I really think it's because they like it (love it at the limit), I mean how could they put so many hours and days to it? Hacking, for some, IS fun, it has something exciting in itself. Taking something apart, doing something with a gizmo that wasn't planified by the designers, moding games, etc. are all parts of hacking... Besides, I don't think showing off with a name alias is very gratifying... (maybe in some cases, like Marilyn Manson, but then...).
Without them, forget Windows, Mac OS X, KDE, Gnome, etc.
- Douglas Engelbart, for the mouse and many other widgets
- Alan Kay, for Smalltalk (one of the 1st OOP) and the modern GUI (icons, etc.)
- Steve Jobs, for System 1.0 (Mac OS 1), NextStep and Mac OS X
- Bill Gates, for BASIC and Windows
strcpy, providing root to hackers since 1972! -C. Jaouich
Whereas Microsoft is the largest business this side of Alpha Centauri.
It's a funny one, I give it to you. But for information sake, in the computer world (not Alpha Centauri), IBM and HP are at least two times larger than Microsoft.
"[...] McNealy and Ballmer announced the blockbuster deal. Sun would get $1.95 billion in exchange for calling off two landmark lawsuits. And thanks to a 10-year technology pact, Sun's servers will be certified to run Windows."
In the Entertainment Weekly, Moore says he thought the first weekend would score 10 M$ (maybe 12 M$), but the movie actually had 24 M$ and was first at the US box office! Who cares of illegal copies? The producers have twice the money in their pockets!
And like many said in this thread, this movie had been made to be viewed, so the more people that sees it, the best (Moore thinks) it is for the democracy.
What's interesting with new video cards it's their memory capacity, 128 or 256 MB and that this memory is accessible on some new cards at 900 MHz with a data path of 256 bit (which is a lot faster than a CPU with DDR 400 installed).
Does the user come from Windows (9x or NT), from Mac OS (9 or X) or directly from some other Linux distribution. What are the expectations of these different users? Does the user know what a command line is? Etc.
I never saw a review that gave a certain appreciation (or rating) for a certain type of user...
It costs a LOT to outperform current top cpus (Xeon, Opteron, PowerPC, etc.). Sun money balance is already in deep sh*t, I don't think they can afford to put money on a brand new architecture, they must consolidate, it's sad but true.
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What are these used for besides showing off?
I really think it's because they like it (love it at the limit), I mean how could they put so many hours and days to it? Hacking, for some, IS fun, it has something exciting in itself. Taking something apart, doing something with a gizmo that wasn't planified by the designers, moding games, etc. are all parts of hacking... Besides, I don't think showing off with a name alias is very gratifying... (maybe in some cases, like Marilyn Manson, but then...).
Novell claims to have saved $900,000 last year in Microsoft license fees [because they installed Novell Linux Desktop]
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Microsoft claims to have saved $900,000 last year in Microsoft license fees [because they installed Microsoft Windows]
Or any high-level managers/directors??
Here's some extracts :
"QDOS was approximately 4,000 lines of 8086 assembly code and highly compatible with the APIs of the popular CP/M operating system"
"QDOS was developed quickly, but it lacked many features of CP/M. It was marketed as 86-DOS."
"QDOS met IBM's main criteria: It looked like CP/M, and it was easy to adapt existing 8-bit CP/M programs to run under it"
Because my Sony CD Jukebox also seems to select songs to play by its billboard popularity.
With the president of Sony being at the last keynote...
Hmmm...
3.6 GHz is more speed than 2.13 GHz!
It's like saying a G5 2.5 GHz is faster than a P4 3.6 GHz, psttt!
Intel said it, not me.
Viruses still exist because programmers still use obscure C functions full of holes and obscure processors full of executable stacks.
Please programmers, read the electronic paper "Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit" (->Google).
zzz
Without them, forget Windows, Mac OS X, KDE, Gnome, etc.
- Douglas Engelbart, for the mouse and many other widgets
- Alan Kay, for Smalltalk (one of the 1st OOP) and the modern GUI (icons, etc.)
- Steve Jobs, for System 1.0 (Mac OS 1), NextStep and Mac OS X
- Bill Gates, for BASIC and Windows
strcpy, providing root to hackers since 1972! -C. Jaouich
What about sending the Slashdot RSS to Pictochat? That'd be really sharp...
Whereas Microsoft is the largest business this side of Alpha Centauri.
It's a funny one, I give it to you. But for information sake, in the computer world (not Alpha Centauri), IBM and HP are at least two times larger than Microsoft.
Go SCO go!
(Oups, I mispelled IBM in the title.)
"[...] McNealy and Ballmer announced the blockbuster deal. Sun would get $1.95 billion in exchange for calling off two landmark lawsuits. And thanks to a 10-year technology pact, Sun's servers will be certified to run Windows."
I got root with a noshell bug.
For your information, the World Wide Web browser was greatly inspired by the Dynabook (a concept from Alan Kay in the 60s).
I got root with a noshell bug.
In the Entertainment Weekly, Moore says he thought the first weekend would score 10 M$ (maybe 12 M$), but the movie actually had 24 M$ and was first at the US box office! Who cares of illegal copies? The producers have twice the money in their pockets!
And like many said in this thread, this movie had been made to be viewed, so the more people that sees it, the best (Moore thinks) it is for the democracy.
What's interesting with new video cards it's their memory capacity, 128 or 256 MB and that this memory is accessible on some new cards at 900 MHz with a data path of 256 bit (which is a lot faster than a CPU with DDR 400 installed).
because your boss cannot suddently appear in your cubicle while you're <insert your favorite non-productive habit>.
Does the user come from Windows (9x or NT), from Mac OS (9 or X) or directly from some other Linux distribution. What are the expectations of these different users? Does the user know what a command line is? Etc.
I never saw a review that gave a certain appreciation (or rating) for a certain type of user...
concentrate on IA-64 or AMD64 servers, continue the effort started on Solaris x86 and sell Java.
That's it, that's all.
I remember an exception : Willow was a perfect match on screen and in its 16 colors pixel adaptation...
I just remembered I need to boot my computer... with my Tredair!
Montreal is the most artificially lighted city in the world after Paris... No need for the sun like Americans.
Frankly, I think that's a good move for Sun.
It costs a LOT to outperform current top cpus (Xeon, Opteron, PowerPC, etc.). Sun money balance is already in deep sh*t, I don't think they can afford to put money on a brand new architecture, they must consolidate, it's sad but true.
but Tesla invented the radio.
Go to
www.teslasociety.com/radio.htm
It's worth to mention that HP has two Unixes (HP-UX and Tru64) and also the OpenVMS operating system...
Why not a fourth one???
Or are we using a more generic form of the word partition?
In the world of mainframes, a partition is a common name for a virtual machine...
"A move to Opteron would allow them to be more competitve in cost and focus more on what they're good at, designing systems, not processors."
I must add to this that Sun only designed the SPARC, it's Texas Instruments that's actually making them, so could AMD in a near future...