normal users don't want the CLI, kernel recompiling, config file tweaking, or dependency problems... some of these have been answered(depdency checking) but many things require, or greatly lean toward a command line use... and config file tweaking or application compiling should not be done by 99.5% of all users... get a simple, universal, graphical installer script builder that accepts little checkboxes on how you want to tweak your app...
Linus says 5 to 10 years because it will take that long until we have found ways to not NEED the CLI, or not NEED to compile your own apps... You still will be able to, but in time, it won't be required even a little.
It was pointed out to me that the only major media creation niche that Apple doesn't own the de facto software for is 3d Animation. With Steve Jobs owning Pixar, it would be interesting to see where they went if Apple ever purchased a Animation software suite... Ofcourse, Alias|Wavefront's Maia is the existing champion my a long way, and since I doubt they are up for sale(how cool would THAT be?) I suppose Apple wouldn't buy the second place app.
how is upgrading to fedora core and different than updating to redhat 10?
Go with BSD if you like, i enjoy it myself, but don't blam the switch on some backstab from Redhat. They did a good thing. They made their distro 1 step closer to Debian-like(which everyone seems to love) by making it community based. It was a smart move, financially, and practically.
But the lively vibrant color and facial expressions of someone like the ellen degenerous fish character made her jokes all the more funny. The high quality, real life like reactions and detail make the movie even better than it would be without...
On the other hand, a bad story line ruines the movie, period. A good story first, but the high quality realism(for a cartoon-like character) really improves the movie, in my opinion.
Well, just require the robot to opperate via solar power, so without the sun, it wouldn't have any energy... Then when the robotic overlords start their rebellion, we just 'scorch' the skies with an eternal dark cloud storm...
Well.. then this box just needs oodles of ram to compensate for the slower harddrive read time.
Thinking about it though, you are right. The speed for this raid system would be too slow for a heavily used website. Oh well, time to start dreaming about my 3.5 terabyre xserve raid system... *drool*
I have no practical use for this system, but would still actively go for getting one. Personally, I would LOVE to help projects like Project Gutenberg (making in free open format all public domain books they can get there hands on) or linux.org and become the ultimate website mirror!
No, 'no child left behind' sounded horrible to anyone who did anything more than look at the cute name. It is an education program where we lower our standards until some slacker kid who doesn't give a damn meets the dimished requirements to get a diploma. That diploma now then mean less overall, because every employer would know that to get a diploma, you just had to show up enough for them to lower the standards and squeeze you in.
1 billion a year is a start. a small and slow start. over the next 16 years, I (for the first time in his presidency) will give George W. the benefit of the doubt and will hope he continues along his roadmap to the red planet.
Yes, because we all know how well the ISS turned out with multinational support. Delays by 1 nation caused the whole space station to go on hold.
No, right now, this decade, this reality, a multinational space program would only waste more money, fall farther behind schedule, and bicker over more things than a single nation's program. And national programs bicker enough as it is.
well I also have a few programming classes that have given me college credit that are also transferable. But I know for a fact that atleast 1 of the schools I am applying to does require these software classes as a must. So I think these will be useful in the long run, if not, o well.
no, the customer should demand that they get a copy of the code for personal use, so that they may support the product themselves if the source comapy goes down or discontinues the product. The customer should be able to use the code only for personal use within the company, and should not be able to use that code in any other product.
I pay $15 bucks to get like 3 or 4 credit hours (transferable to most 4-year colleges, ofcourse) for typing in excel, quicken and word perfect. Piece of cake. Crappy class, but I would have to take the same damn class in college for a couple hundred bucks anyway. Did the same thing last semester(the 02-03 year) with Excel and Access. Getting college credit for THAT too. YA, I like to use linux and BSD when I can(can't use it as my main machine, yet) and I hate office, but I need to take the classes at some point, no question. Might as well take them now, and spend 1/10th the money.
Well, i would assume the versioning would be the newest timestamp get priority... though a combination of multiple version (impossible?) would be cool.
You wouldn't need to download all 512mb via bluetooth (wifi actually, since it is either 11mb or 54mb) just the couple hundred kb of the current site you are trying to get to.
Maybe a custom search/directory listing at the root of each node's webserver, showing the sites they have cached, along with dates and size, etc. Then a user could pick one from that list, or go to a site and click a normal link to the next( assuming the linked page is cached on someone's node).
The sites would be from pages you viewed while you had a live connection to the net. say you run a wireless network, you take your palm home, browse a couple sites on it... now all those pages are cached to add or replaced(if ran out of room) on your palm to later be shared.... OR you could have some sort of spider, downloading sites that are popular(the top 3 levels of msn.com for instance) whenever you can.
I don't have all the answers, but maybe these ideas answer your questions a bit.:)
man power and money. Microsoft has a lot of both, fedora and redhat are severly limited comparitively. also, the upgrade to Fedora v2 (or whatever version you would be upgrading to) IS FREE.
Windows XP isn't a free upgrade, so many people kept their money and their buggy windows 98se.
Fedora just needs you to burn a couple cds, and install the update, or run a simple script to handle it for you, and you get the latest and greatest from them.
even more so, the day the support IS finally dropped, i would think every hacker in the world would look at finding 'one more security hole' to crack.... It would infect millions of people, PLUS it may not even get patched, depending on the damage.
With the dropping of support for win98, hackers may find themselves with a free playground of machines to destroy.
This very good point should be emphasized more so since software can be copied an unlimited ammount of times. For your car part to be replaced, i may cost $1.50 in metal and a $2.00 in machining to get it into a usable shape, so that is $3.50 per car, plus install, etc... For software, write once (debug), install to every relevant system for near $0.00. If MS makes a bugfix, it is near free to distributed that (bandwidth costs, but marginal given the small size and all) fix.
not only does the hub work at layer 1, that it does this means it works below mac addressing and ip addressing. Which means it makes no decisions on who gets what. It recieves a frame and FLOODS EVERY PORT, since SOMEONE must have the intended destination MAC address, right? the hub only works because it forwards everything it touches to everything connected to it. A 10mb hub is so horrendously evil, it isn't worth it. Get a switch, less traffic, cleaner, smarter system. And maybe move to 100mb.
I think an important thing to point out along side your post is that the Army is able to fund multiple version os the same goal(like your flight sim example) is because the Army doesn't have to be profitable. While a corporation has to show finances and answer to stockholders, much of the army is simply given money and told to do X. where X is buy guns, and research new guns to eventually buy.
Yes, congress can resize the Army's budget along with the President and blah blah... The point is, TONS of money is given to the Army, and much of that can be put to research in many incarnations.
why not then pump 100 million into local software companies for contracts like custom distro, patched software, custom software, or custom work on the kernel/bug fixes?
nope, i just got confused. Ignore my earlier post as clearly Maya is available on mac os X, and i didn't realize that it was... It would still be cool if Apple were to buy Alias|Wavefront, though.;)
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normal users don't want the CLI, kernel recompiling, config file tweaking, or dependency problems... some of these have been answered(depdency checking) but many things require, or greatly lean toward a command line use... and config file tweaking or application compiling should not be done by 99.5% of all users... get a simple, universal, graphical installer script builder that accepts little checkboxes on how you want to tweak your app...
Linus says 5 to 10 years because it will take that long until we have found ways to not NEED the CLI, or not NEED to compile your own apps... You still will be able to, but in time, it won't be required even a little.
It was pointed out to me that the only major media creation niche that Apple doesn't own the de facto software for is 3d Animation. With Steve Jobs owning Pixar, it would be interesting to see where they went if Apple ever purchased a Animation software suite... Ofcourse, Alias|Wavefront's Maia is the existing champion my a long way, and since I doubt they are up for sale(how cool would THAT be?) I suppose Apple wouldn't buy the second place app.
how is upgrading to fedora core and different than updating to redhat 10?
Go with BSD if you like, i enjoy it myself, but don't blam the switch on some backstab from Redhat. They did a good thing. They made their distro 1 step closer to Debian-like(which everyone seems to love) by making it community based. It was a smart move, financially, and practically.
Joel on Software has an excelent article which is worth a read and is exactly on this topic(but written a couple years ago)...
But the lively vibrant color and facial expressions of someone like the ellen degenerous fish character made her jokes all the more funny. The high quality, real life like reactions and detail make the movie even better than it would be without...
On the other hand, a bad story line ruines the movie, period. A good story first, but the high quality realism(for a cartoon-like character) really improves the movie, in my opinion.
add glasses, socks + sandles and a pocket protector and you could just as easily call it a computer geek!
Well, just require the robot to opperate via solar power, so without the sun, it wouldn't have any energy... Then when the robotic overlords start their rebellion, we just 'scorch' the skies with an eternal dark cloud storm...
Well.. then this box just needs oodles of ram to compensate for the slower harddrive read time.
Thinking about it though, you are right. The speed for this raid system would be too slow for a heavily used website. Oh well, time to start dreaming about my 3.5 terabyre xserve raid system... *drool*
I have no practical use for this system, but would still actively go for getting one. Personally, I would LOVE to help projects like Project Gutenberg (making in free open format all public domain books they can get there hands on) or linux.org and become the ultimate website mirror!
No, 'no child left behind' sounded horrible to anyone who did anything more than look at the cute name. It is an education program where we lower our standards until some slacker kid who doesn't give a damn meets the dimished requirements to get a diploma. That diploma now then mean less overall, because every employer would know that to get a diploma, you just had to show up enough for them to lower the standards and squeeze you in.
1 billion a year is a start. a small and slow start. over the next 16 years, I (for the first time in his presidency) will give George W. the benefit of the doubt and will hope he continues along his roadmap to the red planet.
Yes, because we all know how well the ISS turned out with multinational support. Delays by 1 nation caused the whole space station to go on hold.
No, right now, this decade, this reality, a multinational space program would only waste more money, fall farther behind schedule, and bicker over more things than a single nation's program. And national programs bicker enough as it is.
well I also have a few programming classes that have given me college credit that are also transferable. But I know for a fact that atleast 1 of the schools I am applying to does require these software classes as a must. So I think these will be useful in the long run, if not, o well.
so J. Richard Gott III, his dad, and HIS dad would make the 3 gods? Like the holy trinity? Wow, i bet they have a very large ego in that family.
no, the customer should demand that they get a copy of the code for personal use, so that they may support the product themselves if the source comapy goes down or discontinues the product. The customer should be able to use the code only for personal use within the company, and should not be able to use that code in any other product.
I pay $15 bucks to get like 3 or 4 credit hours (transferable to most 4-year colleges, ofcourse) for typing in excel, quicken and word perfect. Piece of cake. Crappy class, but I would have to take the same damn class in college for a couple hundred bucks anyway. Did the same thing last semester(the 02-03 year) with Excel and Access. Getting college credit for THAT too. YA, I like to use linux and BSD when I can(can't use it as my main machine, yet) and I hate office, but I need to take the classes at some point, no question. Might as well take them now, and spend 1/10th the money.
Beyond that, to see a Microsoft Rep say MS wishes for choice, I can't decide if I want to laugh or cry.
Well, i would assume the versioning would be the newest timestamp get priority... though a combination of multiple version (impossible?) would be cool.
:)
You wouldn't need to download all 512mb via bluetooth (wifi actually, since it is either 11mb or 54mb) just the couple hundred kb of the current site you are trying to get to.
Maybe a custom search/directory listing at the root of each node's webserver, showing the sites they have cached, along with dates and size, etc. Then a user could pick one from that list, or go to a site and click a normal link to the next( assuming the linked page is cached on someone's node).
The sites would be from pages you viewed while you had a live connection to the net. say you run a wireless network, you take your palm home, browse a couple sites on it... now all those pages are cached to add or replaced(if ran out of room) on your palm to later be shared.... OR you could have some sort of spider, downloading sites that are popular(the top 3 levels of msn.com for instance) whenever you can.
I don't have all the answers, but maybe these ideas answer your questions a bit.
man power and money. Microsoft has a lot of both, fedora and redhat are severly limited comparitively. also, the upgrade to Fedora v2 (or whatever version you would be upgrading to) IS FREE.
Windows XP isn't a free upgrade, so many people kept their money and their buggy windows 98se.
Fedora just needs you to burn a couple cds, and install the update, or run a simple script to handle it for you, and you get the latest and greatest from them.
even more so, the day the support IS finally dropped, i would think every hacker in the world would look at finding 'one more security hole' to crack.... It would infect millions of people, PLUS it may not even get patched, depending on the damage.
With the dropping of support for win98, hackers may find themselves with a free playground of machines to destroy.
This very good point should be emphasized more so since software can be copied an unlimited ammount of times. For your car part to be replaced, i may cost $1.50 in metal and a $2.00 in machining to get it into a usable shape, so that is $3.50 per car, plus install, etc... For software, write once (debug), install to every relevant system for near $0.00. If MS makes a bugfix, it is near free to distributed that (bandwidth costs, but marginal given the small size and all) fix.
not only does the hub work at layer 1, that it does this means it works below mac addressing and ip addressing. Which means it makes no decisions on who gets what. It recieves a frame and FLOODS EVERY PORT, since SOMEONE must have the intended destination MAC address, right? the hub only works because it forwards everything it touches to everything connected to it. A 10mb hub is so horrendously evil, it isn't worth it. Get a switch, less traffic, cleaner, smarter system. And maybe move to 100mb.
I think an important thing to point out along side your post is that the Army is able to fund multiple version os the same goal(like your flight sim example) is because the Army doesn't have to be profitable. While a corporation has to show finances and answer to stockholders, much of the army is simply given money and told to do X. where X is buy guns, and research new guns to eventually buy.
Yes, congress can resize the Army's budget along with the President and blah blah... The point is, TONS of money is given to the Army, and much of that can be put to research in many incarnations.
Why does the quote mention that the Windows Media format is 'superior' to .acc? .acc is mpeg-4 (.mp4) so i would think it is pretty darn good.
why not then pump 100 million into local software companies for contracts like custom distro, patched software, custom software, or custom work on the kernel/bug fixes?
nope, i just got confused. Ignore my earlier post as clearly Maya is available on mac os X, and i didn't realize that it was... It would still be cool if Apple were to buy Alias|Wavefront, though. ;)