A lot of FTP servers also do a reverse identd connection as well. Lots of SMTP servers do this as well. I've always been rather curious as to why they do this : How many people have REAL information in there?
If you want your program to run under a configured account when the computer is booted them you want to create a service and that'll do exactly what you want. If you don't have tools that can create a service (all major tools can. On Friday I quickly modified a server app from a Delphi application to a multithread service) then use the NT Resource Kit and the program "SRVANY.EXE" which is used to wrap a standard application as a service. Of course generally if an application is a service you forsake a GUI (which should be ay okay).
Point #2 is classic and dubious : If you EVER use a PC that isn't under your complete control them you shouldn't be doing anything you shouldn't be doing. All your keystrokes, your pacing, you web sites, etc., can and possibly are logged.
Rob Landley is a long-time anti-capitalist Slashdot-crowd-wanting sort of guy, and if you've read any of his previous offers you would quicky discount pretty much everything he says because you can see how it all fits into his religious mission. I believe not too long ago one was expressing how "Intellectual Property" was an oxymoron, a previous one was describing how Microsoft was doomed and Linux was taking over the world, and now this one. Surprize surprize surprize.
Sorry but if anything I'd call him a Karma whore. Maybe he can't get unearned points over at the Fool, but he can hope to hit the nail on the head as far as `proving' the point of the majority of Slashdot enthusiasts, thereby earning certain hits. Just look here with all the "We should forward this to every big company, blah blah blah" : What do they care? This is one guy who has the rather low level job of contributing articles for an online ezine. He hardly qualifies as the be all and end all.
Who the hell thought this has even the slightest ounce of credibility??? The idea of Sega giving these clowns stock options is absolutely ridiculous, and the idea that it would be considered anything more than a pathetic prank is unbelievable. If Sega knew who these guys were and could find them they'd have some serious civil suits on their hard.
This is the most absurd story I've seen posted on here...beating even the little kid who worked for Microsoft prank. Can't the stories themselves be moderated into oblivion?
It is extremely disturbing to see Kirch's several "papers" referenced many times regarding NT : Despite Kirch's MCP status he has shown AMAZING ignorance several times regarding Windows NT. Just glancing through the piece of tripe linked in the article and I see this gem:
This single difference between the UNIX and Windows operating systems further underscores the original intentions of their respective designers: UNIX was conceived as a client/server operating system for professional use, whereas Windows and its descendents sprang from DOS, an operating system that was never intended to be a player in a client/server environment, much less a server.
To put it bluntly: WHAT A FUCKING IDIOT. Zealotry disturbs me. Seeing people yap nonsense because they think they are forwarding some sacred cause is the bane of mankind and has led to many wars and persecutions. To give Kirch a clue : If you don't know what you're talking about, shut the hell up. When I read another of his disertations extolling Linux and "revealing" the flaws of NT I was AMAZED that it was going over so smoothly to the Slashdot crowd who I assumed must know more. If he's an MCP (a nonsense designation anyways. MCPs are weenies who couldn't manage to get their MCSE : BTW if you are going to discredit it and you don't have it then you have no credibility) then he must have gotten his Windows For Workgroups 3.11 designation or something because he certainly knows very, very little about Windows NT.
Further proof of the complete SHIT worthiness of that article is the foundation that all that counts for NT is what comes on the CD. Who cares if you can download just about anything you can get for Linux for NT, Redhat RVL3Z because they stuck tonnes and tonnes of crap on the CD, therefore it's more full featured. How utterly absurd.
Just to clarify my position : I believe you should use whatever best achieves your purpose, however zealotry has no place in IT or software development. I personally love FreeBSD and it has a place in my systems as well as NT/2000, but I still consider Linux to be subpar: a decision that goes along with my absolute disgust at the communist manifesto nonsense that goes along with the whole GPL religion.
Call me a skeptic but I can't help but think this is a ploy to get tens of thousands of hits streaming to the page of some guy who lamely ripped off another website's page. Seriously isn't this rewarding someone for thievery? It's one thing to say "Is it okay to rip off a sites look" but it's quite another to say "Hey everybody, go visit this guy".
You can pick any single genre and usually you can amass an application count in the thousands. It is exceedingly easy to believe that there are well over 70,000 currently maintained applications for the Win32 platform, and that's purely considering the huge myriad of productivity apps. Add in thousands of games, tens or hundreds of thousands of utilities, etc.
This is a really stupid topic for discussion on Slashdot, though I think it does clearly separate those who are in the industry and known the generalities of the marketplace, and those who live in dream worlds of Linuxland (I'm talking about the posts by people who agree with the findings of that "study"). From reading some prelims on how these people deduced their numbers it sounds like their method was EXTREMELY dubious and they really don't have a clue what they're talking about. Sure everyone can pretend they're a scientist or statistician : The problem is when they are given the airwaves to yap their nonsense.
The title is a humor title, however it's interesting seeing the reaction to anything like this. Okay folks, Linux users make up 90% of the population! There, are you happy? Is that more "real" to you?
Shipments do mean nothing. There are countless hoardes of people out there who never paid for their copy of Windows, and by the same token there are tonnes of people who've picked up countless Redhat x.x CDs at the local bargain bin but have never done more than put them on their rack.
All that really matters at the metrics of actual usage, because copies sitting on people's shelves mean nothing. By that token the most recent study put Linux users at approximately 0.29% of the Internet browsing public, down from 0.32% of a month earlier. I'm sure that will be a rather stark number for a lot of the rose coloured dreamers lusting for the day that Linus is the true leader of the masses.
Reading Tom yapping about how no one needs more than 1Ghz drives me nuts. I remember hearing that bullshit argument several years ago: "What could you possibly need more than a 383/33 for? There's nothing that needs more power than that!" I went from 450 to 667 and the change was very, very obvious to me in all sorts of applications, and just generally in the environment in general. Flight Simulator 2000, however, still begs for more power (yes yes yes...it's because it's an evil empire product, but it's also because it has an enormously complex environment simulating a gigantic swath of the world. Several simulators, such as GP3, having physics models that push the limits of the processors. New innovative interfaces using 3D techniques and modelling, overlays, etc., beg for more processing power. Don't EVER say that no one has any need for it unless you accept a myopic vision as the truth just because you're saying it.
Having said that you know Tom's purely pissing on Intel (presumably because he didn't get the microcode : WHO DO INTEL THINK THEY ARE? Don't they realize the importance of Tom Pabst?!) when you read : "A 3D modeler? Well, moving wire frame models around is again limited by the 3D chip and the scene rendering is done faster with an Athlon processor at less clock speed anyway." in reference to why no one needs more than 1Ghz. Okay firstly the wire frame model is only accelerated by the video hardware if you have a GeForce (2) or a professional video card : Does everyone have one of those? Secondly the rendering is begging for every microta of processing power you can give it. An array of 64 Xeon's : It's still begging for more. To simply jump over this and say that an Athlon does it better completely defeats this whole "no one needs more than 1Ghz" bogus article. In 6 months I'd love if everyone remembered Tom's wisdom in this.
Tom's Hardware has absolutely and positively no credibility IMHO. Every one of his articles are another diatribe exposing the truth about some big bad company or another. If he isn't trashing the GeForce, RAMBUS, Intel, or anyone else he knows is an easy target he's putting out fluff articles. Complete and utter waste of time.
My take is that this is all because of the whole nvidia deal from a couple of years ago where Tom, in an absolute BLAZING display of gross arrogance (to the point of being mentally incompetent) actually argued publicly with id about whether or not benchmarking in Quake worked properly (id said that benchmarking was not working and should not be used. Tom then used it and published his results claiming that he discovered some great secret. What a quack).
To see Tom (or one of his croonies who he's trained to write in the same vitriol piss-and-vinegar speak) shitting on Intel is absolutely no surprise, and seeing that several other sites manage to run the processor without any problems casts a significant amount of doubt over the voracity of this article.
Benchmarks are useless unless you have a replica of their configuration as various subsystem drivers have varying levels of maturity for each of the respective systems.
Just about everyone on Napster has wised up and they put down their connection speed as 14.4. If you pay attention to ping speeds and go to someone with a fast connection, you find that they disconnect halfway through your download with alarm consistency. I'd say two months ago I could find anything easily and could download it quickly. In the past month downloads ABSOLUTELY CRAWL, and a good portion of them abort halfway through.
Let's face it: The only reason Napster has exceled is because it basically forces people to return the favour (i.e. you grab files then you are also sharing them), however most people when given their own choice don't WANT to return the favour! See the 14.4 scenario : No one wants people to see them as a good server. I would wager that a good portion of people have there serving directory nice and cleaned out to make sure they are listing no files themselves.
IMHO Napster is very similar to Warez : You get your heart set on getting a particular program and you head out to the local #warez-dcc channel and start looking for FTP sites, DCC servers, etc. After many hours of missing files, corrupt archives, FTP servers that mysteriously shutdown just as you're finishing a file, you run to the local EB and buy it because you're so pissed and you now just want to get the bloody software. I think it is prudent and very wise for the software companies to put up their own `warez' servers that serve up crap, and I have a good feeling that they do : What else could explain 20 ZIPs inside 17 RAR's inside a ZIP that's packed into a PAK that's inside a ARJ, etc. etc. etc., and when you finally get to the milky center you discover a corrupt file.
Napster is pretty much the same. It is close to useless now even bothering with Napster because the noise ratio is EXTREMELY high and the bogus song ratio is increasing dramatically. If I was the music industry I would do my best to fill Napster full of noise and garbage, and I'll bet that's exactly what they do.
Meaningless? I think you're going a little overboard. While it would be nice in the memory infrastructure and I/O subsystems could keep up, increasing the clock speed on today's systems does give a noticable performance increase and it is hardly meaningless.
I just swapped my 450 for a 667 and the difference is VERY noticable across the board (not only due to the 48% clock increase but also the slightly improved core of the P-III over my old P-II). Q3 and derivatives (i.e. ST:Elite Forces) run smoother more consistently now and I'm running with a GeForce DDR card as well so the CPU should be even less of a factor.
Falcon 4 finally runs somewhat acceptably. That was a game WAY ahead of its time.
They didn't remove the ability to overclock, they removed the ability to alter the clock-multiplier. Many people still overclock by modifying the FSB speed (and of course the core is the multiplier x the FSB).
I don't have to justify whatever it is that I happen to enjoy, nor does anyone else. By the same token (whatever that saying really means...) it offends me when other's pass judgement over what I enjoy and proclaim superiority of their way of life or idle time activities.
The really, really sad part is that shows like Survivor bring the holier than though, pathos for society fools such as yourself out of the workwork. Guide our way oh holy PBS watching, non-Survivor enjoying hero! Show us the path to true enlightenment.
Life is about enjoyment : If you enjoy sitting there watching grass grow then you're the smart one because you know how to live life to its fullest (which isn't making the most money [unless that's what you really enjoy] or having the most sex, or whatever, it's whatever makes you happiest). Growing up I spent a good portion of my time in front of the computer programming away because I enjoyed that activity over any other : I got to experience fools such as yourself doling out their wisdom over my choice of voluntary activity countless times, and each time it reinforced my belief that people should save their opinions of how other people enjoy relaxation or entertainment time because no one gives a shit. All you do is parade yourself in front of society as another fool justifying their existence by proclaiming their worth over the lowly masses. Who's the fool?
I enjoy survivor because I work at a very intellectual job and I spend a good portion of my out of work time programming or pursuing furthering in the software engineering field. Occasionally I like to appreciate something that doesn't require mental stimulation and simply can be enjoyed for what it is. Ironically a factory working friend constantly trumps up the fact that he doesn't have cable, he doesn't listen to popular music, etc. I can't help but wonder if it's compensation for his monkey-level job.
I did no scientific bechmarks on it, but the demo apps we built on Kylix compiled at least 10 times faster than the same code on their own Windows box Boy does that sound like a load of bullshit, and I'm saying that as a professional Delphi 3/4/5 developer. Are you comparing this with Delphi 5? On a P-II 450 Delphi 5 (or 4 or 3) compiles all but EXTREMELY large projects in a virtual instant, so how exactly are you timing this FUD 10 times faster claim? The reality is that the demo was likely extremely simple and compiled close to instantly on both machines.
Linux doesn't make the processor run any faster, and in Windows 2000 or NT 4 the processor sits at 0% when I'm not doing anything, leaving 100% for Delphi to do its thing in, so any difference between the OS' will purely be the result of the coding abilities of Borland/Inprise. The file system is unmatched in 2000 (NTFS) and the memory infrastructure is good. Having said that what would be the difference? Does Windows insert special SLOW_DOWN_OP opcodes in the instruction stream? Does Linux have special RUN_SUPER_FAST_OP opcodes? No of course it doesn't. Barring multithreaded or multiprocess issues, where 2000 is considered superior anyones, there'll be no real difference. The operating system is a facilitator, it isn't an interpreter.
Something like Kylix for Linux (although it'll be astronomically more complex than a Project1/Edit1 type demos that port great) is a great step and it'll be great being able to port to Linux relatively easily, but the reality is that it brings realism to the equation : Why bother with Linux? What does it really offer (apart from the ridiculous 10x faster FUD) that you don't get (usually better) in Windows 2000? Forwarding a cult, or conversely spitting in the face of Microsoft, isn't a valid selling point for most corporations (except for Sun "you don't have any privacy so get over it" and dumpster diving Oracle).
Good to see Inprise doing this though as they are an awesome company with some incredible products. From a educated perspective I will say that the whole porting issue will be infinitely more complex than many portray it, but it'll definitely be easier than using two totally disparate development platforms.
The locking model? What about the locking model is troublesome to you? Unfortunately a vague "study the locking model" doesn't cut it as a valid complaint against SQL Server, and your scaling argument has been disproven quite heavily in any case.
See this. It's from Microsoft but facts are facts.
A reasonable interpretation of what you're trying to convey could be "TPC-C isn't respected by those of us who dislike the fact that Microsoft has a product that does well in them, therefore it no longer holds merit."
While metrics might be prone to skewing truths, it's far more valid that someone anecdotally telling us that Oracle is "far faster", or anything along those line. I'll trust metrics anyday over zealot rantings.
BTW: Oracle, despite claiming that SQL Server isn't a viable threat (despite bitch slapping Oracle's db pretty badly), seems to be strangely fearful of Microsoft and is doing insidious things like what we are seeing now. Looks like a company that's scared to me, and they should be because I hope MS slaps those losers back to the ghetto.
SQL Server 7, and the upcoming 2000, are extremely good products, and have been applauded as such over and over again. You sound like Ellison and his ridiculous "Uh, SQL Server is a non-factor" : Does anyone believe this? No one in the real database world does, that's for sure.
SQL Server 7 continues to make serious inroads into the small to mid-sized database, and SQL Server 2000 is going to make the move up to the large database market complete. SQL Server dominates just about every $/performance and even gross performance benchmark.
Hate Microsoft all you want, but when you spout bullshit, deny reality rhetoric in a public forum expect someone to expose you for the idiot that you are.
There is no overhead to in-process COM objects. Why do you presume that there's a lot of overhead? Obviously there will be overhead for out-of-process simply via the IPC needs, how for inprocess it's a simple V-table.
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A lot of FTP servers also do a reverse identd connection as well. Lots of SMTP servers do this as well. I've always been rather curious as to why they do this : How many people have REAL information in there?
If you want your program to run under a configured account when the computer is booted them you want to create a service and that'll do exactly what you want. If you don't have tools that can create a service (all major tools can. On Friday I quickly modified a server app from a Delphi application to a multithread service) then use the NT Resource Kit and the program "SRVANY.EXE" which is used to wrap a standard application as a service. Of course generally if an application is a service you forsake a GUI (which should be ay okay).
Cheers
Point #2 is classic and dubious : If you EVER use a PC that isn't under your complete control them you shouldn't be doing anything you shouldn't be doing. All your keystrokes, your pacing, you web sites, etc., can and possibly are logged.
Rob Landley is a long-time anti-capitalist Slashdot-crowd-wanting sort of guy, and if you've read any of his previous offers you would quicky discount pretty much everything he says because you can see how it all fits into his religious mission. I believe not too long ago one was expressing how "Intellectual Property" was an oxymoron, a previous one was describing how Microsoft was doomed and Linux was taking over the world, and now this one. Surprize surprize surprize.
Sorry but if anything I'd call him a Karma whore. Maybe he can't get unearned points over at the Fool, but he can hope to hit the nail on the head as far as `proving' the point of the majority of Slashdot enthusiasts, thereby earning certain hits. Just look here with all the "We should forward this to every big company, blah blah blah" : What do they care? This is one guy who has the rather low level job of contributing articles for an online ezine. He hardly qualifies as the be all and end all.
Who the hell thought this has even the slightest ounce of credibility??? The idea of Sega giving these clowns stock options is absolutely ridiculous, and the idea that it would be considered anything more than a pathetic prank is unbelievable. If Sega knew who these guys were and could find them they'd have some serious civil suits on their hard.
This is the most absurd story I've seen posted on here...beating even the little kid who worked for Microsoft prank. Can't the stories themselves be moderated into oblivion?
It is extremely disturbing to see Kirch's several "papers" referenced many times regarding NT : Despite Kirch's MCP status he has shown AMAZING ignorance several times regarding Windows NT. Just glancing through the piece of tripe linked in the article and I see this gem:
This single difference between the UNIX and Windows operating systems further underscores the original intentions of their respective designers: UNIX was conceived as a client/server operating system for professional use, whereas Windows and its descendents sprang from DOS, an operating system that was never intended to be a player in a client/server environment, much less a server.To put it bluntly: WHAT A FUCKING IDIOT. Zealotry disturbs me. Seeing people yap nonsense because they think they are forwarding some sacred cause is the bane of mankind and has led to many wars and persecutions. To give Kirch a clue : If you don't know what you're talking about, shut the hell up. When I read another of his disertations extolling Linux and "revealing" the flaws of NT I was AMAZED that it was going over so smoothly to the Slashdot crowd who I assumed must know more. If he's an MCP (a nonsense designation anyways. MCPs are weenies who couldn't manage to get their MCSE : BTW if you are going to discredit it and you don't have it then you have no credibility) then he must have gotten his Windows For Workgroups 3.11 designation or something because he certainly knows very, very little about Windows NT.
Further proof of the complete SHIT worthiness of that article is the foundation that all that counts for NT is what comes on the CD. Who cares if you can download just about anything you can get for Linux for NT, Redhat RVL3Z because they stuck tonnes and tonnes of crap on the CD, therefore it's more full featured. How utterly absurd.
Just to clarify my position : I believe you should use whatever best achieves your purpose, however zealotry has no place in IT or software development. I personally love FreeBSD and it has a place in my systems as well as NT/2000, but I still consider Linux to be subpar: a decision that goes along with my absolute disgust at the communist manifesto nonsense that goes along with the whole GPL religion.
Have a good day
Call me a skeptic but I can't help but think this is a ploy to get tens of thousands of hits streaming to the page of some guy who lamely ripped off another website's page. Seriously isn't this rewarding someone for thievery? It's one thing to say "Is it okay to rip off a sites look" but it's quite another to say "Hey everybody, go visit this guy".
Just meandering. Wheee.
You can pick any single genre and usually you can amass an application count in the thousands. It is exceedingly easy to believe that there are well over 70,000 currently maintained applications for the Win32 platform, and that's purely considering the huge myriad of productivity apps. Add in thousands of games, tens or hundreds of thousands of utilities, etc.
This is a really stupid topic for discussion on Slashdot, though I think it does clearly separate those who are in the industry and known the generalities of the marketplace, and those who live in dream worlds of Linuxland (I'm talking about the posts by people who agree with the findings of that "study"). From reading some prelims on how these people deduced their numbers it sounds like their method was EXTREMELY dubious and they really don't have a clue what they're talking about. Sure everyone can pretend they're a scientist or statistician : The problem is when they are given the airwaves to yap their nonsense.
The title is a humor title, however it's interesting seeing the reaction to anything like this. Okay folks, Linux users make up 90% of the population! There, are you happy? Is that more "real" to you?
Shipments do mean nothing. There are countless hoardes of people out there who never paid for their copy of Windows, and by the same token there are tonnes of people who've picked up countless Redhat x.x CDs at the local bargain bin but have never done more than put them on their rack.
All that really matters at the metrics of actual usage, because copies sitting on people's shelves mean nothing. By that token the most recent study put Linux users at approximately 0.29% of the Internet browsing public, down from 0.32% of a month earlier. I'm sure that will be a rather stark number for a lot of the rose coloured dreamers lusting for the day that Linus is the true leader of the masses.
Reading Tom yapping about how no one needs more than 1Ghz drives me nuts. I remember hearing that bullshit argument several years ago: "What could you possibly need more than a 383/33 for? There's nothing that needs more power than that!" I went from 450 to 667 and the change was very, very obvious to me in all sorts of applications, and just generally in the environment in general. Flight Simulator 2000, however, still begs for more power (yes yes yes...it's because it's an evil empire product, but it's also because it has an enormously complex environment simulating a gigantic swath of the world. Several simulators, such as GP3, having physics models that push the limits of the processors. New innovative interfaces using 3D techniques and modelling, overlays, etc., beg for more processing power. Don't EVER say that no one has any need for it unless you accept a myopic vision as the truth just because you're saying it.
Having said that you know Tom's purely pissing on Intel (presumably because he didn't get the microcode : WHO DO INTEL THINK THEY ARE? Don't they realize the importance of Tom Pabst?!) when you read : "A 3D modeler? Well, moving wire frame models around is again limited by the 3D chip and the scene rendering is done faster with an Athlon processor at less clock speed anyway." in reference to why no one needs more than 1Ghz. Okay firstly the wire frame model is only accelerated by the video hardware if you have a GeForce (2) or a professional video card : Does everyone have one of those? Secondly the rendering is begging for every microta of processing power you can give it. An array of 64 Xeon's : It's still begging for more. To simply jump over this and say that an Athlon does it better completely defeats this whole "no one needs more than 1Ghz" bogus article. In 6 months I'd love if everyone remembered Tom's wisdom in this.
Tom's Hardware has absolutely and positively no credibility IMHO. Every one of his articles are another diatribe exposing the truth about some big bad company or another. If he isn't trashing the GeForce, RAMBUS, Intel, or anyone else he knows is an easy target he's putting out fluff articles. Complete and utter waste of time.
My take is that this is all because of the whole nvidia deal from a couple of years ago where Tom, in an absolute BLAZING display of gross arrogance (to the point of being mentally incompetent) actually argued publicly with id about whether or not benchmarking in Quake worked properly (id said that benchmarking was not working and should not be used. Tom then used it and published his results claiming that he discovered some great secret. What a quack).
To see Tom (or one of his croonies who he's trained to write in the same vitriol piss-and-vinegar speak) shitting on Intel is absolutely no surprise, and seeing that several other sites manage to run the processor without any problems casts a significant amount of doubt over the voracity of this article.
Cheers.
Benchmarks are useless unless you have a replica of their configuration as various subsystem drivers have varying levels of maturity for each of the respective systems.
Just about everyone on Napster has wised up and they put down their connection speed as 14.4. If you pay attention to ping speeds and go to someone with a fast connection, you find that they disconnect halfway through your download with alarm consistency. I'd say two months ago I could find anything easily and could download it quickly. In the past month downloads ABSOLUTELY CRAWL, and a good portion of them abort halfway through.
Let's face it: The only reason Napster has exceled is because it basically forces people to return the favour (i.e. you grab files then you are also sharing them), however most people when given their own choice don't WANT to return the favour! See the 14.4 scenario : No one wants people to see them as a good server. I would wager that a good portion of people have there serving directory nice and cleaned out to make sure they are listing no files themselves.
IMHO Napster is very similar to Warez : You get your heart set on getting a particular program and you head out to the local #warez-dcc channel and start looking for FTP sites, DCC servers, etc. After many hours of missing files, corrupt archives, FTP servers that mysteriously shutdown just as you're finishing a file, you run to the local EB and buy it because you're so pissed and you now just want to get the bloody software. I think it is prudent and very wise for the software companies to put up their own `warez' servers that serve up crap, and I have a good feeling that they do : What else could explain 20 ZIPs inside 17 RAR's inside a ZIP that's packed into a PAK that's inside a ARJ, etc. etc. etc., and when you finally get to the milky center you discover a corrupt file.
Napster is pretty much the same. It is close to useless now even bothering with Napster because the noise ratio is EXTREMELY high and the bogus song ratio is increasing dramatically. If I was the music industry I would do my best to fill Napster full of noise and garbage, and I'll bet that's exactly what they do.
Meaningless? I think you're going a little overboard. While it would be nice in the memory infrastructure and I/O subsystems could keep up, increasing the clock speed on today's systems does give a noticable performance increase and it is hardly meaningless.
I just swapped my 450 for a 667 and the difference is VERY noticable across the board (not only due to the 48% clock increase but also the slightly improved core of the P-III over my old P-II). Q3 and derivatives (i.e. ST:Elite Forces) run smoother more consistently now and I'm running with a GeForce DDR card as well so the CPU should be even less of a factor.
Falcon 4 finally runs somewhat acceptably. That was a game WAY ahead of its time.
They didn't remove the ability to overclock, they removed the ability to alter the clock-multiplier. Many people still overclock by modifying the FSB speed (and of course the core is the multiplier x the FSB).
I don't have to justify whatever it is that I happen to enjoy, nor does anyone else. By the same token (whatever that saying really means...) it offends me when other's pass judgement over what I enjoy and proclaim superiority of their way of life or idle time activities.
The really, really sad part is that shows like Survivor bring the holier than though, pathos for society fools such as yourself out of the workwork. Guide our way oh holy PBS watching, non-Survivor enjoying hero! Show us the path to true enlightenment.
Life is about enjoyment : If you enjoy sitting there watching grass grow then you're the smart one because you know how to live life to its fullest (which isn't making the most money [unless that's what you really enjoy] or having the most sex, or whatever, it's whatever makes you happiest). Growing up I spent a good portion of my time in front of the computer programming away because I enjoyed that activity over any other : I got to experience fools such as yourself doling out their wisdom over my choice of voluntary activity countless times, and each time it reinforced my belief that people should save their opinions of how other people enjoy relaxation or entertainment time because no one gives a shit. All you do is parade yourself in front of society as another fool justifying their existence by proclaiming their worth over the lowly masses. Who's the fool?
I enjoy survivor because I work at a very intellectual job and I spend a good portion of my out of work time programming or pursuing furthering in the software engineering field. Occasionally I like to appreciate something that doesn't require mental stimulation and simply can be enjoyed for what it is. Ironically a factory working friend constantly trumps up the fact that he doesn't have cable, he doesn't listen to popular music, etc. I can't help but wonder if it's compensation for his monkey-level job.I did no scientific bechmarks on it, but the demo apps we built on Kylix compiled at least 10 times faster than the same code on their own Windows box
Boy does that sound like a load of bullshit, and I'm saying that as a professional Delphi 3/4/5 developer. Are you comparing this with Delphi 5? On a P-II 450 Delphi 5 (or 4 or 3) compiles all but EXTREMELY large projects in a virtual instant, so how exactly are you timing this FUD 10 times faster claim? The reality is that the demo was likely extremely simple and compiled close to instantly on both machines.
Linux doesn't make the processor run any faster, and in Windows 2000 or NT 4 the processor sits at 0% when I'm not doing anything, leaving 100% for Delphi to do its thing in, so any difference between the OS' will purely be the result of the coding abilities of Borland/Inprise. The file system is unmatched in 2000 (NTFS) and the memory infrastructure is good. Having said that what would be the difference? Does Windows insert special SLOW_DOWN_OP opcodes in the instruction stream? Does Linux have special RUN_SUPER_FAST_OP opcodes? No of course it doesn't. Barring multithreaded or multiprocess issues, where 2000 is considered superior anyones, there'll be no real difference. The operating system is a facilitator, it isn't an interpreter.
Something like Kylix for Linux (although it'll be astronomically more complex than a Project1/Edit1 type demos that port great) is a great step and it'll be great being able to port to Linux relatively easily, but the reality is that it brings realism to the equation : Why bother with Linux? What does it really offer (apart from the ridiculous 10x faster FUD) that you don't get (usually better) in Windows 2000? Forwarding a cult, or conversely spitting in the face of Microsoft, isn't a valid selling point for most corporations (except for Sun "you don't have any privacy so get over it" and dumpster diving Oracle).
Good to see Inprise doing this though as they are an awesome company with some incredible products. From a educated perspective I will say that the whole porting issue will be infinitely more complex than many portray it, but it'll definitely be easier than using two totally disparate development platforms.
Cheers.
The locking model? What about the locking model is troublesome to you? Unfortunately a vague "study the locking model" doesn't cut it as a valid complaint against SQL Server, and your scaling argument has been disproven quite heavily in any case.
See this. It's from Microsoft but facts are facts.
TPC-C isn't even respected anymore
A reasonable interpretation of what you're trying to convey could be "TPC-C isn't respected by those of us who dislike the fact that Microsoft has a product that does well in them, therefore it no longer holds merit."
While metrics might be prone to skewing truths, it's far more valid that someone anecdotally telling us that Oracle is "far faster", or anything along those line. I'll trust metrics anyday over zealot rantings.
BTW: Oracle, despite claiming that SQL Server isn't a viable threat (despite bitch slapping Oracle's db pretty badly), seems to be strangely fearful of Microsoft and is doing insidious things like what we are seeing now. Looks like a company that's scared to me, and they should be because I hope MS slaps those losers back to the ghetto.
SQL Server 7, and the upcoming 2000, are extremely good products, and have been applauded as such over and over again. You sound like Ellison and his ridiculous "Uh, SQL Server is a non-factor" : Does anyone believe this? No one in the real database world does, that's for sure.
SQL Server 7 continues to make serious inroads into the small to mid-sized database, and SQL Server 2000 is going to make the move up to the large database market complete. SQL Server dominates just about every $/performance and even gross performance benchmark.
Hate Microsoft all you want, but when you spout bullshit, deny reality rhetoric in a public forum expect someone to expose you for the idiot that you are.
There is no overhead to in-process COM objects. Why do you presume that there's a lot of overhead? Obviously there will be overhead for out-of-process simply via the IPC needs, how for inprocess it's a simple V-table.