I make a point of sending it in PDF format. If they can't read it, they get PostScript and if they cant deal with that then they're not good enough for me.
Well, what do you expect from IBM? It's just another one of their look-Ethel-it's-open-source-and-look-at-us-helping -the-community content-free PR fluff pieces. Ignore them and they'll crawl back into their mainframe cave.
(I recently owned a 1995 BMW M5 Station Wagon, for example)
Tell me, are they really exempt from the Laws of Physics, I mean, impossible to crash? Can you also go faster than c? Can you go from 150mph to 0 in 6 feet on ice? Or am I missing something?
That rules! A RISC engine:-) I wish more sports cars came with Wankel RISC engines. The compact size and low weight would also make it easier to use in a hybrid. Imagine a hybrid Wankel turbo...
That attitude combined with the complete lack of any argument based on factual reality is the reason why the Human Race hasn't been back to the Moon since 1972.
We live in a twilight world of pointy-haired arrogance, ignorance and misinformation.
All those little pictures to point at on Windows, all those noises, and all that eye-candy, anti-virus and what have you all consumes resources. Windows is really slow on 32-bit boxes.
Ironically, unix runs better on smaller hardware nowadays.
I once saw Daffy Duck doomed to certain death as the elevator he was in plummetted earthwards. When it was about 3 feet above the ground, he simply stepped out, leaving it to crash and be pulverised.
In 3 years time (5 with slippage) is anyone actually going to be wanting to put this new OS on 32-bit hardware? Let me put it another way, Vista barely runs on a 32-bit box (all that memory reqired) and the hardware requirements are likely to be much higher in 5 years time.
Is anyone still going to be running Windows at all in 5 years time?
Linus thought he'd give something new a try. Everyone's working together on the current tree and, if anyone's interested (like, say, a distro), they're free to take a 2.6.x edition and make a 2.6.x.y series of stable kernels.
The trouble is "everyone" is "working together on the current tree" therefore there is no one available to make a "stable branch" other than the big money players like RedHat and SuSE.
This plays directly into the hands of other big money like IBM, who can now claim that Linux is "less stable than AIX," and Microsoft, who can now say, "see that free stuff isn't as stable as they claim."
Those of us who can't afford $700 for a RedHat license get to use experimental kernels if we want to keep up with new hardware support.
I'm seriously considering going back to Solaris, which is now Free as in Speech.
Prehaps it would be smarter to spend resources finding and providing care for unbalanced people, rather than banning anything (which means pretty much everything) that sets them off, No?
No, what "we" need is more laws banning things, more police, more police powers, "tearing up the human rights laws", more prisons, electronic tagging, surveilance, fewer immigrants and spongers, no benefits for the unemployed and sick, compulsory religio, more prisons, electronic tagging, censorship, more tabloid press, more illiteracy, less education, bread and the circus.
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I make a point of sending it in PDF format. If they can't read it, they get PostScript and if they cant deal with that then they're not good enough for me.
Adding binary compatibility between such systems isn't trivial, but it's certainly within Sun's reach.
Sun did it over 2 years ago now (Linux compatibility at the kernel level). I saw it with my own eyes.
Well, what do you expect from IBM? It's just another one of their look-Ethel-it's-open-source-and-look-at-us-helping -the-community content-free PR fluff pieces. Ignore them and they'll crawl back into their mainframe cave.
(I recently owned a 1995 BMW M5 Station Wagon, for example)
Tell me, are they really exempt from the Laws of Physics, I mean, impossible to crash? Can you also go faster than c? Can you go from 150mph to 0 in 6 feet on ice? Or am I missing something?
That rules! A RISC engine :-) I wish more sports cars came with Wankel RISC engines. The compact size and low weight would also make it easier to use in a hybrid. Imagine a hybrid Wankel turbo...
Last 10 scientific conferences I attended,
Science is science, no matter who "says" it. Politics, on the other hand is largely subjective and has very little basis in objective reality.
That is why politicians must continuously be subject to correction by people whom they serve.
That attitude combined with the complete lack of any argument based on factual reality is the reason why the Human Race hasn't been back to the Moon since 1972.
We live in a twilight world of pointy-haired arrogance, ignorance and misinformation.
Looking at the picture in the beginning of the article, I don't think I want any system that requires a minimum of 5 case fans and a chipset fan.
Did you ever see the dual processor G5 power mac? It had 10 fans and was silent.
Funny that, it runs on many platforms. It was just that it was primarily used as a vehicle for doing Linux on PowerPC Macs in the olden days.
My point was that microkernel Linux has been available for 11 years now. There is no need to wait another 10 years.
A microkernel. What, like this? :-)
It's called abstinence.
But it only works properly if you wear a special magic ring.
All those little pictures to point at on Windows, all those noises, and all that eye-candy, anti-virus and what have you all consumes resources. Windows is really slow on 32-bit boxes.
Ironically, unix runs better on smaller hardware nowadays.
I once saw Daffy Duck doomed to certain death as the elevator he was in plummetted earthwards. When it was about 3 feet above the ground, he simply stepped out, leaving it to crash and be pulverised.
The UNIX guys all went 64-bit back in the '90s.
In 3 years time (5 with slippage) is anyone actually going to be wanting to put this new OS on 32-bit hardware? Let me put it another way, Vista barely runs on a 32-bit box (all that memory reqired) and the hardware requirements are likely to be much higher in 5 years time.
Is anyone still going to be running Windows at all in 5 years time?
He wasn't being dishonest, merely eliminating a tripping hazard from the floor, thus saving the company from a potential personal injury suit.
Please learn the difference between amoral and immoral.
Linus thought he'd give something new a try. Everyone's working together on the current tree and, if anyone's interested (like, say, a distro), they're free to take a 2.6.x edition and make a 2.6.x.y series of stable kernels.
The trouble is "everyone" is "working together on the current tree" therefore there is no one available to make a "stable branch" other than the big money players like RedHat and SuSE.
This plays directly into the hands of other big money like IBM, who can now claim that Linux is "less stable than AIX," and Microsoft, who can now say, "see that free stuff isn't as stable as they claim."
Those of us who can't afford $700 for a RedHat license get to use experimental kernels if we want to keep up with new hardware support.
I'm seriously considering going back to Solaris, which is now Free as in Speech.
1996 was the year I went to Linux on my desktop.
What's keeping you?
Prehaps it would be smarter to spend resources finding and providing care for unbalanced people, rather than banning anything (which means pretty much everything) that sets them off, No?
No, what "we" need is more laws banning things, more police, more police powers, "tearing up the human rights laws", more prisons, electronic tagging, surveilance, fewer immigrants and spongers, no benefits for the unemployed and sick, compulsory religio, more prisons, electronic tagging, censorship, more tabloid press, more illiteracy, less education, bread and the circus.
As a friend of mine always said, bag it and get on with it.
Is chuffed anything like gruntled?
I read that as "grunted," in which case, yes, "chuffed" can be equated with "grunted."
I bet it was Ludwig.
Slashdot is US-centric. Learn things.
You are a wonderful ambassador for your country.
Unless you're applying for a job in Cambridge, England, in which case if you didn't get a 1st or a 2:1 you will be rejected.