>Intel chip + Intel board is about as stable as you can get
Except that Intel has already had problem with its chipset, for example the introduction of RDRAM was botched if memory serves.. So are Intel chipset really more stable than other? Or are you just induced to think so from marketing?
Bzzzzt, you did a 'selective quote', he said 'first mainstream' language.
I don't consider Erlang a mainstream language: its userbase is quite small..
Does Ada qualify as mainstream?
IMHO yes, but YMMV.
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>If you need the features of vim over vi, then use emacs!
Of course to be able to read big files, or files with big lines, I should use emacs instead vi, pleeaasse!
Face it, vi with its stupid limitations is worthless, vim is good and I don't know what you have against vim defaults, on RHE I'm using vim for vi and I don't see any difference with vi on Solaris that I used before (except that it doesn't have these braindead limitations anymore).
I played with BeOS and the most interesting part was its speed / responsiveness.
It booted under 20s to a usable GUI (on a PC where both Linux and Windows were booting in more than 1min) and the responsiveness of the GUI was similary much, much better than both Linux and Windows.
This is probably due partly because of the usage of threads, but IMHO this is more an "implementation detail" than a feature..
> Quite frankly, I'm firmly of the opinion that it's the best processor that Intel has produced to date, and I'm not alone in that view point.
"best" is a bit strong: it depends of the usage.
For SpecInt/Power ratio, I agree but for raw FP calculations, I think that the PentiumM is inferior to the P4 (the Itanium2 is even better but not in the same price range).
> [learning French poor analogy] the learning method
I'm not sure this is really related to the method but about the time spent!
Ask someone to do something everyday all the time and he'll probably will be much better at it that someone else doing it 4h a week, whatever the learning method used (unless it is really, really poor).
Currently, keeping the list of opened tab if there is a browser crash is an extension I believe: it should be in by default: avoiding to irk users by making them losing time should not be optionnal!
Well, if you're a soldier and your under fire, you have very little time to be able to identify the enemy, so soldiers tend to fire fist and then sort enemy from civilian.
Now if you are the operator of a robot, you can take your sweet time identifying where is the guy which is the enemy and then shoot him down. Now I still see many problem: even if the sensors are very good, I doubt that it is as good as being here, and this may lead to problems also it would probably look like a videogame to an operator so this may create additional problems (lack of true involvement).
Well, this is not the argument used in public but if you think about the public argument they were lies: - WMD: they were none, and frankly I doubt very much that the US didn't know it. - connection with 9/11: a very shallow connection.
So if the arguments used are false and the US governement knew they were false, what are the real argument? Oil! This is the only logical reason why the US would do war to Irak to secure an oil supply. Now, the 'oil supply' will be safe (it's awfully easy to break a pipeline and how do you protect it?) when the troubles will have ended, which unfortunately may take a long time.. (I hope not).
So choose either the US governement is incompetent or they are lyers, anyway they've just been reelected..
Note that limiting resource consumption is not necessarily going to live like a "Bangladeshi farmers", I think that people in the US are consuming much more resources than in Europe even if they have about the same lifestyle, and Europeans could probably reduce a lot their power consumption without changing much their lifestyle.
Also you suppose that we run only on constant resources, let's dream a little bit that "true molecular nanotechnology" becomes a reality: I can imagine cheap solarcells being put everywhere, more efficient motors, etc.. Now, let's not be to optimistic too: our current level of technology would look like deep voodoo to a person living 2 centuries ago and still we're not able to live peacefully, without poluting and with everyone correctly living, I'm not sure that even a "magic" technology as nanotechnology would change this..
Whatever one may think on Theo, I think that he is right here: firmware which cannot be redistributed by distribution are a *pain* for the users.
I hope that Linux&FreeBSD users will join this movement because the more users requests hardware-makers to allow redistribution of firmware, the better!
Also, I think that this movement should not be restricted to wireless HW, I have a speedtouch ADSL modem where there is a similar situation: firmware may not be redistributed.
This is very annoying when you want to install a distribution.. I think that Mandrake managed to get the rights to redistribute this firmware, but they shouldn't be the only one to have this right..
True, but I don't care about smokers dying early: everyone is entitled to choose his own death, what I care is that: they *stink*!
The smoke's odor is really annoying for non-smokers..
PS: I don't think that "addicted people who can't quit" are really "choosing" their death. How many smokers have never tried to quit? I bet only a small percentage!
> However, hacker culture is based on egos, correct? Imagine the fame one could gain by creating a virus that infects Macs too
I agree that Mac are more secure but I disagree with your logic: don't forget that a huge parts of malware are created for monetary purpose nowadays so it means less crackers trying to break into Macs: they care about the number of zombies they can have, not about their type.
> I'm sure a Mac virus for OS X has at the very least been attempted. Why hasn't it succeeded at spreading all around?
Because the number of Mac is so small than it hasn't been able to successfully reproduce itself? I'm not joking or trolling: think about an exploit trying to crack into Macs, scanning random ip addresses for spreading, given the small number of Macs there is, it has only a small chance to be able to reproduce itself before the owner discover something is wrong and reinstall the Mac..
Ok, this is a little bit of a stretch, but low numbers definitely helps, if Macs or Linux had 98% marketshare there would be plenty of viruses or exploits, why? They are more secure yes, but they still need to be patched regularly against remote vulnerability and non-technical users don't patch their OS --> exploits.
No you're wrong: AFAIK the only difference between EMT and AMD64 is that the EMT can't use address above 4GB as source or destination DMA, for the rest they are identical to AMD64 on the feature.
Now it is true that I've heard that EMT is less optimised that AMD64, but I've never seen benchmarks so I don't know if it is true..
Agreed that clockless cores have few chance to become mainstream, but still they have a better chance of being used now than before.
Let me explain: before to reduce power consumption the "easy" thing was to use a process which created smaller transistor, but smaller doesn't means 'reduced power consumption' anymore.. So clockless CPU becomes more interesting now.
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>Intel chip + Intel board is about as stable as you can get
Except that Intel has already had problem with its chipset, for example the introduction of RDRAM was botched if memory serves..
So are Intel chipset really more stable than other? Or are you just induced to think so from marketing?
Python, Perl and Ruby?
Those three are redundant: pick one, either Python or Ruby (Perl is a mess IMHO)..
As for Lisp, I don't know: it could also be Haskell, OCaml, Scheme, Erlang.. Choosing one is difficult!
Depends on what you call 64bit: is-it per component? Or is-it the RGBA who fits on a 64bit word?
I believe that currently it is the latter and what we need for scientific computation/ray tracing on videocard is the former.
And what if you use Mozilla Mail to read your emails?
I would replace one app by two, I'm not sure where is the gain..
Bzzzzt, you did a 'selective quote', he said 'first mainstream' language.
I don't consider Erlang a mainstream language: its userbase is quite small..
Does Ada qualify as mainstream?
IMHO yes, but YMMV.
>If you need the features of vim over vi, then use emacs!
Of course to be able to read big files, or files with big lines, I should use emacs instead vi, pleeaasse!
Face it, vi with its stupid limitations is worthless, vim is good and I don't know what you have against vim defaults, on RHE I'm using vim for vi and I don't see any difference with vi on Solaris that I used before (except that it doesn't have these braindead limitations anymore).
I played with BeOS and the most interesting part was its speed / responsiveness.
It booted under 20s to a usable GUI (on a PC where both Linux and Windows were booting in more than 1min) and the responsiveness of the GUI was similary much, much better than both Linux and Windows.
This is probably due partly because of the usage of threads, but IMHO this is more an "implementation detail" than a feature..
> Quite frankly, I'm firmly of the opinion that it's the best processor that Intel has produced to date, and I'm not alone in that view point.
"best" is a bit strong: it depends of the usage.
For SpecInt/Power ratio, I agree but for raw FP calculations, I think that the PentiumM is inferior to the P4 (the Itanium2 is even better but not in the same price range).
Do you realise you advise him getting a new computer for an app?
Kind of expensive, don't you think? Especially since he has already a working solution dual booting Windows..
I wouldn't brand you as a troll, but as an "over-enthousiast"!
> [learning French poor analogy] the learning method
I'm not sure this is really related to the method but about the time spent!
Ask someone to do something everyday all the time and he'll probably will be much better at it that someone else doing it 4h a week, whatever the learning method used (unless it is really, really poor).
Depends on the feature..
Currently, keeping the list of opened tab if there is a browser crash is an extension I believe: it should be in by default: avoiding to irk users by making them losing time should not be optionnal!
Well, the simplest 'short circuit' would be to have no sex at all, no?
So while I don't know exactly why animals have 'homosexual relations', it is clearly not for breeding..
> No. That happens when there's population overcrowding.
Whatever the reason, it still means that the sentence 'animals have sex to breed' is false..
(sarcasm)
Of course, that's why there are homosexual animals..
Well, if you're a soldier and your under fire, you have very little time to be able to identify the enemy, so soldiers tend to fire fist and then sort enemy from civilian.
Now if you are the operator of a robot, you can take your sweet time identifying where is the guy which is the enemy and then shoot him down.
Now I still see many problem: even if the sensors are very good, I doubt that it is as good as being here, and this may lead to problems also it would probably look like a videogame to an operator so this may create additional problems (lack of true involvement).
Well, this is not the argument used in public but if you think about the public argument they were lies:
- WMD: they were none, and frankly I doubt very much that the US didn't know it.
- connection with 9/11: a very shallow connection.
So if the arguments used are false and the US governement knew they were false, what are the real argument? Oil!
This is the only logical reason why the US would do war to Irak to secure an oil supply.
Now, the 'oil supply' will be safe (it's awfully easy to break a pipeline and how do you protect it?) when the troubles will have ended, which unfortunately may take a long time.. (I hope not).
So choose either the US governement is incompetent or they are lyers, anyway they've just been reelected..
Note that limiting resource consumption is not necessarily going to live like a "Bangladeshi farmers", I think that people in the US are consuming much more resources than in Europe even if they have about the same lifestyle, and Europeans could probably reduce a lot their power consumption without changing much their lifestyle.
Also you suppose that we run only on constant resources, let's dream a little bit that "true molecular nanotechnology" becomes a reality: I can imagine cheap solarcells being put everywhere, more efficient motors, etc..
Now, let's not be to optimistic too: our current level of technology would look like deep voodoo to a person living 2 centuries ago and still we're not able to live peacefully, without poluting and with everyone correctly living, I'm not sure that even a "magic" technology as nanotechnology would change this..
> It might distribute a script to easily download and install the binary firmware, but that is allready possible today.
"possible" in theory yes, but not very easy to do if this firmware is used to allow Internet connection.. Chicken/Egg problem..
Whatever one may think on Theo, I think that he is right here: firmware which cannot be redistributed by distribution are a *pain* for the users.
I hope that Linux&FreeBSD users will join this movement because the more users requests hardware-makers to allow redistribution of firmware, the better!
Also, I think that this movement should not be restricted to wireless HW, I have a speedtouch ADSL modem where there is a similar situation: firmware may not be redistributed.
This is very annoying when you want to install a distribution.. I think that Mandrake managed to get the rights to redistribute this firmware, but they shouldn't be the only one to have this right..
True, but I don't care about smokers dying early: everyone is entitled to choose his own death, what I care is that: they *stink*!
The smoke's odor is really annoying for non-smokers..
PS: I don't think that "addicted people who can't quit" are really "choosing" their death.
How many smokers have never tried to quit?
I bet only a small percentage!
Of course this is possible to have 'dual combined' exploits but for this would be more complicated for little benefits..
> However, hacker culture is based on egos, correct? Imagine the fame one could gain by creating a virus that infects Macs too
I agree that Mac are more secure but I disagree with your logic: don't forget that a huge parts of malware are created for monetary purpose nowadays so it means less crackers trying to break into Macs: they care about the number of zombies they can have, not about their type.
> I'm sure a Mac virus for OS X has at the very least been attempted. Why hasn't it succeeded at spreading all around?
Because the number of Mac is so small than it hasn't been able to successfully reproduce itself?
I'm not joking or trolling: think about an exploit trying to crack into Macs, scanning random ip addresses for spreading, given the small number of Macs there is, it has only a small chance to be able to reproduce itself before the owner discover something is wrong and reinstall the Mac..
Ok, this is a little bit of a stretch, but low numbers definitely helps, if Macs or Linux had 98% marketshare there would be plenty of viruses or exploits, why?
They are more secure yes, but they still need to be patched regularly against remote vulnerability and non-technical users don't patch their OS --> exploits.
No you're wrong: AFAIK the only difference between EMT and AMD64 is that the EMT can't use address above 4GB as source or destination DMA, for the rest they are identical to AMD64 on the feature.
Now it is true that I've heard that EMT is less optimised that AMD64, but I've never seen benchmarks so I don't know if it is true..
Agreed that clockless cores have few chance to become mainstream, but still they have a better chance of being used now than before.
Let me explain: before to reduce power consumption the "easy" thing was to use a process which created smaller transistor, but smaller doesn't means 'reduced power consumption' anymore..
So clockless CPU becomes more interesting now.
Read what I said, I said that the PCxxxx has a meaning, so you agree with me..