We don't need? Is it the developer who decide what the end-users needs are?
In the case of many open source projects, yes. Read esr's account of how fetchmail was created in catb, and you'll see that in most open source projects, the intended target end-users are the developers.
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Better yet, try smudging the area with some sage bundles, Native American style... some clueless people will think you're smoking weed or something, because sage smells almost like that.:)
It's gotten a lot better, but the best description I've heard of Mac OS X DPs/10.0 was "it's kind of like a Mac, but a Mac built by people who've only had a Mac described to them over the phone".
Did you try it on Linux, or just Windows? Notice that I said "GIMP on Linux". The Windows port is (still) not nearly as stable or fast as the *nix version. There have been *dramatic* improvements in the Windows version since it was first released, mind you, but peformance is not up to par, at least in part, due to the usage of GTK+ on Windows and other code ported from *Nix instead of native Windows code.
I guess those Adobe folks are on crack... have you seen PS run on a Mac vs Windows??? It is SO much faster doing nearly all filters. The 3rd party ones even show considerable differences. - RR
In fact, I have. In addition to systems administration, I've also worked as a professional graphic designer (and sometimes still do for side cash). And pound-for-pound, the newest versions of Photoshop run better and faster on Windows than on Macintosh.
Personally, I find myself more and more using The GIMP on Linux because it's faster than Photoshop on *any* platform (and it's open source;).
Strange. I've had my IBM DeskStar 120G (which is SUPPOSED to be a real dog in terms of reliability, based on reputation) for almost a year now and have had no real problems with it. At all. (Well, okay, no problems that aren't related to that buggy XFS implementation on Linux 2.4.x;)
Amount of memory in the average desktop RIGHT NOW.
Think about your argument, oh, I dunno, say 10 years ago. The average PC had just 4 MB of RAM. A few poeple went to 8 or 16MB or even 32 MB.
Back then, there were a lot of people, just like you saying that putting more than 32 MB in a PC just didn't make sense, you wouldn't gain any performance out of much more than that.
Think back, say 15 years ago when IBM said that nobody would ever need to 386, it was just too powerful.
Anybody saying that we don't need more than 2GB is as short-sighted as Bill Gates saying 640K oughta be enough for anybody.
Can you please explain to those of us who clearly don't know any better why certain PC applications are "dying" for 64-bit processors? Hint: they won't magically become faster.
Addressable memory. Right now the limit is 4GB. With Windows XP, the OS sets 2GB aside for the OS, so apps only get 2GB, and that's shared across all the apps.
For word processing and surfing the net as it currently is now, none of this matters.
But if you want rich multimedia content, the ability to do serious 3D imaging on the fly (think 3D operating systems) and the like, you're going to need more RAM. The only way to get that is with a 64-bit chip.
The AutoCAD and 3D Studio and Photoshop apps the parent poster mentioned *are* dying for more RAM. I have 3D models that are pushing that 2GB limit.
I'd love for NAT to go away and die, but unfortunately it wont, so please, if you make an audio app, make it able to survive a simple port forwarding so I can 'call' through my $100 cheap-o-matic SOHO-firewall box.
$100???? Mine cost me $5.25:
Old AMD K6/2 motherboard and CPU sitting in closet: $0 Old 16X CD-ROM drive sitting in closet: $0 Beatup ATX case sitting in closet: $0 Devil Linux: $0 Two 3COM 905B 100-Base-TX "Boomerang" ethernet cards sitting in closet: $0 Old floppy drive sitting in closet: $0 New fan for old K6/2 to make it quieter: $5 1 CD-R to burn Devil Linux on: $0.20 (bought in bulk) 1 floppy 3.5" floppy disk: $0.05 Secure in the knowledge of using a stateful inspection NAT firewall system based on Linux 2.4.x and hand-configured and installed by me: priceless.:-P
Although clearly this is a high end product, the warranty from Maxtor for this type of drive is lack-luster. Maxtor only warranties the drive for 1 year, while many other high end desktop products, like the WD SE drive, sport 3 year warranties. We would like to urge Maxtor to reconsider upping the anti here. Clearly this is a well built product, there is no reason not to stand behind it for a longer duration
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The reviewers clearly felt that the Maxtor SATA drive was well-built and that there was no reason that Maxtor SHOULDN'T stand behind it for longer.
Personally, I think that hard drive manufacturers aren't standing behind their drives for longer for a few reasons. One is that margins are razor thin. You'll be able to pick up an 80GB Maxtor SATA-150 drive for $80-$125, once they begin to ship in quantity. Just a few years ago, the top-of-the-line ATA drives (whatever their size is is irrelevant..I'm talking line positioning here) were selling more than 3 times that price. Inflation has gone up, but technology has deflated in price quickly. (Personally, I'm waiting for them to come free in my box of Lucky Charms(TM).:-P) So if they have to warranty their drives for 3 years, they may not be able to stay in business.
The biggest mistake the USA has made w/r/t Saddam was failing to take him out 25 years ago.
The AC is right: we put Saddam Hussein in power 25 years ago to keep Iran in check. Now that Iran and Iraq have released each other's prisoners, it will be no holds barred: Hussein *will* be removed from power, and if he's not killed first, he will stand trial before the U.N. courts for war crimes.
No. This war is not about Iraqi oil. We import and have imported no Iraqi oil since the trade embargo with Iraq started over 10 years ago.
Notice that Bush isn't going to overthrow Saddam and then make Iraq the 51st state. No, he's going to overthrow Saddam and return control to the people of Iraq.
The war is not about oil and never has been. That's gotta be the weakest argument I've ever seen against the war.
Wow, didn't pay attention in econ 101, did you? If they "pass it onto their customers", then they've reduced the value their customers see in spamming. If it costs enough -- and a 1 cent per message for, say, 500,000 messages, we're still talking $50,000
Wow, you didn't pay attention in 6th grade math class, did you?:-P $0.01 * 500,000 = $5,000, not $50,000. If they're already spending say $0.05 a message, $25,000, then what's another $5000?
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We don't need? Is it the developer who decide what the end-users needs are?
In the case of many open source projects, yes. Read esr's account of how fetchmail was created in catb, and you'll see that in most open source projects, the intended target end-users are the developers.
Thank you, Schoolhouse Rock!
If you're the only user on the computer, of course, this is fine. But if you need to be able to set permissions, FAT32 is obviously not going to work.
:)
OTOH, if it's a multiuser computer, you're not likely to dual boot Windows and Linux anyway.
Yeah, the PSD filter blows chunks on any platform, that's why I never use it. ;)
Better yet, try smudging the area with some sage bundles, Native American style... some clueless people will think you're smoking weed or something, because sage smells almost like that. :)
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It's gotten a lot better, but the best description I've heard of Mac OS X DPs/10.0 was "it's kind of like a Mac, but a Mac built by people who've only had a Mac described to them over the phone".
:-P
I thought that was called 'Microsoft Windows'.
Did you try it on Linux, or just Windows? Notice that I said "GIMP on Linux". The Windows port is (still) not nearly as stable or fast as the *nix version. There have been *dramatic* improvements in the Windows version since it was first released, mind you, but peformance is not up to par, at least in part, due to the usage of GTK+ on Windows and other code ported from *Nix instead of native Windows code.
I guess those Adobe folks are on crack... have you seen PS run on a Mac vs Windows??? It is SO much faster doing nearly all filters. The 3rd party ones even show considerable differences. - RR
;).
In fact, I have. In addition to systems administration, I've also worked as a professional graphic designer (and sometimes still do for side cash). And pound-for-pound, the newest versions of Photoshop run better and faster on Windows than on Macintosh.
Personally, I find myself more and more using The GIMP on Linux because it's faster than Photoshop on *any* platform (and it's open source
Mine too. Only I think my boss reads Dilbert and is heavily influenced by the PHB character. :)
The only one I hung onto was my 6502 Assembly Language Programming by Lance Leventhal.
;)
I *still* have that book. I bought back when I had an Apple ][. That book was the book I cut my assembler teeth on.
Strange. I've had my IBM DeskStar 120G (which is SUPPOSED to be a real dog in terms of reliability, based on reputation) for almost a year now and have had no real problems with it. At all. (Well, okay, no problems that aren't related to that buggy XFS implementation on Linux 2.4.x ;)
Linux can do better than that. In Linux you get 3GB per process.
You're preaching to the converted.
Amount of memory in the average desktop RIGHT NOW.
Think about your argument, oh, I dunno, say 10 years ago. The average PC had just 4 MB of RAM. A few poeple went to 8 or 16MB or even 32 MB.
Back then, there were a lot of people, just like you saying that putting more than 32 MB in a PC just didn't make sense, you wouldn't gain any performance out of much more than that.
Think back, say 15 years ago when IBM said that nobody would ever need to 386, it was just too powerful.
Anybody saying that we don't need more than 2GB is as short-sighted as Bill Gates saying 640K oughta be enough for anybody.
Can you please explain to those of us who clearly don't know any better why certain PC applications are "dying" for 64-bit processors? Hint: they won't magically become faster.
Addressable memory. Right now the limit is 4GB. With Windows XP, the OS sets 2GB aside for the OS, so apps only get 2GB, and that's shared across all the apps.
For word processing and surfing the net as it currently is now, none of this matters.
But if you want rich multimedia content, the ability to do serious 3D imaging on the fly (think 3D operating systems) and the like, you're going to need more RAM. The only way to get that is with a 64-bit chip.
The AutoCAD and 3D Studio and Photoshop apps the parent poster mentioned *are* dying for more RAM. I have 3D models that are pushing that 2GB limit.
It mentions Linux, Evolution, Gnome and Star Office - sounds like it's more of a re-packaging that anything
Linux? Why not Solaris? All of those things will run great on Solaris.
I'd love for NAT to go away and die, but unfortunately
:-P
it wont, so please, if you make an audio app, make
it able to survive a simple port forwarding so I
can 'call' through my $100 cheap-o-matic SOHO-firewall
box.
$100???? Mine cost me $5.25:
Old AMD K6/2 motherboard and CPU sitting in closet: $0
Old 16X CD-ROM drive sitting in closet: $0
Beatup ATX case sitting in closet: $0
Devil Linux: $0
Two 3COM 905B 100-Base-TX "Boomerang" ethernet cards sitting in closet: $0
Old floppy drive sitting in closet: $0
New fan for old K6/2 to make it quieter: $5
1 CD-R to burn Devil Linux on: $0.20 (bought in bulk)
1 floppy 3.5" floppy disk: $0.05
Secure in the knowledge of using a stateful inspection NAT firewall system based on Linux 2.4.x and hand-configured and installed by me: priceless.
The reviewers clearly felt that the Maxtor SATA drive was well-built and that there was no reason that Maxtor SHOULDN'T stand behind it for longer.
Personally, I think that hard drive manufacturers aren't standing behind their drives for longer for a few reasons. One is that margins are razor thin. You'll be able to pick up an 80GB Maxtor SATA-150 drive for $80-$125, once they begin to ship in quantity. Just a few years ago, the top-of-the-line ATA drives (whatever their size is is irrelevant..I'm talking line positioning here) were selling more than 3 times that price. Inflation has gone up, but technology has deflated in price quickly. (Personally, I'm waiting for them to come free in my box of Lucky Charms(TM).
The biggest mistake the USA has made w/r/t Saddam was failing to take him out 25 years ago.
The AC is right: we put Saddam Hussein in power 25 years ago to keep Iran in check. Now that Iran and Iraq have released each other's prisoners, it will be no holds barred: Hussein *will* be removed from power, and if he's not killed first, he will stand trial before the U.N. courts for war crimes.
Argh! Aparently Taco disease is contagious via the /. effect! :-P
No. This war is not about Iraqi oil. We import and have imported no Iraqi oil since the trade embargo with Iraq started over 10 years ago.
Notice that Bush isn't going to overthrow Saddam and then make Iraq the 51st state. No, he's going to overthrow Saddam and return control to the people of Iraq.
The war is not about oil and never has been. That's gotta be the weakest argument I've ever seen against the war.
I was checking out LCDs. I'd love to have one, but for the 800 bucks I'd shell out for a decent 15" LCD
$800? Where do YOU buy your computer equipment from? Lord and Taylor?
You can get a plenty decent 15" LCD for around $300 just about anywhere.
As a aside issue, can anyone tell me why Saddam sets fire to the oil fields?
:-P
Um, he's an asshole?
Wow, didn't pay attention in econ 101, did you? If they "pass it onto their customers", then they've reduced the value their customers see in spamming. If it costs enough -- and a 1 cent per message for, say, 500,000 messages, we're still talking $50,000
:-P $0.01 * 500,000 = $5,000, not $50,000. If they're already spending say $0.05 a message, $25,000, then what's another $5000?
Wow, you didn't pay attention in 6th grade math class, did you?