Writes the history... Look's like that party has won the culture war by instilling fear into the current population. This type of thing happens over and over in history. It's not a new invention. Rule by the sword or die by the sword.
I know the problem...... ATI! They just said last week that they will release opensource drivers.... it's been a week... no progress.. even on this old hardware...... When can someone sue?
You'll get this anywhere, stick with your friends in a channel...just like you stick with your friends in a bar. How often do you go to a bar and find a Jerk? This isn't a video game only problem.
IBM licensing is evil............. They sell you this amazing computer with 16 processor boards but only turn on 4... the other 12 sit there unused when the mainframe is running @ 95%. IBM will unlock the boards for another so many thousand (not sure on the numbers but it's 5 digits)...................how terrible is that?!
It's funny you say that but I've been administrating Linux/AIX for a year and I just had 3 months of 3270 training. Now I support MF applications JCL/COBOL/EZTRIEVE and AIX/Linux applications/scripts/perl...... how much an I worth?
First let me tell you I work at a shop that runs an IBM mainframe. We pay extra based on CPU utilization. So if your a little busier one day versus the other, you pay extra. In fact we spend hours and hours trying to make our Jobs run faster and lower the MF CPU and offload CPU usage to distributed platforms.
think the author of the article got into a tangent with him about how many transactions they do, and what their operating costs are and then incorrectly made the correlation that there is a cost-per-transaction from a computing stand-point. That can't be true. You don't insert fifties into the A: drive. -- Like I said, they pay per CPU cycle and based on a sliding scale of % utilized. Distributed systems like AIX or LINUX don't have this cost.
Look at it this way: If they make the big switch, and all of a sudden they can handle double-the-transactions per day - that would halve the cost of transactions. Only there's not going to all of a sudden be double-the-transactions. They're still working with the same number of transactions. -- Not paying per cycle to IBM for licensing will decrease costs substantially.
We just need a compiler to translate our code into threaded processes. Impossible? Think about the translation a C++ compiler does, this is minimal task. Problem solved. Move along, nothing to see here.
Apple has a decisive advantage with its OS/Hardware Control. It delivers a product to the consumer that WORKS, period.
Allowing them to try out windows / cross compute -- still allows apple to maintain it's very very high hardware profit margins and provide a solid usuable computer (the macos partition).
Allowing people to install MacOS on nonstandardized hardware is going to be a support nightmare and will allow for the erosion of apples "it just works" business strategy.
IF, (BIG IF HERE): apple decides to dump the hardware market... unlikely but possible, it would start licensing 3rd parties to make hardware for it's OS so it could get a premium on their sales... and then eventually stop its own production and still get a premium for it's logo/OS from hardware companies (similar to MS). Steve Jobs has a history of maintaining strong control over the delivery of his products so i'm assuming every MacOS pc would need some kind of testing before apple would approve it. Very disimilar to MS's current strategy (which is, sell it on anything we dont care, just sell it).
If we're going to do this.xxx for censorships sake than we should also do the following.MA.17+.PG-13.LittleKid
I'm really surprised about this, I would think that these right wing groups could force ISPS in their area not do deliver domains ending in XXX, but not every sex site would move, unless mandated. They could essentially stop the decimination of digital porno if the mandate worked, just like the way they stopped the flow of information in the 1700s by burning books.
Jesus loves a good book burn followed by a witch hunt!
Basically, it will work on any recent machine with a decent 3d accelerator.
Low end hardware w/integrated crap graphics will not work. Even high end hardware sold by certain OEMS (say dell) that uses this onboard intel/via/s3 crap graphic chips won't support it.
I think Joe sixpack is going to have a drunken fit when he finds out the 2000$ computer he bought, 6 months ago from dell, WILL NOT run vista or Nascar 2006.
I don't think the issue is that it will run terrible. It's that so many computer CANNOT, ever, run Vista even though they were expensive and have good cpus/ram, but the vendor cut corners on the graphics card, so now the customer is screwed.
i picked up my class-A (truck drivers license) back in 2003 from a job i was working at nights while i was in school.
Now i make 17.50 an hour driving a truck after class and i graduate in may.
Where can i start with a CIS degree for 17.50 an hour?
The thing is, the lifestyle is terrible. You gone all the time. You dont get "hours", you get trips with unknown completion times. A flat tire adds 3 hours on the day. A jerk in a Audi adds 15 minutes when you have to stop and beat him with a tire iron.... it makes for a lame-o day.
Slashdot Mirror
It was on slashdot last week, but here is the results of a quick google search on the topic: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/?p=288
Writes the history... Look's like that party has won the culture war by instilling fear into the current population. This type of thing happens over and over in history. It's not a new invention. Rule by the sword or die by the sword.
I know the problem...... ATI! They just said last week that they will release opensource drivers.... it's been a week... no progress.. even on this old hardware...... When can someone sue?
Cisco exec slaps head and repeats the mantra of IT ....... "It's a user issue"
You'll get this anywhere, stick with your friends in a channel...just like you stick with your friends in a bar. How often do you go to a bar and find a Jerk? This isn't a video game only problem.
Cost.
IBM licensing is evil............. They sell you this amazing computer with 16 processor boards but only turn on 4... the other 12 sit there unused when the mainframe is running @ 95%. IBM will unlock the boards for another so many thousand (not sure on the numbers but it's 5 digits)...................how terrible is that?!
It's funny you say that but I've been administrating Linux/AIX for a year and I just had 3 months of 3270 training. Now I support MF applications JCL/COBOL/EZTRIEVE and AIX/Linux applications/scripts/perl...... how much an I worth?
First let me tell you I work at a shop that runs an IBM mainframe. We pay extra based on CPU utilization. So if your a little busier one day versus the other, you pay extra. In fact we spend hours and hours trying to make our Jobs run faster and lower the MF CPU and offload CPU usage to distributed platforms.
think the author of the article got into a tangent with him about how many transactions they do, and what their operating costs are and then incorrectly made the correlation that there is a cost-per-transaction from a computing stand-point. That can't be true. You don't insert fifties into the A: drive. -- Like I said, they pay per CPU cycle and based on a sliding scale of % utilized. Distributed systems like AIX or LINUX don't have this cost.
Look at it this way: If they make the big switch, and all of a sudden they can handle double-the-transactions per day - that would halve the cost of transactions. Only there's not going to all of a sudden be double-the-transactions. They're still working with the same number of transactions. -- Not paying per cycle to IBM for licensing will decrease costs substantially.
Bah, who cares -- those things will last 10 years. We'll worry about it in 2017!
We just need a compiler to translate our code into threaded processes. Impossible? Think about the translation a C++ compiler does, this is minimal task. Problem solved. Move along, nothing to see here.
You just saved 300 watts, congrats.
How about we focus on using reusable materials for cases and PCBs? That will save our enviroment and wallets a lot more.
Spoken by a true anonymous coward....
http://www.rocketcarstory.com/
http://www.starfleetlibrary.com/tng/tng7/the_pegas us.htm/
Yeah but what about Chuck Norris! NEVER
xmms is included........
in Xterm type...
bash$ xmms &
Apple has a decisive advantage with its OS/Hardware Control. It delivers a product to the consumer that WORKS, period.
Allowing them to try out windows / cross compute -- still allows apple to maintain it's very very high hardware profit margins and provide a solid usuable computer (the macos partition).
Allowing people to install MacOS on nonstandardized hardware is going to be a support nightmare and will allow for the erosion of apples "it just works" business strategy.
IF, (BIG IF HERE): apple decides to dump the hardware market... unlikely but possible, it would start licensing 3rd parties to make hardware for it's OS so it could get a premium on their sales... and then eventually stop its own production and still get a premium for it's logo/OS from hardware companies (similar to MS). Steve Jobs has a history of maintaining strong control over the delivery of his products so i'm assuming every MacOS pc would need some kind of testing before apple would approve it. Very disimilar to MS's current strategy (which is, sell it on anything we dont care, just sell it).
This would be a major anti-trust issue. Then Microsoft would own almost the entire console market.
It's true nintendo is around... but it is such a small share holder in the industry.
If Nintendo's "Revoltion" does well, this could happen, if not, i doubt it.
The premise for this is weak.
.xxx for censorships sake than we should also do the following .MA .17+ .PG-13 .LittleKid
If we're going to do this
I'm really surprised about this, I would think that these right wing groups could force ISPS in their area not do deliver domains ending in XXX, but not every sex site would move, unless mandated. They could essentially stop the decimination of digital porno if the mandate worked, just like the way they stopped the flow of information in the 1700s by burning books.
Jesus loves a good book burn followed by a witch hunt!
Doesnt pervert Mike own the rights to the beatles music?
I wonder if he'll get paid from this....
have you tried to play something 3d on those chips?
it's god awful.
Capable does not equal usable.
A GeForce MX is capable of running world of warcraft. good luck!
Mesa3D is also capable of rendering opengl games, good luck there to.
Basically, it will work on any recent machine with a decent 3d accelerator.
Low end hardware w/integrated crap graphics will not work. Even high end hardware sold by certain OEMS (say dell) that uses this onboard intel/via/s3 crap graphic chips won't support it.
I think Joe sixpack is going to have a drunken fit when he finds out the 2000$ computer he bought, 6 months ago from dell, WILL NOT run vista or Nascar 2006.
I don't think the issue is that it will run terrible. It's that so many computer CANNOT, ever, run Vista even though they were expensive and have good cpus/ram, but the vendor cut corners on the graphics card, so now the customer is screwed.
i picked up my class-A (truck drivers license) back in 2003 from a job i was working at nights while i was in school.
Now i make 17.50 an hour driving a truck after class and i graduate in may.
Where can i start with a CIS degree for 17.50 an hour?
The thing is, the lifestyle is terrible. You gone all the time. You dont get "hours", you get trips with unknown completion times. A flat tire adds 3 hours on the day. A jerk in a Audi adds 15 minutes when you have to stop and beat him with a tire iron.... it makes for a lame-o day.