I think arrest/lawsuit would be going a bit too far, but other than that, you make a good point. The last thing that we need to be doing is further undermining parent's abilities to make decisions regarding the raising of their own children.
Yes, Oracle is sometimes deployed with NT, but even people who disdain unix will use sun/hp-ux/whatevernix boxes to run production oracle dbs.
If the client for an app crashes, you can just reboot.
If the server running the database crashes, you have all kinds of questions about what state the data is in. yes, relational databases make sure that you don't get stuck with half of a transaction written, but it can still be tough to figure out what has happened for sessions that were open at the time the database went down.
Users don't like being denied access to their data, either; the greater uptime of industrial strength unix is very desirable for critical stuff like a database.
I have a Creative TNT card, and q3test runs in the seconds-per-frame range. Maybe I've just installed the libraries wrong, but as of now the TNT drivers perform very poorly
what sort of system did you stick your tnt into? I have a k6-2/350 w 64 meg memory and a 16 meg TNT2, and get about 14-40 fps in q3test (with networking & sound code loaded into memory). Have you read all of the stuff in the Nvidia faq? I did all that stuff (including use of the static-linked x server), and have q3test configured with minimum detail and 640x480 resolution, to get those results - i.e. running my x server at 10x8 in 15 bpp mode with a minimal WM and as little other stuff in memory as possible.
And here I thought that editorials were supposed to express one specific point of view.
That disclaimer is pure shit.
So, you know for a fact that Mr. Weightman doesn't personally believe what he's saying in this essay, and is really just acting as a mouthpiece for his clients? Is there some rule that says lawyers aren't supposed to take cases in which they agree with their clients? Is it somehow intellectually dishonest?
Many other posters have raised some serious points against mandated open access to the "last mile". We wouldn't be reading these responses and engaging in this discussion right now if Mr. Weightman hadn't been given access to this forum to clearly state his side of the issue.
face it..not much good could can come out of the government. nasa and science/math are probably the best uses for the billions of dollars that the government gets each year.
I think that the people who would otherwise be without food or shelter or medical attention would disagree with this statement. Also people who drive on roads. etc., etc.
depends what you mean by "playable"... I was just playing q3test on my tnt2-equipped linux box last night. Of course, it is true that my fps was varying between 40 something and 12... so it will be a little disappointing to windoze users who can't get by with less than 90 fps or whatever it is that they see.
As usual, another dumb game that requires a 3d accelerator card. Does it depend on having mesa installed as well?
Yeah, how dare they go and release a contemporary (not 2-3 year old) game for linux!?! I thought publishers knew that the sophisticated Linux gaming crowd prefers to wait a few years to make sure that a game is worthwhile, before going to the trouble of downloading it.
And if they're going to be so rude as to release it, the least they could do is throw in a software renderer that would generate 5-10 fps on one of those prototype K7's that is floating around...
Everyone notice that Mandrake is working on an O'Reilly book? Exciting stuff. From my perspective as a (gasp) business applications programmer, perl + gtk is one of the things that could really help speed corporate acceptance of Linux. Businesses want their programs rapidly developed, easily changed, and adorned with GUI stuff. My (very limited) experience with C + GTK is that it is good but not quite quick enough (in the coding sense, not the execution sense). Swapping Perl for C should help that out quite a bit. Keep on writing, Mandrake.
After all, when you get down to it, what's the difference between American Studies and, say, English? You're reading stuff, discussing it, and writing essays about it. My former roommate, American Studies major, is now making lotsa money programming for a big corporation. My current roommate, English major, is making less money doing research/analysis for a think tank. Both seem pretty content.
University != jobs, but a good liberal arts education opens a lot of doors.
...but this movie has earned the most severe CAP Influence Density (ID) of almost 200 movies: a CAP ID of 10.65! *Natural Born Killers* (R) earned a CAP Influence Density of 7.46! Most R-rated movies earn CAP IDs between 1.00 and 3.00.
Yeah, what's up with this crazy pseudo-scientific formula? Nothing more ridiculous than a fundamentalist trying to convince you that his ravings are really based in irrefutable logic. Why not just say it's blasphemous and move on?
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What a great warning! this should be on everything. Cars, hand tools, vegetables... you name it.
The reason the Amiga died a slow and unnecessary death was the indifference of Commodore. I don't know what the suits in charge thought they were doing - selling action figures at Kmart? Oh well, now we have Linux, so things are better again.
The only unreliable part of my Linux box is the pesky S3 virge that my roommate pawned off on me - random locking in X is the main problem. I'm eagerly awaiting my V770, at which time the Virge will be boxed up and thrown in some dark corner.
I know when I spent my $50 on Quake II, linux was facing the negative impression that its users were some kinda hippie deadbeats who were not going to BUY any software. id was among the few pioneers willing to buck the trend, and they are at least 50 bucks richer for it.;)
It felt a little odd for penny-pinching me to spend $50 on the linux box of quake2 when the windows version was sitting next to it, at half the price, and I knew it'd be easy enough to just download the linux binarys and save $25. But this is one of those cases where voting with my wallet felt right. Keep it up, Id, and pay attention, other software companies.
it's quite obvious that the only reason you didn't like this article was either because it's not written in C or because it's evidently written by someone with a little more maturity than you.
This probably isn't worth my time to reply to, but why not.
It's been proven time and again that he falsifies his results in order to get published.
IANAL, but this sounds like slander to me. Proven time and time again? By whom? Where is this "proof"? Why does Gould continue to be published in reputable, peer-reviewed journals if he is in fact a "con-man"?
On the other hand, Gould is a favored whipping-boy for proponents of Creationism, so perhaps your agenda is religious, not scientific?
Everyone notice the blurb on PI's website thanking Red Hat for funding the DRI project? I'm not normally a big Red hat booster - Debian is more compatible with my preferences - but I have to admit that funding this kind of work is a very Good Thing for linux, and I think it's important that Red Hat gets some recognition for their positive contributions. This is the plus side of having more big-business (read: money) involvement in Linux.
Why does everone have to instantly attack someone who makes a simple mistake
I don't know, maybe it's because Katz consistently demonstrates that he is either unwilling or unable to 1) research his topic, and 2) check over his writing to see if there are any glaring errors
These are reasonable things to expect from a "professional" writer.
yet another indication of Katz' commitment to research and fact-checking, only a few lines into his article and he's already demonstrated that he hasn't bothered to read the background material on his topic. But wait, this is the internet! You just point and click your way to freedom! sorry, I forgot for a second.
For example, Debian doesn't classify mySQL as "open" because the mySQL license contains restrictions for use under windows, even though use in a unix environment is unrestricted. The same logic would apply to restrictions on which distribution your code could be run on.
I just voted with mine today. One Viper 770 (hey, it's cheap) should be in the mail right now, with my name on it. No more Virge-induced X lockups... I can hardly wait.
Well, yes, it is true that the postponement of a given TV show (and the fact that those crazy internet kids got to see it anyhow) isn't very meaningful in its own right. Still, I think that Katz is on to something: incidents like this present a glimmer of hope that individuals can outsmart the ever-expanding corporate presence in their lives.
This time, it's just a TV show that was pulled off the air for arbitrary corporate reasons. But what if it had been a critically important news story, pulled from the papers for arbitrary corporate reasons? Or a new, life-saving medicine, pulled off the shelves for arbitrary corporate reasons? These things are happening now. As corporations sink their tentacles deeper into the public sphere, signs of resistance become more and more important. It's like the Alpha Centauri quote a few posts up.
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I think arrest/lawsuit would be going a bit too far, but other than that, you make a good point. The last thing that we need to be doing is further undermining parent's abilities to make decisions regarding the raising of their own children.
oooo, that's a good one
Often in the past deployed with NT
Yes, Oracle is sometimes deployed with NT, but even people who disdain unix will use sun/hp-ux/whatevernix boxes to run production oracle dbs.
If the client for an app crashes, you can just reboot.
If the server running the database crashes, you have all kinds of questions about what state the data is in. yes, relational databases make sure that you don't get stuck with half of a transaction written, but it can still be tough to figure out what has happened for sessions that were open at the time the database went down.
Users don't like being denied access to their data, either; the greater uptime of industrial strength unix is very desirable for critical stuff like a database.
Oh yeah, OpenGL is accelerated under Linux for the 3 or 4 people who own supported cards
:)
I had no idea that dropping $100 on a video card (TNT2) would put me in such a select group!
Those other 2-3 people sure do a lot more writing of drivers / posting to usenet / etc. than I do.
I have a Creative TNT card, and q3test runs in the seconds-per-frame range. Maybe I've just installed the libraries wrong, but as of now the TNT drivers perform very poorly
what sort of system did you stick your tnt into? I have a k6-2/350 w 64 meg memory and a 16 meg TNT2, and get about 14-40 fps in q3test (with networking & sound code loaded into memory). Have you read all of the stuff in the Nvidia faq? I did all that stuff (including use of the static-linked x server), and have q3test configured with minimum detail and 640x480 resolution, to get those results - i.e. running my x server at 10x8 in 15 bpp mode with a minimal WM and as little other stuff in memory as possible.
And here I thought that editorials were supposed to express one specific point of view.
That disclaimer is pure shit.
So, you know for a fact that Mr. Weightman doesn't personally believe what he's saying in this essay, and is really just acting as a mouthpiece for his clients? Is there some rule that says lawyers aren't supposed to take cases in which they agree with their clients? Is it somehow intellectually dishonest?
Many other posters have raised some serious points against mandated open access to the "last mile". We wouldn't be reading these responses and engaging in this discussion right now if Mr. Weightman hadn't been given access to this forum to clearly state his side of the issue.
face it..not much good could can come out of the government. nasa and science/math are probably the best uses for the billions of dollars that the government gets each year.
I think that the people who would otherwise be without food or shelter or medical attention would disagree with this statement. Also people who drive on roads. etc., etc.
depends what you mean by "playable"... I was just playing q3test on my tnt2-equipped linux box last night. Of course, it is true that my fps was varying between 40 something and 12... so it will be a little disappointing to windoze users who can't get by with less than 90 fps or whatever it is that they see.
As usual, another dumb game that requires a 3d accelerator card. Does it depend on having mesa installed as well?
Yeah, how dare they go and release a contemporary (not 2-3 year old) game for linux!?! I thought publishers knew that the sophisticated Linux gaming crowd prefers to wait a few years to make sure that a game is worthwhile, before going to the trouble of downloading it.
And if they're going to be so rude as to release it, the least they could do is throw in a software renderer that would generate 5-10 fps on one of those prototype K7's that is floating around...
Everyone notice that Mandrake is working on an O'Reilly book? Exciting stuff. From my perspective as a (gasp) business applications programmer, perl + gtk is one of the things that could really help speed corporate acceptance of Linux. Businesses want their programs rapidly developed, easily changed, and adorned with GUI stuff. My (very limited) experience with C + GTK is that it is good but not quite quick enough (in the coding sense, not the execution sense). Swapping Perl for C should help that out quite a bit. Keep on writing, Mandrake.
After all, when you get down to it, what's the difference between American Studies and, say, English? You're reading stuff, discussing it, and writing essays about it. My former roommate, American Studies major, is now making lotsa money programming for a big corporation. My current roommate, English major, is making less money doing research/analysis for a think tank. Both seem pretty content.
University != jobs, but a good liberal arts education opens a lot of doors.
...but this movie has earned the most severe CAP Influence Density (ID) of almost 200 movies: a CAP ID of 10.65! *Natural Born Killers* (R) earned a CAP Influence Density of 7.46! Most R-rated movies earn CAP IDs between 1.00 and 3.00.
Yeah, what's up with this crazy pseudo-scientific formula? Nothing more ridiculous than a fundamentalist trying to convince you that his ravings are really based in irrefutable logic. Why not just say it's blasphemous and move on?
Do not use an apostrophe to indicate the plural form.
What a great warning! this should be on everything. Cars, hand tools, vegetables... you name it.
The reason the Amiga died a slow and unnecessary death was the indifference of Commodore. I don't know what the suits in charge thought they were doing - selling action figures at Kmart?
Oh well, now we have Linux, so things are better again.
The only unreliable part of my Linux box is the pesky S3 virge that my roommate pawned off on me - random locking in X is the main problem. I'm eagerly awaiting my V770, at which time the Virge will be boxed up and thrown in some dark corner.
I know when I spent my $50 on Quake II, linux was facing the negative impression that its users were some kinda hippie deadbeats who were not going to BUY any software. id was among the few pioneers willing to buck the trend, and they are at least 50 bucks richer for it. ;)
It felt a little odd for penny-pinching me to spend $50 on the linux box of quake2 when the windows version was sitting next to it, at half the price, and I knew it'd be easy enough to just download the linux binarys and save $25. But this is one of those cases where voting with my wallet felt right. Keep it up, Id, and pay attention, other software companies.
it's quite obvious that the only reason you didn't like this article was either because it's not written in C or because it's evidently written by someone with a little more maturity than you.
Well, Katz is a hell of a lot older than me...
This probably isn't worth my time to reply to, but why not.
It's been proven time and again that he falsifies his results in order to get published.
IANAL, but this sounds like slander to me. Proven time and time again? By whom? Where is this "proof"? Why does Gould continue to be published in reputable, peer-reviewed journals if he is in fact a "con-man"?
On the other hand, Gould is a favored whipping-boy for proponents of Creationism, so perhaps your agenda is religious, not scientific?
Check out the linux driver faq at www.nvidia.com. The nvidia drivers use glx, which will be way faster with the DRI in place.
Everyone notice the blurb on PI's website thanking Red Hat for funding the DRI project? I'm not normally a big Red hat booster - Debian is more compatible with my preferences - but I have to admit that funding this kind of work is a very Good Thing for linux, and I think it's important that Red Hat gets some recognition for their positive contributions. This is the plus side of having more big-business (read: money) involvement in Linux.
Why does everone have to instantly attack someone who makes a simple mistake
I don't know, maybe it's because Katz consistently demonstrates that he is either unwilling or unable to 1) research his topic, and 2) check over his writing to see if there are any glaring errors
These are reasonable things to expect from a "professional" writer.
yet another indication of Katz' commitment to research and fact-checking, only a few lines into his article and he's already demonstrated that he hasn't bothered to read the background material on his topic. But wait, this is the internet! You just point and click your way to freedom! sorry, I forgot for a second.
Depending on your definitions, of course.
For example, Debian doesn't classify mySQL as "open" because the mySQL license contains restrictions for use under windows, even though use in a unix environment is unrestricted. The same logic would apply to restrictions on which distribution your code could be run on.
I just voted with mine today. One Viper 770 (hey, it's cheap) should be in the mail right now, with my name on it. No more Virge-induced X lockups... I can hardly wait.
Well, yes, it is true that the postponement of a given TV show (and the fact that those crazy internet kids got to see it anyhow) isn't very meaningful in its own right. Still, I think that Katz is on to something: incidents like this present a glimmer of hope that individuals can outsmart the ever-expanding corporate presence in their lives.
This time, it's just a TV show that was pulled off the air for arbitrary corporate reasons. But what if it had been a critically important news story, pulled from the papers for arbitrary corporate reasons? Or a new, life-saving medicine, pulled off the shelves for arbitrary corporate reasons? These things are happening now. As corporations sink their tentacles deeper into the public sphere, signs of resistance become more and more important. It's like the Alpha Centauri quote a few posts up.