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What is .NET?
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Don't worry, myself and others have made your point too. There are lots of stupid people around with mod points.
Re:MS is developing for FreeBSD?!?!?
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What is .NET?
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You can't believe it? It's a natural part of their onslaught on the "viral" GPL. And it makes a Mac version just moments away.
Re:I honestly can't figure out
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What is .NET?
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People have been saying it for ages and I ignored it till now but it's true: Slashdot is becoming more and more riddled with idiots.
Someone posts that and get's modded insightful? The poster clearly hasn't even read the article, never mind actually making an insightful comment about the subject in question, about which prisoner-of-enigma clearly knows nothing.
I hit the karma limit a while back by posting sensible, informed, sometimes witty comments. And yet here we are, people wanting informed, reasoned, exciting discussion, struggling to be heard against a cacophony of nonsense which gets promoted to the top.
Hmmm, sounds just like the Top 40.
Here's the sad fact: populism sucks, and moderation is populism in action. What does this say about democracy? I wouldn't like to think, but hey: George W Bush.
No, it's not my imagination. I was running 2.4.16 with pre-emptible kernel, then switched to 2.4.18-pre7 with pre-emptible kernel AND O(1) scheduling.
Quake3 performance improved _dramatically_.
However, as doug363 points out below, it probably isn't the O(1) nature of the O(1) scheduling algorithm which made the difference. But hey, my box has several active processes, so who knows. I've not been keen enough to do that level of testing.
Perhaps you're thinking of 'pre-emptive multitasking'? Here's some general multi-tasking info.
As I understand it, the pre-emptible kernel patch allows user processes to pre-empt the kernel itself. Apparently the NT I/O subsystem is pre-emptible.
Aside from the technicalities of this particular patch, your assumption that you're going to lose something when you apply a beneficial patch because 'you don't get anything for free' is, despite appearing mature and clueful, way off mark.
The cost doesn't have to be borne by the end user. The cost can be developer time / clues. In the Free Software world, you do get that for free.
People who don't really have a clue probably don't care who owns Redhat, and probably think AOLTW is a fine company.
The same applies even more so when you talk about Windows - if an AOL take over makes them take refuge in Microsoft - why aren't they there already, and what satanic principles guide their conscience?
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Don't worry, myself and others have made your point too. There are lots of stupid people around with mod points.
You can't believe it? It's a natural part of their onslaught on the "viral" GPL. And it makes a Mac version just moments away.
People have been saying it for ages and I ignored it till now but it's true: Slashdot is becoming more and more riddled with idiots.
Someone posts that and get's modded insightful? The poster clearly hasn't even read the article, never mind actually making an insightful comment about the subject in question, about which prisoner-of-enigma clearly knows nothing.
I hit the karma limit a while back by posting sensible, informed, sometimes witty comments. And yet here we are, people wanting informed, reasoned, exciting discussion, struggling to be heard against a cacophony of nonsense which gets promoted to the top.
Hmmm, sounds just like the Top 40.
Here's the sad fact: populism sucks, and moderation is populism in action. What does this say about democracy? I wouldn't like to think, but hey: George W Bush.
Another fairly good summary of .NET is Here.
Moderators are becoming increasingly brain dead. Yeah, and I'm using my +1 bonus to make this point.
No, it's not my imagination. I was running 2.4.16 with pre-emptible kernel, then switched to 2.4.18-pre7 with pre-emptible kernel AND O(1) scheduling.
Quake3 performance improved _dramatically_.
However, as doug363 points out below, it probably isn't the O(1) nature of the O(1) scheduling algorithm which made the difference. But hey, my box has several active processes, so who knows. I've not been keen enough to do that level of testing.
Look here for a pre-emptible kernel patch which works with ingo's O(1). Read it's name, act appropriately.
That wasn't me, I don't resort to name calling in my posts.
:-) You didn't read what I said.
He was right though
I hate the fake phrase "catch on". It's a stupid, obnoxious phrase.
Please don't let it become popular.
My very first words: "Aside from the technicalities of this particular patch".
Did you read them?
The patch makes scheduling occur in O(1) time... i.e. very good scaling as number of processes grow, I believe.
O(1) is constant time regardless of input size. O(n) means time grows linearly with input size. There's others but I don't know that much about it...
Not pre-emptive, pre-emptible. The first describes a mode of multi-tasking. The second refers to user processes being able to pre-empt the kernel.
Perhaps you're thinking of 'pre-emptive multitasking'? Here's some general multi-tasking info.
As I understand it, the pre-emptible kernel patch allows user processes to pre-empt the kernel itself. Apparently the NT I/O subsystem is pre-emptible.
Quake 3 has never been smoother on my machine. 2.4.18-pre7 with Robert Love's Pre-emptible Kernel patch and Ingo's O(1) patch. Get it.
Aside from the technicalities of this particular patch, your assumption that you're going to lose something when you apply a beneficial patch because 'you don't get anything for free' is, despite appearing mature and clueful, way off mark.
The cost doesn't have to be borne by the end user. The cost can be developer time / clues. In the Free Software world, you do get that for free.
Yes they do look better, because gives fixed width fonts, thus the lines break at roughly the same column.
Woops, the tags got lost, of course! Yes, I should have previewed...
It looks like (s)he's posting from lynx. It might help if (s)he put the tags round his text, thus aiding legibility.
FLAC is not lossy.
Free Lossless Audio Codec.
Importing IP into the US is far easier than buying other IP such as drugs in Mexico.
Interesting that you consider drugs to be intellectual property. Care to expand?
0This is one of the best pro-interventionist posts I've read. Thank you. And of course, you are right.
Hey, all you genetic engineers, stop interfering! Let natural selection take it's course, it's much faster....
In a pure free market, we'd just have to re-invent all our institutions.
Anyone that claims something is hopelessly broken until they've SEEN the inner workings is an idiot.
But we all know Windows is a heap of dirt, yet the source is closed, so we can't see it!
If the interface to an object stinks, then it's a fair bet the hidden parts of the object are aromatic too.
People who don't really have a clue probably don't care who owns Redhat, and probably think AOLTW is a fine company.
The same applies even more so when you talk about Windows - if an AOL take over makes them take refuge in Microsoft - why aren't they there already, and what satanic principles guide their conscience?
"XMLPPM is a data compression program that compresses XML files from 5 to 30% better than any existing text or XML-specific compressors."
This was the first result google gave me to my search "xml compression" and took me approximately 6 seconds.
ictcompress was number 7.
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