ok. please, tell me why big businesses who use patent laws, law suits, and agressive anti-competetive tactics in the free market economy are not similar in their totalitarian ways than the chinese gov't, who also use tactics to squish critisism.
well, you have yet to convince me of your argument... actually, an "argument" would be over valuing what you have to say. Rather, I would call your words an "annoyance", simply because they have no value whatsoever.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with being cynical - because cynical is more often closer to the truth than denial - which is what you seem to be in.
US big business and the chinese gov't have a LOT in common. They all aim to take power and liberty from the people - whether china chooses human rights abuses, or big business chooses patents and law suits - they are all tools to keep the little people small, and themselves big.
You've made the fatal assumption of thinking that elements of totalitarianism don't exist in a democratic society. Your wrong - especially with a free market economy where money buys media.
Quite amusing. I did a search for patent and nobody is even talking about this. did you know that google has a patent on their search technology? So, if you do something similar then you are in breach of patent laws. um. this is Bad.
yes, this does happen to some degree. But by whinging you will still get taken down, and I hardly think that YOUR critique on "linux zeolots" is hardly constructive, in which case your post deserves to get moderated down.
I'd rather see moderation groups, so that given a group of preferences, I can see the list moderated by people like me. That way you don't get this massive wave of people moderating posts down which they "simply don't like".
a) kernel compiled for maximum optimization for games b) services that make any impact on performance (even if ever so slight) removed c) networking part of kernel tweaked for the typical size/types of game packets
haha. There is no such thing. There/used/ to be - but in the last 12 months slashdot has turned into nothing more than a forum for celery overclocking linux kiddies who roll new kernels as if it was 0-day warez.
Yes I agree. This is a stupid question, and it's even more stupid that/. posted it.
I might add, why are they even asking about Intel or AMD? If you want to do high level computational maths then I would NOT recommend either of these.
Maybe A G4 (with altivec) could be considered, or perhaps Sparc or MIPS or Alpha.
Oh but that's right. Nobody on slashdot would have heard of these processors, because we are all x86 user's right. And we overclock our celeries to 600MHz!!! And we run Redhat Linux cos it's da best and we can compile open-source from rootshell.com
Get a life.
Does what used to be a *decent* forum for geek's have to be turned into a place of cluelessness and trolls by a bunch of teenage kiddies?
Let artists sign up to Napster (or Gnutella, etc..) and register their songs.
Upon downloading a song that is registered by an artist, you have the option of donating some money to that artist for your download. You can choose to pay nothing if you wish, for those who just want to check out the song, or see if they like the artist.
As a user if Napster (Gnutella, etc...) you can also donate money to the service, which will divide the money between the various artists that you have downloaded.
As an incentive to donate, those who do donate money can be put into a competition each week, which draws prizes such as signed t-shirts and cd's by various artists who contribute to the prize pool. Large corporations could donate money to put advertising upon logins. (I know alot of people will dislike this idea, but I can't figure out a better way of attracting the corporate dolloar). Those who don't pay a cent will be issued with guilt tripping notices, (perhaps more advertising, reminded of the other alternative to this service - that being of having to purchase CD's).
If people were aware of how the service worked, I'm sure many people would donate money to the service. I would. What about you?
I knew nothing about the accident, or Jason or Cassie until I read the story and Cassie's posts just this evening.
Cassie, your posts really touched my heart. Jason is very lucky to have such a supporting, loving, and caring wife as yourself. I'm sure that your brave efforts will help his recovery tremendously.
...who gives a fuck? This whole thing about MHz is just propaganda from intel and AMD. Sure, more MHz == more speed - but instead of spending paltry amounts on bigger fans, these companies should fscking stop ripping off consumers with their huge margins, and make some decent technologies.
We all know that playing games involves excessive sugar intake -> coke, mountain dew
This game's prolly so damn good, the average player will consume at least 50 litres of fizzy drink trying to get past the 7th level, dammit.
Statistically, that gives you an increase in the possibility of developing diabetes - and if multiplied over the whole population who play this game, there's a good chance someone will develop this disease as a direct result of playing too much of this game.
Thus, the proceeds will better aid those less-fortunate friends who developed diabetes from drinking too much coke (and pizza.)!
Please, can people get a clue and realise that MHz isn't the/only/ thing the worry about?!
"MHz" is used by both AMD and intel as propaganda and FUD as they try and capture consumers $$$'s. Most consumers nowadays know what "MHz" is, and most are now (unfortunately) under the misconception that "more MHz == better". Sadly, it seems that the/. community also has this idea.
Sure, MHz vs. MHz on a particular processor, the higher the better. But it's not worth singing and dancing about. It's no great giant leap in CPU design - in fact, intel take their L2 cache latency UP to accommodate for higher clock rates. And when you go out and buy your brand spanking new PIII Xeon - have you thought of the fact that its really just a glorified Pentium Pro with a few odds and ends tacked on?
Get real. Intel and AMD aren't giving us anything great by giving us more MHz. (Look at how much intel advertised 66MHz to 100MHz bus speeds - they only made ~= 15% performance increase). It's more cost effective for them to keep upping the clock rates and adding bigger fans - there's not much R&D involved in that - and intel and AMD know that MHz sells.
Why don't these companies invest in some proper R&D and make some/real/ CPU's instead of these overheating pieces of crap using 10 y/o technology?
Look at MIPS. An R12000 at 300MHz beats a PIII 700MHz in FP (specbench), and G4's are noticibly faster "MHz" for "MHz". Then again, say the word "altivec" and consumer won't have a clue what your talking about, even though this technology allows a G4 to totally thrash your intel counterpart at half the MHz.
If we all stop worshipping intel and AMD for pushing the MHz barrier.. then maybe we might get some decent technology out of them.
No, really. Seeming as we are counting stories, maybe its worth counting for the 10'000th "First Post" or "Troll" and give them an award. Something like a lump of dirt perhaps?
We are talking about ART. (Some people might disagree, but thats another thread;)
If I make a piece of art, I'm most likely to enjoy it hanging on my wall(paper) for a few days, until I realise what I could have done to make it better, and then I end up hating it and can't bear to stare at it anymore.
I think most people suffer from this syndrome - which is why having other people's art is so much more fun. Because I am a self perfectionist, I'm not going to develop a complex about someone else's wallpaper. But hey - that's just me:)
Semis.
Re:um, ever heard of the word "asthetics" ?
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(nobody is likely to read this either... but)
did you know that E is actually *less* lines of code than WM? I know that I can't compare to sawmill (haven't looked), but I really beg to differ with this "e is so slow" stuff.
E is as slow as you want to make it. Use a zillion trillion textures and I'm sure its going to slow down. I've never had a problem with E - I just don't understand where people are coming from with this "e is slow" stuff:/
um, ever heard of the word "asthetics" ?
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Sure, enlightenment might be eyecandy, but that's only because its completely configurable (look at its WM theme, thats certainly not eye-candy.)
As for all its eye-candy effects, I feel that a nice theme like Bluesteel can really *improve* the asthetics of your desktop. What does asthetics have to do with anything? Well, to me (and alot of people I know), the asthetics of your desktop really play a part in how your desktop feels, and how you, as a user, feel towards your desktop.
Simply, I nice looking X session makes me feel happier about the horrible piece of coding that I am about to tackle.
Okay, before I start, let me tell you that my days of overclocking are over. I'm much happier with a slower, quiter machine without a zillion fans and constant tweaking...
... but, as circuitry gets smaller and smaller, what happens with overclocking? (including increasing voltage).. I would assume that it would be easier to fry your chip because its easier for electrons to fuse their own circuit.
Q6: What is the contribution of each of the members of the Trillian project?
A6: Cygnus is porting GNUPro Toolkit (GCC, G++, GDB). HP is provided the initial kernel and glibc port, and continues to work on the kernel. IBM is providing kernel support. Intel is providing IA-32 support, IA-64 platform port, Apache port, and various drivers. SGI is providing an optimized C compiler and kernel support. VA is leading the project and providing kernel support, boot loader, commands and libraries, Xfree86, Mesa, E & GNOME, and the GIMP.
Wow. Look at all the large companies behind this. IBM, SGI, Intel. All big players. One of the biggest problems that linux faces with hardware, is that of always playing "catch up" with Windows for hardware support. Efforts such as these can only be considered to be a Good Thing for Linux in general.
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ok. please, tell me why big businesses who use patent laws, law suits, and agressive anti-competetive tactics in the free market economy are not similar in their totalitarian ways than the chinese gov't, who also use tactics to squish critisism.
well, you have yet to convince me of your argument... actually, an "argument" would be over valuing what you have to say. Rather, I would call your words an "annoyance", simply because they have no value whatsoever.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with being cynical - because cynical is more often closer to the truth than denial - which is what you seem to be in.
US big business and the chinese gov't have a LOT in common. They all aim to take power and liberty from the people - whether china chooses human rights abuses, or big business chooses patents and law suits - they are all tools to keep the little people small, and themselves big.
You've made the fatal assumption of thinking that elements of totalitarianism don't exist in a democratic society. Your wrong - especially with a free market economy where money buys media.
Quite amusing. I did a search for patent and nobody is even talking about this. did you know that google has a patent on their search technology? So, if you do something similar then you are in breach of patent laws. um. this is Bad.
yes, this does happen to some degree. But by whinging you will still get taken down, and I hardly think that YOUR critique on "linux zeolots" is hardly constructive, in which case your post deserves to get moderated down.
I'd rather see moderation groups, so that given a group of preferences, I can see the list moderated by people like me. That way you don't get this massive wave of people moderating posts down which they "simply don't like".
my 2c.
How about a mini-distribution of Linux with:
a) kernel compiled for maximum optimization for games
b) services that make any impact on performance (even if ever so slight) removed
c) networking part of kernel tweaked for the typical size/types of game packets
Hrm. 1-2 fps faster than "non-optimised"?
Has anyone ever tried this?
slashdot community?
/used/ to be - but in the last 12 months slashdot has turned into nothing more than a forum for celery overclocking linux kiddies who roll new kernels as if it was 0-day warez.
haha. There is no such thing. There
pfft.
Yes I agree. This is a stupid question, and it's even more stupid that /. posted it.
I might add, why are they even asking about Intel or AMD? If you want to do high level computational maths then I would NOT recommend either of these.
Maybe A G4 (with altivec) could be considered, or perhaps Sparc or MIPS or Alpha.
Oh but that's right. Nobody on slashdot would have heard of these processors, because we are all x86 user's right. And we overclock our celeries to 600MHz!!! And we run Redhat Linux cos it's da best and we can compile open-source from rootshell.com
Get a life.
Does what used to be a *decent* forum for geek's have to be turned into a place of cluelessness and trolls by a bunch of teenage kiddies?
pfft.
... worst male actor of the Century: Sylvester Stallone - and worst female actor of the Century: Madonna.
or so some claim to say.
... skr1pt k1ddi3s.
signed pgp?
Um, aren't educational donations classed as a tax-writeoff? What it the satellites where given to research or something?
I'm sure the US gov't would be willing to ignore tax if the sats were handed to a useful purpose.
Let artists sign up to Napster (or Gnutella, etc..) and register their songs.
Upon downloading a song that is registered by an artist, you have the option of donating some money to that artist for your download. You can choose to pay nothing if you wish, for those who just want to check out the song, or see if they like the artist.
As a user if Napster (Gnutella, etc...) you can also donate money to the service, which will divide the money between the various artists that you have downloaded.
As an incentive to donate, those who do donate money can be put into a competition each week, which draws prizes such as signed t-shirts and cd's by various artists who contribute to the prize pool. Large corporations could donate money to put advertising upon logins. (I know alot of people will dislike this idea, but I can't figure out a better way of attracting the corporate dolloar). Those who don't pay a cent will be issued with guilt tripping notices, (perhaps more advertising, reminded of the other alternative to this service - that being of having to purchase CD's).
If people were aware of how the service worked, I'm sure many people would donate money to the service. I would. What about you?
Ian.
I knew nothing about the accident, or Jason or Cassie until I read the story and Cassie's posts just this evening.
Cassie, your posts really touched my heart. Jason is very lucky to have such a supporting, loving, and caring wife as yourself. I'm sure that your brave efforts will help his recovery tremendously.
Let these words be a token of my support.
Ian.
Honest,
Al Gore told me he's got the proof to this theory - he did it while he was inventing the Internet, and Open Source and all that.
...who gives a fuck? This whole thing about MHz is just propaganda from intel and AMD. Sure, more MHz == more speed - but instead of spending paltry amounts on bigger fans, these companies should fscking stop ripping off consumers with their huge margins, and make some decent technologies.
MHz != innovation/evolution/better
pffft...
emerson,
please forgive me for what seems to be an ignorance of diabetes - I apologise for my previous post for those who are offended by it's misinformation.
Thanks for the correction, I now stand better educated, and I revoke my previous comments.
I apologise to all that this post may have offended.
Ian.
We all know that playing games involves excessive sugar intake -> coke, mountain dew
....
This game's prolly so damn good, the average player will consume at least 50 litres of fizzy drink trying to get past the 7th level, dammit.
Statistically, that gives you an increase in the possibility of developing diabetes - and if multiplied over the whole population who play this game, there's a good chance someone will develop this disease as a direct result of playing too much of this game.
Thus, the proceeds will better aid those less-fortunate friends who developed diabetes from drinking too much coke (and pizza.)!
There's a reason behind everything
Please, can people get a clue and realise that MHz isn't the /only/ thing the worry about?!
/. community also has this idea.
/real/ CPU's instead of these overheating pieces of crap using 10 y/o technology?
.. then maybe we might get some decent technology out of them.
"MHz" is used by both AMD and intel as propaganda and FUD as they try and capture consumers $$$'s. Most consumers nowadays know what "MHz" is, and most are now (unfortunately) under the misconception that "more MHz == better". Sadly, it seems that the
Sure, MHz vs. MHz on a particular processor, the higher the better. But it's not worth singing and dancing about. It's no great giant leap in CPU design - in fact, intel take their L2 cache latency UP to accommodate for higher clock rates. And when you go out and buy your brand spanking new PIII Xeon - have you thought of the fact that its really just a glorified Pentium Pro with a few odds and ends tacked on?
Get real. Intel and AMD aren't giving us anything great by giving us more MHz. (Look at how much intel advertised 66MHz to 100MHz bus speeds - they only made ~= 15% performance increase). It's more cost effective for them to keep upping the clock rates and adding bigger fans - there's not much R&D involved in that - and intel and AMD know that MHz sells.
Why don't these companies invest in some proper R&D and make some
Look at MIPS. An R12000 at 300MHz beats a PIII 700MHz in FP (specbench), and G4's are noticibly faster "MHz" for "MHz". Then again, say the word "altivec" and consumer won't have a clue what your talking about, even though this technology allows a G4 to totally thrash your intel counterpart at half the MHz.
If we all stop worshipping intel and AMD for pushing the MHz barrier
No, really. Seeming as we are counting stories, maybe its worth counting for the 10'000th "First Post" or "Troll" and give them an award. Something like a lump of dirt perhaps?
Here's why.
;)
:)
We are talking about ART. (Some people might disagree, but thats another thread
If I make a piece of art, I'm most likely to enjoy it hanging on my wall(paper) for a few days, until I realise what I could have done to make it better, and then I end up hating it and can't bear to stare at it anymore.
I think most people suffer from this syndrome - which is why having other people's art is so much more fun. Because I am a self perfectionist, I'm not going to develop a complex about someone else's wallpaper. But hey - that's just me
Semis.
(nobody is likely to read this either... but)
:/
did you know that E is actually *less* lines of code than WM? I know that I can't compare to sawmill (haven't looked), but I really beg to differ with this "e is so slow" stuff.
E is as slow as you want to make it. Use a zillion trillion textures and I'm sure its going to slow down. I've never had a problem with E - I just don't understand where people are coming from with this "e is slow" stuff
have you configured your imrc correctly?
I.
ok, someone hijack my domain (semisphere.org)
:)
I won't be angry - as long as you give it back
Sure, enlightenment might be eyecandy, but that's only because its completely configurable (look at its WM theme, thats certainly not eye-candy.)
As for all its eye-candy effects, I feel that a nice theme like Bluesteel can really *improve* the asthetics of your desktop. What does asthetics have to do with anything? Well, to me (and alot of people I know), the asthetics of your desktop really play a part in how your desktop feels, and how you, as a user, feel towards your desktop.
Simply, I nice looking X session makes me feel happier about the horrible piece of coding that I am about to tackle.
Okay, before I start, let me tell you that my days of overclocking are over. I'm much happier with a slower, quiter machine without a zillion fans and constant tweaking...
... but, as circuitry gets smaller and smaller, what happens with overclocking? (including increasing voltage).. I would assume that it would be easier to fry your chip because its easier for electrons to fuse their own circuit.
can anyone comment on this? Thanks.
From the FAQ,
Q6: What is the contribution of each of the members of the Trillian project?
A6: Cygnus is porting GNUPro Toolkit (GCC, G++, GDB). HP is provided the initial kernel and glibc port, and continues to work on the kernel. IBM is providing kernel support. Intel is providing IA-32 support, IA-64 platform port, Apache port, and various drivers. SGI is providing an optimized C compiler and kernel support. VA is leading the project and providing kernel support, boot loader, commands and libraries, Xfree86, Mesa, E & GNOME, and the GIMP.
Wow. Look at all the large companies behind this. IBM, SGI, Intel. All big players. One of the biggest problems that linux faces with hardware, is that of always playing "catch up" with Windows for hardware support. Efforts such as these can only be considered to be a Good Thing for Linux in general.