After almost two years or work and 994 commits later made by only 14 contributors, the LTSP team is proud to announce that the Linux Terminal Server Project project released LTSP 5.2 on Wednesday the 17th of February.
That's about one commit per 10 days per person. Is this sort of number normal in the open source scene? It seems very low to me.
The trend that youngsters are less and less able to write a coherent sentence seems to be a global thing. I'm not a native English speaker myself, so excuse me for any mistakes, but I'm often amazed at how incredibly bad my fellow Dutchmen write, especially on the internet.
I wonder if the decline of the paper media have got anything to do with this. Sure, books, newspapers and magazines aren't perfect or even decent at a lot things, but at least they contain (mostly) correctly written texts. People reading these texts are likely to adopt the language used, which means that if the majority of the population use these media as a source of information, they're likely to write what they read. But as the paper media are rapidly losing ground, so is correctly spelled language. On the internet, nobody checks your texts for errors in spelling or grammar, because nobody seems to care. It's all about speed instead of correctness.
That's why Spyker wants to bring back the '80ies glory of Saab. Maybe that will work, maybe not, but at least Victor Muller is a lot more passionate about the design of the cars than GM will ever be.
I'm looking forward to what Saab will bring from 2012 onward, because that's when Spyker's influence will start to show from Saabs in the showroom.
Although it's hard to say no to market where 100 Million ad impressions is a slow day.
That's exactly the problem right there. It boils down to this: Google needs China more than China needs Google. So China can do whatever they want and Google will always have to either accept it, or quit.
It really depends on your hardware. Besides my computers, I have two devices capable of playing video. One is my iPhone, the other is my XBOX360. Both handle H264 fine.
I fully agree with this, it's absolutely impossible to fully understand Intel's CPU product line up. And why make all those different models anyway? I understand you have a branch of products focussing on power consumption and another on speed, but the current amount of different processors, brand names, code names, series, serial numbers is completely insane. Especially, as you point out, because the meaning of these names keep changing all the time!
You're exactly right. It has never been about a specific product, it was about the vision to steer the company into a direction that would be succesful.
Look for example at this keynote from 1998. At about 6:10 into the video, Jobs explains his plans of removing all of the dozens of different computers from the then-current Apple's product line and replace it with only 4 types of computer. It doesn't even matter what products he is replacing the old ones with, it's the fact that he takes these kind of decisions.
I remember $2000 being a very middle-of-the-road and maybe even modest amount to pay for a new computer system back in the late eighties and late nineties.
Exactly. Both Cyrix and AMD offered 386's and 486's at higher clockspeeds and for less money than what Intel was selling. I also had a 80486 DX later which ran at a crazy 125 MHz. It wouldn't be for much, much later that Intel sold chips at those frequencies.
But anyway, the whole game changed when the Pentium came around and Intel could actually patent their chip for the first time. Cyrix was dead a short time after and AMD was forced into the niche were it remained till this very day.
I have a box of OS/2 Warp 3 on a shelf, so I suppose I've run that as well at some point, but I really can't remember anything about it except for staring at the sand clock pointer forever:P
DX33 80386, with 4 Megs of RAM, no co-processor, and a 40 Megabyte hard disc
That's almost exactly my first computer too. Altough I really had a 20 MB harddisk, but I used doublespace to get 40 MB. And I didn't have the Intel DX33, but the Cyrix DX40 instead. That 7 MHz really made the difference.
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Doesn't sound like the guy asking the original question is feeling too liberated though.
Stop being afraid and learn some new tech.
You can say a lot of things about time sharing computing resources, but it aint exactly "new tech".
After almost two years or work and 994 commits later made by only 14 contributors, the LTSP team is proud to announce that the Linux Terminal Server Project project released LTSP 5.2 on Wednesday the 17th of February.
That's about one commit per 10 days per person. Is this sort of number normal in the open source scene? It seems very low to me.
Oh really?
Now there's a cool name.
The trend that youngsters are less and less able to write a coherent sentence seems to be a global thing. I'm not a native English speaker myself, so excuse me for any mistakes, but I'm often amazed at how incredibly bad my fellow Dutchmen write, especially on the internet.
I wonder if the decline of the paper media have got anything to do with this. Sure, books, newspapers and magazines aren't perfect or even decent at a lot things, but at least they contain (mostly) correctly written texts. People reading these texts are likely to adopt the language used, which means that if the majority of the population use these media as a source of information, they're likely to write what they read. But as the paper media are rapidly losing ground, so is correctly spelled language. On the internet, nobody checks your texts for errors in spelling or grammar, because nobody seems to care. It's all about speed instead of correctness.
That's why Spyker wants to bring back the '80ies glory of Saab. Maybe that will work, maybe not, but at least Victor Muller is a lot more passionate about the design of the cars than GM will ever be.
I'm looking forward to what Saab will bring from 2012 onward, because that's when Spyker's influence will start to show from Saabs in the showroom.
Moving from iWork to MS Office can hardly be described as "upgrading".
Although it's hard to say no to market where 100 Million ad impressions is a slow day.
That's exactly the problem right there. It boils down to this: Google needs China more than China needs Google. So China can do whatever they want and Google will always have to either accept it, or quit.
It really depends on your hardware. Besides my computers, I have two devices capable of playing video. One is my iPhone, the other is my XBOX360. Both handle H264 fine.
You're just saying you like your DVD player. There isn't a single argument for liking AVI or DivX/XviD in your post.
Please do NOT mod the parent post up!
No worries, mate.
Not to mention Nokia ONLY develops phones
I have a Nokia television.
Especially since the Great Wall of China is not visible from space at all.
Hire some Dutchmen to fix it.
We're not renting the software, we are granted a license to use it.
I like what Psystar was doing but it was always a bad idea to buy from them.
If you really felt Psystar was doing the right thing, you would have bought from them. It's called voting with your wallet.
I fully agree with this, it's absolutely impossible to fully understand Intel's CPU product line up. And why make all those different models anyway? I understand you have a branch of products focussing on power consumption and another on speed, but the current amount of different processors, brand names, code names, series, serial numbers is completely insane. Especially, as you point out, because the meaning of these names keep changing all the time!
You're exactly right. It has never been about a specific product, it was about the vision to steer the company into a direction that would be succesful.
Look for example at this keynote from 1998. At about 6:10 into the video, Jobs explains his plans of removing all of the dozens of different computers from the then-current Apple's product line and replace it with only 4 types of computer. It doesn't even matter what products he is replacing the old ones with, it's the fact that he takes these kind of decisions.
I remember $2000 being a very middle-of-the-road and maybe even modest amount to pay for a new computer system back in the late eighties and late nineties.
I'm 100% sure it was a 80386 DX at 40 MHz. Not by Intel though. I thought it was a Cyrix chip, but it could've been AMD as well.
Exactly. Both Cyrix and AMD offered 386's and 486's at higher clockspeeds and for less money than what Intel was selling. I also had a 80486 DX later which ran at a crazy 125 MHz. It wouldn't be for much, much later that Intel sold chips at those frequencies.
But anyway, the whole game changed when the Pentium came around and Intel could actually patent their chip for the first time. Cyrix was dead a short time after and AMD was forced into the niche were it remained till this very day.
I have a box of OS/2 Warp 3 on a shelf, so I suppose I've run that as well at some point, but I really can't remember anything about it except for staring at the sand clock pointer forever :P
DX33 80386, with 4 Megs of RAM, no co-processor, and a 40 Megabyte hard disc
That's almost exactly my first computer too. Altough I really had a 20 MB harddisk, but I used doublespace to get 40 MB. And I didn't have the Intel DX33, but the Cyrix DX40 instead. That 7 MHz really made the difference.
No, that's the 80486. With the 80386, DX meant you got a full 32 bit CPU, instead of partly 16 bit one with the SX.