Driver support is usually better than any other OS, IME.
As others have commented, the graphics drivers are an exception, and may may be a bit behind the curve. I don't know, cos all my OBSD machines are headless.
Well, without it, Unity should have stayed on someone's Mum's basement, because so far it has meant I have lost five Ubuntu users in my family back to XP. The loss of usability through loss of hierarchy is FATAL. The offer of giving someone "ye olde interface" is "too little too late".
???? My P4s still work fine, although I have gradually replaced the HDs. Once XP stops working, I just install Ubuntu. Its not the hardware that is broken - its MS's updates! (Anyway, sound on computers in a public place like a schoolrom is just a manace! and USB slots get filled with viruses)
mainframes (or clouds, as they now apparently are).
I think the expression "cloud" is not unconnected with the concept of vapourware. However, my CDC7600 consumes so much power, I have to use an ultrasparc.
I learned C from my K&R manual in 1978, and I am still writing C today. Yes, there are now libraries to do what we had to do by hand before. It doesnt take much learning to handle that!
Nor did it take a lot of brain power to figure out that PHP is pretty much "interpreted C".
Half of the "skills" people seem to value so much consist of reading one side of A4 paper!
The problem is that the recruiting process will consider your older skills worthless. The reason why we get IT disasters of magnificent proportions: Agencies and HR departments avoid anyone with more than 2 1/2 years experience of anything - particularly life itself!
Never have I seen software that is more baroque, or less reliable
You have obviously not tried HP scanner software. Our scanner will not work on Windows (it did when new, but the UI was so confusing no one managed to do what they actually wanted to). It works on Linux OK though. Before we found that out, we switched to Cannon.
But why let facts and understanding get in the way of a good rant, eh?
You must be new here!
Ok, so I had a little too much brandy, and not enoughy coffee when I wrote that. I can't expect to post a whole book in one/. posting.
However, you might want to look at the system as a whole - sure pension funds like to report good long term results, but they try to do it by the same fashionable "high speed trading" as everyone else does: They don't buy X because its intrinsive value will go up over time (like C18th people would buy shares in a tea clipper voyage at increased prices as the tea gets nearer to sale), they bet on X going up or down couple of points in the next 30mS. My point is they are betting someone else's money for a percentage, whether the bet wins or loses and like Madoff, they pay a good divi till they crash - then a scapegoat is found in the time-honoured tradition.
To make it clear: I am not suggesting that any single person or corporation is doing this in a deliberately corrupt manner - what I am saying is that - while I accept that hedging can perform a useful function) a system where the money invested in derivatives exceeds the money invested in productive activity (like farming and manufacturing) by several orders of magnitude is inherently unstable as well as unproductive, and the only beneficiaries in the long term are the traders and banks. Society as a whole loses on a catastrophic scale, because there is no investment in building homes, growing food, or manufacturing enduring products (see UK papers for an example). (Greece and Ireland have marginally different - and much more severe - problems).
You are supposing they want to stop these traders. In reality, the "rogue traders" look very profitable prior to the crash - just like someone who is driving way to fast on the race track is out front till he crashes. There is no way they are going to stop their "star".
The entire system if fundamentally flawed. The banks are expecting to make more money than is in the system to make. Of course the world economy is still screwed. "Its the bankers, stupid!"
The entire derivativves trading system is a giant Ponzi scheme - the value of fees charged by bankers for trading in derivatives based on on changes in the value of a security exceeds the value of the underlying security over a relatively short time. (it is MINUTES for gold!)
Someone then "looses" a great deal of money. In reality, the "missing" money has already been paid out in commissions to banks for trading - and "bonuses" for traders. (Anyone who understands differential equations can see that vastly more money is paid out to bankers than is actually invested in stocks and bonds, and the banks are sucking the life blood from the world's economic system).
You might ask "Why do people invest in such an obvious Ponzi scheme?" The answer is "Institutional investors do not care about the long term, and are quite happy to feed the system, so long as they get a percentage, and a "plausible deniability" get out clause when it goes wrong. (Why did people give all their money to someone who "Madoff" with it?
Why did the bank not stop him? Because prior to catastophic disaster, he seemed to be "on a roll", and was winning more than he was losing. Banks do not employ people who understand differential equations in a management role, and most bank directors have only a marginal grip on reality. They say "ooh, profit!" like Homer Simpson and doughnuts.
Why? They both cost the same (ie. free) and if you as a user don't want to use the more professional features then you don't need to use them.
Because explaining to your semi-litterate cousin from the booon-docks what happened when he/she accidentally clicked on one of them thar incomprehensible options would no longer keep you from a cold beer on warm summer nights.
The message is obvious: "You cant handle the truth!". Sorry wrong cliche: "you pays your money and take your choice".
However, the problem with electric cars is, as it was in 1890 - batteries are expensive and heaving - this cost is due to using hideous amounts of raw materials - and (although we know it is not theoretically impossible) no one has come up with a suitable chemistry yet.
The electric car will trash all opposition - if we only had a brain^h^h^h^h^h battery.
I've got a pile of old Sun workstations for playing with that have now become landfill.
If you are really into zombies, you might want to disinter BSD. OpenBSD is really well supported on USparc, and you don't have to deal with Oracle. My Solaris skills were lost long ago, along with my last Oracle 7 install disk set.
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As others have commented, the graphics drivers are an exception, and may may be a bit behind the curve. I don't know, cos all my OBSD machines are headless.
I knew I had the same experience somewhere before!
Mod parent +infinity.
Well, without it, Unity should have stayed on someone's Mum's basement, because so far it has meant I have lost five Ubuntu users in my family back to XP. The loss of usability through loss of hierarchy is FATAL. The offer of giving someone "ye olde interface" is "too little too late".
You are forgetting another major feature it shared with Unity: "More bugs than a cockroach farm"
???? My P4s still work fine, although I have gradually replaced the HDs. Once XP stops working, I just install Ubuntu. Its not the hardware that is broken - its MS's updates! (Anyway, sound on computers in a public place like a schoolrom is just a manace! and USB slots get filled with viruses)
I think the expression "cloud" is not unconnected with the concept of vapourware. However, my CDC7600 consumes so much power, I have to use an ultrasparc.
NOW get off my lawn.
That is absoluetely NOT my experience. I have had several Windows machines stop working, only to find they work fine with Ubuntu.
Because of the risk from incoming chairs!
Nor did it take a lot of brain power to figure out that PHP is pretty much "interpreted C".
Half of the "skills" people seem to value so much consist of reading one side of A4 paper!
If you have a problem moving from one SQL to another, you should be praying for God to give you a new brain!
The problem is that the recruiting process will consider your older skills worthless. The reason why we get IT disasters of magnificent proportions: Agencies and HR departments avoid anyone with more than 2 1/2 years experience of anything - particularly life itself!
Bird flu is here to help!
You have obviously not tried HP scanner software. Our scanner will not work on Windows (it did when new, but the UI was so confusing no one managed to do what they actually wanted to). It works on Linux OK though. Before we found that out, we switched to Cannon.
No more HP stuff here!
It beats the pants off using Diebold kit!
You must be new here!
Ok, so I had a little too much brandy, and not enoughy coffee when I wrote that. I can't expect to post a whole book in one /. posting.
However, you might want to look at the system as a whole - sure pension funds like to report good long term results, but they try to do it by the same fashionable "high speed trading" as everyone else does: They don't buy X because its intrinsive value will go up over time (like C18th people would buy shares in a tea clipper voyage at increased prices as the tea gets nearer to sale), they bet on X going up or down couple of points in the next 30mS. My point is they are betting someone else's money for a percentage, whether the bet wins or loses and like Madoff, they pay a good divi till they crash - then a scapegoat is found in the time-honoured tradition.
To make it clear: I am not suggesting that any single person or corporation is doing this in a deliberately corrupt manner - what I am saying is that - while I accept that hedging can perform a useful function) a system where the money invested in derivatives exceeds the money invested in productive activity (like farming and manufacturing) by several orders of magnitude is inherently unstable as well as unproductive, and the only beneficiaries in the long term are the traders and banks. Society as a whole loses on a catastrophic scale, because there is no investment in building homes, growing food, or manufacturing enduring products (see UK papers for an example). (Greece and Ireland have marginally different - and much more severe - problems).
The entire system if fundamentally flawed. The banks are expecting to make more money than is in the system to make. Of course the world economy is still screwed. "Its the bankers, stupid!"
Someone then "looses" a great deal of money. In reality, the "missing" money has already been paid out in commissions to banks for trading - and "bonuses" for traders. (Anyone who understands differential equations can see that vastly more money is paid out to bankers than is actually invested in stocks and bonds, and the banks are sucking the life blood from the world's economic system).
You might ask "Why do people invest in such an obvious Ponzi scheme?" The answer is "Institutional investors do not care about the long term, and are quite happy to feed the system, so long as they get a percentage, and a "plausible deniability" get out clause when it goes wrong. (Why did people give all their money to someone who "Madoff" with it?
Why did the bank not stop him? Because prior to catastophic disaster, he seemed to be "on a roll", and was winning more than he was losing. Banks do not employ people who understand differential equations in a management role, and most bank directors have only a marginal grip on reality. They say "ooh, profit!" like Homer Simpson and doughnuts.
Because explaining to your semi-litterate cousin from the booon-docks what happened when he/she accidentally clicked on one of them thar incomprehensible options would no longer keep you from a cold beer on warm summer nights.
However, the problem with electric cars is, as it was in 1890 - batteries are expensive and heaving - this cost is due to using hideous amounts of raw materials - and (although we know it is not theoretically impossible) no one has come up with a suitable chemistry yet.
The electric car will trash all opposition - if we only had a brain^h^h^h^h^h battery.
Hey, get off my lawn. I am still using Excel for DOS 3.3 on my Zenith laptop.
Because there was no alternative. Its really that simple,
The phrase "There is only one horse in this here town" also comes to mind.
In short: Amazon pays what they want to pay. Not a penny more, nor less.
Do they mention the porn?
If you are really into zombies, you might want to disinter BSD. OpenBSD is really well supported on USparc, and you don't have to deal with Oracle. My Solaris skills were lost long ago, along with my last Oracle 7 install disk set.
Looks like they want some funding. You may recall the expression "pigs might fly".