I remember seeing a movie on television about this. It is was the saturday afternoon variety back when you only had a handful of stations to choose from. It stared the bad guy from "Man from Atlantis" (cooked balooga, 43.8C,etc...)
He was in space in the future, working on an Apple ][ (not even e) looking at the possible reasons for the explosion. His witty Apple ][ played a good supporting role to his brandishing insults, ran simulations and gave data on mini-black holes, UFO's, Anti-Matter, and Asteroids.
Linux is not worth it. Not 5 years ago, not today, not tomorrow, not a year from now.
Being a small buisness all linux network administrator for two different companies (concurrently) I feel your pain, even if it is a different realm.
You might want to tone it down a notch, as your statement comes across way too ideological. There are many instances where SDL and OpenGL make sence for game developers, even if it doesn't for the "latest greatest see realistic blood and guts" games developers. It may even make sence for them too, I wouldn't dismiss it.
In the market as it is today, I wouldn't want start the two year long development cycle for the killer game on ActiveX, only to find out that my compeditor reaches a larger market with SDL (PlayStation, Sega, etc...). I wouldn't want to try to make a name for myself in to a saturated ActiveX market and my compeditor actually make money on a more scaled back SDL production.
I just couldn't justify that kind of decision to my Boss, VC's, or share holders.
You know Ashley Judd played a semi-love interest of his... twice (in a skirt).
The first was the episode the mind-programming games, I don't think I saw the second one.
But I think the prettiest was the one in the "Wesley plays ball, breaks window, get sentenced to death, Picard denies Prime Directive to save him" girl.
that Linus said he couldn't care less about marketing?
Or maybe that he said he couldn't care less about rms's brave GNU/world name change tantrums?
You can read more background about the whining here.
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Glad to hear the patches are doing so well!
I do note that the aa patches weren't included except as Linus's iterations, but I am glad to hear the news.
Re:2.4.12-aa1, or even better 2.4.12-pre3aa1
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Linux Kernel Bugs
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Got a reference for some benchmarks on LKML? I don't follow it directly, too much for me to do in a day. My TurboFestiva news group already gives me plenty to handle.
As an aside, I think that competition and in-fighting is very healthy for Linux. I think OSS is like Winston Churchill. In war it stands out as a very adaptive and competant leader. In peace it meanders about from one faux-pax to another.
2.4.12-aa1, or even better 2.4.12-pre3aa1
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Hmmm, according to the LWN that you linked to, aa patches have the best performance.
For those that don't know aa stands for Andrea Archelangi who one of the very importent kernel hackers. It was a large part of his effort that stabalized the 2.2 VM. Although it is debated on which VM is better, over 90% of the benchmarks I've seen have pointed to AA being the better choice.
AC even mentioned that the AA-VM was the right way to go, just too wild of a change for a stable kernel series. There is too much conspiracy theory going on that AC is hijacking the kernel for RedHat, or that the RedHat crew has a not-invented-here phobia for not including the better VM.
Now on to a more editorial comment.
There seems to be quite a war on this right now, but I think it will settle down in about 6 months or so like the ReiserFS wars have. I also think that we'll see a new order established in the stabalizing of kernels.
I have no political say, but I expect that Linus will run a kernel that will be considered the "experimental, quicker evolving" kernel where things change violently. AC and others job will may to pull out pieces to salvage a semblance of stability, essentialy forking the stable branches from Linus's more exotic cutting edge kernel.
This seems to be how things run in any case when there is a developmental kernel, and they run pretty well. The question that may be asked is "Does Linus need to slow down his effort to stabalize at all?" Its arguably true that the answer is "yes", but only to a degree that suits his own needs for order in his life-long persuit of the sexy kernel.
Linus himself mentioned that AC does a better job of it, maybe its time to give him the whole forking-a-stable-kernel job.
Funny you should mention that. Actualy it so happens that they did, but thats not important now. What we are talking about is that GNU didn't write Linux, user utilities, or the many websites that rms has lambasted recently for not putting GNU in the name.
I provide a quote from my child hood that puts it well.
"Thats gnus to me. I'm Gary Gnu reminding you that no gnus is good gnus." Gary Gnu from `The Great Space Coaster'.
They are both experimental. According to AC in your article he tries little patches. This is kind of like Linus's pre- series. I've actually never had problems with a increment linus release. The few times I tried an AC patch (when there were problems) I had even more problems.
My strategy is stick with point releases, a week after they come out. If it doesn't work hang back to the last point release. I think Windows wishes it had such a "back version" capability.
The contractors built (or wizard installed) SQL Server `A' which was crappy on Access. Even migrate to a more enterprise solution from the same vendor and still but its still problematic.
He built server 'B' that was meant to fill a minor roll.
In time the contractors move their tasks on to working server `B' with his help.
Slashdot poster accuses him of messing up Server `A'.
The posts were even moderated up, but that isn't a rarity for a troll either.
However, I have always held that people argue becuase they don't know. I think its a very shallow to say that someone isn't a great thinker becuase they choose not to argue with narcissitic, whining, has-beens.
There is a saying "lead, follow, or get out of the way." Trying to put that adolescent recursive acronym infront of things he wished he (or his organization) wrote is none of the above. It *was* cute back in 1985.
I guess my previous posts in this thread summed it up nicely., but I'm always happy to elaborate.
Re:The next thing, translated
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what USA!!
The next thing, translated
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Bush: Al your Queda are belong to us
Laden: What you say!!
Its funny how most of us feel that we can't make a difference. Just get active in a particular party and find ways to contribute localy. Don't join protests, nothing gets done there. Align yourself to get into places where you can make change. Don't settle for just "asking" for change.
I think you have pretty good ideas, and would have a better shot than most in finding a way to make them happen. If you found a way in, you'd find that you aren't alone and there are many who would want to promote you and your agenda. There are many who feel the same way but lack the courage to stand out.
Remember that it is easier to be appointed to a position than elected. Also remember in Catch 22 where all the real work and power was wielded by a private 0-class. I think you know what I'm getting at.
I can tell you this becuase Slashdot has moved on past this story. This isn't something I'd feed to the masses.
Hmmm, I think one change in phrasiology would help out a lot then. Change the USA overcharectarization to either US Government or "Those in the US Government".
I agree that these things need to be exposed, but in the right way. If they are exposed sensationaly then people will assume that your motives are not well intentioned. If they are exposed in a shouting match with a deaf media then you will look like a shouting lunatic. It works to measure reproaches to specific people and activities. Then no one can blame you of taking the actions of some as cause for retribution against entire masses.
It was a scarey day when I realized that government has two faces, like a polished sepulchre. Shiney on the outside but full of dead bones inside. I realized that the world looked different from inside the government than outside. And if I was going to make change, I was going to have to get inside the government. Politics like football is a game that is decided by players, not spectators.
Its much the decision that I hope the Afghans are making now. (Btw, the revolution with the northern alliance never stopped long enough to be considered as "Starting up again.") Unfortunately revolution is the only means they have to enact change. Its a price of blood, and a reward of freedom.
I entirely agree with you that action thriller violence is a pacifying influence. It turns people into the self justified cut and dried heros, from their movie seats. That is just the kind of spectatorship I would like to see come to an end. One who participates in the actual events often has a much different view than a spectator. And real life violence is horrible.
That never seems to come across in artistic media. There is just something already polished and glamourized the second you digest a situation in order to present it to another person. Much like the data even you have collected and digested.
I tell you, your just the kind of person that needs involvement in politics as much as a national government needs you. This part of the sepulchre can only be cleaned from the inside.
Actually its your wresting of the reactions that I'm concerned with. I've done digging but I make an important distinction between an act of war and the war. Your comments seem to pit reactions on a war with a particular act in the war which many Americans denounced. No one was dancing in the streets becuase people died.
In fact your commentary and the commentary of *many* others leads me to conclude that Americans (governed by the people for the people) actually abhore that massacre.
To illustrate my point I'll use your own quotes to show how its in front of your eyes but you are wresting it into an uncomfortable position.
Your specificaly mention that the elation came from the killing of 500,000 'leftists'. However from your comments...
"Hopefull political development" would infer something other than a massacre but a "political development". This smells of taking a line out of context.
For possible context lets look at the next quote... "pointing to the political demise of President Sukarno and the communists."
Then after setting up the context of one military action you work in generalized campain comments..."that the embassy and the U.S. G[overnment] were generally sympathetic with and admiring of what the army was doing." Thats even a generalization of a generalization!
However I digress, plenty of books and articles have been written showing a collective bereaving of those killed during that revolution as well as your comments.
But interestingly it shows a point that I admit is what I've been trying to say this whole time. That its the shady "subversive" few in government that aren't checked by the American people that cause all the problems. When America acts as a whole it does very well. When those riding on American power for their own purposes (cheap beef, fruit, etc...) get to determine foreign policies we have problems.
I harbor no "collective white guilt" for their actions as they do not represent me, no matter how much I sympethize with those that felt the ill effects of them. Their actions were without my knowledge or condoning.
Instead of complaining about the government, I want to fix it. Just as I hope the Afhans realise that no good government will happen if they don't do it themselves. That goes double for our government. They won't do a good job without our personal observation and involvement.
Your obviously a smart person, with a good heart. You should help fix the government. Luckily we have a government where that is possible. Remember one Gorbechov changed a nation faster than hundreds of thousands of student protests.
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Lemonade need not be ported. It runs well under Apple ][ emulation.
I played that game for hours until my older brother (a mathmatician) figured out the optiman prices for every condition. It wasn't fun any more.
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[Bond] So Goldfinger you want me to Excel?
[Goldfinger] No Mr Bond, I expect you use SIAG!
..Bond tried desperately to excape...
Seriously though do you want me to use Excel becuase it is Quattro Pro, or becuase it isn't SIAG?
I remember seeing a movie on television about this. It is was the saturday afternoon variety back when you only had a handful of stations to choose from. It stared the bad guy from "Man from Atlantis" (cooked balooga, 43.8C,etc...)
He was in space in the future, working on an Apple ][ (not even e) looking at the possible reasons for the explosion. His witty Apple ][ played a good supporting role to his brandishing insults, ran simulations and gave data on mini-black holes, UFO's, Anti-Matter, and Asteroids.
Anyone else remember that movie?
Lets look at the stability of ActiveX, in one very quantifiable and non-fiction example...
Xbox
Linux is not worth it. Not 5 years ago, not today, not tomorrow, not a year from now.
Being a small buisness all linux network administrator for two different companies (concurrently) I feel your pain, even if it is a different realm.
You might want to tone it down a notch, as your statement comes across way too ideological. There are many instances where SDL and OpenGL make sence for game developers, even if it doesn't for the "latest greatest see realistic blood and guts" games developers. It may even make sence for them too, I wouldn't dismiss it.
In the market as it is today, I wouldn't want start the two year long development cycle for the killer game on ActiveX, only to find out that my compeditor reaches a larger market with SDL (PlayStation, Sega, etc...). I wouldn't want to try to make a name for myself in to a saturated ActiveX market and my compeditor actually make money on a more scaled back SDL production.
I just couldn't justify that kind of decision to my Boss, VC's, or share holders.
heh,
You know Ashley Judd played a semi-love interest of his... twice (in a skirt).
The first was the episode the mind-programming games, I don't think I saw the second one.
But I think the prettiest was the one in the "Wesley plays ball, breaks window, get sentenced to death, Picard denies Prime Directive to save him" girl.
that Linus said he couldn't care less about marketing?
Or maybe that he said he couldn't care less about rms's brave GNU/world name change tantrums?
You can read more background about the whining here.
Glad to hear the patches are doing so well!
I do note that the aa patches weren't included except as Linus's iterations, but I am glad to hear the news.
Got a reference for some benchmarks on LKML? I don't follow it directly, too much for me to do in a day. My TurboFestiva news group already gives me plenty to handle.
As an aside, I think that competition and in-fighting is very healthy for Linux. I think OSS is like Winston Churchill. In war it stands out as a very adaptive and competant leader. In peace it meanders about from one faux-pax to another.
Hmmm, according to the LWN that you linked to, aa patches have the best performance.
For those that don't know aa stands for Andrea Archelangi who one of the very importent kernel hackers. It was a large part of his effort that stabalized the 2.2 VM. Although it is debated on which VM is better, over 90% of the benchmarks I've seen have pointed to AA being the better choice.
AC even mentioned that the AA-VM was the right way to go, just too wild of a change for a stable kernel series. There is too much conspiracy theory going on that AC is hijacking the kernel for RedHat, or that the RedHat crew has a not-invented-here phobia for not including the better VM.
Now on to a more editorial comment.
There seems to be quite a war on this right now, but I think it will settle down in about 6 months or so like the ReiserFS wars have. I also think that we'll see a new order established in the stabalizing of kernels.
I have no political say, but I expect that Linus will run a kernel that will be considered the "experimental, quicker evolving" kernel where things change violently. AC and others job will may to pull out pieces to salvage a semblance of stability, essentialy forking the stable branches from Linus's more exotic cutting edge kernel.
This seems to be how things run in any case when there is a developmental kernel, and they run pretty well. The question that may be asked is "Does Linus need to slow down his effort to stabalize at all?" Its arguably true that the answer is "yes", but only to a degree that suits his own needs for order in his life-long persuit of the sexy kernel.
Linus himself mentioned that AC does a better job of it, maybe its time to give him the whole forking-a-stable-kernel job.
So GNU didn't write GNU tools?
Funny you should mention that. Actualy it so happens that they did, but thats not important now. What we are talking about is that GNU didn't write Linux, user utilities, or the many websites that rms has lambasted recently for not putting GNU in the name.
I provide a quote from my child hood that puts it well.
"Thats gnus to me. I'm Gary Gnu reminding you that no gnus is good gnus." Gary Gnu from `The Great Space Coaster'.
They are both experimental. According to AC in your article he tries little patches. This is kind of like Linus's pre- series. I've actually never had problems with a increment linus release. The few times I tried an AC patch (when there were problems) I had even more problems.
My strategy is stick with point releases, a week after they come out. If it doesn't work hang back to the last point release. I think Windows wishes it had such a "back version" capability.
I choose `B' also. Given the time frame and migration involved after time they would eventually ultimate Friz `B'.
Well there are two choices
Friz `A'
Friz `B'
Which would you choose?
The contractors built (or wizard installed) SQL Server `A' which was crappy on Access. Even migrate to a more enterprise solution from the same vendor and still but its still problematic.
He built server 'B' that was meant to fill a minor roll.
In time the contractors move their tasks on to working server `B' with his help.
Slashdot poster accuses him of messing up Server `A'.
heh.
The posts were even moderated up, but that isn't a rarity for a troll either.
However, I have always held that people argue becuase they don't know. I think its a very shallow to say that someone isn't a great thinker becuase they choose not to argue with narcissitic, whining, has-beens.
There is a saying "lead, follow, or get out of the way." Trying to put that adolescent recursive acronym infront of things he wished he (or his organization) wrote is none of the above. It *was* cute back in 1985.
I guess my previous posts in this thread summed it up nicely., but I'm always happy to elaborate.
what USA!!
Bush: Al your Queda are belong to us
Laden: What you say!!
Oh but emacs (pronounced with a capitol G) *is* a browser and a text editor, and a phsychiatrist....
Your right, those who argue don't know what to do.
You said it, Stallman gives things for people to argue about. Linus just gets things done.
from his story it looks like he had nothing to do with the SQL server's that failed. It lools like they switched to his becuase it worked.
Its funny how most of us feel that we can't make a difference. Just get active in a particular party and find ways to contribute localy. Don't join protests, nothing gets done there. Align yourself to get into places where you can make change. Don't settle for just "asking" for change.
I think you have pretty good ideas, and would have a better shot than most in finding a way to make them happen. If you found a way in, you'd find that you aren't alone and there are many who would want to promote you and your agenda. There are many who feel the same way but lack the courage to stand out.
Remember that it is easier to be appointed to a position than elected. Also remember in Catch 22 where all the real work and power was wielded by a private 0-class. I think you know what I'm getting at.
I can tell you this becuase Slashdot has moved on past this story. This isn't something I'd feed to the masses.
Hmmm, I think one change in phrasiology would help out a lot then. Change the USA overcharectarization to either US Government or "Those in the US Government".
I agree that these things need to be exposed, but in the right way. If they are exposed sensationaly then people will assume that your motives are not well intentioned. If they are exposed in a shouting match with a deaf media then you will look like a shouting lunatic. It works to measure reproaches to specific people and activities. Then no one can blame you of taking the actions of some as cause for retribution against entire masses.
It was a scarey day when I realized that government has two faces, like a polished sepulchre. Shiney on the outside but full of dead bones inside. I realized that the world looked different from inside the government than outside. And if I was going to make change, I was going to have to get inside the government. Politics like football is a game that is decided by players, not spectators.
Its much the decision that I hope the Afghans are making now. (Btw, the revolution with the northern alliance never stopped long enough to be considered as "Starting up again.") Unfortunately revolution is the only means they have to enact change. Its a price of blood, and a reward of freedom.
I entirely agree with you that action thriller violence is a pacifying influence. It turns people into the self justified cut and dried heros, from their movie seats. That is just the kind of spectatorship I would like to see come to an end. One who participates in the actual events often has a much different view than a spectator. And real life violence is horrible.
That never seems to come across in artistic media. There is just something already polished and glamourized the second you digest a situation in order to present it to another person. Much like the data even you have collected and digested.
I tell you, your just the kind of person that needs involvement in politics as much as a national government needs you. This part of the sepulchre can only be cleaned from the inside.
Actually its your wresting of the reactions that I'm concerned with. I've done digging but I make an important distinction between an act of war and the war. Your comments seem to pit reactions on a war with a particular act in the war which many Americans denounced. No one was dancing in the streets becuase people died.
In fact your commentary and the commentary of *many* others leads me to conclude that Americans (governed by the people for the people) actually abhore that massacre.
To illustrate my point I'll use your own quotes to show how its in front of your eyes but you are wresting it into an uncomfortable position.
Your specificaly mention that the elation came from the killing of 500,000 'leftists'. However from your comments...
"Hopefull political development" would infer something other than a massacre but a "political development". This smells of taking a line out of context.
For possible context lets look at the next quote... "pointing to the political demise of President Sukarno and the communists."
Then after setting up the context of one military action you work in generalized campain comments..."that the embassy and the U.S. G[overnment] were generally sympathetic with and admiring of what the army was doing." Thats even a generalization of a generalization!
However I digress, plenty of books and articles have been written showing a collective bereaving of those killed during that revolution as well as your comments.
But interestingly it shows a point that I admit is what I've been trying to say this whole time. That its the shady "subversive" few in government that aren't checked by the American people that cause all the problems. When America acts as a whole it does very well. When those riding on American power for their own purposes (cheap beef, fruit, etc...) get to determine foreign policies we have problems.
I harbor no "collective white guilt" for their actions as they do not represent me, no matter how much I sympethize with those that felt the ill effects of them. Their actions were without my knowledge or condoning.
Instead of complaining about the government, I want to fix it. Just as I hope the Afhans realise that no good government will happen if they don't do it themselves. That goes double for our government. They won't do a good job without our personal observation and involvement.
Your obviously a smart person, with a good heart. You should help fix the government. Luckily we have a government where that is possible. Remember one Gorbechov changed a nation faster than hundreds of thousands of student protests.
Lemonade need not be ported. It runs well under Apple ][ emulation.
I played that game for hours until my older brother (a mathmatician) figured out the optiman prices for every condition. It wasn't fun any more.