That guy obviously has no clue as to how TCP/IP works. Whilst what he's saying might be correct if you were just shoving ethernet frames out of the network card, instead in the real world people have TCP/IP on top of that, which won't just keep sending packets as fast as it can no matter how many are dropped.
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Wait, HTTP runs over TCP, which runs over IP.
But of course people keep using IP to mean intellectual property instead of Internet Protocol now!
Help! We're running out of TLAs! (And other sorts of acronyms too)
CNN are owned by AOL/Time Warner. AOL/Time Warner control two of the four major instant messaging systems (AOL, ICQ, the other two being MSN and IRC). CNN and other AOL/Time Warner owned news corps start bad-mouthing IRC, making it less socially acceptable. Many IRC servers are run from Universities, and with IRC becoming less socially acceptable justifying the related costs becomes more and more difficult. IRC dwindles in market share, with AOL taking up the slack. AOL's network now has a massive number of subscribers, and can even compete with Microsoft, who bundle their chat client with their operating systems.
Javascript really has very little to do with Java, other than the first four letters and a small amount of syntax.
Java really needn't be slow, especially if using 1.2 or above. As for buggy, a program can have bugs whatever langauge it's written in, but the nature of Java maks them less likely than say, C.
I've not used this card, but I used to play NTSC DVDs on a PAL TV using an ATI All-in-Wonder Pro. It *could* have been outputting PAL60, as the TV I was using did support this, but afaik, the TV out is just outputting a signal to the TV as it would a monitor - the DVD being NTSC or PAL shouldn't make any difference, it's outputting at 60hz anyway.
It's a perfect demonstration why having everything closed-source and binary only and then trying to get it all to interoperate is a very bad idea indeed.
Except that Farnsworth didn't invent television; Baird did. Baird demonstrated the first television in 1926; Farnsworth didn't demonstrate his until a year later. Whilst Farnsworth's invention was far more advanced technology-wise (using as it did a CRT, which was invented by Karl Braun but refined by Farnsworth), that still doesn't make him the inventor of telvision.
Anyway, in the UK the BBC was originally the 'British Broadcasting Company', but in 1927 it came into state ownership and became the 'British Broadcasting Corporation'. The idea was to create something half-way between the completely unregulated US and the completely state controlled Soviet system. Basically the belief was (and I believe the quality of programming bears this out) that capitalism created poor quality output, and it was also a bad idea to have everything directly controlled by the state.
I'll just point out that Dell's bottom of the line systems run Windows/Linux FAST. Whereas with Apple "oh, shouldn't have bought that, you really need the top of the line to make OS X fast".
Bullshit, try running Win XP or Linux+Gnome+Nautlius on a bottom of the line PC and you'll find it's a similar speed to an iBook with Mac OS X.
I don't think the author ever pretended he was the first one to come up with the ideas he mentions in the article. Just because someone has already written a book along the same lines it doesn't make the article useless.
Having said that, the fact that he offers no alternatives does make the value of the article questionable. But perhaps the point of the article was to raise ideas of how one could evaluate the amount of work done - and the author didn't want to bias this by suggesting a particular method?
If so, then this is far preferable than an 'Ask Slashdot - how do I measure my programmer's productivity?'
Does Hurd bring other advantages to it that Darwin doesn't already have?
Yes, unlike Darwin, Hurd is Free, not just source-avaliable.
It'll be interesting to see how Hurd performs against Linux once it's more mature. I strongly suspect that Linux will kick Hurd's arse performance wise, but that remains to be seen. Another Free operating system is of course always welcome..:)
The lack of source code and the lack of community-driven development. The source you mention is Darwin, not the source for Mac OS X, and besides, it's not really Free anyway..
If someone who doesn't know shit about computers asks me what computer they should buy, I'd happily recommend them a Mac with OS X; for a 'Unix hacker' OS X really is not the operating system to go for.
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No one asking you to pay. Last time I checked you didn't have any code in PGP anyway.
Maybe you ought to look at the post this was a reply-to-a-reply to, or even the post that you replied to.
You must smoke even more weed than me to have that much memory loss..
For those that don't know the backhistory, Square left Nintendo when the N64 went from a CD-based system to a cartridge-based.
Not quite - although Nintendo had some prorotype CD-based consoles, these were never confirmed, and I don't think devkits were ever shipped to thirdparty developers.
The real issue was in Nintedo going for a cartdridge-based format where only Nintendo could manufacture the cartridges, with Nintendo taking a large cut of profits. It also meant that games were to be priced much higher than rival systems. Square started development of FFVII for the N64, but it was cancelled after Nintendo refused to cut a better deal for Square re cartridge manufacture.
You can set many mail servers up to only allow smtp relaying after auser has been authorised by checking POP3. Pretty much every email client supports this by default.
A quick google found this for qmail, but there are plenty of similar solutions for other mail servers.
That's funny, I have a machine sitting next to me with an early Supermicro 440BX motherboard. It knows nothing of ACPI, and yet will power-off when I halt my PC (I don't do Windows, so I really wouldn't know about that).
For the afforementioned clue I suggest you have a quick read of/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c - you'll find that the power-off has nothing to do with ACPI.
I won't deem the rest of your comment with a reply.
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That guy obviously has no clue as to how TCP/IP works. Whilst what he's saying might be correct if you were just shoving ethernet frames out of the network card, instead in the real world people have TCP/IP on top of that, which won't just keep sending packets as fast as it can no matter how many are dropped.
But of course people keep using IP to mean intellectual property instead of Internet Protocol now!
Help! We're running out of TLAs! (And other sorts of acronyms too)
CNN are owned by AOL/Time Warner. AOL/Time Warner control two of the four major instant messaging systems (AOL, ICQ, the other two being MSN and IRC). CNN and other AOL/Time Warner owned news corps start bad-mouthing IRC, making it less socially acceptable. Many IRC servers are run from Universities, and with IRC becoming less socially acceptable justifying the related costs becomes more and more difficult. IRC dwindles in market share, with AOL taking up the slack. AOL's network now has a massive number of subscribers, and can even compete with Microsoft, who bundle their chat client with their operating systems.
Does this really sound so far-fetched?
However, if there were a robot that would assist in looking after a real pet...
Java really needn't be slow, especially if using 1.2 or above. As for buggy, a program can have bugs whatever langauge it's written in, but the nature of Java maks them less likely than say, C.
You might want to check out MPlayer, it has support for TV-out on the Matrox cards and also acceleration for them too..
Full drivers with TV-out. If you run XFree86 4.2.0 you get g550 with dual-head support out of the box..
I've not used this card, but I used to play NTSC DVDs on a PAL TV using an ATI All-in-Wonder Pro. It *could* have been outputting PAL60, as the TV I was using did support this, but afaik, the TV out is just outputting a signal to the TV as it would a monitor - the DVD being NTSC or PAL shouldn't make any difference, it's outputting at 60hz anyway.
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It's a perfect demonstration why having everything closed-source and binary only and then trying to get it all to interoperate is a very bad idea indeed.
Except that Farnsworth didn't invent television; Baird did. Baird demonstrated the first television in 1926; Farnsworth didn't demonstrate his until a year later. Whilst Farnsworth's invention was far more advanced technology-wise (using as it did a CRT, which was invented by Karl Braun but refined by Farnsworth), that still doesn't make him the inventor of telvision.
Hate to break this to you kid, but actually the inventor of television was Scottish.
Anyway, in the UK the BBC was originally the 'British Broadcasting Company', but in 1927 it came into state ownership and became the 'British Broadcasting Corporation'. The idea was to create something half-way between the completely unregulated US and the completely state controlled Soviet system. Basically the belief was (and I believe the quality of programming bears this out) that capitalism created poor quality output, and it was also a bad idea to have everything directly controlled by the state.
Bullshit, try running Win XP or Linux+Gnome+Nautlius on a bottom of the line PC and you'll find it's a similar speed to an iBook with Mac OS X.
Having said that, the fact that he offers no alternatives does make the value of the article questionable. But perhaps the point of the article was to raise ideas of how one could evaluate the amount of work done - and the author didn't want to bias this by suggesting a particular method?
If so, then this is far preferable than an 'Ask Slashdot - how do I measure my programmer's productivity?'
Go right ahead.. :)
Yet more evidence, if any was needed, that /. really needs a '-1 Needlessly paranoid' moderation item.
Of course, by giving you the source they've also given you the opportunity to check for backdoors.
I suggest you read the document I linked to - it explains why the APSL isn't Copyleft.
Yes, unlike Darwin, Hurd is Free, not just source-avaliable.
It'll be interesting to see how Hurd performs against Linux once it's more mature. I strongly suspect that Linux will kick Hurd's arse performance wise, but that remains to be seen. Another Free operating system is of course always welcome.. :)
The lack of source code and the lack of community-driven development. The source you mention is Darwin, not the source for Mac OS X, and besides, it's not really Free anyway..
If someone who doesn't know shit about computers asks me what computer they should buy, I'd happily recommend them a Mac with OS X; for a 'Unix hacker' OS X really is not the operating system to go for.
Maybe you ought to look at the post this was a reply-to-a-reply to, or even the post that you replied to.
You must smoke even more weed than me to have that much memory loss..
Not quite - although Nintendo had some prorotype CD-based consoles, these were never confirmed, and I don't think devkits were ever shipped to thirdparty developers.
The real issue was in Nintedo going for a cartdridge-based format where only Nintendo could manufacture the cartridges, with Nintendo taking a large cut of profits. It also meant that games were to be priced much higher than rival systems. Square started development of FFVII for the N64, but it was cancelled after Nintendo refused to cut a better deal for Square re cartridge manufacture.
Of course, it'll also mean many more technology jobs, which is exactly what we need right now.. who needs y2k? :)
A quick google found this for qmail, but there are plenty of similar solutions for other mail servers.
For the afforementioned clue I suggest you have a quick read of /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/apm.c - you'll find that the power-off has nothing to do with ACPI.
I won't deem the rest of your comment with a reply.