Since it was only one of many possible solutions, both parties agreed to it, and it is public record, it would be hard to say that the FSF are now organized criminals. This company could have as easily donated directly to the projects that go into their products bypassing the FSF entirely.
Then it has to be vim vs. genuine UNIX vi. The free vi clones are all too complex and go against the grain of UNIX philosophy. I don't want my vi clone to render HTML. I also don't want my vi clone to do all sorts of fancy tabbing and highlighting. If I wanted all that crap, I'd use emacs.
Classical is mostly what I call things that are both good and not popular (the exact opposite of modern "pop" music, by definition). It is extremely broad in scope covering everything from Vivaldi (over 400 years ago) to, well, Final Fantasy (last year). Also, not only does "Classical" span at least four centuries, it spans every populated continent on Earth but with a concentration on Europe, including Russia. One reason there is no "bad" Classical music is, simply, that everyone has stopped listening to what wasn't good (i.e., history has filtered out all the "one hit wonder" composers leaving us with Bach, for example).
Am I the only one that can't stomach music that's been so commercially manufactured like this.
It depends. Game and movie "mood music" is always terrible (like with porno music, you have to wonder why they even bother). However, especially with the more recent game consoles, some of the music in modern games is absolutely amazing and can compare favorably to well-regarded classical music. I remember one song from FF8 that not only set the mood perfectly but it was hauntingly good and reflects highly on the person who composed it.
And they also funded SCO after it was clear what such funding would go towards.
I think this SCO-business is way overstated. Sun employes lawyers as well as MBAs and engineers, and they know what they need to do to keep doing business. If their lawyers say they need to pay SCO $8 Million, because of subtlties of the last 30 years of UNIX history, then they simply have to do it. Look at the Java Community Process, for example, then look at SCO and try to see the contrast between these companies. Sun is no SCO!
It's also worth mentioning that NFS is one of the biggest potential security holes in the UN*X world
The NFS documentation comes right out and says this. It also mentions something caled "Secure NFS" that uses encryption and authentication, but that's all I know about it.
Failing to pursue excellence with Java makes the entire of Sun seem mediocre.
WTF about Java isn't excellent? Taking a look around at all the development platforms available to us, and it really seems that Java is best-of-breed!
For application development, I don't know of a better environment. The portability of Java is real (little or no #ifdef speghetti). The documentation is real. What other environment gives as many centrally-accessible and reasonably consitent libraries ranging from GUIs, to Zip files, to RDBMS, to MIDI? Certainly not C, unless you consider everyone disagreeing where their malloc() and free() calls should go consistent! C++? What two compilers actually work the same? C#? Microsoft isn't our friend, and never will be.
I've long given up on the five-pound gimmick books that cram the shelves at the book stores. They, 98% of the time, are a serious waste of money. For C++, for example, who needs anything more than Stroustrup's book plus their OS and compiler documentation? How can you get more documented than that?
Even for C, the best source is the K&R book plus the UNIX man pages. For Java, it is Sun's books plus the on-line JavaDoc.
How about we put some tech writers out of business by keeping our $50?
How does Yahoo! improve its service by switching away from Google?
It increases competition in a market where competition has been waning. Competition is the life-blood of the free world. Would you really want Google to become the one and only search engine to then be left for stagnation and/or abuse by government or corporate interests?
The G5 is a PowerPC. PowerPC is RISC (or was, due to the blurring over the years). Apple is putting G5s into their servers, too.
As far as numbers go, the market reports I see via Google put Sun's annual server sales at 200,000 to 300,000 servers. Multiply by some SMP co-efficient, and it isn't hard to get over 1,000,000. These numbers also do not include workstations, motherboards sold to OEMs, embedded units, and replacement parts. If Itanic is just getting over 100,000, then Intel has some problems, espcially considering just how long that CPU has been around (I first heard about it in college in 1997 or so, I think).
This is just a guess but I wouldn't be suprised in "Longhorn" will be native 64 bit.
This how it typically works in UNIX-land: 64-bit kernel with 32-bit and 64-bit applications. Solaris has been like this for three generations, IIRC. For general day-to-day use, it is typically 99.9% 32-bit applications and the occasional life-saving 64-bit app for that immense data file or whatever that comes up.
Itanium sold over 100,000 cpus last year which is a big number for the enterprise server market (That's more than some other major RISC processors sold in 2003 (like Power 4)).
The other major RISC CPUs sell by the millions. Your whole post is one big pointless troll.
Actually, our companies are run by crab people disguised as weasels disguised as executives. They do it because they have to, so please show some sympathy.
what's so wrong with selecting for intelligence, as opposed to "big butts"?
I have learned that a lack of intelligence can be a virtue, as well. Before we breed an entire generation of scientists and philosophers, we should let the next "Einstein" (selected by chance) to develop food replicators, for example, so people don't commit suicide after a life of picking apples. Think of "Marvin the Robot" (brain the size of a plant and...).
it's cheating if I engineer my children so they have them?
Why is there a need to impose this sort of idealism upon the children? Do they really and truly need to be Olympians to be happy? Or is it about the parent, whose lack of esteem ends up ruining the chilrens' lives?
Having the parents choose their childrens' attributes arbitrarily smacks of eugenics.
Gene therapy really needs to be limited to therapy. Who out there would argue with getting rid of Altzheimers, for example? The 100-m dash is pretty damn trivial, by comparison.
One good thing that might come out of these extremist diets is a readjustment of the market for white flour and rice. I would like to see bags of brown rice that aren't 10% the size of the bags of white rice for the same price.
There have been many reported cases of people becoming infected with antibiotic resistant bacteria after they have eaten meat raised with antibiotics, (in particular, VRE).
Since the invention of fire millions of years ago and the discovery of bacteria a couple hundred years ago, food poisoning really shouldn't be a challenge.
Also before blaming obesity on meat, you should have a word with soda pop, potato chips, and white bread.
The antibiotic issue is a serious one, I agree, but it certainly can't be as dire as the over-prescribing of human antibiotics to humans.
I'm talking PCs, not Amigas. Niche markets for used Amigas, Suns, SGIs, Apples, etc. create their own price structures. Sun equipment, for example, varies widely in price, depending on how confident the vendor is about customer gullibility. Some vendors try to follow Sun's pricing structure, while others recognize that this stuff is ten years old, anyway, so charge a fair price.
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Since it was only one of many possible solutions, both parties agreed to it, and it is public record, it would be hard to say that the FSF are now organized criminals. This company could have as easily donated directly to the projects that go into their products bypassing the FSF entirely.
Then it has to be vim vs. genuine UNIX vi. The free vi clones are all too complex and go against the grain of UNIX philosophy. I don't want my vi clone to render HTML. I also don't want my vi clone to do all sorts of fancy tabbing and highlighting. If I wanted all that crap, I'd use emacs.
Classical is mostly what I call things that are both good and not popular (the exact opposite of modern "pop" music, by definition). It is extremely broad in scope covering everything from Vivaldi (over 400 years ago) to, well, Final Fantasy (last year). Also, not only does "Classical" span at least four centuries, it spans every populated continent on Earth but with a concentration on Europe, including Russia. One reason there is no "bad" Classical music is, simply, that everyone has stopped listening to what wasn't good (i.e., history has filtered out all the "one hit wonder" composers leaving us with Bach, for example).
Am I the only one that can't stomach music that's been so commercially manufactured like this.
It depends. Game and movie "mood music" is always terrible (like with porno music, you have to wonder why they even bother). However, especially with the more recent game consoles, some of the music in modern games is absolutely amazing and can compare favorably to well-regarded classical music. I remember one song from FF8 that not only set the mood perfectly but it was hauntingly good and reflects highly on the person who composed it.
... ESR and RMS can come off as a bit nutty
Actually, ESR is nutty and RMS is chewy. Hence, "Nuts and Gum, Together at Last!"
And they also funded SCO after it was clear what such funding would go towards.
I think this SCO-business is way overstated. Sun employes lawyers as well as MBAs and engineers, and they know what they need to do to keep doing business. If their lawyers say they need to pay SCO $8 Million, because of subtlties of the last 30 years of UNIX history, then they simply have to do it. Look at the Java Community Process, for example, then look at SCO and try to see the contrast between these companies. Sun is no SCO!
It's also worth mentioning that NFS is one of the biggest potential security holes in the UN*X world
The NFS documentation comes right out and says this. It also mentions something caled "Secure NFS" that uses encryption and authentication, but that's all I know about it.
The high performance and ease of use of Sun's C Compiler did more to promote GCC than anything those GNU folks ever did.
???
My informal testing puts Sun's cc at making executables that are a solid 10% to 15% faster than GCC.
Sun ships very decent documentation with their compiler.
dbx is awesome.
Failing to pursue excellence with Java makes the entire of Sun seem mediocre.
WTF about Java isn't excellent? Taking a look around at all the development platforms available to us, and it really seems that Java is best-of-breed!
For application development, I don't know of a better environment. The portability of Java is real (little or no #ifdef speghetti). The documentation is real. What other environment gives as many centrally-accessible and reasonably consitent libraries ranging from GUIs, to Zip files, to RDBMS, to MIDI? Certainly not C, unless you consider everyone disagreeing where their malloc() and free() calls should go consistent! C++? What two compilers actually work the same? C#? Microsoft isn't our friend, and never will be.
Fallacy: You are assuming that ESR actually wrote valid arguments and criticism.
I've long given up on the five-pound gimmick books that cram the shelves at the book stores. They, 98% of the time, are a serious waste of money. For C++, for example, who needs anything more than Stroustrup's book plus their OS and compiler documentation? How can you get more documented than that?
Even for C, the best source is the K&R book plus the UNIX man pages. For Java, it is Sun's books plus the on-line JavaDoc.
How about we put some tech writers out of business by keeping our $50?
How does Yahoo! improve its service by switching away from Google?
It increases competition in a market where competition has been waning. Competition is the life-blood of the free world. Would you really want Google to become the one and only search engine to then be left for stagnation and/or abuse by government or corporate interests?
See above for the cartoon from 1994.
Or, when someone asks "But does it run Linux?" regarding their new-found belly button lint, we can shout back an enthousiastic "Yes!"
Care to back up your assertion?
The G5 is a PowerPC. PowerPC is RISC (or was, due to the blurring over the years). Apple is putting G5s into their servers, too.
As far as numbers go, the market reports I see via Google put Sun's annual server sales at 200,000 to 300,000 servers. Multiply by some SMP co-efficient, and it isn't hard to get over 1,000,000. These numbers also do not include workstations, motherboards sold to OEMs, embedded units, and replacement parts. If Itanic is just getting over 100,000, then Intel has some problems, espcially considering just how long that CPU has been around (I first heard about it in college in 1997 or so, I think).
This is just a guess but I wouldn't be suprised in "Longhorn" will be native 64 bit.
This how it typically works in UNIX-land: 64-bit kernel with 32-bit and 64-bit applications. Solaris has been like this for three generations, IIRC. For general day-to-day use, it is typically 99.9% 32-bit applications and the occasional life-saving 64-bit app for that immense data file or whatever that comes up.
Itanium sold over 100,000 cpus last year which is a big number for the enterprise server market (That's more than some other major RISC processors sold in 2003 (like Power 4)).
The other major RISC CPUs sell by the millions. Your whole post is one big pointless troll.
Actually, our companies are run by crab people disguised as weasels disguised as executives. They do it because they have to, so please show some sympathy.
"Lintel"
This sounds like some sort of geek clone of a day-time talk show. Then that show sues. You just can't win!
How about "Lintiac, the sporty operating system with a bad water pump"?
(brain the size of a plant and...)
I meant "planet". "Plant"...yes, my brain is the size of a cabbage, er, actually a brussel sprout.
what's so wrong with selecting for intelligence, as opposed to "big butts"?
I have learned that a lack of intelligence can be a virtue, as well. Before we breed an entire generation of scientists and philosophers, we should let the next "Einstein" (selected by chance) to develop food replicators, for example, so people don't commit suicide after a life of picking apples. Think of "Marvin the Robot" (brain the size of a plant and...).
it's cheating if I engineer my children so they have them?
Why is there a need to impose this sort of idealism upon the children? Do they really and truly need to be Olympians to be happy? Or is it about the parent, whose lack of esteem ends up ruining the chilrens' lives?
Having the parents choose their childrens' attributes arbitrarily smacks of eugenics.
Gene therapy really needs to be limited to therapy. Who out there would argue with getting rid of Altzheimers, for example? The 100-m dash is pretty damn trivial, by comparison.
One good thing that might come out of these extremist diets is a readjustment of the market for white flour and rice. I would like to see bags of brown rice that aren't 10% the size of the bags of white rice for the same price.
There have been many reported cases of people becoming infected with antibiotic resistant bacteria after they have eaten meat raised with antibiotics, (in particular, VRE).
Since the invention of fire millions of years ago and the discovery of bacteria a couple hundred years ago, food poisoning really shouldn't be a challenge.
Also before blaming obesity on meat, you should have a word with soda pop, potato chips, and white bread.
The antibiotic issue is a serious one, I agree, but it certainly can't be as dire as the over-prescribing of human antibiotics to humans.
I'm talking PCs, not Amigas. Niche markets for used Amigas, Suns, SGIs, Apples, etc. create their own price structures. Sun equipment, for example, varies widely in price, depending on how confident the vendor is about customer gullibility. Some vendors try to follow Sun's pricing structure, while others recognize that this stuff is ten years old, anyway, so charge a fair price.