Anyone know how much memory vmware needs to run decently?
I have a redhat box w/ 128 sdram, is it enough to get a Win9X running?
It's functional with 128 megs, but any time you do a significant amount of work in the VM, then switch back to Linux (or vice versa), you're going to be listening to a lot of swapping.
<i>Opera is beta quality (and it depeneds on Qt--I don't want to keep Qt around for just one program).</i>
<p>Have you used Opera's Linux beta 2? I'm using it now, and it hasn't hiccuped on me once. It's blazingly fast: Even better than MSIE under windows. And as for Qt: I'd be willing to bet that Opera+Qt is smaller than Netscape 6 or Mozilla...
I've talked with a few of their employees, one of which had a wife and daughter, the other was married. They both were happy with their jobs. One managed an office and the other was a sysadmin.
One thing that should be mentioned is that Philip's article doesn't really describe what happens at Ars Digita.
Few people here work more than 50 hours per week, and there's certainly no real pressure from management to do so.
The company has changed quite a bit since I first got here. The office used to be pretty busy late into the evening and on weekends. Now I rarely come in on weekends, and when I do, it's pretty quiet.
Get a boxload of toys, hand out to programmers, repeat if needed.
If you're interviewing with or working for a company that provides a lot of toys, ask yourself: What am I giving up in return for these toys?
If you feel compelled to spend 70 hours a week in the office because the company provides a playroom with some video games and a few other goodies, you're a sucker.
I don't want toys. I want a good salary. I want reasonable working hours. Most of all, I want opportunities to build high quality software, and to feel pride in the things I have created or helped to create.
A four year old can use it because he has the time to mess with it Most corporate "lusers" (what an intolerant term) don't have that time, because they have to get work done.
I agree that the term 'lusers' is unnecessarily demaning, and that Linux isn't the best solution for the desktop, at the moment.
But your argument boils down to "They don't have time to learn to use a new system, because they have to do things right now!" This is penny-wise-pound-foolish thinking at its finest. If someone uses a computer all day, teaching them to use a system that won't crash and wipe out several hours worth of work every couple of days is an investement that will pay off quite handsomely.
First things first, there is no such thing as casually medicating yourself with illegal drugs. You never know what your really have, and always run the risk of being exposed to something far more serious than you bargained for.
This is hardly a reason to keep marijuana illegal: Legalization would allow for the FDA or some other organization (maybe even a private one) to regulate production and enforce labelling and purity laws.
Smoking dope is just as bad for you or worse than smoking tobacco as far as your heart and lungs care.
On a puff-for-puff comparison, you may be right. But tobacco smokers tend to take a few more puffs than pot smokers...
Think it through, do you really want Joe Camel selling dope to your kids? I don't, but that's what you would get if you decriminalized "soft" drugs.
Why? I didn't have easy access to alcohol until I went to college, an environment with no real adult supervision and 21-year-olds willing to buy for me. Prior to that, it was no more available to me than marijuana. If marijuana is legalized but sales to minors are restricted in the way that alcohol sales already are, why would this availability necessarily change?
People who perpetuate this attitude to sell you shit are dispicable.
I agree. However, nobody has ever tried to convince me of this to sell me pot. On the other hand, the alcohol industry spends millions of dollars every year on advertising designed to convince me of this. Why aren't you complaining about them?
Take a bunch of druggies off the streets and instead of immediately arresting them or whatnot take them along with the dare officers in hand cuffs and leg irons to a school and show them a real life example of a drug user looks/smells/acts/behaves like and that just might work a little better.
Problem is, not all drug users look like this. Some of them look like you, or your parents, or your boss. Some of them look like the next president of the US...
Once kids recognize you're deceiving them in this fashion, they're not likely to believe anything else you say.
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What's to stop Transmeta from tweaking the software a bit and slapping 4 of these cores on a single chip. Heat? Gate density?
They might end up with a CPU that burns 4 watts, is a little bit warm, and runs at about 280% the equivalent Pentium III.
Maybe they could put 4 cores onto a single chip, but this would certainly reduce yields (and thus increase costs). So you'd end up paying somewhat more than 4 times as much for this multi-core chip than for a single chip.
And this system wouldn't give you 280% of the performance of a PIII of the same clock: The things most software does isn't perfectly parallelizable, so there's a diminishing return that comes with each additional CPU.
No, thery're not. Intel management has openly said their dealins with Rambus was a gamble that didnt pay off, etc. Seems the troops are toeing the party line to me.
Not really; Intel management has focused on more political issues. In particular, Rambus' tollkeeper business model. They didn't say anything at all about poor technical decision-making.
These engineers who are being quoted are describing the Rambus deal as a poor technical decision, not a poor business decision. For a company like Intel, whose marketing depends heavily on a widespread perception that they make good technical decisions (though maybe only on the part of those who are not well-informed, technically), the latter is a much bigger deal than the former.
Hmmm. Perhaps there is a lower piracy rate - I for one couldn't be hacked to download 230meg! So, is this the true reason for bloatware?
Somehow I doubt it. 230 MB isn't too much of a download via 56K, if it's something you really want. I downloaded Oracle 8 (legally, from the Oracle site) on a 56K line. It was 240 MB. I started it up before I went to bed, and it was done the middle of the next morning.
If someone could answer this question, I'd be really obliged. The "toll-keeper" problems were obvious from day 1 with Rambus... the techical problems were not.
In case anyone thinks that Intel backing away from Rambus is a sign they're becoming nice guys, read the above comment and the other responses to it closely: Intel is most likely backing away from Rambus for technical reasons, not because of the tollkeeper business model. Intel has realized that RDRAM will drive up design and manufacturing costs and thus make it much harder to price products competitively. What would happen to Apple's market share if X86-based PCs suddenly got significantly more expensive?
My guess is that Intel knew about the technical problems with RDRAM early on, but believed that as the technology matured, those problems could be eliminated - manufacturing costs would drop, and hardware designers would learn how to use the technology effectively. This belief turned out to be a mistake.
Barrett's rhetoric about Intel's disgruntlement with Rambus's IP strategy is just a cover story: By focusing on that issue, he hopes to draw attention away from the fact that Intel apparently made a faulty technical analysis when deciding to push RDRAM. A perception that Intel had made a technical mistake would be far more damaging to them than a perception that they had partnered with what turned out to be a pack of jerks.
With a major supporter like Intel basically saying that "Rambus don't have a product worth spit", whatever market confidence Rambus had has gone out the window. Regardless of the outcome of their "we can't compete, so let's sue" patent claims, I don't that Rambus is long for this Earth...
Keep in mind that Intel still has contractual agreements that work in Rambus' favor, Rambus still has patent leverage over SDRAM makers, and Sony is still using RDRAM in the Playstation.
Rambus isn't dead yet, by a long shot. Their stock is actually up 8% this morning.
Yep, gotta defend that right to sit in front of children in a public place and view pictures of beastiality.
Yep, gotta pass a law requiring filtering software. God knows there are just so many cases of people viewing porn and beating off in public libraries. Sure, the filtering software won't actually block all porn (and will block plenty of non-porn), but that's just the price we'll have to pay to keep the children safe from those shameless porn addicts.
The other, championed by Gore, REQUIRES that the ISP, a for profit business, track everything that is done by their customers.
That's a minor detail that may change: What if the law specifies that nothing gets tracked, unless the parent specifically requests it? That way if you're childless or don't care what your kids see, you aren't affected.
Actually, I'm surprised that no ISPs are offering this as a value-add service, already.
More like chair of your dreams. Come on...who here is going to spend more on their chair, than they are on their computer. Maybe it is just me, but I am going to buy bigger/badder/better computer hardware/equipment long before I buy a cool looking "chair" or "desk".
The chair I'm sitting in is a Herman Miller Aeron, which costs around $800, retail. I figure my company probably paid $500-$600 for it, since they bought a large number of them. That's less than 1% of my annual salary.
If being more comfortable (and this chair is far more comfortable than any other work chair I've ever had) makes people 1% more productive than a less comfortable chair, the company is actually making money by buying the more expensive chairs.
I'm in the process of turning one room of my apartment into an office where I can work from home, occasionally. I'm probably going to go ahead and shell out the money for an Aeron. If not the Aeron, then some other high-quality chair.
That said: The super-cube in this article doesn't look particularly comfortable to me. Give me a real office, with a door that closes, not some gimmicky-looking piece of trash.
In fact there is a stronger resemblence between Perl and VB. Both started out as simple "basic" languages, with simple sysntax, for doing simple things. Over the years various extras have been bolted on, stick with on chewing gum, or, tied on with string, which has created an unholey mess.
Oh, don't worry. Python is clearly headed down that road, too. 2.0 adds a number of pieces of candy (such as augmented assignment and the 'print >> <file>' construct) which add no real utility but complicate the syntax. A few more years of this, and Python will look like Perl.
Python's my favorite language/tool, but if things keep moving in their current direction, this won't last.
Why not Python? It gives most of the same features (even lambda calculus)
I agree that Python is a good beginner's language, and probably better than Scheme for this purpose. But Python's lambda is quite anemic, a pale shadow of the construct provided by more pure functional languages.
This sort of thing (both the Onion article and your reference to it) are the best proof I've seen that television seriously undermines public discourse. Someone dares to question the importance that is placed on passive diversions like television and movies, and you start mocking him in a manner that is only a step or two above namecalling. I mean, why didn't you just accuse him of being a "nerd" or a "brain" or somesuch?
In essence, you're doing volunteer work for various large media corporations.
I do not want a bunch of 15 year old kids contributing code that will decide whether the plane I'm flying on will fall out of the sky or not.
You know, Linus doesn't commit code provided by any random 15 year old to the kernel reviewing it first, and seeing that it gets reviewed by several other people.
Why does being open source prevent air traffic control system development from having an even more rigorous system of auditing?
What's being discussed here isn't the possibility of taking development of these systems out of the hands of trained, disciplined software engineers and putting it into the hands of a bunch of hackers. What's being discussed is the possibility that the government should demand the source to the software it buys so that it can't get raped by a single software company that has complete control over some crucial system.
Other than "normal" IP connectivity without AOL's ads, I wonder what traditional ISPs are going to do to add enough value to their services to keep from getting undercut.
Probably the same things that DSL ISPs do. For example: Verizon DSL in my area doesn't permit me to run servers, won't give me a static IP, and limits me to a pathetically slow upload speed of 90kbps. Since one of my primary reasons for wanting DSL is to access my machine remotely, this sucks. But there are other ISPs that provide all of these services.
Wouldn't the force of accelerating that fast kill a person?
They said it would accelerate from a standstill to 80 km/s over a period of 3 months. A little math:
(80 km/s / 90 days) * (1 day / 24 hrs) * ( 1 hr / 3600 s) * (1000 m / km) = ~0.24691358 m/s^2.
For comparison, acceleration due to gravity on Earth is 9.8 m/s^2, about 40 times as great as the passengers on this craft would experience. They'd be fine.
Also, I very much doubt that this DB is even in the same league as mySQL - and by that I don't mean better or worse overall - simply that they will do different things. You won't want to use this SAP DB as a web backend I suspect (designed for different purposes).
Not really. Most of what SAP does is online transaction processing, which, if you have a reasonably dynamic website (think Slashdot), is what your backend needs to be able to handle.
However, I suspect that this database is pretty mediocre: Why else would most SAP installations use a different database?
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Anyone know how much memory vmware needs to run decently?
I have a redhat box w/ 128 sdram, is it enough to get a Win9X running?
It's functional with 128 megs, but any time you do a significant amount of work in the VM, then switch back to Linux (or vice versa), you're going to be listening to a lot of swapping.
<i>True, but you should compare the new technology to the best that is available now, not to the average.</i>
<p>Why?
<p>However, 2000x1500 isn't exactly a common resolution, today. Many more people have 1024x768.
<p>3840 x 2480 = 9,216,000
<p>1024 x 768 = 786,432
<p>9,216,000 / 786,432 = 11.7
<i>Opera is beta quality (and it depeneds on Qt--I don't want to keep Qt around for just one program).</i>
<p>Have you used Opera's Linux beta 2? I'm using it now, and it hasn't hiccuped on me once. It's blazingly fast: Even better than MSIE under windows. And as for Qt: I'd be willing to bet that Opera+Qt is smaller than Netscape 6 or Mozilla...
One thing that should be mentioned is that Philip's article doesn't really describe what happens at Ars Digita.
Few people here work more than 50 hours per week, and there's certainly no real pressure from management to do so.
The company has changed quite a bit since I first got here. The office used to be pretty busy late into the evening and on weekends. Now I rarely come in on weekends, and when I do, it's pretty quiet.
Get a boxload of toys, hand out to programmers, repeat if needed.
If you're interviewing with or working for a company that provides a lot of toys, ask yourself: What am I giving up in return for these toys?
If you feel compelled to spend 70 hours a week in the office because the company provides a playroom with some video games and a few other goodies, you're a sucker.
I don't want toys. I want a good salary. I want reasonable working hours. Most of all, I want opportunities to build high quality software, and to feel pride in the things I have created or helped to create.
I agree that the term 'lusers' is unnecessarily demaning, and that Linux isn't the best solution for the desktop, at the moment.
But your argument boils down to "They don't have time to learn to use a new system, because they have to do things right now!" This is penny-wise-pound-foolish thinking at its finest. If someone uses a computer all day, teaching them to use a system that won't crash and wipe out several hours worth of work every couple of days is an investement that will pay off quite handsomely.
First things first, there is no such thing as casually medicating yourself with illegal drugs. You never know what your really have, and always run the risk of being exposed to something far more serious than you bargained for.
This is hardly a reason to keep marijuana illegal: Legalization would allow for the FDA or some other organization (maybe even a private one) to regulate production and enforce labelling and purity laws.
Smoking dope is just as bad for you or worse than smoking tobacco as far as your heart and lungs care.
On a puff-for-puff comparison, you may be right. But tobacco smokers tend to take a few more puffs than pot smokers...
Think it through, do you really want Joe Camel selling dope to your kids? I don't, but that's what you would get if you decriminalized "soft" drugs.
Why? I didn't have easy access to alcohol until I went to college, an environment with no real adult supervision and 21-year-olds willing to buy for me. Prior to that, it was no more available to me than marijuana. If marijuana is legalized but sales to minors are restricted in the way that alcohol sales already are, why would this availability necessarily change?
People who perpetuate this attitude to sell you shit are dispicable.
I agree. However, nobody has ever tried to convince me of this to sell me pot. On the other hand, the alcohol industry spends millions of dollars every year on advertising designed to convince me of this. Why aren't you complaining about them?
Problem is, not all drug users look like this. Some of them look like you, or your parents, or your boss. Some of them look like the next president of the US...
Once kids recognize you're deceiving them in this fashion, they're not likely to believe anything else you say.
They might end up with a CPU that burns 4 watts, is a little bit warm, and runs at about 280% the equivalent Pentium III.
Maybe they could put 4 cores onto a single chip, but this would certainly reduce yields (and thus increase costs). So you'd end up paying somewhat more than 4 times as much for this multi-core chip than for a single chip.
And this system wouldn't give you 280% of the performance of a PIII of the same clock: The things most software does isn't perfectly parallelizable, so there's a diminishing return that comes with each additional CPU.
Not really; Intel management has focused on more political issues. In particular, Rambus' tollkeeper business model. They didn't say anything at all about poor technical decision-making.
These engineers who are being quoted are describing the Rambus deal as a poor technical decision, not a poor business decision. For a company like Intel, whose marketing depends heavily on a widespread perception that they make good technical decisions (though maybe only on the part of those who are not well-informed, technically), the latter is a much bigger deal than the former.
Somehow I doubt it. 230 MB isn't too much of a download via 56K, if it's something you really want. I downloaded Oracle 8 (legally, from the Oracle site) on a 56K line. It was 240 MB. I started it up before I went to bed, and it was done the middle of the next morning.
Also, "Solaris" was made into a movie. In Russian, IIRC.
In case anyone thinks that Intel backing away from Rambus is a sign they're becoming nice guys, read the above comment and the other responses to it closely: Intel is most likely backing away from Rambus for technical reasons, not because of the tollkeeper business model. Intel has realized that RDRAM will drive up design and manufacturing costs and thus make it much harder to price products competitively. What would happen to Apple's market share if X86-based PCs suddenly got significantly more expensive?
My guess is that Intel knew about the technical problems with RDRAM early on, but believed that as the technology matured, those problems could be eliminated - manufacturing costs would drop, and hardware designers would learn how to use the technology effectively. This belief turned out to be a mistake.
Barrett's rhetoric about Intel's disgruntlement with Rambus's IP strategy is just a cover story: By focusing on that issue, he hopes to draw attention away from the fact that Intel apparently made a faulty technical analysis when deciding to push RDRAM. A perception that Intel had made a technical mistake would be far more damaging to them than a perception that they had partnered with what turned out to be a pack of jerks.
Keep in mind that Intel still has contractual agreements that work in Rambus' favor, Rambus still has patent leverage over SDRAM makers, and Sony is still using RDRAM in the Playstation.
Rambus isn't dead yet, by a long shot. Their stock is actually up 8% this morning.
Yep, gotta pass a law requiring filtering software. God knows there are just so many cases of people viewing porn and beating off in public libraries. Sure, the filtering software won't actually block all porn (and will block plenty of non-porn), but that's just the price we'll have to pay to keep the children safe from those shameless porn addicts.
That's a minor detail that may change: What if the law specifies that nothing gets tracked, unless the parent specifically requests it? That way if you're childless or don't care what your kids see, you aren't affected.
Actually, I'm surprised that no ISPs are offering this as a value-add service, already.
The chair I'm sitting in is a Herman Miller Aeron, which costs around $800, retail. I figure my company probably paid $500-$600 for it, since they bought a large number of them. That's less than 1% of my annual salary.
If being more comfortable (and this chair is far more comfortable than any other work chair I've ever had) makes people 1% more productive than a less comfortable chair, the company is actually making money by buying the more expensive chairs.
I'm in the process of turning one room of my apartment into an office where I can work from home, occasionally. I'm probably going to go ahead and shell out the money for an Aeron. If not the Aeron, then some other high-quality chair.
That said: The super-cube in this article doesn't look particularly comfortable to me. Give me a real office, with a door that closes, not some gimmicky-looking piece of trash.
Oh, don't worry. Python is clearly headed down that road, too. 2.0 adds a number of pieces of candy (such as augmented assignment and the 'print >> <file>' construct) which add no real utility but complicate the syntax. A few more years of this, and Python will look like Perl.
Python's my favorite language/tool, but if things keep moving in their current direction, this won't last.
I agree that Python is a good beginner's language, and probably better than Scheme for this purpose. But Python's lambda is quite anemic, a pale shadow of the construct provided by more pure functional languages.
This sort of thing (both the Onion article and your reference to it) are the best proof I've seen that television seriously undermines public discourse. Someone dares to question the importance that is placed on passive diversions like television and movies, and you start mocking him in a manner that is only a step or two above namecalling. I mean, why didn't you just accuse him of being a "nerd" or a "brain" or somesuch?
In essence, you're doing volunteer work for various large media corporations.
You know, Linus doesn't commit code provided by any random 15 year old to the kernel reviewing it first, and seeing that it gets reviewed by several other people.
Why does being open source prevent air traffic control system development from having an even more rigorous system of auditing?
What's being discussed here isn't the possibility of taking development of these systems out of the hands of trained, disciplined software engineers and putting it into the hands of a bunch of hackers. What's being discussed is the possibility that the government should demand the source to the software it buys so that it can't get raped by a single software company that has complete control over some crucial system.
Probably the same things that DSL ISPs do. For example: Verizon DSL in my area doesn't permit me to run servers, won't give me a static IP, and limits me to a pathetically slow upload speed of 90kbps. Since one of my primary reasons for wanting DSL is to access my machine remotely, this sucks. But there are other ISPs that provide all of these services.
They said it would accelerate from a standstill to 80 km/s over a period of 3 months. A little math:
(80 km/s / 90 days) * (1 day / 24 hrs) * ( 1 hr / 3600 s) * (1000 m / km) = ~0.24691358 m/s^2.
For comparison, acceleration due to gravity on Earth is 9.8 m/s^2, about 40 times as great as the passengers on this craft would experience. They'd be fine.
Not really. Most of what SAP does is online transaction processing, which, if you have a reasonably dynamic website (think Slashdot), is what your backend needs to be able to handle.
However, I suspect that this database is pretty mediocre: Why else would most SAP installations use a different database?