here and there). I also don't see mono as the fix for that -- better memory management for the individual components would suffice.
Also 192 MB of RAM is much higher than the usable minimum for Mandrake 10.0 + KDE. I use 128 MB of RAM with a newish KDE (two minor releases behind - so the newer once should be even faster) and it is quite comfortable (it is better than both the current GNOME and the later versions of GNOME/KDE). I've used gentoo on the same machine in the past and it was even faster. The only thing that I do is use "aterm" instead of the bloated terminal shells (gnome terminal and kterminal are both ridiculously bloated and offer almost nothing over aterm) -- it makes a big difference.
As the ancient saying goes: "If you play with a snake, you get bit."
I really like Sun, but this serves them right after paying SCO and acting holier-than-thou about IP rights re: Linux (even though they had the means to know and probably did know that the claims weren't true).
By the way, that same saying holds true for the Microsoft crowd. . . but they probably know that already.
The article states that FCC doesn't work. . . but doesn't acknowledge that innappropriate market influence is the CAUSE of its problems. Knowing that, why not fix it instead of aboloshing it?
Just because it is currently run by crooks doesn't mean that we don't need this regulatory body to watch over our shared communication resources. . . actually it means that market forces have actually CORRUPTED a regulatory body that was meant to defend the people's trust. . . and we should insulate it further from the markets.
It's obvious. . . as far as media regulation goes, Michael Powell is the most popular girl in school. . . and its not because he's pretty.
It should come as no surprise when countries that control the manufacturing base of the planet have the power to set standards at will.
I would guess that as we lose more and more control of the production of our products that we end up following the standards set elsewhere - especially after we experience a dip in purchasing power when our IP and standards are coopted by these same countries that don't respect our trademark/IP laws. Even the simplest supply-chain model dictates that monopolies in the chain dominate the chain. And at this rate - that won't be us.
I wonder what the free-market-niks will say when China teaches us a lesson in closed-market abusive monopolized production power. I would like to be the first to thank the mindless US "markets are omniscient" buffoons in power. . . thanks for setting us up for macro-economic slavery, you greedy, myopic, grease-paint-academic sellouts.