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AGP was only for Graphics cards and I am pretty sure you where limited to only one AGP slot. I think the idea with PCIe is that if we are going to make a really fast interface for things like RAIDs and network interface cards we might as well replace AGP at the same time so we only have one type of slot to deal with.
You are feed a troll and you are also spreading FUD. "How the hell did your company take the time to learn Linux to such a degree to be able to "modify the kernel code to fit your needs" and NOT know that it had to be shared..." Google has made many modifications to the Linux kernel not all of them have been shared. You only have to share you code with the people you distribute it to. So if you are paid to make some changes to the Linux kernel for a big company you must give that big company the source. You don't have to give it to anyone else on the planet. Now if that big company distributes that code to other entities then they would have to make the source code available to those entities.
"True, because you can control your lifestyle." Exactly. Why fear what you can not change? Yes it could kill many people but if it is other people dieing and not yourself then take a small amount of your earnings and donate to the Christian Children's Fund or other charity of your choice. $50 a month can make a big difference and it is something you can do. Donate blood, volunteer for a work day at Homes for Humanity. Change what you can. Being scared of a Supervolcano eruption in Yellowstone is a waste of time and energy.
So, have the strength to change the things you can. The peace to accept the things you can not. And the wisdom to know the difference.
There is room for as many that are willing to loose money at it.
I think both Microsoft and Sony have decided that they really don't care that much about games. What they are after is the new TV. Apple, Sony, and Microsoft see TV dieing. Why pay for cable if you can cherry pick the shows you want to see and have them delivered to your TV for you? Tivo has changed the way that most people watch TV. There is no Prime time because you can grab what you want and watch it when you want. The 360 and PS3 will let you do this with no problem. Sony also wants Blueray to be the standard so they can make billions off of every player and movie maker. Microsoft and Sony don't care if they loose money on games if they get their device in the living room. Nintendo wants to make money selling game machines and games and they do. Even with the Gamecube Nintendo made more money off consoles then Microsoft did. If Sony didn't want to use PS3 to push Blueray they could have sold it for the same price as the 360 and would have gotten it to market much sooner.
"The only part of the business that makes money is AdWords; everything else is a lose. Which is a problem. " That is sort of like saying the only thing at ABC that makes money is the commercials. All those shows loose money. A lot of the Google projects are what brings people to Google. Google Local which uses the technology from Google Earth is a great example. Google is making A LOT OF MONEY. Google Checkout will eventually rival PayPal or beat it which will be a lot more money. The big difference between Google and a dot-com is that Google is actually making money and not living off of VC. If you are bringing in a few billion a year in profits and your quarterly earnings growth is running over 100% you have the luxury of trying some experiments.
The M68k is also very popular in automotive applications. An Amiga laptop? I would rather have a PPC Amiga laptop with a JIT compiler for old code. Or if you could reprogram the Transmeta chip to run 68k code it could be very interesting.
What can you do about it. Odds are very good that it will not happen in your life or you children's, or their children's. It may never happen. This is a great example of an unreasonable fear. You are far more likely to die in a car accident than from Yellowstone erupting as a super-volcano. If you want make an effort to live a long happy life the best things you can do are. Exercise at least 30 minutes a day. Eat a good diet. Don't smoke. Don't drink and drive. Don't drive late at night.
Oh and put aside money for your retirment and stay out of debt. That is for the happy part a long and happy life.
You should fear a sedentary life style and tobacco a lot more than volcanoes.
Actually the 68000 was very successful. It is still found in many embedded systems and sold millions of units. OS/2 failed not because it was a clean sheet but because it wasn't. IBM insisted that it run on the 286. Microsoft wanted to drop the 286 and design a version that would be multi-platform and 32-bit so IBM pushed ahead with Microsoft's help with OS/2 2.0 and Microsoft started work on Version 3... They later stuck the windows GUI on it and called it Windows NT.
Itanium? Who knows. The PentiumPro as looked down on because it ran 16 bit code slower than a Pentium it was only used in some high end workstations and servers. Later it grew into the Pentium III.
No. The concepts behind FAT way predate CP/M. My guess is IBM probably developed most it. They did invent the floppy disk and they had to have some kind of format. CP/M used the 8" Floppy standard that IBM developed so I would guess it was IBM.
Sorry but this looks exactly like political grandstanding. Even in the other study that some one referenced I saw no real data and frankly no proof of kidney or liver damage. One of the findings is that triglyceride levels in some of the mice where elevated. I take that they are saying that is proof of liver damage. However I know that people that eat a lot of high fructose corn syrup and cattle that eat a corn heavy diet both tend to have higher triglyceride levels. No numbers = no facts. No facts = political grandstanding.
When you install Suse or RedHat you choose to put on X, KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice or you choose to do a text install. When you install Slackware, Debian or OpenBSD you choose to install X, KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice, or you choose to do a text install. So what is the difference?
Ubuntu wouldn't be my first choice for a server since it defaults to a desktop style install and the Ubuntu Server isn't mature yet but I did install it on development server as a test. It has promise but it isn't ready yet in IMHO. Fedora is a cutting edge system so that isn't my ideal server platform but I know people that use with great success.
RedHat and Suse are great solutions for people that want to pay for support OpenSuse and CentOS are good solutions for those that don't.
You could use objective C. I still think C++ is a possibility as well. I think the idea is that perhaps the TCP/IP stack shouldn't be written in C. Yes the lower level kernel functions need to be in a low level language but some of the higher level functions do not. While I really like and use Linux a lot I keep thinking that maybe now is the time to move away from monolithic kernels. Minix 3 looks kind of interesting.
What is wrong with running Redhat or SuSE on a server? And while I wouldn't run Kubuntu as a server I might at some time in the future Ubuntu server could be a very valid option. Since IBM runs RedHat and OpenSuse on some of their big iron I just don't see how anyone can exclude as a good choice for a server?
They are selling nothing. The NSA wanted to do research into making a more secure Operating System. This is part of their mission. So instead of starting from scratch or trying to get access to the source of a proprietary OS they looked around and found an Open Source operating system called Linux. They had the source and an access active development community. When their research was done they released it back to the community just as the GPL says one should. So now everyone that uses Linux can benefit from their research. Just like NASA, NOAA, or any number of government agencies.
notice I said that I like micro-kernels. I do think that is faster to get something that you can show and use with a monolithic kernel. Heck I used and love my Amiga which was very micro-kernel like even if it did lack memory protection. It takes a lot of work to write a good micro-kernel and once you do it really doesn't do a lot until you add the services. Hurd lacks developers and frankly a real purpose. If you want a free POSIX kernel you can use Linux. If you like the BSD license you can use any one of the BSDs. Does Darwin run under Mach still? If so and you want a micro kernel system you are good to go. I am really hoping that Minix3 gets some attention. It looks like it could be very interesting. It's goals are a secure and self healing OS. Hurd doesn't even support SMP yet. Now everyone and their dog seems to have dual core systems. I wish Hurd was doing better.
I am afraid it cuts both ways. There is a county near me that standardized SUN workstations, Solaris, and Applix a few years ago. It was a nightmare for the county workers. Everybody else on the planet used Office so they had a lot of problems exchanging files. There where many useful programs that they just couldn't get or had to write themselves. If you have a lot of time and money invested in complex Excel spreadsheets, Access databases, and Programs written in Visual Basic it could take DECADES to actually save money using Linux if ever. People under estimate the evil that is Visual Basic. There are thousands if not millions of programs written in VB. What is worse is that they are useful if not indispensable. I hate it and have banned it from where I work but in many places it is a way of life. I think using Windows on a server isn't a good idea I can see why a state government might just go to one vendor. It is the easy way out. As I have said before. Nobody ever got fired buying from IBM, I mean Microsoft.
"It is certain that CO2 does cause higher temperatures; that's basic physics. What is less certain is how much other climate feedbacks may amplify the warming due to CO2." Or dampen it. There is a theory that once the sea temperature reaches a certain level that it will stop the Gulf Stream. That would cause more ice to form at the north pole and a global cooling. Or to put it a different way. We just don't know.
You are correct. I could have sworn that Linux was started after HURD. Part of the problem with HURD was that it uses a micro-kernel. I like micro-kernels but they do make getting started a little more complex than a monolithic kernel. I hope that Minix 3 does well.
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AGP was only for Graphics cards and I am pretty sure you where limited to only one AGP slot.
I think the idea with PCIe is that if we are going to make a really fast interface for things like RAIDs and network interface cards we might as well replace AGP at the same time so we only have one type of slot to deal with.
You are feed a troll and you are also spreading FUD.
"How the hell did your company take the time to learn Linux to such a degree to be able to "modify the kernel code to fit your needs" and NOT know that it had to be shared..."
Google has made many modifications to the Linux kernel not all of them have been shared.
You only have to share you code with the people you distribute it to. So if you are paid to make some changes to the Linux kernel for a big company you must give that big company the source. You don't have to give it to anyone else on the planet.
Now if that big company distributes that code to other entities then they would have to make the source code available to those entities.
And using GCC doesn't make your code GPL.
"True, because you can control your lifestyle."
Exactly. Why fear what you can not change? Yes it could kill many people but if it is other people dieing and not yourself then take a small amount of your earnings and donate to the Christian Children's Fund or other charity of your choice. $50 a month can make a big difference and it is something you can do. Donate blood, volunteer for a work day at Homes for Humanity. Change what you can.
Being scared of a Supervolcano eruption in Yellowstone is a waste of time and energy.
So, have the strength to change the things you can. The peace to accept the things you can not. And the wisdom to know the difference.
There is room for as many that are willing to loose money at it.
I think both Microsoft and Sony have decided that they really don't care that much about games.
What they are after is the new TV. Apple, Sony, and Microsoft see TV dieing. Why pay for cable if you can cherry pick the shows you want to see and have them delivered to your TV for you? Tivo has changed the way that most people watch TV. There is no Prime time because you can grab what you want and watch it when you want. The 360 and PS3 will let you do this with no problem. Sony also wants Blueray to be the standard so they can make billions off of every player and movie maker.
Microsoft and Sony don't care if they loose money on games if they get their device in the living room.
Nintendo wants to make money selling game machines and games and they do. Even with the Gamecube Nintendo made more money off consoles then Microsoft did.
If Sony didn't want to use PS3 to push Blueray they could have sold it for the same price as the 360 and would have gotten it to market much sooner.
"The only part of the business that makes money is AdWords; everything else is a lose. Which is a problem. "
That is sort of like saying the only thing at ABC that makes money is the commercials. All those shows loose money.
A lot of the Google projects are what brings people to Google. Google Local which uses the technology from Google Earth is a great example.
Google is making A LOT OF MONEY.
Google Checkout will eventually rival PayPal or beat it which will be a lot more money.
The big difference between Google and a dot-com is that Google is actually making money and not living off of VC. If you are bringing in a few billion a year in profits and your quarterly earnings growth is running over 100% you have the luxury of trying some experiments.
And the Wii by almost 3:1. :( My wife really wants one.
As far as shortages go I can get a PS3 at any local WalMart. I still can not buy a Will
The smoke. Since you have a much higher chance that you will take another and another until you die a pain death from Lung Cancer.
As they said in Gremlins.
"We are putting all our money into shotguns and canned goods."
I want to see how she did it.
The M68k is also very popular in automotive applications.
An Amiga laptop? I would rather have a PPC Amiga laptop with a JIT compiler for old code.
Or if you could reprogram the Transmeta chip to run 68k code it could be very interesting.
That would probably just prolong the pain. It will most likely cause massive crop failures all over the planet.
What can you do about it.
Odds are very good that it will not happen in your life or you children's, or their children's. It may never happen.
This is a great example of an unreasonable fear.
You are far more likely to die in a car accident than from Yellowstone erupting as a super-volcano.
If you want make an effort to live a long happy life the best things you can do are.
Exercise at least 30 minutes a day.
Eat a good diet.
Don't smoke.
Don't drink and drive.
Don't drive late at night.
Oh and put aside money for your retirment and stay out of debt. That is for the happy part a long and happy life.
You should fear a sedentary life style and tobacco a lot more than volcanoes.
Actually the 68000 was very successful. It is still found in many embedded systems and sold millions of units.
OS/2 failed not because it was a clean sheet but because it wasn't. IBM insisted that it run on the 286. Microsoft wanted to drop the 286 and design a version that would be multi-platform and 32-bit so IBM pushed ahead with Microsoft's help with OS/2 2.0 and Microsoft started work on Version 3... They later stuck the windows GUI on it and called it Windows NT.
Itanium? Who knows. The PentiumPro as looked down on because it ran 16 bit code slower than a Pentium it was only used in some high end workstations and servers. Later it grew into the Pentium III.
No. The concepts behind FAT way predate CP/M. My guess is IBM probably developed most it. They did invent the floppy disk and they had to have some kind of format. CP/M used the 8" Floppy standard that IBM developed so I would guess it was IBM.
Sorry but this looks exactly like political grandstanding.
Even in the other study that some one referenced I saw no real data and frankly no proof of kidney or liver damage.
One of the findings is that triglyceride levels in some of the mice where elevated. I take that they are saying that is proof of liver damage. However I know that people that eat a lot of high fructose corn syrup and cattle that eat a corn heavy diet both tend to have higher triglyceride levels.
No numbers = no facts.
No facts = political grandstanding.
Show me the data.
When you install Suse or RedHat you choose to put on X, KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice or you choose to do a text install.
When you install Slackware, Debian or OpenBSD you choose to install X, KDE, Gnome, OpenOffice, or you choose to do a text install.
So what is the difference?
Ubuntu wouldn't be my first choice for a server since it defaults to a desktop style install and the Ubuntu Server isn't mature yet but I did install it on development server as a test. It has promise but it isn't ready yet in IMHO.
Fedora is a cutting edge system so that isn't my ideal server platform but I know people that use with great success.
RedHat and Suse are great solutions for people that want to pay for support OpenSuse and CentOS are good solutions for those that don't.
You could use objective C. I still think C++ is a possibility as well.
I think the idea is that perhaps the TCP/IP stack shouldn't be written in C. Yes the lower level kernel functions need to be in a low level language but some of the higher level functions do not.
While I really like and use Linux a lot I keep thinking that maybe now is the time to move away from monolithic kernels. Minix 3 looks kind of interesting.
What is wrong with running Redhat or SuSE on a server?
And while I wouldn't run Kubuntu as a server I might at some time in the future Ubuntu server could be a very valid option.
Since IBM runs RedHat and OpenSuse on some of their big iron I just don't see how anyone can exclude as a good choice for a server?
They are selling nothing.
The NSA wanted to do research into making a more secure Operating System. This is part of their mission. So instead of starting from scratch or trying to get access to the source of a proprietary OS they looked around and found an Open Source operating system called Linux. They had the source and an access active development community. When their research was done they released it back to the community just as the GPL says one should.
So now everyone that uses Linux can benefit from their research.
Just like NASA, NOAA, or any number of government agencies.
How about an EPIRB?
It could save your life.
First Aid Kit?
Water purifier.
Not all tech uses electricity.
Yes but you are still running Windows and I have heard that Citrix isn't the universal solution that many believe it to be.
notice I said that I like micro-kernels.
I do think that is faster to get something that you can show and use with a monolithic kernel. Heck I used and love my Amiga which was very micro-kernel like even if it did lack memory protection.
It takes a lot of work to write a good micro-kernel and once you do it really doesn't do a lot until you add the services.
Hurd lacks developers and frankly a real purpose. If you want a free POSIX kernel you can use Linux. If you like the BSD license you can use any one of the BSDs.
Does Darwin run under Mach still? If so and you want a micro kernel system you are good to go.
I am really hoping that Minix3 gets some attention. It looks like it could be very interesting. It's goals are a secure and self healing OS. Hurd doesn't even support SMP yet. Now everyone and their dog seems to have dual core systems.
I wish Hurd was doing better.
I am afraid it cuts both ways.
There is a county near me that standardized SUN workstations, Solaris, and Applix a few years ago. It was a nightmare for the county workers. Everybody else on the planet used Office so they had a lot of problems exchanging files. There where many useful programs that they just couldn't get or had to write themselves.
If you have a lot of time and money invested in complex Excel spreadsheets, Access databases, and Programs written in Visual Basic it could take DECADES to actually save money using Linux if ever.
People under estimate the evil that is Visual Basic. There are thousands if not millions of programs written in VB. What is worse is that they are useful if not indispensable. I hate it and have banned it from where I work but in many places it is a way of life.
I think using Windows on a server isn't a good idea I can see why a state government might just go to one vendor. It is the easy way out.
As I have said before. Nobody ever got fired buying from IBM, I mean Microsoft.
"It is certain that CO2 does cause higher temperatures; that's basic physics. What is less certain is how much other climate feedbacks may amplify the warming due to CO2."
Or dampen it.
There is a theory that once the sea temperature reaches a certain level that it will stop the Gulf Stream. That would cause more ice to form at the north pole and a global cooling.
Or to put it a different way. We just don't know.
You are correct. I could have sworn that Linux was started after HURD. Part of the problem with HURD was that it uses a micro-kernel. I like micro-kernels but they do make getting started a little more complex than a monolithic kernel.
I hope that Minix 3 does well.