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>I'm a primarily a Mac OS X user for 3 years now - having moved from Linux
Me too -- it's a common enough switch, at least among laptop users.
I know quite a few Rails developers, and OSX and TextMate are what they have in common. I don't see what it has over TextWrangler, personally, and I prefer, of course, VIM.
>Think larger scale where there are server farms which require a ton of cooling - a 2% reduction could potentially be a huge cost savings.
My previous employer had a room with plenty of free space but a cooling capacity problem that forced them to leave much of the space unused. The equipment consisted pretty much entirely of E-class Sun servers, FWIW, and the room already had its own air conditioning.
>... when I read a story like this, I usually try to stop and ask myself, "What if I did live there? Would this kind of craziness make >more sense?"
Chances are good that between the three jobs you had to work just to maintain a subsistence living, you would not have the time to be concerned with such things.
>College students are masters of getting what they want despite rules and regulations.
The smart ones just get apartments off campus and use cable modems.
The *really* smart ones buy off campus housing, allow it to inflate during their years at university, and then sell for enough of a gain to offset the cost of education.
Obviously you must have money to be smart like that. But then, university is designed for smart people who have money.
For portable use, anyway, I switched from Linux to OSX. Not because of relative merits of the OS so much as the irresistable Macbook Pro, which as a gestalt of hardware and software, is a very good choice for a laptop, particularly for someone with unix experience.
I have found there are quite a few linux users who have bought mac portables, for the same reasons I did. Now, I still run linux (a mildly customized ubuntu-ish flavor) at home and at work, but I am using the Mac more and more, verging on exclusive use for everything except server tasks.
>How many times could you possibly watch the same movie in your life?!
Depends on the movie. There are some I have watched >50 times. There are some that I will watch a scene from many, many times. There are some which are very nice to have among a collection, for guests to enjoy. There are many, many movies that I would watch maybe once, and be happy that it's over with. If the criteria were the same for everyone, there would be a simple formula.
I slow down in proportion to honking from behind. In fact, I *want* some Orange County SUV driver to hit my rental car from behind. After that, *I* will be able to afford a house on Balboa Island.
>The moral of this story was, I think, that even though they made marketing claims, their staff weren't >really trained to provide non standard orders.
Oh, I never suspected that *practice* had any relationship to *marketing*. This is a franchise operation after all; every outlet with entirely separate management.
I switched from Linux to OSX, mainly because I liked the Macbook Pro. No regrets at all. (I still run linux [my own debian-ish flavor] on my home and office desktops, and my music studio PC is Windows XP, for reasons related to my choice of applications.)
>No fair bringing the real world into this! We insist that you can't buy a computer without Windows, so >your facts are irrelevant!
I worked in a shop that itemized into its Microsoft site license, all the Sun servers, Linux desktops, Apples, and the Dell laptops that were running the OEM Windows install they came with. I don't know if I've seen anything more ridiculous than a Sun E10K with a Windows license.
>I can order a cheeseburger minus the tomato and they don't have to make it on a separate production >line. They just... don't put that on it.
In case you are too young to remember, Burger King actually built their market niche on that problem. The other big Hamburger restaurant had developed a model where the food was prepared in advance and special orders were a problem. Burger King came along with a whole marketing angle based on making the burgers fresh, and they promoted it with one of the catchiest jingles in all of advertising history:-)
>My point was that "SCO asserts that the GPL, under which Linux is distributed, violates the United States Constitution and the U.S. copyright and >patent laws."
I love this. Read the GPL (any version.) It won't take long. Then try to come up with a question whose answer could possibly be in accordance with SCO's claim. Then, take some other software license at random. Try to figure out how you would explain to the same judge that THIS license is valid, while the GPL is not. Then you will realize why a decision such as the one SCO envisions, will be vehemently challenged by, oh, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Peoplesoft; and consider even bigger than THAT, since we're not just talking about software licenses, but anything that is protected under copyright law and subsequently licensed for distribution. It would be a lot of fun to watch the media corporations get into this fight.
Maybe someone has an argument that the GPL is substantively different from other licenses, but the real problem is, you would have to argue that content creators do not have the right to license their work under the terms of the GPL. The whole "free" and "viral" thing doesn't enter into it. Does the author have the right or doesn't he?
>As the IBM guy points out in the hearing (online over at Groklaw, of course) the error values are in alphabetic order with increasing integer values. >Exactly what most people would do in building such a list of #defines...
Interesting. It had not occurred to me they were in alpha order. I would have listed them in decreasing order of severity. Also, if they were numbered sequentially, I would probably have used a typedef enum instead of defines.
The adage does not apply when the publicity becomes "infamy".
>The whole SCO case attracted quite a large deal of attention, and a lot of speculation on the legitimacy of linux and/or its licenses.
And no one who bothers to read the license, seems able to come up with a question of law that needs to be decided based on it. What argument can you make against the GPL (any version), which, if decided against its validity, could not also be used to question the validity of any other license based on copyright law? To invalidate the GPL is to cancel rights that are reserved under copyright. This would probably require a constitutional amendment to accomplish.
>In the end this is great news for FOSS assuming the GPL gets' it's day in court; once proven it only gets stronger and so forth..
It would be more fun to watch the aftermath of the GPL being "struck down", since any legal basis on which that could be done, will necessarily void a host of other licenses. Just about any license extended under copyright law, in fact, would fall for any reason the GPL would. This is the reason "it has never been tested" -- the GPL itself does not carry any question of law that needs to be tested. The question is settled. The copyright holder has rights, and certain of these rights may be licensed. The GPL is a rather simple expression of such a license. Find a legal basis on which to invalidate it, and by extension (particularly, by the doctrine of Equal Protection), you can void almost every publishing and distribution license that has ever been made based on copyright law. This will not happen, and it's foolish to speculate that it will.
The GPL cannot "get its day in court" unless someone comes up with a question that they can legitimately ask a court to decide.
What, in your opinion, is "the question" that should be called in regards to the GPL?
>Great, now we know that the TCO for a mixed Linux environment is higher than for Windows. And what does it mean?
It means the study needs to be repeated for a "mixed Windows" environment. It also would be interesting to see specific use cases. Are they comparing developers' linux boxes against receptionists' Windows boxes? Application servers against salespeople's notebooks?
>And yet the incessant "Linux is almost ready for the desktop" cries don't bother you?
There are millions of people happily using Linux on their desktops in various environments. I personally switched from Linux to OSX when I got my Macbook Pro, but I still have a linux desktop. Solaris in the server room, though, sorry. It will stay that way as long as it is my call.
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>I'm a primarily a Mac OS X user for 3 years now - having moved from Linux
Me too -- it's a common enough switch, at least among laptop users.
I know quite a few Rails developers, and OSX and TextMate are what they have in common.
I don't see what it has over TextWrangler, personally, and I prefer, of course, VIM.
>That being the case I doubt that Diebold has much of a case.
Given that it's Mass, I doubt that Diebold could find a jury that would
even pretend to be sympathetic to their cause.
>Think larger scale where there are server farms which require a ton of cooling - a 2% reduction could potentially be a huge cost savings.
My previous employer had a room with plenty of free space but a cooling capacity problem that forced them to leave much of the space unused. The equipment consisted pretty much entirely of E-class Sun servers, FWIW, and the room already had its own air conditioning.
>Did you have a say in that?
I voted for a Congressman who supported copyright extensions, so, yes as a matter of fact I did... and I accept full responsibility.
>... when I read a story like this, I usually try to stop and ask myself, "What if I did live there? Would this kind of craziness make >more sense?"
Chances are good that between the three jobs you had to work just to maintain a subsistence living, you would not have the time to be concerned with such things.
>Um, because it is pretty much illegal for the libertarians to run in a whole slew of districts...
Your source please?
Honorary degrees are never awarded to anyone with any likelihood of having a job interview or seeking a teaching or research job.
>College students are masters of getting what they want despite rules and regulations.
The smart ones just get apartments off campus and use cable modems.
The *really* smart ones buy off campus housing, allow it to inflate during their years at university, and then sell for enough of a gain to offset the cost of education.
Obviously you must have money to be smart like that. But then, university is designed for smart people who have money.
Don't lose a check that was written grudgingly. It might not be possible to persuade the writer to do it again.
For portable use, anyway, I switched from Linux to OSX. Not because of relative merits of the OS so much as the irresistable Macbook Pro, which as a gestalt of hardware and software, is a very good choice for a laptop, particularly for someone with unix experience.
I have found there are quite a few linux users who have bought mac portables, for the same reasons I did. Now, I still run linux (a mildly customized ubuntu-ish flavor) at home and at work, but I am using the Mac more and more, verging on exclusive use for everything except server tasks.
>How many times could you possibly watch the same movie in your life?!
Depends on the movie. There are some I have watched >50 times. There are some that I will watch a scene from many, many times.
There are some which are very nice to have among a collection, for guests to enjoy. There are many, many movies that I would watch
maybe once, and be happy that it's over with. If the criteria were the same for everyone, there would be a simple formula.
I slow down in proportion to honking from behind. In fact, I *want* some Orange County SUV driver to hit my rental car from behind. After that, *I* will be able to afford a house on Balboa Island.
>The moral of this story was, I think, that even though they made marketing claims, their staff weren't
>really trained to provide non standard orders.
Oh, I never suspected that *practice* had any relationship to *marketing*.
This is a franchise operation after all; every outlet with entirely separate management.
I switched from Linux to OSX, mainly because I liked the Macbook Pro. No regrets at all. (I still run linux [my own debian-ish flavor] on my home and office desktops, and my music studio PC is Windows XP, for reasons related to my choice of applications.)
>No fair bringing the real world into this! We insist that you can't buy a computer without Windows, so
>your facts are irrelevant!
I worked in a shop that itemized into its Microsoft site license, all the Sun servers, Linux desktops, Apples, and the Dell laptops that were running the OEM Windows install they came with. I don't know if I've seen anything more ridiculous than a Sun E10K with a Windows license.
>I can order a cheeseburger minus the tomato and they don't have to make it on a separate production
:-)
>line. They just... don't put that on it.
In case you are too young to remember, Burger King actually built their market niche on that problem. The other big Hamburger restaurant had developed a model where the food was prepared in advance and special orders were a problem. Burger King came along with a whole marketing angle based on making the burgers fresh, and they promoted it with one of the catchiest jingles in all of advertising history
>The point is that he is in the jungle while you and I are bitching at each other from our desks in the
>middle of a snowstorm!
Not me. I'm bitching from a rooftop in the middle of Balboa Island. My boss thinks I'm in a hotel room in Costa Mesa.
>My point was that "SCO asserts that the GPL, under which Linux is distributed, violates the United States Constitution and the U.S. copyright and
>patent laws."
I love this. Read the GPL (any version.) It won't take long. Then try to come up with a question whose answer could possibly be in accordance with SCO's claim. Then, take some other software license at random. Try to figure out how you would explain to the same judge that THIS license is valid, while the GPL is not. Then you will realize why a decision such as the one SCO envisions, will be vehemently challenged by, oh, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, Peoplesoft; and consider even bigger than THAT, since we're not just talking about software licenses, but anything that is protected under copyright law and subsequently licensed for distribution. It would be a lot of fun to watch the media corporations get into this fight.
Maybe someone has an argument that the GPL is substantively different from other licenses, but the real problem is, you would have to argue that content creators do not have the right to license their work under the terms of the GPL. The whole "free" and "viral" thing doesn't enter into it.
Does the author have the right or doesn't he?
>As the IBM guy points out in the hearing (online over at Groklaw, of course) the error values are in alphabetic order with increasing integer values.
>Exactly what most people would do in building such a list of #defines...
Interesting. It had not occurred to me they were in alpha order. I would have listed them in decreasing order of severity. Also, if they were numbered sequentially, I would probably have used a typedef enum instead of defines.
The adage does not apply when the publicity becomes "infamy".
>The whole SCO case attracted quite a large deal of attention, and a lot of speculation on the legitimacy of linux and/or its licenses.
And no one who bothers to read the license, seems able to come up with a question of law that needs to be decided based on it.
What argument can you make against the GPL (any version), which, if decided against its validity, could not also be used to
question the validity of any other license based on copyright law? To invalidate the GPL is to cancel rights that are reserved
under copyright. This would probably require a constitutional amendment to accomplish.
>In the end this is great news for FOSS assuming the GPL gets' it's day in court; once proven it only gets stronger and so forth..
It would be more fun to watch the aftermath of the GPL being "struck down", since any legal basis on which that could be done,
will necessarily void a host of other licenses. Just about any license extended under copyright law, in fact, would fall for
any reason the GPL would. This is the reason "it has never been tested" -- the GPL itself does not carry any question of law
that needs to be tested. The question is settled. The copyright holder has rights, and certain of these rights may be licensed.
The GPL is a rather simple expression of such a license. Find a legal basis on which to invalidate it, and by extension (particularly,
by the doctrine of Equal Protection), you can void almost every publishing and distribution license that has ever been made based on
copyright law. This will not happen, and it's foolish to speculate that it will.
The GPL cannot "get its day in court" unless someone comes up with a question that they can legitimately ask a court to decide.
What, in your opinion, is "the question" that should be called in regards to the GPL?
>But if it goes off every million years or so, well, what are the chances of being alive to witness it?
The chances that somebody will be alive to witness it are hopefully very good. The chances of YOU being alive to witness it, matter only to you.
>Great, now we know that the TCO for a mixed Linux environment is higher than for Windows. And what does it mean?
It means the study needs to be repeated for a "mixed Windows" environment.
It also would be interesting to see specific use cases. Are they comparing developers' linux boxes against receptionists'
Windows boxes? Application servers against salespeople's notebooks?
When the propaganda folks realize that most of the 20% of the people who buy their crap, don't have cable, the deadline will quietly disappear.
>And yet the incessant "Linux is almost ready for the desktop" cries don't bother you?
There are millions of people happily using Linux on their desktops in various environments.
I personally switched from Linux to OSX when I got my Macbook Pro, but I still have a linux desktop. Solaris in the server room, though, sorry. It will stay that way as long as it is my call.