I'm assuming that maintaining the kernel is a volunteer, non-paying position. And since it takes money to live in this world, how do you find time to actually earn a living while keeping up with the kernel?
Check here for a little about self-fulfilling prophecies. Basically it means that if you are afraid that something will happen, occasionally you may change your behavior (perhaps unconsciously) that eventually brings on exactly what you feared. The link uses the example of the stock market.
. I dont see the room for the great plot twists of the originals.
That probably explains why you spend your days posting on slashdot as an AC while George Lucas is a multi-billionaire.
The models used in the originals made it the best special effects ever, and blows away anything they can do today on computers.
Please, get real. The SFX from 1977 blow away the SFX in Phantom Menace? Say what you want about Ep1, but the SFX was not one of the weak points. I guess you forgot how in the original Star Wars, a group of 3 fighters had to move absolutely in sync (ie. battle at the Death Star).
Anyone seen a comparision between P4 and Athlon when it comes to raw number crunching?
I remember a few years back when AMD was starting to pick up steam, the K5 (I think) had horrible FP performance. But with the Athlon, the FP pipeline has been greatly improved.
I did a few benchmarks a year or so ago for 3d graphics ops (matrix, texmapping, vertex computation) on a few machines--an Athlon, Intel, Sun, and SGI, and was quite amazed at how the SGI (while way slower in terms of Mhz) beat the AMD and Intel CPUs handily.
But in terms of price/performance, the Athlon chips have always a great deal
Why, oh why, do you people insist on using something like Quake as a measure for how powerful your system is?!
Because it's a benchmark that is *tangible* to most people. One doesn't get excited because a processor can do a 500x500 matrix multiply really fast, but run Q3 at 130fps and people start flipping out. Sort of like saying how fast a car can go 0-60--not that everyone is drag racing, but it's easier to understand than the amount of torque an engine puts out.
Sounds great. In fact, it sounds like the early Wired Magazine manifestos about the Net, some of which I wrote.
That is just perfect...it really does show how much JonKatz knows about what he is talking about. I was looking at the predictions of the future in cover stories of the wired magazines in the last few years, and without exception, they are so far off base it is hilarious.
For example, the huge breakthrough push technology was going to be, the proclaimation in March 2000 that the market is hotter than ever, and the cover story on how great Loudcloud is going to be. Hilarity ensues on every cover story!
I'm not sure it does match the point I was trying to make--except that the world is a crappy place a lot of times and bad things happen to people that shouldn't.
I don't like the fact that this boy is scared of the bombing, but we sort of have no choice.
The only reason I actually use Windblows is for the games.
That may be true, but the original poster was saying that if the Sims was ported to Linux, people who don't use Linux might be lured away, which is a bit of a dream.
so i think the sims might lure them away from Windows.
IMHO, no game is going to lure people away from Windows. Think about it:
There is a user that runs windows and buys games that run on windows. Now, one game is ported to Linux, but it also runs on windows! Why would they switch? There's no need, that game already runs on windows, as does every other game they own, and the overwhelming majority of games due to come out.
Really, what is so *great* about Linux that will lure the gamer from windows? The lack of games? The lack of driver support? Or maybe the fact that it's completely different than everything they know?
Now, if the Sims 2 came out *only* for Linux, you might have something!
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That's not globalization. He doesn't want to remake the world in his view, and he doesn't want to take over the world. He wants Muslims to retake the Muslim world, which he sees as having been colonized by the West. He really doesn't care what happens to us in the West, so long as we leave Muslims alone.
I don't mean to say that he wants to rule the world. Quoting this article (and I've seen news reports of the same vein): The infidels must be driven out of the Muslim world by a jihad, and strict Islamic rule must be established everywhere that Muslims live.
I take that as, well, pretty much everywhere. Muslims live in the US, Britain, France, Japan, everywhere.
I'm all for "Fixing the roof while the sun is shining", but in this case, the sun set long ago.
No. But it is not the enemy I want to pay respect, it those who happen to be his neighbors.
Beleive me, I wish we could separate it all out, but it is so difficult in this type of situation. It kills me to see what is happening to people there who are only trying to live there. There was a story on the news about a week ago about an 8 year old boy in Afghanistan who only wants to be able to sleep without fear--first of the tabliban, now of the bombing. I wish I could just send a plane over and pick him up and bring him to the US...but the world sucks that way I guess.
1. Assume that all Afghans are terrorists. Then we might as well nuke the entire nation out of existence. That would be much simpler than what we are doing now.
But this is a *war* and there are bound to be civilian casualties. I'm sure not all Germans were Nazis, but we had to attack that country for the better of the rest of the world (and for the security of our own nation). Civilians die during war--it's not a good thing, but a fact of war. What percentage of our casualties have been civilian so far, 99.9%?
2. Assume that most Afghans are not terrorists. Then I think we should pay the suffering people some respect by at least respecting their holy month. That would also deny al Quaida the chance of pretending this is a war against Islam.
Giving the Taliban and al-Qaida a month to reorganize in the middle of this would be a huge mistake. War is war, and it sucks. Pearl Harbor was on a Sunday, do you think the bin Laden would pay the same respect to us?
I live and was born in a country were the USA isnt the most popular thing around.
So...you were born in the USA before 9/11?
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That, in a nutshell, is what the problem is. If people knew -why- we were hated, if they took the time to learn about the past instead of repeating it, maybe we could find a way out of this that doesn't involve a billion dollars worth of explosions.
Unfortunately, no amount of understanding of *why* on our part will ever convince the people who destroyed the WTC to stop doing it. They don't care if we understand--they want us destroyed.
Bin Laden actually doesn't care about the Palestinians or Iraq or any of that. He wants the world remade in his view--he points to the Taliban as the ultimate form of society. In an interview a few years ago, he said his ultimate goals were not to get the US out of the mideast, but to have a jihad in Egypt, a jihad in Israel, a jihad in Bosnia--basically a Jihad everywhere that will replace all governments with a fundamentalist Muslim one such as the Taliban. It's a different kind of globalization, really.
Again, no amount of understanding the root of the problem will make that go away. The only thing that these people (the terrorists) understand is having a bomb dropped on them so they can't do anything anymore. It's a sad commentary on humans, but its the truth--do you think enough understanding would have prevented Hitler from attempting world domination? I doubt it--ask Neville Chamberlain.
Well, my new HTPC (home theater PC, just for gaming, I got me a progressive scan DVD player already) is going to be 98SE or ME based for gaming compatibility, so I guess I'll be able to play the old classics there.
Actually, XP has a feature that lets you choose what operating system the application is supposed to run under, for compatibility. I beleive you can choose from 95 up to ME. It should fool any game into thinking it is running in that OS.
*Should*.
Re:Little content, little meaning...
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Microsoft has believed that since 1993, when Windows NT 3.1 came out.
I thought that the first NT was actually version 3.51, or am I wrong. Either way, MS did think it was stable since then:)
My wife has been reading the Harry Potter series out loud to me. She really should do books on tape--she does all the different voices. Anyway, while the books are written at a level that makes them accessible to kids, the stories certainly hold interest for adults.
I don't mean to make fun, really. But if they hold so much interests for adults, why do you need your wife to (1) read them out loud to you, and (2) do all the voices? Please tell me you have a pair of footy pajamas on when all this is going on...
The most ironic part of this message is that you spent the whole post talking about how presentation is so important, and yet you presented the whole thing in a single typeface without HTML tags of any kind, and the only formatting you used is positioning.
Yeah, why didn't he take advantage of the vast multimedia features available in the Slashdot message board? You could have used a bold or italics, or maybe a unordered list!
I wonder what his opinion is on needing a plug-in to view some content--it basically amounts to the same thing.
The problem is that in order for all browsers to see everything, a web site would probably have to use HTML 1.0, resulting in a very boring web. More current technologies aren't standards based since they are so new. Where does it stop? Everything must be compatible with Mosaic 1.0?
I don't agree with the MSN lockout, but there are instances on the web where a program is required to view certain content, and I don't see any sites getting rid of Flash just because Lynx doesn't support it.
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I'm assuming that maintaining the kernel is a volunteer, non-paying position. And since it takes money to live in this world, how do you find time to actually earn a living while keeping up with the kernel?
Check here for a little about self-fulfilling prophecies. Basically it means that if you are afraid that something will happen, occasionally you may change your behavior (perhaps unconsciously) that eventually brings on exactly what you feared. The link uses the example of the stock market.
. I dont see the room for the great plot twists of the originals.
That probably explains why you spend your days posting on slashdot as an AC while George Lucas is a multi-billionaire.
The models used in the originals made it the best special effects ever, and blows away anything they can do today on computers.
Please, get real. The SFX from 1977 blow away the SFX in Phantom Menace? Say what you want about Ep1, but the SFX was not one of the weak points. I guess you forgot how in the original Star Wars, a group of 3 fighters had to move absolutely in sync (ie. battle at the Death Star).
Anyone seen a comparision between P4 and Athlon when it comes to raw number crunching?
I remember a few years back when AMD was starting to pick up steam, the K5 (I think) had horrible FP performance. But with the Athlon, the FP pipeline has been greatly improved.
I did a few benchmarks a year or so ago for 3d graphics ops (matrix, texmapping, vertex computation) on a few machines--an Athlon, Intel, Sun, and SGI, and was quite amazed at how the SGI (while way slower in terms of Mhz) beat the AMD and Intel CPUs handily.
But in terms of price/performance, the Athlon chips have always a great deal
Why, oh why, do you people insist on using something like Quake as a measure for how powerful your system is?!
Because it's a benchmark that is *tangible* to most people. One doesn't get excited because a processor can do a 500x500 matrix multiply really fast, but run Q3 at 130fps and people start flipping out. Sort of like saying how fast a car can go 0-60--not that everyone is drag racing, but it's easier to understand than the amount of torque an engine puts out.
Sounds great. In fact, it sounds like the early Wired Magazine manifestos about the Net, some of which I wrote.
That is just perfect...it really does show how much JonKatz knows about what he is talking about. I was looking at the predictions of the future in cover stories of the wired magazines in the last few years, and without exception, they are so far off base it is hilarious.
For example, the huge breakthrough push technology was going to be, the proclaimation in March 2000 that the market is hotter than ever, and the cover story on how great Loudcloud is going to be. Hilarity ensues on every cover story!
Either CNet bought ZDnet or the other way around...sometime in the past year maybe? It's bizzare how they would post the EXACT same text, though.
There's also a nice CNet article on the same topic [cnet.com].
Um, that's the same article, seeing how CNet owns ZDNet. EXACT SAME!!
I'm not sure it does match the point I was trying to make--except that the world is a crappy place a lot of times and bad things happen to people that shouldn't.
I don't like the fact that this boy is scared of the bombing, but we sort of have no choice.
you cant negotiate so you commit genocide ?
With all due respect, what is the right response when 5000+ Americans are killed? Let's talk it out? You are obviously living in a dream world.
The only reason I actually use Windblows is for the games.
That may be true, but the original poster was saying that if the Sims was ported to Linux, people who don't use Linux might be lured away, which is a bit of a dream.
99.9% of Afghan casualties reported by our stinkin mainstream media are civilian
Just to clarify, by "our casualties" I mean our dead here in America, not the casualties that we have inflicted!
so i think the sims might lure them away from Windows.
IMHO, no game is going to lure people away from Windows. Think about it:
There is a user that runs windows and buys games that run on windows. Now, one game is ported to Linux, but it also runs on windows! Why would they switch? There's no need, that game already runs on windows, as does every other game they own, and the overwhelming majority of games due to come out.
Really, what is so *great* about Linux that will lure the gamer from windows? The lack of games? The lack of driver support? Or maybe the fact that it's completely different than everything they know?
Now, if the Sims 2 came out *only* for Linux, you might have something!
That's not globalization. He doesn't want to remake the world in his view, and he doesn't want to take over the world. He wants Muslims to retake the Muslim world, which he sees as having been colonized by the West. He really doesn't care what happens to us in the West, so long as we leave Muslims alone.
I don't mean to say that he wants to rule the world. Quoting this article (and I've seen news reports of the same vein): The infidels must be driven out of the Muslim world by a jihad, and strict Islamic rule must be established everywhere that Muslims live.
I take that as, well, pretty much everywhere. Muslims live in the US, Britain, France, Japan, everywhere.
I'm all for "Fixing the roof while the sun is shining", but in this case, the sun set long ago.
No. But it is not the enemy I want to pay respect, it those who happen to be his neighbors.
Beleive me, I wish we could separate it all out, but it is so difficult in this type of situation. It kills me to see what is happening to people there who are only trying to live there. There was a story on the news about a week ago about an 8 year old boy in Afghanistan who only wants to be able to sleep without fear--first of the tabliban, now of the bombing. I wish I could just send a plane over and pick him up and bring him to the US...but the world sucks that way I guess.
1. Assume that all Afghans are terrorists. Then we might as well nuke the entire nation out of existence. That would be much simpler than what we are doing now.
But this is a *war* and there are bound to be civilian casualties. I'm sure not all Germans were Nazis, but we had to attack that country for the better of the rest of the world (and for the security of our own nation). Civilians die during war--it's not a good thing, but a fact of war. What percentage of our casualties have been civilian so far, 99.9%?
2. Assume that most Afghans are not terrorists. Then I think we should pay the suffering people some respect by at least respecting their holy month. That would also deny al Quaida the chance of pretending this is a war against Islam.
Giving the Taliban and al-Qaida a month to reorganize in the middle of this would be a huge mistake. War is war, and it sucks. Pearl Harbor was on a Sunday, do you think the bin Laden would pay the same respect to us?
I live and was born in a country were the USA isnt the most popular thing around.
So...you were born in the USA before 9/11?
That, in a nutshell, is what the problem is. If people knew -why- we were hated, if they took the time to learn about the past instead of repeating it, maybe we could find a way out of this that doesn't involve a billion dollars worth of explosions.
Unfortunately, no amount of understanding of *why* on our part will ever convince the people who destroyed the WTC to stop doing it. They don't care if we understand--they want us destroyed.
Bin Laden actually doesn't care about the Palestinians or Iraq or any of that. He wants the world remade in his view--he points to the Taliban as the ultimate form of society. In an interview a few years ago, he said his ultimate goals were not to get the US out of the mideast, but to have a jihad in Egypt, a jihad in Israel, a jihad in Bosnia--basically a Jihad everywhere that will replace all governments with a fundamentalist Muslim one such as the Taliban. It's a different kind of globalization, really.
Again, no amount of understanding the root of the problem will make that go away. The only thing that these people (the terrorists) understand is having a bomb dropped on them so they can't do anything anymore. It's a sad commentary on humans, but its the truth--do you think enough understanding would have prevented Hitler from attempting world domination? I doubt it--ask Neville Chamberlain.
Well, my new HTPC (home theater PC, just for gaming, I got me a progressive scan DVD player already) is going to be 98SE or ME based for gaming compatibility, so I guess I'll be able to play the old classics there.
Actually, XP has a feature that lets you choose what operating system the application is supposed to run under, for compatibility. I beleive you can choose from 95 up to ME. It should fool any game into thinking it is running in that OS.
*Should*.
Microsoft has believed that since 1993, when Windows NT 3.1 came out.
:)
I thought that the first NT was actually version 3.51, or am I wrong. Either way, MS did think it was stable since then
Of course, one detail that I didn't mention is that most of the reading occurs when we're in the car
:) That makes MUCH more sense. I was imagining a sad, sad scenario...
You have redeemed yourself
I take it you mean 6.1, not 7.1.
But anyway, the optimizer is there also for video stuff, which is probably more valuable than the audio optimization.
My wife has been reading the Harry Potter series out loud to me. She really should do books on tape--she does all the different voices. Anyway, while the books are written at a level that makes them accessible to kids, the stories certainly hold interest for adults.
I don't mean to make fun, really. But if they hold so much interests for adults, why do you need your wife to (1) read them out loud to you, and (2) do all the voices? Please tell me you have a pair of footy pajamas on when all this is going on...
:)
The most ironic part of this message is that you spent the whole post talking about how presentation is so important, and yet you presented the whole thing in a single typeface without HTML tags of any kind, and the only formatting you used is positioning.
Yeah, why didn't he take advantage of the vast multimedia features available in the Slashdot message board? You could have used a bold or italics, or maybe a unordered list!
I hope that post was not serious.
I wonder what his opinion is on needing a plug-in to view some content--it basically amounts to the same thing.
The problem is that in order for all browsers to see everything, a web site would probably have to use HTML 1.0, resulting in a very boring web. More current technologies aren't standards based since they are so new. Where does it stop? Everything must be compatible with Mosaic 1.0?
I don't agree with the MSN lockout, but there are instances on the web where a program is required to view certain content, and I don't see any sites getting rid of Flash just because Lynx doesn't support it.