Low: Peace and harmony, everyone must be on vacation this week Moderate: Noobs complaining about nVidia driver crashes Elevated: Linus just tried GNOME... again High: Con Kolivas and Ingo Molnar go mano-a-mano over scheduling algorithms Extreme: Hans Reiser is back, and he's armed, dangerous, and off his meds!
Stability is important to business - that includes mental stability.
Really? Steve Ballmer's "I'm gonna fucking kill Google!" chair-throwing tantrums don't seem to have scared any businesses away from Windows/Office, and he's a top executive not just some semi-anonymous slashdot poster.
Once Apple adopts ZFS as well as BSD it won't be long before it goes to linux.
What's the latest on the ZFS-in-OSX 10.5 soap opera, anyway? First it was going to be included OSX server, then it was going to be the default filesystem on servers, then it was going to be default on both servers and desktops, then it was dropped from both versions, then it was back but read-only*, and now who knows...
*And really, isn't read-only ZFS slightly *less* useful than no ZFS support at all?
Come on. You can't seriously believe Silverlight will continue to be cross-platform, after Microsoft has a large enough installed base.
Ask a Mac user about how well Microsoft holds up with their commitments to cross-platform apps...
Internet Explorer for Mac: canceled WMP for Mac: canceled Office: delayed, all support for VBA macros removed MSN messenger: lags far behind windows version, will probably be canceled soon Virtual PC: canceled (too hard to port from PPC OSX to x86 OSX. They still maintain the x86 Windows version however)
If we're lucky they might not intentionally break WINE compatibility with every single release. I wouldn't bet on that though; as they say in Redmond "DOS ain't done until Lotus don't run!".
Hey, we *need* those plants to provide surplus generation capacity for the next time there's money to be made taking a plant (or five) offline in California and then selling them our electricity at triple the market rate!
It's worse than you think. The actual transfer cap isn't even specified in the fine print (at least it's not in my current Comcast contract). There's just some weasel language about how "excessive usage" may get your service disconnected, but no word on how many gigabytes a month constitutes "excessive" in their minds.
"$29/mo for 20GB plus $5/GB beyond that, and we throttle bittorrent when our backbone connection is at full capacity" would be acceptable. "$39/mo for unlimited access. There's a transfer limit but we won't tell you what it is and we make it difficult to get your service turned back on if you go over, and we throttle youtube whenever we feel like it" is not.
The point is that Mac users are smug. They generally believe that they have better platform than Windows users, and it is the community's responsibility to continually let them know that their platform is, in fact, not perfect.
See, there's your error right there. OS X is not perfect, but it *is* still better than Windows at security (as is pretty much every other multi-user operating system ever made).
"I actually identify as a "states' rights liberal" if there is such a thing."
There isn't. It's OK if you're now old and wealthy enough that you want to be a small-government republican, but please stop calling yourself a "liberal" or a "socialist" as those ideas are 180 degrees opposed to the states rights movement. "States rights" pretty much means "California and New York get their socialist utopias, the once and future Confederacy gets their racial segregation, and everyone else gets the shaft".
Many actual conservatives - as opposed to Republicans - believe that incredibly silly.
Many actual conservatives (all four of them) better start standing up to the Bill O'Reilly-watching, "freedom fries" eating, Christian dominionists currently running their political party if they want representation in future American governments.
You don't need a front-end tool to build POV-Ray models, you can write them directly in POV's scene description language. And yes, the language has functions for animation.
If you think/. gets enraged by windows security holes, just wait until they propose locking out all software that isn't blessed by Microsoft in advance!
Default deny is a nice idea, but I haven't yet seen an implementation that doesn't require an expensive verisign certificate (MS signed drivers), a PhD in computer science (SELinux), or making the user click "Accept" until his mouse hand curls up into a raptor claw (Vista UAC)...
Realistically, though, I don't think the price of the players matters much. What matters is the movies available. Blu-Ray has a lot more content industry support, and that's not changing.
This is the fundamental mistake all Blu-Ray fans make. Price matters. Price matters more than any other single factor.
HD-DVD is not the only competitor to Blu-Ray, for most people's TVs, a good upscaling DVD player is enough. If Sony isn't willing to play the price game by letting independent manufacturers sell BR players for less than the $600 PS3*, Blu-Ray is going to end up a niche enthusiast's product, like LaserDisc. HD-DVD may die from lack of titles, but that doesn't mean Blu-Ray will succeed at $600+ per player.
You'll be surprised how many people, making millions on the Internet, have no clue what it is.
The people "making millions on the Internet" right now tend to be pornographers, spammers, scammers, and botnet owners. They probably don't know anything about Vint Cerf, ARPAnet, the IETF, or BBN either...
Tiger is at 10.4.9 because of bug fixes, not features......
So apple is guilty too.
Well, if you want to play the game that way, how many times have your WinXP and Linux machines needed bug fix patches over the last 2 years? More than 9?
Two years equals 24 times through the "Patch Tuesday" download-install-reboot dance by my counting...
...the system image running on it was first installed in 2001 on a Thinkpad 600E, with a 233 MHz Pentium II and, IIRC, 128 MB RAM. The image has been copied, complete with all of my data and preferred configuration, to two other laptops in between, and it has been smoothly upgraded by apt-get from potato (or maybe slink? Don't recall) all along the way.
Hey, I'm trying to track down copies of X11Amp, libc5, and Gnome 1.0. Would you mind tarring up the ones on your laptop and mailing them to me?
The time it takes to set up a wireless LAN securely is worth the same *per unit* as time taken wiring the house with cat5. It's just that setting up WPA on a modern router takes 10 minutes (assuming one has to RTFM, much less if you don't) where wiring every room in the house takes all weekend.
Really? Hmm, actually you are confusing efforts made by religious groups acting on their own with a concerted effort by the USA. Can you point to the government funded program to institute religion in other countries?
By that logic, the reason PC prices are down over the last few years must be a program to institute motherboards and RAM chips in the US, funded by the Taiwanese government. After all, exporting stuff can ONLY be done by a government program...
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Low: Peace and harmony, everyone must be on vacation this week
Moderate: Noobs complaining about nVidia driver crashes
Elevated: Linus just tried GNOME... again
High: Con Kolivas and Ingo Molnar go mano-a-mano over scheduling algorithms
Extreme: Hans Reiser is back, and he's armed, dangerous, and off his meds!
Stability is important to business - that includes mental stability.
Really? Steve Ballmer's "I'm gonna fucking kill Google!" chair-throwing tantrums don't seem to have scared any businesses away from Windows/Office, and he's a top executive not just some semi-anonymous slashdot poster.
Once Apple adopts ZFS as well as BSD it won't be long before it goes to linux.
What's the latest on the ZFS-in-OSX 10.5 soap opera, anyway? First it was going to be included OSX server, then it was going to be the default filesystem on servers, then it was going to be default on both servers and desktops, then it was dropped from both versions, then it was back but read-only*, and now who knows...
*And really, isn't read-only ZFS slightly *less* useful than no ZFS support at all?
Come on. You can't seriously believe Silverlight will continue to be cross-platform, after Microsoft has a large enough installed base.
Ask a Mac user about how well Microsoft holds up with their commitments to cross-platform apps...
Internet Explorer for Mac: canceled
WMP for Mac: canceled
Office: delayed, all support for VBA macros removed
MSN messenger: lags far behind windows version, will probably be canceled soon
Virtual PC: canceled (too hard to port from PPC OSX to x86 OSX. They still maintain the x86 Windows version however)
If we're lucky they might not intentionally break WINE compatibility with every single release. I wouldn't bet on that though; as they say in Redmond "DOS ain't done until Lotus don't run!".
Hey, we *need* those plants to provide surplus generation capacity for the next time there's money to be made taking a plant (or five) offline in California and then selling them our electricity at triple the market rate!
It's worse than you think. The actual transfer cap isn't even specified in the fine print (at least it's not in my current Comcast contract). There's just some weasel language about how "excessive usage" may get your service disconnected, but no word on how many gigabytes a month constitutes "excessive" in their minds.
"$29/mo for 20GB plus $5/GB beyond that, and we throttle bittorrent when our backbone connection is at full capacity" would be acceptable.
"$39/mo for unlimited access. There's a transfer limit but we won't tell you what it is and we make it difficult to get your service turned back on if you go over, and we throttle youtube whenever we feel like it" is not.
Three words for you: Alt dot binaries
Google groups and real usenet access are not even close to the same thing.
The point is that Mac users are smug. They generally believe that they have better platform than Windows users, and it is the community's responsibility to continually let them know that their platform is, in fact, not perfect.
See, there's your error right there. OS X is not perfect, but it *is* still better than Windows at security (as is pretty much every other multi-user operating system ever made).
He is, specifically Texas, where one must acknowledge "a higher power" to take an oath of office.
Determining whether or not Texas is *really* a U.S. state is left as an exercise to the reader...
"I actually identify as a "states' rights liberal" if there is such a thing."
There isn't. It's OK if you're now old and wealthy enough that you want to be a small-government republican, but please stop calling yourself a "liberal" or a "socialist" as those ideas are 180 degrees opposed to the states rights movement. "States rights" pretty much means "California and New York get their socialist utopias, the once and future Confederacy gets their racial segregation, and everyone else gets the shaft".
They have repeatedly turned down buyouts (for craploads of money)
Yeah, other than that one instance of selling out for craploads of money, they've steadfastly refused to sell out for craploads of money.
(you *DO* know that eBay owns a big chunk of craigslist... right?)
Many Americans said the same thing in 2000. Then we got eight years of Bush as punishment for our stupidity.
You don't need a front-end tool to build POV-Ray models, you can write them directly in POV's scene description language. And yes, the language has functions for animation.
6. "Top N reasons why Linux sucks" lists posted anonymously on the web by people who haven't touched a Linux machine since 2001.
I'll elaborate (slightly) about ZFS if someone else will tell me who John Siracusa is and why I should care what he writes...
He just publishes a little tech blog called ars technica...
Worth a mere $20 mil? Maybe.
Worth giving $20 mil to Darl, SCO's board, BS&F, and anyone else scummy enough to be holding SCOX shares now? Not even close.
If you think /. gets enraged by windows security holes, just wait until they propose locking out all software that isn't blessed by Microsoft in advance!
Default deny is a nice idea, but I haven't yet seen an implementation that doesn't require an expensive verisign certificate (MS signed drivers), a PhD in computer science (SELinux), or making the user click "Accept" until his mouse hand curls up into a raptor claw (Vista UAC)...
Realistically, though, I don't think the price of the players matters much. What matters is the movies available. Blu-Ray has a lot more content industry support, and that's not changing.
This is the fundamental mistake all Blu-Ray fans make. Price matters. Price matters more than any other single factor.
HD-DVD is not the only competitor to Blu-Ray, for most people's TVs, a good upscaling DVD player is enough. If Sony isn't willing to play the price game by letting independent manufacturers sell BR players for less than the $600 PS3*, Blu-Ray is going to end up a niche enthusiast's product, like LaserDisc. HD-DVD may die from lack of titles, but that doesn't mean Blu-Ray will succeed at $600+ per player.
*There is no $500 20GB PS3 anymore.
You'll be surprised how many people, making millions on the Internet, have no clue what it is.
The people "making millions on the Internet" right now tend to be pornographers, spammers, scammers, and botnet owners. They probably don't know anything about Vint Cerf, ARPAnet, the IETF, or BBN either...
Tiger is at 10.4.9 because of bug fixes, not features......
So apple is guilty too.
Well, if you want to play the game that way, how many times have your WinXP and Linux machines needed bug fix patches over the last 2 years? More than 9?
Two years equals 24 times through the "Patch Tuesday" download-install-reboot dance by my counting...
...the system image running on it was first installed in 2001 on a Thinkpad 600E, with a 233 MHz Pentium II and, IIRC, 128 MB RAM. The image has been copied, complete with all of my data and preferred configuration, to two other laptops in between, and it has been smoothly upgraded by apt-get from potato (or maybe slink? Don't recall) all along the way.
Hey, I'm trying to track down copies of X11Amp, libc5, and Gnome 1.0. Would you mind tarring up the ones on your laptop and mailing them to me?
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Congratulations, after posting that comment you now own a copyright. Enjoy your "pretexting"* rights in California.
*a practice formerly knows as "fraud"
The time it takes to set up a wireless LAN securely is worth the same *per unit* as time taken wiring the house with cat5. It's just that setting up WPA on a modern router takes 10 minutes (assuming one has to RTFM, much less if you don't) where wiring every room in the house takes all weekend.
Really? Hmm, actually you are confusing efforts made by religious groups acting on their own with a concerted effort by the USA. Can you point to the government funded program to institute religion in other countries?
By that logic, the reason PC prices are down over the last few years must be a program to institute motherboards and RAM chips in the US, funded by the Taiwanese government. After all, exporting stuff can ONLY be done by a government program...