And today, kids, we are going to learn a very important lesson. When someone makes a joke, you should laugh, rather than take it seriously and analyze its details.
How is this funny, this is completely overrated, and I am screaming for moderator points right now. A Unix kernel has nothing to do with a Java interpreter.
A bytecode interpreter is an abstraction above the kernel, and is made so that said bytecode can run on any kernel (theoretically).
If your going to make a funny comment, make sure their is some connection between the two things you're comparing. This is just shameless bashing on SCO, with no humor whatsoever. I'm appalled.
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The leak on the Apple store website was true, and Jobs just admitted it in the process of announcing the new G5. Check MacCentral for live updates on the keynote.
There are a number of different possiblities here, given the different dynamics of each group.
1. In general, there are more users of closed source software, so bugs may be discovered at a faster rate. With limited development resources, the greater number of bugs take longer to fix.
2. Users of open source software tend to be more programmer-minded. They find bugs and fix them themselves, since they have access to the source code. Everyone fixing their own bugs leads to faster debugging times.
3. In larger companies, development and test typically are two distinct groups. There is an inherent lag in this that leads to slower response time in removing bugs. Open source software is developed and tested by the same core, ususally small group. Since the same people develop and test, they are more likely to find the bugs in their own code and fix them quicker.
Just some observations, and I am sure there are other reasons. I'm sure the results of the study are a combination of many factors.
SCO has just divulged that they have included code in UNIX System V for years that will allow remote destruction of any computer it runs on. Unfortunately for most users, this is among said code that has been copied into the Linux kernel. Tommorrow, SCO will be destroying all AIX systems immediately and activating a trigger which will destroy all Linux systems by 5:00 PM EST this Friday, June 20. Anyone who licenses the rights to UNIX from SCO by this deadline will have the trigger disabled. May God be with those who don't.
It is moderated off topic because the vast, vast majority of readers will have no clue what this means, and this includes myself. This is Slashdot, an English language site. I don't care how funny a post is, if I can't understand it, or have any other reason not to want to see it, I want it moderated so it doesn't show up. When I'm feeling couragous, then I'll adjust the threshold.
Way to go mods!
P.S.: If the post is in fact funny, someone could get some quick karma by translating it for us non-enlightened linguists.
Well, I was thinking more along the lines of protected memory and capable of running multiple processes. Your thinking of programs again. People should really learn the distinction between an operating system and the programs that run on top of it.
I can think of at least two features that are a requirement for any OS that I'm going to use. If it doesn't have them, it is not going to stay on my computer very long. Programs however, I like as feature-bare as possible. There is a difference.
Code analysis is notoriously difficult to do, and some problems encountered along the way are probably impossible to solve, at least from an algorithmic perspective. You will never see lines of code analyzed and rid of bugs completely due to that analysis. If you could do that, the vast majority of programmers would be out of jobs.
I couldn't agree with you more. If you kill someone, you should be held accountable. If you were travelling the speed limit, and it was just an accident, then let the facts show that. If your a lieing asshole on top of the fact that your that you dont realize you should travel 114 in a residential area, then you should get the book thrown at you.
I have no problem at all with these devices being in my car. I pay the occasional speeding ticket, but I've yet to have these devices influence that. In fact, I feel better knowing that they can help convict people who need to be put away.
Even though I am sure to not find many supporters of my opinion here on Slashdot, I actually respect Cameron more for making efforts to respect the original and grandeur scale of the Titanic. It's nice to see people with such a passion and who will not compromise their vision for anything.
I remember some joke about Clippy helping to write a suicide note. The depressed person in question starts typing, and Clippy chimes in with "It looks like you are trying to write a suicide note, would you like to..."
Just imagine what will happen when the house senses you've pulled out a shotgun, a box of razor blades, a bottle of pills and accompanying bottle vodka.
Microsoft won't just be killing computers anymore.
Fair enough, though Tivo doesn't include either of these features!
That is right (apart from enabling things with secret codes). Now, with the feature set roughly the same, the decision comes down to the merits of each product, which TiVo wins hands down, in my opinion.
A long time TiVo owner and DVR enthusiast, TiVo is much easier to use in terms of interface. Plus TiVo, as a company, is generally friendly to the hacker community.
I glad the time has finally come that people can post about how much they like their TiVos without people flaming them about how ReplayTV has all these really cool, but legally questionable features (please no rants about legality).
TiVo has long been primary concerned with giving users what they want with a friendly interface and keeping itself on this side of a legal minefield. ReplayTV, in contrast, seemed to focus its selling point on its advanced feature set, despite of the lawsuits being fired at them from every angle. It should have focused on competing with TiVo from a usability perspective. Now, however, it may be too late, as TiVo is well ahead of them in every aspect now that these features will not be available. TiVo has an incredible interface and network media capability with Home Media Option, while ReplayTV is left without the slick interface.
User interface is the major issue here. When I upgrade a video card or CPU, I don't have to learn anything new. I just stick it in and my computer performs better.
Most users want what they are comfortable with. Relearning how to type every two to three years would be a nightmare. This is why applications generally keep the same interface over consecutive versions. Under the hood, they are better, but to the user they appear mostly the same.
Software solutions such as MythTV and Freevo (both run on Linux) require fairly hefty hardware to do the encoding of TV to MPEG-2, MPEG-4, etc. Then they need to decode it to play it to the screen. Both encoding and decoding is necessary in order to do the time shift.
However, MythTV is leading the charge to offload this processing to the WinTV PVR cards, freeing up the system CPU for other stuff, or just allowing the user to scrape by with minimum requirements. So the feasability is improving quite rapidly right now.
MythTV has also been doing some impressive work on their GUI (check out the screenshots). This was one area I previously thought Freevo had a leg up on, but that advantage is going away.
Ronald Scelson, an eighth-grade dropout and self-taught computer programmer from Louisiana, who claims that he sends between 120 million and 180 million e-mails every 12 hours
Wow, I want to know how many words per minute this guy can type. He could probably make a much better living doing manual transcriptions of books.
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And today, kids, we are going to learn a very important lesson. When someone makes a joke, you should laugh, rather than take it seriously and analyze its details.
I think that would have been you, at the exact instant you posted your comment.
The patent for the bus is rendered useless since I just patented getting on the bus.
How is this funny, this is completely overrated, and I am screaming for moderator points right now. A Unix kernel has nothing to do with a Java interpreter.
A bytecode interpreter is an abstraction above the kernel, and is made so that said bytecode can run on any kernel (theoretically).
If your going to make a funny comment, make sure their is some connection between the two things you're comparing. This is just shameless bashing on SCO, with no humor whatsoever. I'm appalled.
The leak on the Apple store website was true, and Jobs just admitted it in the process of announcing the new G5. Check MacCentral for live updates on the keynote.
There are a number of different possiblities here, given the different dynamics of each group.
1. In general, there are more users of closed source software, so bugs may be discovered at a faster rate. With limited development resources, the greater number of bugs take longer to fix.
2. Users of open source software tend to be more programmer-minded. They find bugs and fix them themselves, since they have access to the source code. Everyone fixing their own bugs leads to faster debugging times.
3. In larger companies, development and test typically are two distinct groups. There is an inherent lag in this that leads to slower response time in removing bugs. Open source software is developed and tested by the same core, ususally small group. Since the same people develop and test, they are more likely to find the bugs in their own code and fix them quicker.
Just some observations, and I am sure there are other reasons. I'm sure the results of the study are a combination of many factors.
I remember when Microsoft renamed Windows 4 to Windows 95. Mass upgrading occurred as people thought they were 91 sequential versions outdated.
SCO has just divulged that they have included code in UNIX System V for years that will allow remote destruction of any computer it runs on. Unfortunately for most users, this is among said code that has been copied into the Linux kernel. Tommorrow, SCO will be destroying all AIX systems immediately and activating a trigger which will destroy all Linux systems by 5:00 PM EST this Friday, June 20. Anyone who licenses the rights to UNIX from SCO by this deadline will have the trigger disabled. May God be with those who don't.
It is moderated off topic because the vast, vast majority of readers will have no clue what this means, and this includes myself. This is Slashdot, an English language site. I don't care how funny a post is, if I can't understand it, or have any other reason not to want to see it, I want it moderated so it doesn't show up. When I'm feeling couragous, then I'll adjust the threshold.
Way to go mods!
P.S.: If the post is in fact funny, someone could get some quick karma by translating it for us non-enlightened linguists.
When I first read your post, I read it as:
binary + DNA = pi
Somehow, I envisioned a future where we all took electric drills to our heads.
Well, I was thinking more along the lines of protected memory and capable of running multiple processes. Your thinking of programs again. People should really learn the distinction between an operating system and the programs that run on top of it.
I can think of at least two features that are a requirement for any OS that I'm going to use. If it doesn't have them, it is not going to stay on my computer very long. Programs however, I like as feature-bare as possible. There is a difference.
Code analysis is notoriously difficult to do, and some problems encountered along the way are probably impossible to solve, at least from an algorithmic perspective. You will never see lines of code analyzed and rid of bugs completely due to that analysis. If you could do that, the vast majority of programmers would be out of jobs.
I couldn't agree with you more. If you kill someone, you should be held accountable. If you were travelling the speed limit, and it was just an accident, then let the facts show that. If your a lieing asshole on top of the fact that your that you dont realize you should travel 114 in a residential area, then you should get the book thrown at you.
I have no problem at all with these devices being in my car. I pay the occasional speeding ticket, but I've yet to have these devices influence that. In fact, I feel better knowing that they can help convict people who need to be put away.
Even though I am sure to not find many supporters of my opinion here on Slashdot, I actually respect Cameron more for making efforts to respect the original and grandeur scale of the Titanic. It's nice to see people with such a passion and who will not compromise their vision for anything.
I remember some joke about Clippy helping to write a suicide note. The depressed person in question starts typing, and Clippy chimes in with "It looks like you are trying to write a suicide note, would you like to..."
Just imagine what will happen when the house senses you've pulled out a shotgun, a box of razor blades, a bottle of pills and accompanying bottle vodka.
Microsoft won't just be killing computers anymore.
If I had any mod points, you'd get them for sure. I very nearly exploded in laughter when I read this. Thanksfully for my cubicle neighbors, I didn't.
Wow, I just checked, and I have six games too: FreeCell, Hearts, Minesweeper, Pinball, Solitare, and Spider Solitare.
I usually play each in intervals shorter than ten minutes as well. Can it be coincidence?
Fair enough, though Tivo doesn't include either of these features!
That is right (apart from enabling things with secret codes). Now, with the feature set roughly the same, the decision comes down to the merits of each product, which TiVo wins hands down, in my opinion.
A long time TiVo owner and DVR enthusiast, TiVo is much easier to use in terms of interface. Plus TiVo, as a company, is generally friendly to the hacker community.
I glad the time has finally come that people can post about how much they like their TiVos without people flaming them about how ReplayTV has all these really cool, but legally questionable features (please no rants about legality).
TiVo has long been primary concerned with giving users what they want with a friendly interface and keeping itself on this side of a legal minefield. ReplayTV, in contrast, seemed to focus its selling point on its advanced feature set, despite of the lawsuits being fired at them from every angle. It should have focused on competing with TiVo from a usability perspective. Now, however, it may be too late, as TiVo is well ahead of them in every aspect now that these features will not be available. TiVo has an incredible interface and network media capability with Home Media Option, while ReplayTV is left without the slick interface.
4) You may get sued by SCO.
It works more like this actually:
1.) Develop your own code.
2.) Put code on 'net.
3.) SCO uses your code.
4.) You may get sued by SCO.
User interface is the major issue here. When I upgrade a video card or CPU, I don't have to learn anything new. I just stick it in and my computer performs better.
Most users want what they are comfortable with. Relearning how to type every two to three years would be a nightmare. This is why applications generally keep the same interface over consecutive versions. Under the hood, they are better, but to the user they appear mostly the same.
Things are done this way because they work.
Due to the fact that it is based on the kilogram, the bang-for-your-buck value of the Computon is steadily getting worse.
Software solutions such as MythTV and Freevo (both run on Linux) require fairly hefty hardware to do the encoding of TV to MPEG-2, MPEG-4, etc. Then they need to decode it to play it to the screen. Both encoding and decoding is necessary in order to do the time shift.
However, MythTV is leading the charge to offload this processing to the WinTV PVR cards, freeing up the system CPU for other stuff, or just allowing the user to scrape by with minimum requirements. So the feasability is improving quite rapidly right now.
MythTV has also been doing some impressive work on their GUI (check out the screenshots). This was one area I previously thought Freevo had a leg up on, but that advantage is going away.
Links:
MythTV
Freevo
Ronald Scelson, an eighth-grade dropout and self-taught computer programmer from Louisiana, who claims that he sends between 120 million and 180 million e-mails every 12 hours
Wow, I want to know how many words per minute this guy can type. He could probably make a much better living doing manual transcriptions of books.
In related new, Microsoft has just announced that they are resuming the iLoo project.