I currently maintain email servers, and I agree 100%. However, thanks to HIPAA, Sarbanes Oxley, and various other regulations, having unencrypted email transmitted or stored outside your intranet is a huge legal liability in many cases. I've heard that google may be releasing a rackmounted gmail appliance (like their search appliance) that is integrated with their beta calander.
Java kills RoR in speed, ram, and scalability. RoR might be faster/easier with development and maintenance, but that's an advantage of Rails, not Ruby. There are Java, PHP, Perl, etc. Rails-like frameworks available.
If you're doing strightforward CRUD database stuff, RoR automagically sets up everything for you. If that's good enough, then you've saved some time. Even if you need to tinker with it, it's often less work than other languages.
Macintosh was in the same situation, perhaps even worse, back in the 90s. System 7 had a lot of itnernal problems, scalability, no protected memory, cooperative multitasking, etc. Apple spent a lot of time and money with alternative kernels -- Copland/Gershwin/Taligent, etc, before they went with NeXT (and emulated/classic support for legacy apps).
While MS is spending money and delayed, I doubt they are in as bad a shape as Apple was. XP, even 2K are stable operating systems. What will Vista offer? More Eye Candy?
Michael Jackson/Sony own the publishing rights to the Beatles songs. That's an income stream for sheet music, reprinted lyircs, royalties, etc. However, the royalties are split with the composer (McCartney/Lennon/Yoko etc).
In the early 60s, the Beatles traded publishing rights to Northern Songs in exchange for a minority ownership of the company. In 1969, Northern Songs was bought by ATV. In 1985, ATV sold the publishing rights to the Beatle's music to Michael Jackson, who later sold half of it to Sony (to support his pedophilia addiction).
The OpenStep specification was a collaboration between NeXT and Sun. OpenStep ran on Solaris (over XWindows), HP/UX (over XWindows), NeXT hardware (as a complete OS), x86 hardware (as a complete OS), and Windows NT (over the windows GDI).
Solaris eventually decided to go with Java. If you look at the early Java Framework, you can see the OpenStep influence.
Duke Nukem was the last FPS I really enjoyed, but I was hoping SC Ghost could pull it off. To be honest, I expected it to mediocre, like Matrix 2, or Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.
Of course, I love starcraft. So the good news is we can imagine how awesome this game would be without the disappointment of it not living up to our expectations.
Cocoa is based on Objective C. Apple's custom version of gcc/Objective C to be precise. The kernel (Darwin) and other C/C++ parts could potentially be recompiled in icc, but the kernel speed issues are due to mach's design, not poor compiler optimization.
This is interesting, but I strongly suspect that Mach won for OSX primarily due to time-to-market and legacy considerations. If they were to "do it from scratch", would anyone use Mach?
Considering that 1) GNU HURD is based on Mach and 2) GNU HURD was started in 1990, both your points are wrong:)
no, this is Michael Roberts. As in Lindows/Linspire. The guy that claimed linux + wine could run 100% of your windows applications, without any problems.
google's usenet archive has more information on the matrix/macintosh problems.
The Matrix DVD played fine in OS 9.
In system 8.x, you needed to hold command-option-I when the dvd was inserted, so that it would be mounted in ISO-9600 format.
I used and supported Macintoshes through the 90s. If MS was sending "fuck you" messages, then so was Netscape, Adobe, Claris, and even Apple. "Option-command-escape" was just as common as "alt-control-delete". Word 5.1 (for Macintosh) was one of the nicest word processors I've ever used. We're talking about an OS with no memory protection, crappy virtual memory support, and cooperative multitasking. Wait, their's [sic] always an explanation as to how it must be Microsoft's fault somehow.
It seems very much inconsistent with the original goal of GNU: Freedom. RMS is on record as stating that he doesn't care if GNU software is used by terrorists, pedophiles, or even (shudder) Microsoft. It's not a popular position, but it is consistent. Why? Not because he supports them, but because GNU is about Freedom; not about discrimination or censorship. Now it seems like the GPL has accepted discrimination and censorship in the name of Freedom.
mbox has inherent problems, race conditions, locks, file corruption, etc. For networked use, maildir is better. For local use, a db-backed solution is better.
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as sad as it is, there are a lot of applications that are designed for IE/Active X.
Nice review. You probably submitted your story to the wrong address. This is the correct address to submit a slashdot story.
I currently maintain email servers, and I agree 100%. However, thanks to HIPAA, Sarbanes Oxley, and various other regulations, having unencrypted email transmitted or stored outside your intranet is a huge legal liability in many cases. I've heard that google may be releasing a rackmounted gmail appliance (like their search appliance) that is integrated with their beta calander.
Java kills RoR in speed, ram, and scalability. RoR might be faster/easier with development and maintenance, but that's an advantage of Rails, not Ruby. There are Java, PHP, Perl, etc. Rails-like frameworks available.
If you're doing strightforward CRUD database stuff, RoR automagically sets up everything for you. If that's good enough, then you've saved some time. Even if you need to tinker with it, it's often less work than other languages.
While MS is spending money and delayed, I doubt they are in as bad a shape as Apple was. XP, even 2K are stable operating systems. What will Vista offer? More Eye Candy?
In the early 60s, the Beatles traded publishing rights to Northern Songs in exchange for a minority ownership of the company. In 1969, Northern Songs was bought by ATV. In 1985, ATV sold the publishing rights to the Beatle's music to Michael Jackson, who later sold half of it to Sony (to support his pedophilia addiction).
Since digg reported this "story" 2 days ago, maybe they're pandering to digg readers with amnesia.
No, the middle digit for an area code is always 0 or 1.
Tim Berners Lee/CERN developed the first Web server (obviously :). NCSA was a pioneer, but CERN, Plexus, etc, were earlier.
I do remember, back in the mid 90s, when leading numbers in a domain name confused Mosaic/Netscape's domain resolution.
Solaris eventually decided to go with Java. If you look at the early Java Framework, you can see the OpenStep influence.
I agree about SC vs WCIII.
Of course, I love starcraft. So the good news is we can imagine how awesome this game would be without the disappointment of it not living up to our expectations.
Cocoa is based on Objective C. Apple's custom version of gcc/Objective C to be precise. The kernel (Darwin) and other C/C++ parts could potentially be recompiled in icc, but the kernel speed issues are due to mach's design, not poor compiler optimization.
Considering that 1) GNU HURD is based on Mach and 2) GNU HURD was started in 1990, both your points are wrong :)
But they're an SMTP client, not an SMTP server.
no, this is Michael Roberts. As in Lindows/Linspire. The guy that claimed linux + wine could run 100% of your windows applications, without any problems.
Yes. But put it on vibrate mode first.
The Matrix DVD played fine in OS 9.
In system 8.x, you needed to hold command-option-I when the dvd was inserted, so that it would be mounted in ISO-9600 format.
I used and supported Macintoshes through the 90s. If MS was sending "fuck you" messages, then so was Netscape, Adobe, Claris, and even Apple. "Option-command-escape" was just as common as "alt-control-delete". Word 5.1 (for Macintosh) was one of the nicest word processors I've ever used. We're talking about an OS with no memory protection, crappy virtual memory support, and cooperative multitasking. Wait, their's [sic] always an explanation as to how it must be Microsoft's fault somehow.
Nice try, but that was due to bugs in MacOS 8.x, not a WB/Microsoft conspiracy.
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Not exactly a linux engineer.She didn't like my essay either. It was about how he used to dip his bald head in oil and rub it all over my body.
It seems very much inconsistent with the original goal of GNU: Freedom. RMS is on record as stating that he doesn't care if GNU software is used by terrorists, pedophiles, or even (shudder) Microsoft. It's not a popular position, but it is consistent. Why? Not because he supports them, but because GNU is about Freedom; not about discrimination or censorship. Now it seems like the GPL has accepted discrimination and censorship in the name of Freedom.
mbox has inherent problems, race conditions, locks, file corruption, etc. For networked use, maildir is better. For local use, a db-backed solution is better.