Gutsy, Feist, Hoary, etc are codenames. The actual release is Ubuntu 7.04, Ubuntu 7.10, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, etc. Which is stupid, but for another reason altogether.
You're just trying to get on the advertising banner now.
Although, it definitely plays better on the 360 than on the PC. The interface is pretty much designed around a controller, and not a keyboard and mouse.
dnsstuff.com has a "DNS Report" which can show some information, but since it is no longer as free as it was, I'm not sure it is as useful as it once was. I recommend dig + studying "DNS and BIND."
The title "Blank Slate" was chosen because humanity is basically starting over. We've been nearly wiped out by aliens and must completely rebuild, away from Earth. For the player, their character is one that is starting over as well.
Almost everything you want about Microsoft, applies to most proprietary software vendors. In Microsoft's defense, at least they don't require a hardware dongle that costs a minimum of $600. Also, the Ultimate and Enterprise versions include rights to use multiple copies of them in a VM on the machine. They may be limiting options to specific versions, but that's what you get when governments demand things.
This smells like FUD to me. I'm only aware of three changes in licensing about Microsoft operating systems.
1) Windows Server 2003 R2 - 4 licenses for VMs running on Server 2003 Enterprise and unlimited VMs running on Server 2003 Datacenter 2) Windows Vista - Can be run only in a VM on Ultimate and Enterprise, but Enterprise does give you 4 licenses of itself to run in a VM on Enterprise. Value add from Software Assurance? Say it isn't so. 3) Windows Server 2003 R2 - A VM that isn't being run isn't considered to be a license in use.
What is VMWare complaining about? I'm really curious about this white paper.
Honestly, the Intel Core 2 Duo isn't what really should be on the list. The Intel Core Microarchitecture (Core 2 being the desktop brand) should be. The number of improvements that they made to the P6 architecture and the design choices have actually made it into a pretty innovative processor. Granted, its not omg shiny like the cell processor, but it is a significant step forward for an x86 processor.
SWG is/was bad. Koster doesn't really have a clue what's going on the MMO space. He may grasp how to handle a MUD/MOO/whatever text-based system, but those are at least 2 or 3 magnitudes smaller than what an MMO ideally handles. Many would argue that UO didn't take off until after Koster left.
If you want players becoming actual content and affecting the world, play EvE. 0.0 space is completely controlled by players. CCP did a better job at that then Koster did with SWG.
The biggest thing about the 64-bit Windows is the fact that the x86-64 will be running in long mode. In case you didn't know, there is legacy mode, which is pure 32-bit, and long mode, which is 64-bit with a legacy layer for 32-bit apps. A simple recompile into long mode benefits most programs greatly. Why? AMD doubled the number of general purpose registers. I think you will agree that those extra registers are important and useful. That's why the 64-bit OS is so good, because it is required to use long mode. Otherwise, you are stuck in legacy mode, where you don't get all the benefits.
Is that the changes AMD made outside of adding 64-bit support go by the wayside. The x86-64 has twice the general purpose registers, but only when it is x86-64 mode, not in 32-bit mode. And you can only be in x86-64 mode when you are running an operating system that handles it. The extra registers allow a good compiler to have lots of fun and can equal up to a 30% increase in speed, with a simple recompile. The 64 bits is nice, but the other changes to the x86 architecture are more important.
for much the same reasons that railroads are not profitable. The investment required to lay down wiring for access makes it prohibitive... thus they have to charge what consumers feel is a ridiculous sum in order to make a profit. wireless will do much to alleviate this, especially if they can get a few hubs to cover a large area
government should own the landlines. kinda the same way they own the roads. most people would consider telephone/broadband wiring essential infrastructure nowadays. So why don't we have the government treat it as a utility and the different companies compete for repair and lease rights?
how is not forcing a company to do something anti-free trade? its definitely free trade because it levels the playing field. if other comapnies want to get involved, they can, they just have to invest the money to get in. kinda like the bells, except they start x number of years behind
you don't listen/read the news do you? the first quarter economic numbers are in: the economy grew at a rate of 5.6% (annual). You know what percentage of annual growth economists are happy with? 3-5% And we're in a recession? I don't think so. Recession is when the economy shrinks.
Why should the baby bells have to provide the infrastructure for their competition? This decision is actually better in the long term. In case you haven't noticed, customer service has gone way down since the bells were forced to open their phone lines up. What happens when an entire neighborhood no longer uses a bell? Why shouldn't bell just pull out of that neighborhood and no longer support those lines? Then what happens? Yep, the company leasing the lines can't help the customers because they don't know what they're doing or they don't have the knowledge the bells do of the system in place. Broadband suffers from the same thing. If you want cheap broadband, wait 20 years. If you want high speed access now, expect (and be willing to pay). And if you want competition, then be willing to pay higher (should be only to begin with) prices while infrastructure is being laid. The baby bells should not be required to lay the infrastructure for their competition. If someone wants to compete, that's fine, but they should also be willing to put down the money required and set up their own infrastructure, instead of trying to build on top of the bells' hard work.
Yep, he sure did. CNN even got him on the phone for their coverage this morning. He had a really good point, too: this was extremely well thought out and executed. I'm still not convinced it was a terroist attack. Like Clancy says in his more recent books, terrorism is a darwinian process, and the smart ones know better than to mess with the US military.
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Gutsy, Feist, Hoary, etc are codenames. The actual release is Ubuntu 7.04, Ubuntu 7.10, Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, etc. Which is stupid, but for another reason altogether.
You're just trying to get on the advertising banner now.
Although, it definitely plays better on the 360 than on the PC. The interface is pretty much designed around a controller, and not a keyboard and mouse.
dnsstuff.com has a "DNS Report" which can show some information, but since it is no longer as free as it was, I'm not sure it is as useful as it once was. I recommend dig + studying "DNS and BIND."
The title "Blank Slate" was chosen because humanity is basically starting over. We've been nearly wiped out by aliens and must completely rebuild, away from Earth. For the player, their character is one that is starting over as well.
This bill could kill any mom and pop shop. They will likely get hit the most by this bill.
Almost everything you want about Microsoft, applies to most proprietary software vendors. In Microsoft's defense, at least they don't require a hardware dongle that costs a minimum of $600. Also, the Ultimate and Enterprise versions include rights to use multiple copies of them in a VM on the machine. They may be limiting options to specific versions, but that's what you get when governments demand things.
This smells like FUD to me. I'm only aware of three changes in licensing about Microsoft operating systems.
1) Windows Server 2003 R2 - 4 licenses for VMs running on Server 2003 Enterprise and unlimited VMs running on Server 2003 Datacenter
2) Windows Vista - Can be run only in a VM on Ultimate and Enterprise, but Enterprise does give you 4 licenses of itself to run in a VM on Enterprise. Value add from Software Assurance? Say it isn't so.
3) Windows Server 2003 R2 - A VM that isn't being run isn't considered to be a license in use.
What is VMWare complaining about? I'm really curious about this white paper.
Honestly, the Intel Core 2 Duo isn't what really should be on the list. The Intel Core Microarchitecture (Core 2 being the desktop brand) should be. The number of improvements that they made to the P6 architecture and the design choices have actually made it into a pretty innovative processor. Granted, its not omg shiny like the cell processor, but it is a significant step forward for an x86 processor.
Why ask authors? Just ask slashdot.
Don't forget SAS (Serial Attached SCSI)! The greatness of SCSI with the cabling of SATA.
SWG is/was bad. Koster doesn't really have a clue what's going on the MMO space. He may grasp how to handle a MUD/MOO/whatever text-based system, but those are at least 2 or 3 magnitudes smaller than what an MMO ideally handles. Many would argue that UO didn't take off until after Koster left.
If you want players becoming actual content and affecting the world, play EvE. 0.0 space is completely controlled by players. CCP did a better job at that then Koster did with SWG.
even more fun, read the New York Times that morning. you'll be surprised how many stories are on the front page.
yesterday (27 May 2003), SCO's stock closed at 6.66
very appropriate for what they are trying to do
The biggest thing about the 64-bit Windows is the fact that the x86-64 will be running in long mode. In case you didn't know, there is legacy mode, which is pure 32-bit, and long mode, which is 64-bit with a legacy layer for 32-bit apps. A simple recompile into long mode benefits most programs greatly. Why? AMD doubled the number of general purpose registers. I think you will agree that those extra registers are important and useful. That's why the 64-bit OS is so good, because it is required to use long mode. Otherwise, you are stuck in legacy mode, where you don't get all the benefits.
Is that the changes AMD made outside of adding 64-bit support go by the wayside. The x86-64 has twice the general purpose registers, but only when it is x86-64 mode, not in 32-bit mode. And you can only be in x86-64 mode when you are running an operating system that handles it. The extra registers allow a good compiler to have lots of fun and can equal up to a 30% increase in speed, with a simple recompile. The 64 bits is nice, but the other changes to the x86 architecture are more important.
for much the same reasons that railroads are not profitable. The investment required to lay down wiring for access makes it prohibitive... thus they have to charge what consumers feel is a ridiculous sum in order to make a profit. wireless will do much to alleviate this, especially if they can get a few hubs to cover a large area
government should own the landlines. kinda the same way they own the roads. most people would consider telephone/broadband wiring essential infrastructure nowadays. So why don't we have the government treat it as a utility and the different companies compete for repair and lease rights?
how is not forcing a company to do something anti-free trade? its definitely free trade because it levels the playing field. if other comapnies want to get involved, they can, they just have to invest the money to get in. kinda like the bells, except they start x number of years behind
you don't listen/read the news do you?
the first quarter economic numbers are in:
the economy grew at a rate of 5.6% (annual).
You know what percentage of annual growth economists are happy with? 3-5%
And we're in a recession? I don't think so. Recession is when the economy shrinks.
Why should the baby bells have to provide the infrastructure for their competition? This decision is actually better in the long term. In case you haven't noticed, customer service has gone way down since the bells were forced to open their phone lines up. What happens when an entire neighborhood no longer uses a bell? Why shouldn't bell just pull out of that neighborhood and no longer support those lines? Then what happens? Yep, the company leasing the lines can't help the customers because they don't know what they're doing or they don't have the knowledge the bells do of the system in place.
Broadband suffers from the same thing. If you want cheap broadband, wait 20 years. If you want high speed access now, expect (and be willing to pay). And if you want competition, then be willing to pay higher (should be only to begin with) prices while infrastructure is being laid. The baby bells should not be required to lay the infrastructure for their competition. If someone wants to compete, that's fine, but they should also be willing to put down the money required and set up their own infrastructure, instead of trying to build on top of the bells' hard work.
Yep, he sure did. CNN even got him on the phone for their coverage this morning. He had a really good point, too: this was extremely well thought out and executed. I'm still not convinced it was a terroist attack. Like Clancy says in his more recent books, terrorism is a darwinian process, and the smart ones know better than to mess with the US military.