The story only talks about "perceived" improvements, purely from a persons perspective while playing.
This is the worst story ever. No factual data has been given to support the writers opinion.
A human being will unlikely perceive the difference between a 50 and a 60ms ping. Only the human ear can distinguish events that close apart in time, but I doubt that even an experienced gamer would be able to tell how high his ping is even in clean situations.
Why not do a double-blind test with multiple test subject? That would have been at least a fair discussion of how people perceive performance in a marginal field like this.
This article is horrible, absolutely rock-bottom. What a FUD.
"I'd suspect that maybe the stones at the base might have needed to be stronger than the ones near the top."
No.
The compressional forces that concrete or any mineral type of rock can endure are almost endless. man-made concrete is just as strong as some of the toughest rocks in nature.
You don't see the grand canyon walls (larger and steeper than any pyramid) collapse? Those are (top 100's of feet) made out of sandstone, which is probably not even as strong as concrete or limestone.
"Python, the dynamic object oriented programming language created by Guido van Rossum is known to deliver both the power and general applicability of traditional compiled languages without the complexities accompanying them."
Sounds like a typical spamvertisement really!
"Coupled with its ease of use"
umm hell, python is notoriously known for bad coders, writing broken applications based on underdeveloped and unmature modules, breaking forward compatibility.
Sadly enough, in the last two years, I have not seen any progress making python-based applications more stable. Programs like BitTorrent(!) have serious issues running on python-2.5(!)
"programs written in Python can be run on multiple Operating systems and system architectures which gives it the same portability of any interpreted language."
nothing new here, move along...
"My first brush with Python was when I tried out a beautiful game called PySol"
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!! Pysol is the ultimate proof that python programs are incredibly impossible to maintain forward because the library/module layer is so incredibly unmature. Pysol is no longer developed ! It doesn't even work with Python-2.4 !!! Even if the original developer stopped working on it, somebody should have been able to pick it up and maintain it easily, and the fact that this didn't happen is proof again that python is barring its own progress. See http://www.pysol.org/ - last release was in 2003.
Python has wasted my time as a packager/distro developer many many times, and ruined quite some weekends for me.
There's currently no way to take a snapshot of a single photon in motion and produce an image out of it. An ordinary photograph captures the effect of many millions of them impacting a chemical, so that's not really the same:)
that's not necessarily a bad thing: if your companies name is IBM, Merryl Lynch or even Intel things will be rather different then if you're a one-man shop.
That might even be a good thing: Then company laywers can start pushing for fair rules at the border - it's an outrage that seizure of goods without probable cause is allowed. The financial losses can be huge, especially to large companies. I'd almost volunteer;)
Don't confuse debian with "The OSS Community". They are really not the same, and there is no such thing as "The OSS Community".
"Could this be lights out for Intel?"
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Could this be lights out for Intel?
OH GEESH YEAH THE END IS NEAR INTEL WILL DIE!!!
what the hell is this guy thinking? Intel is making a healthy (marginal, but still) profit and actively investing in new technologies. It's not going to go belly up just like that. AMD has a little bit of advantage that it can "dump" cheap chips into the server market as Intel needs time to ramp up production on Conroe and Woodcrest, but to call it "lights out" is just stupid.
how do you call a complete redesign "change in process" ?
Right now AMD is changing nothing more than sizes and process. In the past year it was Intel who worked on a major stepping in CPU design. On top of that Intel is releasing kentsfield (quadcore) at the end of *this* year, not *next*
I'm not an intel fanboy but I'm certainly not an AMD-zealot. Things change in the CPU industry and AMD is not interested in becoming the fastest cpu maker anymore. The purchase of ATI proves that ATI is planning to become a platform manufacturer who can cover the rich cheap-office-pc market as well as the cheap-server-market. This is where Intel is strong right now and it is also where AMD can really hurt.
*That* is what the article is about. Not AMD being "more innovative", because they haven't been for a while and they won't be for a while.
when I said 'under the desktop' I was referring to the _GAMER_ desktop. having 4 cpu's in single-threaded game world is a bit sad. But gcc -j4 beats the crap out of my kernels:)
I think everyone knows that people will build servers out of lower-end (heh) cpu's and motherboards to reduce price. After all - you can get a conroe for about 180$, it just makes so much sense for component-builders to start selling them on pretty motherboards and put them in a 1U jacket for under 800$ or so:)
The Xeon 5100 is exclusively targeted towards the server market, but I think conroe will do really good in *any* application, and if it had 4 cores instead of 2, it would certainly be a kickass lower-end server platform cpu.
The low-heat low-power low-price market for servers is dying for 4-core chips. Multi-core doesn't make sense under the desktop, but it sure makes a lot of sense in a 19" rack.
intel is about to eat market share back in the cheap multicore server market, where amd is traditionally strong.
but does it perform better than core 2 duo? I fail to see any performance test between them, and it's also AMD having the bigger market share right now, not intel. Seems like a lot of AMD FUD nowadays... AMD is no longer the underdog here.
sorry, but if his SMTP uses his proper name (the xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.dsl.lazyispdnsadmins.net one) in his HELO then there is nothing wrong with that!
1) his DNS says that the MX is chrisbartle.com 2) his MX has A which is 216.17.137.189 3) 216.17.137.189 resolves reverseley to bartle189.dsl.frii.net 4) bartle189.dsl.frii.net resolves forward to 216.17.137.189
this is exactly how it should be, according to the book
Now the only thing we don't know is how his mailserver is setup, and whether he passes the right HELO/EHLO conversation.
not really, his IP is not listed in any important blocks according to openrbl. Mail should get out normally... unless there's something fisy with his domain name... but the IP itself looks perfectly fine for SMTP usage.
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The story only talks about "perceived" improvements, purely from a persons perspective while playing.
This is the worst story ever. No factual data has been given to support the writers opinion.
A human being will unlikely perceive the difference between a 50 and a 60ms ping. Only the human ear can distinguish events that close apart in time, but I doubt that even an experienced gamer would be able to tell how high his ping is even in clean situations.
Why not do a double-blind test with multiple test subject? That would have been at least a fair discussion of how people perceive performance in a marginal field like this.
This article is horrible, absolutely rock-bottom. What a FUD.
"I'd suspect that maybe the stones at the base might have needed to be stronger than the ones near the top."
No.
The compressional forces that concrete or any mineral type of rock can endure are almost endless. man-made concrete is just as strong as some of the toughest rocks in nature.
You don't see the grand canyon walls (larger and steeper than any pyramid) collapse? Those are (top 100's of feet) made out of sandstone, which is probably not even as strong as concrete or limestone.
Python is a serious piece of problems for me:
"Python, the dynamic object oriented programming language created by Guido van Rossum is known to deliver both the power and general applicability of traditional compiled languages without the complexities accompanying them."
Sounds like a typical spamvertisement really!
"Coupled with its ease of use"
umm hell, python is notoriously known for bad coders, writing broken applications based on underdeveloped and unmature modules, breaking forward compatibility.
Sadly enough, in the last two years, I have not seen any progress making python-based applications more stable. Programs like BitTorrent(!) have serious issues running on python-2.5(!)
"programs written in Python can be run on multiple Operating systems and system architectures which gives it the same portability of any interpreted language."
nothing new here, move along...
"My first brush with Python was when I tried out a beautiful game called PySol"
FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!! Pysol is the ultimate proof that python programs are incredibly impossible to maintain forward because the library/module layer is so incredibly unmature. Pysol is no longer developed ! It doesn't even work with Python-2.4 !!! Even if the original developer stopped working on it, somebody should have been able to pick it up and maintain it easily, and the fact that this didn't happen is proof again that python is barring its own progress. See http://www.pysol.org/ - last release was in 2003.
Python has wasted my time as a packager/distro developer many many times, and ruined quite some weekends for me.
The world would be a better place without Python.
oh yes definately agreed, and let me add one more thing:
Hire a laywer, REALLY!!!
There's currently no way to take a snapshot of a single photon in motion and produce an image out of it. An ordinary photograph captures the effect of many millions of them impacting a chemical, so that's not really the same
someone mark this as funny please, it cracked me up for a minute! hahahahaha, a well-trained MSCE? ROFL!
for this very same reason me and my wife (I am dutch, she is american) decided to give up after 3 years and we are living happily in the USA now.
FELLOW DUTCHMEN: GET OUT WHILE YOU CAN!!
(wegwezen!)
that's not necessarily a bad thing: if your companies name is IBM, Merryl Lynch or even Intel things will be rather different then if you're a one-man shop.
;)
That might even be a good thing: Then company laywers can start pushing for fair rules at the border - it's an outrage that seizure of goods without probable cause is allowed. The financial losses can be huge, especially to large companies. I'd almost volunteer
it doesn't compile (gcc-4.1.1):
g++ -o nsDependentString.o -c -I../../../dist/include/system_wrappers -include
In file included from
from
from nsDependentString.cpp:40:
nsTDependentString.cpp:41: warning: 'void nsDependentString::Rebind(const PRUnichar*, PRUint32)': visibility attribute ignored because it
nsTDependentString.cpp:41: warning: 'void nsDependentCString::Rebind(const char*, PRUint32)': visibility attribute ignored because it
make[1]: *** [nsDependentString.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/mozilla/xpcom/string/src'
make: *** [all] Error 2
I beg to differ: http://e1000.sf.net/
Just Use Linux
Don't confuse debian with "The OSS Community". They are really not the same, and there is no such thing as "The OSS Community".
Could this be lights out for Intel?
OH GEESH YEAH THE END IS NEAR INTEL WILL DIE!!!
what the hell is this guy thinking? Intel is making a healthy (marginal, but still) profit and actively investing in new technologies. It's not going to go belly up just like that. AMD has a little bit of advantage that it can "dump" cheap chips into the server market as Intel needs time to ramp up production on Conroe and Woodcrest, but to call it "lights out" is just stupid.
how do you call a complete redesign "change in process" ?
Right now AMD is changing nothing more than sizes and process. In the past year it was Intel who worked on a major stepping in CPU design. On top of that Intel is releasing kentsfield (quadcore) at the end of *this* year, not *next*
I'm not an intel fanboy but I'm certainly not an AMD-zealot. Things change in the CPU industry and AMD is not interested in becoming the fastest cpu maker anymore. The purchase of ATI proves that ATI is planning to become a platform manufacturer who can cover the rich cheap-office-pc market as well as the cheap-server-market. This is where Intel is strong right now and it is also where AMD can really hurt.
*That* is what the article is about. Not AMD being "more innovative", because they haven't been for a while and they won't be for a while.
when I said 'under the desktop' I was referring to the _GAMER_ desktop. having 4 cpu's in single-threaded game world is a bit sad. But gcc -j4 beats the crap out of my kernels :)
I think everyone knows that people will build servers out of lower-end (heh) cpu's and motherboards to reduce price. After all - you can get a conroe for about 180$, it just makes so much sense for component-builders to start selling them on pretty motherboards and put them in a 1U jacket for under 800$ or so
The Xeon 5100 is exclusively targeted towards the server market, but I think conroe will do really good in *any* application, and if it had 4 cores instead of 2, it would certainly be a kickass lower-end server platform cpu.
This isn't about gamers
The low-heat low-power low-price market for servers is dying for 4-core chips. Multi-core doesn't make sense under the desktop, but it sure makes a lot of sense in a 19" rack.
intel is about to eat market share back in the cheap multicore server market, where amd is traditionally strong.
but does it perform better than core 2 duo? I fail to see any performance test between them, and it's also AMD having the bigger market share right now, not intel. Seems like a lot of AMD FUD nowadays... AMD is no longer the underdog here.
Heh, that's where I store my nuclear-powered always-on 300-Tesla degausser too!
There's good source distro's out there that already have decent installers for a long time. Try lunar:
http://lunar-linux.org
Lunar is an excellent distro meant for savy linux users, and mostly named for a far easier install procedure than gentoo.
I'm guessing that you don't administer a mail server! I do.
Wrong.
sorry, but if his SMTP uses his proper name (the xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.dsl.lazyispdnsadmins.net one) in his HELO then there is nothing wrong with that!
1) his DNS says that the MX is chrisbartle.com
2) his MX has A which is 216.17.137.189
3) 216.17.137.189 resolves reverseley to bartle189.dsl.frii.net
4) bartle189.dsl.frii.net resolves forward to 216.17.137.189
this is exactly how it should be, according to the book
Now the only thing we don't know is how his mailserver is setup, and whether he passes the right HELO/EHLO conversation.
not really, his IP is not listed in any important blocks according to openrbl. Mail should get out normally ... unless there's something fisy with his domain name... but the IP itself looks perfectly fine for SMTP usage.
The code says: "perltris\n"
DISCLAIMER: as with any perl obfuscated code there might be evil backdoors, use at your own risk and never trust code snipplets from *anyone*
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