Is this the best time for Microsoft to be making sure as few people as possible pirate Windows? Surely now, as XP is going out to make way for Vista, and OS X is gaining momentum, they should be practically encouraging it.
Microsoft has a few important things going for it, but the user share and market dominance is the most important; I wouldn't want to test it, it's easier than ever to switch to Linux.
Can I have the 2x Core 2 Duos you pull out of your new Mac Pro to make room for Quadros?
Buying a pre-made computer with a couple of the most expensive CPUs available inside, only to swap them out for even more expensive ones, why didn't I think of that?
I've heard a lot of experts suggest that scaling outwards (i.e. adding more nodes to the cluster) is a better solution than improving the performance of individual nodes. They look at google as a model of how to build a high-performance database application.
I'm not convinced, but that's one point of view that's often expressed.
Well obviously it depends on the application.. If you're running a database system which needs data from the whole database very quickly then splitting the database system up into lots of nodes will be much worse than trying to beef up individual nodes.
1) Make energy expensive
2) Piss off businesses and consumers who want luxury and economic security now
3) Along comes a guy who promises to lower energy prices
4) Get voted out
Another better example came to mind just after I posted that; OS X's Spaces. Many X11 WMs have had workspaces for ages, but who isn't glad to see Apple's take on the idea?
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Well OS X got Widgets right out of KDE's Konfabulator, and Finder and Safari's tabs out of Firefox (which got it from Opera, which got it from...). Good ideas spread around, get improved upon and integrated with other ideas, which spread around further. This is a good thing, and it's not one way.
Neutrinos do have mass, that has been experimentally proven within experimental error. It was the first example my lecturer gave in Physics 101 of experimental uncertainty. We're just not sure how much mass.
I'm skeptical, but it would tidy things up nicely if it turned out right.
This release is very important because Mono is now a dependency! This single move pretty much moves Mono from an interesting project into mainstream OSS.
As a C# fan, and knowing how much of a pain GTK was in C, I think this is a very good move. KDE has always had a better API, official Mono support with GTK reverses that! This could really clear up GNOME, and the Linux desktop generally.
You should avoid apps from places like that at all costs, especially when there are easy solutions involving free software.
I'd say write an app which looks for 3dmax.exe processes at frequent intervals and sets them to low. With cygwin it'd take a couple of minutes to write a shell script. Do anything but don't use 'Priority Saver Deluxe Edition v10 for only $19.99', these companies exist because of ignorance/laziness and PageRank bots.
No reason to own a PC, except a Mac is just a brand of Personal Computer, and it's a particularly expensive brand. Thanks, but I'd rather built my own. If you like shiny GUIs with less functionality at a premium, go for it.
Have you ever written a.NET application? If you're into Objective-C, and can integrate with BSD and Core Graphics, then okay, but it doesn't come close to.NET. Whole system integration (especially in the business arena) is what MS does best. Mod me as you will..
It won't hit the net; the cameramen would be sued. It would need his wife's approval to be broadcast, and the networks, and it's too extreme for the network to show it, and his wife wouldn't want the video to be floating around for her kids to see.
I don't know why everyone seems surprised that it wasn't a croc. It seems much more likely that he'd get killed by an animal which he's not experienced with. I've seen him have a very close encounter with a spitting cobra amongst others (luckily he was wearing glasses, even though he didn't realise it spat), just because he wasn't familiar with cobras.
He's much less likely to get killed by the animal he's the most familiar with, and which he learnt about from his father.
I know it's a joke, but I thought I'd clear up a common misconception; ROT-13 by definition isn't encryption. Encryption requires a key to decrypt, you can know the encryption algorithm but can't know the data without the key. Encoding only requires an algorithm.
ROT-13 is encoding; ROT by an unknown amount, where the unknown amount is the key, is encryption.
64-bit users are second class citizens when it comes to Linux for the same reason PowerPC users are; you're the vast minority. At the moment we're still a 2-5 years from having 4GB+ RAM in a typical desktop system, and what desktop user needs 64-bit arithmatic?
Wait a few years and 32-bit users will become second class, but until then you can't expect to have rare hardware supported just as well as commonplace hardware, especially when the changes which have to be made are non-trivial.
Remember when getting Linux running well on a laptop (with power management and wireless cards) was relatively tricky? Now it's completely commonplace, just because far more people have them now. With FOSS it's especially important that the hardware is commonplace and in the hands of developers, because FOSS developers generally don't get cutting edge development systems in advance, and they code on an as-needed basis.
On the other hand MS can develop 64-bit for Vista because their developers get paid, they're not in it for their own features, and they get development systems.
I don't want my image viewer to be called Picasa, I'd rather gthumb or iPhoto or "Picture Viewer". I don't want to have to decipher what the product name means.
Toshiba plans to bring out a limited edition 16GB USB dongle.
A dongle is a way of keeping software licenses tied to physical hardware, this isn't a dongle.
Moving on, a 60GB drive is hardly remarkable, with iPods around everywhere that can carry 60GB. They must mean a 60GB USB flash drive. Pretty bad editing.
This is true to a certain extend, but good BSD code is shared amongst all the BSDs. The example in the article was Bluetooth support, it originated from NetBSD but is now used in all BSDs. PF originated in OpenBSD and is now used in all BSDs, SSH originated in OpenBSD and is now used everywhere. It's a liberal license and this is one of the benefits.
But yes, I think anyone working on the NetBSD kernel is wasting thier time, along with DragonflyBSD. Lots of NetBSD code will still be around in other projects, so it's certainly not useless, but it'd be better to work on a more actively maintained OS, imho.
A board is about meeting the corporations objectives, and members are voted in based on their ability to help meet those objectives. If the shareholders vote someone into the board based on ability alone, that's no more discrimination than an olympic coach choosing 100m runners based on ability and ending up with Kenyans.
Are you saying the shareholders should try and vote a woman onto the board just because there aren't any women in there at the moment? That's real discrimination (positive or negative, it's all bad).
If there was a 50:50 ratio of men to women, then what? Should there be representatives of all religions, skin colours, programming language preferences, etc?
Nevermind if they can meet corporate objectives, are their genetalia representative of the population?!
This will probably end up only for the people who read at -1, but here's a list of some of Vista's main improvements:
Lots of security features (drive encryption, much improved firewall, address space randomization, users aren't admin, lots of IE security improvements), loads of revamped new stacks (audio, print, network, video), IPv6 by default, new memory manager,.NET better integrated in, nicer interface all around (yes, lots of stuff from OS X, but that's a good thing), lots of bundled applications are much improved (IE7, Outlook, Task manager, Windows update, etc), new WIM deployment image stuff to make multi-installs easier, NFS client support for better UNIX integration (no more being forced to support SMB on Linux), improved program installation API which should make things cleaner, etc.
As for the DRM; I'd rather have it built into the OS where all developers can re-use it, so media will hopefully be easier to transfer between apps which use MS' DRM. Worst case scenario; it'll be one DRM scheme to break instead of a million different ones.
Whether you like Windows or not, Vista will be a very nice and much needed improvement; businesses will be upgrading, and I expect the vast majority of XP users will be too.
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Is this the best time for Microsoft to be making sure as few people as possible pirate Windows? Surely now, as XP is going out to make way for Vista, and OS X is gaining momentum, they should be practically encouraging it.
Microsoft has a few important things going for it, but the user share and market dominance is the most important; I wouldn't want to test it, it's easier than ever to switch to Linux.
Can I have the 2x Core 2 Duos you pull out of your new Mac Pro to make room for Quadros?
Buying a pre-made computer with a couple of the most expensive CPUs available inside, only to swap them out for even more expensive ones, why didn't I think of that?
> Make energy expensive.
1) Make energy expensive
2) Piss off businesses and consumers who want luxury and economic security now
3) Along comes a guy who promises to lower energy prices
4) Get voted out
Another better example came to mind just after I posted that; OS X's Spaces. Many X11 WMs have had workspaces for ages, but who isn't glad to see Apple's take on the idea?
Well OS X got Widgets right out of KDE's Konfabulator, and Finder and Safari's tabs out of Firefox (which got it from Opera, which got it from ...). Good ideas spread around, get improved upon and integrated with other ideas, which spread around further. This is a good thing, and it's not one way.
If you like to read about good news and hard work you can read the other OSTG site freshmeat.net, but personally I don't find it very interesting.
/. makes up debates that don't exist, as here, interesting comments usually come up).
I come here to read interesting points of view (even if
Neutrinos do have mass, that has been experimentally proven within experimental error. It was the first example my lecturer gave in Physics 101 of experimental uncertainty. We're just not sure how much mass.
I'm skeptical, but it would tidy things up nicely if it turned out right.
This release is very important because Mono is now a dependency! This single move pretty much moves Mono from an interesting project into mainstream OSS.
As a C# fan, and knowing how much of a pain GTK was in C, I think this is a very good move. KDE has always had a better API, official Mono support with GTK reverses that! This could really clear up GNOME, and the Linux desktop generally.
You should avoid apps from places like that at all costs, especially when there are easy solutions involving free software.
I'd say write an app which looks for 3dmax.exe processes at frequent intervals and sets them to low. With cygwin it'd take a couple of minutes to write a shell script. Do anything but don't use 'Priority Saver Deluxe Edition v10 for only $19.99', these companies exist because of ignorance/laziness and PageRank bots.
No reason to own a PC, except a Mac is just a brand of Personal Computer, and it's a particularly expensive brand. Thanks, but I'd rather built my own. If you like shiny GUIs with less functionality at a premium, go for it.
Have you ever written a .NET application? If you're into Objective-C, and can integrate with BSD and Core Graphics, then okay, but it doesn't come close to .NET. Whole system integration (especially in the business arena) is what MS does best. Mod me as you will..
It won't hit the net; the cameramen would be sued. It would need his wife's approval to be broadcast, and the networks, and it's too extreme for the network to show it, and his wife wouldn't want the video to be floating around for her kids to see.
It's just common sense.
I don't know why everyone seems surprised that it wasn't a croc. It seems much more likely that he'd get killed by an animal which he's not experienced with. I've seen him have a very close encounter with a spitting cobra amongst others (luckily he was wearing glasses, even though he didn't realise it spat), just because he wasn't familiar with cobras.
He's much less likely to get killed by the animal he's the most familiar with, and which he learnt about from his father.
South Park's satire of Steve Irwin really sums up what I thought his show was about. "I'm gonna sneak up on it, and stick my thumb in it's butthole!"
Attenborough gets better footage without intentionally riling the animals up.
I know it's a joke, but I thought I'd clear up a common misconception; ROT-13 by definition isn't encryption. Encryption requires a key to decrypt, you can know the encryption algorithm but can't know the data without the key. Encoding only requires an algorithm.
ROT-13 is encoding; ROT by an unknown amount, where the unknown amount is the key, is encryption.
FreeBSD has a board and it's successful.
64-bit users are second class citizens when it comes to Linux for the same reason PowerPC users are; you're the vast minority. At the moment we're still a 2-5 years from having 4GB+ RAM in a typical desktop system, and what desktop user needs 64-bit arithmatic?
Wait a few years and 32-bit users will become second class, but until then you can't expect to have rare hardware supported just as well as commonplace hardware, especially when the changes which have to be made are non-trivial.
Remember when getting Linux running well on a laptop (with power management and wireless cards) was relatively tricky? Now it's completely commonplace, just because far more people have them now. With FOSS it's especially important that the hardware is commonplace and in the hands of developers, because FOSS developers generally don't get cutting edge development systems in advance, and they code on an as-needed basis.
On the other hand MS can develop 64-bit for Vista because their developers get paid, they're not in it for their own features, and they get development systems.
I don't want my image viewer to be called Picasa, I'd rather gthumb or iPhoto or "Picture Viewer". I don't want to have to decipher what the product name means.
I stand corrected
Toshiba plans to bring out a limited edition 16GB USB dongle.
A dongle is a way of keeping software licenses tied to physical hardware, this isn't a dongle.
Moving on, a 60GB drive is hardly remarkable, with iPods around everywhere that can carry 60GB. They must mean a 60GB USB flash drive. Pretty bad editing.
This is true to a certain extend, but good BSD code is shared amongst all the BSDs. The example in the article was Bluetooth support, it originated from NetBSD but is now used in all BSDs. PF originated in OpenBSD and is now used in all BSDs, SSH originated in OpenBSD and is now used everywhere. It's a liberal license and this is one of the benefits.
But yes, I think anyone working on the NetBSD kernel is wasting thier time, along with DragonflyBSD. Lots of NetBSD code will still be around in other projects, so it's certainly not useless, but it'd be better to work on a more actively maintained OS, imho.
A board is about meeting the corporations objectives, and members are voted in based on their ability to help meet those objectives. If the shareholders vote someone into the board based on ability alone, that's no more discrimination than an olympic coach choosing 100m runners based on ability and ending up with Kenyans.
Are you saying the shareholders should try and vote a woman onto the board just because there aren't any women in there at the moment? That's real discrimination (positive or negative, it's all bad).
If there was a 50:50 ratio of men to women, then what? Should there be representatives of all religions, skin colours, programming language preferences, etc?
Nevermind if they can meet corporate objectives, are their genetalia representative of the population?!
This will probably end up only for the people who read at -1, but here's a list of some of Vista's main improvements:
.NET better integrated in, nicer interface all around (yes, lots of stuff from OS X, but that's a good thing), lots of bundled applications are much improved (IE7, Outlook, Task manager, Windows update, etc), new WIM deployment image stuff to make multi-installs easier, NFS client support for better UNIX integration (no more being forced to support SMB on Linux), improved program installation API which should make things cleaner, etc.
Lots of security features (drive encryption, much improved firewall, address space randomization, users aren't admin, lots of IE security improvements), loads of revamped new stacks (audio, print, network, video), IPv6 by default, new memory manager,
As for the DRM; I'd rather have it built into the OS where all developers can re-use it, so media will hopefully be easier to transfer between apps which use MS' DRM. Worst case scenario; it'll be one DRM scheme to break instead of a million different ones.
Whether you like Windows or not, Vista will be a very nice and much needed improvement; businesses will be upgrading, and I expect the vast majority of XP users will be too.
It's a bad time for an arab couple to join the mile high club, that's for sure..