Apart from those pluses mentioned by lokedhs (snapshotting is no trivial feature to have, if you're running databases, for example, or want admin abilities like rollback) - What ZFS offers that no other Linux filesystem offers, let alone HFS+, is end-to-end data integrity and self-healing. That's why I picked Solaris 10 for a high-integrity database app recently. Nobody else could offer the integrity guarantees (apart from some SAN vendors perhaps).
The only other licensee that was talked about from the beginning was Linotype
I presume something went both ways... PostScript ROMs to Germany for the L100 & L300, and typeface outlines back to Adobe for incorporation in those same ROMs.:-) AFAIK, Adobe still licenses a good chunk of their type library from Linotype.
I've said it before and I'll say it again... the EFF is out there gunning for YOU on this one (and others - you can expect them to vigorously fight on your behalf against the newly proposed Super-DMCA).
I haven't spent much time there, but the inanity, ignorance, immaturity and incivility of Digg posters reminds me of the time I quit Slashdot for a few years - before moderation it was fairly puerile.
With moderation, I find/. bearable, but it does suffer from that "attention curve" -- comments posted after attention has decayed from the story will probably never be moderated up. If you want moderation attention, you have to post very early.
I'd argue that offloading the graphic generation from the CPU/RAM to a video board and video memory might be a good thing. It could mean a more responsive GUI, less bogged down processor, and a better user experience.
You don't even have to guess. Apple has been doing this in OS X since version 10.2, which was introduced 17 July, 2002 - that's four years ago, for those scoring at home.
they could keep updating the GPL version of InnoDB and keep distributing it. But then they would lose the revenue that comes from the proprietary-licensed versions of their product... and there goes their business model.
MySQL and Oracle have agreed to a multi-year extension to the existing contract enabling MySQL to continue to sell and support the InnoDB storage engine. The terms of the agreement are very much "business as usual" for both companies.
This is good news for MySQL customers and for the open source community, and it reinforces the message that Oracle President Charles Phillips stated to us when they acquired InnoDB that they intended to renew the agreement.
After InnoDB, Solid isn't MySQL's only high end option either. Jim Starkey seems to be working on an OLTP engine after being strategically hired; and who knows what interesting things might come out of MySQL's association with MaxDB (former SAPDB).
Australia has a dirty record on energy. A recent publication by Environment Victoria summarises the impact of Alcoa's proposed brown coal station[1]:
"This would significantly increase Victoria's greenhouse pollution to 27.6 tonnes per person per year - higher than any developed nation in the world....
Environment groups - including Greenpeace, the Australian Conservation Foundation and The Wilderness Society - are making climate change their number one priority in the lead-up to November's state election. We are concerned the Bracks Government may repeat its devastating Hazelwood devision by kow-towing to industry - ignoring the environmental impact on 4 million Victorians....
If the Government does allow Alcoa to expand, it must do so without increasing the state's greenhouse emissions.
If the Alcoa expansion was powered by gas instead of traditional brown coal, it would cut its pollution in half....
A senior figure in the Bracks Government has said that the Hazelwood decision[1,2,3] was the worst the government has made since taking office in 1999.
Current energy supply in Australia is heavily dependent upon fossil fuel use. The burning of brown coal in Victoria already accounts for almost half of our greenhouse gas emissions, so proposed new brown coal developments should not proceed. Also, aluminium smelters account for about 20% of our electricity consumption, and there is a proposal for a magnesium smelter in the Latrobe Valley. The consumption of brown coal should be reduced, not increased, but it will be difficult to do this unless energy-intensive industries such as smelting are phased out. The smelters could adopt new technology to reduce their electricity demand by 30%, but they have no incentive to do so because their electricity bill is highly subsidised.
Dr Michael Gunter's submission to the Senate Inquiry into Global Warming noted,
There is no reasonable prospect that Australia can meet its present commitments up to 2008-2012 under the FCCC December 1997 Kyoto Protocol, on any scientifically valid method of calculating or estimating our true emissions. Even if all policies announced to date had been implemented 100% on time with 100% achievement of targets, it is probable that other factors such as land clearing in Queensland, the grossly accelerating combustion of brown coal in Victoria, and the probable construction of four coal-fired generation plants in Queensland would have had ten times the impact - in the opposite direction!... Our land use policies, with their demand for "differentiation", are a very effective way to sabotage effective global implementation of the Kyoto Protocol: as the world's worst per-capita Annex 1 emitter, we should be not expecting special favours. We should be doing more than any other country, not less.... Unfortunately the Australian delegation, led by Meg Macdonald was oblivious to common-sense, stuck to Mr Downer's script, and we achieved Mr Howard's pyrrhic Kyoto "victory": Australia's recalcitrant stance has significantly jeopardised the chances of effective outcomes from Kyoto,...
Aluminium smelting should be shut down in Victoria. The public funds presently being squandered on the Portland Smelter Agreements can be used to subsidise the potlines being transplanted to Tasmania.... A recent economic analysis by the Australia Institute has calculated that this country would be better-off if the heavily subsidised aluminium industry was completely shut down, but if they must stay, then a move to Tasmania would be worth a heap of gree
It's amazing how many people don't get the difference between DVI and VGA - firstly the image quality difference, of course, but secondly the conceptual difference between digital addressability and analog reprocessing. For instance, DVI enables subpixel rendering of text (as supported by OS X, Linux and even WinXP). I can't imagine using a screen that can't support that.
Nobody today should be buying LCDs without DVI (unless price is the only factor). Your eyes will thank you. (Don't have a DVI card yet? It's only a matter of time...)
We need to stop buying, supporting, using, and working with Microsoft software.
Sounds perfectly rational to me. MS is a parasite on progress: An emblem of waste and ignorance. The sooner they're buried - or at least humiliated - the better. They've slaked an insatiable greed on the great fountain of PC cash for far too many decades, the party is coming to a close. Pretty soon we'll be hearing the clear-out-folks music and the lights will come on... Tomorrow brings the revolution, and who'll be first against the wall?
It's not even true to say Microsoft reflects some obsolete point in computing history. The fact is, in every category their products are mediocre. UNIX surpassed Windows in reliability and utility at least 25 years ago, and it hasn't exactly slid backwards since then.
Mac OS X and Linux are everything anyone ever needed. Like my journal says:
"No viruses. No crashes. Fun. Fast. Gorgeous." You'd think it would be an easy sell, wouldn't you?
Unless Microsoft can pick up the pace, "consumers may simply end up with a more and more inferior operating system over time, which is sad," said Mr. Yoffie of the Harvard Business School.
Ah thanks, it's so long ago my memory was getting the two mixed up. And posting at 4am doesn't help... IIRC Both products attracted quite a bit of buzz. But for different reasons:-)
if we do manage to bring some planetary-scale biological disaster to ourselves and much of the rest of the biosphere
I'm not worried about us wiping most of ourselves out. It's the future we have if we survive that scares me more. I'm not sure we can ever do anything but spiral towards a fixed point of synthetic hell -- Mailer's plastic (d)evil. Industrial capitalism simply accelerates us to it. The problem with every moment of the past is that it brought us closer to this: At some point we began with Nature. One can disagree about the early history of the divergence.
The most bleak thought I have is that our externalities -- our systems -- are organic reflections of our psyche. But perhaps it is bleaker yet to realise that survival requires acceptance of it. Dave Pollard sometimes puts me instantly in this frame of mind, like a hypnotist. I still think he's much smarter than me put together.
According to the FA, HyperCard was released in 1987 -- eight years or so before the WWW amounted to anything much. (Ward's original stacks can be downloaded from his site; also see his Pattern Repository's HyperCard topic.)
I recall the palpable buzz at the an Apple developer conference (Canberra? The year I read Jonno's copy of Vernor Vinge's The Peace War(?) during the long drive from Melbourne) where illicit copies of Silver Surfer -- pre-release HyperCard -- were being smuggled on to developers' systems and whispered about. Believe me, almost everyone who saw it -- five years before Berners-Lee kicked off the WWW on his NeXT -- recognised how exciting a paradigm it defined. Including Apple! On the Mac, for high level application developers, this was the era of Helix (exciting) and OMNIS (not very). (Confession: I think I was too young to entirely get what the fuss was all about.)
In those eight years before the web took firm hold, HyperCard was constantly promoted and bundled in very visible form (including printed manuals) with every Macintosh sold. It had a plugin architecture, and a massive roster of third party developers and solutions. My brother built an accounting system for a family business with it.
As a more bare-metal C/Pascal Mac developer during this period, I sometimes grew exasperated at the ubiquity of this seemingly pedestrian product I wasn't much interested in using!
1. unanswered emails 2. incredibly tardy support (even the automated acknowledgment message from their web form takes days to arrive) 3. their web site is buggy; some features are broken and error messages are utterly unhelpful and confusing 4. they don't fix reported issues 5. go back to step 1
The only thing Linux has to offer in the font department is anti-aliasing.
Actually, it offers everything that WinXP and OS X offer too, including subpixel antialiasing for digital LCDs (a.k.a. ClearType, CoolType, what-have-you). I have this enabled on my Gentoo desktop box and with TTF 'corefonts' installed, it looks every bit as good as my OS X typography, and better than XP with ClearType enabled! It's so good, in fact, that I almost prefer reading on the Linux machine to anything else (also I'm a typographer).
Quoting a response by the Software Freedom Law Center:
the latest Software Freedom Law Center white paper maintains... these issues were reviewed and it was found that there is in fact no special risk for developing GPL'd code under SOX. "Under most circumstances, the risk posed to a company by SOX is not affected by whether they use GPL'd or any other type of software. Arguments to the contrary are pure anti-GPL FUD [fear, uncertainty and doubt]," the paper says.
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Apart from those pluses mentioned by lokedhs (snapshotting is no trivial feature to have, if you're running databases, for example, or want admin abilities like rollback) - What ZFS offers that no other Linux filesystem offers, let alone HFS+, is end-to-end data integrity and self-healing. That's why I picked Solaris 10 for a high-integrity database app recently. Nobody else could offer the integrity guarantees (apart from some SAN vendors perhaps).
I presume something went both ways... PostScript ROMs to Germany for the L100 & L300, and typeface outlines back to Adobe for incorporation in those same ROMs. :-) AFAIK, Adobe still licenses a good chunk of their type library from Linotype.
Never a better time to donate or join.
When it comes to power - I still think they should have bought Transmeta. And Sun knows something the rest of the industry doesn't (yet).
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With moderation, I find /. bearable, but it does suffer from that "attention curve" -- comments posted after attention has decayed from the story will probably never be moderated up. If you want moderation attention, you have to post very early.
You'd never see that kind of bad behaviour here! We're always scrupulous in praising Slashdot's esteemed sponsor...
You don't even have to guess. Apple has been doing this in OS X since version 10.2, which was introduced 17 July, 2002 - that's four years ago, for those scoring at home.
Chicken Littles will be disappointed - See Zack Urlocker's blog:
After InnoDB, Solid isn't MySQL's only high end option either. Jim Starkey seems to be working on an OLTP engine after being strategically hired; and who knows what interesting things might come out of MySQL's association with MaxDB (former SAPDB).
The Greens Party Energy Policy concurs,
Dr Michael Gunter's submission to the Senate Inquiry into Global Warming noted,
So wtf?
But you'd better be prepared for a plagiarism claim from this girl.
Nobody today should be buying LCDs without DVI (unless price is the only factor). Your eyes will thank you. (Don't have a DVI card yet? It's only a matter of time...)
I wouldn't let my kids use any MS product.
Sounds perfectly rational to me. MS is a parasite on progress: An emblem of waste and ignorance. The sooner they're buried - or at least humiliated - the better. They've slaked an insatiable greed on the great fountain of PC cash for far too many decades, the party is coming to a close. Pretty soon we'll be hearing the clear-out-folks music and the lights will come on... Tomorrow brings the revolution, and who'll be first against the wall?
It's not even true to say Microsoft reflects some obsolete point in computing history. The fact is, in every category their products are mediocre. UNIX surpassed Windows in reliability and utility at least 25 years ago, and it hasn't exactly slid backwards since then.
Mac OS X and Linux are everything anyone ever needed. Like my journal says:
A friend of mine made it 2 years ago back when Vista was called Longhorn.
I'm not discounting lawsuits against Microsoft either, buddy! Thought you ought to know.
Yeah it's sad. But it's gonna happen :-)
Ah thanks, it's so long ago my memory was getting the two mixed up. And posting at 4am doesn't help... IIRC Both products attracted quite a bit of buzz. But for different reasons :-)
I'm not worried about us wiping most of ourselves out. It's the future we have if we survive that scares me more. I'm not sure we can ever do anything but spiral towards a fixed point of synthetic hell -- Mailer's plastic (d)evil. Industrial capitalism simply accelerates us to it. The problem with every moment of the past is that it brought us closer to this: At some point we began with Nature. One can disagree about the early history of the divergence.
The most bleak thought I have is that our externalities -- our systems -- are organic reflections of our psyche. But perhaps it is bleaker yet to realise that survival requires acceptance of it. Dave Pollard sometimes puts me instantly in this frame of mind, like a hypnotist. I still think he's much smarter than me put together.
I recall the palpable buzz at the an Apple developer conference (Canberra? The year I read Jonno's copy of Vernor Vinge's The Peace War(?) during the long drive from Melbourne) where illicit copies of Silver Surfer -- pre-release HyperCard -- were being smuggled on to developers' systems and whispered about. Believe me, almost everyone who saw it -- five years before Berners-Lee kicked off the WWW on his NeXT -- recognised how exciting a paradigm it defined. Including Apple! On the Mac, for high level application developers, this was the era of Helix (exciting) and OMNIS (not very). (Confession: I think I was too young to entirely get what the fuss was all about.)
In those eight years before the web took firm hold, HyperCard was constantly promoted and bundled in very visible form (including printed manuals) with every Macintosh sold. It had a plugin architecture, and a massive roster of third party developers and solutions. My brother built an accounting system for a family business with it.
As a more bare-metal C/Pascal Mac developer during this period, I sometimes grew exasperated at the ubiquity of this seemingly pedestrian product I wasn't much interested in using!
Melbourne IT's 'support' is a fracking joke.
1. unanswered emails
2. incredibly tardy support (even the automated acknowledgment message from their web form takes days to arrive)
3. their web site is buggy; some features are broken and error messages are utterly unhelpful and confusing
4. they don't fix reported issues
5. go back to step 1
Actually, it offers everything that WinXP and OS X offer too, including subpixel antialiasing for digital LCDs (a.k.a. ClearType, CoolType, what-have-you). I have this enabled on my Gentoo desktop box and with TTF 'corefonts' installed, it looks every bit as good as my OS X typography, and better than XP with ClearType enabled! It's so good, in fact, that I almost prefer reading on the Linux machine to anything else (also I'm a typographer).
N/T
Quoting a response by the Software Freedom Law Center: