The point is, you already trust your most important data to someone else who can edit it at anyt time and only gives you limited write access to it. They're called your bank or broker.
Is a switching device a computer? (e.g. Cisco hardware) An intelligent disk array? (e.g. NetApp)
My point is that computing devices are all around us that are non-PC technology. They are absorbed into the infrastructure, becoming ubitquitous. Perhaps a better topic would be to discuss the diminishing value of any desktop system.
Sorry to make consecutive posts, but I think that the/. crew needs to start reading articles it links in.
This one is simply idiotic, has no basis in fact or reality, is poorly written, and is of dubious origin. It has nothing interesting to say on anything happening in reality. OS X is not going to be "rewritten" with linux, and no one should treat this as a possibility from reading this article.
Anyone can publish on the web - please don't mistake a domain name with legitimacy.
Read the article - the writer is rambling on about things he seems to be slightly clued-out on. OSX is basically written - why on earth would anyone stop it in their tracks and start over again with linux as a kernel (even if it was a good idea?)?
Sorry Rob, but you're referencing an article here that has no authority, and unfortunately I think most Slashdot readers are going to take for gospel what is in fact uninformed, badly written rambling.
Flaming on the web - get used to it, unfortunately
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People are not held accountable for what they say here. Most people don't even use an ID that they can be named with in argument.
Very few corners of the web have been able to sustain reasoned discussions without experiencing a very high degree of flaming and immaturity.
Then again, I have to ask, what were your exepectations? Flame wars are idiocy are assumed as the norm by anyone who has used the internet for any period of time.
No one really gave a poop about the Windows refund events. Its just that between Slapdash, Wired News, News.Com, OnTopOfIT, DaBUZZ, and all the other tech news sites, there is a high demand for news stories and very little supply.
The result - news sites will make a story about any tiny morsel they can get their hands on, on a slow day. If anything really important had happened that day, the refund day events wouldn't even have got a link.
CNN pioneered this with their obsession with all things Washington. CNBC follows by making a breaking story about a stock moving a half point...there are more outlets for media than the news merits..so they simply make news out of non-news.
Microsoft did reduce the cost of computing - there is no doubt about it. Linux would not exist if Microsoft hadn't help drive down the prices of x86 hardware.
They produced crappy products then and now, and have used snakelike tactics to increase and defend their market share, but there is no doubt that the millions of people buying win95 did in fact make the x86 platform cheap and viable.
You can say what you want about him, but with Pixar, he has proven that he can run an entertainment company. Disney must know that the future of the types of films it makes is 100% CGI.
In fact you could argue that it is time for a real CG-film heavyweight to push the field even further - CG films could be a trillion dollar industry in twenty years.
Steve rescued Apple and made Pixar into a real force in entertainment. Is he the CEO of the century? Maybe.
Still very little reason to upgrade fomr Palm Pro
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The Palm III and Palm V look like nice evolutionary models, but there doesn't appear to be any tangible reason to upgrade fomr the Palm Pro (which I am sure is now cheap and plentiful).
I won't budge until these things get color screens and wireless net connections. Maybe this is a bit fanciful...but I think liike most people, the current Palm Pilot ends up gathering dust after a while. It just doesn't do enough to merit constant use.
The integrated desktop will not happen on unix
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Sorry folks, but having an integrated desktop means havings every app conform to that desktop and use its toolkits to provide pervasive interface artifacts. Look at the Mac, for example.
Since neither KDE or GNOME is ever going to "win" and gain 100% dominance (because the biggest player - Redhat- is behind GNOME, and "everyone but Redhat" supports KDE as it actually works), you will never have apps outside of the "core apps" distributed with the toolkits.
At this point I don't see much for an experienced unix user who doesn't want to be popping excedrin all the time other than FVWM.
If you want an integrated desktop with unix (or just posix), you will have to look at places where this has been done from the ground up and is pervasive - Be or MacOSX.
The situation on linux is a mess and will become even more shameful as time goes on.
This is to help small businesses get the same exposure big businesses already get due to their prominence.
Most small businesses I'm sure would rather pay the measely $200 than wait and wonder for months.
Also, its called leverage folks. Yahoo was bound to leverage their dominant position sooner or later. They aren't a public service - they're in business.
Upgrading the kernel is not going to make your life immediately better. Constantly upgrading software, getting the latest sources, recompiling, recompiling, recompiling...all of this is quite interesting if you don't have anything to do with your time. You aren't going to notice any real differences. Just wait and RH will release all this crap on their next CD and you can take five minutes to upgrade painlessly instead of two hours. All of this obsessive upgrading is imply going to make you frustrated in the long run with no clear benefit.
Awesome! Now I can get the simplest GTK widgets together into some sort of executable, call it GNUsomething 0.0.1, claim it has a terribly bright future, and get money for it!
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Bill Gates and Larry Ellison do not profess to be the world's best programmers.
Linus Torvalds and Richard Stallman might.
Which would you rather be? Both are good, but there are huge differences.
You're about to get knocked down a peg or two lad.
Try to stay away from razor blades when it happens.
The point is, you already trust your most important data to someone else who can edit it at anyt time and only gives you limited write access to it. They're called your bank or broker.
Is a switching device a computer? (e.g. Cisco hardware) An intelligent disk array? (e.g. NetApp)
My point is that computing devices are all around us that are non-PC technology. They are absorbed into the infrastructure, becoming ubitquitous. Perhaps a better topic would be to discuss the diminishing value of any desktop system.
Your future employer wants you to be somewhat forthcoming about how much money you have made in the past, but I would recommend keeping it vague.
Past employers typically are prohibited from disclosing data about you - most won't do it anyway - they're frightened about getting sued.
My employer won't even allow us to make referrals for people, and we're known for being liberal!
Still nothing substantial from the Mozilla team...Yawn.
You seem to be misinformed - according to Apple, it should ship within thirty days.
At least they can form sentences.
This article was simply some knob who has a colored background and a domain name.
At least that's my opinion on the matter.
Ugggh, your response only reinforces my original point.
Sorry to make consecutive posts, but I think that the /. crew needs to start reading articles it links in.
This one is simply idiotic, has no basis in fact or reality, is poorly written, and is of dubious origin. It has nothing interesting to say on anything happening in reality. OS X is not going to be "rewritten" with linux, and no one should treat this as a possibility from reading this article.
Anyone can publish on the web - please don't mistake a domain name with legitimacy.
No, not mine, his!
Read the article - the writer is rambling on about things he seems to be slightly clued-out on. OSX is basically written - why on earth would anyone stop it in their tracks and start over again with linux as a kernel (even if it was a good idea?)?
Sorry Rob, but you're referencing an article here that has no authority, and unfortunately I think most Slashdot readers are going to take for gospel what is in fact uninformed, badly written rambling.
People are not held accountable for what they say here. Most people don't even use an ID that they can be named with in argument.
Very few corners of the web have been able to sustain reasoned discussions without experiencing a very high degree of flaming and immaturity.
Then again, I have to ask, what were your exepectations? Flame wars are idiocy are assumed as the norm by anyone who has used the internet for any period of time.
With every piece he writes, Katz snakes his way further up the collective ass of the linux-zealot community.
Really, I would think you would have to make a conscious effort to look as crusty and dweebed out as these guys did.
...if they have to.
No one really gave a poop about the Windows refund events. Its just that between Slapdash, Wired News, News.Com, OnTopOfIT, DaBUZZ, and all the other tech news sites, there is a high demand for news stories and very little supply.
The result - news sites will make a story about any tiny morsel they can get their hands on, on a slow day. If anything really important had happened that day, the refund day events wouldn't even have got a link.
CNN pioneered this with their obsession with all things Washington. CNBC follows by making a breaking story about a stock moving a half point...there are more outlets for media than the news merits..so they simply make news out of non-news.
Microsoft did reduce the cost of computing - there is no doubt about it. Linux would not exist if Microsoft hadn't help drive down the prices of x86 hardware.
They produced crappy products then and now, and have used snakelike tactics to increase and defend their market share, but there is no doubt that the millions of people buying win95 did in fact make the x86 platform cheap and viable.
This would be an amazing coup for Steve.
You can say what you want about him, but with Pixar, he has proven that he can run an entertainment company. Disney must know that the future of the types of films it makes is 100% CGI.
In fact you could argue that it is time for a real CG-film heavyweight to push the field even further - CG films could be a trillion dollar industry in twenty years.
Steve rescued Apple and made Pixar into a real force in entertainment. Is he the CEO of the century? Maybe.
The Palm III and Palm V look like nice evolutionary models, but there doesn't appear to be any tangible reason to upgrade fomr the Palm Pro (which I am sure is now cheap and plentiful).
I won't budge until these things get color screens and wireless net connections. Maybe this is a bit fanciful...but I think liike most people, the current Palm Pilot ends up gathering dust after a while. It just doesn't do enough to merit constant use.
Sorry folks, but having an integrated desktop means havings every app conform to that desktop and use its toolkits to provide pervasive interface artifacts. Look at the Mac, for example.
Since neither KDE or GNOME is ever going to "win" and gain 100% dominance (because the biggest player - Redhat- is behind GNOME, and "everyone but Redhat" supports KDE as it actually works), you will never have apps outside of the "core apps" distributed with the toolkits.
At this point I don't see much for an experienced unix user who doesn't want to be popping excedrin all the time other than FVWM.
If you want an integrated desktop with unix (or just posix), you will have to look at places where this has been done from the ground up and is pervasive - Be or MacOSX.
The situation on linux is a mess and will become even more shameful as time goes on.
Yahoo wants to go a little further than Encyclopedia Britannica. In fact, it is lame that you would presume that this is their goal.
Yes, they started off cataloging sites, but they never promised anyone that they would maintain some sort of benevolent hierarchy.
And don't worry about ten years - Yahoo, linux, and open source will all be distant memories.
This is to help small businesses get the same exposure big businesses already get due to their prominence.
Most small businesses I'm sure would rather pay the measely $200 than wait and wonder for months.
Also, its called leverage folks. Yahoo was bound to leverage their dominant position sooner or later. They aren't a public service - they're in business.
How droll. We know the story already. How many times can it be told before it gets terribly boring, cliched, and gratuitous?
Upgrading the kernel is not going to make your life immediately better. Constantly upgrading software, getting the latest sources, recompiling, recompiling, recompiling...all of this is quite interesting if you don't have anything to do with your time. You aren't going to notice any real differences. Just wait and RH will release all this crap on their next CD and you can take five minutes to upgrade painlessly instead of two hours. All of this obsessive upgrading is imply going to make you frustrated in the long run with no clear benefit.
Awesome! Now I can get the simplest GTK widgets together into some sort of executable, call it GNUsomething 0.0.1, claim it has a terribly bright future, and get money for it!
Its like taking candy from a baby.
I'm showing my age, aren't I?
To the best of my knowlege, the MAiga was the only computer to meditate at meltdown.