you can easily play 2 sounds at once in OS X. i've never had a problem with 2 apps doing this. i often set a playlist in iTunes and play games (SCUMM VM recently) with their own music off, but effects on. i never needed to setup a dmix like i did in linux. i don't care if the mixing is hardware or software... in OS X "it just works". many things are like this and its why i moved too. life it to short to spend your life in/etc. now i am actually productive when emacs is open! (not tweaking)
your comments to this OSS giant are incredibly patronising. do you really think he doesn't understand these technical details? this guy is responsible for Netscape, Mozilla, XEmacs and XScreensaver. he is an ooberhacker!
and as to why you'd want to keep linux as your primary OS, i have no idea. fink exists which allows you to use any OSS program you want. when i made the switch i got to keep all my fav apps (even very specific scientific apps), but no need to worry about hardware. plus a ton of really well designed base apps like Terminal, Mail, Safari and iLife. add onto that the incredible advances apple make (take automator, expose, spotlight for example).
have you ever even used a recent version of Mac OS X?
thats a good idea actually. that way you get attached to annakin, and his transformation back to the good side is more powerful. the leia twist still appears as a twist... just in a different movie. i'd mod you up, but i ain't got points today.
For production-quality industrial numerical work, you have to write it yourself
yeah yeah of course you'd have to do that if you want to integrate it. but i bet they came to the algorithm/solution hundreds of times faster by using matlab;-) (playing around/prototyping as you call it)
may I also point out Octave, the open source alternative
octave is not even nearly at the level Matlab is... nothing is. it is quite annoying that they have such a dominant product and noone has an alternative. its still pretty damn good though.
maths packages are something which OSS are just years behind unfortunately. matlab is the only real option for numerical stuff and mathematica the only real option for symbolic (maple is for classrooms, not the workplace).
on the numerics front, you are right there is octave. there are also some GPL C libraries such as matpack and GSL which are pretty good if you are writing a project to be released using the GPL and you take the time to learn the workings of the functions. but then, most problems you don't want to have to write a program to solve an ODE! matlab can do that in minutes whereas it could take a day in GSL. these OSS libraries have great documentation, an important thing for a numerics library.
on the symbolic front, OSS sucks. there is maxima and no documentation beyond introductions. no decent GUI exists and i found myself using the terminal mode. its about a decade behind maple or mathematica.
i have heard rumours that axiom will be good, but i seriously doubt it. and to be honest, i kinda like knowing that mathematica is used by so many people and is very well bug tested. the results may never be checked by a human, so you gotta trust your computer!
MySQL's target audience is people who already know what SQL is and are keen on an alternative. It needs that SQL in the name. note that it is not called C-SQL
however "Oracle" sounds more new age, and is doing a lot better. do you remember their fierce marketing when they first arrived? killed off many superior databases simply down to a better PR departmant. it was like Beta vs VHS all over again.
postgresql is supposed to be better than MySQL, but i have no idea how to pronounce it. neither do many other people, thats one of the main reasons why its not as well known/used.
the grandparent is 100% correct concerning the pitch. if this guy wants to make money, hes gotta market his project like a pro. however, that will lose him the backing of the Open Source community as it will alienate them.
BtW, check your website, "welcome" isn't spelled right.
i know... its supposed to be that way. hence the link to the scottish comedy "Still Game" which bases an entire episode on one of the characters buying a "Weclome" doormat.
it is a good framework, and brilliantly implemented in OS X... but this GNU look is really awful! they need artists... LOTS of artists.
i could barely even follow the demo as the IDE and general look of the thing was so confusing and horrible that i wasn't able to even see where the obvious buttons were to press.
they may be doing wonders with implementing the whole framework... but it needs polish.
"In open source, you have to be a better communicator and to be able to defend yourself"
when was the last time you thought to yourself "hmm, yeah... these OSS coders are way more skilled with communication than their employed counterparts"? it is nonsense... and there are plenty of prima donnas out there! i don't know what planet this Behlendorf is living on!!
not do the same thing? (here for text only files of course). granted it may be a lot slower than these new database driven technologies... but faster than using the find AND grep commands. on my system, for example:
It looks like they do check your system to provide the relevant download link
and it still has oversights... such as it points me to linux-i686 even though i am on linux-ppc
the most annoying thing is if i want to find a download for an alternative OS; its not on the main page. perhaps they would have been best off with a list of downloads and just moving your detected OS to the top of the list.
why is the latest version of firefox so hard to find for windows? all the download links are for gnu/linux! (or is this new page so "smart" that it detects what OS you are on and only print a link for that?)
You might be interested in grid computing, in which a group of academics with heads too big for their common good
you seem to have overlooked the fact that these people are indeed academics... the people who push boundaries and bring about new ways of doing things. grid computing isn't working now, but when the technology is in place for it, it will be revolutionary. these kind of ideas don't work first time round, and certainly don't fix themselves overnight.
your ignorance to the sheer amount of information processing which will be required by, for example the new generation of projects at CERN, is perhaps the reason why you do not see the need for grid computing.
I once watched some of this process in motion, which helped to smack down a far more sensical and quite impressive machine proposal, and found the whole thing to be entirely retarded.
that is no fault of grid computing... the blame must be placed upon the persons who chose the wrong solution. grid computing is nowhere near ready to be used. the only people who should be playign with it should be people who wish to aid the current research. it is equivalent to running a beta kernel with debian unstable on a production server. if they had work to be done, then a cluster would have been a more sensible option.
all *free software* IS open source. free is free as in gratis AND free as in freedom. stay to your side of the line sprocket... and no tresspassing!!;-) [oh god... i can't believe i just quoted a fraggle rock episode]
in fact... its more than just open source. its *free software8 and is distributed under the GPL. sweet! (remember... not all "open source" software is free, it simply means the source code is viewable; like java.)
the From: header can be easily forged and these privacy.net guys are just adding to the misuse of net traffic by replying.
spam should go to one of 2 places... an authority who can fine the sender, or/dev/null (preferably the mail server will reject the spam before even collecting it, such as grey listing does)
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you can easily play 2 sounds at once in OS X. i've never had a problem with 2 apps doing this. i often set a playlist in iTunes and play games (SCUMM VM recently) with their own music off, but effects on. i never needed to setup a dmix like i did in linux. i don't care if the mixing is hardware or software... in OS X "it just works". many things are like this and its why i moved too. life it to short to spend your life in /etc. now i am actually productive when emacs is open! (not tweaking)
your comments to this OSS giant are incredibly patronising. do you really think he doesn't understand these technical details? this guy is responsible for Netscape, Mozilla, XEmacs and XScreensaver. he is an ooberhacker!
and as to why you'd want to keep linux as your primary OS, i have no idea. fink exists which allows you to use any OSS program you want. when i made the switch i got to keep all my fav apps (even very specific scientific apps), but no need to worry about hardware. plus a ton of really well designed base apps like Terminal, Mail, Safari and iLife. add onto that the incredible advances apple make (take automator, expose, spotlight for example).
have you ever even used a recent version of Mac OS X?
thats a good idea actually. that way you get attached to annakin, and his transformation back to the good side is more powerful. the leia twist still appears as a twist... just in a different movie. i'd mod you up, but i ain't got points today.
This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions. 40 years of darkness, earthquakes, volcanos. Steven King rising from the grave!
yeah yeah of course you'd have to do that if you want to integrate it. but i bet they came to the algorithm/solution hundreds of times faster by using matlab ;-) (playing around/prototyping as you call it)
octave is not even nearly at the level Matlab is... nothing is. it is quite annoying that they have such a dominant product and noone has an alternative. its still pretty damn good though.
maths packages are something which OSS are just years behind unfortunately. matlab is the only real option for numerical stuff and mathematica the only real option for symbolic (maple is for classrooms, not the workplace).
on the numerics front, you are right there is octave. there are also some GPL C libraries such as matpack and GSL which are pretty good if you are writing a project to be released using the GPL and you take the time to learn the workings of the functions. but then, most problems you don't want to have to write a program to solve an ODE! matlab can do that in minutes whereas it could take a day in GSL. these OSS libraries have great documentation, an important thing for a numerics library.
on the symbolic front, OSS sucks. there is maxima and no documentation beyond introductions. no decent GUI exists and i found myself using the terminal mode. its about a decade behind maple or mathematica.
i have heard rumours that axiom will be good, but i seriously doubt it. and to be honest, i kinda like knowing that mathematica is used by so many people and is very well bug tested. the results may never be checked by a human, so you gotta trust your computer!
however "Oracle" sounds more new age, and is doing a lot better. do you remember their fierce marketing when they first arrived? killed off many superior databases simply down to a better PR departmant. it was like Beta vs VHS all over again.
postgresql is supposed to be better than MySQL, but i have no idea how to pronounce it. neither do many other people, thats one of the main reasons why its not as well known/used.
the grandparent is 100% correct concerning the pitch. if this guy wants to make money, hes gotta market his project like a pro. however, that will lose him the backing of the Open Source community as it will alienate them.
i know... its supposed to be that way. hence the link to the scottish comedy "Still Game" which bases an entire episode on one of the characters buying a "Weclome" doormat.
really, it looks terrible.
it is a good framework, and brilliantly implemented in OS X... but this GNU look is really awful! they need artists... LOTS of artists.
i could barely even follow the demo as the IDE and general look of the thing was so confusing and horrible that i wasn't able to even see where the obvious buttons were to press.
they may be doing wonders with implementing the whole framework... but it needs polish.
well, shes a hellova lot easier on the eyes than Linus... thats for sure.
and they randomly appeared in alphabetical order! what were the chances? ;-)
yes, the answer...
what you just wrote is redundant without the equivalent times for the gzipped tarball.
LOL! you just keep living that dream. (yes, i AM a particle physicist)
and it still has oversights... such as it points me to linux-i686 even though i am on linux-ppc
the most annoying thing is if i want to find a download for an alternative OS; its not on the main page. perhaps they would have been best off with a list of downloads and just moving your detected OS to the top of the list.
why is the latest version of firefox so hard to find for windows? all the download links are for gnu/linux! (or is this new page so "smart" that it detects what OS you are on and only print a link for that?)
you seem to have overlooked the fact that these people are indeed academics... the people who push boundaries and bring about new ways of doing things. grid computing isn't working now, but when the technology is in place for it, it will be revolutionary. these kind of ideas don't work first time round, and certainly don't fix themselves overnight.
your ignorance to the sheer amount of information processing which will be required by, for example the new generation of projects at CERN, is perhaps the reason why you do not see the need for grid computing.
I once watched some of this process in motion, which helped to smack down a far more sensical and quite impressive machine proposal, and found the whole thing to be entirely retarded.
that is no fault of grid computing... the blame must be placed upon the persons who chose the wrong solution. grid computing is nowhere near ready to be used. the only people who should be playign with it should be people who wish to aid the current research. it is equivalent to running a beta kernel with debian unstable on a production server. if they had work to be done, then a cluster would have been a more sensible option.
...only a true geek would name their cat after the greatest inventor of all time. i smell a plan afoot.
"The fingers you have used are too fat. Please mash the keypad with your palm now."
all *free software* IS open source. free is free as in gratis AND free as in freedom. stay to your side of the line sprocket... and no tresspassing!! ;-) [oh god... i can't believe i just quoted a fraggle rock episode]
in fact... its more than just open source. its *free software8 and is distributed under the GPL. sweet! (remember... not all "open source" software is free, it simply means the source code is viewable; like java.)
millions of people tell me i exaggerate ;-)
the From: header can be easily forged and these privacy.net guys are just adding to the misuse of net traffic by replying.
spam should go to one of 2 places... an authority who can fine the sender, or /dev/null (preferably the mail server will reject the spam before even collecting it, such as grey listing does)