It's not YOUR Linux, douchebag. How about taking some positive criticism? Something like the "SCREEN RESOLUTION CHANGER DIALOG" should at least work on the least-supported resolution.
I also love how the CentOS/RH installer has the same problem on any resolution less than 800x600.
Actually, you're more at risk from police and law enforcement in an all-out gun-fight than you are from another armed citizen. Cops are trained to shoot anyone who isn't them (wearing colors, jackets, etc) in a gun-fight, simply to end the battle as quickly as possible.
I'd like to think if I ever had to draw my firearm I'd either have the subject subdued and tied up (or dead), and my weapon safed long before 911 could get police to my location. Assuming I'm not dead, in which case it's all irrelevant to me.:-)
It's not about being risk-free, but about accounting for and having plans for risks. Things have gotten so good for us in the so-called "first world" in terms of reliability, that we expect everything to ALWAYS work, and we fail to adequately plan for emergencies and failures.
I think it's telling that the U.S. savings rate has dropped to nearly nothing in the past few decades. We keep expecting everything to be rosy and cute. That's our problem.
Freescale/Motorola was always playing catchup to the Intel lineup. They had nothing in the pipeline to compete with the coming Core 2 Duo. Power4/5 had a limited lifespan, and no roadmap for moving forward. They may have had volume, but they lost on features.
Apple really didn't have a choice once AMD stormed onto the scene dropkicking Intel in the nuts with x86_64.
I've been looking at Skype headsets for a while, but I wanted something that would work without being connected to a computer, and would work with my existing panasonic 4 station system. Verizon had some great ideas in their Audrey-like home phone station, but cost-wise and lockin sort of kept me away.
Everyone's going to wireless or VoIP - there's not going to be any more innovation in the home phone arena. And in the commercial VOIP arena, this already exists in $500 desktop units.
No, that major reason is publisher effort, and the inconsistency of video driver support. And the first will never happen without the latter. Oh, and most games being written in DirectX.
If I remember correctly (and bear with me, the 90's are a blur for me), this is EXACTLY what happened, and early pthread libraries had to do a whole bunch of kludges using signals and timers to get user-space threading on Linux.
It took years (maybe an exaggeration, it sure felt it at the time) to get proper threading support in Linux because fork() was good enough. 1996-1998 timeframe perhaps.
Maybe not in so many words, but yes, this happened. And some of it's justified - don't go putting immature stuff into the mainline. Well seems like they (LKML) apply that rule very inconsistently.
IBM was never going to provide enough low-power PPC chips to Apple. Never. They had a hard enough time making them for the pSeries. POWER6 is really nice though, if you have the Watts. It's odd that the only benchmark comparisons I've been able to find between POWER6 and Intel are done by Microsoft and Intel. Knowing IBM, I'm not surprised - even if they were better, they'll still sell you whatever you want to get your money.
But I'm not surprised Intel's done it to stem any losses to the competion. Anyhow, POWER5 or POWER6 do not belong in laptops or low-power devices, and nothing of that nature was going out of IBM at all. Apple had no choice.
But the truth is the Linux movement needs every warm body it can to fight Microsoft. </quote>
THAT is the problem. Stop trying to FIGHT Microsoft. Start making better software. Innovation, something so tremendously better they start copying YOU.
Vis-a-vis AMD and Intel and x86_64 and VT extensions.
Except software has zero marginal cost, so once you take the lead, it'll take a serious fuckup, and not just money to lose it.
I've been spoiled by AdBlock Plus. I cringe every time I browse the web in IE and wonder why pages I normally visit look like crap, then I notice the ads. Chrome w/o Adblock is a no-go, no matter how fast it is.
Sorry.
Those sites I *LIKE* to use and want to support, I'll leave some ads on, but the rest of the web? Fuck it.
Possibly, except it's got a KVM+USB interface back to the blade as opposed to something like RDP/Citrix or ILO. It's a costly solution for just providing PCs to people, but for certain environments, like trading floors, it's a great solution to keeping spare parts around and someone running. Hardware dies, you just reallocate their KVM head to another spare unit, and boot it.
Anywho, it's a special purpose blade environment - not very useful in general.
You've obviously never had the luxury of paying 25%/year/seat for enterprise level support of something like Pro/ENGINEER or Catia or AutoCAD. I guarantee you those guys, when you call them and ask them to jump, they ask how high. As long as you're paid up, of course.
Disclaimer: ex-PTC employee with a long turn in the development group beating off support guys trying to resolve customer issues.
HP makes desktop-class blades that have a head unit on your desk, and the computer itself is back in the datacenter. It makes an interesting case for having easy-to-replace parts in an environment where laptops are a no-go.
Spoken by someone who never dealt with the fiasco that was moving Windows 2000 boot disks among servers before Broadcom took over the ethernet market.:-) That's not the only other reason to do it. Whole system state snapshots (try doing that with Windows or Linux... while running).
A host of other features, and with entry-level projects, there's no reason a business should be paying $2000/virtual server. None at all.
Simple, Mr. Web Guy. I don't trust you with my fucking number. I barely trust you with my email, but getting spam there is sort of a solved problem for me (Thank you GMail). But getting called because you want to upsell me on some $4 widget? No thanks. Stop REQUIRING my phone number. Just because your marketing guy wants it doesn't make it useful to get.
That's the problem now... marketing is so good at getting your message across, you try at all costs to get the upsell and get your value back. Meanwhile, you just create jaded customers.
Sort of like children... they are incapable of surviving and understanding the world on their own - so are our weak-ai tools. Someday. I'm not putting a timeframe on it. But we'll get it someday.
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It's not YOUR Linux, douchebag. How about taking some positive criticism? Something like the "SCREEN RESOLUTION CHANGER DIALOG" should at least work on the least-supported resolution.
I also love how the CentOS/RH installer has the same problem on any resolution less than 800x600.
The only times I have ever had Windows 2003 BSOD that weren't hardware related where due to SFU's NFS. I hate that thing with every fiber of my being.
Actually, you're more at risk from police and law enforcement in an all-out gun-fight than you are from another armed citizen. Cops are trained to shoot anyone who isn't them (wearing colors, jackets, etc) in a gun-fight, simply to end the battle as quickly as possible.
:-)
I'd like to think if I ever had to draw my firearm I'd either have the subject subdued and tied up (or dead), and my weapon safed long before 911 could get police to my location. Assuming I'm not dead, in which case it's all irrelevant to me.
It's not about being risk-free, but about accounting for and having plans for risks. Things have gotten so good for us in the so-called "first world" in terms of reliability, that we expect everything to ALWAYS work, and we fail to adequately plan for emergencies and failures.
I think it's telling that the U.S. savings rate has dropped to nearly nothing in the past few decades. We keep expecting everything to be rosy and cute. That's our problem.
When has healthcare ever been anything BUT privatized?
The trouble started when the HMO's came into the business...
That woman should be shot for what she did to HP... She wasn't worth the 120mil she raped from the stockholders. :-/
I thought it was Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister?
You've obviously never been to Montpelier, who's major claim to fame as a Capital is a Lexus dealership.
Now if only they'd taken Con's pluggable sceheduler patches... tsk tsk tsk...
Freescale/Motorola was always playing catchup to the Intel lineup. They had nothing in the pipeline to compete with the coming Core 2 Duo. Power4/5 had a limited lifespan, and no roadmap for moving forward. They may have had volume, but they lost on features.
:-)
Apple really didn't have a choice once AMD stormed onto the scene dropkicking Intel in the nuts with x86_64.
They saw the light, and I'm glad they did.
That's because people are getting sick of the stupid "Documents and Settings" and "My Documents". Yah, no shit, I made them, OF COURSE THEY'RE MINE!
Grrrr. The dude who came up with "\Program Files" and not "\Apps" needs to be shot. Preferably one tiny little appendage at a time.
I've been looking at Skype headsets for a while, but I wanted something that would work without being connected to a computer, and would work with my existing panasonic 4 station system. Verizon had some great ideas in their Audrey-like home phone station, but cost-wise and lockin sort of kept me away.
Everyone's going to wireless or VoIP - there's not going to be any more innovation in the home phone arena. And in the commercial VOIP arena, this already exists in $500 desktop units.
No, that major reason is publisher effort, and the inconsistency of video driver support. And the first will never happen without the latter. Oh, and most games being written in DirectX.
Kudos to anyone still writing in OpenGL.
If I remember correctly (and bear with me, the 90's are a blur for me), this is EXACTLY what happened, and early pthread libraries had to do a whole bunch of kludges using signals and timers to get user-space threading on Linux.
It took years (maybe an exaggeration, it sure felt it at the time) to get proper threading support in Linux because fork() was good enough. 1996-1998 timeframe perhaps.
Maybe not in so many words, but yes, this happened. And some of it's justified - don't go putting immature stuff into the mainline. Well seems like they (LKML) apply that rule very inconsistently.
IBM was never going to provide enough low-power PPC chips to Apple. Never. They had a hard enough time making them for the pSeries. POWER6 is really nice though, if you have the Watts. It's odd that the only benchmark comparisons I've been able to find between POWER6 and Intel are done by Microsoft and Intel. Knowing IBM, I'm not surprised - even if they were better, they'll still sell you whatever you want to get your money.
But I'm not surprised Intel's done it to stem any losses to the competion. Anyhow, POWER5 or POWER6 do not belong in laptops or low-power devices, and nothing of that nature was going out of IBM at all. Apple had no choice.
Now they have two suppliers to choose from.
But the truth is the Linux movement needs every warm body it can to fight Microsoft.
</quote>
THAT is the problem. Stop trying to FIGHT Microsoft. Start making better software. Innovation, something so tremendously better they start copying YOU.
Vis-a-vis AMD and Intel and x86_64 and VT extensions.
Except software has zero marginal cost, so once you take the lead, it'll take a serious fuckup, and not just money to lose it.
touche!
I've been spoiled by AdBlock Plus. I cringe every time I browse the web in IE and wonder why pages I normally visit look like crap, then I notice the ads. Chrome w/o Adblock is a no-go, no matter how fast it is.
Sorry.
Those sites I *LIKE* to use and want to support, I'll leave some ads on, but the rest of the web? Fuck it.
That's the dumbest excuse for wanting to go down on a guy I've ever heard. :-)
Possibly, except it's got a KVM+USB interface back to the blade as opposed to something like RDP/Citrix or ILO. It's a costly solution for just providing PCs to people, but for certain environments, like trading floors, it's a great solution to keeping spare parts around and someone running. Hardware dies, you just reallocate their KVM head to another spare unit, and boot it.
Anywho, it's a special purpose blade environment - not very useful in general.
You've obviously never had the luxury of paying 25%/year/seat for enterprise level support of something like Pro/ENGINEER or Catia or AutoCAD. I guarantee you those guys, when you call them and ask them to jump, they ask how high. As long as you're paid up, of course.
Disclaimer: ex-PTC employee with a long turn in the development group beating off support guys trying to resolve customer issues.
HP makes desktop-class blades that have a head unit on your desk, and the computer itself is back in the datacenter. It makes an interesting case for having easy-to-replace parts in an environment where laptops are a no-go.
Spoken by someone who never dealt with the fiasco that was moving Windows 2000 boot disks among servers before Broadcom took over the ethernet market. :-) That's not the only other reason to do it. Whole system state snapshots (try doing that with Windows or Linux... while running).
A host of other features, and with entry-level projects, there's no reason a business should be paying $2000/virtual server. None at all.
Simple, Mr. Web Guy. I don't trust you with my fucking number. I barely trust you with my email, but getting spam there is sort of a solved problem for me (Thank you GMail). But getting called because you want to upsell me on some $4 widget? No thanks. Stop REQUIRING my phone number. Just because your marketing guy wants it doesn't make it useful to get.
That's the problem now... marketing is so good at getting your message across, you try at all costs to get the upsell and get your value back. Meanwhile, you just create jaded customers.
Sort of like children... they are incapable of surviving and understanding the world on their own - so are our weak-ai tools. Someday. I'm not putting a timeframe on it. But we'll get it someday.