Why don't you actually go read about Inferno. Inferno uses a slightly modified Plan 9 Kernel written in C with a Inferno VM built into the kernel. Every on top of that is in VM, but the kernel itself is written in C.
Drivers, etc are written in inferno's VM I do believe so it is a hybrid but I could be wrong about that.
Speaking of Inferno I wish some one with some design abilities would do to Inferno what Apple did to BSD. Make it easy to use. I would jump at it.
well/Applications is for everyone. your supposed to install it there. Any where else and your app is misbehaving anyways.
In fact 99% of applications shouldn't need an installer for OS X. Just a drag to the/Applications folder. Installers are messy, if you need one your app is already designed wrong.
MSFT has turned a single user OS and tacked on multi user support, and then multi user security. OS X, and every *nix are Multi-user OS's. I not only have applications but also user specific applications stuff that only I can run, and stuff that only I can see.
You shouldn't have to be an admin to install a web browser, word processor , or spreadsheet. You should only be an admin if your installing it for everyone.
Easy if it were to ever come out the FBI and it's directors would be shot.
The only two agencies scarier than the FBI and CIA are the IRS and the Post Office(which is independent of the government). Try working for the Post Office some time.
While that's true that is less people than can be carried by a soyuz capsule, and 1/3 the crew that can be carried by the shuttle.
So you would have to launch it three times for every shuttle launch. Or 3 times for every 2 soyuz launches.
We need more people in space not less. The ISS should have a crew of seven by now. it has a crew of three because that is all that can fit into the small soyuz emergency capsule.
ah your forgetting that people are stupid. Why do you think presidents pass out pardons galore when they no longer worry about being in office? The timing of this is such that Bush might be willing to pass it to make his final act look like he was a responsible person. And just that appearance is enough to fool most of the people.
No Russia doesn't they have one rusting hulk of Buran on display the rest have been scrapped. At this point it would be cheaper to build a new orbiter.
Are you really that stupid? Try blaming MSFT when exchange crashes. you can't. The most you might get if you pay for it is help restoring the old data, and reinstalling the system.
Not only do you have to pay MSFT for software, you have to pay extra for the privilege of getting help when it fails.
Save your self some money, and only Pay Novell, Red Hat, Mandriva, etc for help when the software fails and get the software for free.
I hate to say so, but MSFT's Singularity and now others(including Open Source versions) are doing a core OS in C# and.NET. It is something innovated from MSFT.
It will take time, but it's well within the foreseeable future.
you really don't know the history of software do you?
Unix was originally distributed with source code. Drivers came with source code. Stallman got pissed off when his printer drivers wouldn't work right and the company tried to keep the driver's source code secret. So He started GNU. To recreate the open sharing of source code that the researchers had in the face of closed minded business people.
In the beginning you got a copy of software you got source code with it. Unix had huge sections of it's kernel printed in books so you could learn from it, and of it.
Let me ask you this. Your disconnected from the internet for 6 months but still have a computer. Windows breaks and requires a reinstall. You can't do it. Windows Activation occurs and you lose all your data, all your notes, everything. Even though you have a valid , bought and paid for copy, you can't use said software. Your screwed.
I use Mac's. I don't mind paying for closed software. As long as I can use it whenever I want, I have no problems.
Yet your missing the fine print. There are Patents on OOXML, The Patent license which MSFT lets others duplicate OOXML specifically doesn't allow licenses that redistribute the patented software.
so you can't write an OOXML parser with the GPL, Apache, MPL, and several other licenses. Yet the ISO still allowed it to pass.
Enjoy the fine print. MSFT owns souls because of it. MP3 decoders are the same way. MSFT isn't the only company to endorse a standard that can't be implemented by anyone because of patent licensing restrictions.
your forgetting the part where MSFT wants to insert patented, and propitiatory technology into their section of the "standard". Stuff only they can ever implement properly. Just like OOXML. No one, not even MSFT can implement it properly. Just like SMB/CIFS documenting the protocol that MSFT had to create from scratch, as it wasn't documented properly inside MSFT.
MSFT has done it before and continues to do so. MSFT can't change without a complete workplace management change. Basically firing every manager and executive. So until that happens, I will always be skeptical of MSFT's motives.
really how? Mesh is using custom activeX controls with RSS. Since RSS can't do two way file transfers it stands to reason you can only remotely view your data but not modifiy it with non windows systems.
MSFT is well known for making totally closed locked down systems first.
Oh and how is your PlayforSure music player working? So Glad you you believed MSFT's marketing material. It Playsforsure until august.
It will only work with Windows Mobile devices. Compatibility with any other OS is strictly prohibited by military MSFT doctrine.
This mesh won't work with generic phones, Linux phones, the iPhone, or any one else. Remember it took the EU years in court and a billion dollar fine to just get MSFT to release Networking Protocols.
*note some sarcasm was used above, if you can not detect it your sarcasm meter is broken, or running windows and constantly pegged*
flash drives aren't meant to be written to regularly. using a flash drive as swap space means that your million writes will get hit very fast.
What worries me are the SSD drives running windows. Since they must have swap space to function promptly. Linux can disable swap. I am not sure if OS X can even do that, but I haven't yet tried either.
I use an encrypted Disk Image(OS X) I have one app which i use regularly with that Disk Image. OS X let's you move all settings, preferences, and files to another location easily. So In order to even load the app, OSX tries to mount the Disk Image, which then asks for a password. The Disk Mounts and the app continues to load normally. Then using the app i can decrypt the files in question.
I order for anyone else to access that, they not only need the app which is kept separate, but to decrypt not one but two different 256 bit AES passwords.
I have both in storage. they are well used, but i do have both in storage. it was a fun 20 minute distraction whle helping my mother move a couple of years ago.
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Why don't you actually go read about Inferno. Inferno uses a slightly modified Plan 9 Kernel written in C with a Inferno VM built into the kernel. Every on top of that is in VM, but the kernel itself is written in C.
Drivers, etc are written in inferno's VM I do believe so it is a hybrid but I could be wrong about that.
Speaking of Inferno I wish some one with some design abilities would do to Inferno what Apple did to BSD. Make it easy to use. I would jump at it.
well /Applications is for everyone. your supposed to install it there. Any where else and your app is misbehaving anyways.
/Applications folder. Installers are messy, if you need one your app is already designed wrong.
In fact 99% of applications shouldn't need an installer for OS X. Just a drag to the
MSFT has turned a single user OS and tacked on multi user support, and then multi user security. OS X, and every *nix are Multi-user OS's. I not only have applications but also user specific applications stuff that only I can run, and stuff that only I can see.
You shouldn't have to be an admin to install a web browser, word processor , or spreadsheet. You should only be an admin if your installing it for everyone.
Easy if it were to ever come out the FBI and it's directors would be shot.
The only two agencies scarier than the FBI and CIA are the IRS and the Post Office(which is independent of the government). Try working for the Post Office some time.
While that's true that is less people than can be carried by a soyuz capsule, and 1/3 the crew that can be carried by the shuttle.
So you would have to launch it three times for every shuttle launch. Or 3 times for every 2 soyuz launches.
We need more people in space not less. The ISS should have a crew of seven by now. it has a crew of three because that is all that can fit into the small soyuz emergency capsule.
Variable G Lawn Darts. Where you have to thrown it from 2g, to 0 g, and back to the 2g target on the other side.
The Spinning cylinder for simulated gravity. With targets on the other side of the Cylinder.
damn i wish I could mod you up.
ah your forgetting that people are stupid. Why do you think presidents pass out pardons galore when they no longer worry about being in office? The timing of this is such that Bush might be willing to pass it to make his final act look like he was a responsible person. And just that appearance is enough to fool most of the people.
It doesn't have to work on the everyone.
No Russia doesn't they have one rusting hulk of Buran on display the rest have been scrapped. At this point it would be cheaper to build a new orbiter.
Are you really that stupid? Try blaming MSFT when exchange crashes. you can't. The most you might get if you pay for it is help restoring the old data, and reinstalling the system.
Not only do you have to pay MSFT for software, you have to pay extra for the privilege of getting help when it fails.
Save your self some money, and only Pay Novell, Red Hat, Mandriva, etc for help when the software fails and get the software for free.
Darts with out gravity but air would be really interesting actually. Without the arc hand control would be even more important.
Moon Golf would be awesome. I wish paintball would be there. Think of the ranges you could get.
We need a giant dome on the Moon just to play these games. Fund future missions by sending tourists to the moon for sports.
I think he was looking for names, and pictures to give to the feds.
Of course on the internet one can have many names.
More like flipping a coin and expecting it to land on it's edge.
I hate to say so, but MSFT's Singularity and now others(including Open Source versions) are doing a core OS in C# and .NET. It is something innovated from MSFT.
It will take time, but it's well within the foreseeable future.
you really don't know the history of software do you?
Unix was originally distributed with source code. Drivers came with source code. Stallman got pissed off when his printer drivers wouldn't work right and the company tried to keep the driver's source code secret. So He started GNU. To recreate the open sharing of source code that the researchers had in the face of closed minded business people.
In the beginning you got a copy of software you got source code with it. Unix had huge sections of it's kernel printed in books so you could learn from it, and of it.
Let me ask you this. Your disconnected from the internet for 6 months but still have a computer. Windows breaks and requires a reinstall. You can't do it. Windows Activation occurs and you lose all your data, all your notes, everything. Even though you have a valid , bought and paid for copy, you can't use said software. Your screwed.
I use Mac's. I don't mind paying for closed software. As long as I can use it whenever I want, I have no problems.
Yet your missing the fine print. There are Patents on OOXML, The Patent license which MSFT lets others duplicate OOXML specifically doesn't allow licenses that redistribute the patented software.
so you can't write an OOXML parser with the GPL, Apache, MPL, and several other licenses. Yet the ISO still allowed it to pass.
Enjoy the fine print. MSFT owns souls because of it. MP3 decoders are the same way. MSFT isn't the only company to endorse a standard that can't be implemented by anyone because of patent licensing restrictions.
your forgetting the part where MSFT wants to insert patented, and propitiatory technology into their section of the "standard". Stuff only they can ever implement properly. Just like OOXML. No one, not even MSFT can implement it properly. Just like SMB/CIFS documenting the protocol that MSFT had to create from scratch, as it wasn't documented properly inside MSFT.
MSFT has done it before and continues to do so. MSFT can't change without a complete workplace management change. Basically firing every manager and executive. So until that happens, I will always be skeptical of MSFT's motives.
really how? Mesh is using custom activeX controls with RSS. Since RSS can't do two way file transfers it stands to reason you can only remotely view your data but not modifiy it with non windows systems.
MSFT is well known for making totally closed locked down systems first.
Oh and how is your PlayforSure music player working? So Glad you you believed MSFT's marketing material. It Playsforsure until august.
It will only work with Windows Mobile devices. Compatibility with any other OS is strictly prohibited by military MSFT doctrine.
This mesh won't work with generic phones, Linux phones, the iPhone, or any one else. Remember it took the EU years in court and a billion dollar fine to just get MSFT to release Networking Protocols.
*note some sarcasm was used above, if you can not detect it your sarcasm meter is broken, or running windows and constantly pegged*
oh goody I get to smack a clueless AC.
Open Firmware hasn't been used on ANY intel based Mac's. Intel based Mac's use Intel's EFI which has a similar feature set, but isn't Open Firmware.
not sure what the iPhone and iTouch use, but since they don't use Intel or PowerPC I would bet it isn't open Firmware.
flash drives aren't meant to be written to regularly. using a flash drive as swap space means that your million writes will get hit very fast.
What worries me are the SSD drives running windows. Since they must have swap space to function promptly. Linux can disable swap. I am not sure if OS X can even do that, but I haven't yet tried either.
Only if you use poorly designed software.
I use an encrypted Disk Image(OS X) I have one app which i use regularly with that Disk Image. OS X let's you move all settings, preferences, and files to another location easily. So In order to even load the app, OSX tries to mount the Disk Image, which then asks for a password. The Disk Mounts and the app continues to load normally. Then using the app i can decrypt the files in question.
I order for anyone else to access that, they not only need the app which is kept separate, but to decrypt not one but two different 256 bit AES passwords.
The Patent office Granted MSFT the right to patent a graphical version of sudo. This really isn't any different.
i have yet to see a valid software, or business method patent.
Actually i had a weak air conditioner duct joint that I used duct tape to help hold together and it fell apart constantly.
Duct tape is perfect for everything but Ducts.
I have both in storage. they are well used, but i do have both in storage. it was a fun 20 minute distraction whle helping my mother move a couple of years ago.
Air Combat Maneuvering .