Oh come on! You don't join this courses to learn how to flirt. Time spent studying this is time not spent studying IT, the thing you are there to study. It will piss off both people who don't have social problems and those 100% focused on IT, both extremes! What if you gay? Is this 100% hetro? Is this just a way of not having to teach so much IT so you can get by with staff who know less? This is broken in sooo many ways.
Memory use is everything. I find it hard to believe there is no inherit speed issue with linear virtual address space mapping to real memory all over the place.
but how many commonly used applications truly need several gigabytes of ram in order to function properly?
Photoshop, Premier, 3DSMax (it now often runs out of address space on a 32 bit machine), Maya, ZBrush, XSI, anything art related pretty much. I'm sure a virtual machine would eat address space too. My wife just telling me last night about an application at how work that get to 1.4 Gig and crashes, and that's some kind of (crappy) database app (sounds like it's badly leaking).
I smell snake oil here. That is, unless you have some real science to back up the benefits of ram "defragmenting"
I don't know, you mean like stopping the real memory space becoming like swiss cheese? Ever tried to allocate a few meg on a app where the address space has more then enough space left, but the allocation has failed? That's down to fragmentation of the virtual address space. You don't want you real address space fragmentated either, or what looks like linear memory in a virtual address space might be all over the place in real memory.
The point is they don't have to give us any fixs or features they have put into the BSD code base they use.
My thinking is now is a window of time between mass closed source software to mass open source software. This window is just the start and Apple's approach will only work in this window of time. It will work better and better, then no change, then fall off. Ultimately they won't be able to keep up with completely open, sticky, rivals.
Argh, before any one says it Mac OS X. My counter is Mac OS X isn't proper open source. They are taking the existing stuff, productizing it and adding closed stuff on top. I think this will loose out to a productizied GPL competitor. Time will tell.
I don't think this guy understands why the GPL is so important. It's sticky. You can't lock away your improvements/fixes. All the increments get added to the whole. Without GPL critical mass is much harder for a project to reach. Don't wish to start a fight, but I think this is why the number of GNU/Linux users/drivers/work is significately greater then that of BSD. Irritating though Stallman is, he has come up with a set of rules that logically lead to open source critical mass. As programmers we should be able to take a set of rules and see the out come.
It's an ecosystem.
A distro is a arrangement of chosen species at chosen stages of their development to all work nicely together.
Even the kernel can be swapped out. This is as it should be. Everything moving, nothing set in stone.
The only way to be part of this ecosystem is to be open source. Closed source will always be on the outside and will always be playing catch up and ultimately be left behind.
This must scare the crap out of people on the outside as it grows. The GPL is so sticky, it just causes projects to snow ball and once an open source project reaches critical mass, how can you fight it? Any thing you do, it assimilates or by passes quicker then you did it in the first place.
"Once installed, Xubuntu can run with 192 MB RAM, but it is strongly recommended to have at least 256 MB RAM." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xubuntu
The machine isn't really up to Xubuntu
Did you try any other disto? I would say stick on Damn Small Linux, as that flies on anything. Found Vector Linux to good too. If you want something Ubunutu based, Ubuntulite looks like a good bet. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntulite
Choose a distro where you come in with spec to spare and you will find it fast.
Hell yer, death should be important. I've not played a game where death is important in a long time. Sure some kind of saving is required, but you really want a check point scheme. If you can save at any time in any place, then the game is easy no matter how hard it's meant to be. But I've not played anything other then the Lego series in some time now. Got to be something the Mrs can join in, so light hearted co'ops only. I use to love FPSs but they make me sweaty, hyper/twitchy and unaware of the need for food, the loo and that the clock is flying round.... most of the time I don't miss it......most of the time.........;-)
Don't get to hung up on the GPU as hardware OpenGL/DirectX. Think of it as a collection of stream processors. That collections of stream processors are good for any stream processing task, why limit it to OpenGL/DirectX? So, what you end up with is something like OpenMP extension for C/C++ allowing you to hand out programs or fragments of programs to available stream processors. There is no reason at all there can't be a standard API for handing out to stream processors, maybe even the compiler can notice a large loop of little code that doesn't need to be done in sequence and make a stream program of it. Maybe that could even be done at runtime if the instruction set of the stream processors is the same/similar.
I disagree totally. Programming tests are good, and I speak as a dyslexic who tests have let down most of my life.
Programming, has very talented people with no relevant qualifications. It also has people will high qualifications who couldn't code if their life depended on it (well I don't know that, it would be a interesting test, just not legal....).
Programming exams are a way of sorting the wheat from the chaff. It's a great way to see who can walk the walk not just talk the talk. It's not just about the exam, it's about the response to the exam, a good programmer will want to know what they got wrong and how, and what the answers where to questions they didn't know. If you're good, why fear the exam? I like them, it's either an easy exercise or a chance to learn something, or a mix of the two.
I can only go on what I read about the arrangement between artists and record companies. It seams many artists are not happy, especially the ones I listen to anyway. Don't get me wrong, supermarkets are screwing over the farmers (my partner's parents own a small holding, so I'm exposed to the world of farmers), but the two are not connected. If you shop lift fruit, the fruit isn't still in the store, it is a fundamental difference. Goods which can be copied at zero cost you end up with something like:
cost = (cost_to_produce + cost_to_create_and_distribute_copy*distribution) / distribution
cost = (some_millions + 0 * Infinity) / Infinity
cost = some_millions / Infinity
which gives a 0 or QNAN (which on some processors is 0 anyway (Cell SPU))
Yet we are expected to pay the same amount we would when cost_to_create_and_distribute_copy was that for CDs.
Concerts are the way to go for artists. Those can't be copied free of cost. A few really big concerts and your loaded. Another way is for the artists to sell directly to the fans at a reasonable price. Look at what NiN did for Ghosts I-V and The Slip and you will see the future. He's happy (made a buck load of cash) I'm happy (I really like both albums). It's just his old record company who are down in the dumps.
How much of the money I do some times pay goes to the artists? I have no idea, can't find it, and if it was fair I'm sure it would be the number one public information used to fight piracy. If there was a pie chart on the back of the cd, with the lion's share going to the artists I would buy it. That's why I bought NiN's download album, great artist and I know the money is going to the right person. And next album, Trent released for free! I did once happily open my wallet for a service. AllMp3.com had my buying music for the first time in a long time, and at the time, I did actually believe the money was going to the right people, it was so cheap and good what was the point in piracy? But it got shut down. It was right though, if it's cheap and good enough, who's going to pirate? If you pay pennies for a track and all those pennies go to the artist, if it sells well, they are still rich, and I've managed to listen to much more music then I could afford otherwise. Everyone is a winner bar the sales/middle-management people I don't like anyway. I'd put them on the ship with the telephone hygienists.
this is just going to force everyone to move to anonymous proxies, darknets or anonymous p2p. I don't see this causing any changes. Guess we should all start using truecrypt drives for when they start kicking down the doors. Use the new truecrypt so you can have plausible deniability. Give them the plausible deniability password so they stop water boarding you and take the thumb screws off. Just don't break too soon or they won't believe you really have a 500gig drive with just 4meg of pictures of kittens and will keep the bag over your head and won't stop kicking.
I third that. BBC BASIC was my first language, powerful and easy. Acorn users often used BASIC as a shell, and many Acorn apps where mostly written in BASIC with just the part needing speed written in ARM or C. Python is the modern day version of this. I'm so pleased to have a language for these uses again. (But relatively, python is isn't as quick as the super quick BASIC was on the Acorn (on the StrongARM it all fit in the instruction cache.))
Oh the amount of times I've regretted admitting something is possible to a user........they never hear anything after that about how it's not a good idea etc etc. I'm sure the software is littered with some foolish developer (like me) saying something is possible and not getting to finish the sentence before it's been committed to!;-)
A GUI is a GUI, they are designed to be simple to use. None of them are that radically different. There is perhaps a debate to be had about having multiple desktop environment libs loaded....... but that overhead never bothered me. I think having different GUIs is a good thing because it means there is a choice and it provides friendly competition with out any real compatibility issues (like real different platforms). The eco-system would be weaker if there was one GUI. I may not want the same GUI as my gran.....
Encapsulation, scope, etc etc, is 101 stuff. I find it hard to believe any programmer, OSS or not, doesn't know them. Are we talking script kiddies perhaps?
Stripped down Liunx is far from a myth.
(Try 50MB DSL http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/)
That why it's used in embedded devices. Some of which you can find at:
You don't have to start with a big fat distro.
A full desktop system is silly for kiosk, I would argue so is x86.
Yes all this can be said for WindowCE (which you should be using over XP any day for this kind of thing!!!), but the difference is that Linux is the same OS, from watch to super computer.
D-Bus dependencies don't seam that crazy if you don't count the all the bindings (if you are including Mono, what did you expect?)
We have stripped down Linux machines here. They are used as fast servers for files (samba), sql and web services. Each doesn't do anything else, no other apps, no GUI installed etc etc. Works a treat.
This is where the anti-MS feelings come from, they do not play nice with the other children. It's like their mantra is 'Make money through evil'. This has nothing to do with FOSS and everything to do with standards, proper real standards, ones you can use and make something compliant.
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Oh come on! You don't join this courses to learn how to flirt. Time spent studying this is time not spent studying IT, the thing you are there to study. It will piss off both people who don't have social problems and those 100% focused on IT, both extremes! What if you gay? Is this 100% hetro? Is this just a way of not having to teach so much IT so you can get by with staff who know less? This is broken in sooo many ways.
I thought the same thing when I saw the ".ro". Ram is so goddamn fast anymore I can't believe there's any benefit at all to "defragging" it.
W3C
Memory use is everything. I find it hard to believe there is no inherit speed issue with linear virtual address space mapping to real memory all over the place.
but how many commonly used applications truly need several gigabytes of ram in order to function properly?
Photoshop, Premier, 3DSMax (it now often runs out of address space on a 32 bit machine), Maya, ZBrush, XSI, anything art related pretty much. I'm sure a virtual machine would eat address space too. My wife just telling me last night about an application at how work that get to 1.4 Gig and crashes, and that's some kind of (crappy) database app (sounds like it's badly leaking).
I smell snake oil here. That is, unless you have some real science to back up the benefits of ram "defragmenting"
I don't know, you mean like stopping the real memory space becoming like swiss cheese? Ever tried to allocate a few meg on a app where the address space has more then enough space left, but the allocation has failed? That's down to fragmentation of the virtual address space. You don't want you real address space fragmentated either, or what looks like linear memory in a virtual address space might be all over the place in real memory.
The point is they don't have to give us any fixs or features they have put into the BSD code base they use. My thinking is now is a window of time between mass closed source software to mass open source software. This window is just the start and Apple's approach will only work in this window of time. It will work better and better, then no change, then fall off. Ultimately they won't be able to keep up with completely open, sticky, rivals.
Argh, before any one says it Mac OS X. My counter is Mac OS X isn't proper open source. They are taking the existing stuff, productizing it and adding closed stuff on top. I think this will loose out to a productizied GPL competitor. Time will tell.
I don't think this guy understands why the GPL is so important. It's sticky. You can't lock away your improvements/fixes. All the increments get added to the whole. Without GPL critical mass is much harder for a project to reach. Don't wish to start a fight, but I think this is why the number of GNU/Linux users/drivers/work is significately greater then that of BSD. Irritating though Stallman is, he has come up with a set of rules that logically lead to open source critical mass. As programmers we should be able to take a set of rules and see the out come.
It's an ecosystem. A distro is a arrangement of chosen species at chosen stages of their development to all work nicely together. Even the kernel can be swapped out. This is as it should be. Everything moving, nothing set in stone. The only way to be part of this ecosystem is to be open source. Closed source will always be on the outside and will always be playing catch up and ultimately be left behind. This must scare the crap out of people on the outside as it grows. The GPL is so sticky, it just causes projects to snow ball and once an open source project reaches critical mass, how can you fight it? Any thing you do, it assimilates or by passes quicker then you did it in the first place.
Depresses me seeing all the big bits fall away. Fingers crossed for the descendants of SpaceShipOne to replace this throw away tech....
Can't - not - feed - troll.
"Once installed, Xubuntu can run with 192 MB RAM, but it is strongly recommended to have at least 256 MB RAM."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xubuntu
The machine isn't really up to Xubuntu
Did you try any other disto? I would say stick on Damn Small Linux, as that flies on anything. Found Vector Linux to good too. If you want something Ubunutu based, Ubuntulite looks like a good bet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntulite
Choose a distro where you come in with spec to spare and you will find it fast.
Hell yer, death should be important. I've not played a game where death is important in a long time. Sure some kind of saving is required, but you really want a check point scheme. If you can save at any time in any place, then the game is easy no matter how hard it's meant to be. But I've not played anything other then the Lego series in some time now. Got to be something the Mrs can join in, so light hearted co'ops only. I use to love FPSs but they make me sweaty, hyper/twitchy and unaware of the need for food, the loo and that the clock is flying round.... most of the time I don't miss it......most of the time......... ;-)
Really? Ban NUTS! We must stop these murdering pulses! I suggest a bill to allow police to seize food recepies and food construction premises!
Don't get to hung up on the GPU as hardware OpenGL/DirectX. Think of it as a collection of stream processors. That collections of stream processors are good for any stream processing task, why limit it to OpenGL/DirectX? So, what you end up with is something like OpenMP extension for C/C++ allowing you to hand out programs or fragments of programs to available stream processors. There is no reason at all there can't be a standard API for handing out to stream processors, maybe even the compiler can notice a large loop of little code that doesn't need to be done in sequence and make a stream program of it. Maybe that could even be done at runtime if the instruction set of the stream processors is the same/similar.
I disagree totally. Programming tests are good, and I speak as a dyslexic who tests have let down most of my life. Programming, has very talented people with no relevant qualifications. It also has people will high qualifications who couldn't code if their life depended on it (well I don't know that, it would be a interesting test, just not legal....). Programming exams are a way of sorting the wheat from the chaff. It's a great way to see who can walk the walk not just talk the talk. It's not just about the exam, it's about the response to the exam, a good programmer will want to know what they got wrong and how, and what the answers where to questions they didn't know. If you're good, why fear the exam? I like them, it's either an easy exercise or a chance to learn something, or a mix of the two.
> so who are you to declare that the deal signed between two consenting businesses (artist and record company) is unacceptable?
The customer.......wasn't I meant to be king? This sounds like to me shut-up and take what you are given.
I can only go on what I read about the arrangement between artists and record companies. It seams many artists are not happy, especially the ones I listen to anyway. Don't get me wrong, supermarkets are screwing over the farmers (my partner's parents own a small holding, so I'm exposed to the world of farmers), but the two are not connected. If you shop lift fruit, the fruit isn't still in the store, it is a fundamental difference. Goods which can be copied at zero cost you end up with something like:
cost = (cost_to_produce + cost_to_create_and_distribute_copy*distribution) / distribution
cost = (some_millions + 0 * Infinity) / Infinity
cost = some_millions / Infinity
which gives a 0 or QNAN (which on some processors is 0 anyway (Cell SPU))
Yet we are expected to pay the same amount we would when cost_to_create_and_distribute_copy was that for CDs.
Concerts are the way to go for artists. Those can't be copied free of cost. A few really big concerts and your loaded. Another way is for the artists to sell directly to the fans at a reasonable price. Look at what NiN did for Ghosts I-V and The Slip and you will see the future. He's happy (made a buck load of cash) I'm happy (I really like both albums). It's just his old record company who are down in the dumps.
How much of the money I do some times pay goes to the artists? I have no idea, can't find it, and if it was fair I'm sure it would be the number one public information used to fight piracy. If there was a pie chart on the back of the cd, with the lion's share going to the artists I would buy it. That's why I bought NiN's download album, great artist and I know the money is going to the right person. And next album, Trent released for free! I did once happily open my wallet for a service. AllMp3.com had my buying music for the first time in a long time, and at the time, I did actually believe the money was going to the right people, it was so cheap and good what was the point in piracy? But it got shut down. It was right though, if it's cheap and good enough, who's going to pirate? If you pay pennies for a track and all those pennies go to the artist, if it sells well, they are still rich, and I've managed to listen to much more music then I could afford otherwise. Everyone is a winner bar the sales/middle-management people I don't like anyway. I'd put them on the ship with the telephone hygienists.
this is just going to force everyone to move to anonymous proxies, darknets or anonymous p2p. I don't see this causing any changes. Guess we should all start using truecrypt drives for when they start kicking down the doors. Use the new truecrypt so you can have plausible deniability. Give them the plausible deniability password so they stop water boarding you and take the thumb screws off. Just don't break too soon or they won't believe you really have a 500gig drive with just 4meg of pictures of kittens and will keep the bag over your head and won't stop kicking.
I third that. BBC BASIC was my first language, powerful and easy. Acorn users often used BASIC as a shell, and many Acorn apps where mostly written in BASIC with just the part needing speed written in ARM or C. Python is the modern day version of this. I'm so pleased to have a language for these uses again. (But relatively, python is isn't as quick as the super quick BASIC was on the Acorn (on the StrongARM it all fit in the instruction cache.))
Oh the amount of times I've regretted admitting something is possible to a user........they never hear anything after that about how it's not a good idea etc etc. I'm sure the software is littered with some foolish developer (like me) saying something is possible and not getting to finish the sentence before it's been committed to! ;-)
Some people clearly like it, no shortage of distros with it as their main GUI. Don't think it's going anywhere.
A GUI is a GUI, they are designed to be simple to use. None of them are that radically different. There is perhaps a debate to be had about having multiple desktop environment libs loaded....... but that overhead never bothered me. I think having different GUIs is a good thing because it means there is a choice and it provides friendly competition with out any real compatibility issues (like real different platforms). The eco-system would be weaker if there was one GUI. I may not want the same GUI as my gran.....
Wouldn't that get rid of the original point of GNOME? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNOME#History
Encapsulation, scope, etc etc, is 101 stuff. I find it hard to believe any programmer, OSS or not, doesn't know them. Are we talking script kiddies perhaps?
Stripped down Liunx is far from a myth. (Try 50MB DSL http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/) That why it's used in embedded devices. Some of which you can find at:
http://www.linuxdevices.com/
You don't have to start with a big fat distro. A full desktop system is silly for kiosk, I would argue so is x86.
Yes all this can be said for WindowCE (which you should be using over XP any day for this kind of thing!!!), but the difference is that Linux is the same OS, from watch to super computer.
D-Bus dependencies don't seam that crazy if you don't count the all the bindings (if you are including Mono, what did you expect?)
http://www.emdebian.org/packages/search.php?package=dbus
We have stripped down Linux machines here. They are used as fast servers for files (samba), sql and web services. Each doesn't do anything else, no other apps, no GUI installed etc etc. Works a treat.
This is where the anti-MS feelings come from, they do not play nice with the other children. It's like their mantra is 'Make money through evil'. This has nothing to do with FOSS and everything to do with standards, proper real standards, ones you can use and make something compliant.