If Windows 7 isnt stable and pretty much finalized its just wasted effort to start porting drivers. I suspect many hardware manufacturers was badly bittten when they had to rewrite their drivers mid development of Vista.
That said i doubt hardware manufacturers are jumping from joy anyway at the thought of supporting XP/Vista/2003 and Windows 7 at the same time. Since Windows 7 is (supposed to be) modular i suspect a fair bunch of drivers that uses a lot of things built into XP/Vista will have to be pretty much completely rewritten.
X-forwarding was how i finally won my collegue over from the dark side. He was hammering on windows in putty to the linux servers but when i showed him how he could use whatever GUI stuff he could need over SSH from a linux box he was home. Lately my fellow and former gates-kisser has started lamenting all the linux-stuff he misses when he works on Windows-boxes.
The right answer to reduce power consumption is to make better use of the CPU cycles. Today we waste an insane amount of power because of badly optimized code. We have to much redundancy because of bad code quality. This is the area where its possible to save most power, especially in smaller enviroments .
Virtualization do not save power in all cases. Often its the other way round because most virtualizations snag a fair bit of performance. Small underutilized servers fits but any utilized server will draw more power virtualized than by its own.
The strain of heating and cooling will bring most systems down much faster than if they are constantly at the same temp.
If the chineese are smart they can make Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and go away fairly soon. If every cheap chineese phone comes with Android the applications catalogue will make them interesting all by itself. They are dumb if they dont travel down this road.
If you are fine with it and have no problem morally then go for it. Next time you do something open source think twice before you choose a BSD-like license. GPL is not popular because of raving communists, its a very tought trough license that shields from evil corps and makes them behaive better. BSD licenses are more of the "please rape me" style.
Its the short version. The long version can be read from the DOJ trial where Microsofts monpoly is described in detail. It paints a very clear picture of why MS has taken most of its decisions. Most decisions has been bad from an engineering standpoint but good for the monopoly. The monopoly and the complete absence of any real competitors is whats holding computer development back so much. Our computers software lags tens of years behind research in an otherwise very fast area of technology.
You know what? You don't need to be a Google employer, beneficiary, partner, affiliate or stock owner to like them and what they do. Its pretty easy to like them just as a regular user because they behave much better than your average corporation. They provide excellent services and are not above acknowledging mistakes and for example change EULA's if users don't want them.
The problem is that DVD is good enough for most people except a small minority of technomasturbaters. It has excellent sound, pretty good framerate and nice resolution.
HD content adds very little to the overall experience if you dont read plate numbers on cars a hundred yards behind the actors.
Debian runs very well on my openmoko and its not that hard to use the commandline with rastermans keyboard. The screen has excellent resolution so reading the terminal works really well.
This device makes things dandy for people who want an easy way to test their network. Scriptkiddies will love them to but thats just fine. The script kids are the ones who forces better security trough. The alternative is to be hacked all day by corps and govts and never nowing about it.
Correct me if im wrong but since when did NASA fund its own research instead of receiving enormous sums of money from the taxpayers? From where i stand this does look like NASA wants to cash in twice. US taxpayers have already paid for the patents once.
These patents should be free to use for Americans but by all means use them competitively against the rest of us.
"I'd think governments, religious fanatics, some corporations, and political groups of all stripes would be after this thing."
I think you just described the US and its governance.:D
Its the same as in any other business.
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It managers that lacks any technical skills are easily gullible and easily fall for the latest buzzwords. Those are the ones who run the lemming race instead of sitting back and take it easy while the other ones makes all the mistakes. There are managers that can sniff a scam miles away without any knowledge in the subject but those are very few in IT. Perhaps because its a pretty new field.
Cringely draws it a bit to long to drive the point home, you cant be a succesful manager if you dont have good knowledge in what you manage. Just as you need to know economics to be a manager in the banking sector you do need to know a harddrive from a router to be a good manager in IT.
No im not 20, i was in on the first days of home computing. All the way from my first Sinclair ZX and forward. It wasnt a "mess" at all as you try to imply. Rather an era of rapid development and great progress.
With the standardization on the PC platform and Windows, development grinded to a halt and everything onwards has been about getting more speed out of the same crap as ten years ago. Speed thats then eaten up by the same OS as the last, but with new and shiny colors!
The consumers don't naturally go with less choice, corporations themselves create less choices by buying and canning competitors products. Ive seen this countless times in the thin client market where some big corp buy a much better product and then scrap it.
Suppliers don't profit from few choices at all. When you have one big supplier of operating systems you have very small margins. Its not like you have any bargaining power.
I think the smartest route would be to build on debian in this case. While they could cram whatever they like ontop the OS would still both benefit from and contribute back to the community.
Whatever they build upon i hold my thumbs its something new because if one thing is needed today its more OS out there. More diversity demands more standards and interoperations and that would be very good for IT as a whole.
"From the limited and flawed sample I have, it seems to me like there are more neo-nazis, white-supremacists and the like per capita in the USA where it's not forbidden."
I think its actually the opposite. In germany you have just as many if not more racists but they wont say it out in the open. Get your muslim outfit on and try to get a decent job and well talk when you have advanced from pizza dough maker to delivery boy in ten years time.
In sweden we have the same problem, once you get to know people well enough very many of them are extreme rascists. Ask on the streets and everyone talks about how wonderful it is with immigrants. Look at how they act and they could be any neo-nazi you could think of. Violence is pretty common also, just not out in the open.
No, its really not. Just because GOP says so doesn't make it the truth.
They have tried to redefine terrorist to something completely different, in essence meaning "anyone who doesn't like us and do as we say".
A freedom fighter is "someone who fights a government who doesn't want to hand over all their natural resources to our corporations, even if they use terrorist methods and kills kittens".
Most people dont buy this but nobody dares to speak up, the EU is a bunch of cowards thats scared white by the US. They know its wrong, they dont like it but they arent men enough to speak up and demand some restraint from the US when they bash some banana republic to pieces.
What a bunch of cowards. The only party thats going to loose something from this is Youtube. When the "think of the childred / beware of the terrorist boogeyman" crowd is finished all thats left is kittens, bad singing and political campaign material.
A couple of years down the road a move to China will probably improve the ability to speak freely. Its a strange world we live in.
I understand their failiure and problems with Linux if they use SLED. I dont want to be rude but its really not a distribution that works nicely on a desktop. I have done serious integration and tried to use it as a terminal server. It was no walk in the park compared to Edubuntu/Skolelinux/K12LTSP and for every package i installed the system was one step closer to certain doom. I have also been seriously bitten by upgrades. For example on a HP umpc i got a while ago with SLED it broke down completely when i upgraded it. Such nightmares can be had with the Windows experience instead, no need emulating that behaviour on Linux desktops.
I suspect they are just looking at Ubuntu or any other distribution that fits better on a desktop.
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If Windows 7 isnt stable and pretty much finalized its just wasted effort to start porting drivers. I suspect many hardware manufacturers was badly bittten when they had to rewrite their drivers mid development of Vista.
That said i doubt hardware manufacturers are jumping from joy anyway at the thought of supporting XP/Vista/2003 and Windows 7 at the same time. Since Windows 7 is (supposed to be) modular i suspect a fair bunch of drivers that uses a lot of things built into XP/Vista will have to be pretty much completely rewritten.
X-forwarding was how i finally won my collegue over from the dark side. He was hammering on windows in putty to the linux servers but when i showed him how he could use whatever GUI stuff he could need over SSH from a linux box he was home. Lately my fellow and former gates-kisser has started lamenting all the linux-stuff he misses when he works on Windows-boxes.
The right answer to reduce power consumption is to make better use of the CPU cycles. Today we waste an insane amount of power because of badly optimized code. We have to much redundancy because of bad code quality. This is the area where its possible to save most power, especially in smaller enviroments .
Virtualization do not save power in all cases. Often its the other way round because most virtualizations snag a fair bit of performance. Small underutilized servers fits but any utilized server will draw more power virtualized than by its own.
The strain of heating and cooling will bring most systems down much faster than if they are constantly at the same temp.
If the chineese are smart they can make Sony Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola and go away fairly soon. If every cheap chineese phone comes with Android the applications catalogue will make them interesting all by itself. They are dumb if they dont travel down this road.
Maybe the reason the spam flow didnt flinch was because the "large spam ring" wasnt that large after all?
The only way to get at spam is to target the ones using it for sales. Track who it is that pays for spam and drag them to court.
If someone could just conjure up a way to imitate money and put that thing in a volcano or something we could make earth a better place in notime.
If you are fine with it and have no problem morally then go for it. Next time you do something open source think twice before you choose a BSD-like license. GPL is not popular because of raving communists, its a very tought trough license that shields from evil corps and makes them behaive better. BSD licenses are more of the "please rape me" style.
Its the short version. The long version can be read from the DOJ trial where Microsofts monpoly is described in detail. It paints a very clear picture of why MS has taken most of its decisions. Most decisions has been bad from an engineering standpoint but good for the monopoly. The monopoly and the complete absence of any real competitors is whats holding computer development back so much. Our computers software lags tens of years behind research in an otherwise very fast area of technology.
"why does the evolution of desktop operating systems like Windows go slower now than a decade ago?"
In short, because Microsoft succeeded in killing platform independant applications.
You know what? You don't need to be a Google employer, beneficiary, partner, affiliate or stock owner to like them and what they do. Its pretty easy to like them just as a regular user because they behave much better than your average corporation. They provide excellent services and are not above acknowledging mistakes and for example change EULA's if users don't want them.
The problem is that DVD is good enough for most people except a small minority of technomasturbaters. It has excellent sound, pretty good framerate and nice resolution.
HD content adds very little to the overall experience if you dont read plate numbers on cars a hundred yards behind the actors.
Debian runs very well on my openmoko and its not that hard to use the commandline with rastermans keyboard. The screen has excellent resolution so reading the terminal works really well.
This device makes things dandy for people who want an easy way to test their network. Scriptkiddies will love them to but thats just fine. The script kids are the ones who forces better security trough. The alternative is to be hacked all day by corps and govts and never nowing about it.
Correct me if im wrong but since when did NASA fund its own research instead of receiving enormous sums of money from the taxpayers? From where i stand this does look like NASA wants to cash in twice. US taxpayers have already paid for the patents once.
These patents should be free to use for Americans but by all means use them competitively against the rest of us.
"I'd think governments, religious fanatics, some corporations, and political groups of all stripes would be after this thing."
I think you just described the US and its governance. :D
It managers that lacks any technical skills are easily gullible and easily fall for the latest buzzwords. Those are the ones who run the lemming race instead of sitting back and take it easy while the other ones makes all the mistakes. There are managers that can sniff a scam miles away without any knowledge in the subject but those are very few in IT. Perhaps because its a pretty new field.
Cringely draws it a bit to long to drive the point home, you cant be a succesful manager if you dont have good knowledge in what you manage. Just as you need to know economics to be a manager in the banking sector you do need to know a harddrive from a router to be a good manager in IT.
No im not 20, i was in on the first days of home computing. All the way from my first Sinclair ZX and forward. It wasnt a "mess" at all as you try to imply. Rather an era of rapid development and great progress.
With the standardization on the PC platform and Windows, development grinded to a halt and everything onwards has been about getting more speed out of the same crap as ten years ago. Speed thats then eaten up by the same OS as the last, but with new and shiny colors!
The consumers don't naturally go with less choice, corporations themselves create less choices by buying and canning competitors products. Ive seen this countless times in the thin client market where some big corp buy a much better product and then scrap it.
Suppliers don't profit from few choices at all. When you have one big supplier of operating systems you have very small margins. Its not like you have any bargaining power.
they get sued for delivering exucation, water, roads and sevage treatment.
I think the smartest route would be to build on debian in this case. While they could cram whatever they like ontop the OS would still both benefit from and contribute back to the community.
Whatever they build upon i hold my thumbs its something new because if one thing is needed today its more OS out there. More diversity demands more standards and interoperations and that would be very good for IT as a whole.
"From the limited and flawed sample I have, it seems to me like there are more neo-nazis, white-supremacists and the like per capita in the USA where it's not forbidden."
I think its actually the opposite. In germany you have just as many if not more racists but they wont say it out in the open. Get your muslim outfit on and try to get a decent job and well talk when you have advanced from pizza dough maker to delivery boy in ten years time.
In sweden we have the same problem, once you get to know people well enough very many of them are extreme rascists. Ask on the streets and everyone talks about how wonderful it is with immigrants. Look at how they act and they could be any neo-nazi you could think of. Violence is pretty common also, just not out in the open.
"...is another man's freedom fighter. "
No, its really not. Just because GOP says so doesn't make it the truth.
They have tried to redefine terrorist to something completely different, in essence meaning "anyone who doesn't like us and do as we say".
A freedom fighter is "someone who fights a government who doesn't want to hand over all their natural resources to our corporations, even if they use terrorist methods and kills kittens".
Most people dont buy this but nobody dares to speak up, the EU is a bunch of cowards thats scared white by the US. They know its wrong, they dont like it but they arent men enough to speak up and demand some restraint from the US when they bash some banana republic to pieces.
What a bunch of cowards. The only party thats going to loose something from this is Youtube. When the "think of the childred / beware of the terrorist boogeyman" crowd is finished all thats left is kittens, bad singing and political campaign material.
A couple of years down the road a move to China will probably improve the ability to speak freely. Its a strange world we live in.
Just press CTRL-SHIFT-DEL after youre done with the pr0n. It can also be done automagically every time you logout.
Dont you understand you jinx it when you say like that?
I understand their failiure and problems with Linux if they use SLED. I dont want to be rude but its really not a distribution that works nicely on a desktop. I have done serious integration and tried to use it as a terminal server. It was no walk in the park compared to Edubuntu/Skolelinux/K12LTSP and for every package i installed the system was one step closer to certain doom. I have also been seriously bitten by upgrades. For example on a HP umpc i got a while ago with SLED it broke down completely when i upgraded it. Such nightmares can be had with the Windows experience instead, no need emulating that behaviour on Linux desktops.
I suspect they are just looking at Ubuntu or any other distribution that fits better on a desktop.
"The browser IS the standard."
Stupidest thing i have ever read on Slashdot. Take it as a compliment, really.