You know, I had a crappy pair of speakers and I thought, why not pass along the experience? My plants love the music of Yoko Kanno, PuffyAmiYumi, Pillows, and all other wild and wacky music groups.
Now, sadly, all of my plants are dead and I am still stuck with these crappy speakers. But now all of your plants are dead too! Bwahahahahahaha!!!!
(This made more sense in the original Japanese... well, no actually it didn't...)
Us old timers remember that this was featured in an article WAAAY back in the print and ink mags (BYTE? Dr. Dobbs? Brain gets old after a while). They also hooked up a computer to an etch-a-sketch.
Way to go, kids, you re-invented the fucking wheel!!!
I bought the one of the first Bondi Blue iMacs for my wife for Christmas... she giggled and coo'ed over it as she was opening it. Ever since then life has been good.
Hawking Radiation as a college undergrad. What little I understood I thought was absolutely brilliant.
As to whether or not he "lost" a bet, hell, I'm sure he is not bothered one way or the other. My gut feel is that he never liked the idea of "information is permanently destroyed" anyway.
Woowee! First we start with Newton's equations and... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
As to what the hell that had to do with cats, feet, and landing... I'll have HALF of what the original poster took!
Okay, so is that 600 million ACTIVE users, installations, or currently running machines?
I don't know. You don't know. And even the evil empire, Microsoft, doesn't know. No one knows. There has never, ever, been a full accounting for any OS.
Some of those "Windows" machines may, in fact, be running Linux, DOS, or, heaven forbid, not at all!
Microsoft's PR division (sorry, CLIENT division) is spouting out fake news. Hell, I trust the information on "The Daily Show" more than I do from MS.
With the European judgement, Dell is looking at Microsoft as being problematic in the Europe. So what do they do?
Punt.
Face it. MS is looking bad in Europe. It doesn't really help the bottom line to ONLY be selling MS OS's. So by stuffing in Linspire, they sorta' be offering an alternative...
Or at least, that is what the Dell PR Dept. thinks...
I have been singularly unimpressed with Konfabulator. These are the reasons why:
1. It has no development tools. Great. If I wanted to fall back to 1980's and position every freaking element by X-Y coords, well... you get the picture.
2. No suggestions for development tools. Like "Hey, you FIRST need to buy MORE stuff to make cool stuff like this". Yeah, right. Like I need this kind of pain.
3. "Easy to write Javascript" - if you are a web designer. But anyone else better just pack up their bags and call it a night.
4. Sucks system resources. For something that is supposed to be out of the way and non-obtrusive, it is #2 or #3 (right below the window manager) in terms of processor usage. OW!
Apple can only do better much better. After all, they don't have much to compete with.
When you decide to "go apple" you just have to accept that fact that its Apple's way or the highway. Many apple users enjoy having their decisions made for them and they just put their faith into apple and hope for the best.
Actually, this is pretty much the case for 99% of the users of computers in this country. It is really only the minority that can hack a system.
BTW, FWIW, I've been hacking hardware BEFORE there was an X86 and have a Mac for the convenience factor. After a hard day hacking WORK projects the last thing I want to do is hack on my home system.
Uh, okay, but I'm not sure how that backs up your case. In fact, what they claim is an algorithm that will, in all essence, create a ping storm on a network.
Oh, I FORGOT to add their "moving target" codecs and licensing. For example, we had one customer who was using a codec in version 4.1 of CE. When 4.2 came out, SURPRISE, that codec "VANISHED". MS response was "too bad, so sad, we don't give a damn".
This is on top of their "pay as you go" type system where your license is purely based on what you put in the OS. Okay, that may change tomorrow. Depends on the freakin' whims of MS. Makes it terribly difficult cost out a project.
But, hey, it could all change by the time I hit submit...
Not 5.0, but 4.2, I can say that a lame kernel is still a lame kernel, source or no.
I've SEEN Microsoft's source code (not kernel code, but their "example" code) and it is hideous. The most well known (to CE developers) was the infamous "audio hang" where if you spec'ed in an audio driver and you DIDN'T have a Codec on the board, the entire system would hang. And it didn't get any better (even after pointing this out to MS).
People say the learning curve is steep. They are correct. But not for the reasons you might think. It is steep because MS uses the SAME text in multiple different passes to build the OS. When you chat with them about problems they tell you to use the console (I don't think they did the GUI but as an after-thought).
Worse, try to explain to your application developers that "yeah, it looks like Windows, smells like Windows, has an API, but it ain't Windows". Then they get frustrated when things don't work the same or they discover (surprise!) that the API is limited (hey, I only got 32 Megs of RAM here, dude!).
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It's freaking amazing that a LARGE company like Microsoft takes THIS long.
My guess is that they looked at it and realized that by the time they came up with something "better", everyone else would have adopted SPF.
You know, I had a crappy pair of speakers and I thought, why not pass along the experience? My plants love the music of Yoko Kanno, PuffyAmiYumi, Pillows, and all other wild and wacky music groups.
Now, sadly, all of my plants are dead and I am still stuck with these crappy speakers. But now all of your plants are dead too! Bwahahahahahaha!!!!
(This made more sense in the original Japanese... well, no actually it didn't...)
About meeting any of those Mars chicks, now, huh?
I had a bitch of a time spelling Rondyvous/Randyvous/Rendavous... where's that freakin' spell checker!?!?
Just when I thought I had that herpes problem licked...
Dude, that would be dating outside your species! Ick!
Nah, my wife doesn't let me date.
No. The point of education is NOT to re-invent, but to build upon what came before.
Reinventing is merely another form of rote. That isn't learning, that is merely the act of repetition.
Just tell me when those cute space chicks show up...
We don' NEED no stinkin' comments! Heh, heh, heh...
Us old timers remember that this was featured in an article WAAAY back in the print and ink mags (BYTE? Dr. Dobbs? Brain gets old after a while). They also hooked up a computer to an etch-a-sketch.
Way to go, kids, you re-invented the fucking wheel!!!
They keep me warm.
I bought the one of the first Bondi Blue iMacs for my wife for Christmas... she giggled and coo'ed over it as she was opening it. Ever since then life has been good.
:)
Oh, and I got a pair of socks.
A happy wife is a happy life.
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Hawking Radiation as a college undergrad. What little I understood I thought was absolutely brilliant.
As to whether or not he "lost" a bet, hell, I'm sure he is not bothered one way or the other. My gut feel is that he never liked the idea of "information is permanently destroyed" anyway.
Woowee! First we start with Newton's equations and... ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ As to what the hell that had to do with cats, feet, and landing... I'll have HALF of what the original poster took!
And I've been suffering with my "TV quality" big screen TV when instead I could be using a "Near TV quality" laptop with a 15" screen.
Wow!
I'm totally underwhelmed at the advancement in technology.
Okay, so is that 600 million ACTIVE users, installations, or currently running machines?
I don't know. You don't know. And even the evil empire, Microsoft, doesn't know. No one knows. There has never, ever, been a full accounting for any OS.
Some of those "Windows" machines may, in fact, be running Linux, DOS, or, heaven forbid, not at all!
Microsoft's PR division (sorry, CLIENT division) is spouting out fake news. Hell, I trust the information on "The Daily Show" more than I do from MS.
With the European judgement, Dell is looking at Microsoft as being problematic in the Europe. So what do they do?
Punt.
Face it. MS is looking bad in Europe. It doesn't really help the bottom line to ONLY be selling MS OS's. So by stuffing in Linspire, they sorta' be offering an alternative...
Or at least, that is what the Dell PR Dept. thinks...
Personally, I think it all sounds like bullshit.
It is for us DEVELOPERS. So we can DEVELOP. Sorta' like the development systems I work on here - blue wires, etc. yet it allows me to DEVELOP.
Oh, BTW, did I mention it was a DEVELOPERS release?
Or are you just happy to see me?
Read "Synthetic Stupidity" for a split second. Which, in hindsight, actually seems like a good title for a book...
I have been singularly unimpressed with Konfabulator. These are the reasons why:
1. It has no development tools. Great. If I wanted to fall back to 1980's and position every freaking element by X-Y coords, well... you get the picture.
2. No suggestions for development tools. Like "Hey, you FIRST need to buy MORE stuff to make cool stuff like this". Yeah, right. Like I need this kind of pain.
3. "Easy to write Javascript" - if you are a web designer. But anyone else better just pack up their bags and call it a night.
4. Sucks system resources. For something that is supposed to be out of the way and non-obtrusive, it is #2 or #3 (right below the window manager) in terms of processor usage. OW!
Apple can only do better much better. After all, they don't have much to compete with.
When you decide to "go apple" you just have to accept that fact that its Apple's way or the highway. Many apple users enjoy having their decisions made for them and they just put their faith into apple and hope for the best.
Actually, this is pretty much the case for 99% of the users of computers in this country. It is really only the minority that can hack a system.
BTW, FWIW, I've been hacking hardware BEFORE there was an X86 and have a Mac for the convenience factor. After a hard day hacking WORK projects the last thing I want to do is hack on my home system.
Uh, okay, but I'm not sure how that backs up your case. In fact, what they claim is an algorithm that will, in all essence, create a ping storm on a network.
I remain under-whelmed.
Oh, I FORGOT to add their "moving target" codecs and licensing. For example, we had one customer who was using a codec in version 4.1 of CE. When 4.2 came out, SURPRISE, that codec "VANISHED". MS response was "too bad, so sad, we don't give a damn".
This is on top of their "pay as you go" type system where your license is purely based on what you put in the OS. Okay, that may change tomorrow. Depends on the freakin' whims of MS. Makes it terribly difficult cost out a project.
But, hey, it could all change by the time I hit submit...
Not 5.0, but 4.2, I can say that a lame kernel is still a lame kernel, source or no.
I've SEEN Microsoft's source code (not kernel code, but their "example" code) and it is hideous. The most well known (to CE developers) was the infamous "audio hang" where if you spec'ed in an audio driver and you DIDN'T have a Codec on the board, the entire system would hang. And it didn't get any better (even after pointing this out to MS).
People say the learning curve is steep. They are correct. But not for the reasons you might think. It is steep because MS uses the SAME text in multiple different passes to build the OS. When you chat with them about problems they tell you to use the console (I don't think they did the GUI but as an after-thought).
Worse, try to explain to your application developers that "yeah, it looks like Windows, smells like Windows, has an API, but it ain't Windows". Then they get frustrated when things don't work the same or they discover (surprise!) that the API is limited (hey, I only got 32 Megs of RAM here, dude!).
What a hunk of junk.