The Intel i9XX vid cards are actually pretty impressive. If you can look past the shared ram, they can definitely go up against a pretty modern ATI or Nvidia card. Regards, Steve
In addition to the other reasons listed in the above replies, 18 is the age of consent in the U.S. It varies from country to country, there is no way to enforce that law. Politicians need to stay off the net. Regards, Steve
Yea this theory is pretty common and nothing new. Every theory has a "Big Bang", how that bang came to be, how many there were before it, and how many there will be in the future are the things that are still being figured out. The "Big Bang" is fact, there is no disputing that it happened, scientists are focused on the other questions now. I believe most of these theories are covered in Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe", buts its been a few years since I've read it. I remember it being a great introductory text to this topic though. Another interesting theory has to do with the dimensions, in particular time, actually circling in on itself at the "beginning" of the universe... therefore there is no beginning. Imagine a timeline, now wrap the line around on itself so it is connected like a donut, the timeline no longer has a beginning or end. Now imagine random branches of dough coming out of this donut, and from those branches, more branches, etc... These would be the parallel universes. Anyway, the topic is really interesting and there are some theories that have recently made a ton of progress. It is worth reading up on. If humans ever do figure out how to live forever, at least you'll know if there is an upper bound on forever;) Regards, Steve
Dumb idea, and that is why you aren't in charge of these things. One of the biggest pains in the ass with perl software is that whenever you run it you have to read a 20 page reamde saying "Before you run this program, you need to run this list of commands in this order so you can install the dependencies." In good scenarios you just run a script first, or in some circumstances you can use the distro's package management, but regardless it is a pain in the ass. Java's "everything and the kitchen sink" approach is way better. You no longer concern yourself with such nonsense. If you distribute a java program, you'll know the receiver has the capability to do graphics, encryption, compression, sound, XML handling, networking, etc... all without having to lift a finger. Java is a platform. I only wish more languages, in particular Python, would get a set of libraries that is as comprehensive as Java's and comes by default. Keep in mind that since the 5.0 JDK you've been able to create a minimal redistributable JRE that includes only what your program needs to run (you use pak200, which is a utility that comes with Java 5.0), but by default the JRE should definitely include everything... it makes life and integration soooo much easier in the end. Regards, Steve
The only thing that might save us all is government forced competition. Many cities are starting to set up wireless access to their citizens, and it will hopefully force AT&T, etc... to be more competitive about their services. Seriously, the free market works well in many cases, but this is one time that government mandated competition is more than welcome. Regards, Steve
For most companies, this wouldn't be an issue at all. Nut Microsoft is a monopoly and is now illegaly using their weight in one market to take over another market. If I were Steve Ballmer, I'd hate that rule and think it is unfair, but from a consumer point of view this is a good thing. Corporations can become very powerful and if Microsoft wanted, they could take over many markets simply by using their monopoly. The laws are in place to stop that. Regards, Steve
Woah now, slow down there. I'm a big fan of python, but also a fan of Java. Java's JVM is on par with the size of Python. Java's redistributables, in particular with the new pak200, can easily be around 2 megs in size. Python is ridiculously slow, but still faster than ruby. I've done a ton of coding in both languages and there are plenty of cases where "Java is the solution" because no other platform provides its capabilities. Python's libraries also are laughable in comparison to Java's. Java has defined standards, a great set of APIs (granted the gui sucks, but the api is wonderful), and the only major complaint I even hear from people is about Swing. Swing in the upcoming java JVM is finally fully threaded and just about all of the problems people complained about are fixed (including pretty good support for native themeing). Java is a very nice language, but it is alot more. It is an entire platform and it has a set of tools that just don't exist with any other language. It is very well designed, speed hasn't been a concern for ages, modern jvms might run a few percent slower than native performance... but it's still (depending on what benchmarks you use) around 1000 times faster than python. You're right that if you need high performance, you don't necessarily use java (although modern jvms are fast enough that they are used in some cases), but if you're writing a program that does a fairly common task of say walking through a directory tree of a couple hundred thousand files... the user will notice the couple of seconds that it takes python... but java will seem much snappier. Both languages have their place, but until python gets a hell of alot faster, a better standard set of libraries, and more enterprise tools, you can't even really compare them... they are for entirely different needs. And far as memory goes, Python can be just as big of a bitch about it as Java can be. Regards, Steve
Even in the states it is more or less a failed project. You'll only hear Microsoft fanboys who wish they didn't waste their money claim otherwise. And once PS3 and Wii hit the shelves later this year, I think the 360 will be out og the game until the next generation of consoles comes around and Microsoft takes another stab at it. If anyone tells you that the 360 is a success in the states, don't believe them, unless they are speaking in relative terms as compared to how the 360 did in other markets.
I think Apple is being even slicker with this move. This is Apple also building up its defenses against AT&T, etc... AT&T want to start throttling Apple's, Google's, Amazon's, etc... bandwidth. AT&T will have a hell of a time throttling the connections of all of their customers and any other IPs trying to exchange data with AT&T customers. It's one thing to throttle at a source, its a whole other problem to throttle a legally distributed network, and to do it without losing a good chunk of customers is near impossible. I think Apple is playing it smart and pretty much saying that, not only *won't* they, but they *can't* be extorted. Regards, Steve
Unless of course his filesystem does automatic versioning so that he can seamlessly go back to any version of a file at any time he wants to. Regards, Steve
I'm also thinking eye tracking. For it to work properly, you should be looking right at the camera. Traditionally, you can't look at the camera and monitor at the same time, but with this innovation you can. Wherever you're looking at the monitor, the computer can now tell with precision and move the mouse, or whatever concept apple replaces the mouse with, to that point. If it is seemless enough, this could be golden... when you move your mouse on the screen, your eyes are just about always following it, now they can take the mouse out of the equation. Regards, Steve
What are you on? I2 was never about being the "new" internet, it was about being a parallel internet that doesn't have the cruft and speed problems of the internet. I2 has been a huge success in any major university and a few R&D companies. The speeds are just outrageous, and just about every technology related university has it set up to automatically switch over I2 if its possible for you to connect over it. If I'm looking for an iso of some distribution, and I find a university mirroring it, I'll download it and the network will automatically toss my packets over I2. It is also unbeatable for collaborative research, you just can't compare. Regards, Steve
You wouldn't recognize a bomb in a screening device if it was slapping you on your face. You have to be trained to pick these things out, they are usually hidden very well and shaped to look like they belong with everything else. It isn't like a cartoon, you don't see 8 sticks of dynamite tied together with an alarm clock on top. Some explosive devices I guess you might recognize just by shear suspicion and it appearing to be out of place, but a good chunk of them are much harder to decipher, especially using screening equipment. And to counter you're other point, people shouldn't be in a position to be peeking at the screening device anyway. Maybe a quick glance, but if someone is standing at the edge of the security area glaring at the screen, I think that'd be something more worth being concerned about. Regards, Steve
Your ignorance shines. They would conclude that elephants are not predators from their teeth, if nothing else. Elephants also do move in packs, and they would conclude this from other evidence. You can tell how old an animal is by certain bone properties, not just the size of the bones themself, and if all you ever find is a mass grave of all very mature species than its just a big mass grave, but if you find a pack of animals of varied age and maturity that happened to all die at once from a disaster, then you can be pretty certain that they moved in packs. This is just one method to determine such things. The arms on the T-Rex, while small, were strong and the T-Rex was big by our standards, but not big at all in comparison to the dinosaurs that *did* get big to avoid predation. There is ample evidence, such as teeth marks in the bones of dead fossils that match T-Rex mouths, sometimes matching the mouth of a T-Rex fossil very close by (you could argue they were scavengers, but the wounds in the hind of an animal typically are not created through scavenging), and if nothing else, historical trends from following the lineage and seeing how they behave all point towards the T-Rex being a predator. They were definitely a carnivore, as their jaw structure wouldn't allow them to chew leaves, etc..., so the only thing worth arguing is whether they were predators or scavengers and nearly all evidence points toward predation. People much smarter than you or I figure these things out. There are many cases of paleontologists making hypothesises based on a few skeletal structures, location, size, etc... and then years or decades later finding near perfect fossils in China or some other land. Yes, some fossils of dinosaurs have been found with their skin intact and their stomach contents available for examination, and the theories were spot on in regard to what they predicted (granted some things have since been elaborated on in more detail, or things were added that weren't possible to know before, such as some dinosaurs having a crop, but the things the theories did explain were all right). If nothing else, it shows that their methods are accurate. If you'd like one of the best cited examples of fully intact dinosaurs, here. And there are plenty of others, albeit not necessarily as high quality. I had studied paleontology for a brief period in academia along with my major (Comp Sci), so I'm no expert, but I do have a slight understanding of it. I really just wanted to understand how these conslusions had come about and whether the results were credible and from what I can tell, current paleontolgy practices are pretty solid and you're not going to credibly refute anything in a post on slashdot. Regards, Steve
FC5 is the finest distro I've ever used, and as many reviews have noted, it has restored my faith in desktop linux. I've tried Ubuntu and I just don't like it, anything about it. For a few years I was nothing but a Debian user, later switched to Fedora, and after handling Fedora for a while I gave Ubuntu a shot, and personally it just doesn't compare. Fedora's integration and funtionality just blindingly surpasses it. Sure Fedora is a couple of CDs, but its a one time thing and I have no problem with that. Out of the many distros I've used for extended periods of time, I have yet to see one that compares to Fedora. This isn't a troll, just use it for a little bit and you'll see. It certainly has some issues, its not perfect, but damn it's close. Regards, Steve
First of all, yes the technology is significantly better today than 20 years ago. We have the possibility to literally start up a reactor and walk away from it now, when its out of fuel it'll naturally extinguish itself. Second of all, the majority of the "radioactive waste" is no more radioactive than your jeans. There are rules and regulations (at least in the U.S.) that says anything that comes in contact or within a certain distance must be treated as nuclear waste, when in reality only a small percentage of it is dangerous at all. Regardless, its better in the ground than in the air as current coal burning does. Nuclear is a very clean source of energy and its good to see people finally realizing this. Regards, Steve
This is just the "Oh shit, we were going to buy JBoss and kill it off, but Red Hat bought it and saved it last week, let's try to intimidate the market now so people know that we are powerful and no one else can dare compete." With so many companies moving to JBoss and other alternatives, including open source databases, Larry Ellison is shitting himself fearing that he may never become richer than Bill Gates. Novell is already known for making good product lines deteriorate, and you're starting to see that in Suse, if Oracle buys Novell then you'll just see the whole distro collapse. Oracle can do databases well, but never did supporting utitilities well. Larry would also want Suse locked down so that everything only works with Oracle products, that is the way Larry thinks... he hates alternatives, and he'll do what he can to stop you or dissaude you from running MySql or Postgres. Regards, Steve
Red Hat develops GCJ (in addition to the majority of GCC in general), which is the Gnu compiler for java. It allows you to compile java code natively and they've already had it compiling Eclipse and the java portions of Open Office for over a year now. Red Hat wants a free java implementation and they've been working on it for quite some time. Its pretty good, I use it often. (It comes with Fedora Core) Regards, Steve
Companies need support, and now Red Hat gets JBoss's support contracts. This software isn't just made for free ya know, there is money made from it because it takes money to develop it. That's just how business works. Also, if a bigger fish didn't buy JBoss, it is well known that Oracle had its sights on it to kill it off, which would have been bad. Regards, Steve
Red Hat has a good history of doing nice things for open source projects, or proprietary projects that they bought and made open source. If a big supporter of open source didn't pick up JBoss, Oracle would have killed the project eventually (they have experience doing these things). One cool thing about this is that Red Hat develops GCJ (Gnu Compiler for Java) and they've got it compiling Eclipse and the Java portions of OpenOffice.Org, so I'd venture to guess that this increases the chance of JBoss running natively too which would be interesting. Regards, Steve
That's because Novell has perfected the art of killing product lines. I'm not trolling, just look at Novell's history. Suse used to be filled with great people, and they still have some great people, but they are being managed by typical corporate minds and its a bad thing. The culture at Red Hat is much more fitting to open source development (just look at their corporate structure, and who they have running things, as an example one of their VPs was the original creator of the GNU C++ compiler). Novell coasted off of the successes of Suse and Ximian for too long. Regards, Steve
Apple will *not* be putting OS X on a PC ever, it kills the whole image and that's why they are successful. However, they already anounced that in the third or fourth quarter of this year, an API will be released to allow OS X programs run under Windows. That is what they are doing. This is Apple's attempt at getting developers to come over into their camp, and start developing for Windows as a secondary consideration, and it might just work. If linux becomes a threat, they could so a similar thing for linux. As Steve Ballmer said, and he was actually right, "Developers! Developers! Developers!". Whoever has the developers has the market, and Apple wants the developers. Even if the software can run on other platforms, it will likely always run best on the original platform developed for and it will also be the platform recommended by the software company. Over time people will migrate simply due to mind share. I don't own any Apple computers, never have (hopefully not for long though), but I do hope they knock out MS. Regards, Steve
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The Intel i9XX vid cards are actually pretty impressive. If you can look past the shared ram, they can definitely go up against a pretty modern ATI or Nvidia card.
Regards,
Steve
In addition to the other reasons listed in the above replies, 18 is the age of consent in the U.S. It varies from country to country, there is no way to enforce that law. Politicians need to stay off the net.
Regards,
Steve
Yea this theory is pretty common and nothing new. Every theory has a "Big Bang", how that bang came to be, how many there were before it, and how many there will be in the future are the things that are still being figured out. The "Big Bang" is fact, there is no disputing that it happened, scientists are focused on the other questions now. I believe most of these theories are covered in Brian Greene's "The Elegant Universe", buts its been a few years since I've read it. I remember it being a great introductory text to this topic though. Another interesting theory has to do with the dimensions, in particular time, actually circling in on itself at the "beginning" of the universe... therefore there is no beginning. Imagine a timeline, now wrap the line around on itself so it is connected like a donut, the timeline no longer has a beginning or end. Now imagine random branches of dough coming out of this donut, and from those branches, more branches, etc... These would be the parallel universes. Anyway, the topic is really interesting and there are some theories that have recently made a ton of progress. It is worth reading up on. If humans ever do figure out how to live forever, at least you'll know if there is an upper bound on forever ;)
Regards,
Steve
Dumb idea, and that is why you aren't in charge of these things. One of the biggest pains in the ass with perl software is that whenever you run it you have to read a 20 page reamde saying "Before you run this program, you need to run this list of commands in this order so you can install the dependencies." In good scenarios you just run a script first, or in some circumstances you can use the distro's package management, but regardless it is a pain in the ass. Java's "everything and the kitchen sink" approach is way better. You no longer concern yourself with such nonsense. If you distribute a java program, you'll know the receiver has the capability to do graphics, encryption, compression, sound, XML handling, networking, etc... all without having to lift a finger. Java is a platform. I only wish more languages, in particular Python, would get a set of libraries that is as comprehensive as Java's and comes by default. Keep in mind that since the 5.0 JDK you've been able to create a minimal redistributable JRE that includes only what your program needs to run (you use pak200, which is a utility that comes with Java 5.0), but by default the JRE should definitely include everything... it makes life and integration soooo much easier in the end.
Regards,
Steve
The only thing that might save us all is government forced competition. Many cities are starting to set up wireless access to their citizens, and it will hopefully force AT&T, etc... to be more competitive about their services. Seriously, the free market works well in many cases, but this is one time that government mandated competition is more than welcome.
Regards,
Steve
For most companies, this wouldn't be an issue at all. Nut Microsoft is a monopoly and is now illegaly using their weight in one market to take over another market. If I were Steve Ballmer, I'd hate that rule and think it is unfair, but from a consumer point of view this is a good thing. Corporations can become very powerful and if Microsoft wanted, they could take over many markets simply by using their monopoly. The laws are in place to stop that.
Regards,
Steve
Woah now, slow down there. I'm a big fan of python, but also a fan of Java. Java's JVM is on par with the size of Python. Java's redistributables, in particular with the new pak200, can easily be around 2 megs in size. Python is ridiculously slow, but still faster than ruby. I've done a ton of coding in both languages and there are plenty of cases where "Java is the solution" because no other platform provides its capabilities. Python's libraries also are laughable in comparison to Java's. Java has defined standards, a great set of APIs (granted the gui sucks, but the api is wonderful), and the only major complaint I even hear from people is about Swing. Swing in the upcoming java JVM is finally fully threaded and just about all of the problems people complained about are fixed (including pretty good support for native themeing). Java is a very nice language, but it is alot more. It is an entire platform and it has a set of tools that just don't exist with any other language. It is very well designed, speed hasn't been a concern for ages, modern jvms might run a few percent slower than native performance... but it's still (depending on what benchmarks you use) around 1000 times faster than python. You're right that if you need high performance, you don't necessarily use java (although modern jvms are fast enough that they are used in some cases), but if you're writing a program that does a fairly common task of say walking through a directory tree of a couple hundred thousand files... the user will notice the couple of seconds that it takes python... but java will seem much snappier. Both languages have their place, but until python gets a hell of alot faster, a better standard set of libraries, and more enterprise tools, you can't even really compare them... they are for entirely different needs. And far as memory goes, Python can be just as big of a bitch about it as Java can be.
Regards,
Steve
Even in the states it is more or less a failed project. You'll only hear Microsoft fanboys who wish they didn't waste their money claim otherwise. And once PS3 and Wii hit the shelves later this year, I think the 360 will be out og the game until the next generation of consoles comes around and Microsoft takes another stab at it. If anyone tells you that the 360 is a success in the states, don't believe them, unless they are speaking in relative terms as compared to how the 360 did in other markets.
I think Apple is being even slicker with this move. This is Apple also building up its defenses against AT&T, etc... AT&T want to start throttling Apple's, Google's, Amazon's, etc... bandwidth. AT&T will have a hell of a time throttling the connections of all of their customers and any other IPs trying to exchange data with AT&T customers. It's one thing to throttle at a source, its a whole other problem to throttle a legally distributed network, and to do it without losing a good chunk of customers is near impossible. I think Apple is playing it smart and pretty much saying that, not only *won't* they, but they *can't* be extorted.
Regards,
Steve
Unless of course his filesystem does automatic versioning so that he can seamlessly go back to any version of a file at any time he wants to.
Regards,
Steve
I'm also thinking eye tracking. For it to work properly, you should be looking right at the camera. Traditionally, you can't look at the camera and monitor at the same time, but with this innovation you can. Wherever you're looking at the monitor, the computer can now tell with precision and move the mouse, or whatever concept apple replaces the mouse with, to that point. If it is seemless enough, this could be golden... when you move your mouse on the screen, your eyes are just about always following it, now they can take the mouse out of the equation.
Regards,
Steve
What are you on? I2 was never about being the "new" internet, it was about being a parallel internet that doesn't have the cruft and speed problems of the internet. I2 has been a huge success in any major university and a few R&D companies. The speeds are just outrageous, and just about every technology related university has it set up to automatically switch over I2 if its possible for you to connect over it. If I'm looking for an iso of some distribution, and I find a university mirroring it, I'll download it and the network will automatically toss my packets over I2. It is also unbeatable for collaborative research, you just can't compare.
Regards,
Steve
You wouldn't recognize a bomb in a screening device if it was slapping you on your face. You have to be trained to pick these things out, they are usually hidden very well and shaped to look like they belong with everything else. It isn't like a cartoon, you don't see 8 sticks of dynamite tied together with an alarm clock on top. Some explosive devices I guess you might recognize just by shear suspicion and it appearing to be out of place, but a good chunk of them are much harder to decipher, especially using screening equipment. And to counter you're other point, people shouldn't be in a position to be peeking at the screening device anyway. Maybe a quick glance, but if someone is standing at the edge of the security area glaring at the screen, I think that'd be something more worth being concerned about.
Regards,
Steve
Your ignorance shines. They would conclude that elephants are not predators from their teeth, if nothing else. Elephants also do move in packs, and they would conclude this from other evidence. You can tell how old an animal is by certain bone properties, not just the size of the bones themself, and if all you ever find is a mass grave of all very mature species than its just a big mass grave, but if you find a pack of animals of varied age and maturity that happened to all die at once from a disaster, then you can be pretty certain that they moved in packs. This is just one method to determine such things. The arms on the T-Rex, while small, were strong and the T-Rex was big by our standards, but not big at all in comparison to the dinosaurs that *did* get big to avoid predation. There is ample evidence, such as teeth marks in the bones of dead fossils that match T-Rex mouths, sometimes matching the mouth of a T-Rex fossil very close by (you could argue they were scavengers, but the wounds in the hind of an animal typically are not created through scavenging), and if nothing else, historical trends from following the lineage and seeing how they behave all point towards the T-Rex being a predator. They were definitely a carnivore, as their jaw structure wouldn't allow them to chew leaves, etc..., so the only thing worth arguing is whether they were predators or scavengers and nearly all evidence points toward predation. People much smarter than you or I figure these things out. There are many cases of paleontologists making hypothesises based on a few skeletal structures, location, size, etc... and then years or decades later finding near perfect fossils in China or some other land. Yes, some fossils of dinosaurs have been found with their skin intact and their stomach contents available for examination, and the theories were spot on in regard to what they predicted (granted some things have since been elaborated on in more detail, or things were added that weren't possible to know before, such as some dinosaurs having a crop, but the things the theories did explain were all right). If nothing else, it shows that their methods are accurate. If you'd like one of the best cited examples of fully intact dinosaurs, here. And there are plenty of others, albeit not necessarily as high quality. I had studied paleontology for a brief period in academia along with my major (Comp Sci), so I'm no expert, but I do have a slight understanding of it. I really just wanted to understand how these conslusions had come about and whether the results were credible and from what I can tell, current paleontolgy practices are pretty solid and you're not going to credibly refute anything in a post on slashdot.
Regards,
Steve
Some might even argue the last 4 :)
Regards,
Steve
FC5 is the finest distro I've ever used, and as many reviews have noted, it has restored my faith in desktop linux. I've tried Ubuntu and I just don't like it, anything about it. For a few years I was nothing but a Debian user, later switched to Fedora, and after handling Fedora for a while I gave Ubuntu a shot, and personally it just doesn't compare. Fedora's integration and funtionality just blindingly surpasses it. Sure Fedora is a couple of CDs, but its a one time thing and I have no problem with that. Out of the many distros I've used for extended periods of time, I have yet to see one that compares to Fedora. This isn't a troll, just use it for a little bit and you'll see. It certainly has some issues, its not perfect, but damn it's close.
Regards,
Steve
First of all, yes the technology is significantly better today than 20 years ago. We have the possibility to literally start up a reactor and walk away from it now, when its out of fuel it'll naturally extinguish itself. Second of all, the majority of the "radioactive waste" is no more radioactive than your jeans. There are rules and regulations (at least in the U.S.) that says anything that comes in contact or within a certain distance must be treated as nuclear waste, when in reality only a small percentage of it is dangerous at all. Regardless, its better in the ground than in the air as current coal burning does. Nuclear is a very clean source of energy and its good to see people finally realizing this.
Regards,
Steve
This is just the "Oh shit, we were going to buy JBoss and kill it off, but Red Hat bought it and saved it last week, let's try to intimidate the market now so people know that we are powerful and no one else can dare compete." With so many companies moving to JBoss and other alternatives, including open source databases, Larry Ellison is shitting himself fearing that he may never become richer than Bill Gates. Novell is already known for making good product lines deteriorate, and you're starting to see that in Suse, if Oracle buys Novell then you'll just see the whole distro collapse. Oracle can do databases well, but never did supporting utitilities well. Larry would also want Suse locked down so that everything only works with Oracle products, that is the way Larry thinks... he hates alternatives, and he'll do what he can to stop you or dissaude you from running MySql or Postgres.
Regards,
Steve
It might as well, the vehicles can be small and also remotely controlled, they dont have to be entirely autonomous like DARPA required.
Regards,
Steve
Red Hat develops GCJ (in addition to the majority of GCC in general), which is the Gnu compiler for java. It allows you to compile java code natively and they've already had it compiling Eclipse and the java portions of Open Office for over a year now. Red Hat wants a free java implementation and they've been working on it for quite some time. Its pretty good, I use it often. (It comes with Fedora Core)
Regards,
Steve
Companies need support, and now Red Hat gets JBoss's support contracts. This software isn't just made for free ya know, there is money made from it because it takes money to develop it. That's just how business works. Also, if a bigger fish didn't buy JBoss, it is well known that Oracle had its sights on it to kill it off, which would have been bad.
Regards,
Steve
Red Hat has a good history of doing nice things for open source projects, or proprietary projects that they bought and made open source. If a big supporter of open source didn't pick up JBoss, Oracle would have killed the project eventually (they have experience doing these things). One cool thing about this is that Red Hat develops GCJ (Gnu Compiler for Java) and they've got it compiling Eclipse and the Java portions of OpenOffice.Org, so I'd venture to guess that this increases the chance of JBoss running natively too which would be interesting.
Regards,
Steve
That's because Novell has perfected the art of killing product lines. I'm not trolling, just look at Novell's history. Suse used to be filled with great people, and they still have some great people, but they are being managed by typical corporate minds and its a bad thing. The culture at Red Hat is much more fitting to open source development (just look at their corporate structure, and who they have running things, as an example one of their VPs was the original creator of the GNU C++ compiler). Novell coasted off of the successes of Suse and Ximian for too long.
Regards,
Steve
It's called evolution and its something that non-dead languages should do to survive (it's a good thing).
Regards,
Steve
Apple will *not* be putting OS X on a PC ever, it kills the whole image and that's why they are successful. However, they already anounced that in the third or fourth quarter of this year, an API will be released to allow OS X programs run under Windows. That is what they are doing. This is Apple's attempt at getting developers to come over into their camp, and start developing for Windows as a secondary consideration, and it might just work. If linux becomes a threat, they could so a similar thing for linux. As Steve Ballmer said, and he was actually right, "Developers! Developers! Developers!". Whoever has the developers has the market, and Apple wants the developers. Even if the software can run on other platforms, it will likely always run best on the original platform developed for and it will also be the platform recommended by the software company. Over time people will migrate simply due to mind share. I don't own any Apple computers, never have (hopefully not for long though), but I do hope they knock out MS.
Regards,
Steve