Your guess is as good as mine. My math is good as far as I can tell. It might have just been one of those things where you can only parallelize a problem so far, so nodes spent more of their time waiting for required results than doing anything. Or it could have been, as you said, an unreliable environment where the computers weren't dedicated. Or the numbers could be entirely off. I'm not horribly worried about finding out the specifics either:)
That don't match up too well with reality. Recent GNOME is bigger, slower, and has more layers of complication than recent KDE. If you want to talk about bloat, how about using a complete deadend technology like CORBA under the hood, or using XML in places where text would do because "you just don't know"? GNOME has been working on "performance enhancement releases" for the past year or so, but KDE has gotten faster with every release since 2002 and KDE4 is expected to cut overhead even more significantly. Have you compared the dependency trees for kubuntu-desktop vs. ubuntu-desktop? The GNOME one is considerably, um, bushier. Installing a GNOME app from zero takes so much downloading, I'm glad it's automated at least. I feel real pity for the person who actually has to compile all that crap.
Incidentally, spatial file management is one of the worst things ever to come out of the "if it agrees with common sense it can't possibly be right" school of interface design.;)
It's not a "fashion" thing. GNOME has recently been explicitly about limiting choices in the name of simplicity, and standardizing in the name of consistency. If you do that, it means that someone who agrees with those choices will be pretty happy, and everyone else will have something to complain about; that goes without saying. The part that's arguably my opinion is that the user that GNOME is evolving to best serve is a complete and utter idiot -- but on the other hand there are a lot of people out there who agree with me. The people developing the standards just don't get it. I don't use GNOME for my desktop, but they're even going so far as to ruin some of my favorite apps by association. It's frustrating. I don't think there's anything wrong with saying "hey GNOME guys, step back, take a look at what you're doing. You're not serving real people."
It did 4 months worth of computation in 4 months. If it had been 420 years worth of computation it would have taken 420 years. It's like infomercials that say "and you get all this, a $899 value, for $30!" Obviously it's not "a $899 value" or you would be selling it for that instead of $30. Perhaps, though, they mean that they did 420 processor-years of work over the course of 4 months (meaning that they would have had an average of 1260 cores doing something useful at any time).
Isn't this what we were all saying for years would happen, and that it would be a good thing? Once you filter out the commie-talk about how awful "self-serving behavior" is, you're left with "businesses are benefitting from open source at the same time as they're driving it. Some businesses are run by bastards, but what's new?"
Your point is right, but your math at the end there is a little flaky. What it actually works out to is: E = mc^2 = \gamma m_0 * c^2 ~~ m_0*c^2 + (1/2)m_0*v^2 and if we subtract out the rest energy we get the classic "1/2 mv^2" for v near zero.
Probably the decision not to block on null Referer was made not out of consideration for users with oddball browsers and privacy-protecting proxies (really, most site operators will still screw you without thinking about it) -- but to make sure that people can bookmark the guides from their site and get back to them. Browsers don't remember a "previous page" along with a bookmark, so they send no referer, same as for an entered URL.
No, they can't... and that's it. No special protection needed. If Youtube threatens you with a gun, or extorts money from you, or something like that, they've infringed on your rights, and broken the law... although incidentally, Youtube can't do any of those things, only people can. By refusing to publish material that they don't like, Youtube might be a bunch of jerks but they haven't done anything to your "rights". No one is born with a natural "right to Youtube" and nobody ever could have such a right.
1. In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him. 2. And Man gave unto God a multitude of names, that he might be Lord over all the earth when it was suited to Man. 3. And on the seven millionth day Man rested and did lean heavily on his God and saw that it was good.
Last time I looked you couldn't get a non-grounded power brick from Dell either. So what was this guy doing? Did he hack up his own cord? Use one of those "adapters" from 2-prong to 3-prong and not hook up the ground wire?:)
And don't even try to run anything on OSX that's compute-intensive and multithreaded or multiprocess. Apparently Apple missed out on ideas like "fork is supposed to be fast in Unix" and "IPC is supposed to be fast in Unix." You wouldn't believe how much slower some things run in OSX compared to Linux on the same hardware.
Acting in the "community" way is the selfish thing to do most of the time -- it's just a sort of long-term selfishness that many businesses can't seem to appreciate. It's guaranteeing that there will be an ecosystem for you to be part of down the road, instead of alienating/bankrupting/killing all of your potential customers and partners.
Oh? Cold just means that you actually have enough A/C capacity to keep up with the machines (yes, I know, imagine that), and dark means nobody hit the lightswitch yet today because the admin likes to feel like he lives in a cave. What's wrong with that?
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Now that's what I call a solution! Run my car on the finest in clean-burning propane and propane accessories!
Your guess is as good as mine. My math is good as far as I can tell. It might have just been one of those things where you can only parallelize a problem so far, so nodes spent more of their time waiting for required results than doing anything. Or it could have been, as you said, an unreliable environment where the computers weren't dedicated. Or the numbers could be entirely off. I'm not horribly worried about finding out the specifics either :)
That don't match up too well with reality. Recent GNOME is bigger, slower, and has more layers of complication than recent KDE. If you want to talk about bloat, how about using a complete deadend technology like CORBA under the hood, or using XML in places where text would do because "you just don't know"? GNOME has been working on "performance enhancement releases" for the past year or so, but KDE has gotten faster with every release since 2002 and KDE4 is expected to cut overhead even more significantly. Have you compared the dependency trees for kubuntu-desktop vs. ubuntu-desktop? The GNOME one is considerably, um, bushier. Installing a GNOME app from zero takes so much downloading, I'm glad it's automated at least. I feel real pity for the person who actually has to compile all that crap.
;)
Incidentally, spatial file management is one of the worst things ever to come out of the "if it agrees with common sense it can't possibly be right" school of interface design.
It's not a "fashion" thing. GNOME has recently been explicitly about limiting choices in the name of simplicity, and standardizing in the name of consistency. If you do that, it means that someone who agrees with those choices will be pretty happy, and everyone else will have something to complain about; that goes without saying. The part that's arguably my opinion is that the user that GNOME is evolving to best serve is a complete and utter idiot -- but on the other hand there are a lot of people out there who agree with me. The people developing the standards just don't get it. I don't use GNOME for my desktop, but they're even going so far as to ruin some of my favorite apps by association. It's frustrating. I don't think there's anything wrong with saying "hey GNOME guys, step back, take a look at what you're doing. You're not serving real people."
It did 4 months worth of computation in 4 months. If it had been 420 years worth of computation it would have taken 420 years. It's like infomercials that say "and you get all this, a $899 value, for $30!" Obviously it's not "a $899 value" or you would be selling it for that instead of $30. Perhaps, though, they mean that they did 420 processor-years of work over the course of 4 months (meaning that they would have had an average of 1260 cores doing something useful at any time).
Isn't this what we were all saying for years would happen, and that it would be a good thing? Once you filter out the commie-talk about how awful "self-serving behavior" is, you're left with "businesses are benefitting from open source at the same time as they're driving it. Some businesses are run by bastards, but what's new?"
Your point is right, but your math at the end there is a little flaky. What it actually works out to is: E = mc^2 = \gamma m_0 * c^2 ~~ m_0*c^2 + (1/2)m_0*v^2 and if we subtract out the rest energy we get the classic "1/2 mv^2" for v near zero.
Have you ever seen Bush at the breakfast table? I think your claims are unsubstantiated!
Probably the decision not to block on null Referer was made not out of consideration for users with oddball browsers and privacy-protecting proxies (really, most site operators will still screw you without thinking about it) -- but to make sure that people can bookmark the guides from their site and get back to them. Browsers don't remember a "previous page" along with a bookmark, so they send no referer, same as for an entered URL.
No, they can't... and that's it. No special protection needed. If Youtube threatens you with a gun, or extorts money from you, or something like that, they've infringed on your rights, and broken the law... although incidentally, Youtube can't do any of those things, only people can. By refusing to publish material that they don't like, Youtube might be a bunch of jerks but they haven't done anything to your "rights". No one is born with a natural "right to Youtube" and nobody ever could have such a right.
1. In the beginning Man created God; and in the image of Man created he him.
:)
2. And Man gave unto God a multitude of names, that he might be Lord over all the earth when it was suited to Man.
3. And on the seven millionth day Man rested and did lean heavily on his God and saw that it was good.
etc.
Your appositive is faulty. KDE ain't a window manager. KWin is though.
I understand that. How did I get it backwards? :)
Last time I looked you couldn't get a non-grounded power brick from Dell either. So what was this guy doing? Did he hack up his own cord? Use one of those "adapters" from 2-prong to 3-prong and not hook up the ground wire? :)
And don't even try to run anything on OSX that's compute-intensive and multithreaded or multiprocess. Apparently Apple missed out on ideas like "fork is supposed to be fast in Unix" and "IPC is supposed to be fast in Unix." You wouldn't believe how much slower some things run in OSX compared to Linux on the same hardware.
Pretty easily, when it's full of voltage converters, and a high-voltage inverter to run the LCD backlight,
and call it Nupedia... and then scrap it because Wikipedia was better? :)
You're also not accounting for quite a few serious gamers who are on their third PS2 because the drives on the first two died :)
This is PERL. This is Perl. See the difference? Good.
Come on. They're two companies in the US. It's not like there's any sort of a free market.
That's not right. It's supposed to say "Is it real or is it Memorex?"
Acting in the "community" way is the selfish thing to do most of the time -- it's just a sort of long-term selfishness that many businesses can't seem to appreciate. It's guaranteeing that there will be an ecosystem for you to be part of down the road, instead of alienating/bankrupting/killing all of your potential customers and partners.
Oh? Cold just means that you actually have enough A/C capacity to keep up with the machines (yes, I know, imagine that), and dark means nobody hit the lightswitch yet today because the admin likes to feel like he lives in a cave. What's wrong with that?
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