This is not a troll; I'm a Linux user and have been since 1995, and I run Debian (so you know I'm a true blue old-skool dork, not some MS shill). But really-- WHAT apps? All the Linux apps worth running, with probably under a dozen exceptions, are either:
1) Already available for Solaris ...or...
2) Open-source and thus available for immediate porting
Come on. Think of the commercial closed-source stuff that's available for Linux, but not Solaris.
Oh, and *laugh*Accelerated-X*laugh*. Seriously. Who the heck uses that?
Oh, and maybe some random assorted browser plug-ins. Anything else? Anybody? Hello?... didn't think so.
Seriously, why is this even worth Sun's time?! If I were a Sun shareholder (which I would never do, now that they have a "technology sharing" agreement with MS and are all buddy-buddy after accepting a settlement bribe from MS... well, I'd be frothing at the mouth even more than I am now.;)
Hello? Did I just read what I thought I read!? Full support for Flash, and it's open-source!?!?? This is a first!!! This means that virtually any Un*xlike operating system, running on virtually any CPU, can now play Flash-- right?
A slow emulator is a worthless emulator. As a major emulation fan, I was considering getting a GP32 (GamePark32) handheld, due to the wealth of emulators available for it.
Then I looked into what is actually available. Sure, lots of emulators-- some of which are missing sound, and virtually ALL of which run at some fraction (1/3, 1/2, 2/3, whatever) of the speed of the "real" console.
Thanks, but no thanks. You don't have to be a purist (heck, if I was a purist, I'd be lugging around an actual SNES around in my backpack, and an LCD display to plug it into) to be MAJORLY put off by a non-full-speed emulator, or-- just as much-- an emulator without sound.
Can you imagine playing Final Fantasy 6, or Chrono Trigger, at 2/3 speed, with no sound?
I wouldn't want to. Not in a billion years.
To me, slow emulators have ONE use and ONE use only: Capturing screenshots of games.
(Incidentally, all of my comments apply solely to game console emulators. There are, obviously, uses for slow COMPUTER emulators-- although there comes a point where they become too slow for anything except development/debugging use (e.g. Bochs, which is so incredibly slow as to be a joke).)
There is NO SUCH BLOODY THING as "Linux OS". There is "Debian GNU/Linux". There is "Red Hat Linux". There is "SuSE". There is "Mandrake". But there is no product/distro/whatever called "Linux OS".
Thank you for correcting me. I'll be more precise in the future.
(You aren't an idiot if you make mistakes in your writing. You're an idiot if you make mistakes in your writing, you get corrected, and you knowingly keep making the same mistakes.)
Well, if it means that a decent open-source/free software technology will become closed and proprietary, then yes, may heaven forbid it.
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I'm not trolling. I really, truly, honestly get my knickers in a twist over punctuation abuse.
If I was a troll, I wouldn't have Excellent karma, and regularly (at least once out of every 3 or 4 posts) get a "5, Insightful", "5, Informative", "5, Interesting" or "5, Funny".
And I'd post anonymously, like you. And probably use a lot of inappropriate racial slurs like "nigger" for no reason at all. And post links to goatse. Or Tubgirl. Or talk about "GNAA". That's the sort of shit trolls do. I'm not a troll. I'm just slightly nuts and obsessed with the proper(ish) use of language.
I really can't believe I'm the only person out there who doesn't trust Zend. The Linux kernel is backed by kernel dot org, Perl is Larry Wall (an individual hacker) and his Merrye Bande of Hackers, and no one company "owns" C (contrary to what some might think re: Microsoft Visual C++;) ), but PHP is "owned" (read: controlled) by a commercial entity, Zend.
What's to say PHP6 won't be released with a MS-style EULA? Do we really trust the company called Zend? Frankly, I wouldn't be at all surprised if Microsoft would start working with Zend-- much like how they have worked with those guys who made "ActivePerl"... MS likes to dip their fingers in every pie, so long as it's commercial-- and Zend is commercial.
Again, why should we trust these guys? They're just another company out to make money, and in this day and age, this likely means that they'd get in bed with Microsoft in a heartbeat if BillG or MonkeyBoy came a-knocking. So perhaps my question should be: Will Zend sell out? (Remember: Even Sun sold out.)
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So I'm a crack-smoker because I don't see the attraction of trolling?
I'm curious, and this is a serious question. Exactly what the fuck motivates you trolls to sit around SlashDot posting shit like this? What's the thrill? What drives you to waste your time posting things like this?
...is that HP has completely lost sight of its sound roots in the engineering/geek world. HP used to be known as the producer of such geek icons as the HP48 series of calculators, the fantastic old LaserJets (not to be confused with the modern versions) and, of course, the venerable DeskJets. Today, their calculator business is a ghost of its former self, the new calculators are almost uniformly agreed to suck, and their once-vaunted printer business has devolved into the "drug dealer" model of doing business-- hook 'em with cheap printers, then sell them ink at obscene prices. (I remember reading a quote on SlashDot in the recent past saying that ink, ounce for ounce, is worth more than rare old wines now? Or something to that effect...)
Anyhow, HP used to be an engineer's company-- a geek's company. Didn't the Woz used to work there? And he was a geek's geek. Even as recently as my high school education (I'm 25), HP was a touchstone of geek culture.
And now that it's merged with Comcrap, its devolution into yet another mindless "cheap plastic crap computers" business has been completed.
There seem to be only two companies nowadays with solid geek-friendly engineering-- Apple (excepting many of their first-generation products) and IBM (think: ThinkPads... solid engineering and a simple, robust design virtually unchanged in 10 years). HP is now just Compaq wearing a tie. DEC is long gone ("Compaq Tru64 Unix", anyone?), swallowed by the Compaq beast. SGI is going out with a whimper instead of a bang. Sun sold their soul to Redmond and is now producing x86 and x86-64 hardware that are Windows-certified.
And, as usual... no one gives a damn. We're all too damned addicted to ShinyPlasticCrap(TM) to care about the lack of sound engineering.
As far as I'm concerned, Carly Fiorina's head should be on a stake somewhere, the damned sellout. She robbed us all of a good, solid, geeky company in favour of more anticompetitive, mindless, corporate, plastic crap.
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No relation to Ingsoc? ;)
This is not a troll; I'm a Linux user and have been since 1995, and I run Debian (so you know I'm a true blue old-skool dork, not some MS shill). But really-- WHAT apps? All the Linux apps worth running, with probably under a dozen exceptions, are either:
...or...
..... VMWare?
... didn't think so.
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1) Already available for Solaris
2) Open-source and thus available for immediate porting
Come on. Think of the commercial closed-source stuff that's available for Linux, but not Solaris.
1) VMWare.
2) Uhh... VMWare.
3) Umm
4) Ohyeah. VMWare Server.
Oh, and *laugh*Accelerated-X*laugh*. Seriously. Who the heck uses that?
Oh, and maybe some random assorted browser plug-ins. Anything else? Anybody? Hello?
Seriously, why is this even worth Sun's time?! If I were a Sun shareholder (which I would never do, now that they have a "technology sharing" agreement with MS and are all buddy-buddy after accepting a settlement bribe from MS... well, I'd be frothing at the mouth even more than I am now.
Yes, it just stinks.
Isn't that one of the signs of the Apocalypse?
Hello? Did I just read what I thought I read!? Full support for Flash, and it's open-source!?!?? This is a first!!! This means that virtually any Un*xlike operating system, running on virtually any CPU, can now play Flash-- right?
So the homebrew scene has been well-known since 2000, and they still don't have full-speed emulators? Jeez.
The possessive of "it" is "its".
A slow emulator is a worthless emulator. As a major emulation fan, I was considering getting a GP32 (GamePark32) handheld, due to the wealth of emulators available for it.
Then I looked into what is actually available. Sure, lots of emulators-- some of which are missing sound, and virtually ALL of which run at some fraction (1/3, 1/2, 2/3, whatever) of the speed of the "real" console.
Thanks, but no thanks. You don't have to be a purist (heck, if I was a purist, I'd be lugging around an actual SNES around in my backpack, and an LCD display to plug it into) to be MAJORLY put off by a non-full-speed emulator, or-- just as much-- an emulator without sound.
Can you imagine playing Final Fantasy 6, or Chrono Trigger, at 2/3 speed, with no sound?
I wouldn't want to. Not in a billion years.
To me, slow emulators have ONE use and ONE use only: Capturing screenshots of games.
(Incidentally, all of my comments apply solely to game console emulators. There are, obviously, uses for slow COMPUTER emulators-- although there comes a point where they become too slow for anything except development/debugging use (e.g. Bochs, which is so incredibly slow as to be a joke).)
Most users ARE inexperienced users.
The plural of "mom" is "moms". It is not "mom's".
...err .... Microsoft does take Monopoly money, right?
...Evidently, you missed my point.
There is NO SUCH BLOODY THING as "Linux OS". There is "Debian GNU/Linux". There is "Red Hat Linux". There is "SuSE". There is "Mandrake". But there is no product/distro/whatever called "Linux OS".
Where can I buy a copy of Linux OS?
Thank you for correcting me. I'll be more precise in the future.
(You aren't an idiot if you make mistakes in your writing. You're an idiot if you make mistakes in your writing, you get corrected, and you knowingly keep making the same mistakes.)
"Plugging that PCI card in violates the GPL because it is (sic) option ROM creates a derived work with GNU BIOS!!"
Me is troll. Me am speaky English good.
Its its its its its its its! ITS! "It's" means "it is". I doubt you meant to say "ripping it apart for it is components"
Its, its, its. ITS. Fucking ITS. Not "it's"!
(Capital L because it's a proper noun)
Is there anything people won't misspell nowadays?
"Logitect." "Athalon." "Penitum." "E-Bay" (No, it's "eBay"). "Apple Max OS" (It's "Mac OS".) "Linnux" (or "Linus" instead of "Linux"). "RedHate". Freaking "Labtop". It never ends...
...the bastard child of FTP and HTTP.
Well, if it means that a decent open-source/free software technology will become closed and proprietary, then yes, may heaven forbid it.
I'm not trolling. I really, truly, honestly get my knickers in a twist over punctuation abuse.
If I was a troll, I wouldn't have Excellent karma, and regularly (at least once out of every 3 or 4 posts) get a "5, Insightful", "5, Informative", "5, Interesting" or "5, Funny".
And I'd post anonymously, like you. And probably use a lot of inappropriate racial slurs like "nigger" for no reason at all. And post links to goatse. Or Tubgirl. Or talk about "GNAA". That's the sort of shit trolls do. I'm not a troll. I'm just slightly nuts and obsessed with the proper(ish) use of language.
I really can't believe I'm the only person out there who doesn't trust Zend. The Linux kernel is backed by kernel dot org, Perl is Larry Wall (an individual hacker) and his Merrye Bande of Hackers, and no one company "owns" C (contrary to what some might think re: Microsoft Visual C++ ;) ), but PHP is "owned" (read: controlled) by a commercial entity, Zend.
What's to say PHP6 won't be released with a MS-style EULA? Do we really trust the company called Zend? Frankly, I wouldn't be at all surprised if Microsoft would start working with Zend-- much like how they have worked with those guys who made "ActivePerl"... MS likes to dip their fingers in every pie, so long as it's commercial-- and Zend is commercial.
Again, why should we trust these guys? They're just another company out to make money, and in this day and age, this likely means that they'd get in bed with Microsoft in a heartbeat if BillG or MonkeyBoy came a-knocking. So perhaps my question should be: Will Zend sell out? (Remember: Even Sun sold out.)
So I'm a crack-smoker because I don't see the attraction of trolling?
I'm curious, and this is a serious question. Exactly what the fuck motivates you trolls to sit around SlashDot posting shit like this? What's the thrill? What drives you to waste your time posting things like this?
...is that HP has completely lost sight of its sound roots in the engineering/geek world. HP used to be known as the producer of such geek icons as the HP48 series of calculators, the fantastic old LaserJets (not to be confused with the modern versions) and, of course, the venerable DeskJets. Today, their calculator business is a ghost of its former self, the new calculators are almost uniformly agreed to suck, and their once-vaunted printer business has devolved into the "drug dealer" model of doing business-- hook 'em with cheap printers, then sell them ink at obscene prices. (I remember reading a quote on SlashDot in the recent past saying that ink, ounce for ounce, is worth more than rare old wines now? Or something to that effect...)
Anyhow, HP used to be an engineer's company-- a geek's company. Didn't the Woz used to work there? And he was a geek's geek. Even as recently as my high school education (I'm 25), HP was a touchstone of geek culture.
And now that it's merged with Comcrap, its devolution into yet another mindless "cheap plastic crap computers" business has been completed.
There seem to be only two companies nowadays with solid geek-friendly engineering-- Apple (excepting many of their first-generation products) and IBM (think: ThinkPads... solid engineering and a simple, robust design virtually unchanged in 10 years). HP is now just Compaq wearing a tie. DEC is long gone ("Compaq Tru64 Unix", anyone?), swallowed by the Compaq beast. SGI is going out with a whimper instead of a bang. Sun sold their soul to Redmond and is now producing x86 and x86-64 hardware that are Windows-certified.
And, as usual... no one gives a damn. We're all too damned addicted to ShinyPlasticCrap(TM) to care about the lack of sound engineering.
As far as I'm concerned, Carly Fiorina's head should be on a stake somewhere, the damned sellout. She robbed us all of a good, solid, geeky company in favour of more anticompetitive, mindless, corporate, plastic crap.