Yeah, this stinks of a Conspiracy. Stinks on ice. Did you know that Karl Rove and Harriet Myers are both on the Eve board of directors? Did you know that over 75% of the employees are recent grads of Regent University's new Christian Gaming department? The only way to get to the bottom of this is if Bush will answer the following questions: What did he know? And when did he know it?
engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or means of livelihood; "the professional man or woman possesses distinctive qualifications"; "began her professional career after the Olympics"; "professional theater"; "professional football"; "a professional cook"; "professional actors and athletes"
a person engaged in one of the learned professions
an athlete who plays for pay
engaged in by members of a profession; "professional occupations include medicine and the law and teaching"
master: an authority qualified to teach apprentices
They seem professional to me? I don't see how your linked post changes that?
They fail to mention how their volunteer moderators deleted every single civil thread on the issue, and that CCP themselves deleted the petition that was filed.
I don't see the problem with that.
A year later, I find myself victim of flat out discrimination by the developers, as they cater to their own 'old boys club'. Not a specific generation of players, even, like many MMOs develop content for, but a specific group of players in the game.
Hard to believe people who post as AC.
CCP's problem is that they want to play their own game, and they want to win.
CCP's problem is that they've got people now making up stories after one event that seems to of tainted their image.
My mistake, I thought the kernel was released under the BSD license. Apparently it's like the rest of Darwin, under Apple's opensource license which is incompatible with BSD and GPL.
Unix is Unix. Linux is not Unix, the GNU userland tools aren't Unix either.
These things might be Unix-like, but they certainly are not Unix.
XNU is BSD Unix kernel.
It might be under the BSD license, but it's not a Unix kernel. If you want to call OS X unix, then you're going to have to call Windows, Unix as well.
Your possible reasons...
Because they're Unix-like? Like OS X, Windows has native POSIX support. Even if it's similar, we aren't calling stuff like GNUstep, OS X. Because they've got BSD code? Like OS X, Windows has BSD code (most obvious areas are related to networking). Windows could even be considered even closer to being a Unix system since it's POSIX subsystem handles things according to spec a lot better than OS X actually does (especially when it comes to things like signals).
No, I don't agree that Linux is Unix, that the GNU userland tools is Unix, that OS X is Unix or by following down that path of logic that Windows is Unix.
First, why on Earth should we consider a 256 MB RAM with a ton of loaded apps even close to relevant for such a test.
To replicate conditions that the users had to understand/WHY/ they were experiencing issues they were having. I didn't have such problems on my system for obvious reasons.
Second, Java's interpeter isn't relevant. Java apps are JIT for quite some time now (check in google what this might be). And your explanation that "it's written in c/c++ in the first place, so it must be slower" means nothing.
I didn't say "it must be slower", you miss-interpreted my text that way.
The C/C++ compilers are written with the previous version of the same compilers, and does that mean that each version is slower. No, actually each version applies more and more advanced optimization and usually ends up with faster programs that the previous iteration.
Have you even looked at C/C++ compiler sourcecode? I have, and a lot of it has huge chunks of assembler tricks used in there to produce the output binaries. The compilers aren't a pure C/C++ application which you seem to be implying.
I also don't get what your point is? Are you trying to claim that I'm saying a compiler compiled with a very old compiler which has less optimizations available will build a compiler that will be able to run faster than a compiler that's built with a much later compiler that has more optimizations? No, I'm not, that's ludicrous.
You need to do your benchmarks again as it's not the case anymore.
I have done benchmarks on typical consumer hardware on Windows. Things like 256MB ram, with things like bloated Yahoo messenger running.
What I found is that due to the large amount of memory the actual VM takes, it causes more swapping than the equivalent C/C++ program which has been compiled as a native x68 application. The swapping causes the system to run slower, and as such the Java application runs slower.
Now, the argument on Java applications running faster than C applications -- I find this argument somewhat confusing since the Java interpreter is written in C/C++ in the first place. The fact a C/C++ application isn't performing as well as a Java application under more favorable situations (like no swapping issues due to huge amounts of free RAM on the system that most consumers don't have) is either due to poor optimizations done by the C/C++ compiler or due to the equivalent libraries used were not written as 'good' as the other.
We had C++. Much better at porting, but we still had to recompile for each platform. No obscure assembler that required a rocket scientist to figure out what the hell was going on. Wow! We had 'objects' that virtualized concepts. But why do we suddenly have 'fat' programs.
Technically you can still use C++ with Lina, it's just the compiler that's changed rather than the programming language.
Well now thanks for that wealth of information. It runs Linux, and Linux applications, then translates QT and GTK function calls into the host OS' equivalent GUI API through some kind of "fourth wall" tunnel.
Nope, it doesn't run ELF executables.
You have to build special binaries for Lina like you would for.net or java. The only difference is that the languages supported by Lina is C++, C, Perl, python etc. Which means already pre-existing Linux applications can be 'ported' to Lina. Lina is meant to provide 'wrapper' libraries internally for things like GTK, QT and so on, allowing it to use native OS API for file pickers, GUIs and so on.
As much as I like Linux and open-source, this just sounds like a hopeless idea.
Personally I think it's a great idea, write for Lina, run on all OSes. I would love to see how well it performs, this could mean new games (and even older) could be made cross-platform easily.
People want to run Windows apps on Linux (wine), not the other way around.
I'm sure there are instances.
Let's face it, most graphical OSS software packages are clones of original Windows or Mac apps.
After having looked at the majority of software on Sourceforge, no, I have to disagree.
The few cool Linux GUI apps that matter usually get ported to Win32 anyway, making this whole VM exercise pointless.
I need quite a few applications under Windows that isn't ported or is badly ported -- instead I have to resort to running colinux and a x-server under Windows. So no, just because you have all the applications you think that matter doesn't mean everyone else has.
My bride has a MacBook. She got the notification, it downloaded what seemed like a fairly large file after prompting for a password. Don't know if it asked and she missed it, or if it rebooted after installing the patch - but either way her machine did an unexpected restart.
That's nothing, OS X wants to restart on stupid things like QuickTime and Java updates.
Ubuntu (and any non-Windows OS) can't run Windows-only games.
Yes it can, Ubuntu comes preinstalled with Wine.
Wine can run games, such as World of Warcraft, Half life, Half life 2 (I'd include the unreal tournaments, quakes etc. but they all have native Linux verisons anyway) among many other games.
It's not the fault of Linux or Ubuntu, and MS may be an evil monopoly, but most people don't care - it's just a practicality issue.
And having Wine preinstalled with Ubuntu is practical, no fuss.
(and even then, they'd still need a warning).
Yeah, right.. Like anyone reads those in the first place. In that case, Windows Vista needs a warning because lots of my windows games do not run under it.
In my experience. It's easier to get someone to copy-paste a command than it is to direct them through a GUI often ("Okay, now click the start menu button" "Wheres the start menu?" "It's on the left side of your screen" "I don't see it" etc).
And by the way, the kubuntu-desktop package can be installed completely via a GUI, no terminal commands needed.
Instead they will try to install any number of things, like a game,
Wine is included out of the box with Ubuntu, and games like World of Warcraft work out of the box with Wine.
scanner
I have little to no experience with scanners under Linux. I can't say anything about that.
printer
Printers work fine for me, I just plug it in, set up the paper size in the printer preferences and I'm done.
webcam(I know 477 drivers or something blah blah), or any other number of peripherals and have problem after problem.
I just plugin my webcams and they all work. Just plugged it in and they were usable, same with things like Bluetooth, my Wacom tablet etc.
For the 95% of the nation who are not technically inclined like us, Linux is a nightmare waiting to happen.
Yes, Ubuntu having some ability like plugging in wireless cards, and some just work or restricted-manager pops up and offers to install the proprietary drivers for you verses wireless cards that don't work because you plugged it in before inserting the install cd that wouldn't work anyway because the drivers don't work with the latest service pack of windows.
We might know what about someone is talking about when they say shell or bash, but my mother doesn't... does yours?
My mother has never touched a bash prompt, but she has no problem using Linux and she isn't a techie either.
will go nicely towards games to play on those PCs. Oh wait....
It has been noted by many that certain Windows-only games perform even better under Wine + Linux combo than they do natively under Windows.
I've heard this and seen it for myself with World of Warcraft. The game does not freeze for a few seconds in a city like under a clean Windows XP SP2 installation on the same hardware and I even saw a 15fps increase under the Linux installation.
So what happens if you don't have an IPv4 address?
IPv4 NAT gateways were designed to handle that.
Just say you ran out of IPv4 addresses?
Sure.
After all there's supposed to be this IPv4 address shortage problem, and apparently IPv6 is supposed to solve it.
Okay.
If the solution is for you to ALSO have an IPv4 address, then that's kinda funny right?
Nope. Assuming you have a properly setup ipv6 network with a ipv4 gateway, just connecting to a ipv4 ip which was converted into a IPv6 compatible IP like Slashdot's 66.35.250.150 would be::ffff:66.35.250.150 (there are otherways of displaying this too to make it look completely different, but this was just the easiest way for me to convert) would work fine.
This IPv6 solution stuff is funny:)
I am confused why instead of allowing limitless IPs, they yet again set a hard limit on how many IPs we can use.
There is a annoying problem when you have a IPv6 enabled on the local network and no IPv6 gateway provided by your ISP. Software (like a webbrowser) will resolve a hostname to a ipv6 IP, attempts to connect to it (since the IPv6 stack is loaded) and there is 'no route to host'.
If Google supported IPv6, they may end up cutting out a large portion of users over issues like these.
Slashdot Mirror
You can toggle it in (not enabled by default in firefox2.x):
Preferences -> Advanced tab -> [ ] Search for text when I start typing
I don't have the issues you're experiencing by the way. Nor do I have it turned on in the preferences dialog.
They seem professional to me? I don't see how your linked post changes that?
These things might be Unix-like, but they certainly are not Unix.It might be under the BSD license, but it's not a Unix kernel. If you want to call OS X unix, then you're going to have to call Windows, Unix as well.
Your possible reasons...
Because they're Unix-like? Like OS X, Windows has native POSIX support. Even if it's similar, we aren't calling stuff like GNUstep, OS X.
Because they've got BSD code? Like OS X, Windows has BSD code (most obvious areas are related to networking). Windows could even be considered even closer to being a Unix system since it's POSIX subsystem handles things according to spec a lot better than OS X actually does (especially when it comes to things like signals).
No, I don't agree that Linux is Unix, that the GNU userland tools is Unix, that OS X is Unix or by following down that path of logic that Windows is Unix.
I also don't get what your point is? Are you trying to claim that I'm saying a compiler compiled with a very old compiler which has less optimizations available will build a compiler that will be able to run faster than a compiler that's built with a much later compiler that has more optimizations? No, I'm not, that's ludicrous.
What I found is that due to the large amount of memory the actual VM takes, it causes more swapping than the equivalent C/C++ program which has been compiled as a native x68 application. The swapping causes the system to run slower, and as such the Java application runs slower.
Now, the argument on Java applications running faster than C applications -- I find this argument somewhat confusing since the Java interpreter is written in C/C++ in the first place. The fact a C/C++ application isn't performing as well as a Java application under more favorable situations (like no swapping issues due to huge amounts of free RAM on the system that most consumers don't have) is either due to poor optimizations done by the C/C++ compiler or due to the equivalent libraries used were not written as 'good' as the other.
So what popular software is written in it?
What does OS X run on again?
How was that flamebait?
You have to build special binaries for Lina like you would for
What would you recommend then?
Wine can run games, such as World of Warcraft, Half life, Half life 2 (I'd include the unreal tournaments, quakes etc. but they all have native Linux verisons anyway) among many other games.And having Wine preinstalled with Ubuntu is practical, no fuss.Yeah, right.. Like anyone reads those in the first place. In that case, Windows Vista needs a warning because lots of my windows games do not run under it.
In my experience. It's easier to get someone to copy-paste a command than it is to direct them through a GUI often ("Okay, now click the start menu button" "Wheres the start menu?" "It's on the left side of your screen" "I don't see it" etc).
And by the way, the kubuntu-desktop package can be installed completely via a GUI, no terminal commands needed.
I've heard this and seen it for myself with World of Warcraft. The game does not freeze for a few seconds in a city like under a clean Windows XP SP2 installation on the same hardware and I even saw a 15fps increase under the Linux installation.
There is a annoying problem when you have a IPv6 enabled on the local network and no IPv6 gateway provided by your ISP. Software (like a webbrowser) will resolve a hostname to a ipv6 IP, attempts to connect to it (since the IPv6 stack is loaded) and there is 'no route to host'.
If Google supported IPv6, they may end up cutting out a large portion of users over issues like these.