i don't want to say you don't have a point. you might.
i just thought of another reason for local storage - privacy. i know that if i don't trust whoever is providing the virtual storage space, i want to keep my stuff on my local drive, not on some shared space on the internet.
first, i'm really not trying to slight you or your research in any manner. my questions are because i am curious. i will also state that it is not too hard for me to believe that macintosh can beat the windows/intel combination in many applications.
what OS / version were the systems running? especially to slashdotters, people are interested to see how linux stacks up against other operating systems. to mac enthusiasts, it seems more important to match up against windows as if it is the only platform. (given, it has the larger install base by far, and thus it is probably more practical to make that comparison)
also, if this was run anytime recently (used the june 2000 software for benchmarks, page last updated april 2001), why is the intel hardware noticeably older than the mac?
the g4 450 was not introduced until late 1999 and was the second fastest mac in 2000, second only to the g4 500. the pentium iii was running at 733 by the end of 1999 and was up to 1000 (and 866/850) by the end of Q1 2000.
i understand that the benchmarks were probably run on the equipment available, but i don't think it is completely fair to run new epuipment against old(er) equipment.
i don't want to argue with what the article claims, but the whole thing reads like a paid advertisement for apple. (not an apple slam - an observation about the article.) but i suppose news includes editorials.
The article contains 5 instances of the phrase "dauger said" and doesn't seem to have any other sources. dauger is a guy looking "to commercialize his expertise in Macintosh cluster computing." should we be surprised about his bias? does the existence of a 1 page.pdf explaining osX clustering preclude anyone from writing a 230 page book entitled, "how to build a better mac osX cluster"? i think not.
i guess when stories are low, advertising gets cheaper. it would be nice to see some bench marks instead of just claimed superiority of a specific machine/configuration over a generals class of machines/configurations.
now imagine a beowulf cluster of complaints like this. sorry, couldn't resist
i have had good luck with SuSE so far. I used their tools to get a working X configuration and then edited with vi where necessary. (although it does say not to do this in the SuSE generated Xfree86Config file)
my post was not intentionally false, if it was. to answer your last question, i think it's a case of moderators going with the perceived confidence level of the poster. i thought i was right, so i guess they did, too.
i guess this post and my reply to deno are meant as an apology to mandrake and the/. community if i mislead anyone. if i make mistakes, i would like to admit them and try to ammend my wrongs.
i did not intend to post anything false. the first part i know is true from my experience.
for the second part i am willing to admit that i am not a super-genius of linux.
at the time of my attempted installation, i had limited access to the internet (internet access not available on the system i was installing). so i was limited to what i could find in the manual. maybe i was too lazy to read the whole thing, but i did make an attempt to find a 'what to do if x does not work' section. i hadn't had trouble with x before, so this was a new area of exploration to me. if you can tell me what chapter it's in, that would help me. right now i have a retail copy of mandrake 8.1 that is sitting idle in my closet. making it useful would make me happy.
another problem i had was tring to get mandrake to recognize my gainward gf3 vid card. i could add a new piece of hardware with harddrake, but it still listed an unknown device geforce3 that i couldn't figure out how to make it configure.
my deepest apologies. what i wrote i percieved to be true through my experience.
i have talked to people who had wonderful esperiences with mandrake, but i am not one of them. they do not answer their phone. it takes them a month to send you something you order online. they do not respond to email.
and my favorite part is that all of their manuals assume that x will run with the default install settings. all of the trouble shooting tips involve clicking a button on the desktop. so that's all pretty useless when all you have is a command prompt. i was lucky that when i tried to install 8.1, i was not afraid to do a lot of tweaking to the xf86config and hardware settings. then mandrake would attempt to "fix" my changes. so now there is no more mandrake for me. (switched to SuSE - their install is also super easy)
if you check the articia s, the chipset they use for the teron cx you'll see that the chipset itself only costs $30.00 (in quantities of 10,000. that sounds like a reasonable price for a chipset. my guess is that they don't want to give away their r & d for the mobo design.
also noticed that this chipset supports MIPS and x86 in addition to power pc.
actually part of the beauty of the hammer is that it is being designed to be completely backwards compatible with 32-bit apps.
whether it works that way is yet to be determined, but it is like the opposite of intel's plan. the yamhill going to make 32 bit processors that can be switched to 64. the hammer starts out 64, but can also run 32 side by side.
it seems that even if the yamhill does release it's 64-bit fury, intel is still stuck playing catch up to amd. intel says they won't release yamhill unless the hammer forces them to. by that time amd will already have aquired market share.
as long as the os supports 32 as well as 64-bit apps like the processor does, people should be able to run whatever they want. if there is an advantage to 64-bits, vendors will have incentive to switch. if not, vendors will still have the flexibility to migrate at their own pace.
not to start a flame war, but i have been reading your posts and feel a need to speak up. also, i am probably way off topic.
i am all for competition and think people should try to make a better product. but it seems that the only reason you are willing to accept for why a monopoly might exist is that they make better stuff. companies have made products that were as good as or better than windows.
take Be. they made BeOS, which people still use even though it is dead. microsoft crushed it as it was just getting off the ground. they didn't just out-design Be, they told their vendors that they were not allowed to sell computers that did not also contain windows. microsoft also required them to diable BeOS by default. i fail to see how that makes windows a superior product. maybe it didn't have all of the features of windows, but operating systems to take time to develop. if they are stamped out in their infancy all of the innovation they might have had is lost. things like this also serve as a warning to others who would enter microsoft's turf. apple and the smorgasbord of *nixes survive because they are in different markets.
they innovate to the extent that you will be enticed into upgrading. make it cheaper in the short run to win in the long run.
my favorite is the audio adaptor for $129.99, which is the only thing that looks like headphones on the accessory page for the t615c. on the bright side you could get the audio adaptor and the t615c for just slightly less than the price of the n760c and have an ultra-slim mp3 playing clie. too bad to play mp3s you would probably want the 128MB memory stick ($149.95).
it's cool, but not cool enough for me to part with that much cash. at least not just yet.
OK, so there aren't that many people running linux (percentage-wise). But of those of us who do, I'd say the vast majority who do use linux also use windows. Some may have another machine. Some may dual boot. Some browse from work (of course, I certainly wouldn't be doing that right now), and most offices run windows. If I am booted into my win2k, i am not goint to reboot just to get something off the web. I also do most of my gaming in win2k. So my browsing outside of linux would mess up all of those stats.
Find an activity that can give you space from the pressure of your classes. Then come back to the class feeling like you really took a break. It is easy to get burned out if you don't rest, even if it is something you truly love. I think with any job you can get pretty tired of it. CS can seem an awful lot like a job and not so much like learning, at least not in the way that you learn history.
There are many things one can enjoy and many jobs. The reason you get paid is because you wouldn't do the job the same if it were a hobby.
I was where you are when i was at the end of my junior year. I had an easy out, which was a couple other majors (which probably actually contributed to the stress problem). I didn't do much with computers at all after I dropped CS. Sometimes I wish I had stayed with it. Now I find I miss it and am having to study up on my own time in addition to having a less than sparkling job.
"The question is, do networks as they exist today really support what people want to do with them? The answer is clearly no."
I think the last statement is there to help point out where p2p could go. any developments using ants would require changes to current software and/or hardware.
ants make sense if you consider the file you are searching for to be the food. the food can be in many different places with many paths to each one. in a large file (think feature-length movie), packets would be sent all sorts of different directions over a period of time. ants could concievably be used to make the transfer more efficient the longer it is. for instant messaging, paths are found between the same 2 points for the duration of the conversation. if you have a 'buddy list' those buddies usually exist at the same ip address. more efficient routes could be found even after the conversation ended.
it is probably useless even to try to respond to this.
the title of your post exposes this comment as the thoughtless, bigoted swill that it is. use your mind. group hatred is what caused this tragedy in the first place.
I have been reading through the comments on this subject. I do not claim to have read them all.
It seems that many people, especially those outside the US, are susggesting that this attack was some sort of retaliation for crimes the US commits against the world. I am American. I am not always proud of everything the US does. It is stupidity to say that any country had this coming.
Comments about America inflicting itself can only be taken seriously to a point. Yes, many American companies are "invading" other countries. But the people there buy it. No one is forced to buy food at McDonalds or drink Coca-Cola. The same thing happens in the US. Businesses I previously patroned are dissappearing and being replaced by things like Starbucks and Blockbuster. I say the same thing applies here as anywhere else. If you don't like a business, don't give it your money. If you don't like Hollywood being "imposed" on your country, don't see any Hollywood films. Encourage others to do the same. In the end, the people get what they want. If they want Americanization, it will certainly find them. It is easier to blame America than it is to blame the people who let our evil nation "invade" yours.
I would also like to point out that every world power has been viewed negatively by the less powerfull. Before America it was the European Powers. It is always easy to tell America what to do when you only have to consider the consequences outside of America. If you are not American, you will not understand how the consequences will affect us.
right on. open source is just like publishing a scientific paper. other duplicate your efforts and find ways to improve it. so sad nobody gets rich (at least to the exclusion of others) off of true innovation. it is ridiculous to say the american way is all about innovation or making money. both are important, both part of the american way. but there are checks in place to keep it from going too far in one direction (ie. stopping moopolies).
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i don't want to say you don't have a point. you might.
i just thought of another reason for local storage - privacy. i know that if i don't trust whoever is providing the virtual storage space, i want to keep my stuff on my local drive, not on some shared space on the internet.
first, i'm really not trying to slight you or your research in any manner. my questions are because i am curious. i will also state that it is not too hard for me to believe that macintosh can beat the windows/intel combination in many applications.
what OS / version were the systems running? especially to slashdotters, people are interested to see how linux stacks up against other operating systems. to mac enthusiasts, it seems more important to match up against windows as if it is the only platform. (given, it has the larger install base by far, and thus it is probably more practical to make that comparison)
also, if this was run anytime recently (used the june 2000 software for benchmarks, page last updated april 2001), why is the intel hardware noticeably older than the mac?
the g4 450 was not introduced until late 1999 and was the second fastest mac in 2000, second only to the g4 500. the pentium iii was running at 733 by the end of 1999 and was up to 1000 (and 866/850) by the end of Q1 2000.
i understand that the benchmarks were probably run on the equipment available, but i don't think it is completely fair to run new epuipment against old(er) equipment.
i don't want to argue with what the article claims, but the whole thing reads like a paid advertisement for apple. (not an apple slam - an observation about the article.) but i suppose news includes editorials.
.pdf explaining osX clustering preclude anyone from writing a 230 page book entitled, "how to build a better mac osX cluster"? i think not.
The article contains 5 instances of the phrase "dauger said" and doesn't seem to have any other sources. dauger is a guy looking "to commercialize his expertise in Macintosh cluster computing." should we be surprised about his bias? does the existence of a 1 page
i guess when stories are low, advertising gets cheaper. it would be nice to see some bench marks instead of just claimed superiority of a specific machine/configuration over a generals class of machines/configurations.
now imagine a beowulf cluster of complaints like this. sorry, couldn't resist
see also my reply to deno above.
/. community if i mislead anyone. if i make mistakes, i would like to admit them and try to ammend my wrongs.
i have had good luck with SuSE so far. I used their tools to get a working X configuration and then edited with vi where necessary. (although it does say not to do this in the SuSE generated Xfree86Config file)
my post was not intentionally false, if it was. to answer your last question, i think it's a case of moderators going with the perceived confidence level of the poster. i thought i was right, so i guess they did, too.
i guess this post and my reply to deno are meant as an apology to mandrake and the
i did not intend to post anything false. the first part i know is true from my experience.
for the second part i am willing to admit that i am not a super-genius of linux.
at the time of my attempted installation, i had limited access to the internet (internet access not available on the system i was installing). so i was limited to what i could find in the manual. maybe i was too lazy to read the whole thing, but i did make an attempt to find a 'what to do if x does not work' section. i hadn't had trouble with x before, so this was a new area of exploration to me. if you can tell me what chapter it's in, that would help me. right now i have a retail copy of mandrake 8.1 that is sitting idle in my closet. making it useful would make me happy.
another problem i had was tring to get mandrake to recognize my gainward gf3 vid card. i could add a new piece of hardware with harddrake, but it still listed an unknown device geforce3 that i couldn't figure out how to make it configure.
my deepest apologies. what i wrote i percieved to be true through my experience.
i have talked to people who had wonderful esperiences with mandrake, but i am not one of them. they do not answer their phone. it takes them a month to send you something you order online. they do not respond to email.
and my favorite part is that all of their manuals assume that x will run with the default install settings. all of the trouble shooting tips involve clicking a button on the desktop. so that's all pretty useless when all you have is a command prompt. i was lucky that when i tried to install 8.1, i was not afraid to do a lot of tweaking to the xf86config and hardware settings. then mandrake would attempt to "fix" my changes. so now there is no more mandrake for me. (switched to SuSE - their install is also super easy)
if you check the articia s, the chipset they use for the teron cx you'll see that the chipset itself only costs $30.00 (in quantities of 10,000. that sounds like a reasonable price for a chipset. my guess is that they don't want to give away their r & d for the mobo design.
also noticed that this chipset supports MIPS and x86 in addition to power pc.
actually part of the beauty of the hammer is that it is being designed to be completely backwards compatible with 32-bit apps.
whether it works that way is yet to be determined, but it is like the opposite of intel's plan. the yamhill going to make 32 bit processors that can be switched to 64. the hammer starts out 64, but can also run 32 side by side.
it seems that even if the yamhill does release it's 64-bit fury, intel is still stuck playing catch up to amd. intel says they won't release yamhill unless the hammer forces them to. by that time amd will already have aquired market share.
as long as the os supports 32 as well as 64-bit apps like the processor does, people should be able to run whatever they want. if there is an advantage to 64-bits, vendors will have incentive to switch. if not, vendors will still have the flexibility to migrate at their own pace.
not to start a flame war, but i have been reading your posts and feel a need to speak up. also, i am probably way off topic.
i am all for competition and think people should try to make a better product. but it seems that the only reason you are willing to accept for why a monopoly might exist is that they make better stuff. companies have made products that were as good as or better than windows.
take Be. they made BeOS, which people still use even though it is dead. microsoft crushed it as it was just getting off the ground. they didn't just out-design Be, they told their vendors that they were not allowed to sell computers that did not also contain windows. microsoft also required them to diable BeOS by default. i fail to see how that makes windows a superior product. maybe it didn't have all of the features of windows, but operating systems to take time to develop. if they are stamped out in their infancy all of the innovation they might have had is lost. things like this also serve as a warning to others who would enter microsoft's turf. apple and the smorgasbord of *nixes survive because they are in different markets.
they innovate to the extent that you will be enticed into upgrading. make it cheaper in the short run to win in the long run.
probably becuase rtcw is built on the quake 3 arena engine. they just worked on the textures a whole lot more. pretty pretty textures.
rtcw is fun and addictive. it is strangely refreshing to have an "old school" feel with the treasure and secrets.
my favorite is the audio adaptor for $129.99, which is the only thing that looks like headphones on the accessory page for the t615c. on the bright side you could get the audio adaptor and the t615c for just slightly less than the price of the n760c and have an ultra-slim mp3 playing clie. too bad to play mp3s you would probably want the 128MB memory stick ($149.95).
it's cool, but not cool enough for me to part with that much cash. at least not just yet.
OK, so there aren't that many people running linux (percentage-wise). But of those of us who do, I'd say the vast majority who do use linux also use windows. Some may have another machine. Some may dual boot. Some browse from work (of course, I certainly wouldn't be doing that right now), and most offices run windows. If I am booted into my win2k, i am not goint to reboot just to get something off the web. I also do most of my gaming in win2k. So my browsing outside of linux would mess up all of those stats.
Find an activity that can give you space from the pressure of your classes. Then come back to the class feeling like you really took a break. It is easy to get burned out if you don't rest, even if it is something you truly love. I think with any job you can get pretty tired of it. CS can seem an awful lot like a job and not so much like learning, at least not in the way that you learn history.
There are many things one can enjoy and many jobs. The reason you get paid is because you wouldn't do the job the same if it were a hobby.
I was where you are when i was at the end of my junior year. I had an easy out, which was a couple other majors (which probably actually contributed to the stress problem). I didn't do much with computers at all after I dropped CS. Sometimes I wish I had stayed with it. Now I find I miss it and am having to study up on my own time in addition to having a less than sparkling job.
I am sorry if your life sucks. I don't know you, so I never before realized that it must be my fault.
Do you read all of the comments of people saying Americans should be nice to the rest of the world? Even Americans themselves saying this?
I'm sorry there are some idiots in this country, but most of us do not hate the rest of the world.
"The question is, do networks as they exist today really support what people want to do with them? The answer is clearly no."
I think the last statement is there to help point out where p2p could go. any developments using ants would require changes to current software and/or hardware.
ants make sense if you consider the file you are searching for to be the food. the food can be in many different places with many paths to each one. in a large file (think feature-length movie), packets would be sent all sorts of different directions over a period of time. ants could concievably be used to make the transfer more efficient the longer it is. for instant messaging, paths are found between the same 2 points for the duration of the conversation. if you have a 'buddy list' those buddies usually exist at the same ip address. more efficient routes could be found even after the conversation ended.
it is probably useless even to try to respond to this.
the title of your post exposes this comment as the thoughtless, bigoted swill that it is. use your mind. group hatred is what caused this tragedy in the first place.
I do not disagree with your statements.
I was equating fanaticism and other types of irrational behavior with stupidity.
I was responding to those comments saying this was the result of Commercial acts of America. I do not believe that to be the cause.
It is nice to know at least one person read a comment I posted.
I have been reading through the comments on this subject. I do not claim to have read them all.
It seems that many people, especially those outside the US, are susggesting that this attack was some sort of retaliation for crimes the US commits against the world. I am American. I am not always proud of everything the US does. It is stupidity to say that any country had this coming.
Comments about America inflicting itself can only be taken seriously to a point. Yes, many American companies are "invading" other countries. But the people there buy it. No one is forced to buy food at McDonalds or drink Coca-Cola. The same thing happens in the US. Businesses I previously patroned are dissappearing and being replaced by things like Starbucks and Blockbuster. I say the same thing applies here as anywhere else. If you don't like a business, don't give it your money. If you don't like Hollywood being "imposed" on your country, don't see any Hollywood films. Encourage others to do the same. In the end, the people get what they want. If they want Americanization, it will certainly find them. It is easier to blame America than it is to blame the people who let our evil nation "invade" yours.
I would also like to point out that every world power has been viewed negatively by the less powerfull. Before America it was the European Powers. It is always easy to tell America what to do when you only have to consider the consequences outside of America. If you are not American, you will not understand how the consequences will affect us.
right on. open source is just like publishing a scientific paper. other duplicate your efforts and find ways to improve it. so sad nobody gets rich (at least to the exclusion of others) off of true innovation. it is ridiculous to say the american way is all about innovation or making money. both are important, both part of the american way. but there are checks in place to keep it from going too far in one direction (ie. stopping moopolies).