Now I understand why the movement of migration to Canada... U.S. society is sick!
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These days we have processors hundreds times faster than 5, 10 or 20 years ago, we have thousands times more memory than we had yore... But, do our apps feel faster?
I tend to believe that they don't value efficiency and graceful code at all.
Bah, go back to Windows, if that is what you really want.
No decent scripting language? In Unix? What do you suggest? BASIC? JCL? Microsoft's batch language?/etc is ugly? Have you ever tried to mess with Windows registry?
How is message passing IPC better than sockets or shared memory or named pipes?
ACLs are coming, but I believe that POSIX permissions make privilege management very simple, very straightforward, and very effective. ACLs may provide finer-grained permissions, but nothing that cannot be done via groups and permissions.
Mistaking hacker for cracker is acceptable on the general media, where people aren't very aware of such subtleties. But on Slashdot? C'mon, I know Slashdot is crawling with Windows users, wannabes and such, but this is getting offhand!
I was thinking another thing: one card renders one frame, the other cards renders the next frame, the first card renders the next, and so on, with both cards alternating the frames. This could double the frame rate as compared to a single card, and/or improve the image quality by processing it while the other card spits out its frame.
Linux? Who cares about Linux? They support FreeBSD, and that was the (only) reason I bought an nVidia card, even though, performance-wise, it gets its ass handed by ATI cards more often than not (on Windows, at least)
Grandparent was modded into oblivion, so, in order to the above make sense, here is what he said:
Sure its cheaper if you're just a leech who just burns the ISOs when they are released. Some of us actually pay for our distributions and that coupled with the extra time it takes to get customized functionality will put a Linux install on par with Windows install cost wise.
Some of us contribute to the cause, be it with code, with documentation, with support... Do you know who brought the wonders of Debian's APT to the RPM world? Conectiva, the leading Brazilian Linux distributor. WindowMaker? A brazilian wrote it. How about the kernel itself? The 2.4 branch is currently maintained by a brazilian, too. OpenOffice.org has received many contributions from the Brazilian team, as well as GNOME, Debian, and so far so on. Therefore, while not everyone has the skills to contribute to free software, those who have them more often than not do contribute to free software.
And yes, some of us brazilians also actually pay for our distros; the biggest problem with that is that it is more difficult to pay for a foreign (read American) distribution, due to rate changes and bureaucracy. However, when there is an easy way to pay, we do; Conectiva is there to prove it.
In that case, what would happen? Would we have a "Microsoft Linux"? Now, that would be unexpected, but I believe it would be a successful product by combining Linux technical superiority with PHBs confidence in Microsoft (yet, Microsoft would probably twist their Linux distro into something incompatible with anything but Windows and MS-Linux). Yeah, scary...
What would we expect of Ballmer? "Okay, okay, I give in, Linux is actually better, cheaper, more stable, faster" and so on? Of course not. He is lying, true, but that is his job (used car salesmen, bow before Ballmer, for he is your god).
Konsole doesn't lack tabs, quite on the contrary. It is getting better with each release, it is now a great replacement to good ol' xterm, plus tabs, plus all the KDE eye candy you can whitstand.
FreeBSD comes to mind... If there were no Linux (God forbid!), probably FreeBSD (or some fork of it) would be the main free operating system today, and our beloved McBride would sue them.
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"Per se" comes from Latin and it means, literally, "by itself". Latin didn't have diacritics. Where did you pulled this "sé" from?
Looks more like a spam trap...
actually it was misplaced... went to the beginning of the 7th char...
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Now I understand why the movement of migration to Canada... U.S. society is sick!
These days we have processors hundreds times faster than 5, 10 or 20 years ago, we have thousands times more memory than we had yore... But, do our apps feel faster?
I tend to believe that they don't value efficiency and graceful code at all.
Doh! Too much blood in my coffee. Sorry.
I also had no power at home, and was bored out of my tree.
Then...
walked home, watched TV; repeat.
I see some inconsistence here... Watch TV without power at home?
Bah, go back to Windows, if that is what you really want.
/etc is ugly? Have you ever tried to mess with Windows registry?
No decent scripting language? In Unix? What do you suggest? BASIC? JCL? Microsoft's batch language?
How is message passing IPC better than sockets or shared memory or named pipes?
ACLs are coming, but I believe that POSIX permissions make privilege management very simple, very straightforward, and very effective. ACLs may provide finer-grained permissions, but nothing that cannot be done via groups and permissions.
Hahahaha, thanks for pointing that out, I'm always willing to learn more.
Mistaking hacker for cracker is acceptable on the general media, where people aren't very aware of such subtleties. But on Slashdot? C'mon, I know Slashdot is crawling with Windows users, wannabes and such, but this is getting offhand!
I was thinking another thing: one card renders one frame, the other cards renders the next frame, the first card renders the next, and so on, with both cards alternating the frames. This could double the frame rate as compared to a single card, and/or improve the image quality by processing it while the other card spits out its frame.
Linux? Who cares about Linux? They support FreeBSD, and that was the (only) reason I bought an nVidia card, even though, performance-wise, it gets its ass handed by ATI cards more often than not (on Windows, at least)
I forgot that not all the world is a x86...
BTW, it won't run even on FreeBSD/x86 if you disable the Linux binary layer.
/* Hello World, the way Real Men(TM) do it */
.alo:
.string "Hello.\n"
.data
.text
.globl _start
_start:
movl $4, %eax
movl $1, %ebx
movl $.alo, %ecx
movl $7, %edx
int $0x80
movl $1, %eax
movl $0, %ebx
int $0x80
See? After compile/strip, we have a mere 273 bytes binary. Nowhere near 1.5 MB...
Mutt (http://www.mutt.org) is your best friend. No HTML, no scripts, no images, only text, only message.
Grandparent was modded into oblivion, so, in order to the above make sense, here is what he said:
Sure its cheaper if you're just a leech who just burns the ISOs when they are released. Some of us actually pay for our distributions and that coupled with the extra time it takes to get customized functionality will put a Linux install on par with Windows install cost wise.
Some of us contribute to the cause, be it with code, with documentation, with support... Do you know who brought the wonders of Debian's APT to the RPM world? Conectiva, the leading Brazilian Linux distributor. WindowMaker? A brazilian wrote it. How about the kernel itself? The 2.4 branch is currently maintained by a brazilian, too. OpenOffice.org has received many contributions from the Brazilian team, as well as GNOME, Debian, and so far so on. Therefore, while not everyone has the skills to contribute to free software, those who have them more often than not do contribute to free software.
And yes, some of us brazilians also actually pay for our distros; the biggest problem with that is that it is more difficult to pay for a foreign (read American) distribution, due to rate changes and bureaucracy. However, when there is an easy way to pay, we do; Conectiva is there to prove it.
In that case, what would happen? Would we have a "Microsoft Linux"? Now, that would be unexpected, but I believe it would be a successful product by combining Linux technical superiority with PHBs confidence in Microsoft (yet, Microsoft would probably twist their Linux distro into something incompatible with anything but Windows and MS-Linux). Yeah, scary...
What would we expect of Ballmer? "Okay, okay, I give in, Linux is actually better, cheaper, more stable, faster" and so on? Of course not. He is lying, true, but that is his job (used car salesmen, bow before Ballmer, for he is your god).
Konsole doesn't lack tabs, quite on the contrary. It is getting better with each release, it is now a great replacement to good ol' xterm, plus tabs, plus all the KDE eye candy you can whitstand.
FreeBSD comes to mind... If there were no Linux (God forbid!), probably FreeBSD (or some fork of it) would be the main free operating system today, and our beloved McBride would sue them.
There *is* source code for all those unices, just go ask the vendors... I don't believe they will hand it to you, though.
Nah, DOS reminds me of a certain Chernobyl program...