Solaris is Unix-like and Linux is Unix-like. That doesn't make Solaris any more Linux then it is today: not.
In your view, we might break all the news there is about *BSD, MacOS X and ancient Unices / Multics under this category. Fine with me, but rename it to "Operating Systems" or "Unix, Unix-clones, Unix-likes and Unix-deriatives". (Windows news can be included in both, thank you)
If M$ bundles their new runtime with Windows without calling it Java, the average Joe finds that he can play Java-games and do his online banking without those questions on his screen he got years ago.
Now let's watch until the big coorporations (I'm looking at you, Bill, and your adopted son Darl to!) ask the American Federal government to change this situation.
No really! This is just theft of income for some companies!
Positive things in the patent war never last. Mark my words.
Correct, but both are fruit. When my doctor tells me to eat more fruit, I must make a choice. Since I don't like oranges, I eat apples.
Both are kernel-architectures. One is monolithic, the other is a microkernel. Therefore they can and must be compared, since I have to make a choice between them to use as my OS.
(double boot FreeBSD/Minix3 ATM. Minix3 is not yet functional, lack of drivers)
What he is describing is a Java /.Net which is directly linked to the hardware, without an underlying kernel. This, offcourse, impoves performance a lot (with the possibility off taking it out of userspace for a start. Imaging device drivers written in Java;) ). What would really be a great idea is writing a kernel which does Java and.Net on the fly, while also performing quick and dirty (virtualisation-like) translations between code and CPU (to enable running any binary (Windows, Linux, Mac OS) on any CPU (i386, amd64, PPC)). This should be possible. The GUI could be a problem though;)
The size of this kernel would be huge, security could be an issue, but the way it works should be great. I have thought about such a project for a while, but I'm not completely at home with kernel-design. I think I'll pick up that project once more, focussing on GCJ and Mono for a start...
Any opinions? (my, this post has become quadruppel as large as I intended)
Amen, brother! That could just have been the best OSS-evangelism preach I've heard in MONTHS.
Biggest drawback for 'ordinary' people (ie, my mom and her friends, your typical non-geeks) not to choose OSS is because it is free, and they are told by EVERYONE (including your typical geeks) NOT to install free software downloaded from the net.
The greatest form of FUD is the term 'free' itself. It is both used for spyware / addware and OSS. Those two are ethically further away from eachother then Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates have ever been. Problem is, my mom and her friends don't believe it anymore when you tell them that something is free without the footnotes. They expect that someone is trying to deceive them. They've seen Windows with IncrediMail just too many times.
High time we market OSS as: 'open and secure, at no cost' instead of 'FREE! TRY IT NOW!'
Why in the world would I want to choose this over (U|K)buntu?
I don't know what Kbuntu is, but you might want to choose Freespire because it uses KDE instead of Ubuntu's Gnome. Or you might want to look at Kubuntu.
Some people might go with Freespire to check out the features of Linspire. I'm pretty sure there will be an upgrade path somewhere. It could well be that there are non-geek humans out there that want to try Linux, but also want corporate support backing it. Novell (SUSE) and RedHat have had reasonable success since they brought a community-driven version on the market (allthough that's not the point of Fedora, but hey...).
Old age is caused by DNA becoming shorter with each cell-renewal (yes, this implies division). The process of shortening DNA should thus be reversed (they already did this with mice). The exact same fact is the reason for cloned animals aging too young.
Stopping or reversing that devision will stop needed renewal of the cells. That will, IMHO, cause a painfull death.
I am not a Biotechnologist (allthough I did study it for a while).
Last time I stated my opinions and beliefs regarding this issue my Karma was negative within a matter of hours, so since it is positive again, I'm not going to comment on this. Sorry for not taking your side here, the moderation system at/. won't let me.
While the sodomy and the abuse seem to be a stated fact in the US law system, it should never been taken for granted. Raping someone is a bigger crime than hacking some (thousands of) PC's IMHO and as such, the convicted should be protected by all means against that.
By the way: even a raper should be protected from rape and abuse by all means. The prison is there to prevent crime, not to sustain it as a "fact of life".
(By the way, it either does not happen that much here in Europe, or we hear nothing about it (which seems highly unlikely)... any comments on that anyone?)
I will be playing the devils advocate here. I'm a webdeveloper (heck, I'm starting a company based on it as we speak), so I KNOW what you are talking about...
To start: PNG is not a standard. At least not a de jury standard. And since almost everyone is using IE, it is clearly not a de facto standard. Would be nice if it just worked in IE though...
On all the sites I've designed and still monitor I have seen only 0.04% of IE5 / IE5.5 users. I have seen 1 hit by an IE4 user. Does that mean we have to support it? I only support IE6, Firefox 1.0 (and up), Konqueror 3.4 (and up) and Opera 7 (and up). I will support IE7 (ie: IE6 (and up)) shortly. (Point being: to the end-user IE7 is to IE6 what FF1.5 is to FF1.0. And that is a large gap.)
That code is NOTHING compared to what I have had to write in the past to let some simple things work on every browser. Mostly I need a few lines of code to get it working on MSHTML (IE), a few lines to get it working on Gecko (Mozilla, Firefox, and the like), a few lines to get it working on KHTML (Konqueror, Safari) and a mighty block of code to get it working on everything. We all hate IE, but when you design a site just for Gecko and KHTML, you have a problem too because they are not alike. The problem is not only with IE alone.
(Note: I did not forgot Opera here. My experience is: when it works on both IE and Firefox, it works in Opera.)
I would like it if all the world uses the same browser as I do. Sadly, I'm one of the 15% that do not use IE. If I just designed for IE, 85% of my userbase would be happy.
(as a side note: I'm always recommending Firefox. Personally I always use Konqueror, except for my own, Firefox-only, CMS-system and my online banking).
Included in those listed offerings was Windows Starter 2007, a stripped-down version for emerging markets to offer an alternative for pirated software.
Windows Vista Starter (designed to combat piracy of Windows overseas; probably won't go on sale in US)
yeah right... This is obviously targeted at Linux and other OS-OSses which are extremely popular in "emerging markets"...
You are using a technique which is patented, but not licensed for use by you. You have a license with Microsoft to use their product, but the technique is technically owned by said developer. Since he did not grant you a patent license, you are in fact obliged to install the said patch.
As said before: it's up to said developer to hunt you down and enforce law upon you. That will not happen. When it would happen, you would have a strong chance to get the money you would have to pay back from Microsoft, since you bought their license in good faith.
Now you know that you are using software that uses an unlicensed patented technique, the law forces you to do something about it.
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Nonsense.
Solaris is Unix-like and Linux is Unix-like. That doesn't make Solaris any more Linux then it is today: not.
In your view, we might break all the news there is about *BSD, MacOS X and ancient Unices / Multics under this category. Fine with me, but rename it to "Operating Systems" or "Unix, Unix-clones, Unix-likes and Unix-deriatives". (Windows news can be included in both, thank you)
Time to buy it Bill! To make a portal from it's base shouldn't be to much of a hassle...
nah, no chance... what if Apple would use the same trick?
If M$ bundles their new runtime with Windows without calling it Java, the average Joe finds that he can play Java-games and do his online banking without those questions on his screen he got years ago.
They should have some sources left of Xenix somewhere...
There was this speech where Bill argued that WinNT was more Unix-like then many others around...
What, Richard S. missed a party?
how the heck does one reduce power requirements by, say, replace Cat5 with 802.11?!? I'm wondering about the weight too...
yeah, saw that to, but two late... ;)
Now let's watch until the big coorporations (I'm looking at you, Bill, and your adopted son Darl to!) ask the American Federal government to change this situation.
No really! This is just theft of income for some companies!
Positive things in the patent war never last. Mark my words.
I think they are apples and oranges.
Correct, but both are fruit. When my doctor tells me to eat more fruit, I must make a choice. Since I don't like oranges, I eat apples.
Both are kernel-architectures. One is monolithic, the other is a microkernel. Therefore they can and must be compared, since I have to make a choice between them to use as my OS.
(double boot FreeBSD/Minix3 ATM. Minix3 is not yet functional, lack of drivers)
Not exactly true.
.Net which is directly linked to the hardware, without an underlying kernel. This, offcourse, impoves performance a lot (with the possibility off taking it out of userspace for a start. Imaging device drivers written in Java ;) ). What would really be a great idea is writing a kernel which does Java and .Net on the fly, while also performing quick and dirty (virtualisation-like) translations between code and CPU (to enable running any binary (Windows, Linux, Mac OS) on any CPU (i386, amd64, PPC)). This should be possible. The GUI could be a problem though ;)
What he is describing is a Java /
The size of this kernel would be huge, security could be an issue, but the way it works should be great. I have thought about such a project for a while, but I'm not completely at home with kernel-design. I think I'll pick up that project once more, focussing on GCJ and Mono for a start...
Any opinions? (my, this post has become quadruppel as large as I intended)
Amen, brother! That could just have been the best OSS-evangelism preach I've heard in MONTHS.
Biggest drawback for 'ordinary' people (ie, my mom and her friends, your typical non-geeks) not to choose OSS is because it is free, and they are told by EVERYONE (including your typical geeks) NOT to install free software downloaded from the net.
The greatest form of FUD is the term 'free' itself. It is both used for spyware / addware and OSS. Those two are ethically further away from eachother then Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates have ever been. Problem is, my mom and her friends don't believe it anymore when you tell them that something is free without the footnotes. They expect that someone is trying to deceive them. They've seen Windows with IncrediMail just too many times.
High time we market OSS as: 'open and secure, at no cost' instead of 'FREE! TRY IT NOW!'
Simple. TFA is slashdotted, so this way we PREVENT the world from hearing just how warm-and-fuzzy Apple is.
alt-F4 could (should) have switched you to another virtual terminal, where you could just type killall vim.
My first try at vi looked like this:
q
esc
damnit...
alt-F1
login...
man vi
Why in the world would I want to choose this over (U|K)buntu?
I don't know what Kbuntu is, but you might want to choose Freespire because it uses KDE instead of Ubuntu's Gnome. Or you might want to look at Kubuntu.
Some people might go with Freespire to check out the features of Linspire. I'm pretty sure there will be an upgrade path somewhere. It could well be that there are non-geek humans out there that want to try Linux, but also want corporate support backing it. Novell (SUSE) and RedHat have had reasonable success since they brought a community-driven version on the market (allthough that's not the point of Fedora, but hey...).
Bollocks.
Old age is caused by DNA becoming shorter with each cell-renewal (yes, this implies division). The process of shortening DNA should thus be reversed (they already did this with mice). The exact same fact is the reason for cloned animals aging too young.
Stopping or reversing that devision will stop needed renewal of the cells. That will, IMHO, cause a painfull death.
I am not a Biotechnologist (allthough I did study it for a while).
Last time I stated my opinions and beliefs regarding this issue my Karma was negative within a matter of hours, so since it is positive again, I'm not going to comment on this. Sorry for not taking your side here, the moderation system at /. won't let me.
Silent Post II
While the sodomy and the abuse seem to be a stated fact in the US law system, it should never been taken for granted. Raping someone is a bigger crime than hacking some (thousands of) PC's IMHO and as such, the convicted should be protected by all means against that.
By the way: even a raper should be protected from rape and abuse by all means. The prison is there to prevent crime, not to sustain it as a "fact of life".
(By the way, it either does not happen that much here in Europe, or we hear nothing about it (which seems highly unlikely)... any comments on that anyone?)
Witlog lives on /.?
What about the Principality of Sealand?
That could be fun to follow if the PS3-devs are waiting for Halo 3 to come out to attack its first days of sale...
I will be playing the devils advocate here. I'm a webdeveloper (heck, I'm starting a company based on it as we speak), so I KNOW what you are talking about...
To start: PNG is not a standard. At least not a de jury standard. And since almost everyone is using IE, it is clearly not a de facto standard. Would be nice if it just worked in IE though...
On all the sites I've designed and still monitor I have seen only 0.04% of IE5 / IE5.5 users. I have seen 1 hit by an IE4 user. Does that mean we have to support it? I only support IE6, Firefox 1.0 (and up), Konqueror 3.4 (and up) and Opera 7 (and up). I will support IE7 (ie: IE6 (and up)) shortly. (Point being: to the end-user IE7 is to IE6 what FF1.5 is to FF1.0. And that is a large gap.)
That code is NOTHING compared to what I have had to write in the past to let some simple things work on every browser. Mostly I need a few lines of code to get it working on MSHTML (IE), a few lines to get it working on Gecko (Mozilla, Firefox, and the like), a few lines to get it working on KHTML (Konqueror, Safari) and a mighty block of code to get it working on everything. We all hate IE, but when you design a site just for Gecko and KHTML, you have a problem too because they are not alike. The problem is not only with IE alone.
(Note: I did not forgot Opera here. My experience is: when it works on both IE and Firefox, it works in Opera.)
I would like it if all the world uses the same browser as I do. Sadly, I'm one of the 15% that do not use IE. If I just designed for IE, 85% of my userbase would be happy.
(as a side note: I'm always recommending Firefox. Personally I always use Konqueror, except for my own, Firefox-only, CMS-system and my online banking).
Included in those listed offerings was Windows Starter 2007, a stripped-down version for emerging markets to offer an alternative for pirated software.
Windows Vista Starter (designed to combat piracy of Windows overseas; probably won't go on sale in US)
yeah right... This is obviously targeted at Linux and other OS-OSses which are extremely popular in "emerging markets"...
You are using a technique which is patented, but not licensed for use by you. You have a license with Microsoft to use their product, but the technique is technically owned by said developer. Since he did not grant you a patent license, you are in fact obliged to install the said patch. As said before: it's up to said developer to hunt you down and enforce law upon you. That will not happen. When it would happen, you would have a strong chance to get the money you would have to pay back from Microsoft, since you bought their license in good faith. Now you know that you are using software that uses an unlicensed patented technique, the law forces you to do something about it.