Really? Let's see the prices for your Xeon-based Asus Workstations and software suites. I think you're either full of shit or doing a faulty comparison.
Have you ever been in a high adrenaline situation that ended in you shooting and killing someone? Have you ever voluntarily ended someones life? Have you had someone film you whilst you do this? Unless the answer to all of the above is "yes", how about you keep your damning judgements to yourself.
If the police officer can't handle these situations, I highly suggest they go for an alternate career. Maybe as a garbageman or something that shouldn't involve weapons. Seriously, it might be an extremely stressfull situation when he's shooting at the alleged drug dealer, who allegedly shot back at them. But when this innocent bystander, only being guilty of having a camera, gets guns shoved up in his face, then you aren't fit to take care of justice. If your job as a public servant can't take the scrutiny of someone video taping you as you perform your job, then you have no business being in the line of duty. Please, let the people be able to weed out the bad cops. We need the good ones. So your arguments are basically not relevant, as criticism isn't dependant of having to be in the persons shoes.
Hid the 'shutdown'-button in the menu, forces you to press alt to reveal it. The logical step was to log out, and then shut down, was the claim of one of the GNOME developers. This is why I use KDE.
Being able to capitalize on it for decades, expanding into so many markets (both software and hardware), and even managing to fund one of the biggest private R&D on Earth today (MS Research), that is no luck.
No, it took at lot of illegal coercing of computer manufacturers, embrace/extend/extinguish, breaking monopoly laws, creating broken standards and closed up de-facto standards and generally being assholes. Not luck, but illegal activities. Praising Microsoft is equal to praising the mafia.
I often find myself wondering what license the FSF would approve, it's not as if they've got some kind of bias or anything. How about tomorrow we interview Theo and ask which license he recommends? I'm sure it will all be very surprising.
Wait, Red Hat is evil now, too? I know we rejected Novell, but I must have missed that memo.
Try reading a RH story sometime, the Ubuntulovers bash RH mercilessly. And when they're not being active on the flaming front, all the Slackware guys who had one bad experience with gcc2.96 back in 2000 will chime in and tell you how clueless RH is. It's disgraceful.
BTW, Linux isn't much better here, other than that it usually comes pre-configured with defaults that work for most folks for everything except backups. I have glumly come to the conclusion that if I want something equivalent to or better than MacOS's Time Machine on Linux for doing time-based incremental backups, I'm going to have to write it myself, and it's going to have to rely on LVM's snapshotting mechanism to do a consistent backup until BTRFS is ready. Yay team. At least we have SQLite nowadays, not like when I designed BRU Server back in the late 90's...
The only thing missing on Linux is a fancy gui, rsync should do the job nicely.
And Slackware certainly isn't a 'derivative' of anything besides SLS. I think it's just poorly placed. The sentence should have been something like this:
"make your own or switch to one of the scores of other ones(Slackware, Fedora, Debian) or Ubuntu derivatives(Mint etc.)".
But Office? I think they wrote most of that themselves, though no doubt they used some libraries and contributions from various places they took over, I think we have to say that Office is "theirs".
I believe a lot of the Office devs were originally IBM devs.
I think the rise of OS X has showed people that there really were two kinds of Linux users, those who just wanted a UNIX-llike or non-Windows operating system, and those who had a genuine interest in Linux, open source, and free software. And now all the 'puritans'(They aren't really), are shocked to find that some Linux users are okey with proprietary software and even trading in OS X for Linux. Linus himself has stated that he thinks open source is the only way to do software development, but tolerates closed source.
Yes. The description "bunch of masturbating monkeys" was meant in the nicest possible way.:)
Well, Linus didn't say that because he thinks the *BSDs are bad operating systems, or that he thinks the BSD license is a bad license. He said it because he believes every bug to be as important as security holes, whereas the OpenBSD guys don't agree. They could've just as easily been the QNX guys or something like that.(Obviously, Linus prefers Linux to the various BSDs, but the competition is good)
Democrats had the majority in the house and senate for years...
Both the democrats and the republicans are right-wing nutjobs. USA does not have two radically different parties, but two very smiliar ones. I have no idea why they're imagining that this is democratic but hey, it's their country. There are practically no left-wingers in the USA, just different varieties of right-wingers.
With the 17" MBP in 2011 for $2400, you only get Intel HD 3000 video card with 384mb of shared main memory, 4GB RAM, and a DVD burner.
You obviously have some sort of reading disability or you're either a lying fuck. Could be both though. The Apple website states, clear as the day, that the 17" MBP ships with an AMD Radeon HD 6750M. Good luck with your piss poor HP though.
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Really? Let's see the prices for your Xeon-based Asus Workstations and software suites. I think you're either full of shit or doing a faulty comparison.
Have you ever been in a high adrenaline situation that ended in you shooting and killing someone? Have you ever voluntarily ended someones life? Have you had someone film you whilst you do this? Unless the answer to all of the above is "yes", how about you keep your damning judgements to yourself.
If the police officer can't handle these situations, I highly suggest they go for an alternate career. Maybe as a garbageman or something that shouldn't involve weapons. Seriously, it might be an extremely stressfull situation when he's shooting at the alleged drug dealer, who allegedly shot back at them. But when this innocent bystander, only being guilty of having a camera, gets guns shoved up in his face, then you aren't fit to take care of justice. If your job as a public servant can't take the scrutiny of someone video taping you as you perform your job, then you have no business being in the line of duty. Please, let the people be able to weed out the bad cops. We need the good ones. So your arguments are basically not relevant, as criticism isn't dependant of having to be in the persons shoes.
Care to elaborate?
Hid the 'shutdown'-button in the menu, forces you to press alt to reveal it. The logical step was to log out, and then shut down, was the claim of one of the GNOME developers. This is why I use KDE.
Being able to capitalize on it for decades, expanding into so many markets (both software and hardware), and even managing to fund one of the biggest private R&D on Earth today (MS Research), that is no luck.
No, it took at lot of illegal coercing of computer manufacturers, embrace/extend/extinguish, breaking monopoly laws, creating broken standards and closed up de-facto standards and generally being assholes. Not luck, but illegal activities. Praising Microsoft is equal to praising the mafia.
I often find myself wondering what license the FSF would approve, it's not as if they've got some kind of bias or anything. How about tomorrow we interview Theo and ask which license he recommends? I'm sure it will all be very surprising.
I'm guessing you have never done anything with telephony.
I'm sure he's a highly competent sysadmin providing filesharing and printersharing for tens of people.
Apart from QNX, all major desktop operating systems are monolithic.(No, NT and XNU are definitely not microkernels.)
This is a worthless claim without any links or proof to back them up.
Wait, Red Hat is evil now, too? I know we rejected Novell, but I must have missed that memo.
Try reading a RH story sometime, the Ubuntulovers bash RH mercilessly. And when they're not being active on the flaming front, all the Slackware guys who had one bad experience with gcc2.96 back in 2000 will chime in and tell you how clueless RH is. It's disgraceful.
BTW, Linux isn't much better here, other than that it usually comes pre-configured with defaults that work for most folks for everything except backups. I have glumly come to the conclusion that if I want something equivalent to or better than MacOS's Time Machine on Linux for doing time-based incremental backups, I'm going to have to write it myself, and it's going to have to rely on LVM's snapshotting mechanism to do a consistent backup until BTRFS is ready. Yay team. At least we have SQLite nowadays, not like when I designed BRU Server back in the late 90's...
The only thing missing on Linux is a fancy gui, rsync should do the job nicely.
Maybe he felt like getting some of his contributions upstream, unlike Canonical. YAWN.
I would be quite surprised if Canonical actually has the developer muscle to make Wayland usable for them in that timeframe.
You mean to tell me that no-contributions-upstream-Canonical actually has developers?
And Slackware certainly isn't a 'derivative' of anything besides SLS. I think it's just poorly placed. The sentence should have been something like this: "make your own or switch to one of the scores of other ones(Slackware, Fedora, Debian) or Ubuntu derivatives(Mint etc.)".
But Office? I think they wrote most of that themselves, though no doubt they used some libraries and contributions from various places they took over, I think we have to say that Office is "theirs".
I believe a lot of the Office devs were originally IBM devs.
I think the rise of OS X has showed people that there really were two kinds of Linux users, those who just wanted a UNIX-llike or non-Windows operating system, and those who had a genuine interest in Linux, open source, and free software. And now all the 'puritans'(They aren't really), are shocked to find that some Linux users are okey with proprietary software and even trading in OS X for Linux. Linus himself has stated that he thinks open source is the only way to do software development, but tolerates closed source.
Basically, you're an incompeten Linux-admin. That's okey.
Yes. The description "bunch of masturbating monkeys" was meant in the nicest possible way. :)
Well, Linus didn't say that because he thinks the *BSDs are bad operating systems, or that he thinks the BSD license is a bad license. He said it because he believes every bug to be as important as security holes, whereas the OpenBSD guys don't agree. They could've just as easily been the QNX guys or something like that.(Obviously, Linus prefers Linux to the various BSDs, but the competition is good)
Yeah, the actual method is a good strategy, but I would not *ANNOUNCE* the strategy
Yes, this is clearly something the patent trolls wouldn't find out unless he told them.
Democrats had the majority in the house and senate for years...
Both the democrats and the republicans are right-wing nutjobs. USA does not have two radically different parties, but two very smiliar ones. I have no idea why they're imagining that this is democratic but hey, it's their country. There are practically no left-wingers in the USA, just different varieties of right-wingers.
I thought MySQL was under the GPL? You can't charge for using GPL'd software.
MySQL has always been available under a dual license, and you can charge for GPL'd software.
With the 17" MBP in 2011 for $2400, you only get Intel HD 3000 video card with 384mb of shared main memory, 4GB RAM, and a DVD burner.
You obviously have some sort of reading disability or you're either a lying fuck. Could be both though. The Apple website states, clear as the day, that the 17" MBP ships with an AMD Radeon HD 6750M. Good luck with your piss poor HP though.
These people make up the bulk of /. commenters, but by and large are in a minority if you look at various PS3 forums
That's really strange, imagine a bunch of Sony-fanboys being positive to taking it up the ass from Sony. AMAZING.
Where the adds coming from the infoworld website?
Adds will spawn in the late 3d phase of the website, off-tank needs to kite them until DPS can take down the boss.
Finally we can crack this "Anonymous Coward" bastard! He's been a menace here long enough!