Linux is an x86 project. All the ports are basically niche projects. If you want a multi-architecture OS, go with NetBSD. ...wich basically is a niche project.
It isn't bullshit. There are some magazines that flat out will change your rating if you buy adds with them.
Those magazines suck, and i hope they fade away. This is no good way to make money, readers are smarter than that. Case in point: Here in sweden there are are two major publishers. One that let's you buy editorial content, and one that has a very strict policy of not letting advertisers influence the mags. The first is struggling, and the other one (which i work for) is making HEAPS of money.
As a journalist working on an IT publication in New Zealand I have to tell you that we seriously don't care what ads are in the paper - in fact, as I write each story, I have no idea who or what is being advertised.
Absolutely!! I would moderate you up if i could!Most people here whining about magazines being biased have absolutely no clue about how computer magazines are being written. The fact is that the ads are put in the magazine after the stories are written, by different people. I'm getting kind of pissed of now so i will shut up before i lose too much karma.
I've never thought much of most computer magazines - they have too much stake in promoting the products of their advertisers to be believable.
This pisses me off. How can anyone be so stupid to think that we actually go: "Hey, this product sucks, but i'll give it an 8 out of 10, just because they advertise in our magazine!" I consider most paper magazines a lot more trustworthy than/. Ok, i know there are some rather cluless writers, but they are at least trying to be as objective as possible.
On the subject, the web isn't going to kill paper magazines anytime soon. Most of the magazines i write for has increased sales as the web has become more popular. And not everything is out of date when it's printed, e.g. how-to articles, interviews etc. Most people prefer to read printed text over a screen, and for a good reason too.
Linus already have a honorary doctorate here in sweden. I don't remember what school it was, but it was defenitly not one in Stockholm. By the way, RMS has a honorary doctorate at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
The way I parse the recent SGI statements about their future direction, they seem to basically leave the low-to-midrange server market to Linux (consider their donations to Linux: xfs, OpenGL stuff etc) and concentrate on the high end.
Today's midrange platforms is the high-end platforms of tomorrow. IRIX/MIPS will survive a couple of more years, but SGI's future platform is Linux on Intel.
After all, the money is mostly in hardware these days.
Make up your mind... First you complain that those systems are proprietary, then you want "custom chips". If you want custom chips, buy a pocket calculator. Face it, the days when one company could design an entire computer+OS, is OVER. Even Apple gave up that idea.
I think this is mostly the fault of distributions not being easy enough to setup. Take Red Hat for example. During installation, you'll have to answer the question: What services do you want to be started at boot? (or something like that) But do anyone seriously think that a newbie should know what apmd, atd, inetd, lpd, syslogd, etc... is?? But this will get better, i'm sure.
This only proves (if it proves anything) that the brain is time-shared in the initial stage of analyzing visual information. The article says that the brain switches focus about every 0.1 second. But remember that the consciousness has a 0.5 second "lag" that gets masked by some reality-defying neural algorithms to get the "real-time" effect. And there is reason to belive that parts of the brain is far too complicated to be described as "parallel" or "serial" (eg. holographic theories).
What i really want to know is whether it uses a monolithic or microkernel architecture...
Sorry kiddies, if you can't spell 'PHENOMENAL', don't expect anyone to take you seriously. Bara för att du är så fenomenalt jävla duktig och aldrig stavar fel jävla AC.
as I understand it, the main reason why GNOME exists, is because RMS has declared KDE evil, for using Qt, which isn't GPL-ed. This is very true. And the reason HURD exists, is because Linux isn't a GNU project.
Just because KDE is easier to use doesn't mean it's less powerful. This is a common misconception among geek type people. Look at the MacOS, it's probably the most powerful desktop today, if you learn how to use it right. And it's the easiest too. Yes i know, MacOS has SERIOUS flaws, but that's because the Apple developers are putting it's efforts into the GUI instead of the underlying OS.
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Linux is an x86 project. All the ports are basically niche projects.
If you want a multi-architecture OS, go with NetBSD.
...wich basically is a niche project.
It isn't bullshit. There are some magazines that flat out will change your rating if you buy adds with them.
Those magazines suck, and i hope they fade away. This is no good way to make money, readers are smarter than that. Case in point: Here in sweden there are are two major publishers. One that let's you buy editorial content, and one that has a very strict policy of not letting advertisers influence the mags. The first is struggling, and the other one (which i work for) is making HEAPS of money.
As a journalist working on an IT publication in New Zealand I have to tell you that we seriously don't care what ads are in the paper - in fact, as I write each story, I have no idea who or what is being advertised.
Absolutely!! I would moderate you up if i could!Most people here whining about magazines being biased have absolutely no clue about how computer magazines are being written. The fact is that the ads are put in the magazine after the stories are written, by different people. I'm getting kind of pissed of now so i will shut up before i lose too much karma.
I've never thought much of most computer magazines - they have too much stake in promoting the products of their advertisers to be believable.
/. Ok, i know there are some rather cluless writers, but they are at least trying to be as objective as possible.
This pisses me off. How can anyone be so stupid to think that we actually go: "Hey, this product sucks, but i'll give it an 8 out of 10, just because they advertise in our magazine!" I consider most paper magazines a lot more trustworthy than
On the subject, the web isn't going to kill paper magazines anytime soon. Most of the magazines i write for has increased sales as the web has become more popular. And not everything is out of date when it's printed, e.g. how-to articles, interviews etc. Most people prefer to read printed text over a screen, and for a good reason too.
"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
That would explain these funky colors...
Linus already have a honorary doctorate here in sweden. I don't remember what school it was, but it was defenitly not one in Stockholm. By the way, RMS has a honorary doctorate at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
The way I parse the recent SGI statements about their future direction, they seem to basically leave the low-to-midrange server market to Linux (consider their donations to Linux: xfs, OpenGL stuff etc) and concentrate on the high end.
Today's midrange platforms is the high-end platforms of tomorrow. IRIX/MIPS will survive a couple of more years, but SGI's future platform is Linux on Intel.
After all, the money is mostly in hardware these days.
Tell that to Bill Gates...:)
It was said that W2K will *only* run on the Merced.
Then i must have a merced then, since i can run W2K here...:)
Make up your mind... First you complain that those systems are proprietary, then you want "custom chips". If you want custom chips, buy a pocket calculator. Face it, the days when one company could design an entire computer+OS, is OVER. Even Apple gave up that idea.
Well known poeple suffering from ADHD/ADD:
Amadeus Mozart
Albert Einstein
John Lennon
Just to boost your confidence. Let's all go out and say: "I'm not suffering from ADHD, i'm enjoying it!"
I think this is mostly the fault of distributions not being easy enough to setup. Take Red Hat for example. During installation, you'll have to answer the question: What services do you want to be started at boot? (or something like that) But do anyone seriously think that a newbie should know what apmd, atd, inetd, lpd, syslogd, etc... is??
But this will get better, i'm sure.
This only proves (if it proves anything) that the brain is time-shared in the initial stage of analyzing visual information. The article says that the brain switches focus about every 0.1 second. But remember that the consciousness has a 0.5 second "lag" that gets masked by some reality-defying neural algorithms to get the "real-time" effect. And there is reason to belive that parts of the brain is far too complicated to be described as "parallel" or "serial" (eg. holographic theories).
What i really want to know is whether it uses a monolithic or microkernel architecture...
Sorry kiddies, if you can't spell 'PHENOMENAL', don't expect anyone to take you seriously.
Bara för att du är så fenomenalt jävla duktig och aldrig stavar fel jävla AC.
as I understand it, the main reason why GNOME exists, is because RMS has declared KDE evil, for using Qt, which isn't GPL-ed.
This is very true. And the reason HURD exists, is because Linux isn't a GNU project.
Just because KDE is easier to use doesn't mean it's less powerful. This is a common misconception among geek type people. Look at the MacOS, it's probably the most powerful desktop today, if you learn how to use it right. And it's the easiest too. Yes i know, MacOS has SERIOUS flaws, but that's because the Apple developers are putting it's efforts into the GUI instead of the underlying OS.
No one is preventing you from porting Mozilla to Win 3.x, so stop whining.