If a man has enough money to buy a 20k home theater my bet is he gives more than enough money to charity as well. It's a question of perspective, not distorted priorities.
So would you give up your car and donate the money to charity? No, but maybe you would once in a while instead of buying that cup of coffee donate it to Reeve's foundation. A wealthy man will once in a while leave that Lexus at the dealer and donate the money saved to charity.
To make it even less abstract: consider Bill Gates. When it comes to supporting charity he is second to none. But he does own a house that costs more millions than a camel has fleas. Does that make him have distorted priorities? (Answer: no, but other things do:-) )
Here I am, a friendly alien called Zonub12, on my way to a vacation on peaceful rytttbl in the andromeda system. Suddenly a laser blast penetrates my ISO certified force shield. It's time you humans grow up.
Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffet, Paul Allen.
These are the men with just enough "obscene amount of money", but have failed to act.
Gates has donated over 5% of his net worth to charity. How about you?
True, but if it were a GNU/voting system it could run on GNU/Hurd. And GNU/Hurd kicks GNU/ass. In fact, it got kicked so hard in its GNU/ass, it's dead now.
If I were to guess your age, I would say about 15 to 17. Am I right?
This is not to sound arrogant in any way, but your comment shows a very naive way of thinking. First of all, don't think that any number of random picked open source developers can do any better than a bunch of SGI people specifically chosen to take on this task. A software projects success has more to do with proper management than with coding skills.
Second, while Mr Perens is a very capable guy, this may not be his cup of tea.
Third, your comment expresses the typical optimism found in many young open source advocates, but lacks any clear point of action.
After careful investigation which involved numourous traceroutes and pings I can now conclude this isn't a group of persons. So you're wrong there, it's not a "they" but a "she".
java and bloated software go hand in hand. You should know that by now.
That said, development time is shortened considerably, so it's not all bad. These IDEs help as well by shortening the time needed to "type" the same thing.
True, KDE and gnome may not be innovators. But I am not looking for that right now, and nor will I in the near future. What I am looking for is
a stable desktop
easy to configure, out of the box solutions for multimedia
applications with fast response times
So far gnome seems to implement only the latter, while KDE scores points in the first two departments. KDE is becoming faster though. And yes, win2K (and possibly MacOSX) seems to own all these points, but is not
Yes in India many movies are made. But they are quikly repleced. Movie older then 1 year no longer intresting, so nobody watches. Now every movie only on the dvd. Old VHS get dumped.
We have pile of movies nobody watches:-)
why you got score -1? I thought queston was good. I am still the slashdot new, but do not understend.
good for the open sorce OpenGL! NVIDIA is the nice companee launches the open sorce programing. I understend mane companees make mone from new Vertex Shader. Open sorce also?
Will compaled code faster then macheen code? NVIDIA has no expereens with compaler making. Right?
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If a man has enough money to buy a 20k home theater my bet is he gives more than enough money to charity as well. It's a question of perspective, not distorted priorities.
:-) )
So would you give up your car and donate the money to charity? No, but maybe you would once in a while instead of buying that cup of coffee donate it to Reeve's foundation. A wealthy man will once in a while leave that Lexus at the dealer and donate the money saved to charity.
To make it even less abstract: consider Bill Gates. When it comes to supporting charity he is second to none. But he does own a house that costs more millions than a camel has fleas. Does that make him have distorted priorities? (Answer: no, but other things do
I wonder if there's an X-box emulator available for Windows 2000. Now that would kick ass!
Here I am, a friendly alien called Zonub12, on my way to a vacation on peaceful rytttbl in the andromeda system. Suddenly a laser blast penetrates my ISO certified force shield. It's time you humans grow up.
Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffet, Paul Allen.
These are the men with just enough "obscene amount of money", but have failed to act. Gates has donated over 5% of his net worth to charity. How about you?
Imagine a beowulf cluster of my girl friend!
True, but if it were a GNU/voting system it could run on GNU/Hurd. And GNU/Hurd kicks GNU/ass. In fact, it got kicked so hard in its GNU/ass, it's dead now.
If I were to guess your age, I would say about 15 to 17. Am I right?
:-)
This is not to sound arrogant in any way, but your comment shows a very naive way of thinking. First of all, don't think that any number of random picked open source developers can do any better than a bunch of SGI people specifically chosen to take on this task. A software projects success has more to do with proper management than with coding skills.
Second, while Mr Perens is a very capable guy, this may not be his cup of tea.
Third, your comment expresses the typical optimism found in many young open source advocates, but lacks any clear point of action.
Oh... to be young again
They really don't offer anything unique to the market that is worth building a business on.
So does the grocery shop around the corner. Yet it provides a living for the guy that owns the place. He won't get rich, but he survives.
If only firms were allowed to participate in the economy that provide "anything unique", the whole market would be one giant monopoly.
In fact your answer is so extremely conservative I am convinced this is a signal that the bear market is finally over.
Forgot to mention that the resulting binaries are a lot smaller too. Typically 2/3 the size of something compiled with gcc 2.95.
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Forget objprelink.
You really should use gcc 3.1 or 3.2. Together with the newer binutils you will gain dramatic (as in: it flies) performance increases.
By supplying -z combreloc as an extra argument to g++ the relocations are done (mostly) at link time, not when you start the application.
It's really awesome - the gcc guys did a great job. Some of my code runs 50% faster compiled with gcc 3.2 versus 2.95.
Some more info can be found here
I sure hope it can get you down as well.
Yeah, I was thinking about using this thing as a replacement for my desktop pc. Then it dawned upon me that it didn't have an AGP slot.
Oh well...
so who are they??
After careful investigation which involved numourous traceroutes and pings I can now conclude this isn't a group of persons. So you're wrong there, it's not a "they" but a "she".
She is a bitch.
java and bloated software go hand in hand. You should know that by now.
That said, development time is shortened considerably, so it's not all bad. These IDEs help as well by shortening the time needed to "type" the same thing.
a stable desktop
easy to configure, out of the box solutions for multimedia
applications with fast response times
So far gnome seems to implement only the latter, while KDE scores points in the first two departments. KDE is becoming faster though. And yes, win2K (and possibly MacOSX) seems to own all these points, but is not
free, open source. as gnome and KDE are.
this must be the 10th version of the same reply. Yes, I must say I get fatigued by this
As inhabitent of India I can say that noting is here new. China always very controlling the net and freedom of the speech.
Noting new, noting to wory about extra. I hoped the internet would change thing a bit, but thats dream so.
Radjif
Yes in India many movies are made. But they are quikly repleced. Movie older then 1 year no longer intresting, so nobody watches. Now every movie only on the dvd. Old VHS get dumped.
:-)
We have pile of movies nobody watches
why you got score -1? I thought queston was good. I am still the slashdot new, but do not understend.
greetings,
Radjif.
Here in India, dvd replecid the VHS long time ago. No store actally sell the VHS anymore. Only some old stores. Everything is dvd now here.
:-)
I tought the USA alwais first?
Radjif.
good for the open sorce OpenGL! NVIDIA is the nice companee launches the open sorce programing. I understend mane companees make mone from new Vertex Shader. Open sorce also?
Will compaled code faster then macheen code? NVIDIA has no expereens with compaler making. Right?
Excoos for speling. Thanks friends
Radjif.
Thank you sharen this. Thank you parent for suport. I have 1 qeston more: why call it Wi-Fi? Wi for Wireless ofcors, but what "Fi"?
Excoos for speling agan. Thanks friend.
Radjif
excoos when askeng. Can tell anebode what is the famous WiFi? Reading the slashdot but do now not understend. Friends? Plaese help?
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