You really have to work better on that one. Exposing children to regular pornography is also illegal, but I never heard of anyone being sued for walking home from the video store with their XXX rated DVD concealed in a bag. Do you think the images in question would jump off the CD, print themselves and hand themselves to bypassers?
OK. You've been charged with possession of child pornography. The acquisition was at your place of employment, which has nothing to do with children. The contraband was then transported from work to your home.
In a court of law, regardless of your innocence, you would have a lot of explaining to do.
For example, the poor fool who claims to have the 'disease' of alocolholism: would the person have the disease if alcohol had never been created?
The same for the gambler..what if we never got the concept of making a game of of random occurances...what would 'compulsive gamblers' be doing with their lives?
Drinking is common in all walks of life. Gambling is common in most.
Its impossible to assume that everybody would drink and gamble the same amount, right?
Its natural for there to be the 1%ers that do something to the extreme. But there cool to hang out with.
If AMD should sue anybody, they should have sued themselves for not being a good enough chip supplier.
There is this company called Apple. They have made computers since the 70s with various chips in their computers, with none of the being Intel until a couple of products here lately.
Apple chose intel for their products now, and based on their roadmap. IBMs chip roadmap and ability to meet demand was getting to be an issue.
I'm not brand loyal. I look at price, performance, compatibility, features, etc. Intel is the chip leader at this time for a reason.
1) they have been doing it longer, remember when AMD was just a knockoff of Intel chips?
2) Intel has a compiler division, AMD does not. Intel compilers generate fast code. Their compilers are free for non-commerical use. Their compilers work with Linux.
3) Intel makes motherboards and good specs for what other motherboard companies should do. Do a search sometime for amd motherboard chipset problem.
4) Intel has better manufacturing techniques and can crank out more chips than AMD can.
I have 80+ AMD opteron chips. They are pretty fast. I'm looking to buy a few hundred thousand dollars in equipment soon, and I'm equally looking at AMD Opteron, Intel x86/x86-64, and Intel Itanium chips. For my needs, I'm not sure which would be the best right now.
Soon Zonk will not be confounding Slashdot with sentences like:
Tim Burton no longer cofounding Tivo.
Founding is something that is completed in the past. Pluperfect for grammar enthusiasts or those that have learned more structured languages than English is structured.
Automatically detecting when my cable company reassings the stations would be nice too.
I've been very happy with HD-DVRs rented from cable companies in the past. No issues with reassigning stations, free upgrades to larger capacities, only one "crash" ever, and it really didn't crash, it was some uptime bug that required me power cycling the device. The symptom was "no data" on all of the listings.
This was a Motorola box, don't know about the software inside of it, but it was pretty nice.
10 years would be 1996, when I got my first ever computer. It had a massive.... 32 MB.
I guess the 256 meg estimate would be more accurate at 6-7 years, not 10.
I rounded. 1997 was 9 years ago, and then I used 128-256 megs of RAM on personal and server boxes. More RAM on bigger boxes. Today, I have machines with up to 6 gigs or RAM, much more if you count distributed memory systems (I don't).
Today, about 512 is what I call "entry level". That will get most people good performance. I'm a "power user" and I have 512 and 1 gig on my two personal machines. I overspeced the 1 gig when I bought it, but I bought that computer to run apps that I have never run before and thought that 1 gig sounded reasonable, but come to find out 512 would have been OK for me.
If your motherboard supports a maximum of 256 MB, adding more RAM is not "cheap".
Maybe its the user who is cheap:)
To be helpful, there are many webpages out there that describe vm tuning under Linux, especially "swappiness". If you have multiple drives (SCSI is better, but more expensive), you can load balance the swap space between the drives, or put the swap on the faster drive, or one that is used less for user/system IO. There are also things like the preemptive kernel that can help with interactive use, which may or may not help depending on your usage.
Tips for computer using in 2006.
Processors in the MHz range are usually slow nowadays.
1 gig harddrives will not store much data.
256 megs of ram will not run many applications.
10base2 networks are slow for LANs, especially if large file transfers (which cannot be done from a 1 gig hd) or for network attached storage or remote graphical displays.
90% of the APIs that 90% of the win32 apps use, haven't changed in 10 years.
10% of the APIs have changed.
Windows admins have to do extensive testing, often taking months, to deploy a service pack to Windows to verify that things still work as advertised. And those changes are probably closer to the 1% change level in APIs or lower.
I'm not an expert on any of this, but what I do know is that when you start using up a lot of memory Linux totally sucks. On a 256 MB RAM machine, with about twice that amount of swap, if I run over 50% memory usage the system becomes unusable for long periods of time.
Linux's paging support has never been that good for "desktop" or interactive use. Its fine for servers because dead pages just get swapped out.
Now, I question the discrepancy here. "using up a lot of memory.. on a 256 MB RAM machine..." is odd to me. RAM is cheap. 256 has not really been a standard entry level amount of RAM for almost 10 years now. Right now my web browser is using ~125 megs of real memory and 370 megs of virtual memory. Yes, the browser is a memory hog, but there was a time when 640k of RAM was OK for people. I don't think you can find a cellphone or MP3 player with less than a few megs of ram today.
Personally, I would like to see the bugs in 10.4 fixed in 10.5 vs native windows support, which odds are will not happen at the OS X level this decade.
The decade thing refers to the windows support.
I get flamed every time I mention the bugs in Tiger, but if I didn't already have so many 3rd party apps that require draconian licensing/registration/dongle crap, I would put 10.3 on my Mac in a heartbeat.
And no, my RAM is not bad. The bugs are real and experienced by other users.
Wine has been in development, what 12+ years, and still hasn't reached 1.uhoh
Windows APIs are a moving target, even on Windows.
Personally, I would like to see the bugs in 10.4 fixed in 10.5 vs native windows support, which odds are will not happen at the OS X level this decade.
One thing that concerns me about making all of these copies is that it seems like a quick and easy way to blow out your L2 cache. That could in the long run have a worse performance penalty than having to play the VM tricks with CoW.
Right. Especially with multithreaded apps as Linus pointed out. Also the TLB misses could get expensive as well, and again the TLB misses will be more of an overhead with multithreaded apps.
I don't believe that COW is completely evil. It exists, obviously for a reason, but I would agree with Linus on a much less harsh tone (depending on mood).
So, if the big names want to charge outrageous sums for their concerts, let them. As of now, the tatic seems to be working, but as the situation develops, I think they'll wind up pricing themselves right out of the market.
Here are 1400+ bands that actually want you to listen to their music:
Concerts were always priced at whatever the market would bear.
I don't buy it, and won't spend more than 40-50 dollars for a single act.
I started seeing concerts in the mid 80s, and then tickets cost about $14 for a name brand act at a 10-20,000 capacity place. I never saw Metallica, and wanted to on their last tour, but to drive 3 hours, either drive back or stay the night, pay $75 a ticket, pay $14 for the "convenience" of buying the ticket, I said, "NO!"
I still see a good number of concerts, and I see many of the same people at different shows. One difference, is the ones I see are affordable. There are larger festivals that have 3+ days filled with music on different stages that include camping and all of the events for about $150 or less. Also, these guys actually work and play music for a living. Madonna tours every 2-5 or so years. Real musicians play between 50-100+ shows a year.
I saw a sold out show this past New Years eve, drove 10 hours to get there w/o tickets, and got a ticket for me and my friend within 10 minutes of arriving at the show _at face value_.
Believe it or not, there are still modest and kind people in the world. Its just the fuckers that get all the press.
Late and with most of the intended features dropped out. They promise the world when they start development, but the new versions of their software tend to be the old version with a few tweaks, updates, fixes, a new skin, and all the controls in different places.
I believe that is what they call hype. Kinda like saying, "Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers!" over and over again. Kinda like the motivational speaker that leaves the audience filled with ideas and inspiration, and no....
The problem here is Intel doesn't have a processor that the public views as solid and powerful.
OK, go out on the street and ask 100 people what kind of processor they have in their computer, and their relative opinion regarding its solidity and power.
Most people know that there is Intel. They don't known the difference between a Celeron, Pentium M, Pentium III, Pentium IV, etc.
Granted, some of the 100 will sat that their processor is not solid and powerful, but odds are its the spyware and other crap running on their machine that is convincing them of this lack of performance.
Porn has always been the driving force behind new technology in entertainment.
Lets think about this often quoted saying.
My parents are pretty average American people. My father bought our first VCR in 1984. To my knowledge I'm the only person that ever watched porn on it, and it was actually the first couple of porn movies I ever saw. A friend brought them over. My father has a computer. Sure, some porn, but that is not the driving force for having a computer and broadband.
Now, porn does have one special quality. Young males. Young males drive technology, because they are the ones that understand it first. Or at least they understand it more than other age groups.
Does porn drive portable video games? No. Young males do.
Unless I'm clueless about how important porn is to people. I believe that people spend more time, effort and money on basic entertainment like movies, music, and TV than porn. The average American spends 4 hours a day in front of the TV. I don't know anybody that likes porn and masturbation enough to even do it for 2 hours every day, let alone 4.
http://www.z4.com/ appears to be yet another company that does nothing, but likes to get paid well for it.
I love it how this link, http://www.z4.com/piracy.php , talks about how Microsoft and Autodesk are victims of piracy.
A whois search on z4.com says that Colvin Design Company set up the registrar info. Well, a google search on Colvin Design Company yields nothing. Colvin Design is supposedly located in Commerce Township, MI. z4 is from Oakland County, MI about 12 miles away from Commerce Township.
No products or anything of substance on the z4 site.
MS would do anything for money and that boys and girls is evil.
I am not a Bible thumper or even a Christian, but the Bible does have some good stuff in it.
For example, the Bible says in varying translations something similar to "The _love_ of money is the root of all evil".
I believe that 100%. Its the whole ends vs means thing and the "just because I can, does that mean I should?" question.
When people are on their deathbed and asked what they regret, they _never_ say, "I wish I made more money" or "I wish I worked harder", they say things like "I wish I spent more time with my kids/other important people in my life" or something like "Doing more things for other people vs being selfish".
Money is a medium of exchange to buy junk. The love of money is about selfishness, greed, and power. There are plenty of people that have more money than they can even spend, and they still go for more. Why? Power.
If one thinks about it, the only thing we have power over are our decisions. Sure you can imprison someone or kill them, and I guess that is power, but even though I've never done these things, I believe I would not feel too good about myself, and most of the world who hears about someone imprisoning someone or killing them is not viewed as a good guy or gal.
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You really have to work better on that one. Exposing children to regular pornography is also illegal, but I never heard of anyone being sued for walking home from the video store with their XXX rated DVD concealed in a bag. Do you think the images in question would jump off the CD, print themselves and hand themselves to bypassers?
OK. You've been charged with possession of child pornography. The acquisition was at your place of employment, which has nothing to do with children. The contraband was then transported from work to your home.
In a court of law, regardless of your innocence, you would have a lot of explaining to do.
For example, the poor fool who claims to have the 'disease' of alocolholism: would the person have the disease if alcohol had never been created?
The same for the gambler..what if we never got the concept of making a game of of random occurances...what would 'compulsive gamblers' be doing with their lives?
Drinking is common in all walks of life. Gambling is common in most.
Its impossible to assume that everybody would drink and gamble the same amount, right?
Its natural for there to be the 1%ers that do something to the extreme. But there cool to hang out with.
It's pretty obvious from the current Dell situation that Intel has tried to keep AMD out and that's illegal.
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Source?
This is one of the best I could find that says Dell sticks with Intel for simplicity of product choices, supply, and they are OK chips. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/23/dell_amd_
If AMD should sue anybody, they should have sued themselves for not being a good enough chip supplier.
There is this company called Apple. They have made computers since the 70s with various chips in their computers, with none of the being Intel until a couple of products here lately.
Here's some good info regarding that decision: http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/09/15/intelvsam
Apple chose intel for their products now, and based on their roadmap. IBMs chip roadmap and ability to meet demand was getting to be an issue.
I'm not brand loyal. I look at price, performance, compatibility, features, etc. Intel is the chip leader at this time for a reason.
1) they have been doing it longer, remember when AMD was just a knockoff of Intel chips?
2) Intel has a compiler division, AMD does not. Intel compilers generate fast code. Their compilers are free for non-commerical use. Their compilers work with Linux.
3) Intel makes motherboards and good specs for what other motherboard companies should do. Do a search sometime for amd motherboard chipset problem.
4) Intel has better manufacturing techniques and can crank out more chips than AMD can.
I have 80+ AMD opteron chips. They are pretty fast. I'm looking to buy a few hundred thousand dollars in equipment soon, and I'm equally looking at AMD Opteron, Intel x86/x86-64, and Intel Itanium chips. For my needs, I'm not sure which would be the best right now.
Soon Zonk will not be confounding Slashdot with sentences like:
Tim Burton no longer cofounding Tivo.
Founding is something that is completed in the past. Pluperfect for grammar enthusiasts or those that have learned more structured languages than English is structured.
Nobody can no longer found or cofound something.
Automatically detecting when my cable company reassings the stations would be nice too.
I've been very happy with HD-DVRs rented from cable companies in the past. No issues with reassigning stations, free upgrades to larger capacities, only one "crash" ever, and it really didn't crash, it was some uptime bug that required me power cycling the device. The symptom was "no data" on all of the listings.
This was a Motorola box, don't know about the software inside of it, but it was pretty nice.
10 years would be 1996, when I got my first ever computer. It had a massive.... 32 MB.
I guess the 256 meg estimate would be more accurate at 6-7 years, not 10.
I rounded. 1997 was 9 years ago, and then I used 128-256 megs of RAM on personal and server boxes. More RAM on bigger boxes. Today, I have machines with up to 6 gigs or RAM, much more if you count distributed memory systems (I don't).
Today, about 512 is what I call "entry level". That will get most people good performance. I'm a "power user" and I have 512 and 1 gig on my two personal machines. I overspeced the 1 gig when I bought it, but I bought that computer to run apps that I have never run before and thought that 1 gig sounded reasonable, but come to find out 512 would have been OK for me.
If your motherboard supports a maximum of 256 MB, adding more RAM is not "cheap".
:)
Maybe its the user who is cheap
To be helpful, there are many webpages out there that describe vm tuning under Linux, especially "swappiness". If you have multiple drives (SCSI is better, but more expensive), you can load balance the swap space between the drives, or put the swap on the faster drive, or one that is used less for user/system IO. There are also things like the preemptive kernel that can help with interactive use, which may or may not help depending on your usage.
Tips for computer using in 2006.
Processors in the MHz range are usually slow nowadays.
1 gig harddrives will not store much data.
256 megs of ram will not run many applications.
10base2 networks are slow for LANs, especially if large file transfers (which cannot be done from a 1 gig hd) or for network attached storage or remote graphical displays.
90% of the APIs that 90% of the win32 apps use, haven't changed in 10 years.
10% of the APIs have changed.
Windows admins have to do extensive testing, often taking months, to deploy a service pack to Windows to verify that things still work as advertised. And those changes are probably closer to the 1% change level in APIs or lower.
I'm not an expert on any of this, but what I do know is that when you start using up a lot of memory Linux totally sucks. On a 256 MB RAM machine, with about twice that amount of swap, if I run over 50% memory usage the system becomes unusable for long periods of time.
.. on a 256 MB RAM machine ..." is odd to me. RAM is cheap. 256 has not really been a standard entry level amount of RAM for almost 10 years now. Right now my web browser is using ~125 megs of real memory and 370 megs of virtual memory. Yes, the browser is a memory hog, but there was a time when 640k of RAM was OK for people. I don't think you can find a cellphone or MP3 player with less than a few megs of ram today.
Linux's paging support has never been that good for "desktop" or interactive use. Its fine for servers because dead pages just get swapped out.
Now, I question the discrepancy here. "using up a lot of memory
I hit post too quickly.
Personally, I would like to see the bugs in 10.4 fixed in 10.5 vs native windows support, which odds are will not happen at the OS X level this decade.
The decade thing refers to the windows support.
I get flamed every time I mention the bugs in Tiger, but if I didn't already have so many 3rd party apps that require draconian licensing/registration/dongle crap, I would put 10.3 on my Mac in a heartbeat.
And no, my RAM is not bad. The bugs are real and experienced by other users.
Wine *is* an implementation of the Windows API.
Wine has been in development, what 12+ years, and still hasn't reached 1.uhoh
Windows APIs are a moving target, even on Windows.
Personally, I would like to see the bugs in 10.4 fixed in 10.5 vs native windows support, which odds are will not happen at the OS X level this decade.
One thing that concerns me about making all of these copies is that it seems like a quick and easy way to blow out your L2 cache. That could in the long run have a worse performance penalty than having to play the VM tricks with CoW.
Right. Especially with multithreaded apps as Linus pointed out. Also the TLB misses could get expensive as well, and again the TLB misses will be more of an overhead with multithreaded apps.
I don't believe that COW is completely evil. It exists, obviously for a reason, but I would agree with Linus on a much less harsh tone (depending on mood).
Oh, and isn't "VM" a trick to begin with?
So, if the big names want to charge outrageous sums for their concerts, let them. As of now, the tatic seems to be working, but as the situation develops, I think they'll wind up pricing themselves right out of the market.
p hp
Here are 1400+ bands that actually want you to listen to their music:
http://www.archive.org/audio/etreelisting-browse.
Broadband connection fees and storage not included in the $0 price for the download.
Concerts were always priced at whatever the market would bear.
I don't buy it, and won't spend more than 40-50 dollars for a single act.
I started seeing concerts in the mid 80s, and then tickets cost about $14 for a name brand act at a 10-20,000 capacity place. I never saw Metallica, and wanted to on their last tour, but to drive 3 hours, either drive back or stay the night, pay $75 a ticket, pay $14 for the "convenience" of buying the ticket, I said, "NO!"
I still see a good number of concerts, and I see many of the same people at different shows. One difference, is the ones I see are affordable. There are larger festivals that have 3+ days filled with music on different stages that include camping and all of the events for about $150 or less. Also, these guys actually work and play music for a living. Madonna tours every 2-5 or so years. Real musicians play between 50-100+ shows a year.
I saw a sold out show this past New Years eve, drove 10 hours to get there w/o tickets, and got a ticket for me and my friend within 10 minutes of arriving at the show _at face value_.
Believe it or not, there are still modest and kind people in the world. Its just the fuckers that get all the press.
just revert to extortion.
Nothing to see here, please move along.
After a word from our spons
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You can't tell by the score 5/5.
Everything is judged by a curve. Even C level Harvard graduates and business failures can be President nowadays.
Late and with most of the intended features dropped out. They promise the world when they start development, but the new versions of their software tend to be the old version with a few tweaks, updates, fixes, a new skin, and all the controls in different places.
I believe that is what they call hype. Kinda like saying, "Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers, Developers!" over and over again. Kinda like the motivational speaker that leaves the audience filled with ideas and inspiration, and no....
Last time I checked (early 90's) the military wasn't accepting anyone without a high school diploma or GED. Has this rule changed since then?
No, only smart people volunteer for target practice nowadays.
So, is the store bare of employees because of this?
The problem here is Intel doesn't have a processor that the public views as solid and powerful.
OK, go out on the street and ask 100 people what kind of processor they have in their computer, and their relative opinion regarding its solidity and power.
Most people know that there is Intel. They don't known the difference between a Celeron, Pentium M, Pentium III, Pentium IV, etc.
Granted, some of the 100 will sat that their processor is not solid and powerful, but odds are its the spyware and other crap running on their machine that is convincing them of this lack of performance.
Porn has always been the driving force behind new technology in entertainment.
Lets think about this often quoted saying.
My parents are pretty average American people. My father bought our first VCR in 1984. To my knowledge I'm the only person that ever watched porn on it, and it was actually the first couple of porn movies I ever saw. A friend brought them over. My father has a computer. Sure, some porn, but that is not the driving force for having a computer and broadband.
Now, porn does have one special quality. Young males. Young males drive technology, because they are the ones that understand it first. Or at least they understand it more than other age groups.
Does porn drive portable video games? No. Young males do.
Unless I'm clueless about how important porn is to people. I believe that people spend more time, effort and money on basic entertainment like movies, music, and TV than porn. The average American spends 4 hours a day in front of the TV. I don't know anybody that likes porn and masturbation enough to even do it for 2 hours every day, let alone 4.
I did find cursory info about Colvin:
http://listings.allpages.com/mi-0010935235-commer
http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/product-compint-0
Seems like a company that does web design for someone else should have a webpage of their own, right?
Oh, and they gave $500 http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributi
http://www.z4.com/ appears to be yet another company that does nothing, but likes to get paid well for it.
I love it how this link, http://www.z4.com/piracy.php , talks about how Microsoft and Autodesk are victims of piracy.
A whois search on z4.com says that Colvin Design Company set up the registrar info. Well, a google search on Colvin Design Company yields nothing. Colvin Design is supposedly located in Commerce Township, MI. z4 is from Oakland County, MI about 12 miles away from Commerce Township.
No products or anything of substance on the z4 site.
Looks like another lawyer trick.
Exactly
:)
Just checking
MS would do anything for money and that boys and girls is evil.
I am not a Bible thumper or even a Christian, but the Bible does have some good stuff in it.
For example, the Bible says in varying translations something similar to "The _love_ of money is the root of all evil".
I believe that 100%. Its the whole ends vs means thing and the "just because I can, does that mean I should?" question.
When people are on their deathbed and asked what they regret, they _never_ say, "I wish I made more money" or "I wish I worked harder", they say things like "I wish I spent more time with my kids/other important people in my life" or something like "Doing more things for other people vs being selfish".
Money is a medium of exchange to buy junk. The love of money is about selfishness, greed, and power. There are plenty of people that have more money than they can even spend, and they still go for more. Why? Power.
If one thinks about it, the only thing we have power over are our decisions. Sure you can imprison someone or kill them, and I guess that is power, but even though I've never done these things, I believe I would not feel too good about myself, and most of the world who hears about someone imprisoning someone or killing them is not viewed as a good guy or gal.
Moral of the morals here, "Think responsibly".