> unless consumers start demanding more and putting up with > less crap from software firms, the quality of proprietary > software would keep spiralling down.
I don't think it has far "down" to go. People are too used to the rubbish they've not only been served with currently at home, school or work, but they've grown up with bad software and expect it as a part of normality. If the machine crashes in the middle of something people are trained now not to get angry at it - it's expected. If it gets infested with spyware then it's running slow and needs fixing by a tech, or reinstalling by some techier users. If their internet drops out multiple times a day, they just re-dial or wait for their DSL/cable to come up again.
People are adaptable, and can get used to anything - and quickly, if they don't know better. Many software vendors take advantage of that.
While they do give credit to Apple's iTunes for search inspiration and to Apple being first out of the box in the OS race, they both imply that Microsoft will provide more robust features with the release of Longhorn.
The same thing was being said before the release of Panther. The strengths of longhorn were touted and Panther was conceded as being "admittedly out first, but longhorn will be better". Now 18 months later we have Tiger that is 'admittedly out first, but longhorn will be better".
I bet when Apple announce their next OS (let's call it Ocelot) the commentary in the media will again be...
"Ocelot is admittedly out first, but longhorn will be better".
Of course, the world will suck it up and nod their heads, agreeing that this fabled new version of Windows will be better, sometime in the future, while ignoring the last half decade of "admittedly good" OS X versions which ACTUALLY EXIST AND CAN BE USED!
I wonder how useful all these extra tlds are. I've worked on a helpdesk for a.org and a.edu, and one of the REALLY common problems we get is a call from users complaining they can't get on. Invariably, they're typing "www.foo.edu.com" or "www.foo.org.com".
I bet there's a lot of "why can't I get to lawyer.pro.com??" going on.
You have a good point. it's always worth keeping in mind how much bloat things cause, and I feel safe in knowing if it's in linux, it'll be ultra configurable, and can be turned off easily by those who don't want it.
Which to me is a far better solution than that of many who would discard high-level features that are a real benefit to a few, for the excuse that you can do the same thing with a little extra thinking and a little extra work.
That completely undermines the purpose of buying a computer for those people who may use 'bloat' level features. They didn't buy a computer to do a little extra work for it. If you can just turn a feature off, it only ends up as HD bloat, and I have no problem with an OS possibly taking up 5-10GB drive space in an era where we have cheap multiple 200GB drives.
What are the problems with releasing debian more often, that have caused it to become older and older? I think it's 3 years soon since Woody was new.
I've heard it mentioned that some packages are keeping things back, and by the time those packages are ready, there are others being kept back. it's a duke nuke'em kind of situation
Why not aim for a 12-monthly release? Go over by a month or two if absolutely needed, but aim for that. Even if some packages were missed the first time around and left the same as the old ones, then damn... they could have been caught up three times over already (assuming yearly releases over the last 3 years)
I've seen many comparisons between Tiger's Spotlight, and MS's WinFS in features... and heard from people I know that have Tiger betas running as full time desktops who say the spotlight problems & updates seem to be where the most work is going into Tiger at the moment.
Does anyone know just what the differences are in concepts here? Is Spotlight going to offer much the same functionality from the point of view of a user? Is it really even the 'killer app' it's supposed to be?
I'm curious as I've heard so much mentioned about it these last few years (10 now with Windows).
It's not included in a default install, and even if it were the configuration and working of X11 running on top of the Apple native Quartz windowing system is a bit different to the usual X11 experience. This gives a little depth to what goes on behind the scenes.
Double clicking an icon to start the X server is weird enough on its own.
Does anyone have pictures of the actual insides of a mac mini, instead of just a motherboard? I'd like to see how the parts fit in together, and how the cooling works.
He's smart, he's understated, he keeps doing new logical puzzlement stuff, and he's made a simple application spread worldwide without marketing through word of mouth, and simply because it does what it's meant to well. That's true innovation.
That's pretty impressive - more than double clock speed increase.
I wonder how far it could be pushed with heatsinks & active cooling. Time to being those finnish guys and their liquid nitrogen in, see if we can push it past 6MHz
It's wortless, and people pitty the ones who buy it.
It's not worthless to SCO.
According to the recently release USL vs UCal agreement, USL couldn't take legal action against anyone for whom UNIX code had become public knowledge, but reserved the right to still take legal action against licensees to hold them to contracts.
So according to this agreement, anything public knowledge about UNIX can go into Linux if it wanted to. Filenames, headers, code, whatever. It's ancient and decrepit now, but the freedom was there.
Now, they can only sue licensees hence the legal action against IBM, Autozone and DaimlerChrysler, all of whom are licensees of UNIX.
Now if SCO sells licenses, they get more licensees.
Licensees they are OK to sue.
Buy an SCO license, open up a world of litigation upon yourself. Listening EV1?
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> It looks like whoever did it had the source graphics used to > make up the bogus image. Only SCO insiders would have this > imagry
Someone with basic gimp/photoshop skills could tear the image apart and put it back together in whatever way they pleased.
Twice in one day.
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Earlier in the day the lead story was asking for 256billion in payments from Microsoft, as SCO had found UNIX code in all versions of Windows.
I worry more about where the lightsaber is coming from & being put away to. He seems to just tuck it in his pants, fully lit.
I'm sure there's something in their instructions that tells you not to do that. Unless jedi are all eunuchs or something, and this is part of their initiation...
Waste of bandwidth is all relative anyway. So far the count looks to be close to 100GB since the project started, and has climbed 0.1GB in the 40 minutes since I've been reading about it.
Currently, it's a completely miniscule undetectable amount of traffic when compared to whatever else is banging around the net. 100MB in 40 minutes across everyone running it currently? That's less than the speed of a 512kbps DSL connection, for just under 10,000 screen savers they have installed & running at the moment. Is the equivalent of one mediocre DSL connection really wasting bandwidth? Not yet. Even a hundred or a thousand times that bandwidth wouldn't exceed the maximum connection of the entire DSL using population of a small city.
I think the big issue is whether or not lycos are allowed to keep this running. I doubt it'll stay up.
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> paging-file size increases from 16 TB to 512 TB
:)
Hope that's a maximum, not required
> unless consumers start demanding more and putting up with
> less crap from software firms, the quality of proprietary
> software would keep spiralling down.
I don't think it has far "down" to go. People are too used to the rubbish they've not only been served with currently at home, school or work, but they've grown up with bad software and expect it as a part of normality. If the machine crashes in the middle of something people are trained now not to get angry at it - it's expected. If it gets infested with spyware then it's running slow and needs fixing by a tech, or reinstalling by some techier users. If their internet drops out multiple times a day, they just re-dial or wait for their DSL/cable to come up again.
People are adaptable, and can get used to anything - and quickly, if they don't know better. Many software vendors take advantage of that.
Silly question, but what's a spatial interface, and regardless of whether I might want one or not... what was good about the way Mac OS9 did it?
OK. Anyone have a quick simple explanation of why Dual Core over Dual CPU motherboard? are there inherent advantages to dual CPUs so close together?
This I find interesting too.
While they do give credit to Apple's iTunes for search inspiration and to Apple being first out of the box in the OS race, they both imply that Microsoft will provide more robust features with the release of Longhorn.
The same thing was being said before the release of Panther. The strengths of longhorn were touted and Panther was conceded as being "admittedly out first, but longhorn will be better". Now 18 months later we have Tiger that is 'admittedly out first, but longhorn will be better".
I bet when Apple announce their next OS (let's call it Ocelot) the commentary in the media will again be...
"Ocelot is admittedly out first, but longhorn will be better".
Of course, the world will suck it up and nod their heads, agreeing that this fabled new version of Windows will be better, sometime in the future, while ignoring the last half decade of "admittedly good" OS X versions which ACTUALLY EXIST AND CAN BE USED!
You just told the OP they write complete and utter rubbish, then go on to agree unequivocally with them.
Methinks you misinterpreted things when you tried to redefine "electronic typeface file" which is already defined as "font" in the OPs comments.
Which as they correctly said, is copyrightable but the typeface itself is not.
I wonder how useful all these extra tlds are. I've worked on a helpdesk for a .org and a .edu, and one of the REALLY common problems we get is a call from users complaining they can't get on. Invariably, they're typing "www.foo.edu.com" or "www.foo.org.com".
I bet there's a lot of "why can't I get to lawyer.pro.com??" going on.
Which would have been technically better as Apple's new OS - the nextstep based OSX, or a BeOS based OS?
You have a good point. it's always worth keeping in mind how much bloat things cause, and I feel safe in knowing if it's in linux, it'll be ultra configurable, and can be turned off easily by those who don't want it.
Which to me is a far better solution than that of many who would discard high-level features that are a real benefit to a few, for the excuse that you can do the same thing with a little extra thinking and a little extra work.
That completely undermines the purpose of buying a computer for those people who may use 'bloat' level features. They didn't buy a computer to do a little extra work for it. If you can just turn a feature off, it only ends up as HD bloat, and I have no problem with an OS possibly taking up 5-10GB drive space in an era where we have cheap multiple 200GB drives.
What are the problems with releasing debian more often, that have caused it to become older and older? I think it's 3 years soon since Woody was new.
I've heard it mentioned that some packages are keeping things back, and by the time those packages are ready, there are others being kept back. it's a duke nuke'em kind of situation
Why not aim for a 12-monthly release? Go over by a month or two if absolutely needed, but aim for that. Even if some packages were missed the first time around and left the same as the old ones, then damn... they could have been caught up three times over already (assuming yearly releases over the last 3 years)
I've seen many comparisons between Tiger's Spotlight, and MS's WinFS in features... and heard from people I know that have Tiger betas running as full time desktops who say the spotlight problems & updates seem to be where the most work is going into Tiger at the moment.
Does anyone know just what the differences are in concepts here? Is Spotlight going to offer much the same functionality from the point of view of a user? Is it really even the 'killer app' it's supposed to be?
I'm curious as I've heard so much mentioned about it these last few years (10 now with Windows).
Yell loud. Yell even louder to make things happen quicker.
The problem just doesn't stop there
To make them truly unstoppable you could combine two top brands together!. Mmmmm Apple and McDonalds.
You're right! Why get a 30" stationary display when you can have a 30" Powerbook?
You might like to know that picture was drawn by danamania the same insane amiga owner who got OS X running on a 68k. Or maybe it's still booting.
It's not included in a default install, and even if it were the configuration and working of X11 running on top of the Apple native Quartz windowing system is a bit different to the usual X11 experience. This gives a little depth to what goes on behind the scenes.
Double clicking an icon to start the X server is weird enough on its own.
Does anyone have pictures of the actual insides of a mac mini, instead of just a motherboard? I'd like to see how the parts fit in together, and how the cooling works.
All these VOIP phones that are going to use IP addresses. Maybe.
Could this be the killer app of the net in the 21st century that forces the adoption of IPV6?
He's smart, he's understated, he keeps doing new logical puzzlement stuff, and he's made a simple application spread worldwide without marketing through word of mouth, and simply because it does what it's meant to well. That's true innovation.
But I have to say, Sailor Moon Bram really freaks me.
That's pretty impressive - more than double clock speed increase.
I wonder how far it could be pushed with heatsinks & active cooling. Time to being those finnish guys and their liquid nitrogen in, see if we can push it past 6MHz
It's wortless, and people pitty the ones who buy it.
It's not worthless to SCO.
According to the recently release USL vs UCal agreement, USL couldn't take legal action against anyone for whom UNIX code had become public knowledge, but reserved the right to still take legal action against licensees to hold them to contracts.
So according to this agreement, anything public knowledge about UNIX can go into Linux if it wanted to. Filenames, headers, code, whatever. It's ancient and decrepit now, but the freedom was there.
Now, they can only sue licensees hence the legal action against IBM, Autozone and DaimlerChrysler, all of whom are licensees of UNIX.
Now if SCO sells licenses, they get more licensees.
Licensees they are OK to sue.
Buy an SCO license, open up a world of litigation upon yourself. Listening EV1?
> It looks like whoever did it had the source graphics used to
> make up the bogus image. Only SCO insiders would have this
> imagry
Someone with basic gimp/photoshop skills could tear the image apart and put it back together in whatever way they pleased.
Earlier in the day the lead story was asking for 256billion in payments from Microsoft, as SCO had found UNIX code in all versions of Windows.
Then that disappeared, but the graphic remained.
I worry more about where the lightsaber is coming from & being put away to. He seems to just tuck it in his pants, fully lit.
I'm sure there's something in their instructions that tells you not to do that. Unless jedi are all eunuchs or something, and this is part of their initiation...
Waste of bandwidth is all relative anyway. So far the count looks to be close to 100GB since the project started, and has climbed 0.1GB in the 40 minutes since I've been reading about it.
Currently, it's a completely miniscule undetectable amount of traffic when compared to whatever else is banging around the net. 100MB in 40 minutes across everyone running it currently? That's less than the speed of a 512kbps DSL connection, for just under 10,000 screen savers they have installed & running at the moment. Is the equivalent of one mediocre DSL connection really wasting bandwidth? Not yet. Even a hundred or a thousand times that bandwidth wouldn't exceed the maximum connection of the entire DSL using population of a small city.
I think the big issue is whether or not lycos are allowed to keep this running. I doubt it'll stay up.