Internally at Microsoft everybody runs Windows 2003 Advanced Server on every workstation, installs every possible product, hands around the source to everything possible to anybody who asks, and never asks for a dime. However there are restrictions on what you can do with it -- you can't give it away to people outside the company, for example.
Windows is built with a huge bunch of command line tools and perl scripts. There's not much difference between the philosphies and characters of Windows Developers and Free Software Developers -- except one: Windows people don't want *you* to have the rights *they* have.
There are *huge* and I mean *huge* differences in the kernel between NT4, 2000, and Server 2003. I mean like -- NT4 chokes and dies if you load more than 100 processes (try to fork a lot of telnet clients) due to fixed limit for user32 handles and has tons of race conditions and all kinds of perf problems. Server 2003 still has huge problems but not nearly as bad.
Of course if perf isn't a problem then you don't need it. But the kernel is *vastly* different in each of the several versions.
I once did a calculation of how quickly my PC could add up floating point 1.1 a billion times, and using Moore's Law realized that we'd hit Plank Time for the communication of information in about 150 years.
I first heard a story like this out of Research Tringle Park with Carolina Power and Light in like -- 1993 or something absurd. Gigabit ethernet over powerlines.
The phone company also told me someting about "IFiddle" -- I guess it's IFDL -- probably fiber.
I still need a CRT to play games at 1600x1200 but I swear it's a lot nicer to have my 18" LCD on the desktop instead. I'm no chick but not having that giant monitor on the desk makes the desk so much cleaner and makes feel feel less like a dorkarama.
It seems to me that midrange AMD is far better than midrange Intel for games -- so this is probably why the impression "AMD rules for games" is out there. Buncha kids with no money think it is.
But my 3.2 P4 Northwood running at 3.52 with 6800GT seems plenty competitive -- with everything except the FX 55, which is *extraordinarily expensive*.
It seems that AMD is better at the low end and the extreme high end, but the "ordinary" high end (3500+ and 3.2 P4), Intel and AMD are about the same. Plus with things like MPEG encoding and compiling, which is also important to me, P4 beats even the AMD FX.
So AMD is only better than Intel at the extreme high end and the low end. But the low end isn't worth playing at, unless you ain't got no money.
So in short it seems to me that in the real world a 3.2@3.52 P4 is plenty great for games.
Or would an AMD 3500+ give me a "smoother feeling" experience?
I always wanted to follow Tolkien's calendar -- 12 months of exactly 30 days, with the residue celebrated as Special Days which have no "weekday name".
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But secondly, no, you don't need Binary XML, all you need to do is Gzip it on the wire. It gets as small as Binary XML.
One of the easiest ways to shrink your XML by about 90% is use tags like:instead ofYou can use a transformation to use the short names or long names on the wire.
Internally at Microsoft everybody runs Windows 2003 Advanced Server on every workstation, installs every possible product, hands around the source to everything possible to anybody who asks, and never asks for a dime. However there are restrictions on what you can do with it -- you can't give it away to people outside the company, for example.
Windows is built with a huge bunch of command line tools and perl scripts. There's not much difference between the philosphies and characters of Windows Developers and Free Software Developers -- except one: Windows people don't want *you* to have the rights *they* have.
Crap. I said it backwards. Life's a melodrama and everything else is vaudeville.
Somebody pour hot grits down my pants.
Life's a vaudeville, and everything else is melodrama.
Mr Jones, are these your [i]knockers[/i]?
Oh dear, your [i]mellons[/i] have spilled out!
That's actually what I meant to ask: who is using NT4 *right now* to read this very webpage? Kudos to you!
There are *huge* and I mean *huge* differences in the kernel between NT4, 2000, and Server 2003. I mean like -- NT4 chokes and dies if you load more than 100 processes (try to fork a lot of telnet clients) due to fixed limit for user32 handles and has tons of race conditions and all kinds of perf problems. Server 2003 still has huge problems but not nearly as bad.
Of course if perf isn't a problem then you don't need it. But the kernel is *vastly* different in each of the several versions.
Just for giggles is anybody reading this currently using NT4?
Just put your AP on the floor beside the TV and just work from the couch.
I call that the Chicks fighting game. I love it.
Apparently the servers to serve up the server load graph couldn't handle the load.
A lot of how people define you has more with how they see themselves.
Didn't the Blue screen of Death happen on an XBox? That's tightly controlled by Microsoft.
I once did a calculation of how quickly my PC could add up floating point 1.1 a billion times, and using Moore's Law realized that we'd hit Plank Time for the communication of information in about 150 years.
I first heard a story like this out of Research Tringle Park with Carolina Power and Light in like -- 1993 or something absurd. Gigabit ethernet over powerlines.
The phone company also told me someting about "IFiddle" -- I guess it's IFDL -- probably fiber.
Heh. Or turn 35. :-)
Teacher's pet.
So, Microsoft is going to sell anti-Spyware and anti-Virus tools to fix holes in their own product.
Won't they have an incentive not to fix bugs, and possibly even create bugs, in the OS? Because they can just charge you can extra $20 to fix it.
Gates says everybody who uses FireFox has IE installed too, so he's not worried.
What a jerk! They wouldn't have IE installed if Microsoft didn't force everybody to install it!
I paid about $900 (some time back) for a NEC 1850E. The resolution is fixed as 1280x1024.
I still need a CRT to play games at 1600x1200 but I swear it's a lot nicer to have my 18" LCD on the desktop instead. I'm no chick but not having that giant monitor on the desk makes the desk so much cleaner and makes feel feel less like a dorkarama.
There's no HDTV I can justify buying now. The only one worth buying is the $35,000 Mitsubishi one which is basically a 50" computer monitor.
Even the $15,000 plasmas you see on MTV cribs have motion artifacts.
I'm not saying they all suck, I'm just saying I can't justify any of them right now.
I don't know if it makes the top 20, but the mini-games in LSL are the worst idea in history. I hope whoever came up with that idea is shot.
It's more fun to be anally raped at the dentist than to play those games.
I'm not trolling. Stop modding me down. Jesus, can't you have an opinion on Slashdot anymore? Modding is so formulaic now, a robot could do it.
It seems to me that midrange AMD is far better than midrange Intel for games -- so this is probably why the impression "AMD rules for games" is out there. Buncha kids with no money think it is.
But my 3.2 P4 Northwood running at 3.52 with 6800GT seems plenty competitive -- with everything except the FX 55, which is *extraordinarily expensive*.
It seems that AMD is better at the low end and the extreme high end, but the "ordinary" high end (3500+ and 3.2 P4), Intel and AMD are about the same. Plus with things like MPEG encoding and compiling, which is also important to me, P4 beats even the AMD FX.
So AMD is only better than Intel at the extreme high end and the low end. But the low end isn't worth playing at, unless you ain't got no money.
So in short it seems to me that in the real world a 3.2@3.52 P4 is plenty great for games.
Or would an AMD 3500+ give me a "smoother feeling" experience?
I've been burned by too many Wired stories that sounded just like this and later turned out to be "creative fiction about real events."
This one stinks of a magical "how my company got started story." I bet the real story is far more prosaic.
This just seems like Wired wrote it, bad.
I always wanted to follow Tolkien's calendar -- 12 months of exactly 30 days, with the residue celebrated as Special Days which have no "weekday name".
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Saturday, Sunday, Overlithe, Monday, Tuesday,
How cool would it be to celebrate Afterfilthe?