I'll grant you, 'sucks' overrates the quality of virtualization on FreeBSD, but FreeBSD, Red Hat, and even Ubuntu and Open Suse were not the point of my post. The point was that different people have different preferences on operating systems, and one has to be choses - and which one is barely relevent to most of us. We can still install our own, and due to the nature of open source, the drivers will be available in short order.
Believe it or not, some people don't find use of Windows to be 'suffering'.
I've used plenty of OSes, and prior to FreeBSD, for me and my uses, Windows was the best OS. Everybody has different oppinions, thought processes and tastes, and that's why they make different choices, and why some people don't suffer when using things you don't like.
While I don't disagree with most of your assesment (someone already pointed out your kernel naming error), the beginning of the second "translation" is a bit off.
He's saying that at $500, and that's partially subsidized (payed for by someone other than the consumer), the iPhone costs too much.
The fact of the matter is, at least they are moving in a right direction, and as far as non-windows operating systems go, Ubuntu is probably their best best to gain popularity.
And if it works on Ubuntu, you can believe it'll work on FreeBSD within a month - the drivers will be much easier to make/port, and it'll be a good target for the FreeBSD devs.
Actually, that can be said for many OSS operating systems, for that matter.
In certain situations, a phone might have a bit of 'echo' (the reciver picks up a bit from the speaker). How much of a help could this echo be, in conjunction with a public key, to help identify the private key?
Thesis: Videogames don't cause violence, but are rather a indicator of tendancies.
1) Get a group of people that don't normally play much in the way of video games.
2) Perform a psychological analysis on the people, and split them into three categories: [A] nonviolent, [B] intermediate, [C] violent tendancies
3) Find a number of games, and fit them into the three categories that the people were in.
4) Split each of the three groups up into sets:
[a] Control set - they are simply observed [b] This set is introduced to nonviolent games, and required to play 4-6 hours a week. [c] This set is introduced to intermediate games, and required to play 4-6 hours a week. [d] This set is introduced to violent games, and required to play 4-6 hours a week [e] This set is introduced to all games, and required to play 4-6 hours a week, the categories and amount of play from those categories will be recorded.
Preiodic pyschological analysis will also be done (once every one to six months, to be determined at the time of the experiment)
The researchers will examine the criminal records of the subjects for the duration of the experiment, and a total of 10 years afterward.
Prediction: A) No correlation between type or lack of game play, and violence. B) The type of game chosen by members of set [e]/will/ correlate to violence and crime.
A: true B: true This will indicate that violent games do not cause volence, but rather are an indicator of a person predisposition towards violence. This is the expected outcome.
A: false B: any This will indicate that type or lack of game play does influence violent tendancies in individuals.
A: any B: false This will indicate that type of game play is a poor indicator of violent tendancies.
So it's either a violation of contract (and possibly copyright), if the person RE'd it after purchase, or it's definetly copyright if they pirated it to RE it.
I don't remember *ever* not seeing a "don't reverse engineer" this clause on a EULA for software.
I have no qualms with software patents per-se. However a better way to handle them I believe, would be to say, that provided the provider recieves no financial recompensation direct (i.e. sales) or indirect (i.e. support), that a software patent cannot be used against a software provider.
That doesn't negate any/copyright/ restrictions (i.e. you can simply steal someone's software, it doesn't leagalize piracy), but for example, a sub-pixel rendering patent could not be used against a free (as in beer) piece of sub-pixel rendering software. Now if a company got ahold of this software, and tried selling it or a set of software containing it - then that company could be held responsible, and could be required to pay royalties.
The idea is - if it can be created/distributed at such "minimal" effort that no cost is required, then it the patent is of questionable novelty.
Interesting, if only because the opposite was true at my old place of work.
Even the Apple cheer squad agreed that it was easier to fix a Windows problem - they were just more frequent.
And by thinking that mention of "Error 3" means I was on OS 9, especially when it's been stated that I was on X.2, multiple times on this thread before your post... Makes me wonder about the quality of your advice.
If you get a good enclosure they're closer to $40, then you need at least two of them for RAID, you need controllers to drive them - if that's USB you're stuck at slow rates, if it's e.SATA you have expensive controllers and/or port limitations. Now you need to handle hot-swapping effectively for hard drives which takes some admin experience or an expensive hard drive shelf.
I got a good/fast enclosure with USB, Firewire and eSATA for $30 with shipping and handling. It's extremely fast and reliable.
The eSATA controllers are under $50 these days, and that's not necessarily slow. Also, unless you are doing RAID, I've seen systems, especially notebooks, where the bottleneck is the system disk and not the USB drive.
Hot swapping external hard drives, outside of FreeBSD, has never been a challange. In FreeBSD I need to remember a command and the root password... Not really a challange either, but harder than just 'plug/unplug'.
I use hard drives for my business's backups, but the cheapest I can do today is $1.38 per GB if I want two copies off-site (I don't trust a single old HD spindle to work next year), with hot-swap and e.SATA. I'm not even counting the cost of the computer which needs to have enough PCI slots to handle the e.SATA cards, and that's with el-cheapo cards, not 3Ware or anything dense, plus I have to admin the linux RAID-10 setup.
If you are using eSATA, and hence, speed is that important - then the optical disks are out for you anyway. And 1 PCI slot is enough for 4 SATA ports.
Now, what I get for my trouble is versioning for 6 months (rsnapshot) and instant random-access to my backups, so in my judgement it's worth it. But storing old.DV archives on this system wouldn't be cost effective - I'd much rather store them on BluRay.
.DV format?
Gosh, maybe I don't have to chose between the two options!
Never said you couldn't use both, but people with typically use one for any given tasks, and stick with it for others if it is good enough.
In the calculation you mean? Yes, it was in there. There is no sunk cost o use the hard drive (maybe $25 for a usb enclosur), the rest is per-gigabyte (the 0.26).
OK, ignoring the cost of the BD drive, which we'll assume you only need to buy once, per-GB the BD is cheaper. However, assuming you don't use unlimited BDs, then you you are cost effective with BDs, only if you have to have simultaneous backup of up to X GB: 529 +.22x =.26x -> 529 =.04x -> 13,225 = x
So, you must need at least 13TB of backup at any given time for BD to be more effective in terms of cost. (NOTE: if you do a rolling backup, you'll never reach this, and unless the BDs are -RW, they'll probably not be cost-effective)
And I'm petty sure 10 optical disks are about the same size standard HD or larger. With a good/small enclosure, you'll still have less space than 15BDs, and you only need one enclusre, just swap the drives. Heck you can get a dongle type setup that doesn't even require the enclosure.
So, HDs have space/and/ cost advantages in several (but not all) situations).
If they no longer had MS products, they would lose a lot of market share.
But adding Linux could gain some market share. Going open source could gain a lot more.
In my oppinion the situation is just like it was with Mozilla/Netscape. The product before Open Source was ok, but bloated and buggy enough that I never felt compelled to use it over the alternatives. Within a year of going open source, they had the best product on the market.
I look at Adobe products - I've yet to find one that I've had to deal with that wasn't slow and/or buggy, where I would use an alternative or nothing at all over the adobe product.
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I'll grant you, 'sucks' overrates the quality of virtualization on FreeBSD, but FreeBSD, Red Hat, and even Ubuntu and Open Suse were not the point of my post. The point was that different people have different preferences on operating systems, and one has to be choses - and which one is barely relevent to most of us. We can still install our own, and due to the nature of open source, the drivers will be available in short order.
Believe it or not, some people don't find use of Windows to be 'suffering'.
I've used plenty of OSes, and prior to FreeBSD, for me and my uses, Windows was the best OS. Everybody has different oppinions, thought processes and tastes, and that's why they make different choices, and why some people don't suffer when using things you don't like.
While I don't disagree with most of your assesment (someone already pointed out your kernel naming error), the beginning of the second "translation" is a bit off.
He's saying that at $500, and that's partially subsidized (payed for by someone other than the consumer), the iPhone costs too much.
Honestly, I don't think he's wrong on that count.
And I'd have prefered FreeBSD.
The fact of the matter is, at least they are moving in a right direction, and as far as non-windows operating systems go, Ubuntu is probably their best best to gain popularity.
And if it works on Ubuntu, you can believe it'll work on FreeBSD within a month - the drivers will be much easier to make/port, and it'll be a good target for the FreeBSD devs.
Actually, that can be said for many OSS operating systems, for that matter.
In certain situations, a phone might have a bit of 'echo' (the reciver picks up a bit from the speaker). How much of a help could this echo be, in conjunction with a public key, to help identify the private key?
Thesis: Videogames don't cause violence, but are rather a indicator of tendancies.
/will/ correlate to violence and crime.
1) Get a group of people that don't normally play much in the way of video games.
2) Perform a psychological analysis on the people, and split them into three categories:
[A] nonviolent, [B] intermediate, [C] violent tendancies
3) Find a number of games, and fit them into the three categories that the people were in.
4) Split each of the three groups up into sets:
[a] Control set - they are simply observed
[b] This set is introduced to nonviolent games, and required to play 4-6 hours a week.
[c] This set is introduced to intermediate games, and required to play 4-6 hours a week.
[d] This set is introduced to violent games, and required to play 4-6 hours a week
[e] This set is introduced to all games, and required to play 4-6 hours a week, the categories and amount of play from those categories will be recorded.
Preiodic pyschological analysis will also be done (once every one to six months, to be determined at the time of the experiment)
The researchers will examine the criminal records of the subjects for the duration of the experiment, and a total of 10 years afterward.
Prediction:
A) No correlation between type or lack of game play, and violence.
B) The type of game chosen by members of set [e]
A: true
B: true
This will indicate that violent games do not cause volence, but rather are an indicator of a person predisposition towards violence. This is the expected outcome.
A: false
B: any
This will indicate that type or lack of game play does influence violent tendancies in individuals.
A: any
B: false
This will indicate that type of game play is a poor indicator of violent tendancies.
by pirating it though, they are breaking copyright.
mod parent insightful -
they never said open source. The whole article seems to be based on assumptions of things not said.
That's usually covered in the EULA.
So it's either a violation of contract (and possibly copyright), if the person RE'd it after purchase, or it's definetly copyright if they pirated it to RE it.
I don't remember *ever* not seeing a "don't reverse engineer" this clause on a EULA for software.
I have no qualms with software patents per-se. However a better way to handle them I believe, would be to say, that provided the provider recieves no financial recompensation direct (i.e. sales) or indirect (i.e. support), that a software patent cannot be used against a software provider.
/copyright/ restrictions (i.e. you can simply steal someone's software, it doesn't leagalize piracy), but for example, a sub-pixel rendering patent could not be used against a free (as in beer) piece of sub-pixel rendering software. Now if a company got ahold of this software, and tried selling it or a set of software containing it - then that company could be held responsible, and could be required to pay royalties.
That doesn't negate any
The idea is - if it can be created/distributed at such "minimal" effort that no cost is required, then it the patent is of questionable novelty.
you forgot the "???" in your to-do list.
but this isn't necessarily even the democrats that are complaining.
It's just people who found screwups in Dibold voting devices.
Learn to read and analyze data instead of kneejerking please
This is about the 2006 election. To remind you, that's when Ohio went Blue.
Don't get me wrong, there are many cases where 'sore looser leftie' is a potentially valid complaint. This isn't one of them.
Actually, in 2006, Ohio switched from red to blue, so by your logic, we shouldn't be hearing this...
Actually, in 2006, ohio switched from Red to Blue (no, not Red vs. Blue, though that's a more interesting topic admittedly).
Regardless, the usual complainers, would not be complaining much about their side loosing on this one.
Interesting, if only because the opposite was true at my old place of work.
Even the Apple cheer squad agreed that it was easier to fix a Windows problem - they were just more frequent.
And by thinking that mention of "Error 3" means I was on OS 9, especially when it's been stated that I was on X.2, multiple times on this thread before your post... Makes me wonder about the quality of your advice.
I got a good/fast enclosure with USB, Firewire and eSATA for $30 with shipping and handling. It's extremely fast and reliable.
The eSATA controllers are under $50 these days, and that's not necessarily slow. Also, unless you are doing RAID, I've seen systems, especially notebooks, where the bottleneck is the system disk and not the USB drive.
Hot swapping external hard drives, outside of FreeBSD, has never been a challange. In FreeBSD I need to remember a command and the root password... Not really a challange either, but harder than just 'plug/unplug'.
If you are using eSATA, and hence, speed is that important - then the optical disks are out for you anyway.
And 1 PCI slot is enough for 4 SATA ports.
Never said you couldn't use both, but people with typically use one for any given tasks, and stick with it for others if it is good enough.
not a lot. A couple small issues a day mostly. There were several hundred machines.
Actually it was the apple mail program in 10.2 that did that.
Better luck next time you play "Guess That MacOS"
You're right. Wonder why I saw 3x.
Guess there is no redeming value for BluRay as a backup.
when I did tech support, our Windows:Mac ratio was probably 10:1
/is not/ helpful.
Our support call issues, excluding hardware, were about 20:1 (windows:mac), but 8:1 (est) hardware.
The time to fix a Windows problem was usually quicker though.
"Error 3" popping up when a program crashes usually
In the calculation you mean? Yes, it was in there. There is no sunk cost o use the hard drive (maybe $25 for a usb enclosur), the rest is per-gigabyte (the 0.26).
To put facts with your point:
8 2E16827106037
8 2E16817131063
/best/ light financially...
8 2E168221481348 2E16822136073
.22x = .26x -> 529 = .04x -> 13,225 = x
/and/ cost advantages in several (but not all) situations).
Cheapest Blu-Ray burner: $529 + 1 25GB DVD (requires a decently powerful video card???)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N
Cheapest per-GB BD Disks: $32.99 (150GB total ~$0.22/GB)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N
Blue ray in it's
HDs in better light
HDDs:
750GB: $254.99 ($0.33/GB, 15 BD's worth of data)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N
500GB: $129.99 (26/GB, 10 BD's worth of data)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N
OK, ignoring the cost of the BD drive, which we'll assume you only need to buy once, per-GB the BD is cheaper. However, assuming you don't use unlimited BDs, then you you are cost effective with BDs, only if you have to have simultaneous backup of up to X GB:
529 +
So, you must need at least 13TB of backup at any given time for BD to be more effective in terms of cost. (NOTE: if you do a rolling backup, you'll never reach this, and unless the BDs are -RW, they'll probably not be cost-effective)
And I'm petty sure 10 optical disks are about the same size standard HD or larger. With a good/small enclosure, you'll still have less space than 15BDs, and you only need one enclusre, just swap the drives. Heck you can get a dongle type setup that doesn't even require the enclosure.
So, HDs have space
It's available for the PC too...
But nobody cares (can't say I blame them, I sure don't).
Do you mean move as in 'mv' or move as in 'cp'?
If they no longer had MS products, they would lose a lot of market share.
But adding Linux could gain some market share. Going open source could gain a lot more.
In my oppinion the situation is just like it was with Mozilla/Netscape. The product before Open Source was ok, but bloated and buggy enough that I never felt compelled to use it over the alternatives. Within a year of going open source, they had the best product on the market.
I look at Adobe products - I've yet to find one that I've had to deal with that wasn't slow and/or buggy, where I would use an alternative or nothing at all over the adobe product.