Or an old device. My logitech usb quickcam stopped working - the driver doesn't compile against newer linux kernels. I couldn't get SynCE to work for my ASUS A730W either. It was a real eye-opener after years of claiming that linux supports old hardware better than windows, but then both devices that stopped working when I upgraded my windows to vista stopped working in linux at the same time.
Actually, what they've proven is that either the wavefunction is a real object and not a statistical tool or quantum states that are unconnected across space and time are able to communicate with each other.
Um, that's exactly what the part you quoted said. Learn to logic.
It's not 10%; if we're talking about buy it used, play it, sell it used, that costs about a quarter what getting it new does. And sure, maybe you in your middle class privilege have no problem with paying 4x as much for your entertainment. Maybe you'd really like everything to cost 4x as much, it would keep the unwashed masses away and make sure only the right sort of people can play your favourite games. But I see more whine in your post than anywhere else.
I'm not saying that can't happen, I'm saying how is Bob at any more risk from that than without it? If Bob's worried about getting sent to prison because lots of CP gets downloaded through his connection, that's going to happen any time he runs a tor exit node (or I2P, or any similar system), with or without this behaviour.
It's already the case that if you're running an exit node, someone can do something very illegal via your connection - and that's always going to be the case with any system of this kind. So while that journal is kind of interesting, I don't think it really changes the proposition any.
Nvidia's proprietary drivers. (I'd prefer free ones, but pragmatically they get suspend right, their dual-monitor support works better, the opengl performance is great and vdpau is fantastic)
Intel's involvement in Linux graphics development has meant their stuff has been among the best supported for a while. (Maybe that's changed lately, I haven't kept up).
I've heard this claim repeatedly, but I've used three different intel graphics chipsets and three different nvidia ones under linux, and all the nvidia ones worked better (no random corruption, working S3 suspend) than all the intel ones.
With NVidia cards that'll work just as you'd expect; in fact I'd say *nix multi-monitor support is better than on windows. ATi drivers tend to be horribly broken, but that's pretty much true on all OSes.
Two things are keeping me off windows: ZFS and the UI. The first is simple enough to solve (just give me a filesystem with raid6-like parity, block-level checksums and snapshots), but the second I sometimes doubt myself on: everyone seems to think *nix UIs are far behind their windows equivalents. But I really do prefer KDE: built-in virtual desktops, easy focus under mouse, ability to drag maximized windows (vital for dual monitors), global shortcuts, compose keys, and the occasional command line action. I don't feel like my requirements are that weird - web, email, IRC, eclipse - and I am genuinely interested in moving to windows (freebsd is a pain to keep up to date, and its package management is poor) - but the windows UI just doesn't seem up to it.
You can't blame KDE when the ATI drivers don't work. The reason they work on windows is because that's the only place ATI tests them, but there's nothing the KDE project can do about that. I do agree that KDE4 had major bugs up until about 4.4 (though I used it before then, because KDE3 had its own unfixed bugs) and should never have been released before 4.2, but for those of us with actually working graphics drivers it's been great since 4.5 or so.
Just ask yourself, with all the resources and talent available to Microsoft, why they couldn't have simply made.Net cross-platform from the start and released their own Linux version at the same time each Windows version was released?
They do that with the freebsd version, don't they?
If it's a port why is it missing major functionality? (Just off the top of my head, cue support, and the searchbox behaviour where it restricts playback to things that match your search.
Snappy quote, but is it true? Any number of unarmed Arab civilians living in palestine get their homes bulldozed every day to make way for Israeli settlements; I see no evidence that would stop if the rest of the Arabs disarmed.
GNU/kFreeBSD still has no native threading - you have to use libpthread like in the early days of linux 2.4. Meaning multithreaded performance will be poor, which is a big deal on today's multicore machines. I would like a better package management system on freebsd, but I've got more faith in the gentoo-on-freebsd project to deliver it.
I find I spend less time making freebsd work, because it doesn't keep changing how everything works. Gone is the linux experience of spending days of my life getting my sound working after the switch to alsa, and then getting my sound working again after the switch to pulseaudio (freebsd still uses OSS, and it works just fine thank you). Or spending days making my system work with devfs (it's the future, static/dev nodes are old and will be unsupported soon) and then whoops, devfs isn't even included in the kernel any more, got to spend more days making udev work. Or spending days to migrate my xorg configuration into hal, and then more days when hal gets removed. In all seriousness, I don't know how to set the keyboard layout for when X starts up any more, and I can't find out (I even asked matthew garret, and he told me to use GDM).
When you use GObject, you are using it as a portable, but foreign object system that has to co-exist with the native one (like Python's). This is not poor design. It's a good work-around, given the constraints.
The object system will always be foreign in all languages other than one; better to have native objects in one language rather than none at all. If you look at the practical results, pyqt is an absolute dream, much nicer than pygtk - and I wouldn't be surprised if the same were true for java.
It used to be part of the post office. It was owned by the crown until fucking thatcher came along.
Yeah, and you'd wait a month to get a new phone line put in. I'm no fan of what privatization has done to e.g. the railways, but BT is one case where it actually worked.
Java is controlled by Oracle. As per the actual story, Apache tried to make their own JVM, Oracle said no, so Apache can't make their own JVM. (And as for cross-platform, in either case you're subject to the whims of the vendor..net on freebsd is better than java on freebsd)
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Or an old device. My logitech usb quickcam stopped working - the driver doesn't compile against newer linux kernels. I couldn't get SynCE to work for my ASUS A730W either. It was a real eye-opener after years of claiming that linux supports old hardware better than windows, but then both devices that stopped working when I upgraded my windows to vista stopped working in linux at the same time.
Actually, what they've proven is that either the wavefunction is a real object and not a statistical tool or quantum states that are unconnected across space and time are able to communicate with each other.
Um, that's exactly what the part you quoted said. Learn to logic.
It works if we save enough energy that fracking becomes uneconomical.
It's not 10%; if we're talking about buy it used, play it, sell it used, that costs about a quarter what getting it new does. And sure, maybe you in your middle class privilege have no problem with paying 4x as much for your entertainment. Maybe you'd really like everything to cost 4x as much, it would keep the unwashed masses away and make sure only the right sort of people can play your favourite games. But I see more whine in your post than anywhere else.
I'm not saying that can't happen, I'm saying how is Bob at any more risk from that than without it? If Bob's worried about getting sent to prison because lots of CP gets downloaded through his connection, that's going to happen any time he runs a tor exit node (or I2P, or any similar system), with or without this behaviour.
It's already the case that if you're running an exit node, someone can do something very illegal via your connection - and that's always going to be the case with any system of this kind. So while that journal is kind of interesting, I don't think it really changes the proposition any.
Eee transformer is the way to go. I've written 20000 words on it this month.
Nvidia's proprietary drivers. (I'd prefer free ones, but pragmatically they get suspend right, their dual-monitor support works better, the opengl performance is great and vdpau is fantastic)
Um, sending someone to prison certainly hurts their families as well as the guilty party.
Intel's involvement in Linux graphics development has meant their stuff has been among the best supported for a while. (Maybe that's changed lately, I haven't kept up).
I've heard this claim repeatedly, but I've used three different intel graphics chipsets and three different nvidia ones under linux, and all the nvidia ones worked better (no random corruption, working S3 suspend) than all the intel ones.
With NVidia cards that'll work just as you'd expect; in fact I'd say *nix multi-monitor support is better than on windows. ATi drivers tend to be horribly broken, but that's pretty much true on all OSes.
Two things are keeping me off windows: ZFS and the UI. The first is simple enough to solve (just give me a filesystem with raid6-like parity, block-level checksums and snapshots), but the second I sometimes doubt myself on: everyone seems to think *nix UIs are far behind their windows equivalents. But I really do prefer KDE: built-in virtual desktops, easy focus under mouse, ability to drag maximized windows (vital for dual monitors), global shortcuts, compose keys, and the occasional command line action. I don't feel like my requirements are that weird - web, email, IRC, eclipse - and I am genuinely interested in moving to windows (freebsd is a pain to keep up to date, and its package management is poor) - but the windows UI just doesn't seem up to it.
It runs under wine. Multiplayer is a slight fiddle to get working (read: you have to set some dlloverrides), but no more so than under modern windows.
Really? Here in the UK, I browsed to the iTunes site and it's priced in dollars, whereas I've been happily buying books on my kindle for months.
You can't blame KDE when the ATI drivers don't work. The reason they work on windows is because that's the only place ATI tests them, but there's nothing the KDE project can do about that. I do agree that KDE4 had major bugs up until about 4.4 (though I used it before then, because KDE3 had its own unfixed bugs) and should never have been released before 4.2, but for those of us with actually working graphics drivers it's been great since 4.5 or so.
Just ask yourself, with all the resources and talent available to Microsoft, why they couldn't have simply made .Net cross-platform from the start and released their own Linux version at the same time each Windows version was released?
They do that with the freebsd version, don't they?
If it's a port why is it missing major functionality? (Just off the top of my head, cue support, and the searchbox behaviour where it restricts playback to things that match your search.
Snappy quote, but is it true? Any number of unarmed Arab civilians living in palestine get their homes bulldozed every day to make way for Israeli settlements; I see no evidence that would stop if the rest of the Arabs disarmed.
Do we know how much MS changes for Windowws Phone 7? I can easily imagine them giving it away under the circumstances.
GNU/kFreeBSD still has no native threading - you have to use libpthread like in the early days of linux 2.4. Meaning multithreaded performance will be poor, which is a big deal on today's multicore machines. I would like a better package management system on freebsd, but I've got more faith in the gentoo-on-freebsd project to deliver it.
I find I spend less time making freebsd work, because it doesn't keep changing how everything works. Gone is the linux experience of spending days of my life getting my sound working after the switch to alsa, and then getting my sound working again after the switch to pulseaudio (freebsd still uses OSS, and it works just fine thank you). Or spending days making my system work with devfs (it's the future, static /dev nodes are old and will be unsupported soon) and then whoops, devfs isn't even included in the kernel any more, got to spend more days making udev work. Or spending days to migrate my xorg configuration into hal, and then more days when hal gets removed. In all seriousness, I don't know how to set the keyboard layout for when X starts up any more, and I can't find out (I even asked matthew garret, and he told me to use GDM).
When you use GObject, you are using it as a portable, but foreign object system that has to co-exist with the native one (like Python's). This is not poor design. It's a good work-around, given the constraints.
The object system will always be foreign in all languages other than one; better to have native objects in one language rather than none at all. If you look at the practical results, pyqt is an absolute dream, much nicer than pygtk - and I wouldn't be surprised if the same were true for java.
It used to be part of the post office. It was owned by the crown until fucking thatcher came along.
Yeah, and you'd wait a month to get a new phone line put in. I'm no fan of what privatization has done to e.g. the railways, but BT is one case where it actually worked.
Java is controlled by Oracle. As per the actual story, Apache tried to make their own JVM, Oracle said no, so Apache can't make their own JVM. (And as for cross-platform, in either case you're subject to the whims of the vendor. .net on freebsd is better than java on freebsd)
We're talking about VMWare. A few dev boxes on your desktop absolutely is relevant, because that's what many of their corporate licensees use it for.