Still, I'd much rather they dump Serial ATA altogether and concentrate on FireWire. 100Megabytes/sec is just plenty, and FireWire is a much more general and flexible standard
But a very important design point in serial ATA is that it is completely backwards compatible with parallel ATA. No software need change. This is not the case if we were to drop *ATA in favor of firewire. Now you can upgrade at your leasure, and mix and match (convertors exist to plug your old drives onto a serialATA cable).
Microsoft gives ridiculously deep discounts to educational institutions. I have friends who go to Indiana University. At the bookstore there, you can pick up Windows XP Professional (no activation required) for $5. The entire 5-CD version of Visual Studio.Net is available for $30. At these prices, there is absolutely no incentive to pirate the software.
Usually this is because the University has a site license for the software that allows them to do this. The license is paid through tuition and student fees, so you are paying more than just the $5 media cost for the software.
OO also has a bug where if you use 'focus follows mouse', the menus are completely unusable. This of course makes OO completely unusable.
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I just Fortran 90 daily, as part of a computational fluid dynamics project. Fortran 90 is a lot different than Fortran 77 -- it has pointers, modules, no more punch card dictated format, array syntax,... In someways it is nice, but one of the great things about Fortran 77 was that the language was so simple that the compiler did not have to make any assumptions. There were no pointers or dynamically allocated memory, so lots of optimizations could be made, which is why Fortran performed so well. You will find Fortran compilers on all the supercomputers on the Top 500 list today, and they are used very heavily. There are a lot of numerical algorithms coded in Fortran (netlib), that have been tested and looked over by the community for 20-30 years.
That being said, for anything other than raw numerical computations, I prefer C.
If nothing else, this early version's availability will give Lindows and its CEO, Michael Robertson, credibility with the Linux community that they did not have before
Let's see -- you cannot really be anything other than root, it can be hit by a Window's virus, lots of apps just *poof*,... How will this give Lindows credibility with the Linux crowd?
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intel has already release C and Fortran 90 compilers for Linux that are free for non-comercial use. These are very fast compilers when used on a Pentium IV.
As someone pointed out in elsewhere, this would make the processors too expensive, if the vendor had to ship replacement processors each time a bug was found. Lots of bugs exist in processors, and typically they are fixed with each new stepping. Look at/proc/cpuinfo and see how many bugs it checks for (fdiv_bug, hlt_bug, f00f_bug, coma_bug on my system). This bug will probably be just another line. There is a simple workaround for it too, so it is not that bad.
The real problem (as may people state) is that AMD did not inform the kernel developers about this problem long ago, so a fix could already be implemented.
The latest Debian CD provides all the software anyone could ever conceive of needing.
Doesn't provide a Fortran 90 compiler. Projects exist but they are a long way off yet. Most Linux distributions come with the major apps you need, but there are plenty of other, more specialized ones, that are needed.
nvidia's drivers under linux pretty much as fast as they are under windows. There are not open source, but they work very well. OpenGL apps are fast under linux with them.
Then I hate to imagine what Linus thinks of those folks whose idea of innovation is cloning Microsoft products for the Linux.
cloning the windows interface for linux still involves a lot of work, and I would not call the people who are trying to do this lazy. Microsoft is already at that point, and all they need to do it make a few tweaks and add drivers every year or so, so they can release a new version and continue generating income.
Not that I am in favor of the Windowsization of Linux interfaces, but I don't think that it is lazy. All of that coding is hard work, but also rewarding to those who do it.
Are people bonding an external thermocouple onto
their processors to measure heat? Or is there
a software process to use the chip's thermocouple?
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Nothing about the restrictions they're incorporating into the product will prevent the applications that you talked about.
I hope this is true, but only time will tell. If they allow these disks to be available for recording on a computer, unrestricted (as CD-R is currently), the record companies would surely complain.
I am not a PPC user, but I am a Linux user. I find it intersting that they are going with ext3 (as is RH). It will be interesting to see which journaling file systems the different distrobutions go with. Perhaps by years end, one or two of them will be dominant. Does OS X have journaling?
Note: part of the reason the fire at WTC was so devistating was that the do-gooder environmentalist whackos stopped the use of asbestos from being used to fireproof the steel columns which supported the structure. The building's chief design engineer is on record as saying that any large fire above the 70th floor
would cause failure of the structure due to pancaking caused by lack of adequate fireproofing on the support columns. He said this before the building was ever occupied.
Can you provide a reference for this statement? There are other fire-proofing materials aside from asbestos that are used to coat steel columns.
I agree with this 100%. This is the only reason that there is a windows partition on my laptop. I need to show movies of my simulations in talks, and having them inline is soo much nicer. Switching to a standalone application takes momentum away from the talk.
My recollection is that SO 6.0 does not yet have this ability. The first Linux suite that offers this is the one that I will switch to. MS Office compatibility is low on my list -- everyone I interact with uses some flavor of Unix or Linux.
I think part of the problem is that Microsoft's browser was free, but not open. That means that they still control the direction of the browser, and can use that to their advantage to gain market dominance. With SO or OO, you are getting an Open Source product. If you don't like the direction it is headed, you can change it.
I used to rank the Challenger explosion as the
defining historical moment in my life. One of those days where you always remember where you were and what you were doing. I am sure that today's events will take over the spot for many of us. It is truely incomprehensibe.
Well, I for one will not worry. I make my own choices. I take calculated risks. I am aware that it all ends in tears anyway: no-one lives over 110 years and anyway, by 80, half of us have Alzheimers.
I sure hope you are not using non-dairy creamer in your coffee--the aluminum in that may increase your risk for Alzheimers.
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But a very important design point in serial ATA is that it is completely backwards compatible with parallel ATA. No software need change. This is not the case if we were to drop *ATA in favor of firewire. Now you can upgrade at your leasure, and mix and match (convertors exist to plug your old drives onto a serialATA cable).
Usually this is because the University has a site license for the software that allows them to do this. The license is paid through tuition and student fees, so you are paying more than just the $5 media cost for the software.
this link seems to actually work: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/allochrt.html
Umm.. the Microsoft Sound System was a pretty big flop in its day. All Microsoft hardware does not belong on this list.
was a old EGA version called egaint, which I had on an old 286. Google found me this list of 883 tetris files.
OO also has a bug where if you use 'focus follows mouse', the menus are completely unusable. This of course makes OO completely unusable.
That being said, for anything other than raw numerical computations, I prefer C.
Let's see -- you cannot really be anything other than root, it can be hit by a Window's virus, lots of apps just *poof*,... How will this give Lindows credibility with the Linux crowd?
intel has already release C and Fortran 90 compilers for Linux that are free for non-comercial use. These are very fast compilers when used on a Pentium IV.
As someone pointed out in elsewhere, this would make the processors too expensive, if the vendor had to ship replacement processors each time a bug was found. Lots of bugs exist in processors, and typically they are fixed with each new stepping. Look at /proc/cpuinfo and see how many bugs it checks for (fdiv_bug, hlt_bug, f00f_bug, coma_bug on my system). This bug will probably be just another line. There is a simple workaround for it too, so it is not that bad.
The real problem (as may people state) is that AMD did not inform the kernel developers about this problem long ago, so a fix could already be implemented.
What about states (like NJ) that don't require a photo on the drivers license?
Doesn't provide a Fortran 90 compiler. Projects exist but they are a long way off yet. Most Linux distributions come with the major apps you need, but there are plenty of other, more specialized ones, that are needed.
To get the word out on how big of a problem spam is, the paper mass mailed the article to all users with a .edu, .com, or .org e-mail address.
nvidia's drivers under linux pretty much as fast as they are under windows. There are not open source, but they work very well. OpenGL apps are fast under linux with them.
The lazy part came from the original message head. I agree with you about the difference between hard work and innovation.
cloning the windows interface for linux still involves a lot of work, and I would not call the people who are trying to do this lazy. Microsoft is already at that point, and all they need to do it make a few tweaks and add drivers every year or so, so they can release a new version and continue generating income.
Not that I am in favor of the Windowsization of Linux interfaces, but I don't think that it is lazy. All of that coding is hard work, but also rewarding to those who do it.
Are people bonding an external thermocouple onto their processors to measure heat? Or is there a software process to use the chip's thermocouple?
I hope this is true, but only time will tell. If they allow these disks to be available for recording on a computer, unrestricted (as CD-R is currently), the record companies would surely complain.
I am not a PPC user, but I am a Linux user. I find it intersting that they are going with ext3 (as is RH). It will be interesting to see which journaling file systems the different distrobutions go with. Perhaps by years end, one or two of them will be dominant. Does OS X have journaling?
I am certainly no fan of Ashcroft, but I am curious about what he wants to go after retroactively. Can you provide any reference to this statement?
Can you provide a reference for this statement? There are other fire-proofing materials aside from asbestos that are used to coat steel columns.
My recollection is that SO 6.0 does not yet have this ability. The first Linux suite that offers this is the one that I will switch to. MS Office compatibility is low on my list -- everyone I interact with uses some flavor of Unix or Linux.
I think part of the problem is that Microsoft's browser was free, but not open. That means that they still control the direction of the browser, and can use that to their advantage to gain market dominance. With SO or OO, you are getting an Open Source product. If you don't like the direction it is headed, you can change it.
I used to rank the Challenger explosion as the defining historical moment in my life. One of those days where you always remember where you were and what you were doing. I am sure that today's events will take over the spot for many of us. It is truely incomprehensibe.
I sure hope you are not using non-dairy creamer in your coffee--the aluminum in that may increase your risk for Alzheimers.