If you're meaning Apple, then perhaps it's indicative of only companies that produce wifi chipsets. Sure, Apple hardware has wifi technology in their computers but doesn't manufacture, per se, the wifi chips?
Hmmm, shouldn't you be using the vocative case, i.e. 'munde'?
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CUPS came from Apple and is open source.
Nonsense, CUPS was open source before Apple. Apple liked the technology but not the GNU license. First they negotiated with the developer to grant an exemption for OS X. Eventually they bought the rights to it. Now as the copyright holder they can do whatever they like in their own products. Anyone else is bound by the GNU licensing.
Who mentioned programming Java? Only your fouled-mouthed troll.
Cyberax was talking about running languages such as Python, Ruby or Lisp on the Java Virtual Machine. In turns out that many of the runtime techniques within HotSpot to speed Java can also be used to optimise the performance of others. Where not the case, special mechanisms are being added to bytecode to create a truly language independant VM.
Thanks to Red Hat, there's also an LLVM based backend for HotSpot in development, Shark.
Are you going to stop visiting your favorite website because it would be using "IBM Glassfish" instead of "Sun Glassfish"?
There may not be an "IBM Glassfish" if, after the merger, the ideologues decide that Glassfish does not mesh with IBM's proprietary Websphere offering.
Glassfish will not go away, it is open source, but it may wither through lack of funding and resources.
Java won't die. There's a second well known company taking an active role in openjdk - Red Hat.
Red Hat have the talent and resources to fork Java if it stagnated under IBM. They sponsor icedtea, a community driven project uniting the GNU Classpath community in a more open process than Sun's bureaucracy has yet allowed.
Red Hat bought Java EE stack provider JBoss to compete with big business. Tailoring the JDK to the needs of their enterprise customers is something they won't let Sun or IBM sabotage. Now it's all GPL, neither could put the genie back in the bottle. The Java (TM) trademark may be an issue but already we're seeing openjdk packages in Ubuntu and Fedora, so they could just call it 'Sumatra' or 'Bali' instead (like debian did with Iceweasel) and be done with it.:)
I fall into neither of those python/ruby groups you mention... My understanding is that they've had to perform some magic behind the scenes with class loaders and reflection etc to obtain reasonable performance. Sun's hotspot vm doesn't support tail-recursion, so lisp dialect clojure has had to add language keywords to simulate it.
It's just a standard laptop but without hard disk nor optical drive.
All laptops could be lighter, and substantially thinner, if they dumped these basic internal components.
I, for one, don't need 128GB of internal storage. Other networked devices or USB2 external drives can serve that purpose.
Hopefully these models will dramatically drive down the price of internal SSD for the average consumer, e.g. for netbooks.
For the person that uses their computer's optical drive sparingly, why not? Hopefully 'netbook' makers will corner this market too, so that Dell and Apple can't charge extortionate prices for something that basically amounts to just removing the standard drives. I'd be content with 32GB, though I don't run Vista or OS X!
From the online ordering page for the advanced model, hope this helps:
Processor Intel® Core(TM)2 Duo Processor SU9400 (1.4GHz/800MHz FSB/3M L2 Cache) Memory 4GB Dual-channel 800MHz DDR3 SDRAM (2 x 2GB) Keyboard Dell(TM) Backlit Keyboard with Touchpad Video Card Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X4500MHD Hard Drive 128GB Solid State Hard Drive Operating System Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium (64-bit) Wireless Network Card Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 (802.11a/g/n) Bluetooth Dell(TM) Wireless 370 Bluetooth 2.1 Module Primary Battery 6-Cell (40WHr) Li-Ion Primary Battery Mobile Broadband Dell Wireless 5530 HSDPA3.6 mobile broadband mini-card for Vodafone Item included in the System Internal 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet Item included in the System DisplayPort Output with External DVI Adapter Included LCD Premium Onyx Black Finish with 13.4" 720p WLED (1366x768) HD Display with 1.3 mega pixel web cam Power Supply 45W AC Adapter
Didn't you ever see Star Trek? Captain Kirk was ripping his shirt off practically every second week to wrestle some bad alien dude. Oh and with that kitsch fight scene music.
Wow, no Bluetooth headphones? Are we still living in the 20thC???
I can't believe Apple peddle this garbage. Bud earphones out of your ear when the cord is gently tugged. Then there's the quasi-decapitation when the cord gets tangled as you're taking off your backpack or when you stand up while the device is still on a table.
Jerry and that Linux guy are both from Finland. Jerry has an embedded Linux device. Coincidence, or not?
The guy only now has to think and the characters will appear on screen.
This whole article reeks of a sinister plot by Doctor Torvalds to take over the world! I'm no electronics expert but poor Jerry is probably now receiving subliminal messages from Dr Torvalds. Forget Linux on the desktop, we are witnessing the birth of a vast cyborg army.
(Perhaps I shouldn't have watched that Cybermen episode of Dr Who the other night!)
I survived 8 years as a OO programmer without hearing this term. Even then, only as a question on a recruitment agency test.
So either I went to the wrong university, and consistently the wrong employers, or it's one of those self-evident principles that just didn't have a name before Barbara turned up.
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I'm not sure, just my wild speculation. But MS and Nintendo do have wifi enabled game consoles, so possibly their own silicon too.
If you're meaning Apple, then perhaps it's indicative of only companies that produce wifi chipsets. Sure, Apple hardware has wifi technology in their computers but doesn't manufacture, per se, the wifi chips?
I think I saw that in horror movie once.
You know, the one where Barbara Streisand devours most of South Park and only Robert Smith can save the day?
Oh, wait.
Move to Spain.
Take a couple of hours off for lunch, every day.
And yet other EU colleagues want them to work 9-5 :(
I don't get it.
Jim Barrett: Why don't I like you?
Steven Spurrier: Because you think I'm an ass. And I'm not really. It's just that I'm British and you're not.
Is it any wonder? The wikipedia article says it was derived from LSD! (no joke.)
Don't feed the trolls! :)
Hmmm, shouldn't you be using the vocative case, i.e. 'munde'?
CUPS came from Apple and is open source.
Nonsense, CUPS was open source before Apple. Apple liked the technology but not the GNU license. First they negotiated with the developer to grant an exemption for OS X. Eventually they bought the rights to it. Now as the copyright holder they can do whatever they like in their own products. Anyone else is bound by the GNU licensing.
Who mentioned programming Java? Only your fouled-mouthed troll.
Cyberax was talking about running languages such as Python, Ruby or Lisp on the Java Virtual Machine. In turns out that many of the runtime techniques within HotSpot to speed Java can also be used to optimise the performance of others. Where not the case, special mechanisms are being added to bytecode to create a truly language independant VM.
Thanks to Red Hat, there's also an LLVM based backend for HotSpot in development, Shark.
Are you going to stop visiting your favorite website because it would be using "IBM Glassfish" instead of "Sun Glassfish"?
There may not be an "IBM Glassfish" if, after the merger, the ideologues decide that Glassfish does not mesh with IBM's proprietary Websphere offering.
Glassfish will not go away, it is open source, but it may wither through lack of funding and resources.
Translation from US 'English': I think he means "cover your arse".
Unless it's a metaphor of wrapping Eeyore in a blanket so he doesn't get cold?
So you missed that Zeta doesn't exist then?
From the site you linked, Friday 06 April 2007, Zeta stopped distribution under the threat of legal action by the copyright holders of BeOS.
Still, Be's spirit lives on in the Haiku project.
When you attach Fido's leash to a signpost so you can go inside a coffee shop and drink an espresso.
Computer terms:
In this case the leash is a USB cable, Fido is your notebook and the signpost your phone.
This lets you go to a cafe that doesn't have wifi and read Slashdot while drinking your macchiato.
(Hint: good cafes don't need gimmicks like free wifi to attract customers!)
Java won't die. There's a second well known company taking an active role in openjdk - Red Hat.
Red Hat have the talent and resources to fork Java if it stagnated under IBM. They sponsor icedtea, a community driven project uniting the GNU Classpath community in a more open process than Sun's bureaucracy has yet allowed.
Red Hat bought Java EE stack provider JBoss to compete with big business. Tailoring the JDK to the needs of their enterprise customers is something they won't let Sun or IBM sabotage. Now it's all GPL, neither could put the genie back in the bottle. The Java (TM) trademark may be an issue but already we're seeing openjdk packages in Ubuntu and Fedora, so they could just call it 'Sumatra' or 'Bali' instead (like debian did with Iceweasel) and be done with it. :)
With the acquisition of BEA, Oracle now owns Weblogic. It's IBM's biggest competitor in the proprietary Java EE server market.
So Oracle are not sitting idly by.
I fall into neither of those python/ruby groups you mention... My understanding is that they've had to perform some magic behind the scenes with class loaders and reflection etc to obtain reasonable performance. Sun's hotspot vm doesn't support tail-recursion, so lisp dialect clojure has had to add language keywords to simulate it.
Sun have made some progress in this area by hiring some of the jruby developers, introducing new bytecodes and prototyping a new language independent vm.
It's just a standard laptop but without hard disk nor optical drive.
All laptops could be lighter, and substantially thinner, if they dumped these basic internal components.
I, for one, don't need 128GB of internal storage. Other networked devices or USB2 external drives can serve that purpose.
Hopefully these models will dramatically drive down the price of internal SSD for the average consumer, e.g. for netbooks.
For the person that uses their computer's optical drive sparingly, why not? Hopefully 'netbook' makers will corner this market too, so that Dell and Apple can't charge extortionate prices for something that basically amounts to just removing the standard drives. I'd be content with 32GB, though I don't run Vista or OS X!
From the online ordering page for the advanced model, hope this helps:
Processor Intel® Core(TM)2 Duo Processor SU9400 (1.4GHz/800MHz FSB/3M L2 Cache)
Memory 4GB Dual-channel 800MHz DDR3 SDRAM (2 x 2GB)
Keyboard Dell(TM) Backlit Keyboard with Touchpad
Video Card Integrated Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator X4500MHD
Hard Drive 128GB Solid State Hard Drive
Operating System Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium (64-bit)
Wireless Network Card Intel(R) WiFi Link 5300 (802.11a/g/n)
Bluetooth Dell(TM) Wireless 370 Bluetooth 2.1 Module
Primary Battery 6-Cell (40WHr) Li-Ion Primary Battery
Mobile Broadband Dell Wireless 5530 HSDPA3.6 mobile broadband mini-card for Vodafone
Item included in the System Internal 10/100/1000 Gigabit Ethernet
Item included in the System DisplayPort Output with External DVI Adapter Included
LCD Premium Onyx Black Finish with 13.4" 720p WLED (1366x768) HD Display with 1.3 mega pixel web cam
Power Supply 45W AC Adapter
As opposed to "Adam-O"
AFAIK, despite it's supposed Latin roots it's just Italian/Spanish etc for Adam, the dude from Genesis.
Stick an 'o' on the end of a word and pronounce it with an Italian intonation somehow makes it more sophisticated, perhaps.
I protest, sir. You have it backward.
Sci-fi is a form of wrestling.
Didn't you ever see Star Trek? Captain Kirk was ripping his shirt off practically every second week to wrestle some bad alien dude. Oh and with that kitsch fight scene music.
Wow, no Bluetooth headphones? Are we still living in the 20thC???
I can't believe Apple peddle this garbage. Bud earphones out of your ear when the cord is gently tugged. Then there's the quasi-decapitation when the cord gets tangled as you're taking off your backpack or when you stand up while the device is still on a table.
Typing? that's so 19th Century...
Jerry and that Linux guy are both from Finland. Jerry has an embedded Linux device. Coincidence, or not?
The guy only now has to think and the characters will appear on screen.
This whole article reeks of a sinister plot by Doctor Torvalds to take over the world! I'm no electronics expert but poor Jerry is probably now receiving subliminal messages from Dr Torvalds. Forget Linux on the desktop, we are witnessing the birth of a vast cyborg army.
(Perhaps I shouldn't have watched that Cybermen episode of Dr Who the other night!)
I survived 8 years as a OO programmer without hearing this term. Even then, only as a question on a recruitment agency test.
So either I went to the wrong university, and consistently the wrong employers, or it's one of those self-evident principles that just didn't have a name before Barbara turned up.