So, you want something (that, btw, already exists in Linux) and you expect someone to come to your rescue and implement it for free.
Come on... It's not that Linux users are elitist, arrogant bastards. It's that a lot of computer users never quite get that you cannot expect some software to form out of thin air. If you want something you can't do yourself, you may could and wait until someone who can do it also wants to do it. If you really need it, it would be best to pay someone to do it right away.
"Updates are run under the system user process. If you had ever been a Windows admin, you'd know that there are all sorts of ways to hide updates and the like from users...which means that there's something in the process that MS can enable to hide it from their users. The reason no AV caught it is because it was using an update service already approved by the AV program and was running it under the already accepted system user."
Besides that, no AV can detect a process started by the undocumented MSOnlyStartStealthProcess call.;-)
"Cut their revenue streams and they will suffocate."
While it may solve a political problem (and I doubt it - they will wage wars before it happens), it solves no environmental one: they will just drop the prices and sell to other buyers. As long as they can make oil less expensive than the alternatives, they will be thriving.
"I hope that mankind (meaning free as in beer) benefits from all the research done on the station and not the host countries."
I don't think there is much research going on the ISS. IIRC, they would need a couple more astronauts there to be able to do it and also operate the station and current plans do not allow for them.
OTOH, there is a ton of research going on on Earth about how to keep the astronauts happy and healthy in the ISS.
A space station may be one day a nice place to assemble multi-payload vehicles, to repair satellites and to train crews for long duration missions. While I would be sad to see it being mothballed, I can't find a good reason to continue injecting the huge amounts of money it requires. Right now, it's way too expensive to keep. In the future, if we can find cheaper ways to put things in orbit, then it may prove more useful.
We should be thinking about a permanent presence on the Moon, where we could, to some extent, live off the land (water near the poles, minerals on the surface), not in LEO, where there is no land to live off.
Gartner has a lot of business with Microsoft. They would never, ever jeopardize that. It's a major revenue source and they live in a competitive market.
There's zero precedent for awarding profits to an author who made a willing and intentional donation to the public domain, of their own free will, with the express idea that anyone can take their work and do virtually anything they want with it.
This is Slashdot. You can't expect not to be called stupid when uttering such stupidity. Wish I had modpoints left.
As far as there is support for any G4 processor, enabling Leopard to install on lesser Macs should not be much harder than edit the OSInstall.dist file on the installation DVD (as some people do to install Tiger on non firewire iMacs).
It confuses Linux (the kernel) and the CK/CFS spat with the various distributions of GNU/Linux, Gnome and KDE and their usability issues for non-techie types.
There is no risk of a "civil war" and one, certainly, would not bring total annihilation. At most, there would be the threat of a fork and some distros offering a CK patched version of the mainline kernel. I would like to be able to start up my machine with a choice of schedulers or, better yet, as someone pointed out, starting my servers assigning different schedulers to different processors according to their workload.
But all of this has nothing to do with how grannies use their Linux boxes.
"This is just incredible how fast the teams are able to progress in such a cooperative environment"
Not only that, but, since it's open source, other projects can also benefit from what is being developed and invented for it. Also, several of the enhancements made to the kernel also stand to benefit current laptop users, making them faster and their batteries last longer.
Hopefully, it will also point the way for other hardware makers to work in closer cooperation instead of giving in to Microsoft's threats ("nice open source driver you are working on... it would be a shame if your hardware wouldn't be supported in our next release").
"These people need a place to sleep and a hot meal, not a shower surprise."
There are other ways to get a place to sleep and a hot meal if that's what the person needs. Maybe the computer was stolen because the places that provide a place to sleep and a hot meal won't provide neither meth nor crack and the local dealer might be quite happy to give some in exchange for a laptop that can be sold at a nice profit.
I was held at gunpoint recently and, believe-me, it was not funny.
But, if we really want to end this type of crime, we need to crack down on the people who buy stolen notebooks. The guy with a gun can be easily replaced while the organization that buys and sells stolen notebooks cannot. Laptop makers can also keep owner registries that can be used to identify the stolen goods when they surface at a repair shop.
"If they have a decently accurate percentage figure for fake clicks that manage to pass their system" then it's because they have a way to detect them.
It they can't detect them, this number is, at best, a guess.
I would love to have a workstation with one of those inside.
But it would need to be a SPARCstation-like desktop pizza box or an IPX-like thing. The current SPARCstations are butt-ugly and look like overweight PCs.
If you have better hardware, you should at least _look_ different from your competitors.
It would be damn hard to sell a new DOS license to run legacy apps even in 1996.
Remember: it was trivial to transfer DOS from one machine to another and those pesky OEM limitations that forbid you to install a copy of Windows on another computer did not exist for DOS.
As for performance, any 1996 computer was wicked fast at running most legacy DOS apps. Quite a few did even crash because of the excessive speed. Remember - those were the days of the "turbo" button.
#ifs will not make the code bloated or inefficient. They are compile-time directives that can be used to select what parts of the code are compiled into any executable you create.
You did think they are evaluated at runtime, didn't you?
As interesting as they are, the 800 MHz memory bus will get the MIPS64 cores memory-starved in most desktop applications I can think of. Besides that, there is not much floating point capability in the block diagram.
The processor looks great for the embedded applications it's targeted at, but I am afraid it would not perform well on a desktop workload (and on several server ones).
That said, I would love to see one with 8 cores with FPUs instead of 16 cores and with twice the memory bandwidth. The x86 desktop world is bo-ring. I want my RISC workstations back. Heck - I would love to see a Lisp-machine based on current technology. I could even help design one.
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That would be so fun to watch I almost considered doing it ;-)
Actually, I think it's very likely there is no god. It's only that I am not an atheist because I am not too sure of that. ;-)
I use to joke that, while I do not believe there is a God, I lack the faith required to be an atheist.
So, you want something (that, btw, already exists in Linux) and you expect someone to come to your rescue and implement it for free.
Come on... It's not that Linux users are elitist, arrogant bastards. It's that a lot of computer users never quite get that you cannot expect some software to form out of thin air. If you want something you can't do yourself, you may could and wait until someone who can do it also wants to do it. If you really need it, it would be best to pay someone to do it right away.
+1 funny.
Sorry. Have no modpoints today
"Updates are run under the system user process. If you had ever been a Windows admin, you'd know that there are all sorts of ways to hide updates and the like from users...which means that there's something in the process that MS can enable to hide it from their users. The reason no AV caught it is because it was using an update service already approved by the AV program and was running it under the already accepted system user."
;-)
Besides that, no AV can detect a process started by the undocumented MSOnlyStartStealthProcess call.
"Cut their revenue streams and they will suffocate."
While it may solve a political problem (and I doubt it - they will wage wars before it happens), it solves no environmental one: they will just drop the prices and sell to other buyers. As long as they can make oil less expensive than the alternatives, they will be thriving.
"I hope that mankind (meaning free as in beer) benefits from all the research done on the station and not the host countries."
I don't think there is much research going on the ISS. IIRC, they would need a couple more astronauts there to be able to do it and also operate the station and current plans do not allow for them.
OTOH, there is a ton of research going on on Earth about how to keep the astronauts happy and healthy in the ISS.
A space station may be one day a nice place to assemble multi-payload vehicles, to repair satellites and to train crews for long duration missions. While I would be sad to see it being mothballed, I can't find a good reason to continue injecting the huge amounts of money it requires. Right now, it's way too expensive to keep. In the future, if we can find cheaper ways to put things in orbit, then it may prove more useful.
We should be thinking about a permanent presence on the Moon, where we could, to some extent, live off the land (water near the poles, minerals on the surface), not in LEO, where there is no land to live off.
Gartner has a lot of business with Microsoft. They would never, ever jeopardize that. It's a major revenue source and they live in a competitive market.
This is Slashdot. You can't expect not to be called stupid when uttering such stupidity. Wish I had modpoints left.
As far as there is support for any G4 processor, enabling Leopard to install on lesser Macs should not be much harder than edit the OSInstall.dist file on the installation DVD (as some people do to install Tiger on non firewire iMacs).
The article is utter crap.
It confuses Linux (the kernel) and the CK/CFS spat with the various distributions of GNU/Linux, Gnome and KDE and their usability issues for non-techie types.
There is no risk of a "civil war" and one, certainly, would not bring total annihilation. At most, there would be the threat of a fork and some distros offering a CK patched version of the mainline kernel. I would like to be able to start up my machine with a choice of schedulers or, better yet, as someone pointed out, starting my servers assigning different schedulers to different processors according to their workload.
But all of this has nothing to do with how grannies use their Linux boxes.
"This is just incredible how fast the teams are able to progress in such a cooperative environment"
Not only that, but, since it's open source, other projects can also benefit from what is being developed and invented for it. Also, several of the enhancements made to the kernel also stand to benefit current laptop users, making them faster and their batteries last longer.
Hopefully, it will also point the way for other hardware makers to work in closer cooperation instead of giving in to Microsoft's threats ("nice open source driver you are working on... it would be a shame if your hardware wouldn't be supported in our next release").
"These people need a place to sleep and a hot meal, not a shower surprise."
There are other ways to get a place to sleep and a hot meal if that's what the person needs. Maybe the computer was stolen because the places that provide a place to sleep and a hot meal won't provide neither meth nor crack and the local dealer might be quite happy to give some in exchange for a laptop that can be sold at a nice profit.
I was held at gunpoint recently and, believe-me, it was not funny.
But, if we really want to end this type of crime, we need to crack down on the people who buy stolen notebooks. The guy with a gun can be easily replaced while the organization that buys and sells stolen notebooks cannot. Laptop makers can also keep owner registries that can be used to identify the stolen goods when they surface at a repair shop.
So .su me.
OK. You win. It may be an educated guess.
That's exactly my site. 200 unique visitors a day, 80% repeating ones, most of the rest from search mechanisms.
OTOH, I still don't know how and why they declared my site had invalid clicks and, because of it, my AdSense account would be terminated.
As far as I know, it could even be a well intentioned friend who liked the articles and clicked on all ads to help me.
Anyway, because of that, Google probably spared its advertisers a couple cents a day.
"If they have a decently accurate percentage figure for fake clicks that manage to pass their system" then it's because they have a way to detect them.
It they can't detect them, this number is, at best, a guess.
I would love to have a workstation with one of those inside.
But it would need to be a SPARCstation-like desktop pizza box or an IPX-like thing. The current SPARCstations are butt-ugly and look like overweight PCs.
If you have better hardware, you should at least _look_ different from your competitors.
It would be damn hard to sell a new DOS license to run legacy apps even in 1996. Remember: it was trivial to transfer DOS from one machine to another and those pesky OEM limitations that forbid you to install a copy of Windows on another computer did not exist for DOS. As for performance, any 1996 computer was wicked fast at running most legacy DOS apps. Quite a few did even crash because of the excessive speed. Remember - those were the days of the "turbo" button.
Is that you, Bill?
#ifs will not make the code bloated or inefficient. They are compile-time directives that can be used to select what parts of the code are compiled into any executable you create.
You did think they are evaluated at runtime, didn't you?
As interesting as they are, the 800 MHz memory bus will get the MIPS64 cores memory-starved in most desktop applications I can think of. Besides that, there is not much floating point capability in the block diagram.
The processor looks great for the embedded applications it's targeted at, but I am afraid it would not perform well on a desktop workload (and on several server ones).
That said, I would love to see one with 8 cores with FPUs instead of 16 cores and with twice the memory bandwidth. The x86 desktop world is bo-ring. I want my RISC workstations back. Heck - I would love to see a Lisp-machine based on current technology. I could even help design one.
Replying to AC...
If he wanted everyone who used or improved his code to give something back, he would have licensed it under GPL.
Not that it's right to strip the license , but the case in point is a diff that was not accepted into the kernel. He is just whining.
He can't really accept that Linux gets all the attention, more developers and more users when *BSD, gets very little of it.
I tell why: The GPL allowed an ecosystem to flourish around the code. BSD can't do that.