Its called Darwin and it has existed for years and years. It is a blend of FreeBSD and Mach, with quite a bit of other innovative stuff thrown in for good measure. I am surprised that you never heard about it.
"Ahh..So the SCREEN is what defines the speed of the device..
Silly me.. All these years I've been upgrading processors and video cards.. I could have just got a smaller screen and had a faster computer.."
Not at all. I just think it will be funny to see people attempting to use Android as a replacement for a netbook.
The tablet computer is designed to be carried around, and have long battery life. It is not designed for serious computational work. The proper way of doing stuff these days, is to have a big ass computer at home which can do your real work, and the tablet as a sort of mobile interface to its power when that kind of owe is necessary.
Most of the time it won't be because you don't need that kind of power just to browse the web.
You know, peole do not like getting AIDS, but despite the awful time people have with that disease, I don't know anybody who has a problem with DNA like you'd find inside a virus.
Who fucking cares how good the kernel is if the rest of the OS is an unmitigated piece of shit?
"Don't forget that Apple has become the new Microsoft, in a sense. They've adopted Microsoft's approach of vendor lock-in, and taken it to a degree that Microsoft never could.
Not only does Apple lock you in at the software level, like Microsoft did, but they go so far as to limit what programming languages you can use when targetting some of their platforms. Microsoft never stooped that low."
Wait, don't you have to use c# if you want to code on the new windows phone 7?
You mean that thing that has been "about to ship" for years now?
Until I see one in real life, I am just going to assume it was a giant scam engineered to get thousands of people to send them hundreds of dollars apiece.
I beg to differ. Anybody can code up a WebM client, so that when you surf to a page with WebM video it will launch the application that is designated as the default handler for that data type, much like how Youtube works on the iPad right now.
WebM is hardly worth sneezing at at this point in time anyway.
You will get all those for free with your subscription?
I thought that one subscribed merely to have the privilege of later actually paying for games. Kind of when you go to the store and they charge you $15 to look around.
In a lot of organizations it is cheaper to pay for a 24/7/365 MySQL expert from the local community. I know a guy who does just that, signs up businesses, gives them the cell phone number, and is prepared at any time to help them.
He's cheaper than Oracle because he bills by the hour, not by the "support period." If your Oracle DB that you paid out the butt for a support contract on stays up for 3 years without issue, you are out a substantial amount of money, writing checks to Oracle for merely existing. Many small and medium businesses find it difficult to swallow the concept of paying big money for a program, and even bigger money for support, if they never use the dupport!
This is really it. A garage startup doesn't usually have tens or hundreds of thousands of bucks just to throw at database software in this day and age. Not when databases have become a commodity as free as air. That money will take care of all the other associated costs of the company for many months.
Startups with tons of venture capital will probably throw money at any "tested solution" like Oracle, but full funded startups are rare as hen's teeth these days. An individual like me who is coding iPhone / iPod / Android apps in their spare time, and needs a database somewhere on the net, is not even considering Oracle.
A windows 7 netbook is surely cheaper. As far as finding a laptop with similar specs, recall that the Macbook is equal to any mid-range Dell or HP out there. It's a fairly beefy little machine, and it gets 10 hours of battery life. I'm not sure there is anything as inexpensive as the Macbook out there, considering its specs.
But remember that a Macbook can do anything that a Windows machine can, with a simple installation of Boot Camp. It can also do a hell of a lot more, such as presenting your kids in programming class with the GNU tools off the shelf, instead of the totally asinine, incompatible MS Visual C product line.
I'm not sure what country you are in, but here in the USA getting a Windows 7 laptop with a roughly 3 ghz core 2 duo, and 2 gb ram, and gigabit ethernet, will cost you about a thousand bucks or so. Which, coincidentally, is much more than the Macbook with a student discount.
Combine this with the fact that you can get the two industry standard professional packages, Final Cut Pro and Logic only on a Mac, and you can see why a high school may prefer it especially if they have a strong arts program.
"Oh please. They are "requiring" Macs because they have more chic style cache. The people signing off this policy probably don't have a clue about security. But damn, that Mac book is very cool looking indeed."
No, they probably chose the Mac because it's a quality piece of gear at a good price, running Unix which is notoriously easy to administer compared to Windows. They probably considered the fact that there are easy tools like Cain and Abel which can own a Windows network with a single click, and looked at the Mac and saw this would at least take a bit more doing on a Unix OS.
They probably looked at the fact that pretty much every piece of software any person needs to do their job is on the Mac, and perhaps they have a strong arts department and want to run a modern sequencer or NLE package. Heck iMovie is probably all most people need anyway, and that's both free (with a new Mac with the educational discount) and very nice to use.
"I think the whole idea is ridiculous, and focuses on the wrong things. High school kids can barely write legibly, can not spell nor understand basic math. These are the issues the school should be focusing on."
I think in any decent high school in middle America the students can certainly write and read. Massachusetts has excellent schools even in inner city Boston. Maybe this school wants these kids to learn Matlab and Apache and have an actual leg up on the competition, instead of merely learning to use Word and Excel like all the schools that pump out drones teach their kids.
I can see about a million excellent reasons for choosing a Mac, and the only reason to choose Windows is because it's cheaper. Sure, the hardware is clunkier, not as well constructed, and the entire network will be owned by the first child to run Cain and Abel, but hey, at least they could play Legend of Soltar, right?
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"They do? Which one?"
Its called Darwin and it has existed for years and years. It is a blend of FreeBSD and Mach, with quite a bit of other innovative stuff thrown in for good measure. I am surprised that you never heard about it.
"Ahh..So the SCREEN is what defines the speed of the device..
Silly me.. All these years I've been upgrading processors and video cards.. I could have just got a smaller screen and had a faster computer.."
Not at all. I just think it will be funny to see people attempting to use Android as a replacement for a netbook.
I think that Google is only half-interested in WebM. If they were really interested in seeing it take off, they would switch YouTube to WebM only.
Until we see a move like this, I am pronouncing WebM dead on its feet, or at best an also-ran like Realplayer is now.
The only problem with your plan is that nobody else Really cares. And other phones all seem to suck one kind of ass or another.
In this context it is impossible to say, because Apple actually makes their own Free and open source OS, and gives it away to anybody who wants it.
It'll be fun to see how ugly, slow, and choppy Android is on a bigger screen though. I was actually shocked to discover how awful it really is.
Actually I think you have is ass backwards.
The tablet computer is designed to be carried around, and have long battery life. It is not designed for serious computational work. The proper way of doing stuff these days, is to have a big ass computer at home which can do your real work, and the tablet as a sort of mobile interface to its power when that kind of owe is necessary.
Most of the time it won't be because you don't need that kind of power just to browse the web.
Can I feed this troll mommy?
You know, peole do not like getting AIDS, but despite the awful time people have with that disease, I don't know anybody who has a problem with DNA like you'd find inside a virus.
Who fucking cares how good the kernel is if the rest of the OS is an unmitigated piece of shit?
"Don't forget that Apple has become the new Microsoft, in a sense. They've adopted Microsoft's approach of vendor lock-in, and taken it to a degree that Microsoft never could.
Not only does Apple lock you in at the software level, like Microsoft did, but they go so far as to limit what programming languages you can use when targetting some of their platforms. Microsoft never stooped that low."
Wait, don't you have to use c# if you want to code on the new windows phone 7?
Good thing you posted AC on this one.
Wow. I guess the Chicago Cubs are slated to win the World Series in 2010 as well?
You mean that thing that has been "about to ship" for years now?
Until I see one in real life, I am just going to assume it was a giant scam engineered to get thousands of people to send them hundreds of dollars apiece.
I beg to differ. Anybody can code up a WebM client, so that when you surf to a page with WebM video it will launch the application that is designated as the default handler for that data type, much like how Youtube works on the iPad right now.
WebM is hardly worth sneezing at at this point in time anyway.
Clearly these fellows are just disappointed in the Hadley CRU and their cohorts "hiding the decline."
You're missing a very important point:
Only a masochist puts Linux on a Mac. This is why hackintoshes exist in the first place: because sometimes Linux is NOT an adequate solution!
Your chances of converting somebody who is running OS X to Linux is approaching zero, outside the lab at least.
You will get all those for free with your subscription?
I thought that one subscribed merely to have the privilege of later actually paying for games. Kind of when you go to the store and they charge you $15 to look around.
In a lot of organizations it is cheaper to pay for a 24/7/365 MySQL expert from the local community. I know a guy who does just that, signs up businesses, gives them the cell phone number, and is prepared at any time to help them.
He's cheaper than Oracle because he bills by the hour, not by the "support period." If your Oracle DB that you paid out the butt for a support contract on stays up for 3 years without issue, you are out a substantial amount of money, writing checks to Oracle for merely existing. Many small and medium businesses find it difficult to swallow the concept of paying big money for a program, and even bigger money for support, if they never use the dupport!
This is really it. A garage startup doesn't usually have tens or hundreds of thousands of bucks just to throw at database software in this day and age. Not when databases have become a commodity as free as air. That money will take care of all the other associated costs of the company for many months.
Startups with tons of venture capital will probably throw money at any "tested solution" like Oracle, but full funded startups are rare as hen's teeth these days. An individual like me who is coding iPhone / iPod / Android apps in their spare time, and needs a database somewhere on the net, is not even considering Oracle.
Somehow I doubt in 10 years I'll see you running your Wal-Mart brand $400 laptop.
I know all kinds of people who still use PPC Apple laptops and desktops.
So, sure, your computer was cheaper *this year* but over its lifetime it will be more expensive.
You prove my point, that the only people who complain about the cost of Apple stuff are the people who don't buy it.
I think the people here are going out of their way to deliberately misunderstand the statement.
That's the point. He is a soldier, one who you are supposed to be able to trust with this information.
His decision, right or wrong, to release this information will provoke a survival impulse from Uncle Sam.
Bravo AC, for a lovely troll.
It's too bad you didn't work something about homosexuality into it though.
The worst that could happen is you pass on an infected file to a person running Windows.
After all there is pretty much nothing out there as far as Mac infections. Those few that are out there are trojans from warez.
A windows 7 netbook is surely cheaper. As far as finding a laptop with similar specs, recall that the Macbook is equal to any mid-range Dell or HP out there. It's a fairly beefy little machine, and it gets 10 hours of battery life. I'm not sure there is anything as inexpensive as the Macbook out there, considering its specs.
But remember that a Macbook can do anything that a Windows machine can, with a simple installation of Boot Camp. It can also do a hell of a lot more, such as presenting your kids in programming class with the GNU tools off the shelf, instead of the totally asinine, incompatible MS Visual C product line.
I'm not sure what country you are in, but here in the USA getting a Windows 7 laptop with a roughly 3 ghz core 2 duo, and 2 gb ram, and gigabit ethernet, will cost you about a thousand bucks or so. Which, coincidentally, is much more than the Macbook with a student discount.
Combine this with the fact that you can get the two industry standard professional packages, Final Cut Pro and Logic only on a Mac, and you can see why a high school may prefer it especially if they have a strong arts program.
It's only "better" to use Windows if you don't connect the machine to the internet, or other machines.
"Because everyone will have a wireless network at home with sufficient Internet bandwidth to handle everything?"
Sure. Are you seriously suggesting that for homework, the bandwidth of even a modest DSL line is not adequate?
I remember being a kid and being thrilled by a 28800 modem. Damn youth these days have no perspective.
"Oh please. They are "requiring" Macs because they have more chic style cache. The people signing off this policy probably don't have a clue about security. But damn, that Mac book is very cool looking indeed."
No, they probably chose the Mac because it's a quality piece of gear at a good price, running Unix which is notoriously easy to administer compared to Windows. They probably considered the fact that there are easy tools like Cain and Abel which can own a Windows network with a single click, and looked at the Mac and saw this would at least take a bit more doing on a Unix OS.
They probably looked at the fact that pretty much every piece of software any person needs to do their job is on the Mac, and perhaps they have a strong arts department and want to run a modern sequencer or NLE package. Heck iMovie is probably all most people need anyway, and that's both free (with a new Mac with the educational discount) and very nice to use.
"I think the whole idea is ridiculous, and focuses on the wrong things. High school kids can barely write legibly, can not spell nor understand basic math. These are the issues the school should be focusing on."
I think in any decent high school in middle America the students can certainly write and read. Massachusetts has excellent schools even in inner city Boston. Maybe this school wants these kids to learn Matlab and Apache and have an actual leg up on the competition, instead of merely learning to use Word and Excel like all the schools that pump out drones teach their kids.
I can see about a million excellent reasons for choosing a Mac, and the only reason to choose Windows is because it's cheaper. Sure, the hardware is clunkier, not as well constructed, and the entire network will be owned by the first child to run Cain and Abel, but hey, at least they could play Legend of Soltar, right?