We will have competition indefinitely. And this is a good good thing
Oh I definitely agree, competition is good. But I also don't agree that open source software necessarily needs competition (at all) to improve. If a user wants a new feature or a bug fixed, then it actually happens, even without a competing product including that feature. That's the genius of open source. Not to mention that anyone can fork a project at any time if they don't like how it's going (although this isn't always true for what I consider shared-source projects, like under the CDDL). With Windows, if you don't like it, you have no choice except to not use Windows. With Linux, you do have a choice, and THAT is the fundamental difference.
This is a really confusing article. Mostly because of the quotes of quotes, and the use of lots of pronouns. I have trouble keeping track of it all. That said, I appreciate civilised discourse, and having said THAT, DiDio nor certain Linux fanatics seem to be all that snuggly towards discussing things rationally.
People, the concept everyone ought to grasp is that it's EXERCISE that actually avoids obesity, not just eating right. You can eat a whole box of twinkies, yes, but it's way worse if you also don't ever exercise. The most straightforward way to do this is to just walk, jog, or bike places that you might otherwise drive to. If it's within a mile or so, and you don't really have any cargo, and you aren't late, then do the environment AND yourself a favour and get there on your own power.
...modular game console with easily upgradable parts.
I'd like to be able to replace crap like the DVD player when it acts up, or allow developers to throw in some cutting edge games without buying a whole new machine
I've heard of such a device. I think it's called a PC. Can't find any info on it, though. Anyone know anything about "PC's"?
This seems almost exactly like the OQO, only they tacked on this 'shells' idea. Really this doesn't seem that different than much older ideas, like Apple's PowerBook Duo.
Weiss and his gang really are jerks, the way I see it. Morpheus uses a horribly outdated implentation of the Gnutella protocol, which wastes bandwidth and returns fewer results for searches. The whole idea behind programs like Morpheus are getting things for free. Do they really think they're doing everyone a favour by cramming ads and a shitty version of Gnutella on people's desktops?
What a troll. This was to point out that Meetup is now charging for what was once a free service. It's not an ad. It's just informative. Personally, I'm the organizer of the Current TV group in Milwaukee. We just got off the ground, but now we're going to have to end this unless Current can pay. I heard about the fact that they were charging from this very article (Meetup also sent out an email but I hadn't checked it yet). Meetup was great while it lasted. Now we'll probably just move to a different site.
What real good does overclocking 2 to 2.8 really do? These cores keep getting faster and faster, yet the increase in number of floating-point operations per second achieved isn't really that spectacular. How about a more intelligent (parallel) architecture to begin with?
Oh please. Can this whole shenanigan just end already? By now, it's already been proven beyond any reasonable doubt that CherryOS is a repackaged version of PearPC (google for "spiro multimax 3000"). Arben and MXS are using absolutely any tactic to get attention. He must have a serious ego problem.
I found the 'Ubuntu needs corporate-oriented software' question interesting. I'm not in a big business environment, but I still need corporate tools, because I'm at a large university, and there is lots of support for using NFS and AppleTalk and email and Active Directory and dialling in and using IPsec VPN, but only on Windows and Mac OS X. Many people don't realise that so-called corporate tools often apply to educational environments as well. If I could use IPsec out of the box like I could with a certain RPM distro, I'd be a happy happy user.
right. excuse me for saying so, but you're an idiot. If I live in Smalltown, USA, and there are two companies that can supply me with broadband, and both of them insist on also supplying phone service, then how the hell are you going to use VoIP? I want to buy what I want. It'd be like only being able to buy monitors in conjunction with CPUs.
Whose interests exactly is the FCC protecting besides big corporations? The FCC should be working in the interests of American consumers, and they are so obviously not doing this. These all-or-nothing strategies are being used by more and more megagiants like SBC and leave users with little reason to use, for example, VoIP, even though it's about three times cheaper than SBC's phone service. Thanks a whole fucking lot.
...that this breathes new life into electric vehicles. The real problem with them right now is that it takes hours to recharge, whereas an internal combustion vehicle can just tank up at a service station in a minute or two. If this could work with electric vehicles as well, the scene could TOTALLY change. Imagine plugging in your car at the BP station for a minute or two, and being off on your merry way. The same goes for the insignificant capacity loss over time. Cells for electric vehicles are currently REALLY expensive, and heavy. Lithium ion cells are much lighter, and you could keep them for the life of the car.
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Well, they found people with a bunch of Windows Services on and all their ports open. Does that answer your question?
We will have competition indefinitely. And this is a good good thing Oh I definitely agree, competition is good. But I also don't agree that open source software necessarily needs competition (at all) to improve. If a user wants a new feature or a bug fixed, then it actually happens, even without a competing product including that feature. That's the genius of open source. Not to mention that anyone can fork a project at any time if they don't like how it's going (although this isn't always true for what I consider shared-source projects, like under the CDDL). With Windows, if you don't like it, you have no choice except to not use Windows. With Linux, you do have a choice, and THAT is the fundamental difference.
OS 1 is better than OS 2
Personally I like OS/390.
This is a really confusing article. Mostly because of the quotes of quotes, and the use of lots of pronouns. I have trouble keeping track of it all. That said, I appreciate civilised discourse, and having said THAT, DiDio nor certain Linux fanatics seem to be all that snuggly towards discussing things rationally.
In French, it's et toi.
People, the concept everyone ought to grasp is that it's EXERCISE that actually avoids obesity, not just eating right. You can eat a whole box of twinkies, yes, but it's way worse if you also don't ever exercise. The most straightforward way to do this is to just walk, jog, or bike places that you might otherwise drive to. If it's within a mile or so, and you don't really have any cargo, and you aren't late, then do the environment AND yourself a favour and get there on your own power.
...modular game console with easily upgradable parts.
I'd like to be able to replace crap like the DVD player when it acts up, or allow developers to
throw in some cutting edge games without buying a whole new machine
I've heard of such a device. I think it's called a PC. Can't find any info on it, though. Anyone know anything about "PC's"?
This seems almost exactly like the OQO, only they tacked on this 'shells' idea. Really this doesn't seem that different than much older ideas, like Apple's PowerBook Duo.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Weiss and his gang really are jerks, the way I see it. Morpheus uses a horribly outdated implentation of the Gnutella protocol, which wastes bandwidth and returns fewer results for searches. The whole idea behind programs like Morpheus are getting things for free. Do they really think they're doing everyone a favour by cramming ads and a shitty version of Gnutella on people's desktops?
I use a Mac, you insensitive clod.
What a troll. This was to point out that Meetup is now charging for what was once a free service. It's not an ad. It's just informative. Personally, I'm the organizer of the Current TV group in Milwaukee. We just got off the ground, but now we're going to have to end this unless Current can pay. I heard about the fact that they were charging from this very article (Meetup also sent out an email but I hadn't checked it yet). Meetup was great while it lasted. Now we'll probably just move to a different site.
making a quality feature film with POV-Ray would take about a century, I'm sorry to say.
Too bad it hasn't been updated since 2003....
Sorry to nit-pick, but that would be aphasia, not dyslexia.
Because then we'd complain about how we can't overclock it. It's not about technology anymore, it's about psychology.
What real good does overclocking 2 to 2.8 really do? These cores keep getting faster and faster, yet the increase in number of floating-point operations per second achieved isn't really that spectacular. How about a more intelligent (parallel) architecture to begin with?
Oh please. Can this whole shenanigan just end already? By now, it's already been proven beyond any reasonable doubt that CherryOS is a repackaged version of PearPC (google for "spiro multimax 3000"). Arben and MXS are using absolutely any tactic to get attention. He must have a serious ego problem.
Then you need to go to the American embassy, and they'll help you re-enter the country. This is true for entry into the US from almost anywhere.
Americans, leave while you still can.
wouldn't plasmonics make van eck phreaking not feasible??
I found the 'Ubuntu needs corporate-oriented software' question interesting. I'm not in a big business environment, but I still need corporate tools, because I'm at a large university, and there is lots of support for using NFS and AppleTalk and email and Active Directory and dialling in and using IPsec VPN, but only on Windows and Mac OS X. Many people don't realise that so-called corporate tools often apply to educational environments as well. If I could use IPsec out of the box like I could with a certain RPM distro, I'd be a happy happy user.
right. excuse me for saying so, but you're an idiot. If I live in Smalltown, USA, and there are two companies that can supply me with broadband, and both of them insist on also supplying phone service, then how the hell are you going to use VoIP? I want to buy what I want. It'd be like only being able to buy monitors in conjunction with CPUs.
Whose interests exactly is the FCC protecting besides big corporations? The FCC should be working in the interests of American consumers, and they are so obviously not doing this. These all-or-nothing strategies are being used by more and more megagiants like SBC and leave users with little reason to use, for example, VoIP, even though it's about three times cheaper than SBC's phone service. Thanks a whole fucking lot.
I just want my passport MP3 player.
...that this breathes new life into electric vehicles. The real problem with them right now is that it takes hours to recharge, whereas an internal combustion vehicle can just tank up at a service station in a minute or two. If this could work with electric vehicles as well, the scene could TOTALLY change. Imagine plugging in your car at the BP station for a minute or two, and being off on your merry way. The same goes for the insignificant capacity loss over time. Cells for electric vehicles are currently REALLY expensive, and heavy. Lithium ion cells are much lighter, and you could keep them for the life of the car.