Why are they so heavy handed? it's a story book largely written for kids.
Of course we know why, there's too much money being made and that's when things get nasty. They would sooner have people waiting outside of book shops at 12 midnight to get the latest book than find out on the web that it sucks. Seeing two Potter films was enough to see that its all a bit formulaic.
If these had been around a year ago we could be talking about Apple innovation etc, but the fact is the x86 market is ahead and Motorola/IBM have their eyes on high end servers and the embedded market.
But still, the power use of these chips is very impressive. Always liked Motorola but AMD64 is where I'm at now (it's close in name to CBM64 too:)).
With the Internet being a rich resource of information about maths, geography etc (but not always a very accurate one) how long before text books are replaced with print outs from websites?
Computers have been shown to actaully reduce the performance of children. I guess there's nothing to compete with the teacher and child relationship. A computer after all can't adapt to the needs or explain something in an alternate way.
The original Mac OS concept was to keep things simple, have a very small wrapper around the application. It was an OS that was designed to run applications with very little fuss, OSX has added lots of distactions with its eye candy.
They may not have a monopoly in anti-virus software but by taking over companies and dropping support for alternative OSes they are influencing the OS that users will run.
Basically with Linux on your phone you can recompile any app for Linux to run on the PDA. The cross compatibility is better than with Windows and Window Mobile.
From what I've seen the GUI libraries are slimmed versions of QT and GTK.
This is why I used to use OctaMED on the Amiga all the time for writing music. Despite it not having the best features and the best MIDI support it was easier to be writing all the music using the keyboard and not touching the mouse.
Compare that to Cubase for example and you are pointing and clicking all the time, pressing the computer keyboard for shortcuts and then moving back to a MIDI keyboard and even a virtual mixer control panel (MIDI slider unit). Much more cumbersome and time consuming which is a shame since Cubase is more powerful.
The performance of OSX as a server OS has been panned in benchmarks before now. It simply doesn't scale well. It can take about 5 times as long to create a thread with OSX compared to Linux.
Therefore you will always have Linux there as a non-Windows and non-Unix server OS.
I really don't see why they're chosing Intel, maybe Intel are very keen to have their business?
AMD64 would a better choice, its a more efficient design than the P4. Heat output and power usage is much better (especially with the 90nm Venice core).
Surely the Mac Mini caters for those who want to flirt with running OSX or those who want an Apple computer but find the eMac too big and the other Macs too expensive?
So the Intel machine just seems like yet another small form factor PC, a bit of a low rent Mac Mini.
All this will do is accelerate the deployment of DRM type technologies.
Ripping of movies and music will have to be prevented. Of course it might be impossible as the DVD spec can't be changed and CD isn't dying anytime soon.
As long as this doesn't affect the XMLTV module I use for the UK. This grabs XML data from the Radio Times website (they provided the raw XML files as a goodwill gesture), it gives me about 2 weeks of data and enhances my TV viewing no end as I need not miss anything.
You think KDE needs Linux? it's available for all the BSDs, much of the software is portable too. Linux is the kernel and there's been some rather unfortunate battles of recent times. The real loonies are the open source advocates who are turning OSS vs Commercial into some kind of religious battle.
Sure advocate and promote, but don't be so highly critical to the point of sounding obsessed.
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Why are they so heavy handed? it's a story book largely written for kids.
Of course we know why, there's too much money being made and that's when things get nasty. They would sooner have people waiting outside of book shops at 12 midnight to get the latest book than find out on the web that it sucks. Seeing two Potter films was enough to see that its all a bit formulaic.
That's all they seem to do these days, add a bit more polish, tweak a few things under the hood and sell it you again.
I would sooner it was more secure than improved in appearance.
They're trying to be too cool. Their best programming often gets the least hype.
They were commited to providing their entire archives online, but this hasn't happened. DVD sales are obviously too lucretive.
If these had been around a year ago we could be talking about Apple innovation etc, but the fact is the x86 market is ahead and Motorola/IBM have their eyes on high end servers and the embedded market.
:)).
But still, the power use of these chips is very impressive. Always liked Motorola but AMD64 is where I'm at now (it's close in name to CBM64 too
With the Internet being a rich resource of information about maths, geography etc (but not always a very accurate one) how long before text books are replaced with print outs from websites?
Computers have been shown to actaully reduce the performance of children. I guess there's nothing to compete with the teacher and child relationship. A computer after all can't adapt to the needs or explain something in an alternate way.
Elegant or just visually appealing?
The original Mac OS concept was to keep things simple, have a very small wrapper around the application. It was an OS that was designed to run applications with very little fuss, OSX has added lots of distactions with its eye candy.
Widgets like MacOS and a browser bar like Firefox. Thank god we have Microsoft to bring us such innovation.
You will never have inter-operability in technology while you have propriatary code, patents, DMCA etc..
Companies see their source code as their lifeblood.
They may not have a monopoly in anti-virus software but by taking over companies and dropping support for alternative OSes they are influencing the OS that users will run.
She should have chosen a player with a radio, I'm sure she likes listening to the wireless.
Basically with Linux on your phone you can recompile any app for Linux to run on the PDA. The cross compatibility is better than with Windows and Window Mobile.
From what I've seen the GUI libraries are slimmed versions of QT and GTK.
I'd sooner help Microsoft not understand open source software. Helping them understand open source will just keep them in a dominant position.
They're trying to respond to the argument that windows is harder to administer via scripts and harder to automate.
But I'm sure applications will have to specifically implement shell extensions.
This is why I used to use OctaMED on the Amiga all the time for writing music. Despite it not having the best features and the best MIDI support it was easier to be writing all the music using the keyboard and not touching the mouse.
Compare that to Cubase for example and you are pointing and clicking all the time, pressing the computer keyboard for shortcuts and then moving back to a MIDI keyboard and even a virtual mixer control panel (MIDI slider unit). Much more cumbersome and time consuming which is a shame since Cubase is more powerful.
The performance of OSX as a server OS has been panned in benchmarks before now. It simply doesn't scale well. It can take about 5 times as long to create a thread with OSX compared to Linux.
Therefore you will always have Linux there as a non-Windows and non-Unix server OS.
I really don't see why they're chosing Intel, maybe Intel are very keen to have their business?
AMD64 would a better choice, its a more efficient design than the P4. Heat output and power usage is much better (especially with the 90nm Venice core).
Will the power be measured in BSP (Brake Sheep Power)? :)
:))
(I'm half welsh, I'm allowed to make sheep jokes
Stability, there's actually some form of QA process in motion. If it doesn't work very well then it doesn't get included.
Surely the Mac Mini caters for those who want to flirt with running OSX or those who want an Apple computer but find the eMac too big and the other Macs too expensive?
So the Intel machine just seems like yet another small form factor PC, a bit of a low rent Mac Mini.
All this will do is accelerate the deployment of DRM type technologies.
Ripping of movies and music will have to be prevented. Of course it might be impossible as the DVD spec can't be changed and CD isn't dying anytime soon.
This might be video hardware or network chips.
I can't for one minute imagine Apple replacing nice fairly cool and power efficient PPC chips for hot running 100+ watt monstrosities from Intel.
George A Romero, Night of the Zombie Sith :)
Yes Linus decides what goes in the vanilla Linux tree, but how many distros use that? they all patch their kernels with enhancements.
As long as this doesn't affect the XMLTV module I use for the UK. This grabs XML data from the Radio Times website (they provided the raw XML files as a goodwill gesture), it gives me about 2 weeks of data and enhances my TV viewing no end as I need not miss anything.
What is the community though?
You think KDE needs Linux? it's available for all the BSDs, much of the software is portable too. Linux is the kernel and there's been some rather unfortunate battles of recent times. The real loonies are the open source advocates who are turning OSS vs Commercial into some kind of religious battle.
Sure advocate and promote, but don't be so highly critical to the point of sounding obsessed.