The word nich doesn't distinguish between having a small following now but more later, and having a small following now but none later. It only means having a small following now.
However it does seem odd to group BeOS with all of these up and comming OSen, seeing as BeOS is as dead as OS2 and DOS.
Remember the Hollywood strike that never happened. US actors and production are asking for too much money (so they say), so alot of work is going overseas. Australia is a prime choice because the natives speak English, there is alot of terrain, and the price is right.
You can talk all you want, but the fact is when an exploit is discovered in Windows and is reported to Microsoft, unless there is a big wave of attacks, the said bug may not be fixed for weeks to months. On the other hand when a exploit is discovered in Linux or BSD, it will probably be fixed that very day. And there is nothing that you can say that will change this underlying reality of the difference between these two models of development and heiarchy of needs. This difference exists and it is clearly visible. Accept it or lie to your self, I don't care, but that is the state of things at this moment.
Multiuser OSs are just that, and not optimally designed for personal computers.
Obviously you know better than we do because, you also know better than Apple, "lord of the desktop."
However I think that Apple and UNIX knows much better than you. Think about this, you have a family of 4 all sharing a single OSX/Linux computer. Your dumb ass runs a virus and destroys all your files and runs an IRC bot whenever you log in. However, the rest of your family and the system are fine and did not have to suffer from your stupidity.
In other words Multiuser means multiple users. Go back to DOS you freak.
I bought a new computer and got a GeForce 2, because I thought it was a much better value over the overpriced and underpowered ATI and Matrox cards.
Well the Nvidia drivers for XFree4 suck donkey shit. If I wanted this kind of poor reliability I would be running Windows95. I am sorry that I have purchased an Nvidia product and I will never do so again.
Re:what's the difference?
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The interface is quite different. Vim (like vi) has editing mode and command mode. Emacs just has editing mode. Both are command-driven though unless you use gvim or XEmacs - in that case you get an X11 user interface.
The reality is that both GNU/Emacs and XEmacs have both cli and gui interfaces.
Having learned both, you should know that what he meant was that if you ran vi on a file and started typing then words will not appear because you are in command mode until you type [i] or [a].
In fact, XEmacs (last time I looked) was the only one of the two that supported color syntax hilighting on a console, thus bettering GNU/Emacs in that department IMHO. This may have changed since then since I have not used a CLI in a very long time.
Yes it has changed, but GNU/Emacs still can't change font sizes, which makes it hard to use running X at 1600x1200.
XEmacs differs from GNU/Emacs by adding things like a toolbar, multiple fonts per document, and the like. It also adds considerable overhead, and requires a faster computer and more RAM in order to match the speed of GNU/Emacs.
Unless you are running a 486, I don't think that it will mater much
[root@cc557991-a bin]# ls -sh emacs xemacs-21.1.14
3.4M emacs 4.1M xemacs-21.1.14
When I ran my 200MHz it didn't really matter, at least not like Mozilla verus Netscape 3
It would be easy to install a Linux distro in well under 400MB, but you are going to have to pick and choose exactly what you want. And I would recommend that you do not install both KDE and GNOME.
As for the installation itself, there are still Floppy based distros around, that way you could get all of the basics you need to get all of your hardware working first and then download new stuff from over the network.
If by "honing my Linux skills" you mean programming, web serving, or being an admin, then yes it would be stupid to switch to an OS dependent on an expensive set of hardware that is sure to remain niche forever.
If by "honing my Linux skills" you mean doing stuff on your computer at home that doesn't matter what OS you are using, then it really doesn't fucking matter
If by "honing my Linux skills" you mean printing color documents from the $100k printing press connected to your iMac and needing CMK support when you know fucking well that the printed image is always going to be a different color than what you see on the screen anyhow, then you should spend the $100 for OSX and $500 for photoshop or just wait one year until CMK is supported in the Gimp
There are about 4 versions of the same bug report that has been in Mozilla Bugzilla for years. (This bug doesn't exist in Nescape 4). It just keeps getting ignored, and if it is ever fixed, someone comes in and immediately changes it back.
If you block a server, say doubleclick, Mozilla will pops up extremely annoying alerts telling you that the server can't be found. Mozilla does this even though it shouldn't be downloading images or JS from off-page servers. This "feature" should be completely disabled, or there should be a "fuck off" checkbox.
"For numerical computation it rivals C/C++ and can be faster in some cases."
The fact is, Java is NEVER used in serious numerical compution. Fortran and C are used to a greater extent, with some advocating C++, but nobody, absolutely nobody even considers Java.
1) Java is far too slow.
2) All the math libs are already written in Fortran and C, and nobody wants to port.
2) Most scientists are not fancy programers and don't care too much about OO, garbage collection, and other frills.
You go to your Physics department and tell them that you want to do 10,000 body Molecular Dynamics in Java and they will laugh your fucking, dumb ass off campus.
I am not going to disagree with you here, but if you are going to use logic for arguments then do it correctly.
When I say the statement p is true, because you cannot disprove p, then I am not proving that p is true, but am proving that I don't know much about logic.
For example, I can easily state that there exists particles in nature that do not interact in any way. Of course it is impossible to disprove this!
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so true . ..
The intelligence level of Slashdot seems to be just smart enough to be able to see that others can be wrong, but not enough to realize how ignorant one is.
I am getting sick of this moderation. Reading posts based on slashdot moderation is like listening to top 100 music
The irony of your statement is absolutely disgusting. To speak of a country ignorant of its evil actions, Japan is the worst example. During WWII, Japan's actions toward the people of China were as terrible as the Nazi mass murders. Have you ever heard of the Rape of Nanking.
To this day the Japanese government has refused to apologize for these and other World War II atrocities, and a significant sector of Japanese society denies that they took place at all.
Yes non-military citizens did die from the atom bombs and that was a horrible tragedy, but they were knowing located very near strategic military bases, and the actions of Japan were evil and had to be stoped.
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The word nich doesn't distinguish between having a small following now but more later, and having a small following now but none later. It only means having a small following now.
However it does seem odd to group BeOS with all of these up and comming OSen, seeing as BeOS is as dead as OS2 and DOS.
Remember the Hollywood strike that never happened. US actors and production are asking for too much money (so they say), so alot of work is going overseas. Australia is a prime choice because the natives speak English, there is alot of terrain, and the price is right.
You can talk all you want, but the fact is when an exploit is discovered in Windows and is reported to Microsoft, unless there is a big wave of attacks, the said bug may not be fixed for weeks to months. On the other hand when a exploit is discovered in Linux or BSD, it will probably be fixed that very day. And there is nothing that you can say that will change this underlying reality of the difference between these two models of development and heiarchy of needs. This difference exists and it is clearly visible. Accept it or lie to your self, I don't care, but that is the state of things at this moment.
Can a Transmeta chip emulate a Java VM and run Java byte code natively. Or is Java byte code not low level enough.
Obviously you know better than we do because, you also know better than Apple , "lord of the desktop."
However I think that Apple and UNIX knows much better than you. Think about this, you have a family of 4 all sharing a single OSX/Linux computer. Your dumb ass runs a virus and destroys all your files and runs an IRC bot whenever you log in. However, the rest of your family and the system are fine and did not have to suffer from your stupidity.
In other words Multiuser means multiple users. Go back to DOS you freak.
I would like to add my 2 cents
I bought a new computer and got a GeForce 2, because I thought it was a much better value over the overpriced and underpowered ATI and Matrox cards.
Well the Nvidia drivers for XFree4 suck donkey shit. If I wanted this kind of poor reliability I would be running Windows95. I am sorry that I have purchased an Nvidia product and I will never do so again.
The reality is that both GNU/Emacs and XEmacs have both cli and gui interfaces.
Having learned both, you should know that what he meant was that if you ran vi on a file and started typing then words will not appear because you are in command mode until you type [i] or [a].
In fact, XEmacs (last time I looked) was the only one of the two that supported color syntax hilighting on a console, thus bettering GNU/Emacs in that department IMHO. This may have changed since then since I have not used a CLI in a very long time.
Yes it has changed, but GNU/Emacs still can't change font sizes, which makes it hard to use running X at 1600x1200.
XEmacs differs from GNU/Emacs by adding things like a toolbar, multiple fonts per document, and the like. It also adds considerable overhead, and requires a faster computer and more RAM in order to match the speed of GNU/Emacs.
Unless you are running a 486, I don't think that it will mater much
[root@cc557991-a bin]# ls -sh emacs xemacs-21.1.14
3.4M emacs 4.1M xemacs-21.1.14
When I ran my 200MHz it didn't really matter, at least not like Mozilla verus Netscape 3
It would be easy to install a Linux distro in well under 400MB, but you are going to have to pick and choose exactly what you want. And I would recommend that you do not install both KDE and GNOME.
As for the installation itself, there are still Floppy based distros around, that way you could get all of the basics you need to get all of your hardware working first and then download new stuff from over the network.
If by "honing my Linux skills" you mean programming, web serving, or being an admin, then yes it would be stupid to switch to an OS dependent on an expensive set of hardware that is sure to remain niche forever.
If by "honing my Linux skills" you mean doing stuff on your computer at home that doesn't matter what OS you are using, then it really doesn't fucking matter
If by "honing my Linux skills" you mean printing color documents from the $100k printing press connected to your iMac and needing CMK support when you know fucking well that the printed image is always going to be a different color than what you see on the screen anyhow, then you should spend the $100 for OSX and $500 for photoshop or just wait one year until CMK is supported in the Gimp
. . . say Microsoftie or something else. I use PC's and I don't run Windows.
My OS came with CD ripping, mp3 encoding, web serving, P2P client, high quality image manipulation, and tons of other stuff all out of the box.
Just please don't Lump me with Windows because I like PC hardware.
There are about 4 versions of the same bug report that has been in Mozilla Bugzilla for years. (This bug doesn't exist in Nescape 4). It just keeps getting ignored, and if it is ever fixed, someone comes in and immediately changes it back.
If you block a server, say doubleclick, Mozilla will pops up extremely annoying alerts telling you that the server can't be found. Mozilla does this even though it shouldn't be downloading images or JS from off-page servers. This "feature" should be completely disabled, or there should be a "fuck off" checkbox.
Absolute bullshit
"For numerical computation it rivals C/C++ and can be faster in some cases."
The fact is, Java is NEVER used in serious numerical compution. Fortran and C are used to a greater extent, with some advocating C++, but nobody, absolutely nobody even considers Java.
1) Java is far too slow.
2) All the math libs are already written in Fortran and C, and nobody wants to port.
2) Most scientists are not fancy programers and don't care too much about OO, garbage collection, and other frills.
You go to your Physics department and tell them that you want to do 10,000 body Molecular Dynamics in Java and they will laugh your fucking, dumb ass off campus.
I am not going to disagree with you here, but if you are going to use logic for arguments then do it correctly.
When I say the statement p is true, because you cannot disprove p, then I am not proving that p is true, but am proving that I don't know much about logic.
For example, I can easily state that there exists particles in nature that do not interact in any way. Of course it is impossible to disprove this!
so true . . .
The intelligence level of Slashdot seems to be just smart enough to be able to see that others can be wrong, but not enough to realize how ignorant one is.
I am getting sick of this moderation. Reading posts based on slashdot moderation is like listening to top 100 music
Fuck you, you heartless pig.
The biggest casualty are the thousands of innocent dead.
Fuck your rights.
I know that from a licensing standpoint USB is cheaper than Firewire, but
Seeing that USB is reliant on a processor, and that it seems to be more simple . . . is USB also cheaper, physically, to use/make?
In other words, is this going to be IDE versus Scuzzy all over again?
- Your QNX numbers are out dated
- QNX doesn't run stuff in kernel mode you dumb fuck
- Your microsoft link doesn't exist
- I am not aware of a 90MHz Pentium II ever existing. To my knowledge, the lowest clocked PII was the 233MHz
- Who the fuck cares what Microsoft claims
I can't tell if you are a troll, liar, or stupid.I suppose you could use the lightning to charge a big capacitor and then slowly drain the capacitor to use the energy.
But the expense of the capacitor, and the low probability of lightning strike would not make profit.
But perhaps this could be used cheaply power pulse technology, like the stuff at Los Alamos Labs
- If one car's horse power/weight and torque/weight are both greater than that of another car
- with similar tires
- the greater car should accelerate faster
- However, the gear ratios may determine who has the better top speed
Not 100% applicable, but usefulPerhaps a similar statement can be made about computers.
And I bet it is really hard to articulate when you have been dead for 10 years. Or perhaps when you don't exist, I bet it would be hard then too.
Dead peoples and peoples who don't exist have valid opinions that need to be addressed!
Well anyone dumb enough to pay so much for a computer . . . oh wait!
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