Sure, some paranoid government folks might panic, but the general public really isn't going to care.
I don't know about where you live but very few of the "general public" really gave a damn about the RC5-64 project... Not exactly something that lead the news in the typical area.
I doubt the "average" computer user thinks about the security of their data beyond the vague "evil hackers might get my AOL account" mindset.
That said, at the current rate, RC5-72 should take less time than the estimated completion time of RC5-64. (figure rc5-64 started 4+ years ago when the PII was the hottest thing around and clock speeds increased by tens, not by hundreds, of MHz)
While it is true that those who call the system "Linux" often do things that limit the users' freedom...
I would wager that 99.5% of those who use the term "Linux" in some way are either: A: Refering to it because of the freedom that the system brings the user. or most often... B: Refering to it in technical terms with no real feeling about the freedom aspect in any particular way, simply as a tool for a job.
Making blanket statements like the quote above show the same sort of mentality that goes into racial profiling... "Gee that guy is an Arab, It is true that they often do things to limit peoples lifespans..."
"Microsoft has also been employing new tools developed by Microsoft Research that are designed to detect errors in code during the development process, Valentine said"
WOW, what a revolutionary idea... a debugger!!!! What will those amazing M$ R&D guys come up with next?
If you are running OS 10.1 you can mount a Samba share running on the Linux server and run it just like another drive on your Mac, I don't see why you couldn't copy the *.img file to the Samba drive and then mount it from there.
If you are running OS 9.2 or earlier then I think you have to buy an app like PC-Mac Lan,(which can then contact the Samba box like it was a Windows machine) though there might be Free alternatives.
Another alternative could be to activate Appletalk in the Linux Kernel and use whatever tools are available to create a file share that way, though I don't have any experience with that.
I'm assuming that since the recent crop of Adobe apps are written as to run in both OS9 and X that the use Carbon. Has anyone done benchmarks on Carbon-based app performance in OS9 and X vs Cocoa based in X?
I only wonder because I've noticed a little sluggishness in Illustrator 10 under X AND 9 that I didn't experience various Cocoa apps(some quite large) under X.
Could the ease of platform transition that Carbon provides have a significant impact on performance?
Linux runs on Quad Xeon Machines just fine... As you said half the artists don't know or care which platform they are running so why not just drop the M$ tax and still run the app that they want on the hardware they want?
I'd also imagine that being able to drop Win32 would help considerably in development, they'll be able to focus on three similar platforms rather than 3 'nixes and odd-man-out Win32.
The Gaming industry tends to be behind the curve in utilizing the more advanced features of a card since 90% of their audience is still using the one of the several previous generation cards out there. My aging gaming box only has a TNT2 Ultra, and I havent noticed a sudden lack of ability to play recent titles.
Given the price of the card it seems to be targeted at the smaller animation shops with a few animators running various 3d apps(most of which cost between 2x to 9x the $900 model per seat) on NT Boxen, rather than the Quake "I need to run at 1500 FPS for nothing more than my own phallic extension reasons" crowd.
One: They had been using SGI/IRIX boxen so it was much simpler to port their internal applications to Linux than it would be to port it to MacOS X(OSX).
Two:(along the same vein as 1) IIRC The Linux transition has been going on for nearly a year now. OSX was in beta at the time this began and there were fewer vendors with OSX support in their apps (I think the only thing Adobe had ported was Acrobat Reader...) not that this was a problem since most of thier stuff was internal anyway. The main problem was that OSX was a moving target insofar as that they couldn't depend on being able to port their internal software and have it work as expected if Apple decided to change the API or some internal OSX subsystem in some way. (this is the same reason that Quark 5.0 isn't an OSX app) This could be considered as a "woo hoo" for Open Source in that you arent at the mercy of a software vendor that may change things for their own interests that would be detrimental to yours.
Three:Dreamworks wanted to go with the much cheaper Intel hardware, like it or not the top of the line PowerMacs that they would be interested in would be 7500 to 10k a seat (go to apples website and max each of the hardware options(including dual monitors) other than the iPod, price increases quickly) I won't go into the whole Apple vs Intel hardware quality thing( I have a Powerbook G4 myself and work in a PowerMac shop so I know they are solid rigs)
Four:Rendering, Shops like Dreamworks not only have their render farms going 24/7 but when the animators go home their workstations are also contributing to the effort; It's a much simpler proposition to have a single platform rendering frames then it is to have two different renderers and possibly different levels of quality based on whatever issues (Endian issues are certainly a big deal when dealing with things like color) came up during the port.
TPTB at my Comm College were on one of their renaming binges (I'm assuming for no other reason than to spend more money on new signs...) One of Deans got it into their head that the Testing Center should be renamed "The Academic Student Services Lab". Several of the personel had to go to the Board with a mockup of a new sign proudly announcing the new "ASS Lab". The matter was quickly dropped and we still have the Testing Center:-)
Precisely, with a Mac you pay for quality, You do same with PCs(I'm sure we can agree that you get a helluva lot more PC for $2k+ than $899, assuming you are custom building) without the confidence that the entire system(OS and Hardware) will work when and how you want it to.
Yes MacOS before X was much less than "rock-stable" but it did work quite well, X is simply outstanding
I Agree that Pre-X MacOS has quite a few flaws(mostly in the backend, the interface was still quite nice, though not mouth-watering like Aqua:-) )
I will say though that the hardware is absolutely top notch. I work at my Comm College doing Mac and PC Tech support for the Art and Computer Graphics departments. We just sent out one of our almost 2 yr old G4's for the first time(power supply problem). These are systems that are used 6 days a week for nearly 14 hours a day doing heavy video editng, fairly high poly rendering, quite a bit of photoshop work, and Poster sized Illustrator and Freehand files(now if we could just get Postscript 3 printers that will actually print half of the nifty effects).
You have to admit that isn't bad, especially considering this is a public Comm College and the machines aren't exactly treated nicely all the time.
The Win2k labs on the otherhand... Constant problems caused by what amounts to "lowest bidder" hardware.
Basically you play the title character, a Theif, you have to glide around and try not to get caught. Its preferable that you don't actually kill anyone since if another guard were to come upon the blood trail, the alarm sounds and you are screwed.
Certainly makes for a more interesting game than one where the only three things you need are a Big gun, a fast net connection and a 1337 nickname:-).
Of course I'm sure legislators would immediately whine about the less than honorable profession of the character and try to link it to all the new burglary cases...
Developers of open source software that allow the world to download and use thier software don't usually have "Will this get me $$$" on their mind. They just want to create a program that people will find useful and maybe even enjoyable.
RedHat and other Distros sell prebuilt Systems where they basically compile all of the packages, make sure that on a default install everything works without the user having to recompile and develop a method for installing the whole thing.
Developers of open source software would be over joyed that their software is considered important enough that it takes up a small(or in some cases large) amount of an install CD and is going to be distributed in such a way as that an end user, possibly new to Linux can just click on an icon or type a filename and bang, they are up and running, no downloading or compiling required.
RedHat isn't selling the Software per se.. they are selling a service, making it so joe blow can get everything he needs from a CD or 6 instead of having to spend hours downloading and compiling.. finding out he needs a different library version, downloading, installing... repeat.
So no, the developers don't deserve to be paid. If they wanted to be paid they wouldn't have given it away and allowed others to repackage and redistribute it to begin with... and if they really have a problem with thier software being in the distro they can always tell the company to take it out of the next version.
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Bullshit, REAL men remove the platter from their HDD and manipulate the sectors manually.
:-)
Bah to you simpletons with your "keyboards".
It'll just kill off the poor and infirm and save us having to pay so many taxes for social programs...
:-)
Woo Hoo! Natural selection succeeds despite the odd human need to help those who can't help themselves.
(The preceding message just barely constitutes sarcasm...)
Given how long it took to go from 2.2 to 2.4 that might be a pretty good rough estimate... :-)
Sure, some paranoid government folks might panic, but the general public really isn't going to care.
I don't know about where you live but very few of the "general public" really gave a damn about the RC5-64 project... Not exactly something that lead the news in the typical area.
I doubt the "average" computer user thinks about the security of their data beyond the vague "evil hackers might get my AOL account" mindset.
That said, at the current rate, RC5-72 should take less time than the estimated completion time of RC5-64. (figure rc5-64 started 4+ years ago when the PII was the hottest thing around and clock speeds increased by tens, not by hundreds, of MHz)
Interesting quote from the FAQ:
While it is true that those who call the system "Linux" often do things that limit the users' freedom...
I would wager that 99.5% of those who use the term "Linux" in some way are either:
A: Refering to it because of the freedom that the system brings the user.
or most often...
B: Refering to it in technical terms with no real feeling about the freedom aspect in any particular way, simply as a tool for a job.
Making blanket statements like the quote above show the same sort of mentality that goes into racial profiling...
"Gee that guy is an Arab, It is true that they often do things to limit peoples lifespans..."
Only problem would be getting an HDD to transfer at 25.6 GB/s (assuming each pic was 500k) :-)
Now THAT would be impressive.
Yes better to gouge the screen with finger nails than rub chubby finger tips all over it. :-)
"Microsoft has also been employing new tools developed by Microsoft Research that are designed to detect errors in code during the development process, Valentine said"
WOW, what a revolutionary idea... a debugger!!!!
What will those amazing M$ R&D guys come up with next?
Plastic
Neither, unless they strap a decent engine to the vase it would quickly get caught in Earth's gravity and vaporize on re-entry.
I can't speak for the logical method but...
The other solution is:
A=A+B
B=B-A
A=A-B
This is Flawed
Case: A = 2 B = 3
A = 2 + 3 = 5
B = 3 - 5 = -2
A = 5 - (-2) = 7
It should be:
A = A+B (2+3 = 5)
B = A-B (5-3 = 2)
A = A-B (5-2 = 3)
We've had those ever since Washington DC was created... though we typically refer to them as Politicians.
*rimshot*
Discipiles of rms ... Gmike
Wouldn't that be GNU/Mike ?
If you are running OS 10.1 you can mount a Samba share running on the Linux server and run it just like another drive on your Mac, I don't see why you couldn't copy the *.img file to the Samba drive and then mount it from there.
If you are running OS 9.2 or earlier then I think you have to buy an app like PC-Mac Lan,(which can then contact the Samba box like it was a Windows machine) though there might be Free alternatives.
Another alternative could be to activate Appletalk in the Linux Kernel and use whatever tools are available to create a file share that way, though I don't have any experience with that.
I'm assuming that since the recent crop of Adobe apps are written as to run in both OS9 and X that the use Carbon. Has anyone done benchmarks on Carbon-based app performance in OS9 and X vs Cocoa based in X?
I only wonder because I've noticed a little sluggishness in Illustrator 10 under X AND 9 that I didn't experience various Cocoa apps(some quite large) under X.
Could the ease of platform transition that Carbon provides have a significant impact on performance?
Linux runs on Quad Xeon Machines just fine... As you said half the artists don't know or care which platform they are running so why not just drop the M$ tax and still run the app that they want on the hardware they want?
I'd also imagine that being able to drop Win32 would help considerably in development, they'll be able to focus on three similar platforms rather than 3 'nixes and odd-man-out Win32.
Maya, Lightwave 3D, 3D Studio MAX.....
The Gaming industry tends to be behind the curve in utilizing the more advanced features of a card since 90% of their audience is still using the one of the several previous generation cards out there. My aging gaming box only has a TNT2 Ultra, and I havent noticed a sudden lack of ability to play recent titles.
Given the price of the card it seems to be targeted at the smaller animation shops with a few animators running various 3d apps(most of which cost between 2x to 9x the $900 model per seat) on NT Boxen, rather than the Quake "I need to run at 1500 FPS for nothing more than my own phallic extension reasons" crowd.
Nifty hack but...
Why didn't you just parent the eye objects to a null and move the null to where-ever the object of interest were in the scene?
Four Primary reasons:
One: They had been using SGI/IRIX boxen so it was much simpler to port their internal applications to Linux than it would be to port it to MacOS X(OSX).
Two:(along the same vein as 1) IIRC The Linux transition has been going on for nearly a year now. OSX was in beta at the time this began and there were fewer vendors with OSX support in their apps (I think the only thing Adobe had ported was Acrobat Reader...) not that this was a problem since most of thier stuff was internal anyway. The main problem was that OSX was a moving target insofar as that they couldn't depend on being able to port their internal software and have it work as expected if Apple decided to change the API or some internal OSX subsystem in some way. (this is the same reason that Quark 5.0 isn't an OSX app) This could be considered as a "woo hoo" for Open Source in that you arent at the mercy of a software vendor that may change things for their own interests that would be detrimental to yours.
Three:Dreamworks wanted to go with the much cheaper Intel hardware, like it or not the top of the line PowerMacs that they would be interested in would be 7500 to 10k a seat (go to apples website and max each of the hardware options(including dual monitors) other than the iPod, price increases quickly) I won't go into the whole Apple vs Intel hardware quality thing( I have a Powerbook G4 myself and work in a PowerMac shop so I know they are solid rigs)
Four:Rendering, Shops like Dreamworks not only have their render farms going 24/7 but when the animators go home their workstations are also contributing to the effort; It's a much simpler proposition to have a single platform rendering frames then it is to have two different renderers and possibly different levels of quality based on whatever issues (Endian issues are certainly a big deal when dealing with things like color) came up during the port.
"...So unless they have a Windows box in California acting as a proxy for a FreeBSD box in Vaginia..."
Must be a damn small box... or a very large one for that matter...
TPTB at my Comm College were on one of their renaming binges (I'm assuming for no other reason than to spend more money on new signs...) One of Deans got it into their head that the Testing Center should be renamed "The Academic Student Services Lab". Several of the personel had to go to the Board with a mockup of a new sign proudly announcing the new "ASS Lab". The matter was quickly dropped and we still have the Testing Center :-)
Precisely, with a Mac you pay for quality, You do same with PCs(I'm sure we can agree that you get a helluva lot more PC for $2k+ than $899, assuming you are custom building) without the confidence that the entire system(OS and Hardware) will work when and how you want it to.
Yes MacOS before X was much less than "rock-stable" but it did work quite well, X is simply outstanding
I Agree that Pre-X MacOS has quite a few flaws(mostly in the backend, the interface was still quite nice, though not mouth-watering like Aqua :-) )
I will say though that the hardware is absolutely top notch. I work at my Comm College doing Mac and PC Tech support for the Art and Computer Graphics departments. We just sent out one of our almost 2 yr old G4's for the first time(power supply problem). These are systems that are used 6 days a week for nearly 14 hours a day doing heavy video editng, fairly high poly rendering, quite a bit of photoshop work, and Poster sized Illustrator and Freehand files(now if we could just get Postscript 3 printers that will actually print half of the nifty effects).
You have to admit that isn't bad, especially considering this is a public Comm College and the machines aren't exactly treated nicely all the time.
The Win2k labs on the otherhand... Constant problems caused by what amounts to "lowest bidder" hardware.
You should check out: Thief: The Dark Project
:-).
Basically you play the title character, a Theif, you have to glide around and try not to get caught. Its preferable that you don't actually kill anyone since if another guard were to come upon the blood trail, the alarm sounds and you are screwed.
Certainly makes for a more interesting game than one where the only three things you need are a Big gun, a fast net connection and a 1337 nickname
Of course I'm sure legislators would immediately whine about the less than honorable profession of the character and try to link it to all the new burglary cases...
Developers of open source software that allow the world to download and use thier software don't usually have "Will this get me $$$" on their mind. They just want to create a program that people will find useful and maybe even enjoyable.
RedHat and other Distros sell prebuilt Systems where they basically compile all of the packages, make sure that on a default install everything works without the user having to recompile and develop a method for installing the whole thing.
Developers of open source software would be over joyed that their software is considered important enough that it takes up a small(or in some cases large) amount of an install CD and is going to be distributed in such a way as that an end user, possibly new to Linux can just click on an icon or type a filename and bang, they are up and running, no downloading or compiling required.
RedHat isn't selling the Software per se.. they are selling a service, making it so joe blow can get everything he needs from a CD or 6 instead of having to spend hours downloading and compiling.. finding out he needs a different library version, downloading, installing... repeat.
So no, the developers don't deserve to be paid. If they wanted to be paid they wouldn't have given it away and allowed others to repackage and redistribute it to begin with... and if they really have a problem with thier software being in the distro they can always tell the company to take it out of the next version.