That's pretty funny. I just installed Debian AMD64 on an HP machine this week as a host OS to another instance of Debian AMD64 running under VMWare. I had no problems at all. Everything just worked.
So, do tell me, what's the problem running VMWare on Debian?
How is a bad thing? They are providing new content to the community. In fact, they just provided a whole ton of new content for new players as well should they choose to use it. Where's the problem here?
GSM baby. I don't have to buy the iPhone from the phone company. I can just take my card out, pop it in the iPhone and I'm ready to go.
The only reason to get a phone from your phone company is they subsidize it so that they can sucker you into those multi-year contracts. Do you save money? Sure, but if Apple REALLY wanted to they could find a way to subsidize their phones as well.
The probably won't. And they won't do it because of people like me. I can honestly say I'd like to have my iPod and phone roled into one. I'm just concerned about battery life. I don't really care what T-Mobile thinks about it.
No, not really. VMWare Player gives you near native performance when doing most GUI operations (non-3D). VMWare server let's you connect to the machines remotely.
The problem is, that even when you are on the machine that is hosting the VM, VMWare server still feels like you're connecting over a slow network connection. It doesn't have any of the GUI speed that VMWare Player/Workstation does. So, if you want near native GUI speed, stick with workstation/player versions. If you need remote administration capabilities, go with the server version.
I'd like to see a hybrid of the two myself. I'd like to run natively when I can, but still be able to adminster the machine remotely (as well as have the virtual machines automatically start at boot). Unfortunately, I haven't found out a way yet to install Workstation and Server side by side.
In short, MS lost any vision it might have had in the late 1990s, and now it looks doomed to perpetually play catch up to younger, more innovative companies who have found a way to divorce themselves from the platform.
I think you miss one key point: Microsoft has the ability and funds to buy its way back into relevance. It's happened before and it will happen again. Some of those small startups WILL be bought by Microsoft. Remember, Microsoft didn't initially create IE, they bought it.
Also, not every Microsoft division is slow and plodding. Some (Xbox, Live, MSN) are actually quite fast and nimble.
These are strange times and it will be interesting to see what MS does with their multi-billion war chest.
How's the heat dissipation on these things? Everybody talks about performance, but nobody is talking about heat. Will it cook my legs and sterilize me or not?
Thoughts? Yeah, I've got one: you're completely cracked and have never done any real world software development.
Even IF you're completely unfounded speculation had any basis in reality, you ignore the fact that every line of code changed has the potential to impact other parts of the system. You fix one bug here, another bug pops up there. You go there and fix it, and another pops up elsewhere. The more code you have, the worse it becomes. No person on this planet can keep 200million lines of code in their head.
The problem isn't writing code, the problem is coordinating your 100,000 developers so that they each understand exactly what is going on in each others head and there's never any communication failure. That is an impossible task. Therefore, you can't throw man power or money at the problem and hope it goes away.
The way to fix the bugs is to change the way people think, and (unfortunately) build a massive self correcting process that covers up for the deficiencies with interpersonal communication and provides incentives for correct behavior. This takes patience and time (not money), and that flies in the face of our "must have it now at all costs" culture.
Until this attitude changes, you better get used to patching windows on a regular basis.
Java interfaces allow you to declare that something is a Duck, so it must be a duck. However, with Java, I can ensure that anything I think I want to call a duck does indeed fulfill the contract of being a duck. What in Ruby forces you to properly export the collection of methods in Enumerable when you defined is_enumerable to return true? Nothing?
I call BS. Just because a Java class implements an interface, does not mean it implements what is expected of the interface. If your compare method returns a -1 when it should return a +1, you aren't a duck, you're a retarded duck and Java let's you do that just like Ruby.
Am I doing something wrong? The last version of VLC was completely unusable on OS X. The new version doesn't seem much better. It's already hung hard once, and crashed two times on me.
Actually, looks like it's crashing every time I open it now. Nice.
No it's not. I visit guitar tab sites all the time, and I'm constantly hammered with popups on them (as well as many other sites). I use Flashblock. Either Flashblock doesn't work, or there's some new method out there for creating popups that Firefox DOES NOT catch.
Yes. Yes I do. His worth, and what he's done with Slashdot HAVE NOTHING to do with the policies of Blizzard and World of Warcraft. You and I are just as likely to get screwed over as he was. The fact that he's willing to use his influence to stand up to this is great for somebody who plays the game like myself. It's a shame people like you can't do the same.
Your statement is completely assinine. By your logic, African Americans and women would still be unable to vote. If you don't like the US laws, what, leave the country?
Sometimes you have to fight back, even if it is just a stupid video game.
I hate to say this, but in your scenario Apple doesn't cut out the middle man, they become the middle man. That's not to say it won't be better than it was before, but it's hardly a panacea.
Yes, I was using Flashblock with the 1.0x builds (not sure if it's been ported to the 1.5 builds). I suspected that might have been one possible source of the problem, however, grokking through Bugzilla isn't that easy.
If I can find a site that consistently causes Firefox to crash, I'll try it w/o Flashblock. That being said, Flashblock is one of the single greatest ideas in the history of ALL computerdom, so I'd be hard pressed to permanently disable it.;)
I can deal with text ads. I can deal with gif ads. DHTML, Popup, and Flash ads? No thanks!
I've had a problem with Firefox lately (starting around build 1.04, which may just be coincidental with a new malevolent popup technique being invented) on both my Windows and OSX boxes. Specifically, there are certain ads that cause Firefox to crash hard, and they aren't just bad ads from porn sites. I've occasionally gotten them on Blues News and NY Times for example.
In some cases, I'm lucky to get an exception and can restart Firefox. However, in most cases, the application freezes. On OSX, I get the swirling beach ball of death and have to manually force quit Firefox. On windows, I can usually close Firefox, but only the main window closes. I still have to manually kill the process before I can start a new instance.
Since then, I've moved on to 1.5 alpha and it while I don't believe I am currently experiencing those problems, 1.5 alpha has a whole new set of problems all its own.
My question is... have these ad related crashes been fixed (or am I the only experiencing them)? I'd like us to the most stable version possible, but when 1.5 alpha is better than the 1.0x builds, I'm left wondering what went wrong...
If this isn't resolved soon, I just might have to give AdBlock another shot. I'm trying to be a good netizen, but when you're ads kill my browser, you leave me with little choice!
"This is nothing like snopes. It is a satire/joke encyclopedia. You will not be able to forward anything authorative from here to your friends."
That's pretty funny. You know what, you can forward something authoritative from anywhere.
Once upon a time, this site (www.weeklyworldnews.com) wrote a story about Russia and China going to war with each other and one of the two nuking both their armies.
Many moons after that, I had somebody claiming they read form a reputable news source that this was true. I knew they were full of it, so I went and looked it up online. Guess what I found? Alas, the article appears to no longer exist, but it was clearly FAKE.
People are dumb, and there are enough people out there who will believe anything.
Especially when Google releases well-received products that are "free".
Oh no, we can't have that can we.
First, it's the fault of the Open Source community! They release all their software for free! We can't have that, it's ruining our business model!
Second, it's the fault of Microsoft! They use their money to undercut the competition and release their software for free! We can't have that, it's ruining our business model!
Third, it's Indochina's fault! They don't have to pay the same wages as we do, so they can release all their software for free (or near free)! We can't have that, it's ruining our business model!
Fourth, hey, now it's Google's fault...
What a load of horseshit. It's basic human nature. I want to get as much as possible for the least amount of effort. There's nothing wrong with that. If you can do that better than the competition, then you're better off. That's how things have always worked, and how things will continue to work.
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That's pretty funny. I just installed Debian AMD64 on an HP machine this week as a host OS to another instance of Debian AMD64 running under VMWare. I had no problems at all. Everything just worked.
So, do tell me, what's the problem running VMWare on Debian?
Bryan
Hardly. Doom introduced multi-player death match to the masses and ushered in the era of online multiplayer gaming. That is Doom's real legacy.
Bryan
How is a bad thing? They are providing new content to the community. In fact, they just provided a whole ton of new content for new players as well should they choose to use it. Where's the problem here?
Bryan
GSM baby. I don't have to buy the iPhone from the phone company. I can just take my card out, pop it in the iPhone and I'm ready to go.
The only reason to get a phone from your phone company is they subsidize it so that they can sucker you into those multi-year contracts. Do you save money? Sure, but if Apple REALLY wanted to they could find a way to subsidize their phones as well.
The probably won't. And they won't do it because of people like me. I can honestly say I'd like to have my iPod and phone roled into one. I'm just concerned about battery life. I don't really care what T-Mobile thinks about it.
Bryan
Are they as bad as the lights at my place of employment?
Bryan
If you write software for 64-bit machines and need a development laptop, even though you may not have the ram, this is going to be a killer chip.
Bryan
No, not really. VMWare Player gives you near native performance when doing most GUI operations (non-3D). VMWare server let's you connect to the machines remotely.
The problem is, that even when you are on the machine that is hosting the VM, VMWare server still feels like you're connecting over a slow network connection. It doesn't have any of the GUI speed that VMWare Player/Workstation does. So, if you want near native GUI speed, stick with workstation/player versions. If you need remote administration capabilities, go with the server version.
I'd like to see a hybrid of the two myself. I'd like to run natively when I can, but still be able to adminster the machine remotely (as well as have the virtual machines automatically start at boot). Unfortunately, I haven't found out a way yet to install Workstation and Server side by side.
Bryan
Honestly, I think you missed the most important use:
6) Lock your significant other/children into a sand box. When they inevitably screw windows up, roll back to a previous working version.
Bryan
I don't know about you, but I could easily spend his money creating a stealth army of robotic ninja assassins.
Bryan
In short, MS lost any vision it might have had in the late 1990s, and now it looks doomed to perpetually play catch up to younger, more innovative companies who have found a way to divorce themselves from the platform.
I think you miss one key point: Microsoft has the ability and funds to buy its way back into relevance. It's happened before and it will happen again. Some of those small startups WILL be bought by Microsoft. Remember, Microsoft didn't initially create IE, they bought it.
Also, not every Microsoft division is slow and plodding. Some (Xbox, Live, MSN) are actually quite fast and nimble.
These are strange times and it will be interesting to see what MS does with their multi-billion war chest.
Bryan
Repeat after me... Correlation is NOT causation!
Thank you,
Bryan
How's the heat dissipation on these things? Everybody talks about performance, but nobody is talking about heat. Will it cook my legs and sterilize me or not?
Bryan
Thoughts? Yeah, I've got one: you're completely cracked and have never done any real world software development.
Even IF you're completely unfounded speculation had any basis in reality, you ignore the fact that every line of code changed has the potential to impact other parts of the system. You fix one bug here, another bug pops up there. You go there and fix it, and another pops up elsewhere. The more code you have, the worse it becomes. No person on this planet can keep 200million lines of code in their head.
The problem isn't writing code, the problem is coordinating your 100,000 developers so that they each understand exactly what is going on in each others head and there's never any communication failure. That is an impossible task. Therefore, you can't throw man power or money at the problem and hope it goes away.
The way to fix the bugs is to change the way people think, and (unfortunately) build a massive self correcting process that covers up for the deficiencies with interpersonal communication and provides incentives for correct behavior. This takes patience and time (not money), and that flies in the face of our "must have it now at all costs" culture.
Until this attitude changes, you better get used to patching windows on a regular basis.
Bryan
Java interfaces allow you to declare that something is a Duck, so it must be a duck. However, with Java, I can ensure that anything I think I want to call a duck does indeed fulfill the contract of being a duck. What in Ruby forces you to properly export the collection of methods in Enumerable when you defined is_enumerable to return true? Nothing?
I call BS. Just because a Java class implements an interface, does not mean it implements what is expected of the interface. If your compare method returns a -1 when it should return a +1, you aren't a duck, you're a retarded duck and Java let's you do that just like Ruby.
Bryan
Am I doing something wrong? The last version of VLC was completely unusable on OS X. The new version doesn't seem much better. It's already hung hard once, and crashed two times on me.
Actually, looks like it's crashing every time I open it now. Nice.
Bryan
No it's not. I visit guitar tab sites all the time, and I'm constantly hammered with popups on them (as well as many other sites). I use Flashblock. Either Flashblock doesn't work, or there's some new method out there for creating popups that Firefox DOES NOT catch.
Bryan
Yes. Yes I do. His worth, and what he's done with Slashdot HAVE NOTHING to do with the policies of Blizzard and World of Warcraft. You and I are just as likely to get screwed over as he was. The fact that he's willing to use his influence to stand up to this is great for somebody who plays the game like myself. It's a shame people like you can't do the same.
Bryan
Your statement is completely assinine. By your logic, African Americans and women would still be unable to vote. If you don't like the US laws, what, leave the country?
Sometimes you have to fight back, even if it is just a stupid video game.
Bryan
You don't have to send anybody. Just whistle and he'll come back on his own. ;)
Bryan
I hate to say this, but in your scenario Apple doesn't cut out the middle man, they become the middle man. That's not to say it won't be better than it was before, but it's hardly a panacea.
Bryan
Yes, I was using Flashblock with the 1.0x builds (not sure if it's been ported to the 1.5 builds). I suspected that might have been one possible source of the problem, however, grokking through Bugzilla isn't that easy.
;)
If I can find a site that consistently causes Firefox to crash, I'll try it w/o Flashblock. That being said, Flashblock is one of the single greatest ideas in the history of ALL computerdom, so I'd be hard pressed to permanently disable it.
I can deal with text ads. I can deal with gif ads. DHTML, Popup, and Flash ads? No thanks!
Bryan
I've had a problem with Firefox lately (starting around build 1.04, which may just be coincidental with a new malevolent popup technique being invented) on both my Windows and OSX boxes. Specifically, there are certain ads that cause Firefox to crash hard, and they aren't just bad ads from porn sites. I've occasionally gotten them on Blues News and NY Times for example.
In some cases, I'm lucky to get an exception and can restart Firefox. However, in most cases, the application freezes. On OSX, I get the swirling beach ball of death and have to manually force quit Firefox. On windows, I can usually close Firefox, but only the main window closes. I still have to manually kill the process before I can start a new instance.
Since then, I've moved on to 1.5 alpha and it while I don't believe I am currently experiencing those problems, 1.5 alpha has a whole new set of problems all its own.
My question is... have these ad related crashes been fixed (or am I the only experiencing them)? I'd like us to the most stable version possible, but when 1.5 alpha is better than the 1.0x builds, I'm left wondering what went wrong...
If this isn't resolved soon, I just might have to give AdBlock another shot. I'm trying to be a good netizen, but when you're ads kill my browser, you leave me with little choice!
Bryan
"This is nothing like snopes. It is a satire/joke encyclopedia. You will not be able to forward anything authorative from here to your friends."
That's pretty funny. You know what, you can forward something authoritative from anywhere.
Once upon a time, this site (www.weeklyworldnews.com) wrote a story about Russia and China going to war with each other and one of the two nuking both their armies.
Many moons after that, I had somebody claiming they read form a reputable news source that this was true. I knew they were full of it, so I went and looked it up online. Guess what I found? Alas, the article appears to no longer exist, but it was clearly FAKE.
People are dumb, and there are enough people out there who will believe anything.
Bryan
Pfft, you've got this so wrong. You can dup the key in minutes, but you can distribute it across the entire world in mere seconds.
That's what is bad about this.
Bryan
Especially when Google releases well-received products that are "free".
Oh no, we can't have that can we.
First, it's the fault of the Open Source community! They release all their software for free! We can't have that, it's ruining our business model!
Second, it's the fault of Microsoft! They use their money to undercut the competition and release their software for free! We can't have that, it's ruining our business model!
Third, it's Indochina's fault! They don't have to pay the same wages as we do, so they can release all their software for free (or near free)! We can't have that, it's ruining our business model!
Fourth, hey, now it's Google's fault...
What a load of horseshit. It's basic human nature. I want to get as much as possible for the least amount of effort. There's nothing wrong with that. If you can do that better than the competition, then you're better off. That's how things have always worked, and how things will continue to work.
There's nothing new here. Move a long.
Bryan