1)OSX is not fully 64-bit either. 2)YDL created yum (Yellowdog Package Manager) that handles dependencies automatically. 3)There are lots of reasons folks might want to use Linux instead of OSX. Check around this story for lots of them. In my case, I just like KDE's interface a hell of a lot more than OSX's "real purty, but not at all utilitarian" approach. 4)If that wasn't meant as a flame, you need to work on your posting.
Yes, but we're linux users. We're used to linux running on an architecture long before the hardware actually exists...at least that's the way it always works with new chips from Intel and AMD.
You don't have to abandon new hardware to keep supporting the old. Just look at the x86 branch...it's got features that are only usable on p4-ht hardware (like, say, hyperthreading support), and options that sane people would only turn on for a 386 (like, say, math-coprocessor support).
Sorry, but it is. MS owns a significant chunk of apple. But the worst part is that this way, not only are you paying them tribute for the copy of OSX you aren't going to use, but also for the inflated hardware price.
First off, who the hell is modding these posts offtopic?
Secondly, yes, I prefer Gentoo PPC to Yellow Dog as well. However, I wouldn't recommend it to very many people I know, just because it has a significantly higher knowledge requirement and learning curve. While I have no problem with that (and run Gentoo on my x86 stuff also) and like source-based stuff, it's definitely handy that there's a binary distro out there too.
Also, I can only assume that your comparison was based on the old version of YDL, which is pretty crufty by now.
Yes, you can dual-boot. Furthermore, with mac-on-linux, you can run your OSX installation in a window on linux. Not emulation, either...it just boots the os native.
You are off here. The GPL doesn't say one way or another whether you sign your copyright over. In fact, the GNU project, like MySQL (which, by the way, is GPL itself), does require this. The originator of a project is free to choose whether he wants to require everyone to sign their copyright over or not, and it has nothing at all to do with the GPL.
Furthermore, Eben Moglen (FSF Lawyer) says Linus made a big mistake by not requiring the copyrights be signed over (he also says contributors should be required to sign something saying they have rights to do so). He says the way it is now makes it much more difficult to track whose copyrights are actually in the kernel, and verify that the contributors actually own those copyrights.
Yes, it might. Particularly with gentoo, there isn't much reason for you to need to reinstall. If you really did the whole world build at ~x86, that's pretty funny. But I'm still just a bit surprised that you couldn't limp along long enough to remerge world without ~x86. In a system like that, where you can reinstall any part of the system, from source, with whatever compile-time options you want, at will....there's just no reason to have to reinstall.
I've got a gentoo box that's been running since early 2002. It's got pretty much exactly the same software on it as the box I built last week.
That's precisely the way I read it...they don't see a need for this in their 'for money' software portfolio. Kept proprietary, there isn't really any way it would be profitable; this isn't something they can sell as a product...they might be able to embed it in hardware sales, but they can still do that. So, they just farm it out to the "free geek labor" and forget about it. It still has all the utility for them it did before, now they don't have to pay development costs, and furthermore they can write it off on both their balance sheet and their taxes. And the price they get to write off? Astronomical.
You might as well point out that BMW drivers have a higher average IQ and writing ability than Chevy Nova drivers. Macs are vastly more expensive machines to own than PC's. Folks with higher income levels corellate well with folks who are intelligent and expressive. Any time you've got a 'luxury' good, it will correlate this way.
No, when I say it sounds "pretty unlikely" I mean, "this thing can probably hold the whole goddamn shuttle up." I also mean, "I think it's highly unlikely that a tether has *ever* broken before, on any mission from any country."
And while I'm at it, there *would* be a use for a rock climber to have a jetpack, *if* there were any real chance that his rope would break. But there isn't. That's kind of my point.
Interestingly enough, it was in both. And there was also a theorization of it by Dr. Calvin in I, Robot...I think it was the last one, "The Machines," where the world-controlling computers are found to have been trashing certain humans' careers because they were destabalizing the social order. However, it was the Robots and Empire one that was the real story...where the robots (by the way, it was R. Giskard Reventlov who did it, first acted on it, and had his brain fried. And R. Daneel Olivaw helped him figure it out.) basically figured out that the first law conflicted with itself inherently, and came up with something to fix it. In Prelude to Foundation R. Daneel comes back as the political advisor behind the Empire, having over thousands of years come to grips with the zeroth law...but to me it was just caught up in that ridiculous "R-Daneel Olivaw shows up in the Foundation series, only 234234563 years after we last say his shiny metal ass. Wow...this really ties all of Asimov's work together" thing. I was pissed off about Prelude. And don't even get me started on Forward the Foundation.
Anyway, all that aside, who are the ignorant fucks who modded the first post about the zeroth law all the way to +5 Funny? What a bunch of jackasses.
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Hey smart guy...
1)OSX is not fully 64-bit either.
2)YDL created yum (Yellowdog Package Manager) that handles dependencies automatically.
3)There are lots of reasons folks might want to use Linux instead of OSX. Check around this story for lots of them. In my case, I just like KDE's interface a hell of a lot more than OSX's "real purty, but not at all utilitarian" approach.
4)If that wasn't meant as a flame, you need to work on your posting.
Yes, but we're linux users. We're used to linux running on an architecture long before the hardware actually exists...at least that's the way it always works with new chips from Intel and AMD.
You don't have to abandon new hardware to keep supporting the old. Just look at the x86 branch...it's got features that are only usable on p4-ht hardware (like, say, hyperthreading support), and options that sane people would only turn on for a 386 (like, say, math-coprocessor support).
Hint: MS tax is not applicable to Apple boxes :-D
Sorry, but it is. MS owns a significant chunk of apple. But the worst part is that this way, not only are you paying them tribute for the copy of OSX you aren't going to use, but also for the inflated hardware price.
Yeah, it's called moveon
First off, who the hell is modding these posts offtopic?
Secondly, yes, I prefer Gentoo PPC to Yellow Dog as well. However, I wouldn't recommend it to very many people I know, just because it has a significantly higher knowledge requirement and learning curve. While I have no problem with that (and run Gentoo on my x86 stuff also) and like source-based stuff, it's definitely handy that there's a binary distro out there too.
Also, I can only assume that your comparison was based on the old version of YDL, which is pretty crufty by now.
Yes, you can dual-boot. Furthermore, with mac-on-linux, you can run your OSX installation in a window on linux. Not emulation, either...it just boots the os native.
You are off here. The GPL doesn't say one way or another whether you sign your copyright over. In fact, the GNU project, like MySQL (which, by the way, is GPL itself), does require this. The originator of a project is free to choose whether he wants to require everyone to sign their copyright over or not, and it has nothing at all to do with the GPL.
Furthermore, Eben Moglen (FSF Lawyer) says Linus made a big mistake by not requiring the copyrights be signed over (he also says contributors should be required to sign something saying they have rights to do so). He says the way it is now makes it much more difficult to track whose copyrights are actually in the kernel, and verify that the contributors actually own those copyrights.
It might be that I do stupid things...
Yes, it might. Particularly with gentoo, there isn't much reason for you to need to reinstall. If you really did the whole world build at ~x86, that's pretty funny. But I'm still just a bit surprised that you couldn't limp along long enough to remerge world without ~x86. In a system like that, where you can reinstall any part of the system, from source, with whatever compile-time options you want, at will....there's just no reason to have to reinstall.
I've got a gentoo box that's been running since early 2002. It's got pretty much exactly the same software on it as the box I built last week.
You could have also said Google. But I concur...MySQL is definitely ready for heavy loads.
That's precisely the way I read it...they don't see a need for this in their 'for money' software portfolio. Kept proprietary, there isn't really any way it would be profitable; this isn't something they can sell as a product...they might be able to embed it in hardware sales, but they can still do that. So, they just farm it out to the "free geek labor" and forget about it. It still has all the utility for them it did before, now they don't have to pay development costs, and furthermore they can write it off on both their balance sheet and their taxes. And the price they get to write off? Astronomical.
Nope...they won't put anything in without you signing the copyright over.
Silly.
You might as well point out that BMW drivers have a higher average IQ and writing ability than Chevy Nova drivers. Macs are vastly more expensive machines to own than PC's. Folks with higher income levels corellate well with folks who are intelligent and expressive. Any time you've got a 'luxury' good, it will correlate this way.
Not news.
I get no mod points. My dick is too big.
Well, shit. That explains it! I've been wondering this whole time why I never get mod points...
No, when I say it sounds "pretty unlikely" I mean, "this thing can probably hold the whole goddamn shuttle up." I also mean, "I think it's highly unlikely that a tether has *ever* broken before, on any mission from any country."
And while I'm at it, there *would* be a use for a rock climber to have a jetpack, *if* there were any real chance that his rope would break. But there isn't. That's kind of my point.
Yeah, it damn near happened that way this time...
I don't know...the tether breaking sounds pretty unlikely; has it ever happened before? I mean, rock climbers don't carry jetpacks either....
Uh, space walks you?
Mission control and the ISS crew are still debating what to do next.
Mission control: Go back out there!
ISS crew: No!
Dude....shut the fuck up.
...I suggest they use awk and sed.
First of all, that's Dr. Asimov.
Second of all, I maintain that he was just going senile. Because Prelude sucked.
Interestingly enough, it was in both. And there was also a theorization of it by Dr. Calvin in I, Robot...I think it was the last one, "The Machines," where the world-controlling computers are found to have been trashing certain humans' careers because they were destabalizing the social order. However, it was the Robots and Empire one that was the real story...where the robots (by the way, it was R. Giskard Reventlov who did it, first acted on it, and had his brain fried. And R. Daneel Olivaw helped him figure it out.) basically figured out that the first law conflicted with itself inherently, and came up with something to fix it. In Prelude to Foundation R. Daneel comes back as the political advisor behind the Empire, having over thousands of years come to grips with the zeroth law...but to me it was just caught up in that ridiculous "R-Daneel Olivaw shows up in the Foundation series, only 234234563 years after we last say his shiny metal ass. Wow...this really ties all of Asimov's work together" thing. I was pissed off about Prelude. And don't even get me started on Forward the Foundation.
Anyway, all that aside, who are the ignorant fucks who modded the first post about the zeroth law all the way to +5 Funny? What a bunch of jackasses.
Nice. I don't know when the next time I need to install XP (much less on an unprotected network) but I'll definitely keep it in mind. Thanks!
No dude...he did it all with a hole-punch and fed it in on cards.