Anyway, that was already the case... Ever seen on TV something you were at? It usually doesn't even look remotely like what you could see. The reason for that is that the picture have to make it seem bigger, louder and more interresting than it really was. They send a team there that will film for hours and make a 10 minutes reportage. Do you expect them to show something realistic or the best so that they can sell their pictures?
Now you can not trust live transmission, I don't see this as being a big deal... But then, I have never really trusted the TV anyway, so this nothing new to me.
What are you doing with your laptop? Crunching numbers? I would recommend you use a dual CPU workstation for that...
People who use laptops do it because they travel a lot, they are mostly typing stuff in planes, making presentations... What kind of speed do you need for that? Do you think Crusoe is not fast enough for Powerpoint and Word?
I for one, would like to have one to be able to play Mame and programm some Java or C++ on the move (being regularly stuck for hours in planes, I will buy one of these so I have something to do).
Julien
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The aims of MySQL and Oracle (or DB/2...) are totally different.
Look on MySQL's site and you will see that they actually intend to not support transactions because of performance issues. This is probably why MySQL is used for websites whereas Oracle is used by BIG companies to handle their B2B operations.
And IMHO it is far more difficult to write an operating system than to write a RDBMS, and I don't see why modularity is not possible for a RDBMS (I work for eXcelon, leader in Object databases)...
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Re:I don't think this is a film about scientology.
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I confess I have not seen cube nor contact... (I don't like watching SF in the picture, it soooo crap! The phantom menace just made me puke).
But I have seen sphere! Crap!!! It was a remake of "Forbidden planet" with nice FX and without the interresting bits of the original story...
I don't think this is a film about scientology...
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Well, well, well... You can (should) be against sicentology but I don't think this film has anything to do with this pseudo-religion.
I found the books quite funny, and IMHO "Mission Earth" is funny as hell and really worth reading! You confess that you have never read more than 10 pages of the books or anything Ron Hubbard, then how can you criticise the books?
On the other hand, a film based on Ron Hubbard's books featuring Travolta (who is an active member of scientology), was probably financed by scientology and will for sure bring many to the sect. So I will probably not see it even if I enjoyed the books...
Anyway, I don't know of any good SF book that made a great movie in the last 20 years...(except the Matrix;-) Holliwood has a gift to remove all the interresting bits of a SF story to make it a dull action-movie... "Independence Day" anyone?
The movie will be crap, there are good reasons to boycott anything that will bring money to scientology, so I totally agree about not going to the movie. But the books are good!
Corel is not selling the windows version + Wine. It's using Winelib to port it's application which is VERY different
The application is recompiled for Linux. Here is an extract from WineHQ's web site: Wine provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing unmodified Windows 3.1/95/NT binaries to run under Intel Unixes.
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The interresting question for me is, can I upgrade my Dual PPGA 300A (overclocked to 450) to a dual 533 (overclocked to 850)?
If that is the case, then I will be able to upgrade when they get cheap enough (ie. the lowest priced Intel CPUs).
Any idea if that is feasible? Apparently Intel wanted to make it impossible to build SMP systems using Celeron 2, but then, they also said this for the original Celeron...
Microsoft is not to be punished because it is succesfull or because of its products (Win, Office...).
It is not even to be guilty of being a monopoly but for taking advantage of its monopoly and using unfair business tactics to keep its monopoly and rip competition!!!
So stop pointing how good the products are since this is totally irrelevant!
And for the matter, I agree that Microsoft have done great things to the computer business, bringing PC (and software) to the masses... It has been a great challenger to UNIX: who can seriously argue that VI is s proper text editor? And remeber how X was a crappy interface 5 years ago? No real desktop environment! No proper grafic al interface for most apps... And I am not even mentioning prices here.
Microsoft deserved to be successfull at that time, but it can note live on its edge to make more $$$, it needs to do great things, beat it's competition by making better/cheaper products, not by killing them...
I have worked with and without ISO amd believe me there was a hell of a difference.
I can compare my work at Ford and HP.
In one case (Ford) the project was working well, everything was documented, if I needed to know how to do something (start a big calculation on a Cray or convert from one file format to another), I could just pick up the procedure and the doc. So ok, you loose time doing all the paperwork but believe, on big projects, you soon see the big advantage of doing so...
By HP it was just chaotic, no doc (or outdated ones). No coordination between projects... The number of times our program was breaking down because of changes brought into the input file after a request from another department. Even in the same development team, things got ugly sometimes because there was no real coordination... Of course all these problems could have been avoided just by beeing clever and taking some precautions but programmers are lazy and don't like extra constraints. So ISO (and others) is there to force them to.
If there are more than one person working on the project, then yes, ISO (and other time consuming and ressource waiting procedures) are a necessity!!!
My understanding is that MS used it's windows monopoly to get monopolies in other areas. I doubt IE and Office would have become what they are without the help of the OS monopoly.
Integrating the browser in windows, or little details like having the standard file format for the wordpad being word documents, helps to get at the top position in each market.
Of course it is not THE ultimate solution, but I believe it is part of it. Splitting the company will make it impossible to (for example) the Office division say "we need feature X, Y and Z in WinXX to get ahead of our competitors. Please make it an undocumented feature!".
Also giving away the source can help to: - suppress the advantage they have about using undocumented features - make it impossible to add anti-competition code (like the DR-DOS errors) I think this is a great way to control what they are doing...
I agree that the problem is their predatory behavior but what can you do about it? Ask Balmer to be a nice boy and stop breaking others toys? I don't think this will work.
Besides, if M$ stop acting that way, they will loose everything. Think about it, if they stop being so strong, their share price will stop going up, people will cash their stock options and M$ will loose BIG money (and have no way to keep it's key people). And at that point, I am sure things will move pretty fast...
I have a dual PPGA 300A Celeron running at 450 flawlessly...
The only problem when going dual is that you have to use the lowest working frequence of your CPUs.
So if you have 70% chances of getting your overclocked CPU to run at a given frequency, you will have only 49% to get a dual running at the same speed.
From what I could read, I see one main market for this chip: embedded devices.
Small chip, low consumption, own memory type and socket...
Another possibility of course would be laptops! The main advantage of this solution is that an expensive chip is not a problem and that they could produce laptops that you could be used unplugged for more than 4 hours.
The problem with RedHat becoming the standard distro is about choice.
If I am not able to choose which one I want (RH, SuSE, Debian, Slackware, Turbo Linux...) then Linux will go a big step backward.
Ok Red Hat has done (is doing) great things for Linux but I want CHOICE!
Besides, Red Had having the biggest market share can (by changing it's "format") make all the rpm incompatible with other distros. This remembers me what a company from Redmond is doing to keep the lead in the desktop market...
I am not against RH (I have it on my PC), just worried...
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Ever seen on TV something you were at? It usually doesn't even look remotely like what you could see. The reason for that is that the picture have to make it seem bigger, louder and more interresting than it really was.
They send a team there that will film for hours and make a 10 minutes reportage. Do you expect them to show something realistic or the best so that they can sell their pictures?
Now you can not trust live transmission, I don't see this as being a big deal...
But then, I have never really trusted the TV anyway, so this nothing new to me.
What are you doing with your laptop? Crunching numbers? I would recommend you use a dual CPU workstation for that...
People who use laptops do it because they travel a lot, they are mostly typing stuff in planes, making presentations... What kind of speed do you need for that? Do you think Crusoe is not fast enough for Powerpoint and Word?
I for one, would like to have one to be able to play Mame and programm some Java or C++ on the move (being regularly stuck for hours in planes, I will buy one of these so I have something to do).
Julien
Look on MySQL's site and you will see that they actually intend to not support transactions because of performance issues.
This is probably why MySQL is used for websites whereas Oracle is used by BIG companies to handle their B2B operations.
And IMHO it is far more difficult to write an operating system than to write a RDBMS, and I don't see why modularity is not possible for a RDBMS (I work for eXcelon, leader in Object databases)...
Juju
But I have seen sphere! Crap!!! It was a remake of "Forbidden planet" with nice FX and without the interresting bits of the original story...
You can (should) be against sicentology but I don't think this film has anything to do with this pseudo-religion.
I found the books quite funny, and IMHO "Mission Earth" is funny as hell and really worth reading!
You confess that you have never read more than 10 pages of the books or anything Ron Hubbard, then how can you criticise the books?
On the other hand, a film based on Ron Hubbard's books featuring Travolta (who is an active member of scientology), was probably financed by scientology and will for sure bring many to the sect.
So I will probably not see it even if I enjoyed the books...
Anyway, I don't know of any good SF book that made a great movie in the last 20 years...(except the Matrix ;-)
Holliwood has a gift to remove all the interresting bits of a SF story to make it a dull action-movie...
"Independence Day" anyone?
The movie will be crap, there are good reasons to boycott anything that will bring money to scientology, so I totally agree about not going to the movie.
But the books are good!
It's using Winelib to port it's application which is VERY different
The application is recompiled for Linux.
Here is an extract from WineHQ's web site:
Wine provides both a development toolkit (Winelib) for porting Windows sources to Unix and a program loader, allowing unmodified Windows 3.1/95/NT binaries to run under Intel Unixes.
If that is the case, then I will be able to upgrade when they get cheap enough (ie. the lowest priced Intel CPUs).
Any idea if that is feasible?
Apparently Intel wanted to make it impossible to build SMP systems using Celeron 2, but then, they also said this for the original Celeron...
It is not even to be guilty of being a monopoly but for taking advantage of its monopoly and using unfair business tactics to keep its monopoly and rip competition!!!
So stop pointing how good the products are since this is totally irrelevant!
And for the matter, I agree that Microsoft have done great things to the computer business, bringing PC (and software) to the masses...
It has been a great challenger to UNIX: who can seriously argue that VI is s proper text editor?
And remeber how X was a crappy interface 5 years ago? No real desktop environment! No proper grafic al interface for most apps...
And I am not even mentioning prices here.
Microsoft deserved to be successfull at that time, but it can note live on its edge to make more $$$, it needs to do great things, beat it's competition by making better/cheaper products, not by killing them...
This is what the DOJ is trying to address.
Julien
I think this stuff is HUGE!!!
(yeah yeah, I know, this is a bit silly)
I have worked with and without ISO amd believe me there was a hell of a difference.
I can compare my work at Ford and HP.
In one case (Ford) the project was working well, everything was documented, if I needed to know how to do something (start a big calculation on a Cray or convert from one file format to another), I could just pick up the procedure and the doc. So ok, you loose time doing all the paperwork but believe, on big projects, you soon see the big advantage of doing so...
By HP it was just chaotic, no doc (or outdated ones). No coordination between projects... The number of times our program was breaking down because of changes brought into the input file after a request from another department. Even in the same development team, things got ugly sometimes because there was no real coordination... Of course all these problems could have been avoided just by beeing clever and taking some precautions but programmers are lazy and don't like extra constraints. So ISO (and others) is there to force them to.
If there are more than one person working on the project, then yes, ISO (and other time consuming and ressource waiting procedures) are a necessity!!!
My understanding is that MS used it's windows monopoly to get monopolies in other areas.
I doubt IE and Office would have become what they are without the help of the OS monopoly.
Integrating the browser in windows, or little details like having the standard file format for the wordpad being word documents, helps to get at the top position in each market.
Of course it is not THE ultimate solution, but I believe it is part of it. Splitting the company will make it impossible to (for example) the Office division say "we need feature X, Y and Z in WinXX to get ahead of our competitors. Please make it an undocumented feature!".
Also giving away the source can help to:
- suppress the advantage they have about using undocumented features
- make it impossible to add anti-competition code (like the DR-DOS errors)
I think this is a great way to control what they are doing...
I agree that the problem is their predatory behavior but what can you do about it?
Ask Balmer to be a nice boy and stop breaking others toys? I don't think this will work.
Besides, if M$ stop acting that way, they will loose everything. Think about it, if they stop being so strong, their share price will stop going up, people will cash their stock options and M$ will loose BIG money (and have no way to keep it's key people). And at that point, I am sure things will move pretty fast...
Yeah, and Sony will also produce a modified Aibo with a vacuum cleaner to make it a anteater :)
XFree says my Banshee is accelerated but the doc clearly says there is no 3D acceleration yet (like with the PCI 3DFx).
;)
But it should not be too long before we get full support for the beasts.
And my SMP box will be so happy to outperform all Win9x users of Quake III
I don't think so!
I have a dual PPGA 300A Celeron running at 450 flawlessly...
The only problem when going dual is that you have to use the lowest working frequence of your CPUs.
So if you have 70% chances of getting your overclocked CPU to run at a given frequency, you will have only 49% to get a dual running at the same speed.
but Object Design is considering a Linux port and are currently investigating this.
Although there is no schedule nor official commitment to it.
From what I could read, I see one main market for this chip: embedded devices.
Small chip, low consumption, own memory type and socket...
Another possibility of course would be laptops! The main advantage of this solution is that an expensive chip is not a problem and that they could produce laptops that you could be used unplugged for more than 4 hours.
The problem with RedHat becoming the standard distro is about choice.
If I am not able to choose which one I want (RH, SuSE, Debian, Slackware, Turbo Linux...) then Linux will go a big step backward.
Ok Red Hat has done (is doing) great things for Linux but I want CHOICE!
Besides, Red Had having the biggest market share can (by changing it's "format") make all the rpm incompatible with other distros.
This remembers me what a company from Redmond is doing to keep the lead in the desktop market...
I am not against RH (I have it on my PC), just worried...