Sony predicts that, at current demand levels, the console will remain in the North American retail channel until fall.
In plain old englisch: "Yeah, we extremely overestimated the demand and have produced so much stock that it will take almost five months till the last of the consoles is sold."
Curious, how does the second part of that actually work? Let's say, hypothetically, I was a German citizen with dual citezenship in, let's say, oh, I don't know, Australia. Let's say that I left Germany 10 years ago, and have been living in Australia since, until, one day, I'm arrested for shoplifting. Will I be charged for the crime by both the Australian and German governments? What if the Australian court finds me not guilty, will I be extradited back to Germany to stand trial again there? As most western countries, Germany only allows one trial for one crime.
The rules were mostly set to combat sex-tourism involving minors in countries like Thailand.
Debian is fine but the lack of "The Debian Company" means it's more limited to non critical roles or small businesses/non profit organisations.
Yeah, like web servers. Web servers are non-critical to the vast majority of companies. Sure, the web-shops need their webservers, but the rest of the world values their email- and databaseservers much more than their webservers.
Now we are removing soldiers from harm's way and using technology to supplant judgment. Will we feel safer? Well, the US of A will feel safer, but the rest of the world trembles in fear. With robots instead of soldiers, your government faces almost no resistance from inside against a war.
Stock-price does not depend on the business at all (look at the inflated stock-prices for some of the new startups); using it as a measurement of a company loosing money is stupid.
Also, the distinction between "business is loosing money" and "shareholders are loosing money" has to be made.
There exist no such thing as an "appliance computer". THe Tivo is a normal computer, to which Tivo Inc. added some restrictions.
Wrong. An appliance computer is a term for a computer that does one specific task. That task might be complexed and involves many tasks but the goal in one thing. A VCR is an example of an appliance and Tivo is the same. A Network attached storage and others are appliances too. No, they are normal computers who have been limited to only do one task.
An appliance is something that is physically capable of doing only one thing (think of a shaker). The examples you mentioned are normal computers who have been crippled.
It might be lying or it might be delusion, it's probably both. The music giants are falling, but they don't understand why. They got rich running things a certain way, and they are still running things that way, but now they are losing money. No, they are _NOT_ loosing money. Sony BMG hat over 5 Billions in revenue in 2005 (http://biz.yahoo.com/ic/135/135429.html)
Basic sysadmin-skills. If you can't install apache without a wizard, how are you going to keep apache (and the underlying system) up-to-date? We allready have enough spambots at it is...
I thought we were talking about modern Linux systems here (Ubuntu). apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade -- hmm, looks like all you need to keep your underlying system up-to-date. apt-get install apache2
there is your apache-installation. Are you sure you want a wizard for that?
If you require a graphical wizard to install apache, you don't have the necessary skills to be running a webserver.
What skills would those be? Basic sysadmin-skills. If you can't install apache without a wizard, how are you going to keep apache (and the underlying system) up-to-date? We allready have enough spambots at it is...
Why is it that there is still debate as to whether wizzard like setps would be good for the desktop or the server? On this point, a wizzard like setup routine to handle an application like the Apache web server would make things easier for a lot of folks.
If you require a graphical wizard to install apache, you don't have the necessary skills to be running a webserver.
Ignoring that, there _are_ graphical programs to install apache on most distros nowadays (adept & synaptic on ubuntu). The really hard part is configuring apache, and as the apache has _bazillions_ of options, no good-enough wizard can be made for that.
What makes me mad is that those who have the skills do do the needful, still refuse to see what seems to be obvious. Time will tell.
What exactly are you missing? Installing apache2 under Ubuntu (or any Debian-based distro) is easy; there exist graphical tools for that. Once installed, it has a basic configuration which just uses/var/www/ as the webserver-root and places everything under it onto the web. What more do you want?
Has anyone used the PostgreSQL open source to refactor the DB to support just a subset of SQL and features (the most popular stuff that eg. "LAMP" uses), then benchmarked it vs the default distro, to show higher performance? I don't see how stripping out nused features would lead to a big increase in performance. Unused code just sits there in the RAM and does nothing to slow you down (_IF_ the application is well-designed)
For that matter, has anyone merged any open source Java server container with PostgreSQL for higher performance of that use case, in an integrated architecture without network and other overhead for messages, and more atomic transactions? Again, i think this would not increase the performance by a notable amount. The bottleneck nowadays lies in I/O; the two copy-commands needed to pipe something through the tcp/ip-stack are negligable.
You have the wrong assumtion that game assets have to be covered by the GPL. All 3D-engines nowadays are written in a way that lets the user change the core assets (like textures, models, scripts, maps, etc). You can take the GPL'ed Quake-Engine and program a commercial, closed-source game with it. YOur main executable (containing the engine code) would have to be Free, but the rest of the game can be under any license you want.
The FSF is not about pleasing everyone. It is about solely furthering the goals of Free Software (not Open Source, not Linux). They will succeed in that.
Sorry, it's Linux that's playing the license games, not Sun. One only needs to look at ZFS support in FreeBSD to see that (Speaking of, where's the 'ZFS On FreeBSD!' story?). There is no "ZFS on FreeBSD"-story, because all five users of FreeBSD allready know about it.
Linux has a much wider adoption out there, thus the focus on linux.
"If Safari can obtain a 10% market share on Windows, then it would further weaken IE's position and give standards-based browsers more leverage with developers."
If my aunt had balls, she would be my uncle.
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Sony predicts that, at current demand levels, the console will remain in the North American retail channel until fall. In plain old englisch: "Yeah, we extremely overestimated the demand and have produced so much stock that it will take almost five months till the last of the consoles is sold."
Sure, but if you use a VM for each application, you have easy containerization.
That torrent saturated my 100Mbit connection... Will keep on seeding.
Yeah, like web servers. Web servers are non-critical to the vast majority of companies. Sure, the web-shops need their webservers, but the rest of the world values their email- and databaseservers much more than their webservers.
Stock-price does not depend on the business at all (look at the inflated stock-prices for some of the new startups); using it as a measurement of a company loosing money is stupid. Also, the distinction between "business is loosing money" and "shareholders are loosing money" has to be made.
There exist no such thing as an "appliance computer". THe Tivo is a normal computer, to which Tivo Inc. added some restrictions.
I thought we were talking about modern Linux systems here (Ubuntu). apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade -- hmm, looks like all you need to keep your underlying system up-to-date. apt-get install apache2
there is your apache-installation. Are you sure you want a wizard for that?
What skills would those be? Basic sysadmin-skills. If you can't install apache without a wizard, how are you going to keep apache (and the underlying system) up-to-date? We allready have enough spambots at it is...
Why is it that there is still debate as to whether wizzard like setps would be good for the desktop or the server? On this point, a wizzard like setup routine to handle an application like the Apache web server would make things easier for a lot of folks.
If you require a graphical wizard to install apache, you don't have the necessary skills to be running a webserver.Ignoring that, there _are_ graphical programs to install apache on most distros nowadays (adept & synaptic on ubuntu). The really hard part is configuring apache, and as the apache has _bazillions_ of options, no good-enough wizard can be made for that.
What makes me mad is that those who have the skills do do the needful, still refuse to see what seems to be obvious. Time will tell.
What exactly are you missing? Installing apache2 under Ubuntu (or any Debian-based distro) is easy; there exist graphical tools for that. Once installed, it has a basic configuration which just usesI don't see how stripping out nused features would lead to a big increase in performance. Unused code just sits there in the RAM and does nothing to slow you down (_IF_ the application is well-designed)
For that matter, has anyone merged any open source Java server container with PostgreSQL for higher performance of that use case, in an integrated architecture without network and other overhead for messages, and more atomic transactions? Again, i think this would not increase the performance by a notable amount. The bottleneck nowadays lies in I/O; the two copy-commands needed to pipe something through the tcp/ip-stack are negligable.
Thanks, I didn't know that.
Seems that i have picked up way too much computer-related slang, as virii is the plural of comuter-virus.
Virii don't die. According to some definitions, they aren't even alive.
IANAL, but the VM executes the code; the code does not execude the VM. This way, it is legal to run closed source software on the GPL'ed Java VM.
As far as i know, nobody needs to alter the VM to develop a game. I could be wrong though.
You have the wrong assumtion that game assets have to be covered by the GPL. All 3D-engines nowadays are written in a way that lets the user change the core assets (like textures, models, scripts, maps, etc). You can take the GPL'ed Quake-Engine and program a commercial, closed-source game with it. YOur main executable (containing the engine code) would have to be Free, but the rest of the game can be under any license you want.
The techniques behind the major 3D-Engines are published, well understood and taught in universities.
The FSF is not about pleasing everyone. It is about solely furthering the goals of Free Software (not Open Source, not Linux). They will succeed in that.
Gmail for Proffessionals?! Professionals run their own damn servers with their own damn XMPP-implementation.
nope. This is about publicity; the aim is to educate as much citizens as possible. As long as Users_of_wikipedia > users_of_citizendum use wikipedia.
There is no "ZFS on FreeBSD"-story, because all five users of FreeBSD allready know about it. Linux has a much wider adoption out there, thus the focus on linux.