Mind if I speculate that there are far fewer Chinese speaking people online and far fewer sites that cater to them, especially proportionately? Perhaps that non-English speaking people might tend to ignore the internet at large and there are plenty of opportunities to simply duplicate the function of English sites without much native-language competition.
Are you sure? Check the fact before you post please.
According to the figures China is the third largest Internet user in the world, after the United States and Japan.
And it doesn't even count the Chinese not living in mainland China, e.g. Hong Kong Taiwan, U.S., U.K., South East Asia, etc.
Why is anyone surprised by this? After all, practically none of the dot coms had a viable business model
Not really. Like this.com lives on the interests gain from its capital raised during.com boom; it doesn't generate much revenue but will still live forever. Even more, this.com acquired massive amount of capital in the same way and they even have spare money to invest.
They are running a very successful business model in a sense.
(Just in case you ponder, these are black jokes on real cases)
If you want some working linux distro in a floppy you may look at Tom's. It's my favourite, it helps me install Gentoo Linux on some boxes cannot boot from CDROM.
Besides, you can find list of Linux floppy/CD distros here
The longer pipeline of the P4 has nothing to do with performance. All it does is enable the processor to ramp in clock frequencies easily. A general rule of thumb is the longer the pipeline, the lower the IPC (instructions per clock/cycle) and the LOWER the actual number-crunching performance.
In fact longer pipeline also increases the loss of processing cycles at time of pipeline-flush (when branching, interrupt, etc.). That explain why PIII outperformed the first release of Pentium 4 in some benchmark test.
I interviewed for a position as Sysadmin once. They asked me how I'd troubleshoot the Blue Screen of Death. My response was "I'd ask Clippy".
Once I've a friend being asked the same question. He explained in details what to do when you see exception '0D', '0E', 'VxD', etc. He even had detail explanation on how it'd happen and what caused the problem.
He didn't get the job, neither. I think this question is to test your response in dealing with impossible problem. You are out if you attempted to give answer.:)
I used to be Gnome's fan and now using KDE. The reason of switch from Gnome to KDE is exactly the opposite of your arguement. About blaming Microsoft, I think it's better than leaning on Microsoft for slight share of market share.:)
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2 pages, $1.95
Good deal for O'Reilly's book.:)
http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/oreilly/truenut. html
(Suggested epitaph: "She said she'd marry me for my money, but wouldn't put out until I could get it up and stay hard as a rock for at least an hour. Who's laughing now?")
That comes to my mind: can I make a particular part of my body diamond? No?
Cringely is not much a visioneer, most slashdotters know it well. In fact it's difficult to replace traditional PBX system with VOIP gateway due to
lantency in VOIP
It wouldn't look bad when you are just chitchating with your friends with 1-2 seconds lagging in between, but it'd look awkward when your peer is an extremely short-temper but important client.
If you don't believe me try calling your mother-in-law over VOIP.:)
The article in question DOES make a few good points in that many of the more extravagant floggings with the DCMA probably wouldn't have held up in court, and WERE blown out of proportion by the EFF and others.
If this happen I'll donate as much as I can to EFF for the court case.:)
It's perfectly legal to backup your software as long as you own a license of it don't distribute it. With their logic computer software should make no exception and we must beg the vendors for replacement when you lost your own copy, which would at least take a week. It'd be awkward if your life/business depends on it.:/
Did they also pass a law banning screwdrivers? 'Cause if not...I plan to use one to exclude anticopying technology in my next generation TV.
Nope, but I'm afraid you are in violation of DMCA in doing so.
In the process of removing the screws you need to turn each of those with a screwdriver n-turn anti-clockwise, where n is the exact number of turn the manufacturer has turned to put that screw in place. By reversing the process you are effectively doing reverse-engineering on it and violate the DMCA.
He does not own the copyright of every part of the kernel, but he's the registered trademark owner of the word 'Linux'. The own of that kernel part may change the license and release their own version of kernel, but it'll not be calling 'Linux'.
In fact Linus could charge anybody who use the word 'Linux' in their distro, but I'm not sure whether he has exercise his right. (well he does has stocks of RedHat but was given voluntarily, at least that was what his said in his bio)
Is there more information on the news? It does not mention what cause it to go down - is it due to bad sales, financial practice, accouting records, business processes or fraud? The article just whine about there won't be sufficient Nvidia cards for gammers in the Christmas and Nvidia would take a hit. Is it just me, but I really don't care whether Nvidia could earn enough money before Christmas.:)
And the front page of VisionTek doesn't say a word about it. Anyone could confirm the news?
is that it has about twice as many and as lengthy pipelines as PIII.
Why, shouldn't it run faster with more piplines? As you may know execution involves out-of-bound branching and interrrupt/exceptions would invalid all the pre-fetch/pre-executed instructions in pipelines and cause pipeline-flushing. Longer/more pipelines with poor design would only cause more execution cycles to be wasted. That's why some benchmark would show better performance in PIII when such pipeline-flushing happens too frequent.
While I mentioned poor design, what is a good design? In Athlon(iirc tbird too), on average only half of the pre-fetch/executed instructions are flushed during exceptions thanks to some genuine algorithms. That makes Athlon better in some case even when it has lower Mhz.
I realized I'm oversimplied the details. I welcome comment, no flame please.:)
Sorry for my ignorant question, but how may I import those fonts for my word processing use in Openoffice on Linux? I'm planning to migrate office's Chinese word processing tasks to Linux, but I'm stuck with lacking of decent Chinese fonts in Linux.:/
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As for #debian... move to OFTC!^_^
I checked OFTC once but #debian is not present. I wondered whether I should start one and wait for people to come?:)
depends on their ops. When ops act childishly and crazily people will leave. The ops in OPN have this tendency.
The fund rasing is just a trigger for them to leave. I don't disagree lilo to raise fund, honestly, but he should at least spend some time to justify the ops' behavior.
So I left OPN. It has nothing to do with fund rasing.
He was banning people for no reason, threating to leave and turn the channel over to lilo and just acting childish. He was banning people for no reason, threating to leave and turn the channel over to lilo and just acting childish.
Talking about childish behaviour of ops, the jim of #debian started randomly banning people who has an merely slight argument with him. If you don't believe me you can check the log. The worst part is that he wouldn't lift the ban after a reasonable period of time regardless of the reason behind banning. Say is it reasonable to impose perma ban on someone who use funny emote/botemote on his friends?
I left #debian because of this month ago. I'm not sure that jim and the rest of the ops are still acting that crazy there.
I think the point is to make XBox boot Linux while you can still boot your games on it. Unlike traditional PC, your OS/entire game load on each boot.
That'd be cool to run Linux on this powerful hardware. However, the hardware is already outdated by the time a full Linux distro of it would be released.
Nevertheless, what we do to make Linux on XBox is like pissing on Bill's face.:)
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Mind if I speculate that there are far fewer Chinese speaking people online and far fewer sites that cater to them, especially proportionately? Perhaps that non-English speaking people might tend to ignore the internet at large and there are plenty of opportunities to simply duplicate the function of English sites without much native-language competition.
Are you sure? Check the fact before you post please.
According to the figures China is the third largest Internet user in the world, after the United States and Japan.
And it doesn't even count the Chinese not living in mainland China, e.g. Hong Kong Taiwan, U.S., U.K., South East Asia, etc.
Welcome to reality!
Why is anyone surprised by this? After all, practically none of the dot coms had a viable business model
.com lives on the interests gain from its capital raised during .com boom; it doesn't generate much revenue but will still live forever. Even more, this .com acquired massive amount of capital in the same way and they even have spare money to invest.
Not really. Like this
They are running a very successful business model in a sense.
(Just in case you ponder, these are black jokes on real cases)
The link to its ftp server seems to be missing...
If you want some working linux distro in a floppy you may look at Tom's. It's my favourite, it helps me install Gentoo Linux on some boxes cannot boot from CDROM.
Besides, you can find list of Linux floppy/CD distros here
The longer pipeline of the P4 has nothing to do with performance. All it does is enable the processor to ramp in clock frequencies easily. A general rule of thumb is the longer the pipeline, the lower the IPC (instructions per clock/cycle) and the LOWER the actual number-crunching performance.
In fact longer pipeline also increases the loss of processing cycles at time of pipeline-flush (when branching, interrupt, etc.). That explain why PIII outperformed the first release of Pentium 4 in some benchmark test.
I interviewed for a position as Sysadmin once. They asked me how I'd troubleshoot the Blue Screen of Death. My response was "I'd ask Clippy".
:)
Once I've a friend being asked the same question. He explained in details what to do when you see exception '0D', '0E', 'VxD', etc. He even had detail explanation on how it'd happen and what caused the problem.
He didn't get the job, neither. I think this question is to test your response in dealing with impossible problem. You are out if you attempted to give answer.
but I enjoy that
:D
:)
You are pretty much summarized my feeling.
I installed Gentoo linux 1.2, decided to add some crazy optimization flags and rebuild the world. Something broke, and it took days to fix.
1.3a/b was out, boldly bootstraping the living system with it; more things broke, and it took days to fix.
1.4 is out, bootstraping with it without second thought, and more things breaks.....
Am I a sadist?
NOPE! I know when I get it right I'll have a system of my own, my OWN tinkering work! Yes, I enjoy it!
May be I'm really a sadist.
I used to be Gnome's fan and now using KDE. The reason of switch from Gnome to KDE is exactly the opposite of your arguement. About blaming Microsoft, I think it's better than leaning on Microsoft for slight share of market share. :)
2 pages, $1.95
:)
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Good deal for O'Reilly's book.
http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/oreilly/truenut
And yes, it's true-nut.
(Suggested epitaph: "She said she'd marry me for my money, but wouldn't put out until I could get it up and stay hard as a rock for at least an hour. Who's laughing now?")
That comes to my mind: can I make a particular part of my body diamond? No?
How is this a preview? This is just a preview of the marketing docs! A poorly spelt one at that.
That wasn't that bad. My boss just call me over to evaluate vendor's technology - by arranging a meeting with the sales.
Cringely is not much a visioneer, most slashdotters know it well. In fact it's difficult to replace traditional PBX system with VOIP gateway due to
:)
lantency in VOIP
It wouldn't look bad when you are just chitchating with your friends with 1-2 seconds lagging in between, but it'd look awkward when your peer is an extremely short-temper but important client.
If you don't believe me try calling your mother-in-law over VOIP.
only when they cut the price by half. :)
The article in question DOES make a few good points in that many of the more extravagant floggings with the DCMA probably wouldn't have held up in court, and WERE blown out of proportion by the EFF and others.
:)
If this happen I'll donate as much as I can to EFF for the court case.
I'd be on easy street if I could get paid to troll like the guy who wrote that article :)
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It's not easy. First you must show them your ability in trolling, like having a
It's perfectly legal to backup your software as long as you own a license of it don't distribute it. With their logic computer software should make no exception and we must beg the vendors for replacement when you lost your own copy, which would at least take a week. It'd be awkward if your life/business depends on it. :/
Did they also pass a law banning screwdrivers? 'Cause if not...I plan to use one to exclude anticopying technology in my next generation TV.
Nope, but I'm afraid you are in violation of DMCA in doing so.
In the process of removing the screws you need to turn each of those with a screwdriver n-turn anti-clockwise, where n is the exact number of turn the manufacturer has turned to put that screw in place. By reversing the process you are effectively doing reverse-engineering on it and violate the DMCA.
He does not own the copyright of every part of the kernel, but he's the registered trademark owner of the word 'Linux'. The own of that kernel part may change the license and release their own version of kernel, but it'll not be calling 'Linux'.
In fact Linus could charge anybody who use the word 'Linux' in their distro, but I'm not sure whether he has exercise his right. (well he does has stocks of RedHat but was given voluntarily, at least that was what his said in his bio)
Is there more information on the news? It does not mention what cause it to go down - is it due to bad sales, financial practice, accouting records, business processes or fraud? The article just whine about there won't be sufficient Nvidia cards for gammers in the Christmas and Nvidia would take a hit. Is it just me, but I really don't care whether Nvidia could earn enough money before Christmas. :)
And the front page of VisionTek doesn't say a word about it. Anyone could confirm the news?
The use of jammer is illegal in some place like UK as it'd cause interference outside the building.
:)
In fact there are other solution which uses magnetic wood built around the theatre to block phone signals.
Of course, legislation is perferrable by theatres owners, and you can see why.
is that it has about twice as many and as lengthy pipelines as PIII.
:)
Why, shouldn't it run faster with more piplines? As you may know execution involves out-of-bound branching and interrrupt/exceptions would invalid all the pre-fetch/pre-executed instructions in pipelines and cause pipeline-flushing. Longer/more pipelines with poor design would only cause more execution cycles to be wasted. That's why some benchmark would show better performance in PIII when such pipeline-flushing happens too frequent.
While I mentioned poor design, what is a good design? In Athlon(iirc tbird too), on average only half of the pre-fetch/executed instructions are flushed during exceptions thanks to some genuine algorithms. That makes Athlon better in some case even when it has lower Mhz.
I realized I'm oversimplied the details. I welcome comment, no flame please.
Sorry for my ignorant question, but how may I import those fonts for my word processing use in Openoffice on Linux? I'm planning to migrate office's Chinese word processing tasks to Linux, but I'm stuck with lacking of decent Chinese fonts in Linux. :/
As for #debian... move to OFTC!^_^
:)
I checked OFTC once but #debian is not present. I wondered whether I should start one and wait for people to come?
depends on their ops. When ops act childishly and crazily people will leave. The ops in OPN have this tendency.
The fund rasing is just a trigger for them to leave. I don't disagree lilo to raise fund, honestly, but he should at least spend some time to justify the ops' behavior.
So I left OPN. It has nothing to do with fund rasing.
He was banning people for no reason, threating to leave and turn the channel over to lilo and just acting childish. He was banning people for no reason, threating to leave and turn the channel over to lilo and just acting childish.
Talking about childish behaviour of ops, the jim of #debian started randomly banning people who has an merely slight argument with him. If you don't believe me you can check the log. The worst part is that he wouldn't lift the ban after a reasonable period of time regardless of the reason behind banning. Say is it reasonable to impose perma ban on someone who use funny emote/botemote on his friends?
I left #debian because of this month ago. I'm not sure that jim and the rest of the ops are still acting that crazy there.
I think the point is to make XBox boot Linux while you can still boot your games on it. Unlike traditional PC, your OS/entire game load on each boot.
:)
That'd be cool to run Linux on this powerful hardware. However, the hardware is already outdated by the time a full Linux distro of it would be released.
Nevertheless, what we do to make Linux on XBox is like pissing on Bill's face.