What they're really doing is shifting from the highly competitive desktop market to internet servers. Since Linux has always been the preferred OS for backroom web servers while NT has always been the desktop choice, they're naturally dropping NT. It's no new big news for Linux.
I take a notebook to the bathroom and write brief design notes while doing business. The most difficult problems have to be solved that way. Some solutions are individual steps a procedure must take to do something. Some solutions are block diagrams. It doesn't have to be typewritten but it must be fast.
Detailed design is only necessary for the most difficult problems. For real world problems, databases, you don't need to document in extreme detail. Since most open source projects are simple utilities and desk accessories, there isn't much designing to be done.
But Intel still has the monopoly on the APIC standard. The APIC standard is what Linux uses to parallelize the processors. AMD implements another standard. The fastest AMD will capture slower frame rates than a dual Pentium III.
Too bad no matter how much better Linux proves itself in this contest, management will always go with NT. Obviously Microsoft needs another year to fix the number of problems they uncovered today. It's hard to imagine them waiting that long and with management as oblivious as humanly possible to comparisons with Linux you can expect most of today's bugs to move to the world's computers in 2000.
I would drop the harrier jet and sue them for a helicopter. Just show that the commercial inferred the prize would be an aircraft of any type. He might actually get it.
It's time for CmdrTaco to bite the bullet, get the certification and enter the real world of Win NT/employment. Just make the money and you won't need to beg and grovle for a free sample.
Ever notice than when compiling nbench with a bootstrapped egcs and -march=i686 you get an outrageous result for neural net? Is there some way to get the Pentium II optimization without breaking nbench?
They already compile on different compilers to support the different operating systems. Why can't they pass different optimization flags for the same source code? Right now this client uses only 486 code optimized by an obsolete egcs. With the latest egcs and Pentium II optimization I could get at least 33% faster.
They're definitely short of data to be processed by an order of magnitude. It shows how everyone wants to find life on other planets but no-one wants to pay for more telescopes.
Whether it's linked illegally or linked officially, the Sorenson clips which have become standard aren't going to get any more playable for UNIX users.
Already they're having safety problems. Would the last shuttle have developed the same fuel leak that caused the Challenger explosion if they had enough money? In 1991 they put a lot of money into preventing fuel leaks but now it seems they're back to where they were in 1986. These budjet cuts would just mean people getting killed.
Obviously salary requirements are too high, but I'm almost out off the running and I have yet to find a first job in IT. I would settle for nothing to get a job right now but it still doesn't happen. Maybe the issue isn't age but a sickness of Microsoft that older engineers develop. Let's face it. If you don't have a love for Microsoft, you don't work.
This exemplifies the rule every corporation needs to realize. People use Linux because they don't want to pay for software. If anything is going to be coded for Linux, the developers themselves have to look at how much it's going to cost them before they make promises.
How about credit cards. They're smaller than palm pilots. They're cheaper. They don't have batteries which can run out or leak. You don't need to use a Microsoft operating system on them. I've been using credit cards for years and years.
First of all, Stardivision always seemed to be on the verge of dissapearing from the face of the earth. They must get extreme hell from Microsoft if they're charging $200 for their Win32 offerings when Microsoft bundles Office 2000 into everything. When Office 97 came out, Staroffice 3 barely booted without crashing and if it did, it most certainly crashed 10 seconds later and they charged $200 for this. In 1998, after what must have been the bank loan of the century, they got Staroffice 5 out and it was finally something equivalent to Office98.
Finally last month Stardivision started spamming email addresses. The shit hit the fan at that point. For Stardivision to resort to spam must mean they're on their last quarter. If Sun doesn't buy them, Linux is going to be without an office suite. None of the other Motif/GTK projects are even close to being an office suite.
If they can only sustain 3 full time people that says a lot about the level of interest in commercial audio on UNIX. Operations in the Windows world usually have double digit full time staffs.
If you're making several times the national average at the age of 22 you deserve to be working your ass off. If you don't want to do something that everyone and their grandmothers can do in their sleep, there's 5 billion people who can network just as well.
Heh. My dual PII 550 Linux box renders 640x480 in about.25 seconds per frame. Only Win NT takes 2 minutes per frame. Thank God I don't have to work at a job and put up with those formalities.
I have problems using ftp over masquerading. Even with passive mode on, reverse DNS lookups not required, matched C libraries, certain ftp clients still don't work with certain ftp servers. It's a matter of trying every ftp client on your system until one works, then remembering which ftp client works with which server and which client is faster for the job. Right now ftp, ncftp, Wxftp, sftp, Igloo, and netscape are on the system.
The best I get on a dual Celeron 545 with a Hauppage capture board is 9fps for 640x480. Maybe a dual xeon gets 30% better. That might get you 12fps for $1500. 9fps 640x480 looks damn good, mind you, especially if you crop it to 16:9. Forget about uploading 640x480 to the web. 240x180 9fps is a better goal for web uploads. Either way, unless you intend to pay for it, you're writing your own capture software.
Not having managers, beurocracy, formality, and business suits impede your decision making allows a lot more opportunity outside the workplace. Unfortunately, everyone has to pay for their own development.
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What they're really doing is shifting from the highly competitive desktop market to internet servers. Since Linux has always been the preferred OS for backroom web servers while NT has always been the desktop choice, they're naturally dropping NT. It's no new big news for Linux.
I take a notebook to the bathroom and write brief design notes while doing business. The most difficult problems have to be solved that way. Some solutions are individual steps a procedure must take to do something. Some solutions are block diagrams. It doesn't have to be typewritten but it must be fast.
Detailed design is only necessary for the most difficult problems. For real world problems, databases, you don't need to document in extreme detail. Since most open source projects are simple utilities and desk accessories, there isn't much designing to be done.
The problem is getting people to want to run for office who are't phsychopaths, sex maniacs or KKK members.
But Intel still has the monopoly on the APIC standard. The APIC standard is what Linux uses to parallelize the processors. AMD implements another standard. The fastest AMD will capture slower frame rates than a dual Pentium III.
Got a little Y2K bug there Katz? The movie did well because critics liked it in an academic sense. The rest was extreme advertizing.
Too bad no matter how much better Linux proves itself in this contest, management will always go with NT. Obviously Microsoft needs another year to fix the number of problems they uncovered today. It's hard to imagine them waiting that long and with management as oblivious as humanly possible to comparisons with Linux you can expect most of today's bugs to move to the world's computers in 2000.
Maybe the powerpc site should have a guestbook to bring up the load.
I would drop the harrier jet and sue them for a helicopter. Just show that the commercial inferred the prize would be an aircraft of any type. He might actually get it.
It's time for CmdrTaco to bite the bullet, get the certification and enter the real world of Win NT/employment. Just make the money and you won't need to beg and grovle for a free sample.
Ever notice than when compiling nbench with a bootstrapped egcs and -march=i686 you get an outrageous result for neural net? Is there some way to get the Pentium II optimization without breaking nbench?
They already compile on different compilers to support the different operating systems. Why can't they pass different optimization flags for the same source code? Right now this client uses only 486 code optimized by an obsolete egcs. With the latest egcs and Pentium II optimization I could get at least 33% faster.
They're definitely short of data to be processed by an order of magnitude. It shows how everyone wants to find life on other planets but no-one wants to pay for more telescopes.
Whether it's linked illegally or linked officially, the Sorenson clips which have become standard aren't going to get any more playable for UNIX users.
Already they're having safety problems. Would the last shuttle have developed the same fuel leak that caused the Challenger explosion if they had enough money? In 1991 they put a lot of money into preventing fuel leaks but now it seems they're back to where they were in 1986. These budjet cuts would just mean people getting killed.
Obviously salary requirements are too high, but I'm almost out off the running and I have yet to find a first job in IT. I would settle for nothing to get a job right now but it still doesn't happen. Maybe the issue isn't age but a sickness of Microsoft that older engineers develop. Let's face it. If you don't have a love for Microsoft, you don't work.
This exemplifies the rule every corporation needs to realize. People use Linux because they don't want to pay for software. If anything is going to be coded for Linux, the developers themselves have to look at how much it's going to cost them before they make promises.
How about credit cards. They're smaller than palm pilots. They're cheaper. They don't have batteries which can run out or leak. You don't need to use a Microsoft operating system on them. I've been using credit cards for years and years.
First of all, Stardivision always seemed to be on the verge of dissapearing from the face of the earth. They must get extreme hell from Microsoft if they're charging $200 for their Win32 offerings when Microsoft bundles Office 2000 into everything. When Office 97 came out, Staroffice 3 barely booted without crashing and if it did, it most certainly crashed 10 seconds later and they charged $200 for this. In 1998, after what must have been the bank loan of the century, they got Staroffice 5 out and it was finally something equivalent to Office98.
Finally last month Stardivision started spamming email addresses. The shit hit the fan at that point. For Stardivision to resort to spam must mean they're on their last quarter. If Sun doesn't buy them, Linux is going to be without an office suite. None of the other Motif/GTK projects are even close to being an office suite.
If they can only sustain 3 full time people that says a lot about the level of interest in commercial audio on UNIX. Operations in the Windows world usually have double digit full time staffs.
If you're making several times the national average at the age of 22 you deserve to be working your ass off. If you don't want to do something that everyone and their grandmothers can do in their sleep, there's 5 billion people who can network just as well.
Heh. My dual PII 550 Linux box renders 640x480 in about .25 seconds per frame. Only Win NT takes 2 minutes per frame. Thank God I don't have to work at a job and put up with those formalities.
I have problems using ftp over masquerading. Even with passive mode on, reverse DNS lookups not required, matched C libraries, certain ftp clients still don't work with certain ftp servers. It's a matter of trying every ftp client on your system until one works, then remembering which ftp client works with which server and which client is faster for the job. Right now ftp, ncftp, Wxftp, sftp, Igloo, and netscape are on the system.
The best I get on a dual Celeron 545 with a Hauppage capture board is 9fps for 640x480. Maybe a dual xeon gets 30% better. That might get you 12fps for $1500. 9fps 640x480 looks damn good, mind you, especially if you crop it to 16:9. Forget about uploading 640x480 to the web. 240x180 9fps is a better goal for web uploads. Either way, unless you intend to pay for it, you're writing your own capture software.
Not having managers, beurocracy, formality, and business suits impede your decision making allows a lot more opportunity outside the workplace. Unfortunately, everyone has to pay for their own development.
Still gives the BitBLT timeout error on GD5446 cards. The GD5446 chipset was awfully popular for it to be dropped from X in 1997.