They ARE, however, in the business of trying to conserve resources(to an extent, atleast)... So using a web cache server may benefit p2p apps, it will benefit all web use... Downloading a trendy 1meg flash game or the latest linux distro or the.... etc, etc, etc.
There are feature complete enough. I have winxp here(wish i didn't, quite honestly) but I have found that win2k is stable, secured(through SPs and patches) enough that i really don't see a reason to upgrade. I use macos 10.3 as my main OS now, but have vpc and a pc at home... 2000 has enough features and the right gui to work well and not be much of a hassle, i only wish they would just keep ironing out bugs(and allow me to uninstall certain bundled software).
It seems like a large RAID 0 cache server would be really useful for colleges, do they use them often?
If studentA download file X of 700 megs, and tells 5 of his friends who download that same file, that would save a lot of bandwidth if they could just pull that file of the cache server automatically.
I am sure your customers will be happy when they find out you change your policies on an uniformed whim.
CA didn't buy the licenses, the story is a dup. They got the licenses from SCO in a settlement(i believe) , the licenses were tacked on without CA knowing to the original settlement SCO was forced to give them. CA didn't recieve these on purpose, SCO bundled them in without asking, and then made it look like CA was SCO big new customer.
Yes, but Apple is not a convicted monopolist. Apple allows you to uninstall ALL of your software that comes bundled, and in the case of browsers, does ship with internet explorer.
MS is a monopoly, and they are subject to different rules, they have to do more to ensure that their competitors are not hindered by Microsoft's market presence. Microsoft also build it's applications into the OS(for no reason) in such a way that you cannot remove them(at best, hide them, but they are still there).
to be accurate(i am also a new mac os x convert, powerbook 12"), Mac OS X doesn't have 'root'. it disables the root user by default. For doing any 'root' level commands in the command line, you just use sudo, which ofcourse you know, gives you root privledges, without being the root user. OS X users are just admins with sudo rights, there is no root, and that is a Good Thing, in my opinion.
Actually, isn't SELinux moving towards a no-root-user system as well?
Good idea, however, don't use virtualpc. vpc emulates the hardware, while something like vmware, relies on the existing hardware. This is why you can't run windows on vmware in mac, but you can run windos in vmware for linux(on an x86 box) vmware-style is less work, and will be faster...
I think it is corrupt and sad that many hundreds of thousands of patents that have no business being granted(one-click shopping is in NO way an original unique idea, it is a friggin cookie!) to corporations and businesses of all sizes. What is worse, that these shady patents can only be overturned, not on their merit, but by some suggestion from a megacorp.
yes, because any step towards more support of linux is only acceptable if it is a giant leap, rather than small, calculated steps in testing the waters before taking more, bolder steps.
Their first step is getting it to work correctly in WINE, if people like that, they will do a native port. if people like THAT, they will likely port more software, and obviously their flash plugins will be along for the ride. Don't be so quick to judge, one of linux's downfalls is that it lacks commercial software, this is the beginnings of Macromedia possibly fully supporting linux, so shutup and be grateful.
why not be happy with ever step, and realize that where there is one, there will be more. be happy that a MAJOR software company is looking to port one of it's big apps to linux. If this goes well, they will port more.
Gosh, everyone on hear is looking the gift horse in the mouth.
and yet they keep selling more and more of them. No, Dell's outlook looks fine. Heck, few people 'like' Microsoft, but Windows is still widely bought(for various reasons).
it wasn't the paper that caused the problem, it was the 'security' strip that caused a fire, that burned the paper. Any other dollar(1,5,10,old 20/50/100) will survive a microwave just fine, given that they don't have that metalic strip in them.:)
o please. that is like saying the super nintedo was released to compete with the regular nintendo. it wasn't, it was released to REPLACE IT. Just like the gb color(pocket?) replaced the gb pocket, the advanced replaced the color, the advanced SP replaced the advanced. Each being a better handheld system than the one before it.
NOW, for the first time, Nintendo is releasing a system that is unlike any handheld we have see, and they do this in such a way that, if all hell falls on them, they can 'revert' to the amazingly great gameboy advanced sp.
And no, the sony handheld won't kick anyone's ass. A $200-250 consol versus a sub $100 with a library of games 100 times the size of sony's new system? Please.
Xovert or similar was a somewhat recent fork of Xfree, to try and change how it was deveolped, if i recall. Sounded interesting.
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And then there is always the fact(yes, it is a fact) the mac users tend to keep their computers longer(longer replacement cycle) than do most PC users, so the cost is evened out much more....
could be a very successful and simple freeware app to release. some nice gui for using tar, bzip2, and even rsync with the option of uploading to a ftp server somewhere.
Sorry, poor wording. I meant to point out that Intel is at like 3.4ghz or something while the powerpc chips are at 2 ghz, going to 3 at the end of the year. I was trying to say that there would be no need to ditch intel since they have such a lead on clockrate, even if the x86 architecture is (clearly) less efficient in comparison to a same speed ppc chip.
indeed it is. BECAUSE running software through VPC, or any emulation, is significantly slower. So much so, that it is impossible to play a decent game in emulation, this will make emulation in software xbox1 games impossible, it would require atleast some hardware. I have heard that it takes as much as 10x the processor speed to emulate another architecture at full speed, I don't know if that is a good rule of thumb now, but it shows that emulation, esspecially, across architectures, is a GIGANTIC performance hit.
The xbox2 will not be able to play original xbox games without additional hardware.
Anyway, yes, for big consoles, backwards compatability is good, but only in comparison to your copetitors. This is something I am sure others are gonna reply to your post about and try to point you out as wrong, let me explain.
Nintendo(original) through the 64 were all successful, but not compatable. That was ok, because they were SO much better(in some ways atleast) than the competitors that they could afford to use new formats for cartridges. When the ps2/xbox/gc came, it was the... ps2 that won, why? Well, in reality the graphics on all 3 are damn good, xbox(apparently) being the best. BUT, to the average consumer, the 3 were all close enough the backward compatability was often a deciding factor, esspecially early on because of the huge library of games the playstation had.
on the coming generation of consoles, if all 3 are close enough together spec-wise that the average consumer doesn't really care either way, it will come down to launch titles/library of games. If the gc2 and the ps3 have backwards compatability AND some good launch games, while the xbox2 doesn't have backwards compatibility, it could be the deciding vote early on.
Once the 'first wave' has passed, and all 3 have a decent ammount of games, the tide may shift, but the early on vote may very likely be the backward compatibility.
There was talk from IBM that they would sell cheap Linux boxes running on their new processors that were coming out of the brand new manu. plant they built. They were gonna sell them at cost, or nearly at it, and just wanted to 'flood' the market with a lot of their processors, get people using them, liking them, and get their manufacturing line nice and greased up by producing a lot of hardware while also selling it.
Don't know if they did or not, but it was a GREAT idea a few months ago when i heard it.
That is why Apple went to Darwin. Unix security, reliability and compatibility... it is EASY to port a console app from linux to darwin, AND apple has released a custom X11 app, so you can run X apps that look NATIVE to macos X. good times.
Besides, the only thing not absolutely commonplace are the processor and the motherboards, the rest are standard parts... the processor isn't a problem, modders don't have to worry about it, and the mobo? Not a big issue, nothing they can't handle.
Lastly, Microsoft is ditching the harddrive not because of modders, but because of price. It saves them X ammount of money on a device EVERYONE liked. Normally, they would have just paid the $X and been happy, but they dropped the harddrive, saved $X and will be able to make profit more easily(overall cost is less) and/or be able to pay for slightly more expensive components like video card.
But remember, the Playstation will run on PPC chips to, and Nintendos have always ran on PPC chips, so either Motorola or IBM(is there a 3rd even?) will be selling to all 3 major consoles. HUGE developments in the PowerPC world coming. and by the end of this year... IBM has already shown plans for a 3 ghz processor.:)
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They ARE, however, in the business of trying to conserve resources(to an extent, atleast)... So using a web cache server may benefit p2p apps, it will benefit all web use... Downloading a trendy 1meg flash game or the latest linux distro or the.... etc, etc, etc.
There are feature complete enough. I have winxp here(wish i didn't, quite honestly) but I have found that win2k is stable, secured(through SPs and patches) enough that i really don't see a reason to upgrade. I use macos 10.3 as my main OS now, but have vpc and a pc at home... 2000 has enough features and the right gui to work well and not be much of a hassle, i only wish they would just keep ironing out bugs(and allow me to uninstall certain bundled software).
It seems like a large RAID 0 cache server would be really useful for colleges, do they use them often?
If studentA download file X of 700 megs, and tells 5 of his friends who download that same file, that would save a lot of bandwidth if they could just pull that file of the cache server automatically.
I am sure your customers will be happy when they find out you change your policies on an uniformed whim.
CA didn't buy the licenses, the story is a dup. They got the licenses from SCO in a settlement(i believe) , the licenses were tacked on without CA knowing to the original settlement SCO was forced to give them. CA didn't recieve these on purpose, SCO bundled them in without asking, and then made it look like CA was SCO big new customer.
Yes, but Apple is not a convicted monopolist. Apple allows you to uninstall ALL of your software that comes bundled, and in the case of browsers, does ship with internet explorer.
MS is a monopoly, and they are subject to different rules, they have to do more to ensure that their competitors are not hindered by Microsoft's market presence. Microsoft also build it's applications into the OS(for no reason) in such a way that you cannot remove them(at best, hide them, but they are still there).
on your comment of root:
to be accurate(i am also a new mac os x convert, powerbook 12"), Mac OS X doesn't have 'root'. it disables the root user by default. For doing any 'root' level commands in the command line, you just use sudo, which ofcourse you know, gives you root privledges, without being the root user. OS X users are just admins with sudo rights, there is no root, and that is a Good Thing, in my opinion.
Actually, isn't SELinux moving towards a no-root-user system as well?
So you think patents that use cookies to store your bank information for use in buying things online an unique idea?
Patents are crap, because the prior art can be obvious too many(except the patent clerk), but nothing is done about it.
Good idea, however, don't use virtualpc. vpc emulates the hardware, while something like vmware, relies on the existing hardware. This is why you can't run windows on vmware in mac, but you can run windos in vmware for linux(on an x86 box) vmware-style is less work, and will be faster...
O how i wish they would do this.
I think it is corrupt and sad that many hundreds of thousands of patents that have no business being granted(one-click shopping is in NO way an original unique idea, it is a friggin cookie!) to corporations and businesses of all sizes. What is worse, that these shady patents can only be overturned, not on their merit, but by some suggestion from a megacorp.
yes, because any step towards more support of linux is only acceptable if it is a giant leap, rather than small, calculated steps in testing the waters before taking more, bolder steps.
Their first step is getting it to work correctly in WINE, if people like that, they will do a native port. if people like THAT, they will likely port more software, and obviously their flash plugins will be along for the ride. Don't be so quick to judge, one of linux's downfalls is that it lacks commercial software, this is the beginnings of Macromedia possibly fully supporting linux, so shutup and be grateful.
why not be happy with ever step, and realize that where there is one, there will be more. be happy that a MAJOR software company is looking to port one of it's big apps to linux. If this goes well, they will port more.
Gosh, everyone on hear is looking the gift horse in the mouth.
and yet they keep selling more and more of them. No, Dell's outlook looks fine. Heck, few people 'like' Microsoft, but Windows is still widely bought(for various reasons).
it wasn't the paper that caused the problem, it was the 'security' strip that caused a fire, that burned the paper. Any other dollar(1,5,10,old 20/50/100) will survive a microwave just fine, given that they don't have that metalic strip in them. :)
so they are gonna sell a system that is built specifically for 2 people, and is partially useless without a second person? No, that is stupid.
The next gameboy will be for 1 person, but use 2 displays for increased room to display infromation.
o please. that is like saying the super nintedo was released to compete with the regular nintendo. it wasn't, it was released to REPLACE IT. Just like the gb color(pocket?) replaced the gb pocket, the advanced replaced the color, the advanced SP replaced the advanced. Each being a better handheld system than the one before it.
NOW, for the first time, Nintendo is releasing a system that is unlike any handheld we have see, and they do this in such a way that, if all hell falls on them, they can 'revert' to the amazingly great gameboy advanced sp.
And no, the sony handheld won't kick anyone's ass. A $200-250 consol versus a sub $100 with a library of games 100 times the size of sony's new system? Please.
I have heard they are working on this feature for a coming release. It really is the most awesome underused feature in word processing.
Xovert or similar was a somewhat recent fork of Xfree, to try and change how it was deveolped, if i recall. Sounded interesting.
And then there is always the fact(yes, it is a fact) the mac users tend to keep their computers longer(longer replacement cycle) than do most PC users, so the cost is evened out much more....
could be a very successful and simple freeware app to release. some nice gui for using tar, bzip2, and even rsync with the option of uploading to a ftp server somewhere.
Sorry, poor wording. I meant to point out that Intel is at like 3.4ghz or something while the powerpc chips are at 2 ghz, going to 3 at the end of the year. I was trying to say that there would be no need to ditch intel since they have such a lead on clockrate, even if the x86 architecture is (clearly) less efficient in comparison to a same speed ppc chip.
indeed it is. BECAUSE running software through VPC, or any emulation, is significantly slower. So much so, that it is impossible to play a decent game in emulation, this will make emulation in software xbox1 games impossible, it would require atleast some hardware. I have heard that it takes as much as 10x the processor speed to emulate another architecture at full speed, I don't know if that is a good rule of thumb now, but it shows that emulation, esspecially, across architectures, is a GIGANTIC performance hit.
The xbox2 will not be able to play original xbox games without additional hardware.
Why did dos v4 fail?
Anyway, yes, for big consoles, backwards compatability is good, but only in comparison to your copetitors. This is something I am sure others are gonna reply to your post about and try to point you out as wrong, let me explain.
Nintendo(original) through the 64 were all successful, but not compatable. That was ok, because they were SO much better(in some ways atleast) than the competitors that they could afford to use new formats for cartridges. When the ps2/xbox/gc came, it was the... ps2 that won, why? Well, in reality the graphics on all 3 are damn good, xbox(apparently) being the best. BUT, to the average consumer, the 3 were all close enough the backward compatability was often a deciding factor, esspecially early on because of the huge library of games the playstation had.
on the coming generation of consoles, if all 3 are close enough together spec-wise that the average consumer doesn't really care either way, it will come down to launch titles/library of games. If the gc2 and the ps3 have backwards compatability AND some good launch games, while the xbox2 doesn't have backwards compatibility, it could be the deciding vote early on.
Once the 'first wave' has passed, and all 3 have a decent ammount of games, the tide may shift, but the early on vote may very likely be the backward compatibility.
There was talk from IBM that they would sell cheap Linux boxes running on their new processors that were coming out of the brand new manu. plant they built. They were gonna sell them at cost, or nearly at it, and just wanted to 'flood' the market with a lot of their processors, get people using them, liking them, and get their manufacturing line nice and greased up by producing a lot of hardware while also selling it.
Don't know if they did or not, but it was a GREAT idea a few months ago when i heard it.
That is why Apple went to Darwin. Unix security, reliability and compatibility... it is EASY to port a console app from linux to darwin, AND apple has released a custom X11 app, so you can run X apps that look NATIVE to macos X. good times.
Besides, the only thing not absolutely commonplace are the processor and the motherboards, the rest are standard parts... the processor isn't a problem, modders don't have to worry about it, and the mobo? Not a big issue, nothing they can't handle.
Lastly, Microsoft is ditching the harddrive not because of modders, but because of price. It saves them X ammount of money on a device EVERYONE liked. Normally, they would have just paid the $X and been happy, but they dropped the harddrive, saved $X and will be able to make profit more easily(overall cost is less) and/or be able to pay for slightly more expensive components like video card.
But remember, the Playstation will run on PPC chips to, and Nintendos have always ran on PPC chips, so either Motorola or IBM(is there a 3rd even?) will be selling to all 3 major consoles. HUGE developments in the PowerPC world coming. and by the end of this year... IBM has already shown plans for a 3 ghz processor. :)