Like the MSI Wind that came without Linux drivers for the Wifi or webcam? Returns for the Linux version were four times higher than the Windows version (with working Wifi and wireless). Shock!
Just to make sure that you know, MS is currently being sued for reducing its "Vista Ready" requirements so that hardware which wasn't capable (mostly Intel graphics chips) was labeled as being so.
Really? And they are fixing the hard coded locking mechanism when again? They are abandoning the frame buffer video when?
Your answer:
There has been a lot of work in the latest years to modernize the Linux graphics stack so that it's both well designed and also ready to use the full power of modern and future GPUs. In 2.6.28, Linux is adding one of the most important pieces of the stack: A memory manager for the GPU memory, called GEM ("Graphic Execution Manager"). The purpose is to have a central manager for buffer object placement, caching, mapping and synchronization. On top of GEM are being built a lot of improvementes to the graphic stack: Kernel Modesetting, DRI2, UXA (a EXA implementation based in GEM). The Linux/FOSS graphics stack will be finally unified and optimally coupled. -- Kernel Newbie on 2.6.28
I agree that MS has done some pretty cool stuff recently, but the main achievement is trying to improve whiile retaining complete backward compatibility.
OS X also has a great developer stack, I understand, which exposes all the important functionality in the OS elegantly. Linux + Gnome (or KDE) is also moving forward really well. Vala promises to make developing for Gnome a much nicer process. GStreamer + Telepathy is going to make things really nice.
You are right that the behavior is very dock-like, but Mac isn't the only desktop environment to use this model.
In the video above, you can see that the "quicklaunch" icons turn into "taskbar" icons once the application is launched, no longer launching a new instance (I had to right-click to launch a new IE window). Applications with multiple windows hide them all under one icon. No window previews are in the video because the VM didn't support acceleration.
There is the new quick launcher and taskbar combination which shows clickable previews of windows. That's new and was a big topic of conversation a few weeks ago when it could be unlocked in one of the builds.
One of the problems is people using the phrase "intellectual property" ("IP") to conflate trademarks, copyrights, and patents, which are all very different things with different laws pertaining to them.
Here in Korea, they go one step beyond that. "Loaning a disk to a friend is stealing." People at work probably think I'm stealing since I install my own OS and Free software.
I also download music at work. Shock! It's legal because it's CC'ed (Jamendo). When I tried to help a coworker out with some teaching material, she said she needed a license for it. I tried to point out the author's license allowed non-commercial use, but she refused to believe it.
They have these giant publicity campaigns but don't bother to mention "may or may not be illegal depending on the license." It's all just illegal to them. The "re-education" is working, too.
OpenOffice is a bit too big and too important to be under the copyright of millions of different people.
Sure, because that held Linux back.
Novell is trying to hijack the OOo-brand with their own fork and so far that isnt going to well. So I guess Michael Meeks needs scapegoat and Sun is an easy target.
Sun requires commits be dual-licensed so that Sun can use the code in the commercial version, Star Office. That's how they control
Of course, anyone can fork, and they have. Novell has Go-oo (which Meeks is silently promoting in this article), IBM has Symphony, and there's NeoOffice for Mac.
Nothing was stopping anyone from forking XFree86, either, and they did. Xorg lives on and XFree86 is for all intents and purposes dead.
Sun is going to control OO.o right into the grave.
I read the article yesterday and said "Duh!" Everyone has known that OO.o was a screwed up project since it was open sourced. Very few commits have come from outside Sun -- the requirements to dual-license contributions and the messy code base from when it was closed deter people from getting involved.
The statistics in the article are interesting, but its conclusion isn't:
Sun has always been the major contributor to OO.o.
Sun is controlling of the project.
Sun is now hurting and people claim heading into bankruptcy.
OO.o is now in big trouble.
Anyone who has been following the project knows what's up. It's just sad that OO.o gave people the impression that other office projects (which could have flourished in the time people were using OO.o) weren't very important. I'm looking at Gnome Office and KOffice.
I almost never use OO.o, though, because I do almost everything in Google Docs or Latex.
p.s. Of course, Meeks is promoting Novell's Go-oo, so people can claim he has too much bias to be an accepted critic.
You were clear, just not lucid. On-board video doesn't make a difference if you're not going to use it. Other people have told you the same.
You don't have to use the RAID on your board either. It sucks, too. Would you refuse to buy a board simply because it had the option of using RAID? Do you want an MB with just the number of PCI or RAM slots you plan to use, too? What if it has PS2 and a serial port you don't want?
OK, but the AC above (you?) was complaining that (s)he couldn't find an MB for less than a hundred dollars. The linked one fits.
Why pay for complete trash you're going to disable when you can have MUCH nicer for the same price....
Because the AC wanted proof that there was a motherboard available for under a hundred dollars to build the machine he was talking about. If you want a discreet graphic card, nothing is stopping you from using one.
AMD motherboards have always been more expensive than Intel ones. Sometimes the CPU+MB price comes out less, some years it doesn't.
Yeah, I read the linked post. You're still just wrong and argumentative. Some might even suggest trolling.
I just use Google Docs for 95% of my stuff these days. If I need heavy formatting, I download the almost-finished document and format it with OO.o before converting to PDF. It has simplified my life.
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Like the MSI Wind that came without Linux drivers for the Wifi or webcam? Returns for the Linux version were four times higher than the Windows version (with working Wifi and wireless). Shock!
Just to make sure that you know, MS is currently being sued for reducing its "Vista Ready" requirements so that hardware which wasn't capable (mostly Intel graphics chips) was labeled as being so.
So ... Vista ME?
Really? And they are fixing the hard coded locking mechanism when again? They are abandoning the frame buffer video when?
Your answer:
There has been a lot of work in the latest years to modernize the Linux graphics stack so that it's both well designed and also ready to use the full power of modern and future GPUs. In 2.6.28, Linux is adding one of the most important pieces of the stack: A memory manager for the GPU memory, called GEM ("Graphic Execution Manager"). The purpose is to have a central manager for buffer object placement, caching, mapping and synchronization. On top of GEM are being built a lot of improvementes to the graphic stack: Kernel Modesetting, DRI2, UXA (a EXA implementation based in GEM). The Linux/FOSS graphics stack will be finally unified and optimally coupled. -- Kernel Newbie on 2.6.28
I agree that MS has done some pretty cool stuff recently, but the main achievement is trying to improve whiile retaining complete backward compatibility.
OS X also has a great developer stack, I understand, which exposes all the important functionality in the OS elegantly. Linux + Gnome (or KDE) is also moving forward really well. Vala promises to make developing for Gnome a much nicer process. GStreamer + Telepathy is going to make things really nice.
What about the network transfer problems while Media Player was trying to deal with DRM issues?
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/26/1628200
Ok, so it's not actually a DRM issue.
My two cents? Vista SP1 is on par with XP SP3 in almost every benchmark. Win7 runs fine in 512MB RAM and outperforms Vista in almost every benchmark.
I still prefer Debian.
Video I made for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhQtOqsXuXw
You are right that the behavior is very dock-like, but Mac isn't the only desktop environment to use this model.
In the video above, you can see that the "quicklaunch" icons turn into "taskbar" icons once the application is launched, no longer launching a new instance (I had to right-click to launch a new IE window). Applications with multiple windows hide them all under one icon. No window previews are in the video because the VM didn't support acceleration.
I'm pretty sure MS is being sued for claiming that integrated Intel graphics were "capable" of running Vista. ;)
Want snappy Linux? Run Slitaz on a box with more than 256MB RAM and it runs all in memory automatically. Instantaneous in just about every way.
There is the new quick launcher and taskbar combination which shows clickable previews of windows. That's new and was a big topic of conversation a few weeks ago when it could be unlocked in one of the builds.
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15827
Arithmetic always seems to work fairly well.
One of the problems is people using the phrase "intellectual property" ("IP") to conflate trademarks, copyrights, and patents, which are all very different things with different laws pertaining to them.
Here in Korea, they go one step beyond that. "Loaning a disk to a friend is stealing." People at work probably think I'm stealing since I install my own OS and Free software.
I also download music at work. Shock! It's legal because it's CC'ed (Jamendo). When I tried to help a coworker out with some teaching material, she said she needed a license for it. I tried to point out the author's license allowed non-commercial use, but she refused to believe it.
They have these giant publicity campaigns but don't bother to mention "may or may not be illegal depending on the license." It's all just illegal to them. The "re-education" is working, too.
You should try to get a mortgage with your music collection as collateral.
Sun's control is only part of the picture. Maybe Asterisk has a better code base, or maybe it just gets developers excited.
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You've already been marked troll, but I'd just like to clarify for any readers: Openoffice.org is mainly written in C++, not Java.
OpenOffice is a bit too big and too important to be under the copyright of millions of different people.
Sure, because that held Linux back.
Novell is trying to hijack the OOo-brand with their own fork and so far that isnt going to well. So I guess Michael Meeks needs scapegoat and Sun is an easy target.
No arguments there.
Sun requires commits be dual-licensed so that Sun can use the code in the commercial version, Star Office. That's how they control
Of course, anyone can fork, and they have. Novell has Go-oo (which Meeks is silently promoting in this article), IBM has Symphony, and there's NeoOffice for Mac.
Nothing was stopping anyone from forking XFree86, either, and they did. Xorg lives on and XFree86 is for all intents and purposes dead.
Sun is going to control OO.o right into the grave.
It just means that Sun is dying.
The statistics in the article are interesting, but its conclusion isn't:
Anyone who has been following the project knows what's up. It's just sad that OO.o gave people the impression that other office projects (which could have flourished in the time people were using OO.o) weren't very important. I'm looking at Gnome Office and KOffice.
I almost never use OO.o, though, because I do almost everything in Google Docs or Latex.
p.s. Of course, Meeks is promoting Novell's Go-oo, so people can claim he has too much bias to be an accepted critic.
You were clear, just not lucid. On-board video doesn't make a difference if you're not going to use it. Other people have told you the same.
You don't have to use the RAID on your board either. It sucks, too. Would you refuse to buy a board simply because it had the option of using RAID? Do you want an MB with just the number of PCI or RAM slots you plan to use, too? What if it has PS2 and a serial port you don't want?
You're just being argumentative. Get a life.
Why pay for complete trash you're going to disable when you can have MUCH nicer for the same price ....
Because the AC wanted proof that there was a motherboard available for under a hundred dollars to build the machine he was talking about. If you want a discreet graphic card, nothing is stopping you from using one.
AMD motherboards have always been more expensive than Intel ones. Sometimes the CPU+MB price comes out less, some years it doesn't.
Yeah, I read the linked post. You're still just wrong and argumentative. Some might even suggest trolling.
Go-OO has VBA support. It's Novell's fork of OO.o. (You know, just like IBM has, too.)
Zoho Office is an on-line office suite with VBA support.
I just use Google Docs for 95% of my stuff these days. If I need heavy formatting, I download the almost-finished document and format it with OO.o before converting to PDF. It has simplified my life.