That is controllable... even a year ago I used (funnily) in Linux PowerNowD to control that thing.
And even in 600MHz the thing was perfectly usable, but once you need raw processing power, given the correct settings it scales up to whatever frequency is allowed.
I have been telling that for years (onwning one) the main problem I have faced is that the GHz is so hammered into peopls minds that even people who were knowledgable, were totally clueless, once I told them that this thing runs cicrcles around a much higher clocked P4 or Athlon.
But they did not want to believe that until I showed them my laptop.
The P-M is in general purpose computing around 1.5x times faster than a comparable P4, it is an excellent processor and definitely the only good one Intel has produced the last 10 years.
It took Intel ages to recognize that this thing is heavens sent and should not only be sold over laptops. If they now would lower the price for the processor and board towards AMD64 it could give Intel the needed time...
The Pentium-M is a kickass desktop processor, it just has not the brand GHz on its package.
Still one of the fastest there is, excellent power management (which is a big plus on a desktop where you dont want to hear fans all the time and where you idle 99% of the time anyway)
The main problem is the price, it is just much to pricey compared to an AMD64, I probably will go the AMD 64 route in the middle of next year because they also have a good power management. The main selling point for AMD64 for me is its Coool&Quiet technology, I could not care less about the 64bit features, which are totally useless currently for the stuff I do.
(wake me up once the emulators start to use the higher number of general purpose registers)
So there is this decision between a Pentium-M and AMD 64 bot excellent desktop processors and in the end AMD will win again due to its lower price tag.
The problem is, it used to be like that 100 years ago, but nowadays there are around 20 patents on a simple new razor blade model.
Face it the whole patent system is screwed and basically just a huge fraud on the backs of smaller developers and inventors only serving the big ones which can afford to fight for years in courts over trivia...
Youth combined with stupidity, we also were stupid when we were younger, but the risk of getting arrested was much lower and more on the sane side of things.
Probably the underlying platform caused the problem, windows tends to fall apart with various problems nobody can trace down properly (happened to us with something else Microsoftish a few weeks ago, the consultant could not fix it either we had coming in)
Java really is better in this regard, very self contained and mature, you basically know where things are and they do not touch the underlying system, everything can be done and backuped in a very clean solution. If you need something stable you have to go for J2EE (subsets of it that is, I hate EJB)
and you cannot go wrong stabilitywise.
The problem with J2EE is that some parts are APIish overkill, the new JSF for instance is clearly designed for Rad buildners not for people who have to work with it on a sane level. To bad that the Rad tools are not there yet.
Well Visual Basic as it was was axed after around 7-8 years leaving thousands of companies with the fact of having to do major rewrites of their code. (I know one company which had to face the fact that the movage of their legacy VB code to VB.net came close to an entire reimplementation)
Smalltalk has been around for 15-20 years and the only problem there really was was the Digitalk buyout (which in the end broke Smalltalks neck). The Unix core libs have been API stable for ages, and Perl and other languages have been rock solid as well, with Perl now facing its first major overhaul in ages.
Face it only Microsoft can get away with screwing their customers over by breaking off old bridges, the Smalltalk vendors tried it and got a deserved smack on the head. IBM for instance knows this and they still support OS/2 an operating system basically dead for ages. Even REXX exist until today. This we do not leave you standing in the rain attitude is one reasony why people buy IBM.
The breaking of legacy stuff is only a real severe issue in the Microsoft camp, not in others.
Yes I did not likt spirited away to much, (although I like most other stuff done by Myiazaki)
The problem I had with spirited away was the somewhat chaotic nature of the story given the money and time constraints this movie had in production. It felt very unfinished and sort of chaotic.
From all the Myiazaki movies I have seen so far Spirited away was one of the worst.
The answers are simple, Linux has a much better hardware support for third party hardware, not everybody likes osx, some stuff like doing plain X is much better in Linux, using the thing as a server does not fource you to load a gui.
There are myriads of other reasons, but those instantly come to my mind.
On the app side of things it just works, but as soon as you dive deeper you basically run into the same problems as in windows or Linux.
I recently hammered basically 5 hours away to get Cups properly running just to find out, that the mac printing system uses cups only for transport only and uses partially its own driver structure. Sure there is the Gimp Print drivers but you are out of luck if your printer is not supported by those.
This was just an example there are various other issues like a rather limited hardware support which is way worse than linux (better check out the mac sign on the box) and other stuff.
The mac is good, the OS very solid, but dont expect user wonderland with Unix for dummies, it is either User wonderland, or core unix, just depending on what you plan to do with it.
But if you need core Unix then better go with Linux instead than shooting yourself in the food
with OSXs X.
I rather doubt it will take another years, the problems with 1.4 were mainly, that Sun made major improvements on java2d and added lots of new apis in the graphical area which directly affected apples bindings into its own os.
This time it is only minor improvements on the classlib but heavy work on the compiler.
A lot of the more interesting stuff regarding the VM which would affect Apple already comes from Apple.
To get JDK 1.5 you probably will have to put Tiger in the tank.
Well it is so so regarding network stuff, checking in via subversion over a slow connection is a major pain, but then work is better than with CVS due to the decreased communication and data transfer, so I guess the tradeoff in the beginning pays off very swiftly later.
You dont even need apache for svn, you can run a standalone svn server as well, currently svn has three access methods, DAV with Apache, SVN for plain SVN TCPIP access and SVN+SSH for combined svn and ssh access.
It really depends on what you want to do.
But generally my starting points usually are
for db related stuff hibernate
for many other things stuff from the jakarta project (much of the commons stuff, xerces, log4j and others)
and from there usually it becomes rougher, swing you cannot do wrong with the jgoodies stuff from java.net, Karsten Lentzsch has done an excellent work)
otherwise it depends on the task and license.
Well Subversion having hosted itself for almost 3 years now, having it used myself for almost a year now since it hit 1.0 without a single major issue and not knowing even one single person who had a major problem, that makes it good enough for me.
Not to many projects had the quality of Subversion at the time they hit the 1.0 mark.
It would call svn not really that new anymore with being usable for 3 years and having hit 1.0 about a year ago and having itself proven to be stable.
Why did they rewrite cvs code to have it bsd compliant, they could already have used svn, which has been under a bsd license since day 0 of its existence.
CVS was nice, but its drawbacks are obvious, it is time to move on.
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That is controllable... even a year ago I used (funnily) in Linux PowerNowD to control that thing. And even in 600MHz the thing was perfectly usable, but once you need raw processing power, given the correct settings it scales up to whatever frequency is allowed.
I have been telling that for years (onwning one) the main problem I have faced is that the GHz is so hammered into peopls minds that even people who were knowledgable, were totally clueless, once I told them that this thing runs cicrcles around a much higher clocked P4 or Athlon. But they did not want to believe that until I showed them my laptop.
The P-M is in general purpose computing around 1.5x times faster than a comparable P4, it is an excellent processor and definitely the only good one Intel has produced the last 10 years. It took Intel ages to recognize that this thing is heavens sent and should not only be sold over laptops. If they now would lower the price for the processor and board towards AMD64 it could give Intel the needed time...
The Pentium-M is a kickass desktop processor, it just has not the brand GHz on its package. Still one of the fastest there is, excellent power management (which is a big plus on a desktop where you dont want to hear fans all the time and where you idle 99% of the time anyway)
The main problem is the price, it is just much to pricey compared to an AMD64, I probably will go the AMD 64 route in the middle of next year because they also have a good power management. The main selling point for AMD64 for me is its Coool&Quiet technology, I could not care less about the 64bit features, which are totally useless currently for the stuff I do. (wake me up once the emulators start to use the higher number of general purpose registers)
So there is this decision between a Pentium-M and AMD 64 bot excellent desktop processors and in the end AMD will win again due to its lower price tag.
The problem is, it used to be like that 100 years ago, but nowadays there are around 20 patents on a simple new razor blade model. Face it the whole patent system is screwed and basically just a huge fraud on the backs of smaller developers and inventors only serving the big ones which can afford to fight for years in courts over trivia...
the outsourcing industry of India...
Youth combined with stupidity, we also were stupid when we were younger, but the risk of getting arrested was much lower and more on the sane side of things.
For Ebeneza Scrooge.... How does it feel to ruin young peoples live over something with questionable value...
No it is the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus, who also developed Linux according to Darl and Linus ;-)
Now after 1 1/2 years the compliation of the old version on my Amiga is done, now they have released a new one, time to start compiling again...
Probably the underlying platform caused the problem, windows tends to fall apart with various problems nobody can trace down properly (happened to us with something else Microsoftish a few weeks ago, the consultant could not fix it either we had coming in) Java really is better in this regard, very self contained and mature, you basically know where things are and they do not touch the underlying system, everything can be done and backuped in a very clean solution. If you need something stable you have to go for J2EE (subsets of it that is, I hate EJB) and you cannot go wrong stabilitywise. The problem with J2EE is that some parts are APIish overkill, the new JSF for instance is clearly designed for Rad buildners not for people who have to work with it on a sane level. To bad that the Rad tools are not there yet.
Well Visual Basic as it was was axed after around 7-8 years leaving thousands of companies with the fact of having to do major rewrites of their code. (I know one company which had to face the fact that the movage of their legacy VB code to VB.net came close to an entire reimplementation) Smalltalk has been around for 15-20 years and the only problem there really was was the Digitalk buyout (which in the end broke Smalltalks neck). The Unix core libs have been API stable for ages, and Perl and other languages have been rock solid as well, with Perl now facing its first major overhaul in ages. Face it only Microsoft can get away with screwing their customers over by breaking off old bridges, the Smalltalk vendors tried it and got a deserved smack on the head. IBM for instance knows this and they still support OS/2 an operating system basically dead for ages. Even REXX exist until today. This we do not leave you standing in the rain attitude is one reasony why people buy IBM. The breaking of legacy stuff is only a real severe issue in the Microsoft camp, not in others.
Yes I did not likt spirited away to much, (although I like most other stuff done by Myiazaki) The problem I had with spirited away was the somewhat chaotic nature of the story given the money and time constraints this movie had in production. It felt very unfinished and sort of chaotic. From all the Myiazaki movies I have seen so far Spirited away was one of the worst.
Ahem leave that title to the Eclipse guys and Intellij, they are currently top of the heap...
Werent there around 8 police academy movies? I can even remember one done in the late nineties with parts of the old cast.
No they will show an ad on TV with a dancing sweating Ballmer shouting developers developers.... wait, didn't happen already?
The answers are simple, Linux has a much better hardware support for third party hardware, not everybody likes osx, some stuff like doing plain X is much better in Linux, using the thing as a server does not fource you to load a gui. There are myriads of other reasons, but those instantly come to my mind.
On the app side of things it just works, but as soon as you dive deeper you basically run into the same problems as in windows or Linux. I recently hammered basically 5 hours away to get Cups properly running just to find out, that the mac printing system uses cups only for transport only and uses partially its own driver structure. Sure there is the Gimp Print drivers but you are out of luck if your printer is not supported by those. This was just an example there are various other issues like a rather limited hardware support which is way worse than linux (better check out the mac sign on the box) and other stuff. The mac is good, the OS very solid, but dont expect user wonderland with Unix for dummies, it is either User wonderland, or core unix, just depending on what you plan to do with it. But if you need core Unix then better go with Linux instead than shooting yourself in the food with OSXs X.
I rather doubt it will take another years, the problems with 1.4 were mainly, that Sun made major improvements on java2d and added lots of new apis in the graphical area which directly affected apples bindings into its own os. This time it is only minor improvements on the classlib but heavy work on the compiler. A lot of the more interesting stuff regarding the VM which would affect Apple already comes from Apple. To get JDK 1.5 you probably will have to put Tiger in the tank.
Well it is so so regarding network stuff, checking in via subversion over a slow connection is a major pain, but then work is better than with CVS due to the decreased communication and data transfer, so I guess the tradeoff in the beginning pays off very swiftly later.
You dont even need apache for svn, you can run a standalone svn server as well, currently svn has three access methods, DAV with Apache, SVN for plain SVN TCPIP access and SVN+SSH for combined svn and ssh access.
Which is pretty much the same as the BSD license...
It really depends on what you want to do. But generally my starting points usually are for db related stuff hibernate for many other things stuff from the jakarta project (much of the commons stuff, xerces, log4j and others) and from there usually it becomes rougher, swing you cannot do wrong with the jgoodies stuff from java.net, Karsten Lentzsch has done an excellent work) otherwise it depends on the task and license.
Well Subversion having hosted itself for almost 3 years now, having it used myself for almost a year now since it hit 1.0 without a single major issue and not knowing even one single person who had a major problem, that makes it good enough for me. Not to many projects had the quality of Subversion at the time they hit the 1.0 mark. It would call svn not really that new anymore with being usable for 3 years and having hit 1.0 about a year ago and having itself proven to be stable.
Why did they rewrite cvs code to have it bsd compliant, they could already have used svn, which has been under a bsd license since day 0 of its existence. CVS was nice, but its drawbacks are obvious, it is time to move on.