Future posting hint: Your credibility becomes zero as soon as you say "WinBloze". You sound like an eight year old bragging about how his "N3W L1NUX R00LZ". If you really are a professional, act like one.
If you replaced all my apps with their rich, functional GUIs with a weak web interface tied to a mysql database I'd kill you in your sleep.
Yes, I am pretty staunchly anti-Microsoft. Yes, I love Free Software as much as the next rabid Slashdotter. Your attitude still makes me want to vomit.
Nah, for once this isn't the case. Microsoft OS's have been IPv6-capable for a while. They don't ship with it on by default, but enabling it is as simple as typing "ipv6 install" or something of that nature. I lack a Windows box (happily) so I may not have the exact right command.
This announcement is great news. Hopefully some large corporations will follow the Pentagon's lead and start demanding IPv6 from their providers.
While I think I see your point about architecture, I would argue that it is up to the developer/architect to choose an architecture that makes sense...
Spot on. Regarding the Java Pet Store example used above, there's an alternative implementation that might be more appealing to people who preferred the.NET implementation to Sun's (including myself).
The purpose of Sun's Pet Store was to demonstrate "best practices" (not performance, which is why the more performance-oriented.NET store smoked it). Unfortunately, they layered best practice on top of best practice until all they had left was a completely bloated mess.
Oracle has their own implementation as well, which I believe is also competitive with the.NET store.
Well, compared to NFS in general SMB sucks the big one for performance on Linux. That said, I've got a directory with a couple hundred large video files in it and it comes up perfectly fine over SMB in Nautilus.
Bring whatever computer you already have, assuming it's satisfactory for you now. You're probably going to be buried in student loans anyway, I'd avoid putting myself another $1000-3000 in the hole right off the bat if I could. Your school likely has a set of minimum requirements, but I doubt anyone on/. doesn't have at least one system that would meet them.
Buying a really spiffy computer might free you from going to the computer lab a few times a semester, but this is a bad thing. As a geek, the fewer times you have to go outside, the fewer times you will go outside. You make friends outside. Real ones. Some might be girls. This is important.
Unless there's some curricular justification for it, taking a laptop to class looks stupid. Millions of people who are smarter than you did just fine taking notes on paper, you will too. Plus, do you really want to have to choose between sitting next to a lonely freshman hottie or a wall outlet during your third class of the day? I did CS at Ga Tech, and the guys sitting in front of the laptops in class were the same ones sitting in front of them on Friday night. (Of course, at Ga Tech, most guys are in front of their computers on Friday night, so maybe it was just a coincidence.)
Anyway, buying a computer isn't any more important now than it will be the hundreds of other times you'll probably do it throughout your life. If you need to get a new one (I feel that urge every few months too), just get one you like and don't worry about it. Good luck and have fun at college:).
Ga Tech had this problem. Everything started out wonderfully, but by the second year the rise of Napster and its successors made 56k more suitable for gaming.
I moved off campus eventually and my Speakeasy SDSL was much better for fragging than the dorm connection, but of course the 768k line speed made for much slower file transfers.
But then you're not nudging those with broken browsers in the open standards direction, thus hurting both them and the conscientious users who are going to have to submit to another generation of "This site works in IE only" messages.
Broken code is always broken, even if it's being displayed correctly in a broken browser.
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I said the exact same thing you did! Then I ran out of money... :(
(e.g. go to church regularly and abstain from narcotics and non-medical drugs, as well as immoral sexual activity)
Guess that rules me out. Damnit.
Your last idea is a very good one. I think I'll give it a try. Thanks!
Are you suggesting... Double Secret Emulation?!
Future posting hint:
Your credibility becomes zero as soon as you say "WinBloze". You sound like an eight year old bragging about how his "N3W L1NUX R00LZ". If you really are a professional, act like one.
If you replaced all my apps with their rich, functional GUIs with a weak web interface tied to a mysql database I'd kill you in your sleep.
Yes, I am pretty staunchly anti-Microsoft. Yes, I love Free Software as much as the next rabid Slashdotter. Your attitude still makes me want to vomit.
Hate to say it, but his attitude will keep him employed a whole lot longer than yours will.
Nah, for once this isn't the case. Microsoft OS's have been IPv6-capable for a while. They don't ship with it on by default, but enabling it is as simple as typing "ipv6 install" or something of that nature. I lack a Windows box (happily) so I may not have the exact right command.
This announcement is great news. Hopefully some large corporations will follow the Pentagon's lead and start demanding IPv6 from their providers.
Does this mean... war
I know, I know...
While I think I see your point about architecture, I would argue that it is up to the developer/architect to choose an architecture that makes sense...
.NET implementation to Sun's (including myself).
.NET store smoked it). Unfortunately, they layered best practice on top of best practice until all they had left was a completely bloated mess.
.NET store.
Spot on. Regarding the Java Pet Store example used above, there's an alternative implementation that might be more appealing to people who preferred the
The purpose of Sun's Pet Store was to demonstrate "best practices" (not performance, which is why the more performance-oriented
Oracle has their own implementation as well, which I believe is also competitive with the
Without a glitch? Someone's never written any J2EE code...
Silly webmail system? Come on. I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but Hotmail is fucking huge.
Because of your complete inability to spell "work?"
Fellowship of the Ring: Extended Edition?
Wow, as a city slicker I am really sorry to hear about the plight of the rural American. I feel compelled to help.
I didn't finish my plankton...
I know it's not much, but I want you guys to have it.
Why? Did you find something funny, Osama?
Think of all the hilarious hate mail this guy must get on a regular basis. I want it!
The only people who need to do those things are terrorists and thieves. Would you like to confess now, or down at the station?
Wow, you guys get indoor plumbing and electricity for a couple years and all of a sudden you think you can run with the big dogs.
Easy there, tiger.
Well, compared to NFS in general SMB sucks the big one for performance on Linux. That said, I've got a directory with a couple hundred large video files in it and it comes up perfectly fine over SMB in Nautilus.
but after security ease of use will continue to be the most important aspect to any OS.
Can I have some of what you're smoking?
I'm pretty sure they don't do that. Tech doesn't forbid much of anything save blatantly malicious actions.
Bring whatever computer you already have, assuming it's satisfactory for you now. You're probably going to be buried in student loans anyway, I'd avoid putting myself another $1000-3000 in the hole right off the bat if I could. Your school likely has a set of minimum requirements, but I doubt anyone on /. doesn't have at least one system that would meet them.
:).
Buying a really spiffy computer might free you from going to the computer lab a few times a semester, but this is a bad thing. As a geek, the fewer times you have to go outside, the fewer times you will go outside. You make friends outside. Real ones. Some might be girls. This is important.
Unless there's some curricular justification for it, taking a laptop to class looks stupid. Millions of people who are smarter than you did just fine taking notes on paper, you will too. Plus, do you really want to have to choose between sitting next to a lonely freshman hottie or a wall outlet during your third class of the day? I did CS at Ga Tech, and the guys sitting in front of the laptops in class were the same ones sitting in front of them on Friday night. (Of course, at Ga Tech, most guys are in front of their computers on Friday night, so maybe it was just a coincidence.)
Anyway, buying a computer isn't any more important now than it will be the hundreds of other times you'll probably do it throughout your life. If you need to get a new one (I feel that urge every few months too), just get one you like and don't worry about it. Good luck and have fun at college
Ga Tech had this problem. Everything started out wonderfully, but by the second year the rise of Napster and its successors made 56k more suitable for gaming.
I moved off campus eventually and my Speakeasy SDSL was much better for fragging than the dorm connection, but of course the 768k line speed made for much slower file transfers.
I hear it's gotten better since I was there.
But then you're not nudging those with broken browsers in the open standards direction, thus hurting both them and the conscientious users who are going to have to submit to another generation of "This site works in IE only" messages.
Broken code is always broken, even if it's being displayed correctly in a broken browser.
Supporting open standards is putting the user first, they just may not understand it right away :).