Typically, all these studies are pieces of shit. Where is the problem? Girls will really come with new way to solve the problem? You are kidding, if it is true, it means there is a gender oriented way to write a printer device driver. This is pure speculation...
Harder for women than men? You are kidding again, if you want to do something, just do it and stop bashing it's the next door guy faults if you are not what you think you should.
The problem is with women themselves, the day they will see themselves as human and not a special human, things will really change for them on an individual basis. In the mean time, I don't feel guilty of anything and I will not do something special to make life easier for women than for men.
As far as I know, there is a difference in the way P III and Crusoe emulates x86. The PIII will translate each instruction each time it is needed and the Crusoe processor will translate it once until its cache is full.
Given this, I see no strong evidence the Crusoe at 1 GHz will be necessarily slower than a PIII at the same clock speed. Anybody can comment on this?
Ok, I'm not Joe and I'm Canadian. And to make things worse, I'm also quebecer (Haven't you ever eared about what our ministries are doing with databases on citizen? No? Maybe a day I will tell you).
But, what about the Slashdot database on world citizen? Which topics they are reading? What silly nicknames they are choosing? Which ads the like enough to visit home sites? Etc...
Finally, someone decides to invent a rack capable to support more than one display, wow!!!
X-Window is capable to support more than one screen for a long time ago. Only XFree86 didn't include such a support since the last release. However, I remember one of my customer using 4 CRTs back in 1993. It's a very nice feature for huge systems real-time monitoring.
They just want to give an idea of raw processor performance. What you claim (and I agree with you on the fact an Oracle benchmark would be much more significant to most of us) is a benchmark measuring the overall system performance and no longer just the CPU performance. So, it may not be possible to claim significant performance improvements from such a benchmark, since the result will not depend on sole CPU performance, but rather on the complete disk subsystem performance, memory performance, database tuning, etc.
Bottom line: You are always on you own when time comes to figure out performance in real life situations.
Also with some of the additions from IBM and Sun with Solaris.
I would be very interested if you can make a link to a significant and major piece of software from those that was made open source or anything like that...
I believe they rather make their applications working on the Linux platform and make the "I'm the most open guy in the industry" marketing pitch in order to gain more market share for their very close source products. BTW, I do not necessarily consider it is evil for a company to keep the source code closed, however, the marketing pitch they are making is not particularily honest...
Well, the news is about whom they hired. Not about the fact they just started now to lobby. They started many years ago. You don't remember numerous meeting and public appearance of Bill and Al?
The POWER4 has nothing to do with the G4 which is developped as a follow-up for the PowerPC architecture. There is absolutely no agreement between Apple, Motorola and IBM about sharing anything since the Power2 (1994).
So, for about a year, IBM will keep this technology closed and license it after they made enough cash. They have six months to make all the cash they want after the POWER4 is on the market and another six months to sign agreements with AMD, Transmeta, etc.
Unless IBM is already a major sponsor of Transmeta, someone knows?
the scaleup is more a function of memory and swap space rather than processor speed.
Not so sure, I saw noticeable differences between NT and Office running on two PC with the CPU speed as the only difference.
and as pointed out elsewhere, this is due to the extra X layer.
X is not an extra layer, that's the foundation on which the graphics are build up. The only overhead due to the architecture of X is related to its distributed nature. For exemple, you can run an application A on a machine X and display the interface on a machine Y. However, when X is ran locally, it should use Unix sockets or something similar rather than TCP/IP sockets and it doesn't use the network layer.
So, the performance problem is really lying in GNOME and its functionnality. Almost like any huge Microsoft product that claims to do everything, except vacuum cleaning my carpet and dishwashing (and that's the reason it sucks!).
The Window Manager and GNOME are two different things and are not tied together. However, it seems the GNOME guys had made extra effort to integrate with Sawmill and Enlightenment (it means handling messages and hints between both components).
Have you try Windows NT and Office 2000 on you 486-33?
If you are looking at a much lighter and less ressources consuming environment, take a look here. Go in the appindex searching in the X11 section. There is many thin WM available that should fit better on you machine.
Sure,/.ers are not a market for PDAs. However, with the pricing of the hardware decreasing quickly in that market. Few companies, if any, can afford the cost of an operating system which will not decrease as fast or faster in order to preserve profit margins.
With a 0 $ operating system, a company is in pretty good shape to concentrate on hardware and functionality.
Well, I'm not sure the Crusoe processor can be considered for this specific market because,
The bad news is that the market for web pads is basically nonexistent, limiting Transmeta's potential sales. Crusoe burns too much power for today's most popular portable web device, the Palm VII. But this market could grow to tens of millions of units over the next five years, and Transmeta is poised to grow along with it.
- Linley Gwennap, founder and principal analyst of The Linley Group, a technology analysis firm in Mt. View, CA. He is a former editor in chief of Microprocessor Report. And this text is from Linux Journal, April 2000, page 131 -
Ok, he may be wrong, I don't know much about the hardware, however, given the fact that the sales are potentially huge for Palm devices and the like, I suspect more the IPO as a mean to position Handspring for the next wave.
BTW, for those looking at cheap WindowsCE handhelded devices, they are near to give one free to each buyer of Linux, any distro, in the computer stores, here. They accumulate dust and are not shown on the front of displays...
What's the point? It just indicates VM is able to handle so many tasks, it's even able to run 41K copies of Quake. No big news there and just IBM mainframe marketing as usual.
It will just change the way CTO will compare the length of their, oups, the size of their mainframes. While playing golf, Joe Bloe will say to John Smith:
- Hey you! My mainframe can run 1000 more copies of Linux than yours!
And John will reply:
- May be, but you aren't running the latest kernel version!
As many already mentioned, you are talking to the very conservative and traditional culture. So, use proper weapons.
Since I am neither living nor citizen of the US, I don't know how this short real life example can be transposed into the US.
I disagreed with a law to be voted in my country, so I decided to protest against it. I just wrote a polite letter, explaining extensively why I strongly disagreed with this bill and sent a copy to everyone at our legislature (equivalent to congressmen and senators, I guess). My letter was adressed to the prime minister (the president, in your case). And I also explained why the minister responsible for this law was not credible and trustable. I also sent a copy to all major newspapers. The bill was amended before being voted. The minister responsible was moved to another ministery.
Conclusion, it was not a full victory, however, it was much more than I expected from this single action. If you plan such an action, I strongly suggest each person to write its own letter rather than using a single model and I strongly suggest to ask everyone to send a copy to a central mailbox where someone will be responsible to collect a sample of all the letter and build a petition list. Also, don't send a letter if you are not willing to include your name, address, phone number. An anonymous letter has no credibility. Also, collect the acknowledgement you will receive. And do it before the presidential campaign!
Anyway, someone who believes in Einstein is not a scientist.
And BTW, how many of you think Einstein discovered the relativity? It was actually elaborated by an italian which was unable to find anything meaningful in it. Einstein took over him and got the patent. Some kind of Doubleclick.com before the letter...
And, I suppose you also ignore he was working at the governement agency responsible to release patents in Germany when he came out with it.
However, someone said the symmetry of universe may point to a fact such as God's existence. That's not true, the point is that we are so much biased to believe we are, ourselves, God's entities, we think because we like symmetry and find it wonderful it may prove the existence of something like a master chief with a so superior mind it is almost identical as ours.
If there is nobody in the forest, is the falling tree making noise?
If nobody is in the universe, would it be so much wonderful?
BTW, if God exists he just doesn't care at us, so, I don't care at him, since I was made at its image.
This single item, is at my sense the most important one. I am also using Enlightenment and encountered some problems. However, I don't want to be forced to use Sawmill in order to use GNOME.
As far as I understand the problem, there is really a plan to port GNOME to Windows in order to gain some market share. This justifies Bonobo and Sawmill, since the author of Enlightenment don't want to bother with a port to Windows. And if my hypothesis are right, it is strongly pushed by big names in the computer industry. As a strategy, it sounds good. If you provide the GNOME environment to Windows users and developpers, chances are high you will eventually make the migration to Linux much more easy to Windows users.
However, I don't care much about Windows users because I won't make big bucks on this market. Can we still think the GNOME project is a really free development project?
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Harder for women than men? You are kidding again, if you want to do something, just do it and stop bashing it's the next door guy faults if you are not what you think you should.
The problem is with women themselves, the day they will see themselves as human and not a special human, things will really change for them on an individual basis. In the mean time, I don't feel guilty of anything and I will not do something special to make life easier for women than for men.
Everyone is responsible for his/her ass!
Given this, I see no strong evidence the Crusoe at 1 GHz will be necessarily slower than a PIII at the same clock speed. Anybody can comment on this?
But, what about the Slashdot database on world citizen? Which topics they are reading? What silly nicknames they are choosing? Which ads the like enough to visit home sites? Etc...
X-Window is capable to support more than one screen for a long time ago. Only XFree86 didn't include such a support since the last release. However, I remember one of my customer using 4 CRTs back in 1993. It's a very nice feature for huge systems real-time monitoring.
They just want to give an idea of raw processor performance. What you claim (and I agree with you on the fact an Oracle benchmark would be much more significant to most of us) is a benchmark measuring the overall system performance and no longer just the CPU performance. So, it may not be possible to claim significant performance improvements from such a benchmark, since the result will not depend on sole CPU performance, but rather on the complete disk subsystem performance, memory performance, database tuning, etc.
Bottom line: You are always on you own when time comes to figure out performance in real life situations.
I would be very interested if you can make a link to a significant and major piece of software from those that was made open source or anything like that...
I believe they rather make their applications working on the Linux platform and make the "I'm the most open guy in the industry" marketing pitch in order to gain more market share for their very close source products. BTW, I do not necessarily consider it is evil for a company to keep the source code closed, however, the marketing pitch they are making is not particularily honest...
BTW, there was a huge line-up at Corel's booth to get a version of Corel Linux... Windows users are seeking for alternatives...
Well, the news is about whom they hired. Not about the fact they just started now to lobby. They started many years ago. You don't remember numerous meeting and public appearance of Bill and Al?
BTW, someone knows if it's Richard Stallmann genome? In case they found the gene responsible for GPL licensing and want to trash it!
So, for about a year, IBM will keep this technology closed and license it after they made enough cash. They have six months to make all the cash they want after the POWER4 is on the market and another six months to sign agreements with AMD, Transmeta, etc.
Unless IBM is already a major sponsor of Transmeta, someone knows?
Not so sure, I saw noticeable differences between NT and Office running on two PC with the CPU speed as the only difference.
and as pointed out elsewhere, this is due to the extra X layer.
X is not an extra layer, that's the foundation on which the graphics are build up. The only overhead due to the architecture of X is related to its distributed nature. For exemple, you can run an application A on a machine X and display the interface on a machine Y. However, when X is ran locally, it should use Unix sockets or something similar rather than TCP/IP sockets and it doesn't use the network layer.
So, the performance problem is really lying in GNOME and its functionnality. Almost like any huge Microsoft product that claims to do everything, except vacuum cleaning my carpet and dishwashing (and that's the reason it sucks!).
The Window Manager and GNOME are two different things and are not tied together. However, it seems the GNOME guys had made extra effort to integrate with Sawmill and Enlightenment (it means handling messages and hints between both components).
If you are looking at a much lighter and less ressources consuming environment, take a look here. Go in the appindex searching in the X11 section. There is many thin WM available that should fit better on you machine.
With a 0 $ operating system, a company is in pretty good shape to concentrate on hardware and functionality.
Ok, he may be wrong, I don't know much about the hardware, however, given the fact that the sales are potentially huge for Palm devices and the like, I suspect more the IPO as a mean to position Handspring for the next wave.
BTW, for those looking at cheap WindowsCE handhelded devices, they are near to give one free to each buyer of Linux, any distro, in the computer stores, here. They accumulate dust and are not shown on the front of displays...
However, mainframes are still good for OLTP and they are really good to keep the IT budget high.
It will just change the way CTO will compare the length of their, oups, the size of their mainframes. While playing golf, Joe Bloe will say to John Smith:
- Hey you! My mainframe can run 1000 more copies of Linux than yours!
And John will reply:
- May be, but you aren't running the latest kernel version!
Since I am neither living nor citizen of the US, I don't know how this short real life example can be transposed into the US.
I disagreed with a law to be voted in my country, so I decided to protest against it. I just wrote a polite letter, explaining extensively why I strongly disagreed with this bill and sent a copy to everyone at our legislature (equivalent to congressmen and senators, I guess). My letter was adressed to the prime minister (the president, in your case). And I also explained why the minister responsible for this law was not credible and trustable. I also sent a copy to all major newspapers. The bill was amended before being voted. The minister responsible was moved to another ministery.
Conclusion, it was not a full victory, however, it was much more than I expected from this single action. If you plan such an action, I strongly suggest each person to write its own letter rather than using a single model and I strongly suggest to ask everyone to send a copy to a central mailbox where someone will be responsible to collect a sample of all the letter and build a petition list. Also, don't send a letter if you are not willing to include your name, address, phone number. An anonymous letter has no credibility. Also, collect the acknowledgement you will receive. And do it before the presidential campaign!
And BTW, how many of you think Einstein discovered the relativity? It was actually elaborated by an italian which was unable to find anything meaningful in it. Einstein took over him and got the patent. Some kind of Doubleclick.com before the letter...
And, I suppose you also ignore he was working at the governement agency responsible to release patents in Germany when he came out with it.
However, someone said the symmetry of universe may point to a fact such as God's existence. That's not true, the point is that we are so much biased to believe we are, ourselves, God's entities, we think because we like symmetry and find it wonderful it may prove the existence of something like a master chief with a so superior mind it is almost identical as ours.
If there is nobody in the forest, is the falling tree making noise?
If nobody is in the universe, would it be so much wonderful?
BTW, if God exists he just doesn't care at us, so, I don't care at him, since I was made at its image.
As far as I understand the problem, there is really a plan to port GNOME to Windows in order to gain some market share. This justifies Bonobo and Sawmill, since the author of Enlightenment don't want to bother with a port to Windows. And if my hypothesis are right, it is strongly pushed by big names in the computer industry. As a strategy, it sounds good. If you provide the GNOME environment to Windows users and developpers, chances are high you will eventually make the migration to Linux much more easy to Windows users.
However, I don't care much about Windows users because I won't make big bucks on this market. Can we still think the GNOME project is a really free development project?