don't tell me your machine runs the same at 5% and 80% CPU usage. when there are more processes grabbing for time, the machine gets sluggish.
"why not gobble up cpu time" makes sense if the machine is idle (i.e. i'm not using it). i could give a fuck what the computer is doing then. this is why SETI@home is a screensaver, and not a daemon.
i can't use distros like Red Hat or Mandrake these days. they've added so much bloat in the last couple of years that they've removed many of the reasons i fell in love with UNIX in the first place. simplicity has given way to making a desperate attempt at jumping into the desktop market (which is currently estimated at 1%... way to go).
if i wanted 2.6G of eye candy on my hard drive, infesting my core memory and gobbling up CPU time, i'd just install Windows XP. i'm glad there are still distros which value a small footprint.
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Scalability! It's really exciting to see that Linux can be scaled down to reliably run on something like this.
first of all, it's not that exciting, considering modern PDAs are almost as powerful the 386s on/for which Linux was designed.
second of all, are you running services on your PDA? no, you're running apps. Linux excels at serving and is (sorry, everyone) dead last at usability. why port your problems to the PDA when you could start from scratch?
wouldn't you be willing to sacrifice a RAM slot to excel your computer at a particular task? maybe fast mp3 enc/dec, genome grinding, SETI@home, Photoshop filters, etc? i mean, i don't see the Linux drivers coming around anytime soon, but that's no reason to shun this development; we have to embrace the future sometime... maybe we can even make a Linux card, and since these are _Field-Programmable_ Gate Arrays, we could even update kernels when necessary!
i sure hope you Emacs users are reading today... while those vi-loving sops are gloating about saved keystrokes and small core memory footprints, we can spray them silly with more paintballs than they can count.
use it new, pay the price. let it mature, and before long you have something better and cheaper than you used to use.
you don't have to live on the cutting edge all the time. it's really a lot better to wait a little while for cheap, solid tech, instead of jumping on the bandwagon the first time it comes around and realizing you just spent hundreds of dollars on something that sucks.
seeing the issues all the current portable mp3 tech seems to have (some combination of: not enough space, not fast enough to reload, 2-sec gap between songs, bitrate restrictions, etc), i would certainly recommend waiting for a few reviews to come out.
i hate thinking, "this would have been so cool had they taken another four days to design it!"
surely a 640x480 greyscale image can be reduced to well under 300kB per frame. PNG (or GIF for those patent-violating whores) would do a fine job of reducing individual frames if you want lossless compression, but you probably don't. DIVX or MPEG or any number of video codecs would give you *awesome* compression, especially if the scene doesn't change.
this seems obvious to me. why is this even a question?
i used to hear a lot of talk about "booting" and "bootstrapping" linux... now it's moved all the way up to the arm! good work guys -- i look forward to installing it when it runs on a computer!
i used to own a PDP 11/03L and a MINC-11 (PDP 11/23 with data acquisition boards). both were free, by people who just wanted it the hell out of their lab. it's really no more useful for hacking than, say, a TRS-80 or an Apple II...
it's sad that Intel feels the need to optimize for an untested and foreign program structure (XP) when they haven't even gotten imperative programming optimizations done right. oh, and that failing-branch-10%-of-the-time might knock the wind out of the P4's sails (sales) too. i'll stick to the Open Source support of the Athlon.
but Dan Gillmor is a cocksucking faggotron!
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it's ok for Classic (OS 9) i guess. under OS X you can just use the regular Perl sources... in fact /usr/bin/perl is preinstalled.
:)
one might say that with the advent of OS 9, *MacPerl is dying
strange to see you at +3...
are you implying that your nick is *not* based on "Powerman 5000"?
hey, how come you rejected this when i posted it?!
wheee! i love OmniWeb
don't tell me your machine runs the same at 5% and 80% CPU usage. when there are more processes grabbing for time, the machine gets sluggish.
"why not gobble up cpu time" makes sense if the machine is idle (i.e. i'm not using it). i could give a fuck what the computer is doing then. this is why SETI@home is a screensaver, and not a daemon.
i can't use distros like Red Hat or Mandrake these days. they've added so much bloat in the last couple of years that they've removed many of the reasons i fell in love with UNIX in the first place. simplicity has given way to making a desperate attempt at jumping into the desktop market (which is currently estimated at 1%... way to go).
if i wanted 2.6G of eye candy on my hard drive, infesting my core memory and gobbling up CPU time, i'd just install Windows XP. i'm glad there are still distros which value a small footprint.
Scalability! It's really exciting to see that Linux can be scaled down to reliably run on something like this.
first of all, it's not that exciting, considering modern PDAs are almost as powerful the 386s on/for which Linux was designed.
second of all, are you running services on your PDA? no, you're running apps. Linux excels at serving and is (sorry, everyone) dead last at usability. why port your problems to the PDA when you could start from scratch?
go here for a mirror of the core design
wouldn't you be willing to sacrifice a RAM slot to excel your computer at a particular task? maybe fast mp3 enc/dec, genome grinding, SETI@home, Photoshop filters, etc? i mean, i don't see the Linux drivers coming around anytime soon, but that's no reason to shun this development; we have to embrace the future sometime... maybe we can even make a Linux card, and since these are _Field-Programmable_ Gate Arrays, we could even update kernels when necessary!
i sure hope you Emacs users are reading today... while those vi-loving sops are gloating about saved keystrokes and small core memory footprints, we can spray them silly with more paintballs than they can count.
use it new, pay the price. let it mature, and before long you have something better and cheaper than you used to use.
you don't have to live on the cutting edge all the time. it's really a lot better to wait a little while for cheap, solid tech, instead of jumping on the bandwagon the first time it comes around and realizing you just spent hundreds of dollars on something that sucks.
...because you can easily carry 5 or 10 of these things with you in a pocket, or far more if you're packing a bag. small media is good.
and considering the cost of CD-Rs these days, CD-RWs seem more and more needless.
seeing the issues all the current portable mp3 tech seems to have (some combination of: not enough space, not fast enough to reload, 2-sec gap between songs, bitrate restrictions, etc), i would certainly recommend waiting for a few reviews to come out.
i hate thinking, "this would have been so cool had they taken another four days to design it!"
surely a 640x480 greyscale image can be reduced to well under 300kB per frame. PNG (or GIF for those patent-violating whores) would do a fine job of reducing individual frames if you want lossless compression, but you probably don't. DIVX or MPEG or any number of video codecs would give you *awesome* compression, especially if the scene doesn't change.
this seems obvious to me. why is this even a question?
as Bush has declared "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists,"
and as Ashcroft and MS both agree that viruses are "industrial terrorism",
and as MS has consistently provided a haven for email viruses (terrorism),
one might conclude that strikes on Redmond are imminent.
that's not what i'm about.
i used to hear a lot of talk about "booting" and "bootstrapping" linux... now it's moved all the way up to the arm! good work guys -- i look forward to installing it when it runs on a computer!
i used to own a PDP 11/03L and a MINC-11 (PDP 11/23 with data acquisition boards). both were free, by people who just wanted it the hell out of their lab. it's really no more useful for hacking than, say, a TRS-80 or an Apple II...
happy motherfucking Troll Tuesday!!!@#%!@$^%
(i'll see you in 72 hours or so...)
Slow Down Choadboy!
nig-tard
make another account if you have a troll caper in mind! real men aren't afraid of mods.
get fucking FUCKED fuck-ass shitbagger
it's sad that Intel feels the need to optimize for an untested and foreign program structure (XP) when they haven't even gotten imperative programming optimizations done right. oh, and that failing-branch-10%-of-the-time might knock the wind out of the P4's sails (sales) too. i'll stick to the Open Source support of the Athlon.
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