Of course nobody refers to Windows' kernel when people call it bloatware. Linus however is not talking about Linux as a distro or an operating system, it's just the kernel that's too bloated in his view. And with over 11 million lines of code, it's hardly even a flame.
Now if only he had developed a microkernel instead...
Most football games last for a few minutes more than the standard 90 minutes, depending on the number of incidents during the match. The game would never be terminated in the middle of an interesting action and no proper referee cares about a few seconds.
TFA doesn't call it that and neither should Slashdot. A "contact headphone" implies a speaker system which uses direct contact with a surface to reproduce sound, just like a contact microphone records sound through direct contact with a surface, instead of using the air as a carrier.
Obviously what SE has done here has nothing to do with the actual speaker system, but just adds a motion detector to a regular headphone, which of course only works through a closed and proprietary interface which of course can only be found in devices by SE.
So please, don't attract my attention with an interesting sounding headline, while in fact it's just a commercial. Thank you.
If by "good" you mean "a lot of advanced features" then you probably would be right. If "good" however includes enough performance to be useful, OS/2 never was a very good OS. Windows 95 would scream (to quote Steve Jobs) on my 486 DX in the day, while OS/2 Warp 3 would present me with an hourglass mouse pointer most of the time.
When the ISP feels his network is being abused, I don't think it's so ridiculous he should be able to do something about it. If cutting off the abuser is the best solution, I'd say go for it. In the long run, it might even help Linux adoption on the desktop, who knows.
Why is it so remarkable to you that Apple open sources one of their technologies? They already have several open sources projects which they use in their software, such as Darwin and Webkit. They also use lots of 3rd party open source technologies in their software. I don't think they're doing all of this because they're somehow violating licenses, but because they just think open source isn't so bad.
If you navigate to the Mac or iPhone page, there are links to the developer-pages in the gray area at the bottom. Not the first place to look perhaps, but then again the main site is not focussed on developers at all. That's why they created a subsite for it.
The video tag is not halted at all. They just decided not to mandate a specific codec, because they couldn't come to a consensus on which codec it should be.
Windows 3 isn't an operating system, it's just a DOS-application allowing you to run things in a GUI. DOS requires no shut down procedure, you can just pull the plug to turn it off. But it was recommended to quit your active application first, which could be Windows. In fact, Windows 9x ran in the same way... when shutting down, it was actually quitting to DOS.
As you can see in the chart, we found that Windows 7 RTM was the fastest to shutdown, and was tied with XP for iTunes encoding. It was slower than XP and Vista, however, for both booting up cold by a little more than 1 second, and slower than either of its predecessors in its Microsoft Office performance. After having used Windows 7 beta, RC and now the RTM for more than six months combined, it still feels faster for us when launching programs, opening the control panel and dragging icons, files and folders around than XP. That's not to denigrate the value of the benchmarks, but keep in mind that the perception and reality might differ based on hardware and usage.
I especially love the remark that "dragging icons" is faster now.
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but to add that tit's unavoidable really
I'm more of a bottom kinda guy myself, but hey, I get it.
Of course nobody refers to Windows' kernel when people call it bloatware. Linus however is not talking about Linux as a distro or an operating system, it's just the kernel that's too bloated in his view. And with over 11 million lines of code, it's hardly even a flame.
Now if only he had developed a microkernel instead...
Congrats to both!
Hey, thanks!
Most football games last for a few minutes more than the standard 90 minutes, depending on the number of incidents during the match. The game would never be terminated in the middle of an interesting action and no proper referee cares about a few seconds.
Altough I think the actual 20 minute difference instead of your imaginary 20 second difference is a little less harsh, you're still right.
According to Microsoft, selling stuff is not the main focus of the Microsoft stores. They just want to be out there or something.
Microsoft doesn't care about whether their hired retail staff will know anything about Windows.
They will care once their own retailers start suggesting Mac OS X to potential customers.
TFA doesn't call it that and neither should Slashdot. A "contact headphone" implies a speaker system which uses direct contact with a surface to reproduce sound, just like a contact microphone records sound through direct contact with a surface, instead of using the air as a carrier.
Obviously what SE has done here has nothing to do with the actual speaker system, but just adds a motion detector to a regular headphone, which of course only works through a closed and proprietary interface which of course can only be found in devices by SE.
So please, don't attract my attention with an interesting sounding headline, while in fact it's just a commercial. Thank you.
10x worse than a PDF link.
Why is a link to a PDF-document worse than a link to say an HTML-document? Seems there is little difference between the two to me.
Probably the same people who came up with USB 3's "SuperSpeed mode".
Apparently marketing is now in the hands of 11-year old boys.
Microsoft have to make their money somehow, and it's not looking like it's going to be through their software ;)
What about the money you just paid for the device itself?
Governments rely on it heavily as well.
Back then yes, was THAT good.
If by "good" you mean "a lot of advanced features" then you probably would be right. If "good" however includes enough performance to be useful, OS/2 never was a very good OS. Windows 95 would scream (to quote Steve Jobs) on my 486 DX in the day, while OS/2 Warp 3 would present me with an hourglass mouse pointer most of the time.
Actually, my maths teacher would be proud.
When the ISP feels his network is being abused, I don't think it's so ridiculous he should be able to do something about it. If cutting off the abuser is the best solution, I'd say go for it. In the long run, it might even help Linux adoption on the desktop, who knows.
Why is it so remarkable to you that Apple open sources one of their technologies? They already have several open sources projects which they use in their software, such as Darwin and Webkit. They also use lots of 3rd party open source technologies in their software. I don't think they're doing all of this because they're somehow violating licenses, but because they just think open source isn't so bad.
...so the web server should be written in PHP as well? Because Apache is written in C, the web applications it hosts also must be written in C?
If you navigate to the Mac or iPhone page, there are links to the developer-pages in the gray area at the bottom. Not the first place to look perhaps, but then again the main site is not focussed on developers at all. That's why they created a subsite for it.
I certainly can't find any pages on known issues, bug fixes, inner workings of their IDE, etc...
I suppose you haven't visited http://support.apple.com/ and http://developer.apple.com/ if you're making statements like these.
Is Skype really worth half the value of Marvel? Disney got an amazing deal...
Sure, I'd say 2500 superheroes for Skype is about right.
Sorry dude, it's just you.
And just look at the opera.com homepage. It sure looks like an announcement to me.
The video tag is not halted at all. They just decided not to mandate a specific codec, because they couldn't come to a consensus on which codec it should be.
Windows 3 isn't an operating system, it's just a DOS-application allowing you to run things in a GUI. DOS requires no shut down procedure, you can just pull the plug to turn it off. But it was recommended to quit your active application first, which could be Windows. In fact, Windows 9x ran in the same way... when shutting down, it was actually quitting to DOS.
Here's the full quote:
As you can see in the chart, we found that Windows 7 RTM was the fastest to shutdown, and was tied with XP for iTunes encoding. It was slower than XP and Vista, however, for both booting up cold by a little more than 1 second, and slower than either of its predecessors in its Microsoft Office performance. After having used Windows 7 beta, RC and now the RTM for more than six months combined, it still feels faster for us when launching programs, opening the control panel and dragging icons, files and folders around than XP. That's not to denigrate the value of the benchmarks, but keep in mind that the perception and reality might differ based on hardware and usage.
I especially love the remark that "dragging icons" is faster now.