Well, they could cut exec salaries and easily hire more people.
But yes, people want Mozilla to do things they never have instead of continuing to be a shitty half baked OSS project which, impressive as it is, has always been 'not quite ready to release'.
Corporate users are stupid and think that deployment strategies which worked 10 years ago still make sense.
Says some random moron on slashdot.
You may think that its changed, but you clearly have no actual experience or business sense.
Your entire post acts as if businesses have 0 operational costs and docking around with browsers all the time for no reason is something they are required to do.
Old browser works on our stuff... new browser might not... why upgrade... because a dude on slashdot says the old ways don't work anymore...
So what company are you leading with all your wisdom and insight and clearly highly advanced way of thinking about this stuff? Perhaps your company can show us the way? Whats the name of the company you own again? Okay, whats the name of the company that you CTO for, and are following your direction in this respect? Whats that? You're unemployed and mom wants you out of the basement?
If you have a web app you consider critical, testing it against a browser version is fucking retarded. Test it against standards,
Show me ANY WEB BROWSER that follows ANY STANDARD to the letter. Okay, I'll make sure my web apps are standards compliant... too bad there isn't a fucking browser that actually complies to the standards anywhere on the planet.
You're an ignorant idiot with no actual real world experience at all. I've seen high school kids with more knowledge about this than you seem to exhibit.
After all, the Linux kernel doesn't wait for anyone, but that doesn't seem to be a huge problem for corporations
Funny, if you look at who writes the code of the Linux kernel... you'll find them... working for big companies... who use Linux.
So whats actually happening even though you can't see it is that... the linux kernel gets the futures companies want because MOST of the kernel devs actually work on Linux FOR some big company.
You do know what Linus does to pay the bills, right?
It's particularly horrible on filesystems like ext3 where fsync translates into 'write all pending data to the disk'.
Basically you mean file systems that aren't broken.
I've started dealing with ZFS and learned real fucking quick how BAD apps are about this sort of thing that I never noticed before because most filesystems don't actually sync when told to on desktops.
Modern FSes will sync to the point of stable journaled recovery, but not actually get all the data on disk by the end of the sync.
When you put shitty apps that think sync is free on top of these filesystems, all of the sudden you get completely asstastic performance.
I never noticed this when using the standard ufs in FreeBSD because apparently... sync doesn't actually sync by default, it ensures soft updates consistency but thats it, so all of the sudden what was a perfectly acceptable NFS server for virtual machines... when switched to ZFS which actually DOES sync and not return until the sync is completed... well, now NFS performance has become completely unusable. Want to make it usable? Just tell ZFS not to ignore sync requests that it doesn't generate itself internally... oh look, right back to where we were pre-ZFS... So much for a cheap NAS server, had to throw in a bunch of expensive battery backed controllers to make sync not suck ass.
May you have fair (solar) winds and following seas. You will be missed, you and your sister ships served very well and performed better than expected, even with the casualties. May you come home safely and get the rest you deserve.
As some one who grew up in central Florida right along side the shuttle program I must admit that this brings tears to my eyes. Not so much because its going away, but because its going away with no replacement. We've basically given up. It'd bother me far less if there was already another operational program to fill its place. Too bad we've lost our edge.
And yes, sometimes its okay to anthropomorphize objects for they are often backed by people who gave the objects those human qualities. So what I really mean is, thanks to all the NASA crew that made this program work, and thanks for all the benefits you've given us from it. My job and in fact the company I work for only exists because of NASAs work.
We will eventually have standard apis across hardware & platforms, and the oses will compete purely on features and performance while all running the programs.
How do you plan to have different features with no API differences?
Of course... if you had a clue... you'd know what UNIX actually is... as well as Posix... see... what you're talking about... happened 20 years ago.
Both UNIX and Posix certification specify a common API, but its so minimal that its useless.
Windows has supported Posix for the last 10 years, it does require additional installation (but included with the installation media) for servers, but its there and meets full Posix conformance requirements. The NT subsystems support everything but posix sockets and threads on a default install, Unix services for Windows adds those to components to the mix.
Pretty much every commercial OS you can think of supports Posix completely already.
So whatever you think you see that MS has only found recently... well, they knew about it probably before you heard of Linux.
Its also note worthy to point out that Linux passes neither UNIX nor Posix certification, it comes close in some distros, but certainly not all, and some fair better than others. Its not unique to Linux, OSS in general fails at Posix support, some fail better than others. Which strikes me as funny, you'd think supporting a common API properly so portability was better on your OSS OS would be a high priority. Apparently reinventing the wheel is more important.
Thats like saying racism is a good thing. Ignorance and intolerance are never good things, and it just makes you guys look like angsty sore losers to be honest.
Linux was created in 1991 to be a POSIX compliant kernel
The linux kernel was created because Linus as bored one christmas and wanted an alternative to Minix, and just happen to have a shiney new 386 to futz around with it on. Full stop. Everything else you make up after that is just made up.
The GNU tools were created to have a free Unix.
The GNU tool chain were created to have some open source alternatives to the existing common tools of the time. There were started before anyone had the idea of a 'free' unix, and well before the Linux kernel.
Pretty much everything you said was factually incorrect and only happened several years later, but hey, you should totally be modded +5 insightful for fanboying it up.
Unless of course... you stop using a patented file system like FAT32 and instantly that threat is gone. Were you too stupid to realize in advance that FAT32 was something MS invented? Do you think Linus mad it himself or something? The FAT32 thing wasn't exactly some obscure thing that no one saw coming, and its not the only option either. So... if you want to be lazy and just use someone elses work, you should be prepared to pay for it. If you think you don't have too... well, enjoy the courts judgement and the time you spend dealing with legal crap since you clearly deserve it.
I assure you, the FAT32 code is not a required part of the Linux kernel.
If I came to your home and just decided I wanted your car, would you not call the cops?
Netscape failed because they produced shitty software, Mozilla is doing the exact same retarded shit as Netscape did right before its failure.
As for OS/2 and DR-DOS, well, you are entirely correct. Microsoft played dirty to fuck them over. OS/2 at least. While its not really nice to intentionally introduce compatibilities issues with your competition, you'd be a complete and total idiot to think MS was unique in this respect.
That bitchy company named Microsoft keeps screwing every fucking STANDARD out there and about 80% of the damn WORLD helps them doing it!
Name a standard they fucked with that isn't properly supported by everyone else... the CLOSEST you'll get is their Java implementation, and I'd give you that one, because they clearly did it intentionally where as apparently all the other Java VMs get a pass simply because they are shitty programmers rather than intentionally writing it differently, the end result is the same. Don't even think about bringing up Kerberos and LDAP, since they followed the spec to the letter and the only incompatibility was due to everyone using the same broken implementation which did not actually support the specification it was written for. So what do you got?
in the sense that it may force it open in spite of your wishes to the contrary
Violating the GPL does not mean the offending code automatically becomes covered by the GPL. In fact the only way that would happen is if the offender offered that as a solution to the problem.
All a GPL violation means is that the copyright owners can sue the offender for violating the GPL... that can make a request for what they want done, and the judge can determine if thats acceptable and allow it, or do something entirely different or tell them that while the did violate the GPL, it really didn't do any harm to anyone so all they have to do is remove the GPL code from future versions.
GPL does not have some sort of 'new and unique' position in the copyright and licensing world that magically lets it do things that no one else can do. The worst that will ever happen is a fine and injunction to stop distribution of the offending code. You're an idiot if you think it'd ever be anymore than that. The GPL will never make a closed source product open, unless the people who own the closed source product decide thats an easier way out than paying a fine and ceasing distribution.
Linksys or whoever it was may have given the source code out after getting bitched at for GPL violations, but thats simply because the OS isn't the core product, the hardware itself is, and the majority of the software was GPL software, removing GPL'd code from the device would have basically meant rewriting the software completely. That is an entirely different situation from one where say (just for the sake of argument) Adobe used 4 lines of GPLd code in Photoshop. In which case, I'd be completely surprised if they were fined at all, and expect the more likely response to be something like 'take those lines out before you distribute another copy or we'll fine the ever living shit out of you'.
I do prefer OSS and encourage it, and I also think GPL is a scourge that gives OSS a shitty name because idiots such as yourself care more about manipulating others so you can get at what they have then actually sharing common code and functionality. GPL is for people who want to force their own political agenda on others. Its just a political tool, and its only getting worse as time goes on. If you think GPL is about sharing you are wrong. Copyleft is not about sharing, its about forcing others to do the same thing you do. There are plenty of OSS licenses that are for sharing, copyleft licenses are not among them. Anything that goes out of its way to make itself incompatible with another license and provides no remedy to deal with other licenses that are not in 100% accordance with their own is certainly not trying to be 'shared'.
NO WAY?! A Linux fanboy on slashdot assuming its MS trying to be insulting? I never would have expected that to happen or get modded to the highest level.
You guys really do need to rejoin reality. You just make yourselves look like assholes all the time with the continual OMG MS IS DOING SOMETHING SNEAKY TO DESTROY LINUX crap. For once in your life turn off the ignorant paranoia and just move on.
This sort of ignorance and paranoia does the work for Microsoft. They don't have to be assholes, they can be nice to you... and you'll turn around and make yourself look like an ignorant paranoid asshole for them. You are your own worst enemy, spend less time looking for them in the fields and more time looking for the enemy in the mirror. This childish BS is well past the point of being old.
Your best response would have been to say 'Thanks MS!', Your next best response would have been to ignore it... but no... instead you all act like a bunch of whiney bitches who make it clear that no matter what happens you are going to be an asshole to them. What does the rest of the world see, those of the world who don't have your retarded emotional baggage? They see you acting like a bunch of elementary school sore losers, which in turn makes them have even less interest in Linux.
Well, then you go to an Apple store and they'll let you use their bandwidth to download it, or even burn it to a DVD for you.
If you live somewhere random that has no Apple stores, chances are you're already going to be paying extra to get physical media shipped for anything anyway so stop trying to pretend you're inheriting a new cost. If you live anywhere that bandwidth cost is an issue and you have no alternative way to get it, then well, you're likely going to be paying a premium for it regardless, and to put it bluntly, you shouldn't be worrying about OSX upgrades while doing research at the south pole. Wait till you get back to the normal world, where is doesn't cost $48 for 4 gigs.
Its not Apples fault you're a retard who wants to use a precious commodity to do something trivial to do with more traditional cheaper methods.
Why would you? You're just updating a bunch of files, for the most part an OS upgrade is a bunch of 'copy file to here' and an occasional 'update configuration file/db to reflect changes from updates'.
What OSes do you need to boot from a disk to upgrade?
Hell, you don't even have to do it with Windows from now on.
You could leave, and then us idiots wouldn't have to continue defending morons such as yourself.
Our problem, is that we attempt to allow people to have their own opinion, even when thats clearly a bad idea. We could easily solve our problem by terminating anyone who makes idiotic statements. Unfortunately for you, that means you'd be shot fairly early on.
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
Yea, this is just a shitty light aircraft, nothing more.
This is an example of someone spending millions of dollars... when they should have bought him a 25k ultralight for his retirement since it would have been far closer to the goal I think.
It may be 'road' able in that it will 'roll down the road', but just looking at it, it clearly wouldn't survive more than very very basic trips on any public road. I'm sure it has no suspension system, so the ride on the ground would likely rattle the aircraft parts so bad I'd be afraid to fly it without re-certifying the airframe every 20 or 30 yards of road travel.
Its not like the mistake wasn't obvious to others.
The Japanese have a since of honor and pride, the rest of the world would do good to have some of it. America most certainly needs some. We think we deserve to rule the world Because. When we fuck up and kill 10k people... its the 10k peoples fault they died, not the CEO or Engineers.
Unless this guy was playing around with the robot inside the reactor with no one watching (let me give you a hint, he wasn't, since everything he did was recorded by various cameras and insturments... and the people working with him... I'm fairly certain that the lesson was still learned.
And with a second lesson that you should learn... some people actually feel bad when they fuck up, seems like in America we seem to take pride in fucking up because 'we'll learn from it!' and then we do the exact same thing next week.
This has been known for several years. Replicate a small server with 8-16G of ram + a 160G SSD + a 2TB HDD sits right on the sweet spot. In fact, even 4G of ram would probably be fine. The idea is not to replace your hard drive but instead to insert another layer of cheap caching to avoid having to maintain a complex, expensive, power hungry HDD storage system just to get better throughput.
Wow, did you really just make such a silly statement?
I expected far better out of someone like you.
Hits the sweet spot for what? Something that easily fits its working set into 8-16G of ram? Sure. But the SSD is entirely unneeded in that situation too probably, but oh hey, you might boot an extra second or two faster. No, I'm not wrong, you and I just have entirely different ideas about what we're trying to do with that machine. I have a customer firewall that needs not an SSD and 2TB drive, it net boots. It needs massive amounts of ram for the huge state tables it maintains, but there is 0 disk IO on the machine after boot. Adding an SSD and standard HD to it would be a waste of money and additional points of failure.
This whole discussion is silly, it assumes that there is 'a better way to do it every time', which both you, and the article seem to not understand is utterly wrong.
Next you'll try to tell us what the answer is to 'whats the best possible computer configuration?' or 'the best programming language is always XXX'.
You of all people should know better than to make such silly blanket statements. Its mind boggling that someone who plays with VMM code for fun would be so silly. Did someone hack your account? I had to check at least 3 times to verify that you are the same Matt Dillion that I'm thinking of.
Either way, both the summary and the article are ignorant, poorly written amateur pieces written by someone who probably just learned what flash is and that SSDs exist by the looks of it.
If I boot my system and run entirely from ram, because thats the way my workload works... NAND is going to do me no good. My little app spends its time doing nbody physics simulations via opencl...
However, if I do a lot of random file IO and spend most of my time reading/writing data to the disk rather than performing raw calculations, then disk IO speed matters more. Say... like my DB server.
There is no magic bullet, pretending there is... is retarded.
The real answer is... hire someone that knows what they are doing, as by asking the question you clearly don't.
Yes, thats a shitty answer that you're not going to like, but its the right answer.
The longer answer is... you back it up int he same place you back all your important data up. Which could be done any number of ways.
Spinning platters is fine if you maintain them, as is every other method of data access under the sun.
Stop trying to stick the data in some sort of long term storage and just keep all your data active, as YOU MOVE to new storage mediums, you move ALL your data with you at the same time. So you are always using current technology and worrying about pulling those bits off something that is hard to find in 10 years won't be an issue because you'll not be using something hard to find in 10 years, you'll be using whatever is popular in 10 years.
This is really easy to accomplish.
You have server A and server B. You work on server A, its close to you, has redundant storage and fast access... and automatically syncs to server B, which is also full of redundant storage and several thousand miles away from you for disaster recovery purposes.
I've spent ~$200 on the app store in the last month, and not one of the apps I've gotten have been crap, and only one of them was in the top 100 list, which interestingly enough is the one that is most expensive and most disappointing to me.
Apple is tightening down on crappier apps over time, of course at that point you'll start screaming stupid shit like 'censorship' or 'control!' because you simply don't like them. Don't think so? Take a look at the slashdot reaction every time in the past they've cleaned up.
Not liking them is fine, but you're just acting like an illogical ignorant fanboy, do you even own an iPhone?
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Well, they could cut exec salaries and easily hire more people.
But yes, people want Mozilla to do things they never have instead of continuing to be a shitty half baked OSS project which, impressive as it is, has always been 'not quite ready to release'.
Corporate users are stupid and think that deployment strategies which worked 10 years ago still make sense.
Says some random moron on slashdot.
You may think that its changed, but you clearly have no actual experience or business sense.
Your entire post acts as if businesses have 0 operational costs and docking around with browsers all the time for no reason is something they are required to do.
Old browser works on our stuff ... new browser might not ... why upgrade ... because a dude on slashdot says the old ways don't work anymore ...
So what company are you leading with all your wisdom and insight and clearly highly advanced way of thinking about this stuff? Perhaps your company can show us the way? Whats the name of the company you own again? Okay, whats the name of the company that you CTO for, and are following your direction in this respect? Whats that? You're unemployed and mom wants you out of the basement?
If you have a web app you consider critical, testing it against a browser version is fucking retarded. Test it against standards,
Show me ANY WEB BROWSER that follows ANY STANDARD to the letter. Okay, I'll make sure my web apps are standards compliant ... too bad there isn't a fucking browser that actually complies to the standards anywhere on the planet.
You're an ignorant idiot with no actual real world experience at all. I've seen high school kids with more knowledge about this than you seem to exhibit.
After all, the Linux kernel doesn't wait for anyone, but that doesn't seem to be a huge problem for corporations
Funny, if you look at who writes the code of the Linux kernel ... you'll find them ... working for big companies ... who use Linux.
So whats actually happening even though you can't see it is that ... the linux kernel gets the futures companies want because MOST of the kernel devs actually work on Linux FOR some big company.
You do know what Linus does to pay the bills, right?
It's particularly horrible on filesystems like ext3 where fsync translates into 'write all pending data to the disk'.
Basically you mean file systems that aren't broken.
I've started dealing with ZFS and learned real fucking quick how BAD apps are about this sort of thing that I never noticed before because most filesystems don't actually sync when told to on desktops.
Modern FSes will sync to the point of stable journaled recovery, but not actually get all the data on disk by the end of the sync.
When you put shitty apps that think sync is free on top of these filesystems, all of the sudden you get completely asstastic performance.
I never noticed this when using the standard ufs in FreeBSD because apparently ... sync doesn't actually sync by default, it ensures soft updates consistency but thats it, so all of the sudden what was a perfectly acceptable NFS server for virtual machines ... when switched to ZFS which actually DOES sync and not return until the sync is completed ... well, now NFS performance has become completely unusable. Want to make it usable? Just tell ZFS not to ignore sync requests that it doesn't generate itself internally ... oh look, right back to where we were pre-ZFS ... So much for a cheap NAS server, had to throw in a bunch of expensive battery backed controllers to make sync not suck ass.
Sigh ...
May you have fair (solar) winds and following seas. You will be missed, you and your sister ships served very well and performed better than expected, even with the casualties. May you come home safely and get the rest you deserve.
As some one who grew up in central Florida right along side the shuttle program I must admit that this brings tears to my eyes. Not so much because its going away, but because its going away with no replacement. We've basically given up. It'd bother me far less if there was already another operational program to fill its place. Too bad we've lost our edge.
And yes, sometimes its okay to anthropomorphize objects for they are often backed by people who gave the objects those human qualities. So what I really mean is, thanks to all the NASA crew that made this program work, and thanks for all the benefits you've given us from it. My job and in fact the company I work for only exists because of NASAs work.
We will eventually have standard apis across hardware & platforms, and the oses will compete purely on features and performance while all running the programs.
How do you plan to have different features with no API differences?
Of course ... if you had a clue ... you'd know what UNIX actually is ... as well as Posix ... see ... what you're talking about ... happened 20 years ago.
Both UNIX and Posix certification specify a common API, but its so minimal that its useless.
Windows has supported Posix for the last 10 years, it does require additional installation (but included with the installation media) for servers, but its there and meets full Posix conformance requirements. The NT subsystems support everything but posix sockets and threads on a default install, Unix services for Windows adds those to components to the mix.
Pretty much every commercial OS you can think of supports Posix completely already.
So whatever you think you see that MS has only found recently ... well, they knew about it probably before you heard of Linux.
Its also note worthy to point out that Linux passes neither UNIX nor Posix certification, it comes close in some distros, but certainly not all, and some fair better than others. Its not unique to Linux, OSS in general fails at Posix support, some fail better than others. Which strikes me as funny, you'd think supporting a common API properly so portability was better on your OSS OS would be a high priority. Apparently reinventing the wheel is more important.
Oh yes, it is.
And it's a GOOD thing.
Thats like saying racism is a good thing. Ignorance and intolerance are never good things, and it just makes you guys look like angsty sore losers to be honest.
Linux was created in 1991 to be a POSIX compliant kernel
The linux kernel was created because Linus as bored one christmas and wanted an alternative to Minix, and just happen to have a shiney new 386 to futz around with it on. Full stop. Everything else you make up after that is just made up.
The GNU tools were created to have a free Unix.
The GNU tool chain were created to have some open source alternatives to the existing common tools of the time. There were started before anyone had the idea of a 'free' unix, and well before the Linux kernel.
Pretty much everything you said was factually incorrect and only happened several years later, but hey, you should totally be modded +5 insightful for fanboying it up.
Unless of course ... you stop using a patented file system like FAT32 and instantly that threat is gone. Were you too stupid to realize in advance that FAT32 was something MS invented? Do you think Linus mad it himself or something? The FAT32 thing wasn't exactly some obscure thing that no one saw coming, and its not the only option either. So ... if you want to be lazy and just use someone elses work, you should be prepared to pay for it. If you think you don't have too ... well, enjoy the courts judgement and the time you spend dealing with legal crap since you clearly deserve it.
I assure you, the FAT32 code is not a required part of the Linux kernel.
If I came to your home and just decided I wanted your car, would you not call the cops?
Right, and you're entirely different because you'd totally pay your taxes every year even if there was no repercussions for not doing so.
Netscape failed because they produced shitty software, Mozilla is doing the exact same retarded shit as Netscape did right before its failure.
As for OS/2 and DR-DOS, well, you are entirely correct. Microsoft played dirty to fuck them over. OS/2 at least. While its not really nice to intentionally introduce compatibilities issues with your competition, you'd be a complete and total idiot to think MS was unique in this respect.
That bitchy company named Microsoft keeps screwing every fucking STANDARD out there and about 80% of the damn WORLD helps them doing it!
Name a standard they fucked with that isn't properly supported by everyone else ... the CLOSEST you'll get is their Java implementation, and I'd give you that one, because they clearly did it intentionally where as apparently all the other Java VMs get a pass simply because they are shitty programmers rather than intentionally writing it differently, the end result is the same. Don't even think about bringing up Kerberos and LDAP, since they followed the spec to the letter and the only incompatibility was due to everyone using the same broken implementation which did not actually support the specification it was written for. So what do you got?
in the sense that it may force it open in spite of your wishes to the contrary
Violating the GPL does not mean the offending code automatically becomes covered by the GPL. In fact the only way that would happen is if the offender offered that as a solution to the problem.
All a GPL violation means is that the copyright owners can sue the offender for violating the GPL ... that can make a request for what they want done, and the judge can determine if thats acceptable and allow it, or do something entirely different or tell them that while the did violate the GPL, it really didn't do any harm to anyone so all they have to do is remove the GPL code from future versions.
GPL does not have some sort of 'new and unique' position in the copyright and licensing world that magically lets it do things that no one else can do. The worst that will ever happen is a fine and injunction to stop distribution of the offending code. You're an idiot if you think it'd ever be anymore than that. The GPL will never make a closed source product open, unless the people who own the closed source product decide thats an easier way out than paying a fine and ceasing distribution.
Linksys or whoever it was may have given the source code out after getting bitched at for GPL violations, but thats simply because the OS isn't the core product, the hardware itself is, and the majority of the software was GPL software, removing GPL'd code from the device would have basically meant rewriting the software completely. That is an entirely different situation from one where say (just for the sake of argument) Adobe used 4 lines of GPLd code in Photoshop. In which case, I'd be completely surprised if they were fined at all, and expect the more likely response to be something like 'take those lines out before you distribute another copy or we'll fine the ever living shit out of you'.
I do prefer OSS and encourage it, and I also think GPL is a scourge that gives OSS a shitty name because idiots such as yourself care more about manipulating others so you can get at what they have then actually sharing common code and functionality. GPL is for people who want to force their own political agenda on others. Its just a political tool, and its only getting worse as time goes on. If you think GPL is about sharing you are wrong. Copyleft is not about sharing, its about forcing others to do the same thing you do. There are plenty of OSS licenses that are for sharing, copyleft licenses are not among them. Anything that goes out of its way to make itself incompatible with another license and provides no remedy to deal with other licenses that are not in 100% accordance with their own is certainly not trying to be 'shared'.
I read this as a slight against Linux.
NO WAY?! A Linux fanboy on slashdot assuming its MS trying to be insulting? I never would have expected that to happen or get modded to the highest level.
You guys really do need to rejoin reality. You just make yourselves look like assholes all the time with the continual OMG MS IS DOING SOMETHING SNEAKY TO DESTROY LINUX crap. For once in your life turn off the ignorant paranoia and just move on.
This sort of ignorance and paranoia does the work for Microsoft. They don't have to be assholes, they can be nice to you ... and you'll turn around and make yourself look like an ignorant paranoid asshole for them. You are your own worst enemy, spend less time looking for them in the fields and more time looking for the enemy in the mirror. This childish BS is well past the point of being old.
Your best response would have been to say 'Thanks MS!', Your next best response would have been to ignore it ... but no ... instead you all act like a bunch of whiney bitches who make it clear that no matter what happens you are going to be an asshole to them. What does the rest of the world see, those of the world who don't have your retarded emotional baggage? They see you acting like a bunch of elementary school sore losers, which in turn makes them have even less interest in Linux.
Well, then you go to an Apple store and they'll let you use their bandwidth to download it, or even burn it to a DVD for you.
If you live somewhere random that has no Apple stores, chances are you're already going to be paying extra to get physical media shipped for anything anyway so stop trying to pretend you're inheriting a new cost. If you live anywhere that bandwidth cost is an issue and you have no alternative way to get it, then well, you're likely going to be paying a premium for it regardless, and to put it bluntly, you shouldn't be worrying about OSX upgrades while doing research at the south pole. Wait till you get back to the normal world, where is doesn't cost $48 for 4 gigs.
Its not Apples fault you're a retard who wants to use a precious commodity to do something trivial to do with more traditional cheaper methods.
Why would you? You're just updating a bunch of files, for the most part an OS upgrade is a bunch of 'copy file to here' and an occasional 'update configuration file/db to reflect changes from updates'.
What OSes do you need to boot from a disk to upgrade?
Hell, you don't even have to do it with Windows from now on.
You do realize a polygon is composed of vertexes right? A vertex simply being a 'point in space'.
Every Direct3d and opengl application on the planet, game or otherwise, uses vertexes to build polygons.
Oh, whats that? You have no idea what you're talking about? My bad, should have guess AC.
You could leave, and then us idiots wouldn't have to continue defending morons such as yourself.
Our problem, is that we attempt to allow people to have their own opinion, even when thats clearly a bad idea. We could easily solve our problem by terminating anyone who makes idiotic statements. Unfortunately for you, that means you'd be shot fairly early on.
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.
Yea, this is just a shitty light aircraft, nothing more.
This is an example of someone spending millions of dollars ... when they should have bought him a 25k ultralight for his retirement since it would have been far closer to the goal I think.
It may be 'road' able in that it will 'roll down the road', but just looking at it, it clearly wouldn't survive more than very very basic trips on any public road. I'm sure it has no suspension system, so the ride on the ground would likely rattle the aircraft parts so bad I'd be afraid to fly it without re-certifying the airframe every 20 or 30 yards of road travel.
How was nothing learned from his mistake?
Its not like the mistake wasn't obvious to others.
The Japanese have a since of honor and pride, the rest of the world would do good to have some of it. America most certainly needs some. We think we deserve to rule the world Because. When we fuck up and kill 10k people ... its the 10k peoples fault they died, not the CEO or Engineers.
Unless this guy was playing around with the robot inside the reactor with no one watching (let me give you a hint, he wasn't, since everything he did was recorded by various cameras and insturments ... and the people working with him ... I'm fairly certain that the lesson was still learned.
And with a second lesson that you should learn ... some people actually feel bad when they fuck up, seems like in America we seem to take pride in fucking up because 'we'll learn from it!' and then we do the exact same thing next week.
This has been known for several years. Replicate a small server with 8-16G of ram + a 160G SSD + a 2TB HDD sits right on the sweet spot. In fact, even 4G of ram would probably be fine. The idea is not to replace your hard drive but instead to insert another layer of cheap caching to avoid having to maintain a complex, expensive, power hungry HDD storage system just to get better throughput.
Wow, did you really just make such a silly statement?
I expected far better out of someone like you.
Hits the sweet spot for what? Something that easily fits its working set into 8-16G of ram? Sure. But the SSD is entirely unneeded in that situation too probably, but oh hey, you might boot an extra second or two faster. No, I'm not wrong, you and I just have entirely different ideas about what we're trying to do with that machine. I have a customer firewall that needs not an SSD and 2TB drive, it net boots. It needs massive amounts of ram for the huge state tables it maintains, but there is 0 disk IO on the machine after boot. Adding an SSD and standard HD to it would be a waste of money and additional points of failure.
This whole discussion is silly, it assumes that there is 'a better way to do it every time', which both you, and the article seem to not understand is utterly wrong.
Next you'll try to tell us what the answer is to 'whats the best possible computer configuration?' or 'the best programming language is always XXX'.
You of all people should know better than to make such silly blanket statements. Its mind boggling that someone who plays with VMM code for fun would be so silly. Did someone hack your account? I had to check at least 3 times to verify that you are the same Matt Dillion that I'm thinking of.
And that is a false statement.
At least some times.
Its also true sometimes.
Either way, both the summary and the article are ignorant, poorly written amateur pieces written by someone who probably just learned what flash is and that SSDs exist by the looks of it.
If I boot my system and run entirely from ram, because thats the way my workload works ... NAND is going to do me no good. My little app spends its time doing nbody physics simulations via opencl ...
However, if I do a lot of random file IO and spend most of my time reading/writing data to the disk rather than performing raw calculations, then disk IO speed matters more. Say ... like my DB server.
There is no magic bullet, pretending there is ... is retarded.
Its just spam used to get fake account to appear less fake, as are almost all first posts.
The real answer is ... hire someone that knows what they are doing, as by asking the question you clearly don't.
Yes, thats a shitty answer that you're not going to like, but its the right answer.
The longer answer is ... you back it up int he same place you back all your important data up. Which could be done any number of ways.
Spinning platters is fine if you maintain them, as is every other method of data access under the sun.
Stop trying to stick the data in some sort of long term storage and just keep all your data active, as YOU MOVE to new storage mediums, you move ALL your data with you at the same time. So you are always using current technology and worrying about pulling those bits off something that is hard to find in 10 years won't be an issue because you'll not be using something hard to find in 10 years, you'll be using whatever is popular in 10 years.
This is really easy to accomplish.
You have server A and server B. You work on server A, its close to you, has redundant storage and fast access ... and automatically syncs to server B, which is also full of redundant storage and several thousand miles away from you for disaster recovery purposes.
Yea, actually, rather often.
I've spent ~$200 on the app store in the last month, and not one of the apps I've gotten have been crap, and only one of them was in the top 100 list, which interestingly enough is the one that is most expensive and most disappointing to me.
Apple is tightening down on crappier apps over time, of course at that point you'll start screaming stupid shit like 'censorship' or 'control!' because you simply don't like them. Don't think so? Take a look at the slashdot reaction every time in the past they've cleaned up.
Not liking them is fine, but you're just acting like an illogical ignorant fanboy, do you even own an iPhone?
Really? For their android devices? You can get boxed software?
Oh what? You're talking about something entirely unrelated and might as well be comparing k-mart/walmart/costco/target to the App Store?
Did you know that Ford will sell you discs too?
See how all of thats related and relevant?
No? Thats because its not, and neither was anything you said.