No, they're not the same engine (if I understand correctly, Safari maintains a separate tree that it syncs sometimes with Konqueror). Even if they were, one is still a closed-source product by virtue of having critical closed-source components. What's so hard to understand about that?
most of the innovation I see in web design recently comes out of Sweden Innovation in web design is like innovation in dashboard decorations. Pretty, but utterly inconsequential. It's the functionality that matters.
fuck the sound engineers, recording studios and EVERYONE ELSE who actually works in the recording of music Yeah! Fuck them!
Except... wait... let me think... yeah, every single person outside the band who puts their creative and technical expertise into recording and packaging music gets paid up front with no royalties, while every single person outside the band who does get paid on a royalty basis does not deserve it and is leeching off their success.
Wake up. The record industry has grown fat leeching money off the old distribution model, now the old model is gone, but they still assume they can rake in all that money. Well, I - and most of the rest of the market - have only one answer - I want all these people gone and bankrupt before I buy music from the artists they contract with again. Until then, I'll be buying music from independent artists, and pirating and going to gigs for others. All the sound engineers etc. can still get paid - directly by the band.
The situation is different with movies, since producing a movie requires one or two orders of magnitude more people than producing music, but for music records you don't have a leg to stand on.
No such secret will last. Not to support nVidia's closed source policy, but modern technology is founded upon secrets that don't last. Companies develop industrial procedures, capitalize on them for a decade or less (much less in the case of the computer industry), then move on, while the secrets that generated millions of $ in revenue either disappear or become public knowledge mulled over and taught by university professors.
nVidia's stance may or may not be reasonable, but consider the fact that their main competitor - ATI - has been lagging significantly behind in all areas of R&D for the past two years. I don't know much about video driver and GPU architecture, but it's possible that with open drivers ATI would gain significant insight and wouldn't be so badly behind (which would be good for consumers, bad for nVidia).
The one that's really stumped me over the years is how ATI lost their spot on-top in the Steam survey. Do you think it might possibly be due to the fact that ATI has sucked and lagged badly behind nVidia in the past 2 years? They may be able to cobble together a massively overclocked monster with a higher power draw than a whole low-spec desktop, but like you say, they produce poor midrange products and have had a severe shortage of viable alternatives to cards in the 6000, 7000, and 8000 series. At some price points, I can now buy an nVidia card that draws half the power and works twice as fast as an ATI card at the same price point.
Five years ago I'd never think I would be bashing ATI or AMD for dropping the ball, but here I am...
It'd be a little bit like asking the CEO of an oil company to determine environmental policy. Wait. I'm confused. Isn't that what we have now? If it works for energy policy, it would work just as well for IT, right?
Seriously, how is this a surprise? McCain, Clinton, Guliani, any number of other bodies up on those debate stages - none of them have their own views, none of them are competent to lead a country, all obey special interests without understanding the repercussions, all are thoroughly opportunist, and all have little if any understanding of the real intricacies and problems to be addressed in foreign and domestic policy of the US. Obama might be the only one who shows any amount of promise, but I'm not sure at all.
And if any of them gets elected, it will just be replacing one criminally negligent and malicious president with another.
Hey, I'm not saying it's a perfect distro, I'm saying that your problems stemmed from either systemic limitations (any distro that uses kernel = 2.6.18 needs those modules) or unfamiliarity with Gentoo's basic limitations (like the fact that an outdated portage tree can break things, in your case because package distributors whose licenses prohibit mirroring can delete their source tarballs as they see fit, and Gentoo can do nothing about the fact that old versions of their ebuilds point to those tarballs).
There's a ton of real problems with Gentoo, mostly having to do with Portage's limitations and QA/manpower problems in the tree, but you haven't really stumbled upon any of them.
And the craziest trick of all.... 9. backup your/etc and unpack the latest stage3 tarball on top of your installation That will screw your system up but good.
I give you that Cardoe screwed up the 2006.1 directory, but one of the next links on the wiki says: "Note: If you are using InstalCD 2006.1 you can download an x86 module here." Obviously I can't test it but I'm guessing it is what it says it is.
The stage3 install consists of unpacking a tarball, and is usable immediately thereafter. If you had trouble unpacking that tarball, then yeah, Gentoo isn't for you. If you were trying to do stage1 and stage2, those methods are deprecated, unsupported, and useless (because you can recompile the entire stage3 for the same effect).
Gentoo releases are released with whatever latest kernel is "stable" on Gentoo at the moment. When 2006.1 was released, 2.6.18 was the stable one.
Finally, the first thing you do after installing stage3 - as the manual clearly states - is `emerge --sync`. That would have prevented the rest of your problems.
I know, I'll be flamed for being a noob and whatever, 'cause I couldn't resolve such a simple issue, and I'm pretty sure the workaround is quite easy if you're a Gentoo-wiz, but those things tend to turn people away from a distribution. With pleasure. If you can't deal with problems as simple as these, then you probably don't understand the advantages and disadvantages Gentoo gives you, and are better off putting Fedora or Ubuntu on your server. A "Linux vet" would not even notice any of your problems, since the remedies are so basic they'd apply them without thinking.
why would a distro like Gentoo, which has already found its niche, violate that niche by dumping development time into a "newbie" installer? Because lots of Gentoo users are beginners who want to learn. Whether you think Gentoo is appropriate for them or not, they will find a good installer useful and will get to the actual using the system part without getting stuck on silly installation mistakes and giving up. Since the installer is optional, there's no harm done.
Gentoo is about bringing both power and ease of use to the user. The installer is about the latter.
3 boxes here updated on a rolling basis over the past 4 years with no problems.
There are blocked updates sometimes which require you to unmerge other packages first. This could be handled more gracefully, and some aspects of it are being improved in Paludis, the next generation package manager. But it's very hard to bring Portage into a state where it can't update the system to all latest stable packages, if you know what you're doing (and if you're not... cue the usual excuse, Gentoo is not n00b-friendly).
Examples that aren't don't involve bad driving in the first place ? You're on an uphill on-ramp to an elevated freeway which is under construction, which means there are no shoulders whatsoever. There is fast traffic on the freeway and behind you, and you have to speed up from 0 to 50 mph before you can merge safely. Your engine gives out in the middle of the ramp. By the time you reach the freeway, your speed has dropped to a crawl. The ramp is curved, so drivers starting the ascent can't see you. Wherever you go, you're creating a huge hazard.
I'm not sure what to tell you - have you ever tried to steer or brake a heavy vehicle without hydraulics at speed? It's a very dangerous situation. You simply can't steer or brake properly, and that becomes deadly if you need to stop in anything other than a straight line with no obstacles.
Modern cars are not designed with 100-year-warranties in mind - they are designed to be cheap and disposable. I can guarantee you that maintaining that modern car over a 100 year period in the same conditions and with the same usage as that Model T will require fewer resources.
There are only two "critical systems" in a car. The steering and the brakes. Wrong. Engine power is critical in a car. Besides being critical for situations where you need to get out of the way fast, your engine powers the hydraulics for both the brakes and the steering, making them vastly more effective.
Again, the modern engine management may allow for increased mileage, but that doesn't mean that the emissions per unit of fuel burned are that much cleaner. Indeed, I'd say a new car is going to be an overall bad things in terms of use of resources Actually, I'm pretty sure modern cars require a lot less energy to build than cars used to in the past, even with all the new functionality and improvements. This is because leading car makers have optimized the hell out of their industrial processes. As for emissions per unit of fuel burned, I don't have the facts (though modern emissions systems are probably a lot more effective than old ones at neutralizing and storing the nasty parts of the exhaust) but I'd bet modern engines still have drastically lower emissions per mile, per hp per mile, and per kg per mile, and those are the ultimate measures in that respect.
The problem is that electronics in the engine increases the complexity to the point where a failure is almost guaranteed. Are you fucking kidding me? Did you just fall down from the moon?
Have you ever heard of electronic fuel injection, ECUs, ABS, traction control, or airbags? What do you think is responsible for every aspect of every new car's engine performance? Have you heard of a significant fraction of their engines failing? Are you sure you're using the word "guaranteed" correctly?
If your car's electronics keeps crapping out, maybe it's time to sell it and buy one from a manufacturer who knows what they're doing.
I'm not sure if this is a joke or not, but there are not enough electronics in modern cars.
There are not enough cars with traction control, integrated GPS, intelligent lights and wipers, etc. etc. Hell, there are not enough cars with radars, proximity alerts, HUDs, multifunction displays, automatic distress beacons, backup batteries, reconfigurable ECUs, or Internet connections.
That's because you're using a hal-based automounting system, which has replaced old-fashioned mounting on modern Linux systems. If you mount it manually, the kernel will lock the drive.
The default Linux behavior of locking the CD tray and refusing to eject when I press a button. On some devices, the lock stays in place even after a soft reboot, forcing a power cycle.
I don't give a damn if the FS driver will throw a hissy fit or the system will panic. It's read-only media, you'll eject it when I press the button or I'll eject it for you with a paperclip and get the sudden urge to crash some developers' skulls.
I honestly can't name a single design decision in a modern Linux system that is worse than that misfeature.
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No, they're not the same engine (if I understand correctly, Safari maintains a separate tree that it syncs sometimes with Konqueror). Even if they were, one is still a closed-source product by virtue of having critical closed-source components. What's so hard to understand about that?
Closed source.
I use Firefox and Konqueror, not least because they're open.
Except... wait... let me think... yeah, every single person outside the band who puts their creative and technical expertise into recording and packaging music gets paid up front with no royalties, while every single person outside the band who does get paid on a royalty basis does not deserve it and is leeching off their success.
Wake up. The record industry has grown fat leeching money off the old distribution model, now the old model is gone, but they still assume they can rake in all that money. Well, I - and most of the rest of the market - have only one answer - I want all these people gone and bankrupt before I buy music from the artists they contract with again. Until then, I'll be buying music from independent artists, and pirating and going to gigs for others. All the sound engineers etc. can still get paid - directly by the band.
The situation is different with movies, since producing a movie requires one or two orders of magnitude more people than producing music, but for music records you don't have a leg to stand on.
Kopete?
nVidia's stance may or may not be reasonable, but consider the fact that their main competitor - ATI - has been lagging significantly behind in all areas of R&D for the past two years. I don't know much about video driver and GPU architecture, but it's possible that with open drivers ATI would gain significant insight and wouldn't be so badly behind (which would be good for consumers, bad for nVidia).
Five years ago I'd never think I would be bashing ATI or AMD for dropping the ball, but here I am...
Also makes a bunch of websites not work and you with no way to figure out whether or how they were supposed to work in the first place.
I tried both of the Firefox exploit demos on Linux too and they both failed. No noscript, either, all javascript is allowed to run.
Seriously, how is this a surprise? McCain, Clinton, Guliani, any number of other bodies up on those debate stages - none of them have their own views, none of them are competent to lead a country, all obey special interests without understanding the repercussions, all are thoroughly opportunist, and all have little if any understanding of the real intricacies and problems to be addressed in foreign and domestic policy of the US. Obama might be the only one who shows any amount of promise, but I'm not sure at all.
And if any of them gets elected, it will just be replacing one criminally negligent and malicious president with another.
Hey, I'm not saying it's a perfect distro, I'm saying that your problems stemmed from either systemic limitations (any distro that uses kernel = 2.6.18 needs those modules) or unfamiliarity with Gentoo's basic limitations (like the fact that an outdated portage tree can break things, in your case because package distributors whose licenses prohibit mirroring can delete their source tarballs as they see fit, and Gentoo can do nothing about the fact that old versions of their ebuilds point to those tarballs).
There's a ton of real problems with Gentoo, mostly having to do with Portage's limitations and QA/manpower problems in the tree, but you haven't really stumbled upon any of them.
9. backup your
I give you that Cardoe screwed up the 2006.1 directory, but one of the next links on the wiki says: "Note: If you are using InstalCD 2006.1 you can download an x86 module here." Obviously I can't test it but I'm guessing it is what it says it is.
The stage3 install consists of unpacking a tarball, and is usable immediately thereafter. If you had trouble unpacking that tarball, then yeah, Gentoo isn't for you. If you were trying to do stage1 and stage2, those methods are deprecated, unsupported, and useless (because you can recompile the entire stage3 for the same effect).
Gentoo releases are released with whatever latest kernel is "stable" on Gentoo at the moment. When 2006.1 was released, 2.6.18 was the stable one.
Finally, the first thing you do after installing stage3 - as the manual clearly states - is `emerge --sync`. That would have prevented the rest of your problems. I know, I'll be flamed for being a noob and whatever, 'cause I couldn't resolve such a simple issue, and I'm pretty sure the workaround is quite easy if you're a Gentoo-wiz, but those things tend to turn people away from a distribution. With pleasure. If you can't deal with problems as simple as these, then you probably don't understand the advantages and disadvantages Gentoo gives you, and are better off putting Fedora or Ubuntu on your server. A "Linux vet" would not even notice any of your problems, since the remedies are so basic they'd apply them without thinking.
Gentoo is about bringing both power and ease of use to the user. The installer is about the latter.
3 boxes here updated on a rolling basis over the past 4 years with no problems.
There are blocked updates sometimes which require you to unmerge other packages first. This could be handled more gracefully, and some aspects of it are being improved in Paludis, the next generation package manager. But it's very hard to bring Portage into a state where it can't update the system to all latest stable packages, if you know what you're doing (and if you're not... cue the usual excuse, Gentoo is not n00b-friendly).
I'm not sure what to tell you - have you ever tried to steer or brake a heavy vehicle without hydraulics at speed? It's a very dangerous situation. You simply can't steer or brake properly, and that becomes deadly if you need to stop in anything other than a straight line with no obstacles.
Have you ever heard of electronic fuel injection, ECUs, ABS, traction control, or airbags? What do you think is responsible for every aspect of every new car's engine performance? Have you heard of a significant fraction of their engines failing? Are you sure you're using the word "guaranteed" correctly?
If your car's electronics keeps crapping out, maybe it's time to sell it and buy one from a manufacturer who knows what they're doing.
I'm not sure if this is a joke or not, but there are not enough electronics in modern cars.
There are not enough cars with traction control, integrated GPS, intelligent lights and wipers, etc. etc. Hell, there are not enough cars with radars, proximity alerts, HUDs, multifunction displays, automatic distress beacons, backup batteries, reconfigurable ECUs, or Internet connections.
That's because you're using a hal-based automounting system, which has replaced old-fashioned mounting on modern Linux systems. If you mount it manually, the kernel will lock the drive.
The default Linux behavior of locking the CD tray and refusing to eject when I press a button. On some devices, the lock stays in place even after a soft reboot, forcing a power cycle.
I don't give a damn if the FS driver will throw a hissy fit or the system will panic. It's read-only media, you'll eject it when I press the button or I'll eject it for you with a paperclip and get the sudden urge to crash some developers' skulls.
I honestly can't name a single design decision in a modern Linux system that is worse than that misfeature.