Do we really need a processor that fast to run common apps (like a word processor,browser, etc)? The only demand for that processor will be from diehard gamers and PHBs. My 200MMX chip running Linux outperforms a CeleronA @300MHz with windows. Really good performance gain will be from tight code, not from the hardware.
This is definitely unfair on the part of Microsoft. At one point World held a won position (around move 50, I guess) but after that the moves were so lousy that anybody could have beaten them. M$ turns every chance into an opportunity to sell windows. Lousy idea leaving a very sour taste in the mouth.
Nothing new in the story. Linux does not comprise of the applications running on top but of the kernel. As long as the underlying libraries are the same, I see no fragmentation problems. Hell just pick an executable off a machine running RHL and put it on a machine running Caldera. With the same libraries, it should run.
This remind me of a review of Ofice 2000 in PC World (India). The review made the following relevant points: 1> Office 2000 saves html documents(save as web page or some such option) in a broken XML format, support for which is available only in IE 5. 2> The page cannot be displayed at all w/ netscape.
Sanskrit would be the ideal meta language. Every thing has to be clearly specified. No irregular verbs, tenses,etc. The grammar(or syntax, take your pick) has been very well defined. Simple! No scope for error *and* no scope for any propetiary extensions. My $0.02
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This is offtopic but I don't see any arcane soundbites here. I used MSDOS for four years before I got Linux and somehow Linux from the command line was more intutive. No choice about MSDOS (School, college), OS of choice Linux@home. Installing Linux is a piece of cake as compared to Windows 9x and NT anyway. I've done all of those, including for a triple boot machine. Installing Linux on weird configurations is simpler than installing Win9x on the same machine. Isn't the command line easier than a GUI except for moving files and surfing?
This comment is probably offtopic but it may clarify the global positions on nukes. This weapon will not be very useful against the more credible threats as mentioned in other posts. Also, when looking at India, please do not localize it or juxtapose it against Pakistan only. We have fought a war with China(1962). china still refuses to accept the merger of Sikkim with India and still claims large parts of Indian territory. Also note that the Chinese policy is that they will use nukes to defend China's claims. With this situation, India needs the bomb. Also note that Pakistan was armed by the USA for a very long time (definitely since 1980, possibly before that). Now China has replaced the USA as Pakistans best friend.
If India were to decide to fight the US, remember the number of Indian progammers who could bring down the computerized systems of the US.
DISCLAIMER: I'm no nuke supporter. A world w/o nukes will be safer than a world with nukes but there can be *no* exceptions.
I remember reading somewhere that sendmail was hard to configure and had too many backdoors. Have these been corrected? Anyway anything not from M$ would be more secure, compare NT and Linux.
Seems like M$ is going the Unix way. Get exposed to students in their learning years and reap the benefits threreafter. How many of us were first exposed to unix in school/college? And how many of us use a unix now? The numbers speak for themselves. BTW, this is happening in India as well. My college rejected Linux and got a NT server because the clients were Windows machines! More FUD from M$.
This site upgrades netscape to 128 bit encryption and it is located outside the US. No control & no backdoor. Best of all, the source is available.
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I'm no expert on this but can't somebody spoof IP addresses while sending the threatening data? Assuming that Osama Bin Laden hires a cracker who spoofs Rob's IP address to threaten the prez, doesn't that automatically make Rob te prime suspect?
Just encode trolls and flamebait rot13, with the agreement of three or more more moderators (numbers are variables:-)). In three of the moderators, selected at random agree, the post is very likely flamebait and/or troll. Give the option of decoding these as well. 1> No karmic points are to be added or subtracted for this rating, except for M2. 2> Let funny comments be indicated differently, say as F and allow settings for F also.
IMHO if the patents office of the USA has made the mistake of allowing patents even when prior art is present, why not patent the Graphical User Interface? Whoever was first (Apple or the X-window guys or whoever) can patent this leaving all others in the lurch. Anybody patented the concept of software yet? If not I'm applying! (Patent donated to the FSF)
VC++ has a nice interface ? The Borland C++ 5.02 (I use it in college) is so much better - Clean , uncluttered and only a minimal interface. VC++ has to put everything on the screen, only a quarter of my screen is usually available, half at max.
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Do we really need a processor that fast to run common apps (like a word processor,browser, etc)? The only demand for that processor will be from diehard gamers and PHBs.
My 200MMX chip running Linux outperforms a CeleronA @300MHz with windows.
Really good performance gain will be from tight code, not from the hardware.
Too bad that I patented the zeroes AND binary first.
This is definitely unfair on the part of Microsoft. At one point World held a won position (around move 50, I guess) but after that the moves were so lousy that anybody could have beaten them.
M$ turns every chance into an opportunity to sell windows. Lousy idea leaving a very sour taste in the mouth.
Nothing new in the story. Linux does not comprise of the applications running on top but of the kernel. As long as the underlying libraries are the same, I see no fragmentation problems. Hell just pick an executable off a machine running RHL and put it on a machine running Caldera. With the same libraries, it should run.
This remind me of a review of Ofice 2000 in PC World (India). The review made the following relevant points:
1> Office 2000 saves html documents(save as web page or some such option) in a broken XML format, support for which is available only in IE 5.
2> The page cannot be displayed at all w/ netscape.
If M$ plans to use the same format for SOAP...
Sanskrit would be the ideal meta language.
Every thing has to be clearly specified. No irregular verbs, tenses,etc.
The grammar(or syntax, take your pick) has been very well defined.
Simple! No scope for error *and* no scope for any propetiary extensions.
My $0.02
This is offtopic but I don't see any arcane soundbites here. I used MSDOS for four years before I got Linux and somehow Linux from the command line was more intutive.
No choice about MSDOS (School, college), OS of choice Linux@home.
Installing Linux is a piece of cake as compared to Windows 9x and NT anyway. I've done all of those, including for a triple boot machine. Installing Linux on weird configurations is simpler than installing Win9x on the same machine.
Isn't the command line easier than a GUI except for moving files and surfing?
This comment is probably offtopic but it may clarify the global positions on nukes.
This weapon will not be very useful against the more credible threats as mentioned in other posts. Also, when looking at India, please do not localize it or juxtapose it against Pakistan only. We have fought a war with China(1962). china still refuses to accept the merger of Sikkim with India and still claims large parts of Indian territory. Also note that the Chinese policy is that they will use nukes to defend China's claims. With this situation, India needs the bomb.
Also note that Pakistan was armed by the USA for a very long time (definitely since 1980, possibly before that). Now China has replaced the USA as Pakistans best friend.
If India were to decide to fight the US, remember the number of Indian progammers who could bring down the computerized systems of the US.
DISCLAIMER: I'm no nuke supporter. A world w/o nukes will be safer than a world with nukes but there can be *no* exceptions.
I remember reading somewhere that sendmail was hard to configure and had too many backdoors. Have these been corrected?
Anyway anything not from M$ would be more secure, compare NT and Linux.
Seems like M$ is going the Unix way. Get exposed to students in their learning years and reap the benefits threreafter. How many of us were first exposed to unix in school/college? And how many of us use a unix now? The numbers speak for themselves.
BTW, this is happening in India as well. My college rejected Linux and got a NT server because the clients were Windows machines! More FUD from M$.
This site upgrades netscape to 128 bit encryption and it is located outside the US. No control & no backdoor. Best of all, the source is available.
I'm no expert on this but can't somebody spoof IP addresses while sending the threatening data?
Assuming that Osama Bin Laden hires a cracker who spoofs Rob's IP address to threaten the prez, doesn't that automatically make Rob te prime suspect?
Just encode trolls and flamebait rot13, with the agreement of three or more more moderators (numbers are variables:-)). In three of the moderators, selected at random agree, the post is very likely flamebait and/or troll.
Give the option of decoding these as well.
1> No karmic points are to be added or subtracted for this rating, except for M2.
2> Let funny comments be indicated differently, say as F and allow settings for F also.
IMHO if the patents office of the USA has made the mistake of allowing patents even when prior art is present, why not patent the Graphical User Interface? Whoever was first (Apple or the X-window guys or whoever) can patent this leaving all others in the lurch. Anybody patented the concept of software yet? If not I'm applying! (Patent donated to the FSF)
VC++ has a nice interface ?
The Borland C++ 5.02 (I use it in college) is so much better - Clean , uncluttered and only a minimal interface.
VC++ has to put everything on the screen, only a quarter of my screen is usually available, half at max.