Open IE on a Mac OS X system. **Close all IE windows, so that IE is not doing anything.** In the background, run "top -u" from a Terminal window (or logged in remotely). Watch IE float to the top of the CPU usage column. Q.E.D.
Open IE on a Mac OS X system. In the background, run "top -u" from a Terminal window (or logged in remotely). Watch IE float to the top of the CPU usage column. Q.E.D.
Carbon is not layered on top of Cocoa -- Cocoa is actually layered "slightly on top and mostly to the side" of Carbon. But yes, the debate is pointless.
softupdates ensures the (UFS) filesystem is "reasonably consistent." There are still cases where the filesystem is not consistent on disk (like during rename() calls), although the softupdates proponents tend to downplay such cases.
Journaling is a guarantee that the filesystem is *always* consistent on disk (as long as the filesystem code itself is bugfree and similar disclaimers etc etc).
softupdates is a fairly reliable approximation that uses carefully ordered writes to keep the disk mostly consistent.
Mt. Rainier is all about more patent licensing money for Phillips and Sony, whose original lucrative CD patents have just about expired. Why do you think DVD-Rewritable hasn't taken off? Skip CD-RW and go straight to DVD+RW and Phillips and Sony lose patent money, big time.
HTML4 requires that you be able to make listboxes with a tree image in the background. How would you do that on Windows, where you don't have access to the widget code? Mozilla would be forced to use the common subset of what each OS's listbox provides, which would be a very limited listbox.
I've never heard of that particular requirement, nor seen any listboxes that use it. Care to give a reference?
In any case, dealing with broken/unfeatured platform widgets isn't that difficult: create special-case implementations of the widgets that are broken. Otherwise, use native widgets where all required features are available. This is _not_ less work than creating your own entire widget set.
I'd actually think that dealing with keyboard focus and other issues with complex, nested views that different platforms handle in completely different ways would be a bigger impetus to avoid native widgets.
They're cold and bitchy. I can't put this down to bad acting, because they all behave exactly the same, so I assume it's bad direction and/or writing.
The guy with the southern drawl has to go. His personality is identical to the captain's, so he serves zero purpose.
The music sucks.
Did anyone else notice that Rigel is a name that we on Earth invented in real life?
They've got some work to do. Still, a lot more promising than the first episode of TNG, I think. I was encouraged by the fact that there were no snotty kids, only a cute dog who stayed out of the way.
the points they've raised here are valid ones and deserve analysis.
I wish Slashdot people would be more agnostically skeptical. There's nothing new in that paper. It just boggles the mind that it took that many Microsoft Researchers to type it all out in a paper. The Ferranti Atlas (from the 1960's!) had transparent hierarchical storage (you didn't have to know or care whether data was in (core) memory or on disk). Many experimental systems with support for ubiquitous transparent networking have existed, including support for auto-replication of operating system modifications.
The only thing new here is the "Microsoft Research" name being plastered onto these thirty-year-old ideas.
Maybe they did think up all this stuff themselves, but if so, they're very stupid not to have built on the work previously done in this area. Think of what they might have done had they known! They could have copied some other, grander ideas to build on top of the "Millennium" architecture....
I've really have given MS the benefit of the doubt here. I think you are falling into the trap of assuming that because you haven't heard of it before, it must be new and therefore MS is "innovating" and coming up with "new" ideas. Be more skeptical, not less, when confronted with MS "ideas" or "research." Your doubts are valid, linux lovers. Skepticism is a good thing, don't abandon it!
You must be a very strange person indeed to enjoy long distance train travel. Yes sir, I want to spend six days without a shower, with my body contorted in strange positions due to the poor sleeping accomodations and your mind all fuzzy due to the noise of the train tracks.
You're confusing biotech (medicine) with biotech (food). Clark's "biomedical" research center would be biotech (medicine). There are serious, theoretically-sound doubts that biotech (food) is a good thing. Biotech (medicine) is a good thing.
The RIAA, Microsoft and the MPAA would love you to believe that piracy is killing markets for genuine products, but it simply isn't so. There are no numbers to back that theory.
I don't believe that SMB all-stars would be a big seller on the GameCube, simply because the technology has advanced and SMB isn't yet retro chic. (Try again in 10 years.) The market wants Final Fantasy 4D DeathMatch, not Mario Bangs a Koopa with lame FM sound effects.
Here, I can use bold too:
Piracy doesn't enter into it. Don't accuse emulator authors and users without solid facts to back your statements up. It's not nice, and it's not fair.
X11 ends up being a much better window system after all,
BS. X-windows is still a hole and a barrier to the pervasive Linux desktop. It's still around because it's a virus, like Unix itself, that had corporate support in its infancy. All you need is to convince Sun, HP, and IBM of the need for a better window system, and point them to Berlin, and it'll happen.
What were they thinking? No offense to Minnesotans, but media centers are New York and Los Angeles, with San Francisco and Seattle being very hip but secondary. But Minneapolis as a place to test-market anime? They must be joking.
In the USA, new media ideas spread from the coasts, not from the midwest.
Yes, dear friend, always. Apple invented FireWire circa 1993. Then they passed it on to the IEEE, who then gave it their official blessing and the glorious resonant name "IEEE-1394."
You are thinking of Sony, who calls their power-less version of FireWire "i-Link," of all things.
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Open IE on a Mac OS X system. **Close all IE windows, so that IE is not doing anything.** In the background, run "top -u" from a Terminal window (or logged in remotely). Watch IE float to the top of the CPU usage column. Q.E.D.
Open IE on a Mac OS X system. In the background, run "top -u" from a Terminal window (or logged in remotely). Watch IE float to the top of the CPU usage column. Q.E.D.
Carbon is not layered on top of Cocoa -- Cocoa is actually layered "slightly on top and mostly to the side" of Carbon. But yes, the debate is pointless.
Journaling is a guarantee that the filesystem is *always* consistent on disk (as long as the filesystem code itself is bugfree and similar disclaimers etc etc).
softupdates is a fairly reliable approximation that uses carefully ordered writes to keep the disk mostly consistent.
"set the position of the mouse to (0, 30)"
Assuming you've got the appropriate AppleScript extension, of course. Mac OS X is cool.
Mt. Rainier is all about more patent licensing money for Phillips and Sony, whose original lucrative CD patents have just about expired. Why do you think DVD-Rewritable hasn't taken off? Skip CD-RW and go straight to DVD+RW and Phillips and Sony lose patent money, big time.
The only way to make money in open source is hardware revenue. IBM and Apple both understand this, but apparently no one else does.
I've never heard of that particular requirement, nor seen any listboxes that use it. Care to give a reference?
In any case, dealing with broken/unfeatured platform widgets isn't that difficult: create special-case implementations of the widgets that are broken. Otherwise, use native widgets where all required features are available. This is _not_ less work than creating your own entire widget set.
I'd actually think that dealing with keyboard focus and other issues with complex, nested views that different platforms handle in completely different ways would be a bigger impetus to avoid native widgets.
The guy with the southern drawl has to go. His personality is identical to the captain's, so he serves zero purpose.
The music sucks.
Did anyone else notice that Rigel is a name that we on Earth invented in real life?
They've got some work to do. Still, a lot more promising than the first episode of TNG, I think. I was encouraged by the fact that there were no snotty kids, only a cute dog who stayed out of the way.
I wish Slashdot people would be more agnostically skeptical. There's nothing new in that paper. It just boggles the mind that it took that many Microsoft Researchers to type it all out in a paper. The Ferranti Atlas (from the 1960's!) had transparent hierarchical storage (you didn't have to know or care whether data was in (core) memory or on disk). Many experimental systems with support for ubiquitous transparent networking have existed, including support for auto-replication of operating system modifications.
The only thing new here is the "Microsoft Research" name being plastered onto these thirty-year-old ideas.
Maybe they did think up all this stuff themselves, but if so, they're very stupid not to have built on the work previously done in this area. Think of what they might have done had they known! They could have copied some other, grander ideas to build on top of the "Millennium" architecture....
I've really have given MS the benefit of the doubt here. I think you are falling into the trap of assuming that because you haven't heard of it before, it must be new and therefore MS is "innovating" and coming up with "new" ideas. Be more skeptical, not less, when confronted with MS "ideas" or "research." Your doubts are valid, linux lovers. Skepticism is a good thing, don't abandon it!
You must be a very strange person indeed to enjoy long distance train travel. Yes sir, I want to spend six days without a shower, with my body contorted in strange positions due to the poor sleeping accomodations and your mind all fuzzy due to the noise of the train tracks.
You're confusing biotech (medicine) with biotech (food). Clark's "biomedical" research center would be biotech (medicine). There are serious, theoretically-sound doubts that biotech (food) is a good thing. Biotech (medicine) is a good thing.
I don't believe that SMB all-stars would be a big seller on the GameCube, simply because the technology has advanced and SMB isn't yet retro chic. (Try again in 10 years.) The market wants Final Fantasy 4D DeathMatch, not Mario Bangs a Koopa with lame FM sound effects.
Here, I can use bold too: Piracy doesn't enter into it. Don't accuse emulator authors and users without solid facts to back your statements up. It's not nice, and it's not fair.
BS. X-windows is still a hole and a barrier to the pervasive Linux desktop. It's still around because it's a virus, like Unix itself, that had corporate support in its infancy. All you need is to convince Sun, HP, and IBM of the need for a better window system, and point them to Berlin, and it'll happen.
In the USA, new media ideas spread from the coasts, not from the midwest.
Yes, dear friend, always. Apple invented FireWire circa 1993. Then they passed it on to the IEEE, who then gave it their official blessing and the glorious resonant name "IEEE-1394."
You are thinking of Sony, who calls their power-less version of FireWire "i-Link," of all things.