Heavens, what a monster! That's not a backpack device anymore! A custom turbine with such a diameter ought to have a considerable amount of weight, let alone combined with the engine. Since it will need supporting struts and something of a supportive landing gear (so the pilot doesn't break his legs) he might as well build a cabin-cockpit right away. Maybe something like a bubble to crouch in. Guess that would also make some room for airflow and control improvement and solve the safety problem. That aside, this shure is a cool gadget. Will my standard Euro-Drivers-License do?:-)
....you might as well use fresco since it's the only kit you mentioned that for once isn't something like ten years behind (and looking like someone shat on the screen) but more like 5 years ahead of time. When you're app is 1.0 stable and beyond both you're app and fresco will be finished and if all turns out well both projects will have something to brag about. Bottom line: Use fresco or join the Blender project - they've got their own kit fitted extra for the programm and therefore it runs on more or less everything that runs on electricity.
Cool. Get 2 in 1. Looks ugly AND wastes space!
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That color was kinda hip in the seventies, wasn't it?
Jacob Nielsen; self-proclaimed web design guru; got lucky at early building of web community who all linked to each other calling each other 'another really good 'professional'' (see also David Siegel); knows next to nothing about webdesign; by common judgement of his site apears to be colorblind and run browsers with full HTML 2 support; can bullshit really tough on webdesign, get's quoted on webdesign every odd month on/.; never get's quoted on alistapart.com; is usually stated to be 'the ultimate webdesigner' by people who build sites like www.kornshell.com (yeah, dig those colors); usually is absolutly unheard of buy people who aktually do webdesign;recently (2002) noticed that horizontal scrolling sucks (Congrats, Jacob!)
4pt is an absolute size (4 72th of an inch) which is never properly interpreted by browsers to this very day. Especially with users unable to calibrate their browsers and screens properly. And Vectorgrafics is the only thing that will display adequately on PDAs and Workstations alike if used the right way. So it actually is a solution for wireless applications. What you are saying basically strengthens my opinion about what slashdotters usually know about webdesign which is next to zilch (no offense).
Despite the utter rubish some of the typical no-clue-on-design anti-flash zealots on/. kept crapping out in recent years, flash had a clear and distinct position in WWW content. Until less then a year ago there was no way you could get CSS working the way it was intended on spec-release about 7 years ago. Flash was the *only* way to get a consistent visual apperance across Browsers with solid fonts and stuff that went beyond table-slicing (tables not being intended for pushing pics around anyway). Flash was *the* tool to actually achieve what CSS promised for so long. With nearly every browser finally fully CSS 2 compliant, this is now a non-issue and put's flash in the extra gadget area so many slashdotters allways suspected it in. With SVG - a format that's substancially easyer to handle in the dynamic content serving dept. - and open architecture web 3D poppingup left right and center and the mighty Java Media Framework finally out, asskick competition for flash is closing in. Considering this and the fact that the Uber-Web Tool Dreamweaver had it's days when it's templates where the next best thing to the then expensive and unwieldy dynamic content servers this is might actually be the wrong time for M$ to purchase Macromedia. Macromedia never got the curve to professional level tools, Dreamweaver aside. Flash MX coding is as crappy as ever, Director 8.5 still tops the hitlist as the most bizare software joke under the sun, PHP kicks Cold Fusion up and down the street and no f*ckin' way is Kava or JRun gonna stand against Suns free libs and the ever-growing Netbeans popularity combined with the bazillion and one Java/Apache OSS projects.
Bottom Line: I kinda hope that M$ buys Macromedia and drives it against the wall at full speed. Hideously bloated with ColdFusion-ASP-MX.NET intergration or whatever they think might be a cool name for a dead-end product strategy.
PHP is good but TAL is the next generation of SSI
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One thing that stirkes about PHP is it's position in the market. It simply ownz all other SSI technologies out there. From ASP over JSP to Cold Fusion, PHP is one of the outstanding successes of OSS. Yet all these SSI technologies have in common that they still don't manage to really split Design from content. I was all in for PHP as my way of doing SSI stuff until I ran into TAL. It's the second (next to DTML) SSI Language that comes with Zope and has been reimplemented in Perl (PETAL). The essential difference to other SSI solutions like the #1 PHP is that all SSI-relevant tags only come as parameters to standard HTML tags and thus absolutly don't interfere with WYSIWYG HTML tools or other stuff that belongs to markup. You even can get good editors to switch of the non-html tal parameters to do your markup uninterfered. Once on the server content of tal-parametered markup (tal-speak: "mockup") get's replaced with the dynamic content. The point is: Either way you have documents that can be previewed in browsers, edited and formated without the source code for serverside dynamics being touched - or vice versa. A simple trick to establish true separation of content and code.
I really don't understand this. I'm not a biassed fight tooth and nail OSS freak but this stuff seems just soooo lame. ASP sucks. Period. It has sucked, it sux and it probably allways will suck. This.Net thing seems to me more like a joke than anything else. I know NOBODY exept one (and check they Site to see they can't even do valid HTML -> www.q-in-media.de ) in the industry actually using it - but then again that might be a different story in the US. So at least M$ wants us across the pond to believe. It costs a zillion Euros, isn't even plattformindependent and, well ok, Mono is it's OSS counterpart and probably gonna be something usefull in the future. But what is the big deal? Understand me: I'm currently doing a little Python project. Python seems to be a very cool PL. It's interpreted, OOP, GPLd, runs on just about anything that runs on electricity, has TKs for all major OSes and, shure enough, it works! And it cost me nada. There's an OSS Appserver done with it called Zope that comes with a Webinterface for all your servicing needs, sort of installs in 2 minutes on any given OS (4 minutes if you're of the not-so-savy type) and suits 99% of all Inet related Tasks that you might ever want to do. Anything else I can get Java and a zillion OSS things, from JBoss to Cocoon, for it or I pick C++ for speed in 3D and grafical stuff. Now once again I ask: Please someone tell me what's the big deal of all this crap?
As a former american (now german) european citizen I stand startled and amazed before these comments that show so much of an utterly different point of view the majority of US citizens has on this subject. George Bushs Iraq policy really becomes understandable (no offense to anyone!!!). And that's not just all badass semi-facist rednecks, it's all kind's of normal americans, even slashdotters too! (no such thing as a 'normal american' I know that, but go along with me for a moment;;;-))) )
Like it seems it truly is the case that the USA is a country were a large part of the population considers owning or the right to own a gun an expression of liberty and freedom. A very fascinating point of view. It has something medieval about it. I really can only stand amazed...
Any other europeans here feeling the same way?
BTW: I wonder how americans think about the worlds top amount of dead children due to traffic overspeed in germany. Probably something simular.
The Transrapid was ready to market in 1980. Nine-teen-eighty, I say. Endless debates and 22 years later it finally gets implemented. Of course not in germany. At least this time it's the chinese and not the americans that get it on with german tech.:-) That been said, it shure is an engineers wet dream and a beaty in means of transportation. I'd love to see this baby ready for use throughout central europe. Cars are outdated. Germans, for instance, spend 4.5 billion man-hours in traffic-jams per year! It's really time we got puplic transport to be the way to travel.
Windows XP is out for over a year now, when's the new one comming? *pant**pant**pant**pant* Yeah, we wanna spend money.
One of the reasons to use Linux or BSD is the fact that it is future-save. I for my part can't take anyone seriously who bet's on a Softwarevendor who as a bianual Updatecycyle for his core software. How the fsck is that supposed to increase productvity???
1)are dirt cheap 2)are technically superior 3)have no need to maintain incompatability to sell new copies every odd year in order to gather revenue 4)have the *increase* of their userbase *rising* since about 3 years 5)are increasingly supported by authorities across the planet due to subtancial cut in costs 6)are generally prefered by programmers and tech savy due to extreme ease of modification and extension 7)are modular and generally plattformindependent all the way through 8)thus justify customized hardware for special task 9)are a good reason to sell faster hardware - as they do need more processpower due to their modular nature 10)don't need severe company support of their developerbase 11)are easyly intergrated into a existing softwarecompanys portfolio due to mature sophistication 12)run on older existing hardware that's not supported by proprietary concepts anymore
1.) Back then, you had a zillion platforms and things where much more experimental. Today you get x86 whereever you look. It's become <i>the</i> standard plattform for developement.
2. )Todays comps are <i>fast</i>. And I mean really fast. Things like my favorite Editor JEdit (www.jedit.org) are actually usable with todays standard hardware, even though it is a hideous chunk of OOP stuff running on top of a VM. In five years from now no one will give a shit what processorpower an app will need, as long as the Framework is easy to use, OOP all the way through and extendable within hours.
3.)Rocksolid OOP packages that have years of expierience and expertise in high level softwaredev behind them. Just think of Java or it OSS 'counterpart' Python if you will. I programmed a simple Inet-Agent with it's own HTTP socket within a few hours the other day. I didn't even bother of using wget as an external programm, because it would even have been more difficult(!!). Think about that. No way would have that been possible 10 years ago.
You have you're libs that can be bound into any PL you can think of within minutes, you have entire Application Servers that will install with 2 mouseclicks (ok, maybe three...) and have you're project rolling 10 minutes later and if you know one PL good enough it usually takes you round abouts 3 hours to get rolling with a new one because they all follow the same tried and true principles that have proven the to be the best. And if you only keep you're eye on it a little bit you're bound to have zilch hassle in migrating or porting to another plattform.
Yes, Softwaredevelopement has developed from an exotic experimental thing to a fully grown science and profession, with all the benefits that come along.
.. in 5 years from now. In fact, I'm actually considering making at least some extra money on help like this. I've got 15 years of solid computer expierience and the base of knowlege a geek - even without college IT - has over the Joe Sixpack and Janet Sockermom usually is massive. Imagine having 50 to 100 people who's boxes you've set up over the years and they have a person to call to ask you to log in and fix the problem with that comp you sold them with Linux installed. After all, cars are commonplace nowadays and everybody has their local car shop guy handy when problems occur. It's gonna be just the same with computers. Might as well start adjusting to that. This 'Speak with a geek' thing is just the way to go.
The usual Framerate bullshitting going on here...
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Just for the information of the ones that like to flame on people who claim to need 80 fps or more.
FPS isn't the same all the time! When you test FPS in a quick singleplayer it can be as high as 60 and still break in to a useless 10 when you're in a hot pursuit of 3 enemys along with 4 teammates, with everyone firing at maxrate. A max of roundabouts 80FPS minimum is needed if you don't want to notice a performance break when everyone meets for the big showdown in the center of a map. FPS break-in is noticed once it goes below 20 and that will allways happen eventually on a laptop.
High End Laptops are performant enough for gaming but simply not modifyable enough for top of the line gaming. Ut2k3 runs only on very recent hardware and matching up to every new gaming with laptops is simply to expensive. 150 Dollars will upgrade my geforce 2 gts to a card that has enough oomph for a 5-people-shooting-at-once-on-CTF-Magma-map-lag-fre e UT2k3 performance. I doupt a laptop could do that just now. Ironically, people who need top-of-the-line boxes are usually the ones that travel around to LAN partys and Clanwars. So, no, buying a laptop for gaming is pointless.
Basically the US consists of all the morons and extremeists and religious fanatics that where kicked out of europe the last 300 years. And their offspring. And now they sort of 'rule the world' and call that wild patch of land 'Gods own country'. Talk about irony.
There is one thing that Mickey$ofters and lot's of Linux advocates often fail to notice:
When a company offers a Linux distro it's not just offering Software, it's mainly offering a service. The Linux Distro companys are on the way to establish a buisnessmodel that M$ tried/tries to copy with their upgrade lock-in and all that. The model being: charging not for software, but setting it up. M$ makes most of the big money by name and brand, not yet by upgrade lock-ins, the distros make money through the service they offer their users - selling boxed Linux pakages being only a small portion of that service. Customer ties are crucial in such an enviroment and usually are very solid too.
SuSE might not be sitting in butter in full, but they offer a top-notch distro with docs that own any other and they have a firm grip of germany, the country with the highest amount of users per capita. The fact that germany has the highest amount of Linux users per capita is due to SuSE, btw. Allmost the same goes for Mandrake in France. They even managed to 'beg' for funding via a club and a lot of their trusted customers was willing to pitch in. And RedHat...well, I don't think they'll go broke anytime soon either.
No, there's only one who actually might have a little trouble in getting the curve from an inhouse software only company to a more service orientated one: M$. Aside of that, there's more than enough room for 3 Linux 'Desktop' distros. Hancom I really can't tell. They're big in asia, aren't they?
If you don't want your kids to do it - don't do it yourself!
My daughter won't see Windows of me using it either.
I use Linux all the way through and I won't have no steenkin doze on my boxes. She'll get a KDE 3 Box with a nifty KDE 3 Liquid theme in screeching pink when she's old enough for a box.
Warning: Serious TCP/IP territory here! Of limits for ye olde slashdotters.
Let me fist get the Crab-Book (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tcp3/) and read it. And then post this thing again a half a year later, so I can add my smartass remark.
Here's for the ones who like pictures (Hehehe...): http://www.aw.com/catalog/academic/p roduct/1,4096, 0201776316,00.html
Geez, I really have to get my TCP/IP sorted out. This stuff sounds to cool to miss out.
Since you give no information on what you do with your NT infrastucture it's hard to say. But as far as I have expierienced, using Linux won't be considerably cheaper if you don't switch entirely. The heterogenic fuss of administrating an NT/Linux mix of 500+ PCs is a pure pain in the but. And knowing how crappy NT 'networks' are, I suggest you ditch it entirely.
I guess you are considering a network wide update anyway, so total Linux could very much be the way to go. Alltough you'd probaly have to start with "let's just change the servers and one or two Desktops" to get the people used to the Idea.
And finally, to answer your question: A Linux only enviroment for Standard PC work will allways be cheaper than WinNT. Provided you know your way about Linux admining and there's no special software that only runs on NT. Which would only be something like special Video NLE software or something simular.
I've been into computing since the Sharp MZ700 and Pc-1402 days. Now I'm a Software developer. I switched to Linux on my PCs a year ago. Completely.
Yeah, it's commandline, ancient Unix quirks and all that. But here's the one major and main reason I did it:
I will never ever have to learn how to deal with yet another new OS!
Read that again. And let it sink in.
You don't honestly think that people will pay for shrinkwrapped software in five years from now? At least not enough to make a living from it. They will pay to have the job done. No matter what OS, no matter what Platform. End-user distinction of OSes in the everyday buisness is fading to non-existence fast. They're becoming nothing but a bare nececcity (spelling??:-( ). To me OSS is the only answer to your question.
Linux on x86 of course. ILM uses Linux on SGI, but that's only cuz they have the boxxen allready from the Irix days that where only a year ago or so before they migrated. x86 is the cheapest and most tested HW platform. Period. If you're box doesn't get a hold of the renderers load you get a second one (or a third and fourth) to do it and still turn out cheaper. If that still ain't enough you can get some Xeon workstation for the extra system bandwidth along with a rocketdrive if your models load to slow.
Anyway you look at it there's allways a cheaper and more hassle free solution on x86 below the bottom line. Best platform for Maya: Linux on x86 - really a no brainer.
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Heavens, what a monster! That's not a backpack device anymore! A custom turbine with such a diameter ought to have a considerable amount of weight, let alone combined with the engine. :-)
Since it will need supporting struts and something of a supportive landing gear (so the pilot doesn't break his legs) he might as well build a cabin-cockpit right away.
Maybe something like a bubble to crouch in. Guess that would also make some room for airflow and control improvement and solve the safety problem.
That aside, this shure is a cool gadget. Will my standard Euro-Drivers-License do?
....you might as well use fresco since it's the only kit you mentioned that for once isn't something like ten years behind (and looking like someone shat on the screen) but more like 5 years ahead of time. When you're app is 1.0 stable and beyond both you're app and fresco will be finished and if all turns out well both projects will have something to brag about.
Bottom line: Use fresco or join the Blender project - they've got their own kit fitted extra for the programm and therefore it runs on more or less everything that runs on electricity.
That color was kinda hip in the seventies, wasn't it?
Jacob Nielsen; self-proclaimed web design guru; got lucky at early building of web community who all linked to each other calling each other 'another really good 'professional'' (see also David Siegel); /.; ;recently (2002) noticed that horizontal scrolling sucks (Congrats, Jacob!)
knows next to nothing about webdesign;
by common judgement of his site apears to be colorblind and run browsers with full HTML 2 support;
can bullshit really tough on webdesign, get's quoted on webdesign every odd month on
never get's quoted on alistapart.com;
is usually stated to be 'the ultimate webdesigner' by people who build sites like www.kornshell.com (yeah, dig those colors);
usually is absolutly unheard of buy people who aktually do webdesign
4pt is an absolute size (4 72th of an inch) which is never properly interpreted by browsers to this very day. Especially with users unable to calibrate their browsers and screens properly.
And Vectorgrafics is the only thing that will display adequately on PDAs and Workstations alike if used the right way. So it actually is a solution for wireless applications.
What you are saying basically strengthens my opinion about what slashdotters usually know about webdesign which is next to zilch (no offense).
Despite the utter rubish some of the typical no-clue-on-design anti-flash zealots on /. kept crapping out in recent years, flash had a clear and distinct position in WWW content.
Until less then a year ago there was no way you could get CSS working the way it was intended on spec-release about 7 years ago. Flash was the *only* way to get a consistent visual apperance across Browsers with solid fonts and stuff that went beyond table-slicing (tables not being intended for pushing pics around anyway).
Flash was *the* tool to actually achieve what CSS promised for so long. With nearly every browser finally fully CSS 2 compliant, this is now a non-issue and put's flash in the extra gadget area so many slashdotters allways suspected it in. With SVG - a format that's substancially easyer to handle in the dynamic content serving dept. - and open architecture web 3D poppingup left right and center and the mighty Java Media Framework finally out, asskick competition for flash is closing in.
Considering this and the fact that the Uber-Web Tool Dreamweaver had it's days when it's templates where the next best thing to the then expensive and unwieldy dynamic content servers this is might actually be the wrong time for M$ to purchase Macromedia. Macromedia never got the curve to professional level tools, Dreamweaver aside. Flash MX coding is as crappy as ever, Director 8.5 still tops the hitlist as the most bizare software joke under the sun, PHP kicks Cold Fusion up and down the street and no f*ckin' way is Kava or JRun gonna stand against Suns free libs and the ever-growing Netbeans popularity combined with the bazillion and one Java/Apache OSS projects.
Bottom Line: I kinda hope that M$ buys Macromedia and drives it against the wall at full speed. Hideously bloated with ColdFusion-ASP-MX.NET intergration or whatever they think might be a cool name for a dead-end product strategy.
One thing that stirkes about PHP is it's position in the market. It simply ownz all other SSI technologies out there. From ASP over JSP to Cold Fusion, PHP is one of the outstanding successes of OSS.
Yet all these SSI technologies have in common that they still don't manage to really split Design from content. I was all in for PHP as my way of doing SSI stuff until I ran into TAL. It's the second (next to DTML) SSI Language that comes with Zope and has been reimplemented in Perl (PETAL). The essential difference to other SSI solutions like the #1 PHP is that all SSI-relevant tags only come as parameters to standard HTML tags and thus absolutly don't interfere with WYSIWYG HTML tools or other stuff that belongs to markup. You even can get good editors to switch of the non-html tal parameters to do your markup uninterfered. Once on the server content of tal-parametered markup (tal-speak: "mockup") get's replaced with the dynamic content. The point is: Either way you have documents that can be previewed in browsers, edited and formated without the source code for serverside dynamics being touched - or vice versa.
A simple trick to establish true separation of content and code.
I really don't understand this. I'm not a biassed fight tooth and nail OSS freak but this stuff seems just soooo lame. .Net thing seems to me more like a joke than anything else. I know NOBODY exept one (and check they Site to see they can't even do valid HTML -> www.q-in-media.de ) in the industry actually using it - but then again that might be a different story in the US. So at least M$ wants us across the pond to believe.
ASP sucks. Period. It has sucked, it sux and it probably allways will suck. This
It costs a zillion Euros, isn't even plattformindependent and, well ok, Mono is it's OSS counterpart and probably gonna be something usefull in the future. But what is the big deal?
Understand me:
I'm currently doing a little Python project. Python seems to be a very cool PL. It's interpreted, OOP, GPLd, runs on just about anything that runs on electricity, has TKs for all major OSes and, shure enough, it works! And it cost me nada.
There's an OSS Appserver done with it called Zope that comes with a Webinterface for all your servicing needs, sort of installs in 2 minutes on any given OS (4 minutes if you're of the not-so-savy type) and suits 99% of all Inet related Tasks that you might ever want to do.
Anything else I can get Java and a zillion OSS things, from JBoss to Cocoon, for it or I pick C++ for speed in 3D and grafical stuff.
Now once again I ask: Please someone tell me what's the big deal of all this crap?
As a former american (now german) european citizen I stand startled and amazed before these comments that show so much of an utterly different point of view the majority of US citizens has on this subject. ;;;-))) )
George Bushs Iraq policy really becomes understandable (no offense to anyone!!!).
And that's not just all badass semi-facist rednecks, it's all kind's of normal americans, even slashdotters too!
(no such thing as a 'normal american' I know that, but go along with me for a moment
Like it seems it truly is the case that the USA is a country were a large part of the population considers owning or the right to own a gun an expression of liberty and freedom. A very fascinating point of view. It has something medieval about it. I really can only stand amazed...
Any other europeans here feeling the same way?
BTW:
I wonder how americans think about the worlds top amount of dead children due to traffic overspeed in germany. Probably something simular.
The Transrapid was ready to market in 1980. Nine-teen-eighty, I say. Endless debates and 22 years later it finally gets implemented. Of course not in germany. At least this time it's the chinese and not the americans that get it on with german tech. :-)
That been said, it shure is an engineers wet dream and a beaty in means of transportation. I'd love to see this baby ready for use throughout central europe. Cars are outdated. Germans, for instance, spend 4.5 billion man-hours in traffic-jams per year! It's really time we got puplic transport to be the way to travel.
Windows XP is out for over a year now, when's the new one comming? *pant**pant**pant**pant*
Yeah, we wanna spend money.
One of the reasons to use Linux or BSD is the fact that it is future-save. I for my part can't take anyone seriously who bet's on a Softwarevendor who as a bianual Updatecycyle for his core software. How the fsck is that supposed to increase productvity???
-see Headline-
Will Operating Systems and Apps that
1)are dirt cheap
2)are technically superior
3)have no need to maintain incompatability to sell new copies every odd year in order to gather revenue
4)have the *increase* of their userbase *rising* since about 3 years
5)are increasingly supported by authorities across the planet due to subtancial cut in costs
6)are generally prefered by programmers and tech savy due to extreme ease of modification and extension
7)are modular and generally plattformindependent all the way through
8)thus justify customized hardware for special task
9)are a good reason to sell faster hardware - as they do need more processpower due to their modular nature
10)don't need severe company support of their developerbase
11)are easyly intergrated into a existing softwarecompanys portfolio due to mature sophistication
12)run on older existing hardware that's not supported by proprietary concepts anymore
ever become mainstream?
You bet.
Check out the manual that comes with Windows. THATS documentation.
1.) Back then, you had a zillion platforms and things where much more experimental. Today you get x86 whereever you look. It's become <i>the</i> standard plattform for developement.
2. )Todays comps are <i>fast</i>. And I mean really fast. Things like my favorite Editor JEdit (www.jedit.org) are actually usable with todays standard hardware, even though it is a hideous chunk of OOP stuff running on top of a VM. In five years from now no one will give a shit what processorpower an app will need, as long as the Framework is easy to use, OOP all the way through and extendable within hours.
3.)Rocksolid OOP packages that have years of expierience and expertise in high level softwaredev behind them. Just think of Java or it OSS 'counterpart' Python if you will. I programmed a simple Inet-Agent with it's own HTTP socket within a few hours the other day. I didn't even bother of using wget as an external programm, because it would even have been more difficult(!!). Think about that. No way would have that been possible 10 years ago.
You have you're libs that can be bound into any PL you can think of within minutes, you have entire Application Servers that will install with 2 mouseclicks (ok, maybe three...) and have you're project rolling 10 minutes later and if you know one PL good enough it usually takes you round abouts 3 hours to get rolling with a new one because they all follow the same tried and true principles that have proven the to be the best. And if you only keep you're eye on it a little bit you're bound to have zilch hassle in migrating or porting to another plattform.
Yes, Softwaredevelopement has developed from an exotic experimental thing to a fully grown science and profession, with all the benefits that come along.
.. in 5 years from now.
In fact, I'm actually considering making at least some extra money on help like this.
I've got 15 years of solid computer expierience and the base of knowlege a geek - even without college IT - has over the Joe Sixpack and Janet Sockermom usually is massive.
Imagine having 50 to 100 people who's boxes you've set up over the years and they have a person to call to ask you to log in and fix the problem with that comp you sold them with Linux installed. After all, cars are commonplace nowadays and everybody has their local car shop guy handy when problems occur. It's gonna be just the same with computers. Might as well start adjusting to that.
This 'Speak with a geek' thing is just the way to go.
Just for the information of the ones that like to flame on people who claim to need 80 fps or more.
FPS isn't the same all the time! When you test FPS in a quick singleplayer it can be as high as 60 and still break in to a useless 10 when you're in a hot pursuit of 3 enemys along with 4 teammates, with everyone firing at maxrate. A max of roundabouts 80FPS minimum is needed if you don't want to notice a performance break when everyone meets for the big showdown in the center of a map. FPS break-in is noticed once it goes below 20 and that will allways happen eventually on a laptop.
High End Laptops are performant enough for gaming but simply not modifyable enough for top of the line gaming. Ut2k3 runs only on very recent hardware and matching up to every new gaming with laptops is simply to expensive.e e UT2k3 performance. I doupt a laptop could do that just now. Ironically, people who need top-of-the-line boxes are usually the ones that travel around to LAN partys and Clanwars.
150 Dollars will upgrade my geforce 2 gts to a card that has enough oomph for a 5-people-shooting-at-once-on-CTF-Magma-map-lag-fr
So, no, buying a laptop for gaming is pointless.
Basically the US consists of all the morons and extremeists and religious fanatics that where kicked out of europe the last 300 years. And their offspring.
And now they sort of 'rule the world' and call that wild patch of land 'Gods own country'.
Talk about irony.
There is one thing that Mickey$ofters and lot's of Linux advocates often fail to notice:
When a company offers a Linux distro it's not just offering Software, it's mainly offering a service. The Linux Distro companys are on the way to establish a buisnessmodel that M$ tried/tries to copy with their upgrade lock-in and all that. The model being: charging not for software, but setting it up. M$ makes most of the big money by name and brand, not yet by upgrade lock-ins, the distros make money through the service they offer their users - selling boxed Linux pakages being only a small portion of that service.
Customer ties are crucial in such an enviroment and usually are very solid too.
SuSE might not be sitting in butter in full, but they offer a top-notch distro with docs that own any other and they have a firm grip of germany, the country with the highest amount of users per capita. The fact that germany has the highest amount of Linux users per capita is due to SuSE, btw. Allmost the same goes for Mandrake in France. They even managed to 'beg' for funding via a club and a lot of their trusted customers was willing to pitch in. And RedHat...well, I don't think they'll go broke anytime soon either.
No, there's only one who actually might have a little trouble in getting the curve from an inhouse software only company to a more service orientated one: M$. Aside of that, there's more than enough room for 3 Linux 'Desktop' distros.
Hancom I really can't tell. They're big in asia, aren't they?
If you don't want your kids to do it - don't do it yourself!
My daughter won't see Windows of me using it either.
I use Linux all the way through and I won't have no steenkin doze on my boxes.
She'll get a KDE 3 Box with a nifty KDE 3 Liquid theme in screeching pink when she's old enough for a box.
Warning: Serious TCP/IP territory here!
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Of limits for ye olde slashdotters.
Let me fist get the Crab-Book (http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/tcp3/) and read it. And then post this thing again a half a year later, so I can add my smartass remark.
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Geez, I really have to get my TCP/IP sorted out. This stuff sounds to cool to miss out.
Since you give no information on what you do with your NT infrastucture it's hard to say. But as far as I have expierienced, using Linux won't be considerably cheaper if you don't switch entirely.
The heterogenic fuss of administrating an NT/Linux mix of 500+ PCs is a pure pain in the but. And knowing how crappy NT 'networks' are, I suggest you ditch it entirely.
I guess you are considering a network wide update anyway, so total Linux could very much be the way to go. Alltough you'd probaly have to start with "let's just change the servers and one or two Desktops" to get the people used to the Idea.
And finally, to answer your question:
A Linux only enviroment for Standard PC work will allways be cheaper than WinNT. Provided you know your way about Linux admining and there's no special software that only runs on NT. Which would only be something like special Video NLE software or something simular.
I've been into computing since the Sharp MZ700 and Pc-1402 days. Now I'm a Software developer.
:-( ).
I switched to Linux on my PCs a year ago. Completely.
Yeah, it's commandline, ancient Unix quirks and all that. But here's the one major and main reason I did it:
I will never ever have to learn how to deal with yet another new OS!
Read that again. And let it sink in.
You don't honestly think that people will pay for shrinkwrapped software in five years from now? At least not enough to make a living from it. They will pay to have the job done. No matter what OS, no matter what Platform. End-user distinction of OSes in the everyday buisness is fading to non-existence fast. They're becoming nothing but a bare nececcity (spelling??
To me OSS is the only answer to your question.
Linux on x86 of course.
ILM uses Linux on SGI, but that's only cuz they have the boxxen allready from the Irix days that where only a year ago or so before they migrated.
x86 is the cheapest and most tested HW platform. Period.
If you're box doesn't get a hold of the renderers load you get a second one (or a third and fourth) to do it and still turn out cheaper.
If that still ain't enough you can get some Xeon workstation for the extra system bandwidth along with a rocketdrive if your models load to slow.
Anyway you look at it there's allways a cheaper and more hassle free solution on x86 below the bottom line.
Best platform for Maya: Linux on x86 - really a no brainer.