Neither Godson-1 nor -2 is compatible with Intel's so-called x86 architecture, meaning that most commercial software will not run on them. But engineers have added 200 additional instructions to Godson-3 to simulate an x86 chip, which allows Godson-3 to run more software, including the Windows operating system
They are a bunch of dolts if they go to such great length to become independent from Intel, only to invite dependency on MicroSoft.
On an IT angle, once strategic savings have been considered in earnest (as Viol8 is suggesting), -- why, it's nothing short of an open source model being applied outside of hw/sw manufacturer context.
The government, now, delegates part of its policing duties to the general public, to whoever might take a drunk lout outside his property a personal offence, with underhand knowledge on the govt part that quite a few people possess unreleased potential, and an instinctive urge, to tell others what to do. If this practice of mean exploiting base instincts seems denting liberal attitudes so essential in the Western society--well, so it does. (It did create one monster of a state in the past, the USSR, with consequences felt far outside of it.)
Quite dangerous for the society as it is, it still does help cut costs... Hey, is it not what, for that matter, Intel consistently does handing over the task of writing drivers on to the community at large? All the recent fanfare from VIA, AMD, anyone?
Aren't there many a boy who takes to programming just because it gives him, at the proper age, vast expanse to field their creativity?
But perhaps the analogy I am drawing here must end somewhere.
Three weeks ago I bought a ThinkPad R61 from Insight.co.uk.
Before actual purchase, I asked a sales-rep if Insight might do me one favour, namely kindly remove any windows (XP, in this case) from the hardware, at no change in price. And the rep chirped yes they will, much to my surprise--she obviously was in error, as Insight won't even go so far as fit an additional 1G of RAM, which I ordered along with the laptop.
Perhaps I coveted the R61 too much to let it slip from my hands, then and there, and... just let the question become moot, despite lingering suspicions that the rep simply lied^H^H^H^H let me be so easily blinded.
When the thing was delivered by courier, it was obvious that Insight's part in it was to forward the shipment as it came from Lenovo, straight on to me.
Now, was it my mistake that I first made due inquiries about availability of that ThinkPad sans Windows? With a response in the negative, what would my options be to both get the hardware and a refund, once I was made fully aware that neither Lenovo won't ship it w/out windows, nor Insight the middleman will or can do any favours for me?
Yes, yes, it's all about determination and a tinkling feeling of avenging many a fellow geek, if the refunded ~$100 alone doesn't count. And yet, I can't help thinking that all in all my single option would be to not buy it. That is, no Windows, but no ThinkPad either.
Things would be profoundly different if I came in possession of a Windows-loaded laptop not of my own will--say, as a gift.
AV software is so crappy it will reach out to screw you hard.
Being Linux-only since 2003, I am pretty incompetent in AV; still, when (very occasionally) asked what to do to secure an internet-connected windows PC, I tended to suggest some sort of AV (if the word 'firewall' sounds just too technical). Not that I fail to see AV industry as a mongrel in and only in.. erm.. MS ecosystem, but at least the Uni where I work keeps AV on their managed PCs.
Your last comment, however, leaves in tatters this already infirm belief in AV soundness.
The list is comprehensive and commands respect by all means.
But.. To gain such an expertise the author, well, has to go on using all that AV crap for years.
Right, on occasion you can get thumbs up on/. for a successful post, but I wonder, given half of your working time is spent sorting out what blunder was done in the name of security by this or that AV, what are your productive hours?
Generally, I really find it ueberstupid to take windoes into space. Really.
The comment by JoshJ above leaves me puzzled somewhat, by the naive expectations of the poster.
In the long course of Q3 history as a cybersport discipline, the skill range between just a casual player and a pro like Cooller or Cypher, has grown miles. Meaning, further, even though with QuakeLive id takes apparent steps to bring Q3 for the masses, don't expect the gameplay to be immediately appealing to an uninitiated spectator: it really takes nearly equal skill to appreciate a match between masters. This harks back to Q3's reputation as a game for the few chosen ones--unlike counter-strike, for example.
Perhaps exposing a competition, ie., non-technology angle of QuakeLive here at/. would garner a wild assortment of reactions, but barely anything truly "Insightful".
...exactly what happened to PHP a couple of years ago.
But the general theme this post rings is: in FOSS, if you don't (as hardly any end user does) inspect the source code, know and trust the origin.
It won't be long before those who write `malware' will start searching for ways to get hold of linux desktops. And for them, prospects aren't that promising with blunt exploits against whatever is running on your linux desktop with some ports open. Neither, I earnestly hope, will an average linux user be so outright... er... end-userish as to go happy-clicking on links in spam.
Instead, setting up or overtaking some ftp.xx.debian.org is only sensible and effective to this end.
If I had mine alive, she would certainly not be another bot, either.
What's important, Linux takes a caring individual (a grandchild, to take things literally, for that matter) to work, and then it works good and pleases the master. Whilst windows is for the indifferent and dull: those who care and know good from bad, won't want it because it's bad and can't be mended.
Linux had been ready for the desktop since about Freetype got to display TTFs antialiased.
For all Ubuntu & friends' zeal, I would feel something has gone subtly wrong with the world if I find Linux--not some Win2K--on a counter in a supermarket, with a dolt whacking at the keypad.
Linux is NOT for everyone, not for your grandma or mine. Nightmares come, if it is forced to.
Indeed. With BBC RSS in my bookmarks, I only choose one dainty bit out of 20 to read in any depth. It's sheer prevarication, or some other, pure English way of reasoning behind.
BTW, the official TV broadcast promotes their site showing what browser? Is it Firefox on Mac, or what is it? It doesn't smell Windows.
I remember someone said this same plugin is "the last nail to the coffin" that is MSO.
Far from professing, or even admitting, the POV that MSO is standard, I see hordes of otherwise necessary/relevant folks who just happen to use whatever is installed on their PCs. And there's no way they should raise their voice in favour of an alternative, in default of their IT dept people taking an initiative. Yes, those sad, dirty, miserable zombie grandma's PCs (but counting here my university ex-supervisors' as well).
The insightfulness about the last nail is, this is so very little, and yet the utmost that can be done to increase acceptance of ODF, if not immediately OO.o. It is my horridest nightmare to find one day those same folks poking their mouse in X windows instead of their native, err, Windows. Let them be.
Heh... Of course I keep my papers in odf format. Only when in a black mood, I send an odf to a correspondent who I know full well will not be able to open it. A mild practical joke, sort of...
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Neither Godson-1 nor -2 is compatible with Intel's so-called x86 architecture, meaning that most commercial software will not run on them. But engineers have added 200 additional instructions to Godson-3 to simulate an x86 chip, which allows Godson-3 to run more software, including the Windows operating system
They are a bunch of dolts if they go to such great length to become independent from Intel, only to invite dependency on MicroSoft.
On an IT angle, once strategic savings have been considered in earnest (as Viol8 is suggesting), -- why, it's nothing short of an open source model being applied outside of hw/sw manufacturer context.
The government, now, delegates part of its policing duties to the general public, to whoever might take a drunk lout outside his property a personal offence, with underhand knowledge on the govt part that quite a few people possess unreleased potential, and an instinctive urge, to tell others what to do. If this practice of mean exploiting base instincts seems denting liberal attitudes so essential in the Western society--well, so it does. (It did create one monster of a state in the past, the USSR, with consequences felt far outside of it.)
Quite dangerous for the society as it is, it still does help cut costs... Hey, is it not what, for that matter, Intel consistently does handing over the task of writing drivers on to the community at large? All the recent fanfare from VIA, AMD, anyone?
Aren't there many a boy who takes to programming just because it gives him, at the proper age, vast expanse to field their creativity?
But perhaps the analogy I am drawing here must end somewhere.
Three weeks ago I bought a ThinkPad R61 from Insight.co.uk.
Before actual purchase, I asked a sales-rep if Insight might do me one favour, namely kindly remove any windows (XP, in this case) from the hardware, at no change in price. And the rep chirped yes they will, much to my surprise--she obviously was in error, as Insight won't even go so far as fit an additional 1G of RAM, which I ordered along with the laptop.
Perhaps I coveted the R61 too much to let it slip from my hands, then and there, and... just let the question become moot, despite lingering suspicions that the rep simply lied^H^H^H^H let me be so easily blinded.
When the thing was delivered by courier, it was obvious that Insight's part in it was to forward the shipment as it came from Lenovo, straight on to me.
Now, was it my mistake that I first made due inquiries about availability of that ThinkPad sans Windows? With a response in the negative, what would my options be to both get the hardware and a refund, once I was made fully aware that neither Lenovo won't ship it w/out windows, nor Insight the middleman will or can do any favours for me?
Yes, yes, it's all about determination and a tinkling feeling of avenging many a fellow geek, if the refunded ~$100 alone doesn't count. And yet, I can't help thinking that all in all my single option would be to not buy it. That is, no Windows, but no ThinkPad either.
Things would be profoundly different if I came in possession of a Windows-loaded laptop not of my own will--say, as a gift.
AV software is so crappy it will reach out to screw you hard.
Being Linux-only since 2003, I am pretty incompetent in AV; still, when (very occasionally) asked what to do to secure an internet-connected windows PC, I tended to suggest some sort of AV (if the word 'firewall' sounds just too technical). Not that I fail to see AV industry as a mongrel in and only in.. erm.. MS ecosystem, but at least the Uni where I work keeps AV on their managed PCs.
Your last comment, however, leaves in tatters this already infirm belief in AV soundness.
The list is comprehensive and commands respect by all means.
But.. To gain such an expertise the author, well, has to go on using all that AV crap for years.
Right, on occasion you can get thumbs up on /. for a successful post, but I wonder, given half of your working time is spent sorting out what blunder was done in the name of security by this or that AV, what are your productive hours?
Generally, I really find it ueberstupid to take windoes into space. Really.
The comment by JoshJ above leaves me puzzled somewhat, by the naive expectations of the poster.
In the long course of Q3 history as a cybersport discipline, the skill range between just a casual player and a pro like Cooller or Cypher, has grown miles. Meaning, further, even though with QuakeLive id takes apparent steps to bring Q3 for the masses, don't expect the gameplay to be immediately appealing to an uninitiated spectator: it really takes nearly equal skill to appreciate a match between masters. This harks back to Q3's reputation as a game for the few chosen ones--unlike counter-strike, for example.
Perhaps exposing a competition, ie., non-technology angle of QuakeLive here at /. would garner a wild assortment of reactions, but barely anything truly "Insightful".
In package maintainers we trust. Amen.
...exactly what happened to PHP a couple of years ago.
But the general theme this post rings is: in FOSS, if you don't (as hardly any end user does) inspect the source code, know and trust the origin.
It won't be long before those who write `malware' will start searching for ways to get hold of linux desktops. And for them, prospects aren't that promising with blunt exploits against whatever is running on your linux desktop with some ports open. Neither, I earnestly hope, will an average linux user be so outright... er... end-userish as to go happy-clicking on links in spam.
Instead, setting up or overtaking some ftp.xx.debian.org is only sensible and effective to this end.
No more real grandparents, please.
If I had mine alive, she would certainly not be another bot, either.
What's important, Linux takes a caring individual (a grandchild, to take things literally, for that matter) to work, and then it works good and pleases the master. Whilst windows is for the indifferent and dull: those who care and know good from bad, won't want it because it's bad and can't be mended.
Linux won't `just work'
Linux had been ready for the desktop since about Freetype got to display TTFs antialiased.
For all Ubuntu & friends' zeal, I would feel something has gone subtly wrong with the world if I find Linux--not some Win2K--on a counter in a supermarket, with a dolt whacking at the keypad.
Linux is NOT for everyone, not for your grandma or mine. Nightmares come, if it is forced to.
Indeed. With BBC RSS in my bookmarks, I only choose one dainty bit out of 20 to read in any depth. It's sheer prevarication, or some other, pure English way of reasoning behind.
BTW, the official TV broadcast promotes their site showing what browser? Is it Firefox on Mac, or what is it? It doesn't smell Windows.
I remember someone said this same plugin is "the last nail to the coffin" that is MSO. Far from professing, or even admitting, the POV that MSO is standard, I see hordes of otherwise necessary/relevant folks who just happen to use whatever is installed on their PCs. And there's no way they should raise their voice in favour of an alternative, in default of their IT dept people taking an initiative. Yes, those sad, dirty, miserable zombie grandma's PCs (but counting here my university ex-supervisors' as well). The insightfulness about the last nail is, this is so very little, and yet the utmost that can be done to increase acceptance of ODF, if not immediately OO.o. It is my horridest nightmare to find one day those same folks poking their mouse in X windows instead of their native, err, Windows. Let them be. Heh... Of course I keep my papers in odf format. Only when in a black mood, I send an odf to a correspondent who I know full well will not be able to open it. A mild practical joke, sort of...