The other thing I love about apple is they don't treat me like a thief. I don't have to input license codes and subject myself to product activation.
When I had bought windows PCs in the past, they were littered with crapware, trial software, AOL and other preinstalled nonsense. You'd easily spend 4 hours or more just ridding yourself of the junk.
With apple your macbook is beautifully packaged with each accessory carefully wrapped in its plastic blanket. You boot up in a snappy 10 seconds to a clean desktop with no crapware that you need to delete.
Leopard is a masterpiece from a developer's point of view. WinFS was a failure, but apple added ZFS, DTrace and other goodies that make the value proposition unbeatable.
For a developer, a Mac and OS X are worth it. Visual Studio cost 800 dollars, while XCode is included for free.
That and you can dual boot, in effect you have the capability to develop for the window, unix, and OS X markets.
The iPhone makes the choice even much easier, you get the sdk and soon you are selling your wares to a huge market. Where is the windows equivalent?
Plus the case design on the macbook is unmatched. You get trackpad gestures which once you use them, are so superior to anything out there that I reluctantly use mice now at work.
Plus, Macbooks are great at attracting dates because they show you have resources.
After a certain security level, even root cannot change the kernel without rebooting to single user mode. Thats what makes immutable files immutable in OpenBSD.
I was thinking more in terms of their releasing Google Files System. A summer of code, while helpful, is not probably on the level of what their PhD researchers are creating.
This is the basis of a theorem in math called the Central limit theorem. The central limit theorem says that data which are influenced by many small and unrelated random effects are approximately normally distributed.
Since Sun is the only vendor for "open" Solaris, finding another Solaris distribution or support will not be easy if Sun later changes its support terms, goes to closed-source Solaris, etc.
This perhaps explains why many people have little interest in Solaris at this time.
OpenSolaris and Solaris 10 are different. OpenSolaris is the source code to Solaris 10. Anyone can create an OpenSolaris distribution and support it! In fact blastwave.org is creating its own OpenSolaris distro as is Joerg Schilling (of linux cdrecord fame). Joerg's OpenSolaris distro, Schillix is available now.
Don't forget that AMD's x86-64 bit processors support NUMA (non-uniform memory architecture), where as the Intel EMT64 does not. So if you use an operating system, like Linux which has NUMA support built into the kernel, and Opteron chips and a quality motherboard that has seperate memory for each processor, each processor can have its own dedicated memory!
If anyone has the link, there was a benchmark out there that really rocked, with NUMA enabled dual Proc Opteron Server kicking intel's offerings.
Well... the lock on your front door isn't to keep determined criminals out. It is there to keep the average Joe from just walking in on a whim and stealing your stuff. This is the same philosophy as a lot of security mechanisms, and I don't think DRM is much different.
No, actually it is like a lock on the homeowners door, where he can't get in his own house! When someone buys content they have a fair use rights. This severly restricts them.
Its 2005, MS is hiring people to 'help them understand open source'. There has to be some HUGE f**ing idiots working there.
No, what they are trying to do is to break up the opensource community by hiring all the top talent. If they hire the top leaders and put them in project s that never see the light of day, then they don't have to worry about them as competitors to MS. It is worth the million or two in salary to get a top guy. The get the facts ad campaign probably is less effective than buying the top guys out.
MS has a history of doing it. They hired away all the top talent at Borland. They hired COM guru Don Box, which in my opinion was to get him on board with.NET.
OpenSolaris is coming out at the end of June. OpenSolaris is basically Solaris 10 in source code form. The license is the CDDL which is basically the Mozilla Public License with restrictions removed.
The great thing about OpenSolaris is that it is the opensourcing of Solaris 10 which means it has all the features and stability of that Operating system. It also has features that Fedora Core or linux don't have.
An example is DTrace. With DTrace, one can specify sensors in Solaris 10 and monitor everything. Even user programs.
You also have Zones in OpenSolaris which are like BSD jails, but are easier to maintain and create. Linux has user mode linux, but that is cumbersome compared to Zones.
SMF in OpenSolaris is questionable in benefit, but it allows services to be restarted automatically if they fail. Not something I'm interested in, but some people may like it.
But if you are unhappy with the bleeding edge of Fedora Core, give OpenSolaris a look when it comes out later this month.
One more thing. Joerg Schilling, famous for creating Linux's cdrecord program is creating his own OpenSolaris Distro called SchilliX.
http://schillix.berlios.de/
Blastwave.org, a website that contains free software for Solaris users is also creating an OpenSolaris distro according to the regulars of the usenet group comp.unix.solaris.
A benefit of OpenSolaris is that it will have a proper cdrecord functionality. Again SUN Engineer and OpenSolaris community advisory board member Casper H. S. Dik says this about OpenSolaris compared to linux.
In message ID 42611331$0$148$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl Casper Dik writes:
"I think [Joerg Schilling (author of cdrecord)] prefers neither but rather has a proper USCSI interface; note that this isn't really a "IDE SCSI" emulation layer; ATAPI is SCSI-over-ATA. "
The problem with the linux kernel is that a scan by cdrecord may not find all of your cdrecord devices because of the changes in the 2.6 kernel.
Even Alan Cox mentioned that it was not optimal in one of the long linux.kernel threads.:-)
One more thing. Joerg Schilling, famous for creating Linux's cdrecord program is creating his own OpenSolaris Distro called SchilliX.
http://schillix.berlios.de/
Blastwave.org, a website that contains free software for Solaris users is also creating an OpenSolaris distro according to the regulars of the usenet group comp.unix.solaris.
A benefit of OpenSolaris is that it will have a proper cdrecord functionality. Again SUN Engineer and OpenSolaris community advisory board member Casper H. S. Dik says this about OpenSolaris compared to linux.
In message ID Casper Dik writes:
"I think [Joerg Schilling (author of cdrecord)] prefers neither but rather has a proper USCSI interface; note that this isn't really a "IDE SCSI" emulation layer; ATAPI is SCSI-over-ATA. "
The problem with the linux kernel is that a scan by cdrecord may not find all of your cdrecord devices because of the changes in the 2.6 kernel.
Even Alan Cox mentioned that it was not optimal in one of the long linux.kernel threads.:-)
OpenSolaris is completely open! You can create your own OpenSolaris Distro! Casper H. S. Dik, one of the OpenSolaris community advisory board members talks more about the CDDL. He basically states the CDDL is the MPL without some of the restrictions..
An example he gives is the right for the Mozilla foundation to revoke the MPL and the requirement to have lawsuits settled in California (which would be bad for international users). That is why SUN didn't use the MPL.
SUN enginner Alan Coopersmith points out in comp.unix.solaris that anyone can create an OpenSolaris distro.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.unix.so la ris/search?group=comp.unix.solaris&q=Alan+Coopersm ith+cheapbytes+Opensolaris&qt_g=1&searchnow=Search +this+group
I'm not sure what the amount limit is, but what you are talking about is a Section 179 deduction. You can treat certain depreciable property as an expense instead of depreciating it through the 5 year depreciation schedule.
Exactly. Look at what is happening to the VB community. They have no where to turn because MS made their whole code base legacy with VB.NET If VB were open source, they could just fork the project. Instead, they have to petition MS, and MS isn't listening as of yet.
This is the petition right here. It is signed by many VB MVPs.
You too? Man, Mitchell sure gets around. She is an open source cheerleader, and it seems that any OSS programmer who needs his balls drained will have a good time with her. She believes in the cause and helps out by draining you so you can relax and create open source software.
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The other thing I love about apple is they don't treat me like a thief.
I don't have to input license codes and subject myself to product activation.
When I had bought windows PCs in the past, they were littered with crapware, trial software, AOL and other preinstalled nonsense. You'd easily spend 4 hours or more just ridding yourself of the junk.
With apple your macbook is beautifully packaged with each accessory carefully wrapped in its plastic blanket. You boot up in a snappy 10 seconds to a clean desktop with no crapware that you need to delete.
Leopard is a masterpiece from a developer's point of view. WinFS was a failure, but apple added ZFS, DTrace and other goodies that make the value proposition unbeatable.
For a developer, a Mac and OS X are worth it.
Visual Studio cost 800 dollars, while XCode is included for free.
That and you can dual boot, in effect you have the capability to develop for the window, unix, and OS X markets.
The iPhone makes the choice even much easier, you get the sdk and soon you are selling your wares to a huge market. Where is the windows equivalent?
Plus the case design on the macbook is unmatched. You get trackpad gestures which once you use them, are so superior to anything out there that I reluctantly use mice now at work.
Plus, Macbooks are great at attracting dates because they show you have resources.
I have Windows 2000 and Silverlight does not run on this operating system. How will I be able to access microsoft.com?
Could this be the reason Novell signed that agreement with Microsoft?
The only reason there is a shortage of IT professionals is there is a PAY shortage! Fix that and you will have more IT workers.
After a certain security level, even root cannot change the kernel without rebooting to single user mode. Thats what makes immutable files immutable in OpenBSD.
I was thinking more in terms of their releasing Google Files System. A summer of code, while helpful, is not probably on the level of what their PhD researchers are creating.
Google uses so much open source they claim, why aren't they contributing more? Maybe Stallman is onto something with the GPL 3.
Didn't Tesla do this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla
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This is the basis of a theorem in math called the Central limit theorem. The central limit theorem says that data which are influenced by many small and unrelated random effects are approximately normally distributed.
Since Sun is the only vendor for "open" Solaris, finding another Solaris distribution or support will not be easy if Sun later changes its support terms, goes to closed-source Solaris, etc.
This perhaps explains why many people have little interest in Solaris at this time.
OpenSolaris and Solaris 10 are different. OpenSolaris is the source code to Solaris 10. Anyone can create an OpenSolaris distribution and support it! In fact blastwave.org is creating its own OpenSolaris distro as is Joerg Schilling (of linux cdrecord fame). Joerg's OpenSolaris distro, Schillix is available now.
http://schillix.berlios.de/
There is talk about having the GPL 3 force companies to release the code in instances like google.
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Don't forget that AMD's x86-64 bit processors support NUMA (non-uniform memory architecture), where as the Intel EMT64 does not. So if you use an operating system, like Linux which has NUMA support built into the kernel, and Opteron chips and a quality motherboard that has seperate memory for each processor, each processor can have its own dedicated memory! If anyone has the link, there was a benchmark out there that really rocked, with NUMA enabled dual Proc Opteron Server kicking intel's offerings.
Well... the lock on your front door isn't to keep determined criminals out. It is there to keep the average Joe from just walking in on a whim and stealing your stuff. This is the same philosophy as a lot of security mechanisms, and I don't think DRM is much different.
No, actually it is like a lock on the homeowners door, where he can't get in his own house! When someone buys content they have a fair use rights. This severly restricts them.
Its 2005, MS is hiring people to 'help them understand open source'. There has to be some HUGE f**ing idiots working there. .NET.
No, what they are trying to do is to break up the opensource community by hiring all the top talent. If they hire the top leaders and put them in project s that never see the light of day, then they don't have to worry about them as competitors to MS. It is worth the million or two in salary to get a top guy. The get the facts ad campaign probably is less effective than buying the top guys out.
MS has a history of doing it. They hired away all the top talent at Borland. They hired COM guru Don Box, which in my opinion was to get him on board with
OpenSolaris is coming out at the end of June. OpenSolaris is basically Solaris 10 in source code form. The license is the CDDL which is basically the Mozilla Public License with restrictions removed .
http://www.opensolaris.org/faq/licensing_faq.html
Anyone can create an OpenSolaris distro, in fact the guy who created cdrecord for linux (Joerg Schilling) is creating one called SchilliX.
http://schillix.berlios.de/
The great thing about OpenSolaris is that it is the opensourcing of Solaris 10 which means it has all the features and stability of that Operating system. It also has features that Fedora Core or linux don't have.
An example is DTrace. With DTrace, one can specify sensors in Solaris 10 and monitor everything. Even user programs.
You also have Zones in OpenSolaris which are like BSD jails, but are easier to maintain and create. Linux has user mode linux, but that is cumbersome compared to Zones.
SMF in OpenSolaris is questionable in benefit, but it allows services to be restarted automatically if they fail. Not something I'm interested in, but some people may like it.
But if you are unhappy with the bleeding edge of Fedora Core, give OpenSolaris a look when it comes out later this month.
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:-)
One more thing. Joerg Schilling, famous for creating Linux's cdrecord program is creating his own OpenSolaris Distro called SchilliX.
http://schillix.berlios.de/
Blastwave.org, a website that contains free software for Solaris users is also creating an OpenSolaris distro according to the regulars of the usenet group comp.unix.solaris.
A benefit of OpenSolaris is that it will have a proper cdrecord functionality. Again SUN Engineer and OpenSolaris community advisory board member Casper H. S. Dik says this about OpenSolaris compared to linux.
In message ID 42611331$0$148$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl Casper Dik writes:
"I think [Joerg Schilling (author of cdrecord)] prefers neither but rather has a proper USCSI interface; note that this isn't really a "IDE SCSI" emulation layer; ATAPI is SCSI-over-ATA. "
The problem with the linux kernel is that a scan by cdrecord may not find all of your cdrecord devices because of the changes in the 2.6 kernel.
Even Alan Cox mentioned that it was not optimal in one of the long linux.kernel threads.
One more thing. Joerg Schilling, famous for creating Linux's cdrecord program is creating his own OpenSolaris Distro called SchilliX. http://schillix.berlios.de/ Blastwave.org, a website that contains free software for Solaris users is also creating an OpenSolaris distro according to the regulars of the usenet group comp.unix.solaris. A benefit of OpenSolaris is that it will have a proper cdrecord functionality. Again SUN Engineer and OpenSolaris community advisory board member Casper H. S. Dik says this about OpenSolaris compared to linux. In message ID Casper Dik writes: "I think [Joerg Schilling (author of cdrecord)] prefers neither but rather has a proper USCSI interface; note that this isn't really a "IDE SCSI" emulation layer; ATAPI is SCSI-over-ATA. " The problem with the linux kernel is that a scan by cdrecord may not find all of your cdrecord devices because of the changes in the 2.6 kernel. Even Alan Cox mentioned that it was not optimal in one of the long linux.kernel threads. :-)
OpenSolaris is completely open! You can create your own OpenSolaris Distro! Casper H. S. Dik, one of the OpenSolaris community advisory board members talks more about the CDDL. He basically states the CDDL is the MPL without some of the restrictions..
o la ris/search?group=comp.unix.solaris&q=Alan+Coopersm ith+cheapbytes+Opensolaris&qt_g=1&searchnow=Search +this+group
An example he gives is the right for the Mozilla foundation to revoke the MPL and the requirement to have lawsuits settled in California (which would be bad for international users). That is why SUN didn't use the MPL.
SUN enginner Alan Coopersmith points out in comp.unix.solaris that anyone can create an OpenSolaris distro.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.unix.s
I'm not sure what the amount limit is, but what you are talking about is a Section 179 deduction. You can treat certain depreciable property as an expense instead of depreciating it through the 5 year depreciation schedule.
Exactly. Look at what is happening to the VB community. They have no where to turn because MS made their whole code base legacy with VB.NET If VB were open source, they could just fork the project. Instead, they have to petition MS, and MS isn't listening as of yet.
This is the petition right here. It is signed by many VB MVPs.
http://classicvb.org/petition
PS. That was a JOKE! That is not true in any way at all!
You too? Man, Mitchell sure gets around. She is an open source cheerleader, and it seems that any OSS programmer who needs his balls drained will have a good time with her. She believes in the cause and helps out by draining you so you can relax and create open source software.
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