This is a typical case where pure laissez-faire capitalism can go against the best interests of the consumer. It reminds me of the personal computer industry of the early 1980s, dominated by proprietary, overpriced, non-interoperable components
Um, no. The industry was new and every company had a different approach as to how a personal computer should work (I/O, memory, bus etc). Overpriced, hardly, the C64 is still the single best selling computer model of all time. Apple components worked in Apple computers, Commodore components worked in Commodore computers etc. My Epson dot matrix worked with all the different models and I'm pretty sure the power cables were interchangeable too. For future reference, proprietary companies don't supply users with internal schematics, ROM routines, and instructions on how to modify/enhance their products (Apple, Sinclair, and Commodore did).
IBM moved in with its PC and blew the field wide open, paving the way for today's mix-and-match technology. From the company that brought us Microsoft, the PS/2, and Micro Channel. Talk about proprietary.
You can thank Compaq (now HP) for the open standard of todays PC "Clone" market.
Microsoft, always has been and always will be a slimmy bunch of bastards. What IBM did though was completely devious and underhanded and showed a complete lack of respect for a working relationship.
What disturbs me the most, is IBM. Microsoft has always bought/borrowed/copied from the development efforts of others. IBM historically has always been vicious to competitors but bends over backwards for partners. While Microsoft may sell a lot of Xbox units, Sony sells other devices beyond PS3s. For IBM to treat Sony this way is unheard of. I'm still curious as to what Toshiba thinks of Microsoft getting free development off of their R&D.
* Ubuntu 8.10 with EXT3 filesystem boots in 31.8 seconds (on the AMD Sempron system); * Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha (Build 20090112.1) with EXT3 filesystem boots in 28.3 seconds (on the AMD Sempron system); * Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha (Build 20090112.1) with EXT4 filesystem boots in 23.1 seconds (on the AMD Sempron system).
* Ubuntu 8.10 with EXT3 filesystem boots in 26.8 seconds (on the Intel Core 2 Duo system); * Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha (Build 20090112.1) with EXT3 filesystem boots in 24.5 seconds (on the Intel Core 2 Duo system); * Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha (Build 20090112.1) with EXT4 filesystem boots in 21.4 seconds (on the Intel Core 2 Duo system)!
I would say this is a testament on how bloated Gnome is getting.
XUbuntu 8.10 on my work Athlon 2400 boots to desktop 20 seconds. On my home Pentium IV system it boots in about 15 (Both ext3).
I bet if the Gnome team were to rethink the design of some of those services they could shave off 10 seconds easily.
The Sputnik launch also led directly to the creation of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In July 1958, Congress passed the National Aeronautics and Space Act (commonly called the "Space Act"), which created NASA as of October 1, 1958 from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and other government agencies.
it is 100% flawless under windows in IE and almost unplayable in Ubuntu for any combination of browser and JDK that I have tried
Your doing something wrong. What I dont know (Make sure your using the SUN JVM instead of the default OpenJDK). My twelve year old plays the premium Runescape every day under Ubuntu+Firefox, no problems and its much faster than the windows machine.
Linux is pretty terrible for performance multi-threading, that's a fact. It features unreliable file IO too, but I digress..
Which part of your sentence do you digress? What facts do you own that the rest of us don't have?
My SBC 486 class ELAM chip with 16Meg of RAM running a 2.4.16 Linux kernel says your full of Shit. The SBC board sitting next to me is currently handling 203 simultaneous threads/sockets and responding with the less than 1ms response time required by the hardware manufacturer(sensors). Its doing that while running a THTTP webserver and cron, at the same time. For 203 threads the memory usage is less than 5Meg. Bonus, the Linux kernal actually releases memory when a POSIX thread goes away.
Windows CE/XP embedded choked under the same requirements. Maybe you can teach me about how Linux sucks in any environment. Perhaps you can show me how the WinCE/XP embedded CreateThread() is better in a limited memory environment.
London Stock Exchange was not taken down to a Windows update, or an update for any Microsoft software at all. The TradeElec system was up and running. The networking software was down, and they could not bring it back up. That software was Cisco
Curious... Thats not what the NYT or WSJ reported (I'm not saying they were correct). Write a new article and let us all know.
"OS Family" "Count" "Share %" Linux 439 87.80 % Windows 5 1.00 % Unix 23 4.60 % BSD Based 1 0.20 % Mixed 31 6.20 % Mac OS 1 0.20 %
I congratulate Microsoft on making the top ten. I'm not sure if the 5 HPC Windows installations do anything useful other than provide PR for Microsoft Marketing (TM). This is from a company that charges a CAL to print to a server.
That being said, I'm pretty sure the Microsoft solution won't allow you to mix and match different computers (and OS to a certain extent) like you can do with Linux HPC. Knowing Microsoft, you can't reuse your valid NT/2000/2003/2008 server licences within the cluster. Past history has shown any update from Microsoft will take down the whole cluster instead of a single node (London Stock Exchange). Microsoft probably will provide better cluster management software making it a better choice for customers requiring HPC without having in-house HPC knowledge.
Java is 'mostly' portable, but there are always tweaks to be made to verify a Swing app works the same across platforms. That is with the core API, but once you step into the JNI world, you really have to test heavily on all target platforms.
I'm still curious. What is wrong with Swing that you have to make it work across platforms? Which problems have you faced that you need to go JNI? Thanks,
This story belongs in the political section at best. Even better, it belongs in the "I hate Republicans and limited government" section.
I haven't seen YRO articles on Cold Cash Jefferson (URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Jefferson) or Alcee Hastings (URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcee_Hastings) or even recently Tim Mahoney (URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Mahoney).
Taco, if I want political BS, I'll visit the DNC/RNC/MOVEON/NRO websites, not slashdot. Keep slashdot neutral, or at least keep the articles in the correct forum (which I block).
Actually, SilverLight ignores every platform but Windows. Novell/Mono provides "moonlight" which may or may not be compatible with Microsoft SilverLight.
Now if you're going to take the time to respond to this, please answer me this: Why should company X spend the most time supporting a platform that has the least marketshare?
At one point back in 1995, the Microsoft Windows market was only 20% of the PC market. The other 75% of the market was OS/2, QNX, DrDos, Novell and a few others. Windows was an emerging market so we coded for it.
Linux is now an emerging (or growth) market. Ignore it if you want. Your competitors are not.
There is a reason that google has released Picasa and GoogleEarth binaries for linux and its not because of a bunch of hippies yelling at them demanding the code. There is a reason that Dell is still continuing its Linux line of products. Asus, Adobe, Quicken, Oracle, Real, etc, do not make their product support decisions based on a bunch of screaming smelly basement dwellers.
What you don't seem to realize is that your platform is the hardest to develop for and support. Linux is the hardest platform to develop for if all you know how to code in is Microsoft based technologies.
You obviously work for Microsoft, how about a answering a few questions?
- What problem of mine will silverlight solve? I can do flash on my Wii, PS3, cell phone, Mac, Linux, and Windows boxes. All with pretty good performance. - Why would I even look at silverlight when it won't run on any desktop, mobile device, gaming device not controlled by Microsoft. Both Mono and.Net performance suck compared to Java and Flash on my dual boot desktop. Why would I leave flash? - On my tri-boot development box, it doesn't make a difference what technology Microsoft offers when Windows thinks I'm a thief and I have to reinstall the O/S (WGA). If I can't code, I can't work.
Hmmm. And on what grounds would they sue ? Even if you publish completely imaginary 'benchmarks', that would still fall under the 1st amendment (assuming you are in the US).
I dunno, every EULA states you violate their virginity or something by benchmarking.
I'm not rich enough to afford a team of lawyers (let alone one lawyer) to defend my reproducible test results, so no, I won't test their EULA against my right to bitch or praise.
Because I've given up on all the dual APIs with Gtk/Qt/Wx/GNUStep. I don't care anymore. Life is to short. Code with what works today.
A desktop Java program under Linux works just as fast as a Qt/Gtk based one. Java has insignificant load times on my minimal memory PII test platform compared against the Qt/Gtk libraries running under Window Maker (A simple Dialog program to read/proc). If I need to, I can go JNI. I'm tired of trying to author different Qt/Gtk wrappers for different versions. Enough said. All my programs work fine under the JVM for Mac/Linux/Windows.
Thank You SUN for Java 5 and 6. A much better VM platform than 10 years ago. Thanks to JavaME, I can run my programs on my Cell phone or my embedded Linux box.
DISCLAIMER: As a programmer, I can't publish load times/Performance issues with any product from Microsoft against any other. I will get sued for posting benchmarking results that show Microsoft Windows based systems, performance wise, SUCK compared to BSD/Linux systems on the same box.
My opinion and it doesn't matter. I reserve the right to be wrong.
Why do you need a Windows Vista Guru to convince people to buy Vista when you have already sold a 140 million licenses? http://www.crn.com/software/207402009
Is Microsoft lying again to the SEC and investors?
No thanks. Even though I occasionally work long hours, I enjoy the flex time I'm granted. I like being well paid based on the merits of my work and not the union pay scale.
These problems occur, when a country prouding itself to be the greatest, democratic nation on earth, breaks its own rules(like : not intruding on other nations Sovereignty), which lead to other nations breaking those same rules,... This empire is on its way out i fear, and the results won't be pretty.
Yes, because the Russians spent nine months before the Georgia invasion asking the UN for permission to uphold its own mandates. Did the Russians let the Georgians know they were coming if they didn't open up access for weapons inspectors. Did the Russian parliament vote and give Putin permission to invade? The United States Congress voted and granted that power to Bush.
Where is this rule that claims the United States will not intrude on any other countries sovereignty? We reserve the right to kick anyones ass anywhere at anytime.
Honestly, while I haven't had the problem myself, the RROD is probably hurting Microsoft's new sales -- people hear about it and don't want to deal with the hassle. MS claims it's fixed, yeah, but bad publicity is still bad publicity. Honestly, we know two other couples with XB360's. Both consoles have been in the shop once. One has been back to the shop three times now. People just aren't hearing about the RROD, they are experiencing it.
Meanwhile our Super/N64/GameCube/GameBoy(s)/Wii still just work (tm). Nintendo, the investment that keeps on giving.
On most machines, 100% of the disk space is partitioned for Windows. Even if 80GB is available, you can't just install Ubuntu on a NTFS partition. And last I heard, Ubuntu's partitioning tools were YMMV. Some people say they worked great, others say they borked their box.
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This is a typical case where pure laissez-faire capitalism can go against the best interests of the consumer. It reminds me of the personal computer industry of the early 1980s, dominated by proprietary, overpriced, non-interoperable components
Um, no. The industry was new and every company had a different approach as to how a personal computer should work (I/O, memory, bus etc). Overpriced, hardly, the C64 is still the single best selling computer model of all time. Apple components worked in Apple computers, Commodore components worked in Commodore computers etc. My Epson dot matrix worked with all the different models and I'm pretty sure the power cables were interchangeable too. For future reference, proprietary companies don't supply users with internal schematics, ROM routines, and instructions on how to modify/enhance their products (Apple, Sinclair, and Commodore did).
IBM moved in with its PC and blew the field wide open, paving the way for today's mix-and-match technology.
From the company that brought us Microsoft, the PS/2, and Micro Channel. Talk about proprietary.
You can thank Compaq (now HP) for the open standard of todays PC "Clone" market.
Enjoy,
Microsoft, always has been and always will be a slimmy bunch of bastards.
What IBM did though was completely devious and underhanded and showed a complete lack of respect for a working relationship.
What disturbs me the most, is IBM. Microsoft has always bought/borrowed/copied from the development efforts of others. IBM historically has always been vicious to competitors but bends over backwards for partners. While Microsoft may sell a lot of Xbox units, Sony sells other devices beyond PS3s. For IBM to treat Sony this way is unheard of. I'm still curious as to what Toshiba thinks of Microsoft getting free development off of their R&D.
I'm glad the IBM engineers wrote about it.
Enjoy,
From the article:
How Sony inadvertently helped a competitor and lost position in the videogame market.
Read here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123069467545545011.html
Enjoy,
Microsoft created the Run command
Your being silly, Wozniak invented the RUN command.
Microsoft created PEEK() and POKE().
Enjoy,
* Ubuntu 8.10 with EXT3 filesystem boots in 31.8 seconds (on the AMD Sempron system);
* Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha (Build 20090112.1) with EXT3 filesystem boots in 28.3 seconds (on the AMD Sempron system);
* Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha (Build 20090112.1) with EXT4 filesystem boots in 23.1 seconds (on the AMD Sempron system).
* Ubuntu 8.10 with EXT3 filesystem boots in 26.8 seconds (on the Intel Core 2 Duo system);
* Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha (Build 20090112.1) with EXT3 filesystem boots in 24.5 seconds (on the Intel Core 2 Duo system);
* Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha (Build 20090112.1) with EXT4 filesystem boots in 21.4 seconds (on the Intel Core 2 Duo system)!
I would say this is a testament on how bloated Gnome is getting.
XUbuntu 8.10 on my work Athlon 2400 boots to desktop 20 seconds. On my home Pentium IV system it boots in about 15 (Both ext3).
I bet if the Gnome team were to rethink the design of some of those services they could shave off 10 seconds easily.
My opinion,
Enjoy,
NASA was formed to explore space as a peaceful endeavor, not as a conquest.
Bullshit. Your confusing your Federation/Starfleet history with NASA.
NASA was created because Sputnik scared the shit out of everyone.
http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/index.html
The Sputnik launch also led directly to the creation of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). In July 1958, Congress passed the National Aeronautics and Space Act (commonly called the "Space Act"), which created NASA as of October 1, 1958 from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) and other government agencies.
Enjoy,
it is 100% flawless under windows in IE and almost unplayable in Ubuntu for any combination of browser and JDK that I have tried
Your doing something wrong. What I dont know (Make sure your using the SUN JVM instead of the default OpenJDK). My twelve year old plays the premium Runescape every day under Ubuntu+Firefox, no problems and its much faster than the windows machine.
Enjoy,
Excuse me?
Linux is pretty terrible for performance multi-threading, that's a fact. It features unreliable file IO too, but I digress..
Which part of your sentence do you digress? What facts do you own that the rest of us don't have?
My SBC 486 class ELAM chip with 16Meg of RAM running a 2.4.16 Linux kernel says your full of Shit. The SBC board sitting next to me is currently handling 203 simultaneous threads/sockets and responding with the less than 1ms response time required by the hardware manufacturer(sensors). Its doing that while running a THTTP webserver and cron, at the same time. For 203 threads the memory usage is less than 5Meg. Bonus, the Linux kernal actually releases memory when a POSIX thread goes away.
Windows CE/XP embedded choked under the same requirements. Maybe you can teach me about how Linux sucks in any environment. Perhaps you can show me how the WinCE/XP embedded CreateThread() is better in a limited memory environment.
Enjoy,
London Stock Exchange was not taken down to a Windows update, or an update for any Microsoft software at all. The TradeElec system was up and running. The networking software was down, and they could not bring it back up. That software was Cisco
Curious... Thats not what the NYT or WSJ reported (I'm not saying they were correct). Write a new article and let us all know.
Thanks.
What's missing in the article is that there are only a few windows-based systems in the top500 and there numbers have been declining over the years.
Actually, Microsofts share has increased, they went from nothing to 5 installs in a few years.
http://www.top500.org/stats/list/32/osfam
"OS Family" "Count" "Share %"
Linux 439 87.80 %
Windows 5 1.00 %
Unix 23 4.60 %
BSD Based 1 0.20 %
Mixed 31 6.20 %
Mac OS 1 0.20 %
I congratulate Microsoft on making the top ten. I'm not sure if the 5 HPC Windows installations do anything useful other than provide PR for Microsoft Marketing (TM). This is from a company that charges a CAL to print to a server.
That being said, I'm pretty sure the Microsoft solution won't allow you to mix and match different computers (and OS to a certain extent) like you can do with Linux HPC. Knowing Microsoft, you can't reuse your valid NT/2000/2003/2008 server licences within the cluster. Past history has shown any update from Microsoft will take down the whole cluster instead of a single node (London Stock Exchange). Microsoft probably will provide better cluster management software making it a better choice for customers requiring HPC without having in-house HPC knowledge.
Linux Magazine has some good articles on HPC for linux http://www.linux-mag.com/solutions/hpc
Enjoy,
Java is 'mostly' portable, but there are always tweaks to be made to verify a Swing app works the same across platforms. That is with the core API, but once you step into the JNI world, you really have to test heavily on all target platforms.
I'm still curious. What is wrong with Swing that you have to make it work across platforms? Which problems have you faced that you need to go JNI? Thanks,
Enjoy.
Anything java I develop can be pushed to any Windows or Linux or Unix environment, yes with tweaking.
Either your coding something wrong or your doing something OS specific. Why would you need to tweak a class file? Just curious.
Enjoy,
This story belongs in the political section at best. Even better, it belongs in the "I hate Republicans and limited government" section.
I haven't seen YRO articles on Cold Cash Jefferson (URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Jefferson) or Alcee Hastings (URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcee_Hastings) or even recently Tim Mahoney (URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Mahoney).
Taco, if I want political BS, I'll visit the DNC/RNC/MOVEON/NRO websites, not slashdot.
Keep slashdot neutral, or at least keep the articles in the correct forum (which I block).
My opinion,
Enjoy.
Huh? Silverlight isn't ignoring us?
Actually, SilverLight ignores every platform but Windows. Novell/Mono provides "moonlight" which may or may not be compatible with Microsoft SilverLight.
Enjoy,
Now if you're going to take the time to respond to this, please answer me this: Why should company X spend the most time supporting a platform that has the least marketshare?
At one point back in 1995, the Microsoft Windows market was only 20% of the PC market. The other 75% of the market was OS/2, QNX, DrDos, Novell and a few others. Windows was an emerging market so we coded for it.
Linux is now an emerging (or growth) market. Ignore it if you want. Your competitors are not.
There is a reason that google has released Picasa and GoogleEarth binaries for linux and its not because of a bunch of hippies yelling at them demanding the code. There is a reason that Dell is still continuing its Linux line of products. Asus, Adobe, Quicken, Oracle, Real, etc, do not make their product support decisions based on a bunch of screaming smelly basement dwellers.
What you don't seem to realize is that your platform is the hardest to develop for and support.
Linux is the hardest platform to develop for if all you know how to code in is Microsoft based technologies.
Enjoy,
You obviously work for Microsoft, how about a answering a few questions?
- What problem of mine will silverlight solve? I can do flash on my Wii, PS3, cell phone, Mac, Linux, and Windows boxes. All with pretty good performance. .Net performance suck compared to Java and Flash on my dual boot desktop. Why would I leave flash?
- Why would I even look at silverlight when it won't run on any desktop, mobile device, gaming device not controlled by Microsoft. Both Mono and
- On my tri-boot development box, it doesn't make a difference what technology Microsoft offers when Windows thinks I'm a thief and I have to reinstall the O/S (WGA). If I can't code, I can't work.
TIA,
Enjoy,
Too bad my version of WGA thinks I'm a thief.
I'll code programs for Linux/Mac/Web in an open language thankyou very much.
Enjoy.
Hmmm. And on what grounds would they sue ? Even if you publish completely imaginary 'benchmarks', that would still fall under the 1st amendment (assuming you are in the US).
I dunno, every EULA states you violate their virginity or something by benchmarking.
This is a company that sued Mike Rowe Soft. http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/19/offbeat.mike.rowe.soft.ap/index.html
Why wouldn't they start a lawsuit against me before public opinion changed their minds?
I'm not rich enough to afford a team of lawyers (let alone one lawyer) to defend my reproducible test results, so no, I won't test their EULA against my right to bitch or praise.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/29/microsoft_vista_eula_analysis/
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/02/1751222
http://download.microsoft.com/documents/useterms/Windows%20Vista_Ultimate_English_36d0fe99-75e4-4875-8153-889cf5105718.pdf
Enjoy,
Because I've given up on all the dual APIs with Gtk/Qt/Wx/GNUStep. I don't care anymore. Life is to short. Code with what works today.
A desktop Java program under Linux works just as fast as a Qt/Gtk based one. Java has insignificant load times on my minimal memory PII test platform compared against the Qt/Gtk libraries running under Window Maker (A simple Dialog program to read /proc). If I need to, I can go JNI. I'm tired of trying to author different Qt/Gtk wrappers for different versions. Enough said. All my programs work fine under the JVM for Mac/Linux/Windows.
Thank You SUN for Java 5 and 6. A much better VM platform than 10 years ago. Thanks to JavaME, I can run my programs on my Cell phone or my embedded Linux box.
DISCLAIMER: As a programmer, I can't publish load times/Performance issues with any product from Microsoft against any other. I will get sued for posting benchmarking results that show Microsoft Windows based systems, performance wise, SUCK compared to BSD/Linux systems on the same box.
My opinion and it doesn't matter. I reserve the right to be wrong.
Enjoy,
But with DirectX with what 90% of the market(?), ..."when OpenGL went the way of the doodoo."
90% of what market? DirectX is 100% of Microsofts private Windows/XBox market.
OpenGL is used on PC/Linux, MacOS X, Unixes, Playstation2, Playstation3, GameCube, Wii. Far from extinction I would say.
Enjoy,
Why do you need a Windows Vista Guru to convince people to buy Vista when you have already sold a 140 million licenses?
http://www.crn.com/software/207402009
Is Microsoft lying again to the SEC and investors?
Enjoy,
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/01/23/ibm_techies_get_pay_cut_overtime/
No thanks.
Even though I occasionally work long hours, I enjoy the flex time I'm granted. I like being well paid based on the merits of my work and not the union pay scale.
Enjoy,
These problems occur, when a country prouding itself to be the greatest, democratic nation on earth, breaks its own rules(like : not intruding on other nations Sovereignty), which lead to other nations breaking those same rules, ... This empire is on its way out i fear, and the results won't be pretty.
Yes, because the Russians spent nine months before the Georgia invasion asking the UN for permission to uphold its own mandates. Did the Russians let the Georgians know they were coming if they didn't open up access for weapons inspectors. Did the Russian parliament vote and give Putin permission to invade? The United States Congress voted and granted that power to Bush.
Where is this rule that claims the United States will not intrude on any other countries sovereignty? We reserve the right to kick anyones ass anywhere at anytime.
Enjoy,
Honestly, while I haven't had the problem myself, the RROD is probably hurting Microsoft's new sales -- people hear about it and don't want to deal with the hassle. MS claims it's fixed, yeah, but bad publicity is still bad publicity.
Honestly, we know two other couples with XB360's. Both consoles have been in the shop once. One has been back to the shop three times now. People just aren't hearing about the RROD, they are experiencing it.
Meanwhile our Super/N64/GameCube/GameBoy(s)/Wii still just work (tm). Nintendo, the investment that keeps on giving.
Enjoy,
On most machines, 100% of the disk space is partitioned for Windows. Even if 80GB is available, you can't just install Ubuntu on a NTFS partition. And last I heard, Ubuntu's partitioning tools were YMMV. Some people say they worked great, others say they borked their box.
You must not have heard of Wubi http://wubi-installer.org/
No need to partition. It runs under windows, not from the CD.
Enjoy,