Someone spends years writing some code which X company uses to give their OS a severe boost in the browser department. An OS with a poor browser is a poor internet desktop, you would think Apple would be grateful for the groundwork done by the KDE team.
So all the Mac fans might want to change their mind about Apple being a much nicer company than Microsoft?
They're just as keen to annoy people when they're doing well, if they don't look after those who are in effect saving them a lot of development time then these people will find ways to hamper Apple.
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It's almost like they want people to steal. Since you will feel you have paid for the music if you pay the tax and will steal the music.
If you have bought all your music then you won't want to pay the tax, so the only ways to avoid it are to either steal the mp3 player or buy elsewhere. Hardly good news for vendors in that country.
Suppose you comply to a standard and the standard doesn't evolve very fast as well as the process for improving the standard being long-winded.
This creates a situation where developers feel restricted and many open source developers develop for the fun and achievement. If they want restrictions, rules and regulations then they will program commercially.
I'm not against standards but there must be reason for the slow adoption of this standard. We have to look and see who the standards are created by, who they serve best (commercial interests) and if they hold back innovation and modernisation.
Some drives use plastic guides for the optical pickup. Over time this wears and the drives go out of alignment. This plagued some Sony Playstations, wouldn't be suprised if some PC drives are like that.
With technology changing so fast and prices for some units so low it's no wonder they're not built to last.
I would imagine the best CD/DVD drives are laptop units, since you can see the internals.
This just demonstrates the problem Microsoft faces, they want to lockdown the OS and make it more secure, but the pain level associated with it is too high for some Windows users who don't want to fool around with port numbers etc.
It's always easier to design something well from the start than to try and polish a turd.
Open Source development is the platform and the way of life. So who cares if it's not Linux that kills Windows.
Empires rarely last and Microsoft's problem is it's reliance on the money from Windows and Office. Both products are seriously overpriced and people are taking notice.
Sun should support Linux, if they don't they will be making a similar mistake to Sony by promoting their own format despite it being the less popular format.
They should take Linux for Sparc, make it as consistent as possible with Solaris (filesystem layout etc). Document it well, use a good installer like Anaconda or YaST then offer it as an alternative to Solaris.
Their expertise and value is in producing dependable hardware, they should offer as many different OS choices as possible.
It's bound to be slow to emulate a fairly RISC like CPU on a CISC CPU. Not to mention every numeric value will have to have the byte ordering flipped.
PowerPC chips have been able to alter byte ordering in hardware for years, hence RISC emulating CISC is much faster. There's also a genuine need for a niche market product (Mac) to gain access to software of the dominant desktop platform (x86/Win).
While it's one of the faster more traditional distros you really need to look to Suse, Mandrake etc to look at the state of Linux on laptops. Since these distros are able to auto detect the hardware in most laptops.
If these distros can't install a well configured Linux system onto a laptop then you can forget widespread Linux on laptop usage.
While you can manually configure and compile all manner of software to gradually bring your Linux laptop to full functionality with Slackware this approach is vastly outdated and for the hardcore Linux geek.
Indeed, although the theme was composed by someone else, she assembled the whole thing. Even today the lead line of the Dr Who remains largely unchanged, nobody has managed to better that huge lead sound.
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How much more crippled can this OS get?
Will it only install on a 1GB hard disk, only network via a null-modem cable, only run 16-bit apps?
Why don't they just give away Windows 3.11 instead.
It probably goes like this:
Testing company: we can do two comparisons for you, a fair one for $2000 or an unfair one for $10,000
Microsoft: unfair one please.
First it came to market after the PS2, so the graphics technology was superior. The second thing is the ease at which it could be "modded".
It didn't do too well in Japan, not sure of the latest figures but it wasn't popular simply because the Japanese like to buy their own products.
XBox360 needs to be superior to the competition again this time, both in technology terms and in terms of software and price.
While Sony's cell chip may be impressive the chances are it will be a pig to code for.
It's like called courtesy?
Someone spends years writing some code which X company uses to give their OS a severe boost in the browser department. An OS with a poor browser is a poor internet desktop, you would think Apple would be grateful for the groundwork done by the KDE team.
So all the Mac fans might want to change their mind about Apple being a much nicer company than Microsoft?
They're just as keen to annoy people when they're doing well, if they don't look after those who are in effect saving them a lot of development time then these people will find ways to hamper Apple.
It's almost like they want people to steal. Since you will feel you have paid for the music if you pay the tax and will steal the music.
If you have bought all your music then you won't want to pay the tax, so the only ways to avoid it are to either steal the mp3 player or buy elsewhere. Hardly good news for vendors in that country.
Do they know the meaning of the word innovation?
One again Microsoft's strategy is:
1. Let someone else come up with a new product
2. Let it mature
3. Copy all the good ideas from it
4. Improve it and releasse it
5. Profit?!
It's not that they're a threat, it's because they're a leading company in web dev and they have a leading format (flash) for other web content.
Microsoft can't possibly let someone have a lead in web technology.
Suppose you comply to a standard and the standard doesn't evolve very fast as well as the process for improving the standard being long-winded.
This creates a situation where developers feel restricted and many open source developers develop for the fun and achievement. If they want restrictions, rules and regulations then they will program commercially.
I'm not against standards but there must be reason for the slow adoption of this standard. We have to look and see who the standards are created by, who they serve best (commercial interests) and if they hold back innovation and modernisation.
Security can often carry a level of pain with it that would annoy a desktop user.
Also auditing many applications takes time. You can expect a distro run by a few people to audit thousands of lines of code in each package.
A lot more work needs to be done to make modules work with various kernel versions.
This way binary driver modules can be placed on company websites and then installed.
Sure, this is more microkernel like, but Microkernels are a lot more modern and easier to manage.
Was a rather original puzzle game on the Dreamcast. I thought it was different anyway.
Some drives use plastic guides for the optical pickup. Over time this wears and the drives go out of alignment. This plagued some Sony Playstations, wouldn't be suprised if some PC drives are like that.
With technology changing so fast and prices for some units so low it's no wonder they're not built to last.
I would imagine the best CD/DVD drives are laptop units, since you can see the internals.
This just demonstrates the problem Microsoft faces, they want to lockdown the OS and make it more secure, but the pain level associated with it is too high for some Windows users who don't want to fool around with port numbers etc.
It's always easier to design something well from the start than to try and polish a turd.
Open Source development is the platform and the way of life. So who cares if it's not Linux that kills Windows.
Empires rarely last and Microsoft's problem is it's reliance on the money from Windows and Office. Both products are seriously overpriced and people are taking notice.
Sun should support Linux, if they don't they will be making a similar mistake to Sony by promoting their own format despite it being the less popular format.
They should take Linux for Sparc, make it as consistent as possible with Solaris (filesystem layout etc). Document it well, use a good installer like Anaconda or YaST then offer it as an alternative to Solaris.
Their expertise and value is in producing dependable hardware, they should offer as many different OS choices as possible.
This is all most users want, I don't see why we have to spend money for tools Like XPLite to "bonzai" Windows.
Anyway, the only version of Windows most people want in Brazil is a fully functional free version.
Makes me wonder how these guys can possibly test the performance of the system without a full implementation.
Where would the PC clone be without reverse engineering?
..and some people don't like the archaic x86 platform.
PowerPC is a nice platform.
They? I thought Adams himself wrote the film screenplay? ok, there's another name listed so they might have hacked it around.
It's bound to be slow to emulate a fairly RISC like CPU on a CISC CPU. Not to mention every numeric value will have to have the byte ordering flipped.
PowerPC chips have been able to alter byte ordering in hardware for years, hence RISC emulating CISC is much faster. There's also a genuine need for a niche market product (Mac) to gain access to software of the dominant desktop platform (x86/Win).
While it's one of the faster more traditional distros you really need to look to Suse, Mandrake etc to look at the state of Linux on laptops. Since these distros are able to auto detect the hardware in most laptops.
If these distros can't install a well configured Linux system onto a laptop then you can forget widespread Linux on laptop usage.
While you can manually configure and compile all manner of software to gradually bring your Linux laptop to full functionality with Slackware this approach is vastly outdated and for the hardcore Linux geek.
Indeed, although the theme was composed by someone else, she assembled the whole thing. Even today the lead line of the Dr Who remains largely unchanged, nobody has managed to better that huge lead sound.
Make it line of sight, like microwave links. Of course only if that's suitable for the intended task.
Encryption will help, but it's still defeatable with brute force.