Pundits have never been a good source for technical information. You should try going straight to the source. I can tell you if you just want to hear it though. The system should be more stable under load due to the revamped scheduler and IO priorities that shipped in Vista. Hardware drivers have always shipped with the OS. Obviously hardware that's released after CDs have been pressed isn't going to be supported by default, but I don't know of any OS that can claim that.
You do realize that I'm now going to have to bash ten Microsoft products now to regain karma equilibrium.
UAC seems to work pretty well. Alot of the excessive nagging seems to come from older applications assuming they have free reign over the system. The only other times I've seen it I would have also had to use sudo on Unix.
All this program is going to do is churn out more ignorant and lazy children. All that's required for education is paper, pencils, and after a certain point perhaps a simple calculator (the add, subtract, multiply, divide type). Well I suppose it will also waste alot of money too if that's one of the goals.
I say imperative in anything but C. Pascal is a good choice. C just gives people already struggling to wrap their brains around new concepts to much rope to hang themselves with.
The only thing Syllable has in common with Linux is the fact that they are both computer operating systems. Yes we're using Redhat's Bluecurve icons, and prior to that we were using some KDE icons. If some talented artist steps up to the plate and creates some icons specifically for Syllable, I'm sure they would seriously be considered as replacements.
I didn't even know BurningShadow had released a 0.5.4 LiveCD yet. You've never been able to install off his LiveCDs though. Notice they are not called InstallCD. Everything that is available on Vander's Premium CD is available from syllable.org. If you're bitching about $10 for the time it takes for him to prepare a CD and ship it to you, I really doubt you would have contributed jack anyways. Might as well bitch about OpenBSDs iso image policy while you're at it.
Destroy their careers? Well, that certainly sounds drastic. Where I come from the only power a CEO has over any person working for him is to dismiss him from a job. If he has some way of preventing that person from taking a job with any other employer, that would be a problem, but he doesn't, so it isn't.
This argument sounds somewhat true upon first glance, but you forget one important factor. If CEO A dismisses his local employees in favor of cheap overseas labor, CEO B and CEO C also need to do so in order to compete with company A's lower operating costs. So while CEO A is not directly preventing our poor engineer from getting a job from another employer, he is preventing him from getting a job in a field that he's spent a considerable amount of time and money to become proficient in. But hey, at least he can get a job as a groundskeeper for those CEOs.
You forgot the FSF in your list of people selling GPLed Software. For the low low price of $5,000 USD they will happily send you a copy of binaries compiled for your platform and a set of printed manuals.
Have a look through the headers of one of the SysV flavors of Unix sometime. Microsoft was doing unprivileged users, in the form of Xenix, 25 years ago.
How exactly does Apple owe any of its success to Linux? Steve Jobs was in the Unix market before Linux was even a glimmer in Mr. Torvald's eye. Also , let's not forget Apple's previous Unix, AUX, or the fact that OSX IS BSD! The do however owe alot to the Opensource community. (Apache, FreeBSD, GNU, etc.)
Objective-C ranks lower than REXX on that list. Someone better call Apple, and all of its 3rd party developers and tell them their reccomended programming language is dead.
You'd think that a university should understand copyright better.
Making copies of any copyrighted material without the right to do so is against both state and federal law and University policy.
Hogwash. Making copies of anyone's copyrighted materials is permitted by US law. Distributing those copies is another matter entirely. I propose they rename it to copyanddistributeright.
Sorry I forgot the block in the closing blockquote.
You'd think that a university should understand copyright better.
Making copies of any copyrighted material without the right to do so is against both state and federal law and University policy.
Hogwash. Making copies of anyone's copyright materials is permitted by US law. Distributing those copies is another matter entirely. I propose they rename it to copyanddistributeright.
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Pundits have never been a good source for technical information. You should try going straight to the source. I can tell you if you just want to hear it though. The system should be more stable under load due to the revamped scheduler and IO priorities that shipped in Vista. Hardware drivers have always shipped with the OS. Obviously hardware that's released after CDs have been pressed isn't going to be supported by default, but I don't know of any OS that can claim that.
You do realize that I'm now going to have to bash ten Microsoft products now to regain karma equilibrium.
UAC seems to work pretty well. Alot of the excessive nagging seems to come from older applications assuming they have free reign over the system. The only other times I've seen it I would have also had to use sudo on Unix.
All this program is going to do is churn out more ignorant and lazy children. All that's required for education is paper, pencils, and after a certain point perhaps a simple calculator (the add, subtract, multiply, divide type). Well I suppose it will also waste alot of money too if that's one of the goals.
MS just can't win on this.
User: "Wah I'm tired of getting rootkits and trojans installed on my box. Design your OS with some security MS!"
MS: "Ok we added better security features to Vista"
User: "Wah! Security is a pain in the ass. Get rid of this security crap MS!"
MS: /facepalm
Who doesn't love colorful turtles?
I say imperative in anything but C. Pascal is a good choice. C just gives people already struggling to wrap their brains around new concepts to much rope to hang themselves with.
If anyone made the PC a commodity, it was Compaq for reverse-engineering IBM's BIOS.
Except for the small detail that Wine only runs on x86 hardware.
The only thing Syllable has in common with Linux is the fact that they are both computer operating systems. Yes we're using Redhat's Bluecurve icons, and prior to that we were using some KDE icons. If some talented artist steps up to the plate and creates some icons specifically for Syllable, I'm sure they would seriously be considered as replacements.
I didn't even know BurningShadow had released a 0.5.4 LiveCD yet. You've never been able to install off his LiveCDs though. Notice they are not called InstallCD. Everything that is available on Vander's Premium CD is available from syllable.org. If you're bitching about $10 for the time it takes for him to prepare a CD and ship it to you, I really doubt you would have contributed jack anyways. Might as well bitch about OpenBSDs iso image policy while you're at it.
Destroy their careers? Well, that certainly sounds drastic. Where I come from the only power a CEO has over any person working for him is to dismiss him from a job. If he has some way of preventing that person from taking a job with any other employer, that would be a problem, but he doesn't, so it isn't.
This argument sounds somewhat true upon first glance, but you forget one important factor. If CEO A dismisses his local employees in favor of cheap overseas labor, CEO B and CEO C also need to do so in order to compete with company A's lower operating costs. So while CEO A is not directly preventing our poor engineer from getting a job from another employer, he is preventing him from getting a job in a field that he's spent a considerable amount of time and money to become proficient in. But hey, at least he can get a job as a groundskeeper for those CEOs.
You forgot the FSF in your list of people selling GPLed Software. For the low low price of $5,000 USD they will happily send you a copy of binaries compiled for your platform and a set of printed manuals.
https://agia.fsf.org/order/
Have a look through the headers of one of the SysV flavors of Unix sometime. Microsoft was doing unprivileged users, in the form of Xenix, 25 years ago.
90+ mph 1/4 mile? Now I see why you're posting AC. I wouldn't tell a soul if that was all my "drag race car" could muster.
The burden could be carried, but dont expect a company to provide that level of support for what the price of a current Windows license is.
Um, not really. Xnu is a hybrid between Mach and the BSD kernel. Ever bothered to check xnu out of cvs and have a look at it?
How exactly does Apple owe any of its success to Linux? Steve Jobs was in the Unix market before Linux was even a glimmer in Mr. Torvald's eye. Also , let's not forget Apple's previous Unix, AUX, or the fact that OSX IS BSD! The do however owe alot to the Opensource community. (Apache, FreeBSD, GNU, etc.)
You can already do this. Go buy yourself a Mac, install Linux, and download maconlinux. You can run OS9, OSX, and Linux all under Linux.
I duno about Linux in a window, but I know you can run Mac OS under Linux using Mac On Linux.
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Objective-C ranks lower than REXX on that list. Someone better call Apple, and all of its 3rd party developers and tell them their reccomended programming language is dead.
You're absolutely correct. How my post got moderated to +5, I'll never know. I suppose this is /. though.
Hogwash. Making copies of anyone's copyrighted materials is permitted by US law. Distributing those copies is another matter entirely. I propose they rename it to copyanddistributeright.
Sorry I forgot the block in the closing blockquote.
Actually BeOS began its life running on 5 AT&T Hobbit processors.