A bundle of the emulators seem to work just fine on poorly supported architectures like the XBurst, so either they have or there's a bunch of very talented folks that like the Commodore 64 a touch too much.
Exactly this. I'm trying to figure out how somebody who could come up with that big of a tottering pile of semiplausible technologies would not be able to figure out portage.
I don't buy things to get better quality. I buy them to have them, guaranteed, a year or five from now. To make sure I have it when I have that one song stuck in my head, or want to see movie X from year abcd, or need to know all about assembler programming on palm pilots. Its one of the things that ticks me off most about DRM- why should I tolerate the risk of having my media collection wiped when I could just rip a CD?
I realize I'm jumping into this tempest in a teacup a little late, but the percentage of users without silverlight installed is huge. According to riastats.com its something like 83%. I'm no expert, but simply from a marketing standpoint, I have to question why they would go with a technology that has less than twenty percent market penetration if they were as concerned about being accessible to all as they claim.
The obvious counterargument, and the one that you've advanced, is that just because somebody doesn't have silverlight doesn't mean they can't have silverlight. Being honest, that doesn't pass the whose-bull-is-gored test- if this were a scenario in which only Linux users could access information about an event of national importance, I doubt you would be arguing that 99% of those interested should go fsck themselves.
Well, that's pretty much what actually happens with the initial ramdisk. The hard thing is that it isn't (right now) possible to make those golden ramdisks very powerful AND very portable. A team made a Eee boot in something on the order of five seconds not too long ago because they expanded the role of the initrd at the expense of hardware detection (I'm simplifying), but if you try to copy one of your system's hibernate images onto a virtual hard disk and run your virtualization of choice on it, it'll crash horribly. The solution so far is to simply make the ramdisk's scope small, so that the OS still does all that time-consuming stuff afterwards. Until we get a good solution for all of that, or move it down into hardware, we're pretty much going to be stuck parallelizing the init process.
For cold boot to be as fast as hibernate, it would have to be able to run through the bootloader, do hardware detection, and generate a system image as fast as your system could copy one into ram. It's like trying to write a book versus trying to read one. Well parallelized init processes, cool hardware tricks, and bootloader shenanigans can get you pretty close to it, but its still not exactly a fair fight, and as another poster pointed out, the two have very little in common from a technical perspective.
On behalf of my state, I apologize to all the people who won't be offended because of this dastardly bill. As a result of a law whose level of stupidity will become unutterable upon its passage, the massed retards and mental midgets of the great state of South Carolina will now be forced to forgo the sudden torrents of profanity which have so long served as warnings for their people. Without vulgar language I, for one, can only believe that the subtle enjoinders of "hey y'all, watch this" or "ah can too, hold my beer" will eventually cease to grace the back woods of our beautiful state, lost to the inexorable pressure of natural selection. And for the loss of that unique and precious resource, our legislators should be ashamed.
I'm not saying that's a bad idea- but people die. Sometimes too early, and always earlier than they expect. If you really feel like your asceticism is towards a good end and not just a point of pride, then by all means continue- but it is your only life, and it doesn't make sense to squander it for the love of little bits of paper.
I won't lie, I do a lot like you do, but hearing you say it like that makes me think I should stop. Is all the cash you're socking away going to buy you a better life? What about your loved ones? The things you believe in? Is the pleasure of watching your little pile of gold grow worth more than the good it could be doing in the wider world?
I have to disagree with you- while it is clearly a lawyer's duty to act zealously in his clients' interests, that obligation cannot be reasonably construed to allow him to act unethically or illegally. Please don't pretend that the ethical deficiencies of the client excuse the courtroom behavior of their counsel- the ABA doesn't.
I hope he'll begin incorporating his huge campaign machine into the transition government as soon as possible. If he can begin moving his most active supporters into the various CCC-esque programs he has been touting *before* he enters office, it might give him enough support to substantially alter the balance of power before the political machinery can get into gear. Otherwise, I don't see how he'll be able to implement programs of that size.
Basically just an easy-to-use frontend to virtualbox, actually- uses the vrdp server. I'd need a linux server with ssh access. Ubuntu or debian would be preferred but any will do. Let me know- my email is CTO@OpenMigration.Net.
I mention EC2 as an option, not as the only path. The company I work for does this- remote desktop technology, application publishing, etc- but it really isn't terribly complex. At the risk of blatantly plugging (give me some credit, I tried to avoid it) we could set this up for you pretty cheaply.
If you really don't give a damn about tolerances, you can always just make some clicker gears out of cardboard and JB weld or, if you have it, resin. They are actually way stronger than you'd think and easy to make, they just make a ton of noise and generally don't drive very precisely.
I disagree. You're welcome to your opinion, but it is just that, and you'll pardon me if I don't accept the validity of your point of view simply because you state it in absolute terms.
I'm going to presume that someone with the reasoning skills needed to obtain the rock-solid grasp of my point that you obviously have would have better things to do than read what I have to say, so let me quote the last line in my post for you:
Exaggeration is a fine art, don't overdo it.
Since I know that highly intelligent people often have trouble communicating with people who are less gifted than they, let me help you explain this point to the moron in the next cubicle over: making a strawman of an argument is an infuriating, counterproductive way of debating for points, not a valid reasoning tool. As I pointed out several times in the remainder of the thread that you (being a titan of the corporate world) clearly did not have time to read, this is a gray area, where the ethical obligations to your previous company, the type of skills in question, and the motivations of your prospective employer must be carefully taken into account.
It is my opinion that the old saw about "if you have to ask, the answer is no" applies here. I think that the poster is uncomfortable with this situation, knows that it is not the right thing to do, and is looking to Slashdot for somebody clever enough to come up with a reasonable sounding excuse for him to go against his conscience. You can feel free to disagree. I'm sure both of us can come up with good reasons for disagreeing. But for the person I responded to to attempt to characterize a legitimate moral dilemma in the way that they did was thoughtless, illogical, and disingenuous. And that's all the point I was making there.
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A bundle of the emulators seem to work just fine on poorly supported architectures like the XBurst, so either they have or there's a bunch of very talented folks that like the Commodore 64 a touch too much.
Exactly this. I'm trying to figure out how somebody who could come up with that big of a tottering pile of semiplausible technologies would not be able to figure out portage.
Why not just recompile your target application for ppc?
I don't buy things to get better quality. I buy them to have them, guaranteed, a year or five from now. To make sure I have it when I have that one song stuck in my head, or want to see movie X from year abcd, or need to know all about assembler programming on palm pilots. Its one of the things that ticks me off most about DRM- why should I tolerate the risk of having my media collection wiped when I could just rip a CD?
Help, help, I'm being repressed!
...I can't wait to get downmodded...
what does your business do?
I realize I'm jumping into this tempest in a teacup a little late, but the percentage of users without silverlight installed is huge. According to riastats.com its something like 83%. I'm no expert, but simply from a marketing standpoint, I have to question why they would go with a technology that has less than twenty percent market penetration if they were as concerned about being accessible to all as they claim.
The obvious counterargument, and the one that you've advanced, is that just because somebody doesn't have silverlight doesn't mean they can't have silverlight. Being honest, that doesn't pass the whose-bull-is-gored test- if this were a scenario in which only Linux users could access information about an event of national importance, I doubt you would be arguing that 99% of those interested should go fsck themselves.
Well, that's pretty much what actually happens with the initial ramdisk. The hard thing is that it isn't (right now) possible to make those golden ramdisks very powerful AND very portable. A team made a Eee boot in something on the order of five seconds not too long ago because they expanded the role of the initrd at the expense of hardware detection (I'm simplifying), but if you try to copy one of your system's hibernate images onto a virtual hard disk and run your virtualization of choice on it, it'll crash horribly. The solution so far is to simply make the ramdisk's scope small, so that the OS still does all that time-consuming stuff afterwards. Until we get a good solution for all of that, or move it down into hardware, we're pretty much going to be stuck parallelizing the init process.
For cold boot to be as fast as hibernate, it would have to be able to run through the bootloader, do hardware detection, and generate a system image as fast as your system could copy one into ram. It's like trying to write a book versus trying to read one. Well parallelized init processes, cool hardware tricks, and bootloader shenanigans can get you pretty close to it, but its still not exactly a fair fight, and as another poster pointed out, the two have very little in common from a technical perspective.
On behalf of my state, I apologize to all the people who won't be offended because of this dastardly bill. As a result of a law whose level of stupidity will become unutterable upon its passage, the massed retards and mental midgets of the great state of South Carolina will now be forced to forgo the sudden torrents of profanity which have so long served as warnings for their people. Without vulgar language I, for one, can only believe that the subtle enjoinders of "hey y'all, watch this" or "ah can too, hold my beer" will eventually cease to grace the back woods of our beautiful state, lost to the inexorable pressure of natural selection. And for the loss of that unique and precious resource, our legislators should be ashamed.
I'm not saying that's a bad idea- but people die. Sometimes too early, and always earlier than they expect. If you really feel like your asceticism is towards a good end and not just a point of pride, then by all means continue- but it is your only life, and it doesn't make sense to squander it for the love of little bits of paper.
I won't lie, I do a lot like you do, but hearing you say it like that makes me think I should stop. Is all the cash you're socking away going to buy you a better life? What about your loved ones? The things you believe in? Is the pleasure of watching your little pile of gold grow worth more than the good it could be doing in the wider world?
I have to disagree with you- while it is clearly a lawyer's duty to act zealously in his clients' interests, that obligation cannot be reasonably construed to allow him to act unethically or illegally. Please don't pretend that the ethical deficiencies of the client excuse the courtroom behavior of their counsel- the ABA doesn't.
distcc scales pretty close to linearly. You'd have to have not-very-many slow machines and a slow network.
I was just about to say, I use this as an alarm clock
I hope he'll begin incorporating his huge campaign machine into the transition government as soon as possible. If he can begin moving his most active supporters into the various CCC-esque programs he has been touting *before* he enters office, it might give him enough support to substantially alter the balance of power before the political machinery can get into gear. Otherwise, I don't see how he'll be able to implement programs of that size.
Didn't read the minimum requirements? No donut.
Didn't look for alternatives? No sympathy.
Not to sound heartless, but no *buntu is exactly light.
Basically just an easy-to-use frontend to virtualbox, actually- uses the vrdp server. I'd need a linux server with ssh access. Ubuntu or debian would be preferred but any will do. Let me know- my email is CTO@OpenMigration.Net.
Well, let me know if you're interested. If you'd provide the server space I'd set it up for free for you.
I mention EC2 as an option, not as the only path. The company I work for does this- remote desktop technology, application publishing, etc- but it really isn't terribly complex. At the risk of blatantly plugging (give me some credit, I tried to avoid it) we could set this up for you pretty cheaply.
Grab an EC2 server and image it to serve RDP. Similar concept, and probably won't cost you as much as this.
Set up your home machine to push its desktop across RDP. Done.
If you really don't give a damn about tolerances, you can always just make some clicker gears out of cardboard and JB weld or, if you have it, resin. They are actually way stronger than you'd think and easy to make, they just make a ton of noise and generally don't drive very precisely.
I disagree. You're welcome to your opinion, but it is just that, and you'll pardon me if I don't accept the validity of your point of view simply because you state it in absolute terms.
Exaggeration is a fine art, don't overdo it.
Since I know that highly intelligent people often have trouble communicating with people who are less gifted than they, let me help you explain this point to the moron in the next cubicle over: making a strawman of an argument is an infuriating, counterproductive way of debating for points, not a valid reasoning tool.
As I pointed out several times in the remainder of the thread that you (being a titan of the corporate world) clearly did not have time to read, this is a gray area, where the ethical obligations to your previous company, the type of skills in question, and the motivations of your prospective employer must be carefully taken into account.
It is my opinion that the old saw about "if you have to ask, the answer is no" applies here. I think that the poster is uncomfortable with this situation, knows that it is not the right thing to do, and is looking to Slashdot for somebody clever enough to come up with a reasonable sounding excuse for him to go against his conscience. You can feel free to disagree. I'm sure both of us can come up with good reasons for disagreeing. But for the person I responded to to attempt to characterize a legitimate moral dilemma in the way that they did was thoughtless, illogical, and disingenuous. And that's all the point I was making there.