1) Choice. There's only one ISP in my city of approximately 80,000 people. It's Comcast or go home. There's only one newspaper. The nearest large city, Indianapolis, also only has one newspaper. They're both owned by the same company.
3) Ownership. My ISP is using state-provided lines and a subsidized monopoly to provide me with internet service in the first place!
Libertarian idealism is fine and dandy until you're not rich.
It seems everyone is missing the interesting bit here. Note: IANAL, and I am not a British citizen, so I really don't know jack and I'm talking out of my lower orifice.
However, by actively working to censor all child porn coming in to their customers, are they not liable when the censoring fails? That's how "common carrier" legal distinctions work in the United States, anyway. And I would expect.uk's laws to be more strict, not less.
We're all pretty much the same, and a homogenous world culture is happening as we speak.
American popular culture, Western dress, and the English language are widely recognized and widely used. Fewer and fewer places acknowledge their native culture because it is neither profitable nor practical to do so.
Well, that's the thing: GCC runs on every platform I've ever had, from MINIX on a 16 bit processor to Solaris on a 64 bit processor.
MSVC (sometimes) works on (specific versions of) Windows 2000 (when it feels like it) (and the.NET framework is installed) (and.NET doesn't hose the system).
A few years ago, SCO offered "free UnixWare" and "free OpenServer" programs. Something like the current Solaris hobbyist programs, only with more restrictive licenses.
At any rate, the only system I've ever used that was more painful than UnixWare is OpenServer. I'd use Solaris 2.1. I'd use AIX v2.x on an RT. I'd port apps to Coherent. Anything at all to avoid that mess.
Noone save fast food resturants and a few other locked-in customers use SCO. It's really that awful.
The easiest example: the filesystem in OSR is a set of softlinks to the "real" filesystem for fear of breaking legacy XENIX apps.
If you have the money for a "graphics workstation", you have the money to pay for a closed source X server with decent GL drivers. It's that simple.
http://www.xig.com/Pages/ProductsMasterPage.html is a good place to start. X drivers for FireGL, at least.
Who would do work on dangerously unstable nVidia drivers, anyway?
Utter bullshit. Yes, nuclear power is clean, safe, and cheap, but nothing about it is "practically unlimited."
We have between a hundred and four hundred years of oil, substantially more coal. If we used nuclear power to replace coal alone, the world's uranium reserves would be gone in a century.
In a very real way, it has been. FreeBSD is very much the successor to 4.3BSD as a sort of reference implementation of unix. Note Apple's use of FreeBSD to update NeXTstep.
ITS!
The Incompatible Timesharing System was THE OS of its day. When Unix was for newbies and wanna-be's, the hardcore hackers were having fun with their all-caps filenames on ITS.
One, you don't lose anything of value if you're PK'd in D2.
Two, a level sixteen character takes about two hours in D2.
Three, D2 is an action game, not an MMORPG.
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What are you talking about?
1) Choice.
There's only one ISP in my city of approximately 80,000 people. It's Comcast or go home.
There's only one newspaper. The nearest large city, Indianapolis, also only has one newspaper. They're both owned by the same company.
3) Ownership. My ISP is using state-provided lines and a subsidized monopoly to provide me with internet service in the first place!
Libertarian idealism is fine and dandy until you're not rich.
It seems everyone is missing the interesting bit here. Note: IANAL, and I am not a British citizen, so I really don't know jack and I'm talking out of my lower orifice. However, by actively working to censor all child porn coming in to their customers, are they not liable when the censoring fails? That's how "common carrier" legal distinctions work in the United States, anyway. And I would expect .uk's laws to be more strict, not less.
Sun uses UFS because it is still the best filesystem for a root filesystem.
A more interesting question is: Why do Linux zealots incessantly rag on UFS?
Interesting that you should say that.
We're all pretty much the same, and a homogenous world culture is happening as we speak.
American popular culture, Western dress, and the English language are widely recognized and widely used. Fewer and fewer places acknowledge their native culture because it is neither profitable nor practical to do so.
I, for one, hail our monoculture overlords.
In 1994, UnixWare was a Novell product. SCO OpenServer was the high water mark for x86 UNIX at the time.
Well, that's the thing: GCC runs on every platform I've ever had, from MINIX on a 16 bit processor to Solaris on a 64 bit processor.
MSVC (sometimes) works on (specific versions of) Windows 2000 (when it feels like it) (and the .NET framework is installed) (and .NET doesn't hose the system).
"Do you really want Linux to have more non free, closed source, proprietary software??"
Yes. Any kind of software available for the platform is good software.
Also, Open-source does not necessarily imply "free". There was a time when most software was open-source and none of it was free.
I actually see blank Beta tapes at Walgreens and CVS all the time, here in Indiana. We're 20 years behind the times.
However, note that the quoted Solaris price is just a binary license, whereas the quoted linux prices include a meaty support contract.
I believe the binary rights to "enterprise linux" are a couple hundred bucks for the entire business.
A few years ago, SCO offered "free UnixWare" and "free OpenServer" programs. Something like the current Solaris hobbyist programs, only with more restrictive licenses.
At any rate, the only system I've ever used that was more painful than UnixWare is OpenServer. I'd use Solaris 2.1. I'd use AIX v2.x on an RT. I'd port apps to Coherent. Anything at all to avoid that mess.
Noone save fast food resturants and a few other locked-in customers use SCO. It's really that awful.
The easiest example: the filesystem in OSR is a set of softlinks to the "real" filesystem for fear of breaking legacy XENIX apps.
If you have the money for a "graphics workstation", you have the money to pay for a closed source X server with decent GL drivers. It's that simple. http://www.xig.com/Pages/ProductsMasterPage.html is a good place to start. X drivers for FireGL, at least. Who would do work on dangerously unstable nVidia drivers, anyway?
A really awful job of it it does, too. Awful latency, difficult configuration. ESD network transparency is useless to me, anyway.
Opera supports resuming. IE may not.
Utter bullshit. Yes, nuclear power is clean, safe, and cheap, but nothing about it is "practically unlimited."
We have between a hundred and four hundred years of oil, substantially more coal. If we used nuclear power to replace coal alone, the world's uranium reserves would be gone in a century.
In a very real way, it has been. FreeBSD is very much the successor to 4.3BSD as a sort of reference implementation of unix. Note Apple's use of FreeBSD to update NeXTstep.
The "Motif community" is six aging trolls in california. Motif sucked to begin with, but it wasn't owned by any one vendor, so it became the standard.
KDE was developed because CDE was so universally hated. KDE was really meant to be a CDE clone, but they had the sense to use a decent toolkit!
...followed by a joke on his poor performance as a student. It was deliberately misspelled.
Jackass.
My ISP *is* a monopoly. There are only two ISP's in the market. One cable, one DSL. The two rarely overlap in market area.
I imagine this is true for much of the United States.
ITS!
The Incompatible Timesharing System was THE OS of its day. When Unix was for newbies and wanna-be's, the hardcore hackers were having fun with their all-caps filenames on ITS.
Yes, and my housecats will be beating olympic sprinters any day now. It's just a matter of training.
While I'm at it, I've been wanting to see about those flying pigs in the backyard. I figure they'll learn faster if I toss them off the roof.
Hell, these pigs will be taking marketshare from the major air carriers a long time before Dell competes with Sun in any market.
POSIX compliant and POSIX conformant are not at all the same thing.
Windows is something like 85% compliant but not conformant; OpenVMS is 100% compliant but not conformant.
I believe compliance is a matter of having the right API's in place, while conformance specifies just how things should work inside the OS.
Nothing, no DRM, no law, nothing can put a stop to piracy. Only draconian measures have any chance at even slowing it down.
Those Xterms are substantially more powerful than a 286 and they're not running the ever-so-bloated XF86.
That's assuming that the godawful graphics in your 286 make X worthwhile. Anything less than 1024x768 would just be pointless.
Worse, wasting a 15+" monitor on a 286, when a pentium can be had for less than the price of a monitor?
FreeBSD doesn't have Perl in base either, jackass.
Look before you leap to criticise.
One, you don't lose anything of value if you're PK'd in D2.
Two, a level sixteen character takes about two hours in D2.
Three, D2 is an action game, not an MMORPG.