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Wow, does this guy have an ax to grind. What does an imaginary network of terrorists, practitioners of a polytheistic nature religion, angst-filled teenagers, and small cliques of violent street thugs have in common? None of them are a threat to society but provide a convenient fantasy for people obsessed with some silly notion of an epic battle of Good versus Evil. People like this scare me more than a few scattered street gangs.
The author is wrong. YouOS is not an “Internet operating system”, it the functional equivlent of Windows prior to NT: an environment which runs on your existing platform. The client still does the heavy lifting and it will never be portable enough to run on anything with a “keyboard and a screen.” If Google were to go this route, they would provide VNC-like access to big iron on their end.
Yes, they have some good reasons for not wanting to use the Mac, such as what they perceive to be lock-in. Then they blame data corruption for who knows what reason on Apple and parade this as a reason to leave the platform. (Nevermind they have certainly experienced data loss on every platform they've ever used.) Whatever.
But you go into their details on how they can get the same functionality from Ubuntu, and we are witness to a firehose of complexity. Add this repository, run that shell command, and use this set of a half-dozen disparate tools to get a task accomplished. I suppose casual users who aren't hackers are expected to do all this just to watch a movie or back up some files? Ubuntu “works out of the box” with all this additional effort, and the one guy still goes on to write:
I stood in the Apple store last weekend and drooled over the beautiful, beautiful hardware, all I could think was how much work it would take to twiddle with the default settings, install third-party software
Is this guy serious? At this point all I can really write is that this guy is a self-contradicting, whiney little bitch. These guys are the archetypical tactless nincompoops who wander into computer stores and harasses sales people with irrelevant questions that they could not possibly have any reasonable response to and harp endlessly on details that they, as end users, ultimately should never care about. I got over that stage when I was 16 and these days and my concern has become getting things accomplished and not spending untold hours fiddling with inane details (servers excluded).
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but those sniveling, gross, disgusting liberals are the ones who stand firmly against government intrusion into privacy, for the protection of free speech, and other essentials to a functioning democracy. Yes, you are indeed in the same boat with other America-hating, unpatriotic, godless liberals like Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Payne just to name a few.
I think I want to drive to Louisiana and kick this guy in the nuts.
Didn't GTA learn you anything better? You gotta go kill him, either with a baseball bat or a submachine gun. Then steal his wallet and use the money to buy a hooker. Kids these days.
Among the remedies tried has been the popular iKlean line of products, Windex and even the Mr. Clean Magic Eraser all with different degrees of success.
Sendmail “configuration” is a Turing-complete language. In that sense, it is unlike what most people think of in terms of configuration, which typically amounts to key-value pairs. And as another poster pointed out, you should not be editing it directly unless you have very specific needs.
Your comments are all valid, except I disagree with the last one. I find myself pleasantly surprised by the performance of Eclipse and applications based on its platform (in terms such as interface responsiveness). The other point I would make in contrary to yours is that Java is, these days at least, primarily intended for server applications. Most code written on the Java platform is never touched by the end user, but rather agents acting on behalf of the user. Hence interface response is rarely a concern.
Java classes get compiled to native code with machine-specific optimizations at runtime. If you had done any research on the subject, you would find that Java out-performs other languages at times. Java is fast. This argument is over, so please can it.
I find that no matter how grusome, synthesized imagery has absolutely no affect on me. However, if I watch someone pull their toenail out, I cringe and shudder. The moral of the story is: people need to work harder at distinguishing reality and fantasy.
Whenever this issue comes up, I swear to myself that proponents of microkernel architectures created the term which they use to address their opponent. The terms used to discuss this are heavily loaded. “Microkernel” sounds lean, quick, and simple, while by subjective contrast “monolithic” sounds bulky, old, and unwieldy. I think that when engaging in this debate, it is best that we prefer to at least use “unified kernel” in place of “monolithic”, being it is more accurate and contrasts with “microkernel” objectively. The term most people use for kernels like Linux and NT seems to imply that there is no logical separation of components and that all pieces are somehow a gigantic (dare I say monolithic) glob and that is nonsense.
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Wow, does this guy have an ax to grind. What does an imaginary network of terrorists, practitioners of a polytheistic nature religion, angst-filled teenagers, and small cliques of violent street thugs have in common? None of them are a threat to society but provide a convenient fantasy for people obsessed with some silly notion of an epic battle of Good versus Evil. People like this scare me more than a few scattered street gangs.
Did you get a refurbished drive that was once part of a RAID-5 array? ;)
The author is wrong. YouOS is not an “Internet operating system”, it the functional equivlent of Windows prior to NT: an environment which runs on your existing platform. The client still does the heavy lifting and it will never be portable enough to run on anything with a “keyboard and a screen.” If Google were to go this route, they would provide VNC-like access to big iron on their end.
Care to give an example?
Yes, they have some good reasons for not wanting to use the Mac, such as what they perceive to be lock-in. Then they blame data corruption for who knows what reason on Apple and parade this as a reason to leave the platform. (Nevermind they have certainly experienced data loss on every platform they've ever used.) Whatever.
But you go into their details on how they can get the same functionality from Ubuntu, and we are witness to a firehose of complexity. Add this repository, run that shell command, and use this set of a half-dozen disparate tools to get a task accomplished. I suppose casual users who aren't hackers are expected to do all this just to watch a movie or back up some files? Ubuntu “works out of the box” with all this additional effort, and the one guy still goes on to write:
Is this guy serious? At this point all I can really write is that this guy is a self-contradicting, whiney little bitch. These guys are the archetypical tactless nincompoops who wander into computer stores and harasses sales people with irrelevant questions that they could not possibly have any reasonable response to and harp endlessly on details that they, as end users, ultimately should never care about. I got over that stage when I was 16 and these days and my concern has become getting things accomplished and not spending untold hours fiddling with inane details (servers excluded).
If one group has the technology to reach the other, the other stands no chance in the first place.
You're absolutely right! That we let those whiney lefties anywhere near our government is tantamount to letting the terrorists win!
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but those sniveling, gross, disgusting liberals are the ones who stand firmly against government intrusion into privacy, for the protection of free speech, and other essentials to a functioning democracy. Yes, you are indeed in the same boat with other America-hating, unpatriotic, godless liberals like Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Payne just to name a few.
Sounds like a honey pot to me.
Is that you?
According to string “theory”, the universe is a safe where you have combination but the lock is on the inside.
They were planted there by the Flying Spaghetti Monster to test the convictions of the faithful!
Didn't GTA learn you anything better? You gotta go kill him, either with a baseball bat or a submachine gun. Then steal his wallet and use the money to buy a hooker. Kids these days.
Come on, we all know that would never work.
It increases the chance they can make huge profits when the center is destroyed and they claim it is worth 100 times the actual value.
Individual persons may be powerless at times, but never people.
People are powerless when they are convinced they are powerless.
Tell us how you really feel.
Sendmail “configuration” is a Turing-complete language. In that sense, it is unlike what most people think of in terms of configuration, which typically amounts to key-value pairs. And as another poster pointed out, you should not be editing it directly unless you have very specific needs.
Your comments are all valid, except I disagree with the last one. I find myself pleasantly surprised by the performance of Eclipse and applications based on its platform (in terms such as interface responsiveness). The other point I would make in contrary to yours is that Java is, these days at least, primarily intended for server applications. Most code written on the Java platform is never touched by the end user, but rather agents acting on behalf of the user. Hence interface response is rarely a concern.
Java classes get compiled to native code with machine-specific optimizations at runtime. If you had done any research on the subject, you would find that Java out-performs other languages at times. Java is fast. This argument is over, so please can it.
The PCI identifier is not something that comes with the release, that is a number assigned to the card based on its position on your motherboard.
I find that no matter how grusome, synthesized imagery has absolutely no affect on me. However, if I watch someone pull their toenail out, I cringe and shudder. The moral of the story is: people need to work harder at distinguishing reality and fantasy.
Of course it would delete your porn! Trojan wants you to go out and have real sex.
Whenever this issue comes up, I swear to myself that proponents of microkernel architectures created the term which they use to address their opponent. The terms used to discuss this are heavily loaded. “Microkernel” sounds lean, quick, and simple, while by subjective contrast “monolithic” sounds bulky, old, and unwieldy. I think that when engaging in this debate, it is best that we prefer to at least use “unified kernel” in place of “monolithic”, being it is more accurate and contrasts with “microkernel” objectively. The term most people use for kernels like Linux and NT seems to imply that there is no logical separation of components and that all pieces are somehow a gigantic (dare I say monolithic) glob and that is nonsense.