Losing mind share with alpha geeks if you are a technology company is always a bad thing. You might not think much of this, but ask yourself who uses Firefox to begin with. And who made Firefox popular by recommending it to their friends and family. Once "computer people" start recommending to their clueless family and friends to stay away from Google, eventually damage will be done. Image and perception matters a lot to an online company.
No I'm referring to help file you get from the help menu. It's extremely terse and useless. But then again, I rarely felt the need to consult them to begin with.
Basically, what ever help you need, Google is your only option and in either Linux or Mac case your answer will come from other users and not Apple or Linux distro provider.
or help files for that matter. But I don't think this is really the problem. It's how often does the user feel compelled to consult the documentation or help files in their normal daily work that matters.
Obviously you don't write software for a living. Software always expands to eat up any advances in hardware users might otherwise gain from upgrading to latest technology.
In my experience Windows 7 64 bit is noticeably faster with NUMA configuration (Windows experience index is significantly higher because of improved memory throughput) and majority of application also run up to 10 % faster.
I don't know if this is because of Nehalem Xeon CPUs having faster access to CPU local memory in NUMA configuration or if windows is also optimized for this?
In today's day and age being so ignorant is ridiculous, when all you need to do is type a few strings in google search to get some information about things you talk about.
OS X is NOT based on BSD, it however has BSD subsystem, among others. If anything it's based on NeXTSTEP, and mach kernel.
And OS X interface bares little resemblance to original classic Mac.
Anyone that's ever even casually used OS X today agrees that if you want UNIX desktop OS today, OS X is the way to go.
Besides people whose opinion I value a lot more than your view endorse it
"Re-implementing what I designed in 1979 is not interesting to me personally. For kids who are 20 years younger than me, Linux is a great way to cut your teeth. It's a cultural phenomenon and a business phenomenon. Mac OS X is a rock-solid system that's beautifully designed. I much prefer it to Linux."
Except Mac OS X kernel is not a microkernel. The following talk given a few years back, even though slightly out of date when it comes to discussing 64 bit support in the kernel, is still relevant
Of course I meant it rhetorically. None of the commercially supported UNIX OSes I mentioned (and the only ones large businesses will use) run on anything but the hardware provided by the respective OS manufacturer.
Open Solaris is like Solaris, but some things (the compelling reason to use the OS in the first place really and what distinguishes it from competition) are not available in it.
I was just struck by the root comment suggesting that he would create the OS that combines the strengths from various OSes, if he had the budget. But the expectation is that such a thing would be free by everyone here it seems, otherwise my comments wouldn't be modded as troll or flamebait.
This is what the banks have been doing for decades. They are happily giving details of your credit card transactions to a privately owned third party company that keeps this record about you and sells digested report about you, popularly known as credit rating, to interested other parties.
If you wish to see the information they collect about you, you have to pay money to them, and correcting wrong information about you (since it otherwise can ruin your life) is not easy or even possible either.
It would have to be one of those phones that you must use your cell service provider to upload music and files to it, without ability to do so directly from your computer. Bell Canada happily sells those to stupid customers.
Your signature is not quite correct. All the numbers you can count are real numbers (N is subset or R), so what you want to say is "the numbers you can count are not all the real numbers", i.e. the set of all real numbers is not countable.
Einstein certainly was not an eastern European. He was born in Württemberg in southern Germany, and that is central Europe geographically by any measure, and part of western Europe in geopolitical sense.
Eastern Europe usually means countries of the former Soviet block, like Poland, Check Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, former Yugoslavia (even though technically not part of the block), Romania, Baltic states etc.
I don't think you actually understand math very deeply. Quaternions don't represent or reflect any part of the world, they are just a tool, and found their way into some physical applications that have something to do with the real world.
Just like complex numbers can be used to do analytical geometry (they are a pair of real numbers just like plain coordinates).
Same goes for vector spaces, or non commutative von Neuman algebras, or any infinite dimensional vector spaces.
Ok, I only have masters in pure math from one of the world's most respected universities when it comes to math, and solid background in physics and computer science among other things:D.
It's not a deep mystery at all. It's by design. We chose our axioms to resemble what we observe. Just take Euclid axioms of the plane geometry, or natural number axioms (like Peano's), etc.
It's no wonder then that what we construct out of them resembles what is out there (at least somewhat). Other modeling problems try to be even stricter and model the observed phenomena even closer than axioms could ever hope to describe.
Stupid you for buying a radio or TV for that matter. Your cable company should be giving you one of each, because for an 1 hour time you spend watching TV, you will spend half that time watching ads.
This is why I have stopped watching TV altogether about 10 years ago, and I don't feel like I'm missing much at all.
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Losing mind share with alpha geeks if you are a technology company is always a bad thing. You might not think much of this, but ask yourself who uses Firefox to begin with. And who made Firefox popular by recommending it to their friends and family. Once "computer people" start recommending to their clueless family and friends to stay away from Google, eventually damage will be done. Image and perception matters a lot to an online company.
I don't know about that. Windows 7 help files (the ones you get by hitting F7) are significantly better than OS X or Linux.
No I'm referring to help file you get from the help menu. It's extremely terse and useless. But then again, I rarely felt the need to consult them to begin with.
Basically, what ever help you need, Google is your only option and in either Linux or Mac case your answer will come from other users and not Apple or Linux distro provider.
or help files for that matter. But I don't think this is really the problem. It's how often does the user feel compelled to consult the documentation or help files in their normal daily work that matters.
Obviously you don't write software for a living. Software always expands to eat up any advances in hardware users might otherwise gain from upgrading to latest technology.
In my experience Windows 7 64 bit is noticeably faster with NUMA configuration (Windows experience index is significantly higher because of improved memory throughput) and majority of application also run up to 10 % faster.
I don't know if this is because of Nehalem Xeon CPUs having faster access to CPU local memory in NUMA configuration or if windows is also optimized for this?
In today's day and age being so ignorant is ridiculous, when all you need to do is type a few strings in google search to get some information about things you talk about.
OS X is NOT based on BSD, it however has BSD subsystem, among others. If anything it's based on NeXTSTEP, and mach kernel.
And OS X interface bares little resemblance to original classic Mac.
Anyone that's ever even casually used OS X today agrees that if you want UNIX desktop OS today, OS X is the way to go.
Besides people whose opinion I value a lot more than your view endorse it
e.g Bill Joy on Linux and OS X
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.12/billjoy.html
"Re-implementing what I designed in 1979 is not interesting to me personally. For kids who are 20 years younger than me, Linux is a great way to cut your teeth. It's a cultural phenomenon and a business phenomenon. Mac OS X is a rock-solid system that's beautifully designed. I much prefer it to Linux."
Except Mac OS X kernel is not a microkernel. The following talk given a few years back, even though slightly out of date when it comes to discussing 64 bit support in the kernel, is still relevant
http://chaosradio.ccc.de/24c3_m4v_2303.html
Well, technically, Mac OS X server also supports virtualization.
The client version of OS X doesn't not (it's really only a licensing issue, nothing technical).
I guess Apple really doesn't want people using OS X on hardware not sold by them, which is really their prerogative.
Of course I meant it rhetorically. None of the commercially supported UNIX OSes I mentioned (and the only ones large businesses will use) run on anything but the hardware provided by the respective OS manufacturer.
Open Solaris is like Solaris, but some things (the compelling reason to use the OS in the first place really and what distinguishes it from competition) are not available in it.
I was just struck by the root comment suggesting that he would create the OS that combines the strengths from various OSes, if he had the budget. But the expectation is that such a thing would be free by everyone here it seems, otherwise my comments wouldn't be modded as troll or flamebait.
Really? And what kind of hardware does Solaris run on? What kind of hardware does HPUX run on? What kind of hardware does AIX run on?
Now what kind of hardware does Mac OS X run?
There is already such a thing. It's called Mac OS X.
This is what the banks have been doing for decades. They are happily giving details of your credit card transactions to a privately owned third party company that keeps this record about you and sells digested report about you, popularly known as credit rating, to interested other parties.
If you wish to see the information they collect about you, you have to pay money to them, and correcting wrong information about you (since it otherwise can ruin your life) is not easy or even possible either.
It would have to be one of those phones that you must use your cell service provider to upload music and files to it, without ability to do so directly from your computer. Bell Canada happily sells those to stupid customers.
Don't you know that in the UK you must hand over your encryption keys to the government if asked or face prison?
That law passed long ago before this. So, if you encrypt your data stream, all they have to do is ask for your encryption keys really.
This is the marketing wet dream, forced ads right on the surface of your eyes.
Your signature is not quite correct. All the numbers you can count are real numbers (N is subset or R), so what you want to say is "the numbers you can count are not all the real numbers", i.e. the set of all real numbers is not countable.
You can't divide by zero because it doesn't make sense to do so. By definition for a/b is number c such that c*b=a, for any b != 0.
If there was a number x such that a/0=x, then 0*x=a. But 0*x=0. So, if a is not zero, then no such x satisfies the defining equation.
Dividing 0 by 0 is even less useful. 0/0 can be any number, since any number multiplied by 0 is 0.
Einstein certainly was not an eastern European. He was born in Württemberg in southern Germany, and that is central Europe geographically by any measure, and part of western Europe in geopolitical sense.
Eastern Europe usually means countries of the former Soviet block, like Poland, Check Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, former Yugoslavia (even though technically not part of the block), Romania, Baltic states etc.
I don't think you actually understand math very deeply. Quaternions don't represent or reflect any part of the world, they are just a tool, and found their way into some physical applications that have something to do with the real world.
Just like complex numbers can be used to do analytical geometry (they are a pair of real numbers just like plain coordinates).
Same goes for vector spaces, or non commutative von Neuman algebras, or any infinite dimensional vector spaces.
Like I said in another post, I'm a pure mathie (masters in it), and minor in CS as well.
Ok, I only have masters in pure math from one of the world's most respected universities when it comes to math, and solid background in physics and computer science among other things :D.
It's not a deep mystery at all. It's by design. We chose our axioms to resemble what we observe. Just take Euclid axioms of the plane geometry, or natural number axioms (like Peano's), etc.
It's no wonder then that what we construct out of them resembles what is out there (at least somewhat). Other modeling problems try to be even stricter and model the observed phenomena even closer than axioms could ever hope to describe.
Stupid you for buying a radio or TV for that matter. Your cable company should be giving you one of each, because for an 1 hour time you spend watching TV, you will spend half that time watching ads.
This is why I have stopped watching TV altogether about 10 years ago, and I don't feel like I'm missing much at all.
You suggest a version of the future that I would certainly like to see playing out, but if you add the following news tidbit into the mix
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=afcIzFP3iNrY
i.e. Apple looking to buy an advertising company, then I'm not sure what to make out of this story.