The biggest thing we must concede is that Apache and Samba both run in a Single Processor manner. If you look at the "webbench req/sec" you'll see the linux system performing on par with NT 1 Proc. I don't know about you, but to me it says apache was opened up for one processor only. They should try running 4 apaches threaded across all processors. Now we'll see how performance scales.
The reason people think of it as becoming a monopoly is not because they are making horizontal acquisitions, but rather strategic ones. In computers, you can acquire a monopoly by simply dealing in too many areas. This is the reason Microsoft is one of the first companies involved in horizontal acquistions that has gotten in trouble. They were right to say computers would change the world. They didn't know it would modify the legal world as well.
RedHat+Cygnus = A company with control over a popular environment for development (read:mindshare) Microsoft+VB,VC++,VJ++,COOL etc = A company with control over several key languages. People see this as what RedHat is trying to do. I find the Linux market to be something that naturally prevents this from happening. But, that said, it could stil happen.
Luckily a lot of what is in RedHat Linux is not developed by them. Otherwise there would be a case against them.
FDD cable floppies are $12-24, and don't require external casing or cabling. They do require the knowledge to install them, however. Brains to dollars.
That sounds familliar.. Like the "Nuclear non-test treaty" and other events where they get like 10 children to watch the president sign. Or when they tell you that the profiling is for your childs own good. When you argue with them about their terms, they simply tell you that "it's in the child's best interest and if you refuse, we'll have to assume you are against your child's best interest, and by the way, have you ever had to deal with Child/Youth services, and ya'know they can take your kids away.*"
Children are a method of coersion like any other. Bureaucracy will use any leverage to contro you. They pick your children to twist your arm.
Personally, In roleplaying, I always play a lawful good character, mostly because in online gaming it is easiest to play. But when playing Blade Runner, I always play as a replicant or replicant sympathyser when I stop to consider they are the wronged ones in the game. Makes me feel better. My whole online name is Anarchangel, not a pretty name, but a unique one. When I get ticked and try my hand at flamage, I post as such. When I'm not it's angelo...
Personally, I'm a sucker for the evil/somewhat bad myself. Perception is relative in many cases.
Any time I can identify as borg/daemon/jem'hadar/shadow/otherwise i feel like I'm getting the other side of the argument. The borg aren't evil, they are cold and logical with a natural drive to achieve perfection. Can't argue with that. Jem'hadar are the way they are due to nature. The shadows also weren't evil, just driven by other motivations (chaos/evolution through opposition) rather than that of a "hero"
Anti-heroes are very powerful figures, so is it any wonder when people identify with them?
Let me start with this: I am a devout Christian. I don't always behave exactly like I probably should, but that doesn't affect my core beliefs.
And that is how it should be. People become too mired in tradition to see the true aspects of their religions. Religious institutionalism breeds ignorance and apathy. Rather unfortunate, that, the way it gets all buggered up by ritual and sacrament. For the sake of your maker, all you need to do is believe.
Why all the venom against Christians Jon? Would you make the same nasty, baseless, comments about a game representing Jewish or Muslim mythology? How about Hindu? Paganism?
I think we all know the answer to this one: of course he would. He likes saying things to be sensational, adds the word geek from time to time, and calls it a story. (note editing is not a part of this process) I've seen him write for Brill's Content (real stand-up magazine that.) and with little exception it's the same rhetoric sans the word "geek." time to filter it I suppose.
Which 3D problem? OpenGL is the standard, and most new Mac's support it. The only problem is, that some software uses non standard techniques like DirectX.
Windows has OpenGL too, and has had it for years. The problem is the second thing you mentioned. the "non standard" technique of DirectX. Unfortunately (and much to my disappointment) DirectX is the De Facto standard for game development these days. You can't go into Comp-USA and find any games just written for DOS with a company's own library set. DirectX and Direct3D (which is what I think you meant to say) are easy to code for abstractions that make life easier for developers to develop their games. I'm not saying this is a good thing (I know quite a few games that kick modern FPS games in quality -- like ultima 7) but it is definitely the thing du jour.
The crux of the problem is availability. This is a problem that will soon be solved by IBM beefing up their fabs to help out Apple on meeting the 500mhz G4 demand. That information was released last week, with this information following suit shortly thereafter.
-- no I don't own a Mac, but at least I keep up with the news... and btw: the new iMAC DV systems ARE pretty sweet.
The crux of the problem is availability. This is a problem that will soon be solved by IBM beefing up their fabs to help out Apple on meeting the 500mhz G4 demand. That information was released last week, with this information following suit shortly thereafter.
-- no I don't own a Mac, but at least I keep up with the news... and btw: the new iMAC DV systems ARE pretty sweet.
The 216-letter word for god had nothing to do with PI. It came from a study of chaos, and was a number that kept popping up in the most random of places. The number was caused by a short circut. He was, however, obsessed with pi. Wouldn't it be convienent if the 216-letter word for god was just pi >> 215? Would make for a short movie
People who make large hardware purchase decisions based on a gartner group or dataquest report, and not by consulting their own experts have nothing to win as far as I am concerned. If their staff doesn't like it, they will be visited upon by high turnover, low morale etc..
This is why I work in an all UNIX shop. I simply cannot put up with windows.
A read-only, NFS based theme would be good for this. Not everything in an Windowing system should be customizable, esp. in an office. It would be nice to have a uniform desktop.
The sega API has access to the modem as well, I'd wager. the CE side has easier access to it, that's all.
I'm just hoping the games are designed with abstraction built on chip on the modem to run "automagically" and connect. If they need driver X and you try to play an older game on it, well, it'll be sosdd.
The statement made by me above was sorta cut and pasted after hitting preview and it not coming out right. You are right that klingon doesn't borrow. but any real artificial language does. Trek borrows for names a lot from other languages. "Odo" "Nerys" and "Jadzia" are all real words from other languages. I can't remember at the moment what Odo means, but Nerys=nose in spanish, and Jadzia="old man" in polish.
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Gore, on the other hand, is running on a slightly specialized 6502 processor
Nonono, that chip is reserved for Especially surly robots from the year 3000 like Bender (it was in the last episode just on)
The biggest thing we must concede is that Apache and Samba both run in a Single Processor manner. If you look at the "webbench req/sec" you'll see the linux system performing on par with NT 1 Proc. I don't know about you, but to me it says apache was opened up for one processor only. They should try running 4 apaches threaded across all processors. Now we'll see how performance scales.
A lot of fans on the bboards on ultima9.com have been playing ultima 1-8 while waiting for 9 to come out.
good thing it comes out in a few weeks, otherwise the price of XT's and 386's would skyrocket.
The reason people think of it as becoming a monopoly is not because they are making horizontal acquisitions, but rather strategic ones. In computers, you can acquire a monopoly by simply dealing in too many areas. This is the reason Microsoft is one of the first companies involved in horizontal acquistions that has gotten in trouble. They were right to say computers would change the world. They didn't know it would modify the legal world as well.
RedHat+Cygnus = A company with control over a popular environment for development (read:mindshare)
Microsoft+VB,VC++,VJ++,COOL etc = A company with control over several key languages. People see this as what RedHat is trying to do. I find the Linux market to be something that naturally prevents this from happening. But, that said, it could stil happen.
Luckily a lot of what is in RedHat Linux is not developed by them. Otherwise there would be a case against them.
USB floppy drives cost $89 at outpost.com.
FDD cable floppies are $12-24, and don't require external casing or cabling. They do require the knowledge to install them, however. Brains to dollars.
I named my local machines after forever knight characters:
Nikola
LaCroix
Jeanette
Schenke
Reese
Vachon
Screed
Not only are they different names, but they work well when you network is called "Forever Knet"
(yesyesyes bad pun)
A friend used:
Leandra
Kosh
Fuchikoma (thinktank)
My palm pilot just sits there.
they're doing it for the good of the kids.
That sounds familliar.. Like the "Nuclear non-test treaty" and other events where they get like 10 children to watch the president sign. Or when they tell you that the profiling is for your childs own good. When you argue with them about their terms, they simply tell you that "it's in the child's best interest and if you refuse, we'll have to assume you are against your child's best interest, and by the way, have you ever had to deal with Child/Youth services, and ya'know they can take your kids away.*"
Children are a method of coersion like any other. Bureaucracy will use any leverage to contro you. They pick your children to twist your arm.
* paraphrased from Rising Stars #1 by JMS
Personally, In roleplaying, I always play a lawful good character, mostly because in online gaming it is easiest to play. But when playing Blade Runner, I always play as a replicant or replicant sympathyser when I stop to consider they are the wronged ones in the game. Makes me feel better. My whole online name is Anarchangel, not a pretty name, but a unique one. When I get ticked and try my hand at flamage, I post as such. When I'm not it's angelo...
Btw: I'm a fellow Elijah too!
and I'm always a sucker for the good guys
Personally, I'm a sucker for the evil/somewhat bad myself. Perception is relative in many cases.
Any time I can identify as borg/daemon/jem'hadar/shadow/otherwise i feel like I'm getting the other side of the argument. The borg aren't evil, they are cold and logical with a natural drive to achieve perfection. Can't argue with that. Jem'hadar are the way they are due to nature. The shadows also weren't evil, just driven by other motivations (chaos/evolution through opposition) rather than that of a "hero"
Anti-heroes are very powerful figures, so is it any wonder when people identify with them?
Let me start with this: I am a devout Christian. I don't always behave exactly like I probably should, but that doesn't affect my core beliefs.
And that is how it should be. People become too mired in tradition to see the true aspects of their religions. Religious institutionalism breeds ignorance and apathy. Rather unfortunate, that, the way it gets all buggered up by ritual and sacrament. For the sake of your maker, all you need to do is believe.
Why all the venom against Christians Jon? Would you make the same nasty, baseless, comments about a game representing Jewish or Muslim mythology? How about Hindu? Paganism?
I think we all know the answer to this one: of course he would. He likes saying things to be sensational, adds the word geek from time to time, and calls it a story. (note editing is not a part of this process) I've seen him write for Brill's Content (real stand-up magazine that.) and with little exception it's the same rhetoric sans the word "geek." time to filter it I suppose.
Well, with a great deal of OEM business, you won't really have to worry about them losing market share..
BTW: a friend of mine may have "prior work" to disput the RMS trademark of "good thing"
Which 3D problem?
OpenGL is the standard, and most new Mac's support it.
The only problem is, that some software uses non standard techniques like DirectX.
Windows has OpenGL too, and has had it for years. The problem is the second thing you mentioned. the "non standard" technique of DirectX. Unfortunately (and much to my disappointment) DirectX is the De Facto standard for game development these days. You can't go into Comp-USA and find any games just written for DOS with a company's own library set. DirectX and Direct3D (which is what I think you meant to say) are easy to code for abstractions that make life easier for developers to develop their games. I'm not saying this is a good thing (I know quite a few games that kick modern FPS games in quality -- like ultima 7) but it is definitely the thing du jour.
Last time I read about this, Cowpland was stating that the problem stems two years back. Why is this recent?
The crux of the problem is availability. This is a problem that will soon be solved by IBM beefing up their fabs to help out Apple on meeting the 500mhz G4 demand. That information was released last week, with this information following suit shortly thereafter.
-- no I don't own a Mac, but at least I keep up with the news... and btw: the new iMAC DV systems ARE pretty sweet.
The crux of the problem is availability. This is a problem that will soon be solved by IBM beefing up their fabs to help out Apple on meeting the 500mhz G4 demand. That information was released last week, with this information following suit shortly thereafter.
-- no I don't own a Mac, but at least I keep up with the news... and btw: the new iMAC DV systems ARE pretty sweet.
The 216-letter word for god had nothing to do with PI. It came from a study of chaos, and was a number that kept popping up in the most random of places. The number was caused by a short circut. He was, however, obsessed with pi. Wouldn't it be convienent if the 216-letter word for god was just pi >> 215? Would make for a short movie
that's the kind of stuff that you just can't pay people to write...
That is being the funniest thing i am have read.
F.*The old Chevy Nova was a failure in Spanish speaking countries because it translates to "No go." [Esp. since "Nova" means "star."]
of course "nova" and "no va" are two different things. explained here
of course! They should also cut their hair the same way, and walk around completely greyfaced.
It was A way, not The way.
People who make large hardware purchase decisions based on a gartner group or dataquest report, and not by consulting their own experts have nothing to win as far as I am concerned. If their staff doesn't like it, they will be visited upon by high turnover, low morale etc..
This is why I work in an all UNIX shop. I simply cannot put up with windows.
A read-only, NFS based theme would be good for this. Not everything in an Windowing system should be customizable, esp. in an office. It would be nice to have a uniform desktop.
The sega API has access to the modem as well, I'd wager. the CE side has easier access to it, that's all.
I'm just hoping the games are designed with abstraction built on chip on the modem to run "automagically" and connect. If they need driver X and you try to play an older game on it, well, it'll be sosdd.
Hmm. Null modem cables were the bomb, but they're a bit slow these days
I was under the impression that null modem cables run up to the maximum speed between the two computers, i.e. 115kbps.
The statement made by me above was sorta cut and pasted after hitting preview and it not coming out right. You are right that klingon doesn't borrow. but any real artificial language does. Trek borrows for names a lot from other languages. "Odo" "Nerys" and "Jadzia" are all real words from other languages. I can't remember at the moment what Odo means, but Nerys=nose in spanish, and Jadzia="old man" in polish.