Log into a single web site, see every server in your stable, along with every package installed, every patch that is pending, all your system info about each server, etc.
It's the -service- that makes RedHat Enterprise the top tier Enterprise Linux, not the software.
* ipfilter (which does filtering and in/out NAT including packet level load balancing that is just as good as anything F4 is providing).
* the solaris package system sucks, yes - but compared to RedHat, by your own admission, is not worse. Download pkg-get from Blastwave and it does all the dependency instlalation and downloading for you anyways, providing a terribly "apt" like system. Who actually downloads Solaris packages manually anymore? Idiots.. that's who.
* Solaris has come with bash standard, a whole folder of GNU tools (/usr/sfw) and via pkg-get, access to anything and everything that Linux provides in the way of GNU command line tools.
- color ls isn't ls, per se - it's in the environment. I have color ls on my Solaris boxes. It's trivially easy to configure and is unique to Linux that it's set that way standard. Google is your friend.
- Solaris tar sucks for many reasons, the biggest of which is it's long standing problems with long filenames. Linux distributions use gtar, and Solaris comes with gtar out of the box in/usr/sfw/bin - so what exactly is the problem here? With Solaris, you get a choice between the two - arguably better for the user.
Point is - if you just set your environment right (this takes 30 seconds to do when you finish installing your system), most of your arguments disappear and if you get pkg-get the rest of your arguments go with it.
As for ease of use and maintenance, Solaris 10 with pkg-get and Sun's network management tools reign -hugely- supreme over most Linux distributions. I speak purely from the standpoint of some who has to manage dozens of Solaris boxes (and at one point, dozens of Linux boxes) at the same time. The only Linux dist I've used that really holds up from a management point of view is Red Hat Enterprise - which is every bit as good as the stuff Sun is doing these days.
Yes, you have to pay for both (I think Sun is actually a little cheaper, IIRC), but it costs me way less to pay Sun/Red Hat for their network manageement services than it costs me in time and labor - one day of my time can cost more than a whole year of RHN.
As for color ls - haven't been around long, have you? Color ls is a moderate convenience.. but who actually needs it? If you can't be just as efficient without it you probably need to take a UNIX course or something.
Why do I sometimes feel like a pinball rattling around in a machine with a bunch of AMD fan-boys whacking at the paddles?
Well DUH, dude.
That's what "if properly vectorized" means... I just didn't think it was wholly necessary to suffix the that sentence with the clearly implied "(when vectorization is possible or practical)".
But thanks, Capt. Obvious...
As an aside... a lot of pure GUI code (ie, at the window server level) is quite vector friendly. Most applications don't dive deep enough into the windowing system to have to bother with vectors, though.
They look at PowerPC running Darwin 8.1 and two Xeons and an Opteron running Linux 2.4/2.6. Why not show the PowerPC running Linux?! I want to see how Linux on PPC compares to Linux on x386 these days!
Bottom line - with Linux as the operating system, all indications are that the G5 and the Opteron reign supreme over Intel's quaint little offering, and that the G5 will blow the doors off clean off Opteron if properly vectorized.
The whole "violently free" thing is amusingly ironic... I'm nuts? You're clueless. I'll take nuts.
"Socialism": A political/economic policy advocating that the means of production and market should be controlled by the whole.
"Communism": A class system in which all property is public and individuals are paid according only to their contribution.
There is a pretty clear difference if you consider the two, rather then just fear-monger. You can have socialist concepts within a capitalist framework (or vice versa) just as you can have socialist concepts within a communist framework (or vice versa). Indeed, Marx wrote that a purely socialist system was a stepping stone if society wanted to transition to pure communism. If you had every actually read this, as you so advocate, rather then just babble foolishness that you read in the National Post, you'd know this.
As for "a basic review of history". Perhaps in your neo-con world, this works - unfortunately, last I checked, Canada isn't communist, but we're fairly sociailist. However, if you'd like to present some facts to back up your wildly off-base claim, do so. I'm all ears.
I never said Cuba didn't suck. Indeed, I've never been to Cuba. How you connected to that one is beyond me. Indeed, I never used the word "Cuba" at all. Nice try, though...
As for the liberal media... for every example you give that the media is "liberal", I can give an example that they are "conservative". This is why I called it a half-truth. I recognize a blurred line when I see one. Can you say the same? It seems not.
"This Hour has 22 minutes" is supposed to be ironic and comedic. Clearly, you don't get it. If you think Rick Mercer's "talking to Americans" is a state sanctioned inditement of policy and action, than you put way to much stock in Rick Mercer. Indeed, I'm sure that'd make him happy... but he'd probably also agree that you've wildly missed the point.
At any rate... I don't often listen much to people who write the words "fer chrissakes" and "BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!". If you can't even take the time to articulate your ideas (what little original ideas you seem to have, that is) in a clear format, then how much stock should others really put in those ideas in the first place?
Oh, and the whole "Canadian culture is just..." stupidity: If you've gotten to terrified of the truth and narrow minded as to characterize an entire country of people by the odd television commercial you see, then you're truly ignorant and should probably go back to school or something.
By your logic, American culture is all about:
1. Join the military and bomb stuff. 2. Abortion is killing babies. 3. Chemical companies are good, preservation is bad. 4. Join the military and bomb stuff. 5. Fear everything, because everyone is jelous of your freedoms. 6. Healthy food is anqituated - everything should be a buffet and KFC/Taco Bell buffets are totally acceptable food. 7. Join the military and bomb stuff. 8. Don't mind your weight... you can always get surgery to fix that.
This is clearly not the case... but if you watch television in the United States for a week, that's about the lions share of the advertisements you'll see.
First off, I find it amusing that you wrote the word "sh!t" with an explanation point, as if to try to be polite, yet wrote "FUCKING" in capital letters only 7 words later... but I digress.
OH WAIT! I forgot, you watch our state-run(commie) TV,CBC...so naturally everything is the badbad amerikkans fault, right?
Almost every nation in the world, democratic or otherwise, has a federally opeated broadcaster (The United States being the notable exception; though the United States is also violently capitalist in nature, so that explains that). This isn't communist at all. Either way, I'm doubting your Canadianism; things aren't "state-run" in Canada, they're "crown controlled".
Semantics aside, the word your feeble mind is probably grasping at is "socialist". Of course, "socialism" and "communism" aren't synonyms, despite how many conservative fear-mungerers on Fox News have tried convince you otherwise.
Of course, you may just be parroting the old conservative half-truth that the media is "liberal", in which case you'd be a sheep who isn't really sure what the word "liberal" means, either.
At any rate, the last time I saw the CBC indite the Americans for something morally questionable was.... oh wait.... never. So regardless of what you think about the CBC you don't really have a point at all, do you?
The new XBox obviously is going to be based around the PowerPC instruction set, whereas the old XBox is based around the IA32 instruction set. They would need to emulate the CPU in realtime, translating IA32 instructions into PowerPC instructions. This is the biggest issue.
Beyond that, though I'm not sure yet, I'm imagining that XBox360 will actually run Windows, the same as the current XBox. Windows NT for the PowerPC was still a shipping product in the 3.51 days, so technically, porting the Windows 2000 variant OS that is current the on the current XBox to PowerPC is obviously possible. That said, this will obviously include all of the DirectX API's, and as a result, the API translation step is not strictly necessary.
The actual hardware emulation part is pretty clear - Microsoft recently purchased VirtualPC (which lets you run Windows on the Macintosh, which of course is PowerPC based). Anyone who thought they did this simply to have a nice, new Macintosh product is insane... clearly, they intended other uses for this beyond just the "Windows Virtual Server" product they have released, and I'm betting that emulating XBox on XBox 360 is the big one.
As I said, if they are using Windows/PPC on 360, then this saves them some of the overhead of VirtualPC strictly, in that they have the native API's available directly. Obviously a new version of DirectX is going to be used on 360, but shimming the old version in shouldn't (relatively speaking) be a huge problem.
Additionally, any games that multithreaded on XBox1 will obviously be able to have the NT kernel map those threads on to the multiple cores of the 360.
Long and short... am sure this can be done - is just a matter of how compatible they'll make it; though if Live has shown us anything it's that Microsoft is a little patch-happy with the XBox (a little too much, some would say).
What's better? C++ or Java? What's better? IE or Mozilla?
That's simple:
Objective-C and Safari.:P
Seriously though... yours is easily the best answer to the question posed. Anyone who actually -answers- categorically in either direction is an idiot. The answer to the question is different in every situation.
Ultimately, with an operting system, it's hard to tell just which kernel design is better anyways. Very few users interact with the kernel directly.:) As far as I'm concerned, I can launch Firefox on Linux or I can launch Firefox on the Mac - both load the program, both of them provide networking, both of them provide a file system in which to cache the pages I load and save my bookmarks and most importantly both of them ultimately allow me to read Slashdot.
If launching Firefox and reading Slashdot was my only use of a computer, then the kernels are exactly as good as each other because they've both solved the same problem in a satisfactory manner.
Posting the article about how the Mach kernel was cool, but for gods sakes/. - why be pricks and include the childish "which is better, you decide" crap at the end? Just plain lame....
Ok, so that sounds like IE's early days. I say "early days" because its flaws are nothing less than eyepopping these days. Anyway, I don't care how well Safari works and how good or bad it is or isn't behind the scenes. What I care for is that Konqueror is very well written, very stable and very fast. I use Konqueror (for browsing) about as much as Firefox, maybe more. I really think the Konqueror guys deserve every bit of appreciation for their long great work. I wouldn't like KHTML being dropped in favour of an engine hacked together by Apple devs.
I think you're missing the bigger point here....
Yes, KHTML is "well written, very stable and very fast". But so is WebCore, which is obviously derived from the same KHTML tree that you care for so deeply... but WebCore is vastly more capable. Sure, the KHTML guys deserve recoginition for their work, but to characterize Apple's fork as "hacked together" is a gross misunderstanding. The WebCore engine is clearly the superior technology and Apple's developers are clearly responsible for the progression that WebCore has made over KHTML.
The reality here is that this whole mess is nothing more than KHTML's developers wanting to have their cake and eat it to. They welcomed Apple to the table with the hopes of some full time developers helping out with KHTML, but then poo-poo'd Apple's efforts when they realised that Apple was foolishly committed to solving problems for their customers, rather then just writing pretty code.
This is one of those problems that happens time and time agian with open source projects - the developers become so consumed by making a technically superior product that they forget to deal with the fact that it's functionally underwhelming. There are a choice few exceptions to this rule... great sucess stories no doubt (Linux and Apache come to mind)... but they are certainly the exception, not the rule. Case in point... the Gimp. If I hear one more zealot even try to compare it to Photoshop.... No doubt, the code to the Gimp is probably cleaner,better written, and less prone to memory leaks.... but it doesn't change the fact that Photoshop is light years more advanced (4 letters: CMYK) and a lot more elegent to use.
Of course, what really bothers me is when these inadequecies are overlooked by zealots who disregard ease-of-use and functional elegence because they appreciate the idealogy of the developers. What kind of brain-dead reasoning is that? If "poorly" designed code -works better- for the end user, than it's not so poor afterall. This is the key point the KHTML people have missed.
At the end of the day... If the Konq guys absorbed Apple's changes, rather than crying about them, you certaintly wouldn't be complaining that suddenly Konq was a whole lot better than it was -before- Apple got involved, now would you?
happened to my girlfriend's work, a charity, operating a clear, double-opt-in newsletter service about their ongoing work... some moron who clearly subscribed to their newsletter decided it was easier to use an automated "report as spam to ORBS" tool then it was to simply reply to the e-mail, click the "unsubscribe now" link, or re-visit the web site and opt-out via the very prominent, very obvious opt-out tool.
ORBS, in turns, blacklisted their mail server as an open relay, and then had the unbelievable nerve to tell my girlfriend that they would lift the ban in exchange for a "donation" so that they could continue to run their service.
While this isn't criminal, it's morally repugnant.
Bottom line, "blacklist" services like ORBS/MAPS are a horrible, misguided and idiotic idea. Case study after research project after real-life experience can attest to this.
Right... but in this case, you're confusing DRM on iTunes with the fact that they don't even offer lossless files to begin with.
You sound like you have radically advanced needs over the average user - but please stop FUD'ing about DRM being the reasons why you still need to buy CD's in order to have those needs met.
I've spent hundreds at the iTunes music store... and I have that music on 3 computers, on a stack of CD's in my car, and on my iPod. I haven't yet run into a restriction as to how I'm allowed to use the content and even I have more extensive listening needs than most.
Bottom line... iTunes DRM is a problem for about 0.01% of the population - a number I'm sure Apple could happily not do business with in exchange for selling content in a format that both the industry, Apple, and the majority of consumers can agree with.
If you agree to a license that allows another party remote access to your personal property, that would be your own stupidity causing you a problem, not DRM.
If you rent a movie, the movie store has no right to come to your house and break in to reclaim/edit it.
This is supposed to be a discussion, not a FUD fest.
Most benchmarks show GCJ lagging behind the modern "just in time" JRE's in performance.
This is largely because GCJ is, well, quite poor... it certainly -could- be faster (in theory). The point is that, just because it's ahead-of-time compilation doesn't make it faster...
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Why not just run Solaris 10 on those Opterons and get the best of both worlds?
X86 != Linux - Solaris on Opteron exactly the same as Solaris on SPARC and preserves your existing investment in training.
That, and of course, for data center applications, Solaris is Linux's daddy.
There, I said it.
Flame on, fanboys.
Yeah, but have you ever used RHN?
Log into a single web site, see every server in your stable, along with every package installed, every patch that is pending, all your system info about each server, etc.
It's the -service- that makes RedHat Enterprise the top tier Enterprise Linux, not the software.
Never used Solaris, I guess?
/usr/sfw/bin - so what exactly is the problem here? With Solaris, you get a choice between the two - arguably better for the user.
In order:
* ipfilter (which does filtering and in/out NAT including packet level load balancing that is just as good as anything F4 is providing).
* the solaris package system sucks, yes - but compared to RedHat, by your own admission, is not worse. Download pkg-get from Blastwave and it does all the dependency instlalation and downloading for you anyways, providing a terribly "apt" like system. Who actually downloads Solaris packages manually anymore? Idiots.. that's who.
* Solaris has come with bash standard, a whole folder of GNU tools (/usr/sfw) and via pkg-get, access to anything and everything that Linux provides in the way of GNU command line tools.
- color ls isn't ls, per se - it's in the environment. I have color ls on my Solaris boxes. It's trivially easy to configure and is unique to Linux that it's set that way standard. Google is your friend.
- Solaris tar sucks for many reasons, the biggest of which is it's long standing problems with long filenames. Linux distributions use gtar, and Solaris comes with gtar out of the box in
Point is - if you just set your environment right (this takes 30 seconds to do when you finish installing your system), most of your arguments disappear and if you get pkg-get the rest of your arguments go with it.
As for ease of use and maintenance, Solaris 10 with pkg-get and Sun's network management tools reign -hugely- supreme over most Linux distributions. I speak purely from the standpoint of some who has to manage dozens of Solaris boxes (and at one point, dozens of Linux boxes) at the same time. The only Linux dist I've used that really holds up from a management point of view is Red Hat Enterprise - which is every bit as good as the stuff Sun is doing these days.
Yes, you have to pay for both (I think Sun is actually a little cheaper, IIRC), but it costs me way less to pay Sun/Red Hat for their network manageement services than it costs me in time and labor - one day of my time can cost more than a whole year of RHN.
As for color ls - haven't been around long, have you? Color ls is a moderate convenience.. but who actually needs it? If you can't be just as efficient without it you probably need to take a UNIX course or something.
Why do I sometimes feel like a pinball rattling around in a machine with a bunch of AMD fan-boys whacking at the paddles?
Well DUH, dude.
That's what "if properly vectorized" means... I just didn't think it was wholly necessary to suffix the that sentence with the clearly implied "(when vectorization is possible or practical)".
But thanks, Capt. Obvious...
As an aside... a lot of pure GUI code (ie, at the window server level) is quite vector friendly. Most applications don't dive deep enough into the windowing system to have to bother with vectors, though.
They look at PowerPC running Darwin 8.1 and two Xeons and an Opteron running Linux 2.4/2.6. Why not show the PowerPC running Linux?! I want to see how Linux on PPC compares to Linux on x386 these days!
Probably pretty good, considering Linus Torvalds' primary machine is a PowerMac G5 running Linux.
Bottom line - with Linux as the operating system, all indications are that the G5 and the Opteron reign supreme over Intel's quaint little offering, and that the G5 will blow the doors off clean off Opteron if properly vectorized.
1. MySQL -does- have a thread pool.
2. The threading engine on OS X really does suck. This is not new information. Apple says as much if you ask them.
This will all get fixed in due course anyways - Linux is more than a decade older than MacOS X is, and Apple is already doing very well.
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The whole "violently free" thing is amusingly ironic... I'm nuts? You're clueless. I'll take nuts.
"Socialism": A political/economic policy advocating that the means of production and market should be controlled by the whole.
"Communism": A class system in which all property is public and individuals are paid according only to their contribution.
There is a pretty clear difference if you consider the two, rather then just fear-monger. You can have socialist concepts within a capitalist framework (or vice versa) just as you can have socialist concepts within a communist framework (or vice versa). Indeed, Marx wrote that a purely socialist system was a stepping stone if society wanted to transition to pure communism. If you had every actually read this, as you so advocate, rather then just babble foolishness that you read in the National Post, you'd know this.
As for "a basic review of history". Perhaps in your neo-con world, this works - unfortunately, last I checked, Canada isn't communist, but we're fairly sociailist. However, if you'd like to present some facts to back up your wildly off-base claim, do so. I'm all ears.
I never said Cuba didn't suck. Indeed, I've never been to Cuba. How you connected to that one is beyond me. Indeed, I never used the word "Cuba" at all. Nice try, though...
As for the liberal media... for every example you give that the media is "liberal", I can give an example that they are "conservative". This is why I called it a half-truth. I recognize a blurred line when I see one. Can you say the same? It seems not.
"This Hour has 22 minutes" is supposed to be ironic and comedic. Clearly, you don't get it. If you think Rick Mercer's "talking to Americans" is a state sanctioned inditement of policy and action, than you put way to much stock in Rick Mercer. Indeed, I'm sure that'd make him happy... but he'd probably also agree that you've wildly missed the point.
At any rate... I don't often listen much to people who write the words "fer chrissakes" and "BWAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!". If you can't even take the time to articulate your ideas (what little original ideas you seem to have, that is) in a clear format, then how much stock should others really put in those ideas in the first place?
Oh, and the whole "Canadian culture is just..." stupidity: If you've gotten to terrified of the truth and narrow minded as to characterize an entire country of people by the odd television commercial you see, then you're truly ignorant and should probably go back to school or something.
By your logic, American culture is all about:
1. Join the military and bomb stuff.
2. Abortion is killing babies.
3. Chemical companies are good, preservation is bad.
4. Join the military and bomb stuff.
5. Fear everything, because everyone is jelous of your freedoms.
6. Healthy food is anqituated - everything should be a buffet and KFC/Taco Bell buffets are totally acceptable food.
7. Join the military and bomb stuff.
8. Don't mind your weight... you can always get surgery to fix that.
This is clearly not the case... but if you watch television in the United States for a week, that's about the lions share of the advertisements you'll see.
"insure"? As in, have it covered financially in the event of fire or theft?
"Yes, State Farm - I'd like to file a claim. My Darwin Award was stolen..."
Wait...
Are you suggesting that Microsoft may have bought a competitor just to give themselves an unfair advantage and establish a sort of 'monoply'?
That's hard to believe....
As a canadian, you are full of sh!t...ROYALLY!
First off, I find it amusing that you wrote the word "sh!t" with an explanation point, as if to try to be polite, yet wrote "FUCKING" in capital letters only 7 words later... but I digress.
OH WAIT! I forgot, you watch our state-run(commie) TV,CBC...so naturally everything is the badbad amerikkans fault, right?
Almost every nation in the world, democratic or otherwise, has a federally opeated broadcaster (The United States being the notable exception; though the United States is also violently capitalist in nature, so that explains that). This isn't communist at all. Either way, I'm doubting your Canadianism; things aren't "state-run" in Canada, they're "crown controlled".
Semantics aside, the word your feeble mind is probably grasping at is "socialist". Of course, "socialism" and "communism" aren't synonyms, despite how many conservative fear-mungerers on Fox News have tried convince you otherwise.
Of course, you may just be parroting the old conservative half-truth that the media is "liberal", in which case you'd be a sheep who isn't really sure what the word "liberal" means, either.
At any rate, the last time I saw the CBC indite the Americans for something morally questionable was .... oh wait.... never. So regardless of what you think about the CBC you don't really have a point at all, do you?
Well, no...
The new XBox obviously is going to be based around the PowerPC instruction set, whereas the old XBox is based around the IA32 instruction set. They would need to emulate the CPU in realtime, translating IA32 instructions into PowerPC instructions. This is the biggest issue.
Beyond that, though I'm not sure yet, I'm imagining that XBox360 will actually run Windows, the same as the current XBox. Windows NT for the PowerPC was still a shipping product in the 3.51 days, so technically, porting the Windows 2000 variant OS that is current the on the current XBox to PowerPC is obviously possible. That said, this will obviously include all of the DirectX API's, and as a result, the API translation step is not strictly necessary.
The actual hardware emulation part is pretty clear - Microsoft recently purchased VirtualPC (which lets you run Windows on the Macintosh, which of course is PowerPC based). Anyone who thought they did this simply to have a nice, new Macintosh product is insane... clearly, they intended other uses for this beyond just the "Windows Virtual Server" product they have released, and I'm betting that emulating XBox on XBox 360 is the big one.
As I said, if they are using Windows/PPC on 360, then this saves them some of the overhead of VirtualPC strictly, in that they have the native API's available directly. Obviously a new version of DirectX is going to be used on 360, but shimming the old version in shouldn't (relatively speaking) be a huge problem.
Additionally, any games that multithreaded on XBox1 will obviously be able to have the NT kernel map those threads on to the multiple cores of the 360.
Long and short... am sure this can be done - is just a matter of how compatible they'll make it; though if Live has shown us anything it's that Microsoft is a little patch-happy with the XBox (a little too much, some would say).
What's better? C++ or Java? What's better? IE or Mozilla?
That's simple:
Objective-C and Safari. :P
Seriously though... yours is easily the best answer to the question posed. Anyone who actually -answers- categorically in either direction is an idiot. The answer to the question is different in every situation.
Ultimately, with an operting system, it's hard to tell just which kernel design is better anyways. Very few users interact with the kernel directly. :) As far as I'm concerned, I can launch Firefox on Linux or I can launch Firefox on the Mac - both load the program, both of them provide networking, both of them provide a file system in which to cache the pages I load and save my bookmarks and most importantly both of them ultimately allow me to read Slashdot.
If launching Firefox and reading Slashdot was my only use of a computer, then the kernels are exactly as good as each other because they've both solved the same problem in a satisfactory manner.
Posting the article about how the Mach kernel was cool, but for gods sakes /. - why be pricks and include the childish "which is better, you decide" crap at the end? Just plain lame....
I'm not a graphic designer and I admit that Photoshop is a little easier to use, but I don't think the Gimp is as bad as you say.
I never said the gimp was bad. On the contrary... it's quite good. I simply said that Photoshop was a lot better.
Ok, so that sounds like IE's early days. I say "early days" because its flaws are nothing less than eyepopping these days. Anyway, I don't care how well Safari works and how good or bad it is or isn't behind the scenes. What I care for is that Konqueror is very well written, very stable and very fast. I use Konqueror (for browsing) about as much as Firefox, maybe more. I really think the Konqueror guys deserve every bit of appreciation for their long great work. I wouldn't like KHTML being dropped in favour of an engine hacked together by Apple devs.
I think you're missing the bigger point here....
Yes, KHTML is "well written, very stable and very fast". But so is WebCore, which is obviously derived from the same KHTML tree that you care for so deeply... but WebCore is vastly more capable. Sure, the KHTML guys deserve recoginition for their work, but to characterize Apple's fork as "hacked together" is a gross misunderstanding. The WebCore engine is clearly the superior technology and Apple's developers are clearly responsible for the progression that WebCore has made over KHTML.
The reality here is that this whole mess is nothing more than KHTML's developers wanting to have their cake and eat it to. They welcomed Apple to the table with the hopes of some full time developers helping out with KHTML, but then poo-poo'd Apple's efforts when they realised that Apple was foolishly committed to solving problems for their customers, rather then just writing pretty code.
This is one of those problems that happens time and time agian with open source projects - the developers become so consumed by making a technically superior product that they forget to deal with the fact that it's functionally underwhelming. There are a choice few exceptions to this rule... great sucess stories no doubt (Linux and Apache come to mind)... but they are certainly the exception, not the rule. Case in point... the Gimp. If I hear one more zealot even try to compare it to Photoshop.... No doubt, the code to the Gimp is probably cleaner,better written, and less prone to memory leaks.... but it doesn't change the fact that Photoshop is light years more advanced (4 letters: CMYK) and a lot more elegent to use.
Of course, what really bothers me is when these inadequecies are overlooked by zealots who disregard ease-of-use and functional elegence because they appreciate the idealogy of the developers. What kind of brain-dead reasoning is that? If "poorly" designed code -works better- for the end user, than it's not so poor afterall. This is the key point the KHTML people have missed.
At the end of the day... If the Konq guys absorbed Apple's changes, rather than crying about them, you certaintly wouldn't be complaining that suddenly Konq was a whole lot better than it was -before- Apple got involved, now would you?
Uh huh....
3 dozen fixes in a single point release? This is peanuts... a Microsoft service pack is a wholly different animal.
The last combined updates for 10.3 were in the neighborhood of 80-100 megabytes, encompassing every fix from 10.3.1 to the present.
Service pack 2 for Windows XP was, what, 450MB or something?
I smell cluelessness....
Count me out.
Ever heard the expression "I'm taking my ball and leaving?"
At least there will be one less guy downloading the next generation of games now - less wait time and more bandwidth for the less alarmist among us.happened to my girlfriend's work, a charity, operating a clear, double-opt-in newsletter service about their ongoing work... some moron who clearly subscribed to their newsletter decided it was easier to use an automated "report as spam to ORBS" tool then it was to simply reply to the e-mail, click the "unsubscribe now" link, or re-visit the web site and opt-out via the very prominent, very obvious opt-out tool.
ORBS, in turns, blacklisted their mail server as an open relay, and then had the unbelievable nerve to tell my girlfriend that they would lift the ban in exchange for a "donation" so that they could continue to run their service.
While this isn't criminal, it's morally repugnant.
Bottom line, "blacklist" services like ORBS/MAPS are a horrible, misguided and idiotic idea. Case study after research project after real-life experience can attest to this.
Well, then, I hope you are not using Windows....
What are you, drunk? Do I sound like the kind of chump who is suffering through Windows?
And downtown Vancouver is the best reason to move back to Toronto... nice as Van is, I prefer -not- to dodge junkies, thank you.
Of course, arriving back in Toronto, you'll find that the junkie free environment breeds pompous yuppie-ism...
Which is the best reason to keep heading -east- to Montreal.
Go Habs.
How about having your applications all in /Applications and not have any useless "Start Menu" clone with symlinks to real programs... like on OS X?
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Oh, because that would make -sense-
Right... but in this case, you're confusing DRM on iTunes with the fact that they don't even offer lossless files to begin with.
You sound like you have radically advanced needs over the average user - but please stop FUD'ing about DRM being the reasons why you still need to buy CD's in order to have those needs met.
I've spent hundreds at the iTunes music store... and I have that music on 3 computers, on a stack of CD's in my car, and on my iPod. I haven't yet run into a restriction as to how I'm allowed to use the content and even I have more extensive listening needs than most.
Bottom line... iTunes DRM is a problem for about 0.01% of the population - a number I'm sure Apple could happily not do business with in exchange for selling content in a format that both the industry, Apple, and the majority of consumers can agree with.
Can you say, "get real"?
If you agree to a license that allows another party remote access to your personal property, that would be your own stupidity causing you a problem, not DRM.
If you rent a movie, the movie store has no right to come to your house and break in to reclaim/edit it.
This is supposed to be a discussion, not a FUD fest.
So what?
Most benchmarks show GCJ lagging behind the modern "just in time" JRE's in performance.
This is largely because GCJ is, well, quite poor... it certainly -could- be faster (in theory). The point is that, just because it's ahead-of-time compilation doesn't make it faster...
The devil is still in the details.
No, Aus isn't an Australia reference.
That said, am in Toronto.