The most number of lanes supported by PCIe is x32, so 250MB/s x 32 x 2 (bi-directionality) is 16GB/s for a theoretical maximum transfer rate. - Please note this is theoretical maximum...
PCI-X maximum is as I said 4.3GB/s...
But the real killer is maximum implemented storage transfer speed bus is Fibre Channel 4GFC (4.25 GHz) - 425 MB/s
What this is about is forking the Kernel..... or specifically the CPU scheduler, this has nothing (or almost nothing) to do with the user experience of Linux on the desktop, specifically the complaints Walt Mossburg had about the Ubuntu on Dell were to do with media playing (Licensing issues) hardware compatibility (driver issues) and ease of use. None of this is anything to do with the kernel, it is to do with the programs running on top of it, ideological/licensing factors (non-free drivers not pre-installed)
The only comment I have seen which is relevant (i.e. about the responsiveness of the desktop) said that the typical Linux system is *more* responsive than Windows... so it seems that this really is not an issue
As I said above the only kind of advertising that works on me is to let me know a product exists at all (mostly I know they exist, I know Ford does cars....) but the kind of advert you describe "hey look were a small theatre company *in your area* and we have a new production" is just the kind of ad I might not mentally edit out.
"...it was cheaper to go buy a company that could make a Solaris and Linux desktop productivity suite than it was to buy forty-two thousand licenses from Microsoft"
Charge for software, force the customer to get a licence and enforce it somehow
Give the software away fro free, and charge for support
The new style works for products that need support (note support, *not* maintainence/fixes they should always be free) and people are likely to actually pay for the support
The old style works for products that do not need support or always need support (i.e. what you are buying *is* the support contract not really the software), the customer will only put up with this if the product is good and the licencing requirements are not too onerous, this is the problem with "Product Activation" in windows, it is onerous, it is annoying, and it does not seem to give you anything you have not already paid for...!
So If I use another (non-firefox) browser that does add-blocking that's OK is it?
and If I use firefox but don't block adverts why can't I see the website?
Firefox is not the problem, a broken advertising model is the problem
- I never buy from cold callers - I never buy from the door - I never click on Web Ads
the only thing an advert is doing is letting me know their product exists (and almost always I already know that) Adverts seem to have the opposite of the desired effect on me, If I see something actively being advertised I avoid buying it since it will be overpriced rubbish....
Windows is *not* and cannot be a registered trademark
The word Windows is in the Dictionary so it cannot be trademarked the phrase "Microsoft Windows" can be and is and the actual artwork of the word "Windows" can be trademarked and is
Microsoft do employ some of the brightest mind in software, it's just debatable what they actually do since none of Microsofts software appears to have anything to do with them...or it would be better than it is?
The difference is these people have no comeback, if the software has a backdoor then you loose, and it has no effect on them, they lose nothing..
If it was Open Source then it would be possible to check if had a backdoor? (You might not do it, but since it would be possible then they probably would not try and put one in?)
If it was a commercial product/service then someone finding it had a backdoor would reflect badly on them and they would lose customers so they would again probably not have one
What is unreal about an article about an episode of Star Trek? If people use it then it is "real", the fact that it would not appear in a printed encyclopaedia is irrelevant, Wikipedia is not a printed encyclopaedia!
Irrelevant articles tend to get either improved or deleted so the majority of the 2 million articles are almost certainly *used* (the count does not include tiny stub articles, redirects etc...). You have obviously never tried to create an article on Wikipedia or you would know that vanity, fan only articles get deleted very quickly!
Ubuntu is great as a desktop - RHEL is better for a server - Fedora is a compromise
Video drivers for a server?, this is irrelevant (unless you run Microsoft OS) how often do you even have a monitor on the server itself, everything should be done remotely, and plugging in a monitor and using the server directly is a last resort
If a piece of software take so long to load that I get bored and kill it before it loads then it is bloated....... If a program has so many options visible that I can never see myself using then it is bloated
Give a program that does one thing well, loads fast and has an "Advanced Options" checkbox.... VLC anyone...
Point C is the real problem - The BBC needs to DRM it's content to meet the licensing requirements of some of it's content (i.e. the stuff it's bought in) - Someone in the BBC decided to go for the quick and dirty off the self option and bought in a known working DRM'ed distribution system, rather than write their own.
The choice was not closed source formats or open source formats, or DRM or No DRM, it was DRM'ed system now (that works on most peoples computers) or DRM'ed system later (that works on all systems)
If anyone knows of a DRM'ed distributions system that they could use instead then feel free to suggest it...
Many of the comments here seem to under the impression that the BBC are using codecs and encodings that are not open source for a good reason, the only reason is that it's what the system they are using supports.
The biggest problem is that the best techniques only give a probability of matching at 1 in a Billion
The population of the earth is 6.5 billion so it will match at least 6 people even if done perfectly
Experimental error means that it will probably match many more, at it still only proves the persons DNA was at the crime scene, not that they were there, at the time.
and since each test (at this level) can take weeks and cost a fortune, don't expect the conviction rate to increase at all
Can you explain that to Koopa their single Blag, Steal & Borrow enter the UK single chart at 31, they have not got a record deal, have not got a contract with a record company, but promoted themselves by playing gigs and on the internet....?
How does downloading a song I would not have bought damage profits?
Sale if I cannot download it for free : $0.00 Sale if I can download for free : $0.00 Sale if I can download it for $1.00 : $0.00 - Since I won't bother.....
Slashdot Mirror
Aha!
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So we have the usual confusion between nBits - nBytes and also Mega = 1000x1000 / 1024x1024 (/1000x1024!)
The bus speed is not irrelevant since the data still needs to go somewhere? Video card is on the bus, external device is
Also the HDD is probably slower than this ?
So where is this data going ? (and for that matter where is it coming from) at these speeds ?
The most number of lanes supported by PCIe is x32, so 250MB/s x 32 x 2 (bi-directionality) is 16GB/s for a theoretical maximum transfer rate. - Please note this is theoretical maximum ...
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PCI-X maximum is as I said 4.3GB/s
But the real killer is maximum implemented storage transfer speed bus is Fibre Channel 4GFC (4.25 GHz) - 425 MB/s
Err the PCI-X bus is only rated at 1.06 GB/s (or 4.3 GB/s for PCI-X 2.0) so what exactly is the point?
What this is about is forking the Kernel... .. or specifically the CPU scheduler, this has nothing (or almost nothing) to do with the user experience of Linux on the desktop, specifically the complaints Walt Mossburg had about the Ubuntu on Dell were to do with media playing (Licensing issues) hardware compatibility (driver issues) and ease of use. None of this is anything to do with the kernel, it is to do with the programs running on top of it, ideological/licensing factors (non-free drivers not pre-installed)
... so it seems that this really is not an issue
The only comment I have seen which is relevant (i.e. about the responsiveness of the desktop) said that the typical Linux system is *more* responsive than Windows
As I said above the only kind of advertising that works on me is to let me know a product exists at all (mostly I know they exist, I know Ford does cars....) but the kind of advert you describe "hey look were a small theatre company *in your area* and we have a new production" is just the kind of ad I might not mentally edit out.
That says it all ...
"...it was cheaper to go buy a company that could make a Solaris and Linux desktop productivity suite than it was to buy forty-two thousand licenses from Microsoft"
There are two legitimate business models ...
...!
Charge for software, force the customer to get a licence and enforce it somehow
Give the software away fro free, and charge for support
The new style works for products that need support (note support, *not* maintainence/fixes they should always be free) and people are likely to actually pay for the support
The old style works for products that do not need support or always need support (i.e. what you are buying *is* the support contract not really the software), the customer will only put up with this if the product is good and the licencing requirements are not too onerous, this is the problem with "Product Activation" in windows, it is onerous, it is annoying, and it does not seem to give you anything you have not already paid for
So If I use another (non-firefox) browser that does add-blocking that's OK is it?
and If I use firefox but don't block adverts why can't I see the website?
Firefox is not the problem, a broken advertising model is the problem
- I never buy from cold callers
- I never buy from the door
- I never click on Web Ads
the only thing an advert is doing is letting me know their product exists (and almost always I already know that)
Adverts seem to have the opposite of the desired effect on me, If I see something actively being advertised I avoid buying it since it will be overpriced rubbish....
Windows is *not* and cannot be a registered trademark
The word Windows is in the Dictionary so it cannot be trademarked the phrase "Microsoft Windows" can be and is and the actual artwork of the word "Windows" can be trademarked and is
So this Scientific study shows that
...?
Liberals who by definition are tolerant and open to change (Liberal), are tolerant and open to change?
Conservatives who by definition are logical (follow the rules) and resistant to change (Conservative), are logical and resistant to change?
Never would have worked out that myself
Microsoft do employ some of the brightest mind in software, it's just debatable what they actually do since none of Microsofts software appears to have anything to do with them ...or it would be better than it is?
The man who designed C# would agree - since he also designed Delphi .... Anders Hejlsberg
The difference is these people have no comeback, if the software has a backdoor then you loose, and it has no effect on them, they lose nothing..
If it was Open Source then it would be possible to check if had a backdoor? (You might not do it, but since it would be possible then they probably would not try and put one in?)
If it was a commercial product/service then someone finding it had a backdoor would reflect badly on them and they would lose customers so they would again probably not have one
What is unreal about an article about an episode of Star Trek? If people use it then it is "real", the fact that it would not appear in a printed encyclopaedia is irrelevant, Wikipedia is not a printed encyclopaedia!
Irrelevant articles tend to get either improved or deleted so the majority of the 2 million articles are almost certainly *used* (the count does not include tiny stub articles, redirects etc...). You have obviously never tried to create an article on Wikipedia or you would know that vanity, fan only articles get deleted very quickly!
Ubuntu is great as a desktop - RHEL is better for a server - Fedora is a compromise
Video drivers for a server?, this is irrelevant (unless you run Microsoft OS) how often do you even have a monitor on the server itself, everything should be done remotely, and plugging in a monitor and using the server directly is a last resort
If a piece of software take so long to load that I get bored and kill it before it loads then it is bloated.... ... If a program has so many options visible that I can never see myself using then it is bloated
.... VLC anyone ...
Give a program that does one thing well, loads fast and has an "Advanced Options" checkbox
Opera is faster, more stable, more secure (maybe?), Free ... but Can I get/write extensions for it? ...and how many websites will not render at all?
Point C is the real problem - The BBC needs to DRM it's content to meet the licensing requirements of some of it's content (i.e. the stuff it's bought in) - Someone in the BBC decided to go for the quick and dirty off the self option and bought in a known working DRM'ed distribution system, rather than write their own.
...
The choice was not closed source formats or open source formats, or DRM or No DRM, it was DRM'ed system now (that works on most peoples computers) or DRM'ed system later (that works on all systems)
If anyone knows of a DRM'ed distributions system that they could use instead then feel free to suggest it
Many of the comments here seem to under the impression that the BBC are using codecs and encodings that are not open source for a good reason, the only reason is that it's what the system they are using supports.
The biggest problem is that the best techniques only give a probability of matching at 1 in a Billion
The population of the earth is 6.5 billion so it will match at least 6 people even if done perfectly
Experimental error means that it will probably match many more, at it still only proves the persons DNA was at the crime scene, not that they were there, at the time.
and since each test (at this level) can take weeks and cost a fortune, don't expect the conviction rate to increase at all
Many "Cannibal" cultures basically have no crime to speak of, whereas the most crime ridden cultures are "Civilised"
Why is "Windows" disallowed ?
.... "Microsoft Windows" is trademarked however
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It is *NOT* trademarked - because it *cannot* be
You cannot trademark words in common usage....
In a similar manner Excel, Word, Office are not and cannot be trademarked
But "Microsoft Excel" "Microsoft Word" "Microsoft Office" are
So it's not just trademarks that are banned is common words
But as noted above it's a private network, they can a do set the rules and if they want to ban "hello" as a screen name they can
Can you explain that to Koopa their single Blag, Steal & Borrow enter the UK single chart at 31, they have not got a record deal, have not got a contract with a record company, but promoted themselves by playing gigs and on the internet ....?
I can listen to it on the radio ... for free
... for free
... for free
I can listen to it on Internet radio
I can listen to it on Television
Why can't I download it for free?
It's a bit like learn to count with Microsoft Word ...
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1..2..6..95..97..2000..2002..2003...2007
It's obvious
How does downloading a song I would not have bought damage profits?
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Sale if I cannot download it for free : $0.00
Sale if I can download for free : $0.00
Sale if I can download it for $1.00 : $0.00 - Since I won't bother
Sorry how are they losing revenue ?