Care to explain the difference between the 386 and the 486 to me? From what I heard, it was just a few tweaks. The math coprocessor wasn't added until the 486DX, and I think there were 386DXs as well. The SX of each generation being those without the coprocessor. Of course, correct me if I'm wrong.
Congress is about to pass a change to the tax code that would place a 50% tax (a sin tax, in the spirit of tobacco) on beanie baby sales. As a professional beanie collector who makes his living selling them on ebay, this would put quite a crimp in my business. Although nobody has sympathy for beanie baby collectors, I figure that senior citizens have a lot of clout. (they do) So, I write up a letter on faked AARP letterhead that tells them that the new tax bill will place a 50% tax on Social Security, take it down to Kinko's and make 100,000 copies when nobody is looking, mail them off with a rubber stamp I "borrowed" from behind the counter when the grunt took a bathroom break, and then sneak out before he comes back, without paying. I have them all addressed to a bunch of addresses I found in a dumpster somewhere that may or may not be senior citizens, and figure that at least some will hit their mark and benefit my cause. Most will be ignored because they're mistargetted, but it doesn't matter to me because it didn't cost me anything. It cost Kinko's to make and mail the copies, and it gives the AARP a headache when people start calling complaining about this junk mail that's a lie.
Now, the fact that I lied in the message (common in spam) probably constitutes fraud on its own, but that's harder to prosecute than the much more obvious theft from Kinko's and impersonation of the AARP. That's what's going on in this case, and whether you think the guy has a right to spam or not, he certainly does not have a right to steal someone else's resources or impersonate another party.
The OSS business model IS different from what you see in the old marketing books. Any economic theory makes assumptions, and when those assumptions fail, the theory fails. When something that is taken for granted (like the ability to sell the product, for example) is suddenly removed, you place a big fat '0' in front of one of the variables that previously had a rather important coefficient. Other variables with previously negligible coefficients start becoming very important, and thus you have a model that does not conform to the traditional ones in your old marketing textbook.
I noticed that in all the screenshots it reads 12:00 a.m. or 0:00:00 anywhere that time is displayed. Window names also appear to be replaced with 5 asterisks. Doesn't really look polished yet.
I also find it funny that they had issues with GIMP. I have no problem running GIMP native on my windows machine.
It's ok. Nice links, too. I hadn't seen some of those before. I always find cynical journalism to be entertaining. I can't really blame the moderator, though I suppose flamebait might have been more appropriate. Sorry about that.
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Exceptions are made for things that are considered "essential" such as food. It is assumed that it would be an undue burden to require someone to be 18 to buy food in some extended manner other than a simple purchase, and therefore minors are held responsible for such contracts. Still, those things are rare, and video games, despite my addiction, do not qualify as "essential" in the eyes of the law.
I know a lot of dual-booters who bought the windows version the week it came out. They didn't want to wait. You really can't blame ID for releasing for their biggest revenue-generating platform first. That's just common sense business at work.
On to Linux, I think part of the problem is that it is having a massive identity crisis. You don't see the OpenBSD community up in arms about the lack of games there. That's because OpenBSD has established its purpose as a server OS. It does one thing very well, and the rest is not important. Sure, flexibility is nice, but do you really WANT the same basic kernel running both your wristwatch and your render farm? It looks to me like the folks at Be had the right idea. Unfortunately, their market space happens to be the same as that of consumer Windows versions, and those users tend to be the ones who don't want to rock the boat.
I suppose that the distros could solve this to a certain extent, but everyone here keeps getting their panties in a knot about the whole "Red Hat isn't an OS" thing and the "GNU/Linux" thing.
One more point for the "Don't buy it because it's not Free" folks: everything has its limits, even Free Software. One of the joys of entertainment is that someone else is doing the work. I'm happy with a binary if it means that the guy on the other end isn't using an aimbot.
LinuxONE lite, at least in theory, does this. I haven't been able to connect to their webserver lately, though, so I couldn't tell you what the status of that is, nor can I download and test it.
I don't know about any of you, but I find it hard enough to remember a 7-digit number. True, there is a limit to how many 3-digit prefixes exist in an area, so it may be about as easy as remembering 6-digits. With an extra 3, that puts it on the borderline of rememberability. IPv6 bugs me in this way too. As it currently stands, I can remember more than a few current IPv4 addresses, because consistent prefixes apply here, too. Within my university, everything starts with xxx.xxx, so all I have to do is remember the last two bytes, and most of the important stuff is on xxx.xxx.2 anyway, though that stuff actually has names (except when the name server is having problems, which is generally the only time I need to remember such things anyway). I also have a few friends on cable modems, but they're all in 24.xxx anyway. Also fairly easy to remember. All I have to remember is that they're on @home in the particular place they live, and the last two bytes. It's not much more difficult than a phone number, and certainly not more difficult than a phone number with an area code. But still, IPs are meant to be read by machines anyway, so quadrupling their length isn't the end of the world, and the benefits are great. Adding 3 digits to phone numbers is going to be really taxing, though. I have a hard time imagining phone use increasing by 3 orders of magnitude, or even two. Granted, one digit my not be enough do to inefficiencies in implementation, but I think two ought to do it quite well, and hopefully end the breakaway growth of area codes, too.
Actually, a large number of HP-UX machines have video cards. $1500 video cards. PA-RISC makes for a real sweet workstation. I admit I don't have hard facts, but from what I've seen, the proportion is higher than 5%. You're right, Linux isn't ready for heavy enterprise. Linux is a wonderful desktop OS for those who don't mind tinkering, and it is developing towards the common user well. It is certainly adequate for compute-intensive or heavy serving, but the "tool-for-the-job" phenomenon is leaning towards the professionally developed Unices for these environments.
Sure, they have an interest in protecting the broadcasters, but to decide to close for the next 10 years a content delivery system that has been open for less than ten years is an incredibly short-sighted move. To put it plainly, they have no clue what the net will look like in 3, 5, 8 years. Not even this crowd has perfect foresight. Of course, now that they've pledged that, it will probably go into upcoming contracts, and then they'll be bound by it. I think they'll really regret this move.
Get Amaya. Stop worrying about which broken code you're going to support and do it right from the beginning.
Woohoo! Yet another webmonkey who thinks that HTML is programming. Sure, it's worthwhile, but you get nowhere trying to impress the geek crowd by calling it development.
Ok, I figured that with all these comments, I should make a clarification. I was referring to startup time, as the article was.
I personally have.jpg.gif and.html on my windows machine set to open in IE, because it runs faster. I have URLs set to open in Netscape, because Netscape doesn't crash. IE is nice and slick for simple straightforward stuff like help files, like the kind of thing Opera is fine for. I don't use Opera to avoid redundancy. When I want to browse real websites, I use Netscape because it's fully featured (unlike Opera) and it's stable (unlike IE).
I suppose it's possible that Netscape is slower because it cleans up its mess. Whenever I close Netscape, I always have AT LEAST as much free memory as when I started, often more. IE doesn't seem to work that way.
I've heard that IE is nice and sweet on NT, but I have 98, and it's not nice and sweet there. Your mileage may vary.
That was actually part of the joke behind naming the system Iridium in the first place. Because of the meteorite, which contained abnormally high levels of Iridium, as many meteorites do, there is a layer of reddish soil a centimeter or two thick everywhere in the world if you dig down to a level that corresponds to 65 million years ago. The idea of Iridium completely enveloping the earth is a corrolary to a service that completely envelopes the earth.
Metaphors aside, I do think it's bad symbolism to associate either a business venture or a satellite launch with something that fell from a great height and exploded spectacularly.
It's called the invisible hand. It has two failings: Monopolies, and Externalities. The first is the only one relevant here.
Wow, we've identified a system created by humans that doesn't perfectly accomplish its design goals all the time, even when working within the design specifications. This is not a problem unique to capitalism. The Invisible Hand does work, provided that the government takes action to prevent the formation of monopolies and to internalize externalities. In other words, laissez-faire sucks just as much as pure communism. That's why it greatly pleases me to hear many of the world's more powerful countries referred to as modern socialist rather than democratic. Balance between ideals gives to the people the power that would otherwise be concentrated in either the left-wing or the right-wing elites.
1) Matt Drudge is about as reliable as a Magic 8-ball. He's got power, as you said, but he doesn't have discipline. Sometimes the mainstream journalists sit on a story to see if their information pans out. That's responsibility, not corruption.
2) Al Gore's not the only one doing some pretty shady stuff in this election.
Slashdot would post stories like "Ping returned in West-Coast dial-up pool, human involvement suspected." and then everyone on Slashdot would try to ping that IP, and the router would go down, and the story would be updated with "False Alarm, probably just an automated hourly windows update."
As the story presentation states, the net is still very vulnerable if a few highly-connected nodes are selectively taken out of commission. Keep in mind that random attacks mostly get leaf nodes, which have no effect at all on network connectivity, and the rest usually have enough redundancy that there is at least one good path from point a to point b. It may be congested, but then again, if 99% of the net is down, there's a good chance that most people are hiding in their bomb shelters, so you should have it mostly to yourself, just as the original DoD/DARPA designs assumed.
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Care to explain the difference between the 386 and the 486 to me? From what I heard, it was just a few tweaks. The math coprocessor wasn't added until the 486DX, and I think there were 386DXs as well. The SX of each generation being those without the coprocessor. Of course, correct me if I'm wrong.
Fast, Stable, Cheap: Choose one.
Imagine this:
Congress is about to pass a change to the tax code that would place a 50% tax (a sin tax, in the spirit of tobacco) on beanie baby sales. As a professional beanie collector who makes his living selling them on ebay, this would put quite a crimp in my business. Although nobody has sympathy for beanie baby collectors, I figure that senior citizens have a lot of clout. (they do) So, I write up a letter on faked AARP letterhead that tells them that the new tax bill will place a 50% tax on Social Security, take it down to Kinko's and make 100,000 copies when nobody is looking, mail them off with a rubber stamp I "borrowed" from behind the counter when the grunt took a bathroom break, and then sneak out before he comes back, without paying. I have them all addressed to a bunch of addresses I found in a dumpster somewhere that may or may not be senior citizens, and figure that at least some will hit their mark and benefit my cause. Most will be ignored because they're mistargetted, but it doesn't matter to me because it didn't cost me anything. It cost Kinko's to make and mail the copies, and it gives the AARP a headache when people start calling complaining about this junk mail that's a lie.
Now, the fact that I lied in the message (common in spam) probably constitutes fraud on its own, but that's harder to prosecute than the much more obvious theft from Kinko's and impersonation of the AARP. That's what's going on in this case, and whether you think the guy has a right to spam or not, he certainly does not have a right to steal someone else's resources or impersonate another party.
Actually, 640k would suit me fine.
In my processor cache.
The OSS business model IS different from what you see in the old marketing books. Any economic theory makes assumptions, and when those assumptions fail, the theory fails. When something that is taken for granted (like the ability to sell the product, for example) is suddenly removed, you place a big fat '0' in front of one of the variables that previously had a rather important coefficient. Other variables with previously negligible coefficients start becoming very important, and thus you have a model that does not conform to the traditional ones in your old marketing textbook.
I noticed that in all the screenshots it reads 12:00 a.m. or 0:00:00 anywhere that time is displayed. Window names also appear to be replaced with 5 asterisks. Doesn't really look polished yet.
I also find it funny that they had issues with GIMP. I have no problem running GIMP native on my windows machine.
If I had my guess, I'd say that the author is already familiar with U/WIN. It does say that Cygwin should work in the long run.
It's ok. Nice links, too. I hadn't seen some of those before. I always find cynical journalism to be entertaining. I can't really blame the moderator, though I suppose flamebait might have been more appropriate. Sorry about that.
Exceptions are made for things that are considered "essential" such as food. It is assumed that it would be an undue burden to require someone to be 18 to buy food in some extended manner other than a simple purchase, and therefore minors are held responsible for such contracts. Still, those things are rare, and video games, despite my addiction, do not qualify as "essential" in the eyes of the law.
I know a lot of dual-booters who bought the windows version the week it came out. They didn't want to wait. You really can't blame ID for releasing for their biggest revenue-generating platform first. That's just common sense business at work.
On to Linux, I think part of the problem is that it is having a massive identity crisis. You don't see the OpenBSD community up in arms about the lack of games there. That's because OpenBSD has established its purpose as a server OS. It does one thing very well, and the rest is not important. Sure, flexibility is nice, but do you really WANT the same basic kernel running both your wristwatch and your render farm? It looks to me like the folks at Be had the right idea. Unfortunately, their market space happens to be the same as that of consumer Windows versions, and those users tend to be the ones who don't want to rock the boat.
I suppose that the distros could solve this to a certain extent, but everyone here keeps getting their panties in a knot about the whole "Red Hat isn't an OS" thing and the "GNU/Linux" thing.
One more point for the "Don't buy it because it's not Free" folks: everything has its limits, even Free Software. One of the joys of entertainment is that someone else is doing the work. I'm happy with a binary if it means that the guy on the other end isn't using an aimbot.
LinuxONE lite, at least in theory, does this. I haven't been able to connect to their webserver lately, though, so I couldn't tell you what the status of that is, nor can I download and test it.
As far as juxtaposing ads go, I thought it was hilarious when they had that Brita ad with the waterfall in the middle of the second part!
I don't know about any of you, but I find it hard enough to remember a 7-digit number. True, there is a limit to how many 3-digit prefixes exist in an area, so it may be about as easy as remembering 6-digits. With an extra 3, that puts it on the borderline of rememberability. IPv6 bugs me in this way too. As it currently stands, I can remember more than a few current IPv4 addresses, because consistent prefixes apply here, too. Within my university, everything starts with xxx.xxx, so all I have to do is remember the last two bytes, and most of the important stuff is on xxx.xxx.2 anyway, though that stuff actually has names (except when the name server is having problems, which is generally the only time I need to remember such things anyway). I also have a few friends on cable modems, but they're all in 24.xxx anyway. Also fairly easy to remember. All I have to remember is that they're on @home in the particular place they live, and the last two bytes. It's not much more difficult than a phone number, and certainly not more difficult than a phone number with an area code. But still, IPs are meant to be read by machines anyway, so quadrupling their length isn't the end of the world, and the benefits are great. Adding 3 digits to phone numbers is going to be really taxing, though. I have a hard time imagining phone use increasing by 3 orders of magnitude, or even two. Granted, one digit my not be enough do to inefficiencies in implementation, but I think two ought to do it quite well, and hopefully end the breakaway growth of area codes, too.
Actually, a large number of HP-UX machines have video cards. $1500 video cards. PA-RISC makes for a real sweet workstation. I admit I don't have hard facts, but from what I've seen, the proportion is higher than 5%. You're right, Linux isn't ready for heavy enterprise. Linux is a wonderful desktop OS for those who don't mind tinkering, and it is developing towards the common user well. It is certainly adequate for compute-intensive or heavy serving, but the "tool-for-the-job" phenomenon is leaning towards the professionally developed Unices for these environments.
Sure, they have an interest in protecting the broadcasters, but to decide to close for the next 10 years a content delivery system that has been open for less than ten years is an incredibly short-sighted move. To put it plainly, they have no clue what the net will look like in 3, 5, 8 years. Not even this crowd has perfect foresight. Of course, now that they've pledged that, it will probably go into upcoming contracts, and then they'll be bound by it. I think they'll really regret this move.
hmmm... good point. Still, if you're only developing for one browser with more than a quarter of the market share, you're missing something important.
Get Amaya. Stop worrying about which broken code you're going to support and do it right from the beginning.
Woohoo! Yet another webmonkey who thinks that HTML is programming. Sure, it's worthwhile, but you get nowhere trying to impress the geek crowd by calling it development.
Ok, I figured that with all these comments, I should make a clarification. I was referring to startup time, as the article was.
.jpg .gif and .html on my windows machine set to open in IE, because it runs faster. I have URLs set to open in Netscape, because Netscape doesn't crash. IE is nice and slick for simple straightforward stuff like help files, like the kind of thing Opera is fine for. I don't use Opera to avoid redundancy. When I want to browse real websites, I use Netscape because it's fully featured (unlike Opera) and it's stable (unlike IE).
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I suppose it's possible that Netscape is slower because it cleans up its mess. Whenever I close Netscape, I always have AT LEAST as much free memory as when I started, often more. IE doesn't seem to work that way.
I've heard that IE is nice and sweet on NT, but I have 98, and it's not nice and sweet there. Your mileage may vary.
That was actually part of the joke behind naming the system Iridium in the first place. Because of the meteorite, which contained abnormally high levels of Iridium, as many meteorites do, there is a layer of reddish soil a centimeter or two thick everywhere in the world if you dig down to a level that corresponds to 65 million years ago. The idea of Iridium completely enveloping the earth is a corrolary to a service that completely envelopes the earth.
Metaphors aside, I do think it's bad symbolism to associate either a business venture or a satellite launch with something that fell from a great height and exploded spectacularly.
IE is fast because it's already loaded on boot. That's (part of) the reason why everything is slower in windows.
It's called the invisible hand. It has two failings: Monopolies, and Externalities. The first is the only one relevant here.
Wow, we've identified a system created by humans that doesn't perfectly accomplish its design goals all the time, even when working within the design specifications. This is not a problem unique to capitalism. The Invisible Hand does work, provided that the government takes action to prevent the formation of monopolies and to internalize externalities. In other words, laissez-faire sucks just as much as pure communism. That's why it greatly pleases me to hear many of the world's more powerful countries referred to as modern socialist rather than democratic. Balance between ideals gives to the people the power that would otherwise be concentrated in either the left-wing or the right-wing elites.
Does this mean that we've slashdotted IBM's website? Dear god.
1) Matt Drudge is about as reliable as a Magic 8-ball. He's got power, as you said, but he doesn't have discipline. Sometimes the mainstream journalists sit on a story to see if their information pans out. That's responsibility, not corruption.
2) Al Gore's not the only one doing some pretty shady stuff in this election.
Slashdot would post stories like "Ping returned in West-Coast dial-up pool, human involvement suspected." and then everyone on Slashdot would try to ping that IP, and the router would go down, and the story would be updated with "False Alarm, probably just an automated hourly windows update."
Lather, rinse, repeat...
As the story presentation states, the net is still very vulnerable if a few highly-connected nodes are selectively taken out of commission. Keep in mind that random attacks mostly get leaf nodes, which have no effect at all on network connectivity, and the rest usually have enough redundancy that there is at least one good path from point a to point b. It may be congested, but then again, if 99% of the net is down, there's a good chance that most people are hiding in their bomb shelters, so you should have it mostly to yourself, just as the original DoD/DARPA designs assumed.