As for "knowing enough", if the less IT proficient know about Linux or MacOS then they know a little about computers. Just like someone who chooses a diesel engine instead of a petrol engine will have a reason.
But every smaller film that gets funded by Disney ultimately ends up making money for Disney instead of a smaller film company. If a decent small film company rises up there's a chance Disney may buy them out.
In the UK we struggle to get films made and shown at cinemas basically because of all the huge dominant US film companies and the Indian film companies. There isn't room for all three.
Of course it's the fastest ever, CPU speeds are increasing all the time. If I go out and buy a new AMD CPU it'll be the fastest ever....for about 2-3 months.
Plus there's the "it beats anything on the PC market", erm quad CPU Xenon? it's a PC ain't it? where do you want to draw the line?
Macs are cool but speed doesn't convice people to buy a computer, the price often does. Mac users were once ridiculed for knowing very little about computers, however I think this isn't true these days. Mac users know enough about computers to be able to choose between a computer running Windows and a Mac.
Good quote, however Disney also made 102 Dalmations. Disney is about as innovative as Microsoft, many of their recent successes have been from characters bought or been made by subdivisions like Pixar.
I'd sooner watch the BBC version than have a Disney funded film. Who cares about the FX anyway? the strong points of the novel and TV series are the story and all it's humour.
Form factor of Apple products is often cooler. Microsoft pushes computing for the masses at a low cost, just like McDonalds pushes cheap junk food.
It's hard for them to be cool when they don't make many cool physical products. When they do release a consumer they're often ugly. Look at the XBox, a big fat console with black and green colour scheme (not cool). Tablet PCs, they might be a neat form factor but they still look like half a laptop.
And what do you think a JavaVM is written in? C or C++ for sure.
Whatever it's written in it still compiles down to the instruction set of the CPU or would he rather all CPUs ran Java bytecode?
OO languages simply aren't suitable for all tasks, neither is C. It might shock people like Joy to know that machine code is still written, you sometimes need to to write it for embedded systems.
I just hope we won't have to "chip" a PC in the future to be able to boot Linux. It's DRM gone mad, I certainly won't buy a board that has Microsoft technology on it.
If the country your startup is based in doesn't allow for software patents then you should guard your secrets with an NDA. Even if you're working on hardware projects you might wish to guard the software, see Transmeta for example, their crusoe chip was part software part microcode.
It does make Linux more responsive on the desktop too, although many of the performance improvements will be most noticeable to those running clusters.
Sure, I would always recommend that someone looks at the BSDs and Linux before Windows. But since so many people run Windows there is always going to be loads of people that can administer it. Thus even the more knowledgeable admins are still cheaper than Linux/Unix admin staff.
SCO thought IBM would give in early on but this hasn't happened. They're trying to come up with as much ammunition as possible but ultimately I think they're giving other people plenty to to shoot back at them.
Hopefully other contributers to the kernel will start suing them too.
They still sell them now, touch screens will have a hard time replacing keyboards such as the one in the Nokia 9210i. Not to mention you won't get much of a word processor or spreadsheet on a small square screen.
Different form factor for different uses, this is the gadget that might make 3G seem a little cooler.
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Photoshop does run with Crossover Office if you really must use it. However it's a bit on the slow side at the moment.
Or run Linux :)
GIMP is good enough, Cinepaint which is a GIMP fork has been used on many Hollywood films.
Yup, everyone makes a mistake once in a while :)
As for "knowing enough", if the less IT proficient know about Linux or MacOS then they know a little about computers. Just like someone who chooses a diesel engine instead of a petrol engine will have a reason.
But every smaller film that gets funded by Disney ultimately ends up making money for Disney instead of a smaller film company. If a decent small film company rises up there's a chance Disney may buy them out.
In the UK we struggle to get films made and shown at cinemas basically because of all the huge dominant US film companies and the Indian film companies. There isn't room for all three.
Of course it's the fastest ever, CPU speeds are increasing all the time. If I go out and buy a new AMD CPU it'll be the fastest ever....for about 2-3 months.
Plus there's the "it beats anything on the PC market", erm quad CPU Xenon? it's a PC ain't it? where do you want to draw the line?
Macs are cool but speed doesn't convice people to buy a computer, the price often does. Mac users were once ridiculed for knowing very little about computers, however I think this isn't true these days. Mac users know enough about computers to be able to choose between a computer running Windows and a Mac.
It's on the IMDB page
"Based on the Bram Stoker Award nominee short story by cult author Joe R. Lansdale,"
I guess someone read the story and thought it would make a good film, probably Don Coscarelli (of Phantasm fame).
Good quote, however Disney also made 102 Dalmations. Disney is about as innovative as Microsoft, many of their recent successes have been from characters bought or been made by subdivisions like Pixar.
I can just see it now:
Disney's Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
I'd sooner watch the BBC version than have a Disney funded film. Who cares about the FX anyway? the strong points of the novel and TV series are the story and all it's humour.
But the Matrix has PVC catsuits, XBox doesn't :)
Form factor of Apple products is often cooler. Microsoft pushes computing for the masses at a low cost, just like McDonalds pushes cheap junk food.
It's hard for them to be cool when they don't make many cool physical products. When they do release a consumer they're often ugly. Look at the XBox, a big fat console with black and green colour scheme (not cool). Tablet PCs, they might be a neat form factor but they still look like half a laptop.
And what do you think a JavaVM is written in? C or C++ for sure.
Whatever it's written in it still compiles down to the instruction set of the CPU or would he rather all CPUs ran Java bytecode?
OO languages simply aren't suitable for all tasks, neither is C. It might shock people like Joy to know that machine code is still written, you sometimes need to to write it for embedded systems.
Largely yes, but did you see that motherboard with a DVD player in the BIOS? would let that PC play a DVD within seconds of power on.
Maybe Microsoft will try something like this?
I just hope we won't have to "chip" a PC in the future to be able to boot Linux. It's DRM gone mad, I certainly won't buy a board that has Microsoft technology on it.
More like:
Dear SCO,
You have just made another enemy, we'll see you in court.
Sincerely,
SGI.
By making even more money out of old back catalogue technology that broke even a couple of decades ago.
Cracked? not the most ideal language to be using in an open source project given it's negative connotations.
If the country your startup is based in doesn't allow for software patents then you should guard your secrets with an NDA. Even if you're working on hardware projects you might wish to guard the software, see Transmeta for example, their crusoe chip was part software part microcode.
All depends on how radical your product is.
As the saying goes "the devil has the best tunes".
It does make Linux more responsive on the desktop too, although many of the performance improvements will be most noticeable to those running clusters.
Sure, I would always recommend that someone looks at the BSDs and Linux before Windows. But since so many people run Windows there is always going to be loads of people that can administer it. Thus even the more knowledgeable admins are still cheaper than Linux/Unix admin staff.
Many people do run Apache on Windows, mainly because it's cheaper to administer a Windows server (less knowledgeable admin staff needed).
Surely someone out there has packaged up a simple to use webserver Linux distro?
SCO thought IBM would give in early on but this hasn't happened. They're trying to come up with as much ammunition as possible but ultimately I think they're giving other people plenty to to shoot back at them.
Hopefully other contributers to the kernel will start suing them too.
They still sell them now, touch screens will have a hard time replacing keyboards such as the one in the Nokia 9210i. Not to mention you won't get much of a word processor or spreadsheet on a small square screen.
Different form factor for different uses, this is the gadget that might make 3G seem a little cooler.
What ISPs are these losers using?
How are they doing the DDOS, using PCs infected with a trojan?
They need some serious bandwidth either way.
It would be different for a twin cpu computer sold to home users. The norm is single CPU at the moment.
Plus all the other features I detailed.