Each distro has its own way of customizing programs and directories -- would you want to see that standardized?
When it comes to directories? YES. I want to know, no matter what distribution I'm using, that/etc/XYZ is in/etc/XYZ, period. Ok, doing a find / -name XYZ isn't all that hard, but depending how big the disk is (and how full), that can take a long time. Even just moving between different distros of RedHat can be confusing, because things aren't always in the same place.
This especially applies to things like initrc scripts that IMHO should be in the same place, no matter what (In RedHat they're in/etc/rc.d, in other distros they're elsewhere). Same goes with where you put the kernel. For the things that are essential to the system, there should be a standard place for them.
I'd think that the "best" way to benchmark would be to have a non-multitasking kernel that can fit on a disk that, when booted, would run the benchmark(s), display the results, and quit. This would get rid of most of the abstraction between the benchmark program and the hardware, giving the best possible results for the hardware.
"in the beginning there was nothing, which exploded"
I realize this is meant as funny/a troll, but how do you explain god's existence then? He's been around forever? Why is that any easier to believe than that there was non-living matter just sitting around?
I'm just waiting for contact-HUDS. That way there's no burden of glasses if you don't have them, and while the Micro Optical stuff is better than alot that I've seen, it still looks really dorky.
contact-HUDs would also be cool cause you'd be able to see stuff in the person's eyes (text scrolling down, the whole desktop, pr0n, whatever).
Anyway, add to contact-HUDs the ability to control it with your brain, and that'd be even cooler. "Wow, I can see myself in his eyes! He must really love me! Oh, wait, he's got those damn contacts in again. Hey, what's he doing? He's virtually undressing me!" Of course, there are downsides too...
Ask any gaming site (well, most...some might not agree)...or any gaming hardware supplier (Alienware for one...they still sell their gaming comps with win98 for this reason). Hell, even MaximumPC said that if you want the best game performance not to upgrade to win2k because of the extra overhead it has (it is NT at its core after all).
Win2k sucks for games even compared to Win98SE unless you have multiple processors. You'll get a 10% speed increase if you switch to Win98 if you don't have 2 procs. 2 procs won't even help if the game doesn't support them (only q3 does at this time I think), so you'll get better performance if you use Win98 in most games.
we can look at uneducational sites, but not play games...don't ask me for the reasoning, cause I don't know. It doesn't really make too much sense, but that's how it is. I think mostly it's because parents wouldn't like it, and because alot of the games that are played are over the internet, and we only have limited bandwidth.
I'm a high school student too. At my high school, you're allowed free reign to the net...you can do anything except play games and look at porn. If you're caught doing either one, your account gets suspended for a week to a month. It's "zero tolerance", and while many people still play games, if they get caught, they're out.
This, IMHO, is how it should be. If you look at porn (and yes, they check the proxy log files every once in a while), your account gets suspended. If you play games (or have games in your folder), your account gets suspended. This way teachers don't have to be afraid...the sysadmin should take care of it.
Now, if you don't have a sysadmin, or have dialup access to the internet, I don't know what to tell you.
I work at a company now (I'm 16...summer internship), where we can wear whatever we want, we have a volleyball net out in the back yard (the office is in a mansion), and often we'll go out and juggle a soccer ball or play frisbee or something. As long as you get your job done, they don't care what you do during the day (most of the programmers take 2 hour lunch breaks). We even have a break for q3a or UT alot, where even the CEO sometimes joins in. I think the reason it's so great is because the company is relatively new (5 or 6 months maybe), has a hot product that it needs to get finished, and was started with the idea that everyone should be having fun while working there.
I've actually thought about something similar to this before, except not in terms of a battery. Say you have a small ball like that, and it's a 1-way (or is it 2-way?) mirror, so that any light that goes in, gets trapped inside, basically charging whenever light is shining into it (of course, this would only be possible if the mirrors were 100% reflective in one direction, and transparent in the other). So, say you make this ball breakable. You could then throw the ball, creating a flash of blinding light, no? Or maybe it would be energy too, depending on how much light was stored (I haven't taken physics yet, so that probably isn't true...I'll get back to you once I have;-). But anyway, that could have interesting military value (or self-defense). Ah well, I'll stop rambling now I guess...the whole thing is probably completely impossible...but it would be cool.
Um, if you think that scifi=real life, you need help. Remember, alot of things in scifi books aren't real. Just because it's not said in a scifi book, doesn't mean it can't be true.
but almost-DVD-quality movies fitting onto a single CD is great...especially because dvd-rips now look much better and are less than half the size they used to be;-). DivX isn't meant to be a replacement for a real DVD...it's a pure piracy issue when you're talking about DivX.
just a correction to that page...AC posts start out at score 0, not 1, and logged in posts start out as score 1 unless you have X amount of karma (20?).
Well, at least the file format import and export filters should be modular...hopefully at least, because if not, that's terrible programming. But anyway, that should be the least of the benefits we'll see (aka, it should hopefully be an assured benefit).
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Each distro has its own way of customizing programs and directories -- would you want to see that standardized?
/etc/XYZ is in /etc/XYZ, period. Ok, doing a find / -name XYZ isn't all that hard, but depending how big the disk is (and how full), that can take a long time. Even just moving between different distros of RedHat can be confusing, because things aren't always in the same place.
/etc/rc.d, in other distros they're elsewhere). Same goes with where you put the kernel. For the things that are essential to the system, there should be a standard place for them.
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When it comes to directories? YES. I want to know, no matter what distribution I'm using, that
This especially applies to things like initrc scripts that IMHO should be in the same place, no matter what (In RedHat they're in
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I'd think that the "best" way to benchmark would be to have a non-multitasking kernel that can fit on a disk that, when booted, would run the benchmark(s), display the results, and quit. This would get rid of most of the abstraction between the benchmark program and the hardware, giving the best possible results for the hardware.
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Um, when has big business ever played by the rules?
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"in the beginning there was nothing, which exploded"
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I realize this is meant as funny/a troll, but how do you explain god's existence then? He's been around forever? Why is that any easier to believe than that there was non-living matter just sitting around?
The fallacies are in your logic, not ours.
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Any RedHat version newer than that should automatically configure your sound for you (at least it has in my experience).
Last time I checked, 566MHz is a little bit more than 16 MHz more than 366MHz.
Either that, or I'm drunk and not subtracting correctly....
You need DGA to be activated...is it?
I'm just waiting for contact-HUDS. That way there's no burden of glasses if you don't have them, and while the Micro Optical stuff is better than alot that I've seen, it still looks really dorky.
contact-HUDs would also be cool cause you'd be able to see stuff in the person's eyes (text scrolling down, the whole desktop, pr0n, whatever).
Anyway, add to contact-HUDs the ability to control it with your brain, and that'd be even cooler. "Wow, I can see myself in his eyes! He must really love me! Oh, wait, he's got those damn contacts in again. Hey, what's he doing? He's virtually undressing me!" Of course, there are downsides too...
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Well, I will too, soon...
Hmm, I could be wrong then, but everything I've heard says otherwise...especially if you have less than 128 megs ram.
Ask any gaming site (well, most...some might not agree)...or any gaming hardware supplier (Alienware for one...they still sell their gaming comps with win98 for this reason). Hell, even MaximumPC said that if you want the best game performance not to upgrade to win2k because of the extra overhead it has (it is NT at its core after all).
Win2k sucks for games even compared to Win98SE unless you have multiple processors. You'll get a 10% speed increase if you switch to Win98 if you don't have 2 procs. 2 procs won't even help if the game doesn't support them (only q3 does at this time I think), so you'll get better performance if you use Win98 in most games.
Ok Moron. He's talking about UT, or Quake1 (both of which are featured on the site.)
we can look at uneducational sites, but not play games...don't ask me for the reasoning, cause I don't know. It doesn't really make too much sense, but that's how it is. I think mostly it's because parents wouldn't like it, and because alot of the games that are played are over the internet, and we only have limited bandwidth.
I'm a high school student too. At my high school, you're allowed free reign to the net...you can do anything except play games and look at porn. If you're caught doing either one, your account gets suspended for a week to a month. It's "zero tolerance", and while many people still play games, if they get caught, they're out.
This, IMHO, is how it should be. If you look at porn (and yes, they check the proxy log files every once in a while), your account gets suspended. If you play games (or have games in your folder), your account gets suspended. This way teachers don't have to be afraid...the sysadmin should take care of it.
Now, if you don't have a sysadmin, or have dialup access to the internet, I don't know what to tell you.
I work at a company now (I'm 16...summer internship), where we can wear whatever we want, we have a volleyball net out in the back yard (the office is in a mansion), and often we'll go out and juggle a soccer ball or play frisbee or something. As long as you get your job done, they don't care what you do during the day (most of the programmers take 2 hour lunch breaks). We even have a break for q3a or UT alot, where even the CEO sometimes joins in. I think the reason it's so great is because the company is relatively new (5 or 6 months maybe), has a hot product that it needs to get finished, and was started with the idea that everyone should be having fun while working there.
but 2-way could mean it mirrors one way, and you can see through it the other. I've actually heard it both ways, and was wondering which was correct.
Actually, it's for 3D datasets, not video.
I've actually thought about something similar to this before, except not in terms of a battery. Say you have a small ball like that, and it's a 1-way (or is it 2-way?) mirror, so that any light that goes in, gets trapped inside, basically charging whenever light is shining into it (of course, this would only be possible if the mirrors were 100% reflective in one direction, and transparent in the other). So, say you make this ball breakable. You could then throw the ball, creating a flash of blinding light, no? Or maybe it would be energy too, depending on how much light was stored (I haven't taken physics yet, so that probably isn't true...I'll get back to you once I have ;-). But anyway, that could have interesting military value (or self-defense). Ah well, I'll stop rambling now I guess...the whole thing is probably completely impossible...but it would be cool.
Um, if you think that scifi=real life, you need help. Remember, alot of things in scifi books aren't real. Just because it's not said in a scifi book, doesn't mean it can't be true.
but almost-DVD-quality movies fitting onto a single CD is great...especially because dvd-rips now look much better and are less than half the size they used to be ;-). DivX isn't meant to be a replacement for a real DVD...it's a pure piracy issue when you're talking about DivX.
just a correction to that page...AC posts start out at score 0, not 1, and logged in posts start out as score 1 unless you have X amount of karma (20?).
When (if) it becomes opensource, I'd bet that's gonna be the first thing that some programmer does. That'd get rid of half the bloat.
Well, at least the file format import and export filters should be modular...hopefully at least, because if not, that's terrible programming. But anyway, that should be the least of the benefits we'll see (aka, it should hopefully be an assured benefit).