The problem was that the original plan in many cities was to have free and low cost service. I think they underestimated the cost to setup wifi across the city. The premium package planned in this area was far slower than DSL or cable services and more costly. There's also the possibility that commercial interests by cable and phone companies contributed.
I'm not sure what their policies are, but if you have extra time sign up to maintain packages (or submit patches) for your favorite OS package (or ports) repository. I'm sure they could use extra help. There is a lot of open source software out there and it's often updated frequently. I know my project has trouble keeping up.
Now laptops don't have motherboards? You admitted many don't have serial ports. I think you need to define "port" here. I think most people include either an integrated "port" or a header + dongle to be a port. You know, something you can use with most devices without attaching extra parts. I've given you two examples of motherboards without integrated serial ports and that contain no dongles in the box to make those headers you claim exist useful.
I still don't get your use of "real" here. My laptop is certainly as real as the thinkpad it replaced. The new one does not have a legacy integrated serial port. Both laptops can run windows, linux and BSD. Just because you need a serial port, does not mean most people do. My mother still uses a modem to get on the internet, but that doesn't mean everyone needs a 56k modem anymore.
I don't care about your job.
That was not your original question. The original question limited it to PC (i'm assuming you mean IBM compatible). If we use the more general definition of personal computer, I would of course site apple computers as a counter example. As they can run windows, I don't think you can argue they're not PCs. They even have intel processors these days. So please find a serial port on an iMac.
And none of them came with the cable to use the serial header. So they do not come with serial ports, only headers. You would still need to buy something to get them to work.
When did real routers come up? One could buy something else to do the configuration such as an old terminal. I purchased a terminal for 29 cents two years ago and use it with my sun hardware. (comp usa store closing)
So in computer terms, 3 years is a long time. You can do a lot with a P4 chip, but compared to a recent quad core or even dual core Intel or AMD chip, it's not that impressive. Think about an i7 vs a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz with HTT.
You are correct. I've been shopping for a new laptop. My ideal size is 12 inches. I'd settle for a 13 inch. Since I primarily use a laptop for software development, I do not want a netbook. I'm fine with the screen resolution because i can get it on my lap. It's not a "notebook". I had a 12" ibook and I miss it. 4+ hours of battery life and it was still portable. My current notebook is an IBM T30. It's huge and hasn't held up as well as the ibook had.
My complaint is that Apple has the 13 inch on the lowend so it's usually got terrible specs compared to the 15 and 17 inch models. Conversely, a 15 inch PC notebook is often $500 and slower than the more expensive 14 or 17 inch models.
I think the real problem we're having is that many people buy laptops and notebooks for desktop replacements now. Since it's the only computer people will buy, they want a giant screen, etc. It's really hurting people like me who use a laptop as a backup system, for work or travel. A netbook just isn't fast enough for what I do.
This may go a step farther. How could the report things on websites? I mean CNN is the dedicated twitter network and Fox is trying real hard to catch up. How can they say what users are writing on those sites? Say I write a statement in my blog. That means no one can reproduce it without my consent. If you think this is ridiculous, consider how the AP has gone after bloggers who have reproduced part of their articles.
I was under the impression that WebObjects was Java only since 5.0 came out. http://developer.apple.com/tools/webobjects/ As you can see, it mentions only java in the description.
Yes, I'm still a fan after Enterprise. I did complain about it all the time, but I watched every episode of that as well as every other star trek series.
The biggest disappointment varies per fan. Each fan has a different favorite show, captain, etc. I've met people that only like Enterprise. For me, the worst thing out the gate was the previous movie. I got psyched up to see a movie about romulans and I got remans and a dead data. It took me a long while before I could even watch TNG again.
I think it matters greatly where you live. Amazon is dirt cheap on some items depending on your cost of living. Their food products are very costly to me, but many other items are much cheaper than I can get locally. (Ann Arbor, MI) When I lived on the other side of the state, amazon was less of a deal on my things.
What will hurt me is cost increases on sites like newegg. RIght now I buy nearly every computer component online to save money. It allows me to upgrade my systems much more frequently. Motherboards, CPUs, hard drives, they're all double around here from what I pay online.
I direct you to ports-mgmt category in FreeBSD ports or MidnightBSD mports. You will see there are package management tools. Both FreeBSD and MidnightBSD have pkg_add and friends. There's also PC-BSD's PBI system. That's all package based. There are equivalent tools for OpenBSD and NetBSD. It's also possible to use packages in MirBSD (MirOS) with mirports.
To summarize, we've all got them. (DragonFly uses NetBSD pkgsrc)
There's also a project to build new tools for MidnightBSD called mport tools. (libmport is the first stage). You can find the source on GitHub. We're targeting version 1 of these for our next release, 0.3, at the end of the year.
The problem most people have is that the BSDs don't push packages on to users like the Linux community. I think they're a necessity for ease of use, but there is a thrill with customizing and picking features for each compiled port. FreeBSD often has bad pkg-plist files that preclude packages from working properly. We've dealt with that by making our ports system generate packages and install from the package. Some of the other BSDs do something similar. To be fair, freebsd has a decent binary update system for the OS that we do not have. PC-BSD's PBI system generates packages containing all the dependancies for the package so that they can be updated independently without breaking other packages or requiring an insane amount of updates. They don't have a lot of packages though and due to this feature, they are very large.
I suggest you look at the relevant websites and possibly BSD Magazine for more info on the BSDs. The most recent issue covers PBI I think.
For the most part I agree with you, but comparing MySQL is weak. It was written explicitly for Linux and now is getting hacked up to work better with Solaris. It was never tuned for Mac OS X, *BSD, or any other OS. FreeBSD did some tuning in areas that benefited MySQL performance with 7.0+ so it's possible to make OS X better, but it certainly was not written for the OS.
I agree with you completely as someone who runs an open source project. However, there are other factors. Everyone expects you to fix their problem first. Sometimes it takes a lot of resources to fix problems. It is important to realize that not everyone understands the implications of a bug both from the user perspective or the developer perspective.
I can also tell you that your license and project have a great deal of impact on other developers taking patches upstream. Sometimes I just find bugs and want to fix them and other times I want to upstream support for my os. It is amazing about how many developers, particularly GPL friendly types who won't even listen to BSD folks. I'm sure it can happen in reverse too. Open source developers can't get along amongst themselves and it hurts us as a whole.
Have you ever looked at how many devices don't work properly in a USB hub? Hand over your geek credentials.
Due to my unique home network setup, a typical home NAS does not provide enough security. That accessibility through the house is bad. Two of my systems provide internet services, and due to cost, I don't have my home network isolated well from those hosts aside from firewalls on each system. Some of the systems are using NAT from the same router that provides IPs for other systems. It's very ugly and not ideal.
I do have a separate file server, but the vast majority of crap on my iMac is iTunes content. I've done the whole iTunes stuff on another system thing before, and it's a real pain in the ass for syncing. Plus my file server was built for backups.
What about the hard drive. It's a real pain to upgrade a hard drive in an iMac. Not to mention there is only room for one. Before you say i can buy an external drive, consider the limited number of usb ports on the back. I can't add a usb controller card for more either can i.
Apple makes them hard to get into so you must buy a new mac. My iMac is 13 months old and I've got 4 GB of free disk space. It's not my only computer, but it is not serving it's purpose either.
Most professors I've dealt with (and teachers back in the day) in English courses were picky about fonts. Verdana is not a serif font. Serif fonts are easier to read. Setting a standard font means it's easier to read 30+ papers over several days. It's for grading purposes. Besides, if someone can't follow a simple standard in class, how will they succeed in the real world.
Actually, if I was teaching a course, I would require all papers to be in a serif font as well.
I will only point out that some xbox 360 units are not part of the install base anymore due to people not getting warranty service, etc and just buying a new one or giving up. The broken ones are not accounted for in these statistics.
Granted all consoles have defects and some fail but many believe the xbox numbers to be higher. If they are, then there are less units in the wild that can actually run games right now. One could also argue that a certain percentage of people bought the PS3 for blu ray and don't have a game. That would leave the Wii in a good position.
This makes a lot of assumptions and I'm sure one could argue against it. However, it shows that raw sales data doesn't imply anything about software title sales relative to units. Since we don't know how many units are in use, it's hard to get an accurate idea of how many games per active console are sold.
The first step in adoption of open source is getting users on free (or Free) software in their favorite OS. We're gaining ground in things like browsers and word processors, albeit slowly.
We need to pick target areas and create software that is missing from *NIX. Then we need to work (a lot) on usability and documentation.
Finally, we need to make this software work better (and faster) in open source operating systems to entice users over. As slow as vista is, this is somewhat done for us with each release of WIndows.
Now the really hard part is marketing. Each app needs good marketing to let users know there are alternatives. If we get them started with firefox, open office or whatever from the beginning, they will insist on it in the future. In fact, the IT department at the company I just started at uses all open source apps to save money. The only thing they do buy is Windows. Servers are Linux. Since the IT department got them on this, they won't consider pay alternatives that they don't know how to use.
In terms of a Linux ad campaign, you would need to either push linux for servers and point out the market share. This could hurt microsoft quite a bit if the numbers are in your favor. You could go on the winner angle. I know my aunt only buys windows because she thinks it's the most popular. What I don't know what to do is to show that Linux is better on the desktop. Some people believe it is now, I am not so sure. I suppose the apple approach to showing users what they can do with a Linux machine is a good start. perhaps point out that that eee pc, and other systems of that type often come with linux. You're already using it and don't know it! That is a good start. Talk about how it is used on cell phones, in Tivo, etc. Maybe users will like it better if they realize Linux is all around them just as windows is.
Marketing Linux is hard, marketing BSD is damn near impossible. At least you guys have binary blobs for video now. I'd rather not need them, but it's a reality. (yes i know about nvidia + freebsd) Then there's flash, air, acrobat, and many other commercial apps...
Wrong. Java and.NET compilers cannot unroll all code and determine what it does and then "rewrite" it to be fast. Sure there are things it can do, but if some idiot picks the wrong data structure or writes a O(n^3) algorithm, it won't matter.
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The problem was that the original plan in many cities was to have free and low cost service. I think they underestimated the cost to setup wifi across the city. The premium package planned in this area was far slower than DSL or cable services and more costly. There's also the possibility that commercial interests by cable and phone companies contributed.
I'm not sure what their policies are, but if you have extra time sign up to maintain packages (or submit patches) for your favorite OS package (or ports) repository. I'm sure they could use extra help. There is a lot of open source software out there and it's often updated frequently. I know my project has trouble keeping up.
Now laptops don't have motherboards? You admitted many don't have serial ports. I think you need to define "port" here. I think most people include either an integrated "port" or a header + dongle to be a port. You know, something you can use with most devices without attaching extra parts. I've given you two examples of motherboards without integrated serial ports and that contain no dongles in the box to make those headers you claim exist useful.
I still don't get your use of "real" here. My laptop is certainly as real as the thinkpad it replaced. The new one does not have a legacy integrated serial port. Both laptops can run windows, linux and BSD. Just because you need a serial port, does not mean most people do. My mother still uses a modem to get on the internet, but that doesn't mean everyone needs a 56k modem anymore.
I don't care about your job.
That was not your original question. The original question limited it to PC (i'm assuming you mean IBM compatible). If we use the more general definition of personal computer, I would of course site apple computers as a counter example. As they can run windows, I don't think you can argue they're not PCs. They even have intel processors these days. So please find a serial port on an iMac.
And none of them came with the cable to use the serial header. So they do not come with serial ports, only headers. You would still need to buy something to get them to work.
When did real routers come up? One could buy something else to do the configuration such as an old terminal. I purchased a terminal for 29 cents two years ago and use it with my sun hardware. (comp usa store closing)
It appears they made P4 chips until 2008 (if you believe wikipedia), but the core architecture was out in 2006.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4
So in computer terms, 3 years is a long time. You can do a lot with a P4 chip, but compared to a recent quad core or even dual core Intel or AMD chip, it's not that impressive. Think about an i7 vs a Pentium 4 2.8Ghz with HTT.
And your last computer was bought 5 years ago?
Intel DP965LT, Asus M4A78 Plus (AMD based) motherboards. Then there's my new toshiba laptop. Walk into best buy and look at them.
That's great except that newspapers are dying. The newspaper here went out of business just a few months ago. (Ann Arbor, MI)
Look at df -h vs df -H
As someone running an OS project with probably 3 users, I can tell you that the license has nothing to do with it :)
You are correct. I've been shopping for a new laptop. My ideal size is 12 inches. I'd settle for a 13 inch. Since I primarily use a laptop for software development, I do not want a netbook. I'm fine with the screen resolution because i can get it on my lap. It's not a "notebook". I had a 12" ibook and I miss it. 4+ hours of battery life and it was still portable. My current notebook is an IBM T30. It's huge and hasn't held up as well as the ibook had.
My complaint is that Apple has the 13 inch on the lowend so it's usually got terrible specs compared to the 15 and 17 inch models. Conversely, a 15 inch PC notebook is often $500 and slower than the more expensive 14 or 17 inch models.
I think the real problem we're having is that many people buy laptops and notebooks for desktop replacements now. Since it's the only computer people will buy, they want a giant screen, etc. It's really hurting people like me who use a laptop as a backup system, for work or travel. A netbook just isn't fast enough for what I do.
This may go a step farther. How could the report things on websites? I mean CNN is the dedicated twitter network and Fox is trying real hard to catch up. How can they say what users are writing on those sites? Say I write a statement in my blog. That means no one can reproduce it without my consent. If you think this is ridiculous, consider how the AP has gone after bloggers who have reproduced part of their articles.
I was under the impression that WebObjects was Java only since 5.0 came out. http://developer.apple.com/tools/webobjects/ As you can see, it mentions only java in the description.
Just as long as Ellison doesn't have liquid Schwartz in his glove compartment!
They're just trying to slow down the net for their parents so they'll have time to play with them!
Yes, I'm still a fan after Enterprise. I did complain about it all the time, but I watched every episode of that as well as every other star trek series.
The biggest disappointment varies per fan. Each fan has a different favorite show, captain, etc. I've met people that only like Enterprise. For me, the worst thing out the gate was the previous movie. I got psyched up to see a movie about romulans and I got remans and a dead data. It took me a long while before I could even watch TNG again.
I think it matters greatly where you live. Amazon is dirt cheap on some items depending on your cost of living. Their food products are very costly to me, but many other items are much cheaper than I can get locally. (Ann Arbor, MI) When I lived on the other side of the state, amazon was less of a deal on my things.
What will hurt me is cost increases on sites like newegg. RIght now I buy nearly every computer component online to save money. It allows me to upgrade my systems much more frequently. Motherboards, CPUs, hard drives, they're all double around here from what I pay online.
I direct you to ports-mgmt category in FreeBSD ports or MidnightBSD mports. You will see there are package management tools. Both FreeBSD and MidnightBSD have pkg_add and friends. There's also PC-BSD's PBI system. That's all package based. There are equivalent tools for OpenBSD and NetBSD. It's also possible to use packages in MirBSD (MirOS) with mirports.
To summarize, we've all got them. (DragonFly uses NetBSD pkgsrc)
There's also a project to build new tools for MidnightBSD called mport tools. (libmport is the first stage). You can find the source on GitHub. We're targeting version 1 of these for our next release, 0.3, at the end of the year.
The problem most people have is that the BSDs don't push packages on to users like the Linux community. I think they're a necessity for ease of use, but there is a thrill with customizing and picking features for each compiled port. FreeBSD often has bad pkg-plist files that preclude packages from working properly. We've dealt with that by making our ports system generate packages and install from the package. Some of the other BSDs do something similar. To be fair, freebsd has a decent binary update system for the OS that we do not have. PC-BSD's PBI system generates packages containing all the dependancies for the package so that they can be updated independently without breaking other packages or requiring an insane amount of updates. They don't have a lot of packages though and due to this feature, they are very large.
I suggest you look at the relevant websites and possibly BSD Magazine for more info on the BSDs. The most recent issue covers PBI I think.
For the most part I agree with you, but comparing MySQL is weak. It was written explicitly for Linux and now is getting hacked up to work better with Solaris. It was never tuned for Mac OS X, *BSD, or any other OS. FreeBSD did some tuning in areas that benefited MySQL performance with 7.0+ so it's possible to make OS X better, but it certainly was not written for the OS.
I agree with you completely as someone who runs an open source project. However, there are other factors. Everyone expects you to fix their problem first. Sometimes it takes a lot of resources to fix problems. It is important to realize that not everyone understands the implications of a bug both from the user perspective or the developer perspective.
I can also tell you that your license and project have a great deal of impact on other developers taking patches upstream. Sometimes I just find bugs and want to fix them and other times I want to upstream support for my os. It is amazing about how many developers, particularly GPL friendly types who won't even listen to BSD folks. I'm sure it can happen in reverse too. Open source developers can't get along amongst themselves and it hurts us as a whole.
Have you ever looked at how many devices don't work properly in a USB hub? Hand over your geek credentials.
Due to my unique home network setup, a typical home NAS does not provide enough security. That accessibility through the house is bad. Two of my systems provide internet services, and due to cost, I don't have my home network isolated well from those hosts aside from firewalls on each system. Some of the systems are using NAT from the same router that provides IPs for other systems. It's very ugly and not ideal.
I do have a separate file server, but the vast majority of crap on my iMac is iTunes content. I've done the whole iTunes stuff on another system thing before, and it's a real pain in the ass for syncing. Plus my file server was built for backups.
What about the hard drive. It's a real pain to upgrade a hard drive in an iMac. Not to mention there is only room for one. Before you say i can buy an external drive, consider the limited number of usb ports on the back. I can't add a usb controller card for more either can i.
Apple makes them hard to get into so you must buy a new mac. My iMac is 13 months old and I've got 4 GB of free disk space. It's not my only computer, but it is not serving it's purpose either.
Most professors I've dealt with (and teachers back in the day) in English courses were picky about fonts. Verdana is not a serif font. Serif fonts are easier to read. Setting a standard font means it's easier to read 30+ papers over several days. It's for grading purposes. Besides, if someone can't follow a simple standard in class, how will they succeed in the real world.
Actually, if I was teaching a course, I would require all papers to be in a serif font as well.
I will only point out that some xbox 360 units are not part of the install base anymore due to people not getting warranty service, etc and just buying a new one or giving up. The broken ones are not accounted for in these statistics.
Granted all consoles have defects and some fail but many believe the xbox numbers to be higher. If they are, then there are less units in the wild that can actually run games right now. One could also argue that a certain percentage of people bought the PS3 for blu ray and don't have a game. That would leave the Wii in a good position.
This makes a lot of assumptions and I'm sure one could argue against it. However, it shows that raw sales data doesn't imply anything about software title sales relative to units. Since we don't know how many units are in use, it's hard to get an accurate idea of how many games per active console are sold.
The first step in adoption of open source is getting users on free (or Free) software in their favorite OS. We're gaining ground in things like browsers and word processors, albeit slowly.
We need to pick target areas and create software that is missing from *NIX. Then we need to work (a lot) on usability and documentation.
Finally, we need to make this software work better (and faster) in open source operating systems to entice users over. As slow as vista is, this is somewhat done for us with each release of WIndows.
Now the really hard part is marketing. Each app needs good marketing to let users know there are alternatives. If we get them started with firefox, open office or whatever from the beginning, they will insist on it in the future. In fact, the IT department at the company I just started at uses all open source apps to save money. The only thing they do buy is Windows. Servers are Linux. Since the IT department got them on this, they won't consider pay alternatives that they don't know how to use.
In terms of a Linux ad campaign, you would need to either push linux for servers and point out the market share. This could hurt microsoft quite a bit if the numbers are in your favor. You could go on the winner angle. I know my aunt only buys windows because she thinks it's the most popular. What I don't know what to do is to show that Linux is better on the desktop. Some people believe it is now, I am not so sure. I suppose the apple approach to showing users what they can do with a Linux machine is a good start. perhaps point out that that eee pc, and other systems of that type often come with linux. You're already using it and don't know it! That is a good start. Talk about how it is used on cell phones, in Tivo, etc. Maybe users will like it better if they realize Linux is all around them just as windows is.
Marketing Linux is hard, marketing BSD is damn near impossible. At least you guys have binary blobs for video now. I'd rather not need them, but it's a reality. (yes i know about nvidia + freebsd) Then there's flash, air, acrobat, and many other commercial apps...
Wrong. Java and .NET compilers cannot unroll all code and determine what it does and then "rewrite" it to be fast. Sure there are things it can do, but if some idiot picks the wrong data structure or writes a O(n^3) algorithm, it won't matter.