Don't you see... it's not about me. I can patch and twiddle and get just what I want, but the millions of lusers stuck at 2.4 have NO HOPE of decent media performance until these issues are addressed. This has nothing to do with technology, and everything to do with politics.
"kicking and screaming to the brink of kitsch" and the image of duck manufacture, in the words of Yeats, "from a mouthful of air".... Such acts of surreality *must* not go unrewarded.
I got no corporation but I've got plenty of company, in the form of millions of users who are dying for LOW LATENCY and PREEMPT patches to get into 2.4.
This whole exchange is a snipe hunt. The point is that the secret sauce in the Big Mac doesn't mean shit to me, but the tradesecret interfaces in a 5700 GPU screw me hard. I'll eat the Big Mac (if I don't care about arteriolsclerosis) but there's no way in hell I'll buy the NVidia card.
> There are, however, certain justifications > for claiming that asian and african > countries in general tend to have attitudes > that lead to the easier spread of disease.
Yeah, like being really stupid. That's why we forgot that we invented money, paper, explosives, china, the compass, domesticated animals and agriculture.
controversy for the sake of controversy. there will be gnome on userlinux, if ever there is a userlinux, and there will also be kde on userlinux, likewise. i'd like to see mr perens try to prevent a fork of a distro that intentionally excluded half of the highest productivity end=user programs available for the platform. heh.
Actually, as technology improves, the cost to an individual of deploying a weapon of mass destruction decreases. Eventually, anyone who feels like splurging with their milk money will be able to destroy the physical structure of the universe. The solution is not to deprive children of milk, but to put them all in separate universes.
As it is, they wipe their butts with three smooth stones, and force their women to cover themselves from head to toe and don't allow them to drive, all while living in a barren wasteland of sand and rock.
> That book explicitly debunks the idea that > any one ethnic group is more murderous or > fiendish than another. Instead, it claims > that the richness of the land they live on > determines who will invade others.
Umm... in other words, it determines who is more murderous and fiendish.
If Maya came in an amd64 native linux binary, it would kick some serious booty, but assuming that you need your pipeline filling up NOW rather than later, go for 4-way Athlon MPs with all the ECC DDR you can cram into them. More than 4-way, and you're paying premium prices for the chipsets. Less than 4-way, and you're wasting cycles that could be amortized over wait states. ECC is de rigeur just because you don't want to be chasing down defective dimms all the live long day. Similarly, I can't see any reason for paying the 10% performance tax of Windows 2000 Pro (the best of the Windows lot for SMP use) or suffering its 2-way limitations, unless theres some Lightwave feature that is critical to your operation.
Closed source drivers are the kiss of death for security-conscious installation environments. If I wanted to buy a pig in a poke, I'd get Windows 2003 Server.
Troll? What troll? I admit that, despite my 15 years of professional experience in the software and IT industries, there are large segments of these industries to which I have no practical, in-depth exposure, but in those areas of my personal experience, which are many, there just is no use for the Windows operating system in any of its various incarnations. That's not a troll, it's a fact. Consequently, it is perfectly reasonable for me to ask of those more knowledgable than myself... just what the heck is it used for? Didn't Windows go the way of OS/2? I know they still sell it on retail boxes for home use, but do they sell it for anything else?
A buffer overflow is a bug. While all exploitable defects allowing unauthorized priviledge escalation are bugs, not all bugs are defects which can be exploited to effect unauthorized priviledge escalation.
The other advantage of running XP in a VM is that you will never need to use their freaking activation system again. You can clone the VM to your hearts content.
My grandmother's Linux box boots into an XP VM, for example, straight out of init. (She needs it until Gnomemeeting can handle her USB Camera.)
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I see. Millions of whining fools who should
be capped so they don't breathe your air.
You've got the compassion level of a garden
slug.
Don't you see... it's not about me.
I can patch and twiddle and get just what
I want, but the millions of lusers stuck
at 2.4 have NO HOPE of decent media
performance until these issues are addressed.
This has nothing to do with technology,
and everything to do with politics.
"kicking and screaming to the brink of kitsch"
and the image of duck manufacture, in the
words of Yeats, "from a mouthful of air"....
Such acts of surreality *must* not go unrewarded.
I got no corporation but I've got plenty
of company, in the form of millions of users
who are dying for LOW LATENCY and PREEMPT
patches to get into 2.4.
my complaint is echoed by MILLIONS.
Hehehe, racists are funny, and respondents
are flamebaiters. ROTFLMAOASMOOMN.
This whole exchange is a snipe hunt.
The point is that the secret sauce in the
Big Mac doesn't mean shit to me, but
the tradesecret interfaces in a 5700 GPU
screw me hard. I'll eat the Big Mac
(if I don't care about arteriolsclerosis)
but there's no way in hell I'll buy the
NVidia card.
Ummm, yeah, good as hockey pucks. They're
missing two of the buttons for crying out loud!
> There are, however, certain justifications
> for claiming that asian and african
> countries in general tend to have attitudes
> that lead to the easier spread of disease.
Yeah, like being really stupid. That's why we
forgot that we invented money, paper,
explosives, china, the compass, domesticated
animals and agriculture.
controversy for the sake of controversy.
there will be gnome on userlinux, if ever
there is a userlinux, and there will also
be kde on userlinux, likewise. i'd like to
see mr perens try to prevent a fork of a
distro that intentionally excluded half of
the highest productivity end=user programs
available for the platform. heh.
Actually, as technology improves, the cost to an individual of deploying a weapon of mass
destruction decreases. Eventually, anyone who
feels like splurging with their milk money
will be able to destroy the physical structure
of the universe. The solution is not to
deprive children of milk, but to put them all
in separate universes.
> or would you say that Bush is more fiendish than Saddam
Yes. (I get the feeling this is a trick
question.)
As it is, they wipe their butts with three
smooth stones, and force their women to cover
themselves from head to toe and don't allow
them to drive, all while living in a barren
wasteland of sand and rock.
Lucky bastards.
> That book explicitly debunks the idea that
> any one ethnic group is more murderous or
> fiendish than another. Instead, it claims
> that the richness of the land they live on
> determines who will invade others.
Umm... in other words, it determines who
is more murderous and fiendish.
If Charter Communications is going to pump the
Playboy channel into my house without my
permission, I'm going to sue their assets off.
I think the poster mistook the 666 tattoo
as an indicator that there was a tail stuffed
in monkeyboy's pants.
Yeah, interns are really productive, especially when they don't use birth control.
Well, that would depend on which end....
If Maya came in an amd64 native linux binary,
it would kick some serious booty, but assuming
that you need your pipeline filling up NOW
rather than later, go for 4-way Athlon MPs
with all the ECC DDR you can cram into them.
More than 4-way, and you're paying premium
prices for the chipsets. Less than 4-way,
and you're wasting cycles that could be
amortized over wait states. ECC is de rigeur
just because you don't want to be chasing
down defective dimms all the live long day.
Similarly, I can't see any reason for paying
the 10% performance tax of Windows 2000 Pro
(the best of the Windows lot for SMP use)
or suffering its 2-way limitations, unless
theres some Lightwave feature that is
critical to your operation.
Closed source drivers are the kiss of death
for security-conscious installation
environments. If I wanted to buy a pig in a
poke, I'd get Windows 2003 Server.
I think he means that FreeBSD-STABLE is more ;)
robust than Debian-Sid.
> I do agree with you that coding elegantly is a must in the Unix world
Explain sendmail.
Troll? What troll? I admit that, despite
my 15 years of professional experience in
the software and IT industries, there are
large segments of these industries to which
I have no practical, in-depth exposure, but
in those areas of my personal experience,
which are many, there just is no use for
the Windows operating system in any of its
various incarnations. That's not a troll,
it's a fact. Consequently, it is perfectly
reasonable for me to ask of those more
knowledgable than myself... just what the
heck is it used for? Didn't Windows go the
way of OS/2? I know they still sell it on
retail boxes for home use, but do they
sell it for anything else?
A buffer overflow is a bug. While all
exploitable defects allowing unauthorized
priviledge escalation are bugs, not all bugs
are defects which can be exploited to effect
unauthorized priviledge escalation.
The other advantage of running XP in a VM is
that you will never need to use their freaking
activation system again. You can clone the
VM to your hearts content.
My grandmother's Linux box boots into an XP
VM, for example, straight out of init.
(She needs it until Gnomemeeting can handle
her USB Camera.)