Linux is EXTREMELY stable by desktop OS standards; I've found it beats out any flavor of Windows, and even edges past OS X. However, some production environments need near-perfect uptime, which I think you're not going to get with a linux farm. The difference between 99.9% uptime and 99.1% uptime could be millions of dollars.
What is all this "stability" crap? I admin over 100 linux systems in a cluster and they hardly EVER go down on their own. The only thing that crashes our systems are the EDA tools that run the systems out of memory and swap. Other than rogue large footprint apps that would crash any system, ours stay up for at least 6 months at a time without a reboot (most stay up continuously, record uptime in our cluster is 457 days so far).
"hardly EVER" isn't good enough for some environments.
In my little world Linux is more robust/stable than any other OS except for Solaris.
Alright, perfect example of what I'm saying. Solaris is more stable. Why not go with Solaris then?
And does your little world include AIX or HP-UX or z/OS or FreeBSD or any of a number of other commercial operating systems?
Those stability claims are typically in relation to Windows. Everyone knows Linux easily trumps Windows in terms of stability, but when you compare it to mainframe OSes (or even several other flavor of UNIX), it's not as good. Do you honestly think Linux is more stable than a 30 year old mainframe operating system where the maker of both the hardware and software is the same, and every single aspect of that system is rigidly controlled?
hmm (in a story about the NYSE moving to Linux inject a little stability FUD)
Oh good grief. Yes, you caught me, my whole nefarious plan was to start a vicious, untrue rumor that Linux isn't the most stable operating system in the world, in order to somehow prevent the NYSE from going through with this plan. Foiled again.
You know, I kind of miss the good old days when people on slashdot actually knew what the hell they were talking about, and generally had exposure to real computing environments.
I thought about that when I was "picking my profession", and I did talk to some lawyers and others I knew. At first it seemed a natural fit for me, but as I dug in deeper, I discovered that it wasn't as black and white as I'd hoped.
Also keep in mind that probably a majority of lawyers don't like their job and regret going to law school. The law itself can be interesting, but the practice of law is structured so as to suck a lot of the enjoyment out of it.
Interesting comments from Bungie, considering one of their early projects was porting the side-scrolling platform game Abuse [wikipedia.org] to the Mac...
Lord knows why. I found Abuse to be the most mindnumbingly boring game I've ever played. And I had an Atari 2600.
Wow, he really comes off as downright peevish, no?
Not really. If you read the response in the context of the entire interview it's not really that big a deal. Furthermore it's not like he came out with it on his own, he was specifically asked for his response to Miyamoto's words.
The difference is that itunes music is very close in terms of quality to CD music. There's a much bigger difference between 480p video and 720p or 1080p video; once blu-ray and/or HD-DVD becomes ubiquitous, I don't think many people are going to stick with itunes. Obviously they can increase the quality but I don't think a large percentage of potential customers have the bandwidth to make it worth it to download videos like that.
If you think the current crop is bad, wait until you get the kids that came from the current crop being the next one. The current thinking is that self esteem is more important than realistic self evaluation of one's capabilities.
People have been complaining about this for 30 years. The funny thing is the people who complain about it now are in many cases the same people who went through it themselves, yet have no problem proclaiming themselves realistic about their abilities and competitive. If you came out fine, why do you think the current generation won't?
But my point was that you shouldn't be seeing the same distribution in Miami that you do in colder places if it was purely about staying indoors. Even taking, for the sake of argument, that the widespread colds elsewhere infect Miamians, why isn't there a spike in colds in Miami during the summer as opposed to fall and spring?
I have always heard the same thing, FWIW. That "catching cold" wasn't actually caused by being physiologically cold, but occurred more often in the winter because people tend to be inside, packed together, with the houses/buildings all sealed up, basically creating little petri dishes for bacteria to thrive in.
I've heard that too, but I always found it unconvincing. I think the bioscientists are missing something. I mean, I live in Miami and we follow the same pattern, despite the weather (and we're more likely to be outside in the winter than the summer!).
As long as there's still a demand for Wii titles, developers will develop for it. They may complain along the way, but that's just because they like complaining. They'll find ways to do marvelous things within the limits of the hardware, just as they've been doing with every console for the past 30 years.
I think the difference is they're a) complaining much earlier in the console's life, and b) complaining about the lack of power instead of the usual "oh it's too difficult to program for".
Obviously they'll figure out amazing things to do with what they have, but that doesn't change the fact the the Wii is unique among consoles in that it doesn't represent that big a difference from the last generation.
PS3 is a fish out of water, 360 is a bit better but both are finding the Wii kicking their asses and can't do anything about it.
I've never been a Sony fanboy, but I suspect the PS3 will end up doing a lot better than people suspect. I'm even tempted to get one myself (70% for the blu-ray, 20% for the linux aspect, 10% for the games), and I think that once the price cuts kick in it will start selling significantly better.
Either it's a fad or an actual generational jump. If it's a fad then people really will get bored with it and move back to standard controllers. If it's a generational jump then the other manufacturers will release their own versions of it, and Nintendo will lose their big advantage, especially due to the Wii's lack of power.
Graphical power isn't the only measure of a game system, but you know, it is still important. The fact that developers are already complaining about the limits of the system means that in another year or two, when the novelty of the motion detector has worn off a bit, the wii's popularity will start to slide.
I'll probably go and watch them. In the cinema I will be screaming out implorations
And people won't understand while you're screaming, because the movie won't be playing at the time you're there, since the article says they're going straight to TV.
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Vermont doesn't get to play with the new toys like the rest of the kids.
Just enjoy the fresh air, the cheese, and the maple syrup. I'd take those things over an iphone.
Linux is EXTREMELY stable by desktop OS standards; I've found it beats out any flavor of Windows, and even edges past OS X. However, some production environments need near-perfect uptime, which I think you're not going to get with a linux farm. The difference between 99.9% uptime and 99.1% uptime could be millions of dollars.
What is all this "stability" crap? I admin over 100 linux systems in a cluster and they hardly EVER go down on their own. The only thing that crashes our systems are the EDA tools that run the systems out of memory and swap. Other than rogue large footprint apps that would crash any system, ours stay up for at least 6 months at a time without a reboot (most stay up continuously, record uptime in our cluster is 457 days so far).
"hardly EVER" isn't good enough for some environments.
In my little world Linux is more robust/stable than any other OS except for Solaris.
Alright, perfect example of what I'm saying. Solaris is more stable. Why not go with Solaris then?
And does your little world include AIX or HP-UX or z/OS or FreeBSD or any of a number of other commercial operating systems?
Those stability claims are typically in relation to Windows. Everyone knows Linux easily trumps Windows in terms of stability, but when you compare it to mainframe OSes (or even several other flavor of UNIX), it's not as good. Do you honestly think Linux is more stable than a 30 year old mainframe operating system where the maker of both the hardware and software is the same, and every single aspect of that system is rigidly controlled?
hmm (in a story about the NYSE moving to Linux inject a little stability FUD)
Oh good grief. Yes, you caught me, my whole nefarious plan was to start a vicious, untrue rumor that Linux isn't the most stable operating system in the world, in order to somehow prevent the NYSE from going through with this plan. Foiled again.
You know, I kind of miss the good old days when people on slashdot actually knew what the hell they were talking about, and generally had exposure to real computing environments.
ctrl-f tells me they didnt mention microsoft or windows. if it wasnt on *nix before, what was it on?
Presumably a mainframe operating system. z/OS probably.
What about stability issues? I'd think that these machines would have to be a little bit more robust than linux is capable of being at the moment.
I thought about that when I was "picking my profession", and I did talk to some lawyers and others I knew. At first it seemed a natural fit for me, but as I dug in deeper, I discovered that it wasn't as black and white as I'd hoped.
Also keep in mind that probably a majority of lawyers don't like their job and regret going to law school. The law itself can be interesting, but the practice of law is structured so as to suck a lot of the enjoyment out of it.
Interesting comments from Bungie, considering one of their early projects was porting the side-scrolling platform game Abuse [wikipedia.org] to the Mac...
Lord knows why. I found Abuse to be the most mindnumbingly boring game I've ever played. And I had an Atari 2600.
Wow, he really comes off as downright peevish, no?
Not really. If you read the response in the context of the entire interview it's not really that big a deal. Furthermore it's not like he came out with it on his own, he was specifically asked for his response to Miyamoto's words.
Im sure that with all the rabid halo/anti-nintendo kids on the net,
Uhhh...huh? The pro-Nintendo crowd vastly outnumbers the anti-nintendo crowd on the net right now.
The difference is that itunes music is very close in terms of quality to CD music. There's a much bigger difference between 480p video and 720p or 1080p video; once blu-ray and/or HD-DVD becomes ubiquitous, I don't think many people are going to stick with itunes. Obviously they can increase the quality but I don't think a large percentage of potential customers have the bandwidth to make it worth it to download videos like that.
If you think the current crop is bad, wait until you get the kids that came from the current crop being the next one. The current thinking is that self esteem is more important than realistic self evaluation of one's capabilities.
People have been complaining about this for 30 years. The funny thing is the people who complain about it now are in many cases the same people who went through it themselves, yet have no problem proclaiming themselves realistic about their abilities and competitive. If you came out fine, why do you think the current generation won't?
But my point was that you shouldn't be seeing the same distribution in Miami that you do in colder places if it was purely about staying indoors. Even taking, for the sake of argument, that the widespread colds elsewhere infect Miamians, why isn't there a spike in colds in Miami during the summer as opposed to fall and spring?
Unless they can defeat it in the courtroom, which is entirely possible.
I have always heard the same thing, FWIW. That "catching cold" wasn't actually caused by being physiologically cold, but occurred more often in the winter because people tend to be inside, packed together, with the houses/buildings all sealed up, basically creating little petri dishes for bacteria to thrive in.
I've heard that too, but I always found it unconvincing. I think the bioscientists are missing something. I mean, I live in Miami and we follow the same pattern, despite the weather (and we're more likely to be outside in the winter than the summer!).
As long as there's still a demand for Wii titles, developers will develop for it. They may complain along the way, but that's just because they like complaining. They'll find ways to do marvelous things within the limits of the hardware, just as they've been doing with every console for the past 30 years.
I think the difference is they're a) complaining much earlier in the console's life, and b) complaining about the lack of power instead of the usual "oh it's too difficult to program for".
Obviously they'll figure out amazing things to do with what they have, but that doesn't change the fact the the Wii is unique among consoles in that it doesn't represent that big a difference from the last generation.
PS3 is a fish out of water, 360 is a bit better but both are finding the Wii kicking their asses and can't do anything about it.
I've never been a Sony fanboy, but I suspect the PS3 will end up doing a lot better than people suspect. I'm even tempted to get one myself (70% for the blu-ray, 20% for the linux aspect, 10% for the games), and I think that once the price cuts kick in it will start selling significantly better.
Either it's a fad or an actual generational jump. If it's a fad then people really will get bored with it and move back to standard controllers. If it's a generational jump then the other manufacturers will release their own versions of it, and Nintendo will lose their big advantage, especially due to the Wii's lack of power.
But the problem is, WINE doesn't always work like it supposed to. Sometimes it requires tweaking.
I think you're wrong. About the "sometimes". Take it out and the sentence is good.
Graphical power isn't the only measure of a game system, but you know, it is still important. The fact that developers are already complaining about the limits of the system means that in another year or two, when the novelty of the motion detector has worn off a bit, the wii's popularity will start to slide.
I'll probably go and watch them. In the cinema I will be screaming out implorations
And people won't understand while you're screaming, because the movie won't be playing at the time you're there, since the article says they're going straight to TV.
Hahaha, best mod down ever!
I have a '00 TransAm WS/6
Do you have a mullet too?
Well wouldn't smart hybrid cars be even MORE efficient?
FLOYD!!!