I remember the days when I could at least drink a good cup of coffee and catch up with the local newspaper while waiting for my kernel compile to finish...
I imagine they're not going to have much of a choice if Sun does decide to move to Opteron over the next 5-7 years. With no more Ultrasparc V coming, it's common guess/knowledge that the multicore Ultra IV's are the end of the road for Sparc.
I contend that's a bad idea. This whole single-click nonsense is what's causing us nightmare's in Windows right now. Windows Installer isn't a smart idea of drivers, etc. Windows Update is. And that's working fine with things like emerge, YaST, etc.
Hell, even a simple standard like <XML> like OSSINSTALL://application.server/description that explains how to install an application, and lists places to find dependencies, and an intelligent use of google to host a database of it would go a LONG way towards solving the problem.
I'm sorry, but you're wrong there. SuSE up until just recently had closed source components on it (YaST2) that prevented simple.iso distribution. You can still download the entire thing from ftp.suse.de, and you can download the live cd, and install from that via FTP for no charge.
The F/OSS crowd usually don't want the vendors to charge money for software, saying that they should make their money via service and support. What happens when someone buys into that line and the service and support aren't there? </quote>
We SKEWER the vendor. With a big pointy stick. If there's one thing about the Linux community, is that that community can make or break a vendor. The same cannot be said for Windows VARs (not trying to bash Windows here, only to show a comparison in market scale).
And this is no different than the Microsoft shills who bashed Team-OS/2 members trying to help people out back in the mid-90's on BBSs (not that I'm defending Team OS/2, either).
Face it. It's something every platform advocate does. Advocacy creates fanaticism. It's why I use[d] OS/2, Macs, Windows, Linux, and every mainstream Unix made in the past 10 years (except SCO). I know what I'm missing with Linux, because I see it everytime I play Battlefield: 1942 on my Windows machine.
Which is pointless. With the exception of Winmodems, the cost of developing, manufacturing, marketing and distributing said hardware is astronomical in comparison to authoring drivers.
And if you can have the "community" do it for you, so much the better. Even have a "vendor approved version A.B" seal for it.
And the same applies to Joe Blow Open Source Developer. In point of fact, the simple *threat* of a civil suit against an OSS developer is more likely to get positive results than a similar result against Microsoft, Oracle or Sun.
When you're regularly handing someone money, the threat of stoppage is a lever against that entity at the bargaining table.
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What's the point of threatening someone with stoppage when you're not paying them money in the first place?
Fat chance I *EVER* get recourse from Microsoft because an NTFS bug corrupted the MFT and blew 100GB of databases. No. Computing is about covering your own ass, because the software vendors can't and won't do it for you.
While I don't disagree with your point, I vehemently disagree with the sense and motivation behind it...
Boeing is working on something similar to this, IIRC. A version of the jet-copter from the Sixth Day (really bad Ah-nold movie). It has a rotor that translates to fixed wing, and has jet engines in back. It's initially going to be used for small UAVs, not passenger craft.
Slashdot had an article on it last year, IIRC. http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/militar y/unman ned/x50.html
I'm fairly certain that it's not pressure, but the density of the transmission medium. Please remember that sound will also propagate through solids and liquids.
Sorry, if you don't do any of the above, you will NEVER be able to run 3-5 miles without pain. hell, even when I was in the best shape of my life, a two mile run uphill nearly killed me. And that was BEFORE I had an extra 180 pounds of fat, bone and gristle on me.
I hear you. I've got a piece of plastic stuck behind my right eye for almost 14 years now. Every now and again, if I irritate the eye enough, I can feel it rolling around in there, but for the most part, I rarely notice it.
That's generally how exercise works. You get winded today. You get slightly less winded tomorrow. In a couple months you don't even notice you just ran up 3 flights of stairs.
No drug currently on the horizon is going to have those sorts of general well-being benefits for you. Nevermind the fact that you can fuck more... presuming you actually do get laid on an infrequent basis...
Now, now. We have to consider those wireless and PDA users...;-)
But really, Javascript was Netscape's answer to a problem: how to locally interact with the user without requiring server roundtrips. As any old-school, pre-intarweb client-server developer can tell you (and I pretend to be one), roundtrips kill. Java is so heavyweight, for the task, and really, non-ubiquitous. I've been using Mozilla/Firefox for a while now, and I can't get the JVM to work reliably. Now if my javascript had special access to the disk for file access, or they added some database mechanisms to the language for me to do local caching, I'd just about say that our problems were over. My main webpages would interact with local data only, and only sync up for replication/updates. In a kiosk mode, those same pages would resort to round-trips when local data storage wasn't desirable.
Web browsers are approaching the point where they are usuable for "creating content". We're not there yet, but when we get there, a VAST majority of applications can be moved to a browser platform. That'll make my day.;-)
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It's light-years, not light-miles. Not comparable.
Sigh...
I remember the days when I could at least drink a good cup of coffee and catch up with the local newspaper while waiting for my kernel compile to finish...
Sigh...
I imagine they're not going to have much of a choice if Sun does decide to move to Opteron over the next 5-7 years. With no more Ultrasparc V coming, it's common guess/knowledge that the multicore Ultra IV's are the end of the road for Sparc.
Hello, mods?
I contend that's a bad idea. This whole single-click nonsense is what's causing us nightmare's in Windows right now. Windows Installer isn't a smart idea of drivers, etc. Windows Update is. And that's working fine with things like emerge, YaST, etc.
:-) Be patient.
Hell, even a simple standard like <XML> like OSSINSTALL://application.server/description that explains how to install an application, and lists places to find dependencies, and an intelligent use of google to host a database of it would go a LONG way towards solving the problem.
This is being worked on.
Fuck, windows 2000 didn't support the sound in my SiS 730 chipset, do you see me bitching about it?
Hell, even LINUX had a driver that supported it...
-Chris
I'm sorry, but you're wrong there. SuSE up until just recently had closed source components on it (YaST2) that prevented simple .iso distribution. You can still download the entire thing from ftp.suse.de, and you can download the live cd, and install from that via FTP for no charge.
The F/OSS crowd usually don't want the vendors to charge money for software, saying that they should make their money via service and support. What happens when someone buys into that line and the service and support aren't there?
</quote>
We SKEWER the vendor. With a big pointy stick. If there's one thing about the Linux community, is that that community can make or break a vendor. The same cannot be said for Windows VARs (not trying to bash Windows here, only to show a comparison in market scale).
And this is no different than the Microsoft shills who bashed Team-OS/2 members trying to help people out back in the mid-90's on BBSs (not that I'm defending Team OS/2, either).
Face it. It's something every platform advocate does. Advocacy creates fanaticism. It's why I use[d] OS/2, Macs, Windows, Linux, and every mainstream Unix made in the past 10 years (except SCO). I know what I'm missing with Linux, because I see it everytime I play Battlefield: 1942 on my Windows machine.
Which is pointless. With the exception of Winmodems, the cost of developing, manufacturing, marketing and distributing said hardware is astronomical in comparison to authoring drivers.
And if you can have the "community" do it for you, so much the better. Even have a "vendor approved version A.B" seal for it.
And the same applies to Joe Blow Open Source Developer. In point of fact, the simple *threat* of a civil suit against an OSS developer is more likely to get positive results than a similar result against Microsoft, Oracle or Sun.
When you're regularly handing someone money, the threat of stoppage is a lever against that entity at the bargaining table.
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What's the point of threatening someone with stoppage when you're not paying them money in the first place?
Fat chance I *EVER* get recourse from Microsoft because an NTFS bug corrupted the MFT and blew 100GB of databases. No. Computing is about covering your own ass, because the software vendors can't and won't do it for you.
While I don't disagree with your point, I vehemently disagree with the sense and motivation behind it...
Brad Pitt playing a stoner in True Romance. Seven Years in Tibet...
Very nimble, diverse acting.
Or the flipside, UID's are inversely proportional to penis-size...
Nor PCI-E, which IIRC, is also NOT related to PCI-Express.
So do we call it PCI-XP? <shudder>
mmm yeah, it's called PCMCIA/Cardbus, and it's about 10 years old now.
Boeing is working on something similar to this, IIRC. A version of the jet-copter from the Sixth Day (really bad Ah-nold movie). It has a rotor that translates to fixed wing, and has jet engines in back. It's initially going to be used for small UAVs, not passenger craft.
r y/unman ned/x50.html
Slashdot had an article on it last year, IIRC.
http://www.boeing.com/defense-space/milita
Flash floods. Stay out of washed out riverbeds in deserts.
I'm fairly certain that it's not pressure, but the density of the transmission medium. Please remember that sound will also propagate through solids and liquids.
Stop fucking up the average dude...
Sorry, if you don't do any of the above, you will NEVER be able to run 3-5 miles without pain. hell, even when I was in the best shape of my life, a two mile run uphill nearly killed me. And that was BEFORE I had an extra 180 pounds of fat, bone and gristle on me.
I hear you. I've got a piece of plastic stuck behind my right eye for almost 14 years now. Every now and again, if I irritate the eye enough, I can feel it rolling around in there, but for the most part, I rarely notice it.
That's generally how exercise works. You get winded today. You get slightly less winded tomorrow. In a couple months you don't even notice you just ran up 3 flights of stairs.
No drug currently on the horizon is going to have those sorts of general well-being benefits for you. Nevermind the fact that you can fuck more... presuming you actually do get laid on an infrequent basis...
Oh the benefit of having a foot operated clutch...
Now, now. We have to consider those wireless and PDA users... ;-)
;-)
But really, Javascript was Netscape's answer to a problem: how to locally interact with the user without requiring server roundtrips. As any old-school, pre-intarweb client-server developer can tell you (and I pretend to be one), roundtrips kill. Java is so heavyweight, for the task, and really, non-ubiquitous. I've been using Mozilla/Firefox for a while now, and I can't get the JVM to work reliably. Now if my javascript had special access to the disk for file access, or they added some database mechanisms to the language for me to do local caching, I'd just about say that our problems were over. My main webpages would interact with local data only, and only sync up for replication/updates. In a kiosk mode, those same pages would resort to round-trips when local data storage wasn't desirable.
Web browsers are approaching the point where they are usuable for "creating content". We're not there yet, but when we get there, a VAST majority of applications can be moved to a browser platform. That'll make my day.