Genious?! You've got to be kidding me... anybody with too much practice could play as cold and fast as him. He may be fast, but his rhythm structures are whacked, they show no understanding of the true nature of the nuances of volume of fluid time structures. Not to mention the fact that using augmented and minor chords over and over doesn't make "classical music". He does nothing more than go thru classical-like progressions with that shred crap. It's embarrasing and quite gay. Besides the lead guitarist from Cannibal Corpse would eat his ass out for breakfast, if you are looking for speed. Putting Malmsteen on the level of Bach or Beethoven is ludicrous. I admit that I find some of their compositions mundane, but at least they evoke some sense of the ephemeral emotions and archetypal scenes that classical music is intended to invoke. Going thru some chords and shredding scales fast, does NOT make you a viable contender in that arena.
More specifically they want to gain mind share of developers, as well as adding to the total pool of OGL, IRIS developers so that companies will have people to hire, so they(SGI), can sell more hardware and software.
Supposedly if you know IRIS Performer on linux, you know it on SGI.
The security model of the current system not only accounts for the fact that a computer system can always be broken into, but it relies on it. If a "licensing" system is put into place now, how long will it take before someone figures out how to completely take control of someone's identity.
I think the internet was not designed on the scale of "a way of life", it's simply a tool. When the time comes that the internet (or something like it) is woven into the fabric and or dictates more crucial aspects of our life, there should be some kind of licensing system so that people can be help accountable for damage. (Say cracking into someones GPS and crashing thier car) Now it's not practical, reliable or nessecary to do so.
"Or are they just letting us know that they're not as scary as we think they are so it's all right, we can just forget about them? "
Exactly. I'm sure it's been terribly obvious to them that their existance has been blantantly exposed to anyone who reads news on the internet often. I'm pretty sure in the past it has been there policy to hide themselves. Now that they realize they can't hide any longer, they are trying to make themselves seem like a toy store.
True. My girl was ANTI-computer... when I met her she was almost a luddite. I got her interested by showing her my povray code, and some perl scripts and explained to her how math and algorithms are a poetry in there own right. I told her about the FSF and she *almost* respects it;-) I actually got her to telnet into my box to use dadadodo from her own request!
Outlook's "intuitive interface" is annoying. I *hate* sitting there watching it do things for me, most of the time while it's filling in addresses and shit I'm trying to do something else, and my hard drive is clicking away because of it's doing what it thinks *it* should do. Uhhhg!!! The Gimp OWNS Adobe Photoshop!!! If you audit the features of the two (with a standard install of the newest version of each) you'll see the gimp has way more features, scripting support and loads of other things you have to fork out the dough for ps. Some of Adobe plugins are cool, but if you know what you are doing, you don't need them anyway... they are just extensions of what you could really do anyway with no addons.
I'm an HP admin and I do most of my coding in perl. Just the usual writing of tools... It seems like everytime I want to write a C program that ops at a system level I get hung up with problems in the differences in the vastly different models. I've just been using GCC to most of my C code, so I have a feeling that the pa-risc port is going so damn slow because of this. There are a million different series and they all have different implementations of their wierd busses and proprietary crap (everytime you want to use a struct it's series dependant).
I really doubt this will get past the educational, unless HP intervenes and provides some tools.
I think they should because my company throws away HP9000 equipment all the damn time. It costs more to sell it than the money you get back for it. A 64 meg RAM stick costs 4000 dollars if you need to repair it... so no company that would be buying used goods would buy a used HP9000!
unless it suddenly became worth it!
I hated them when I firsted start using them, but it kinda grows on you. I really like the keyboards!:-)
Yeah sorry, I was just responding to the whole thread. I really don't care either. I should get out of the habit of reading thru a slashdot thread and making assumptions. Like I said, it wasn't thrown at you. Just the line of people throwing ideas back and forth about why it's good/bad.
"I find most accurate Agnostic = no religious faith"
Actually I thought the term meant "questions the belief in a spiritual being". Agnostics can have faith in their own spiritual beliefs, however they do no subscribe to the notion of a higher sentience or omniscient power.
Who care's. We don't need this crap anyway. I personally don't. It sure as hell doesn't matter if linux is "ready for the enterprise" or any of this crap. It's the software that matters. Writing good free(as in speech) code. If you don't want to work for a place that uses proprietary software, DON'T!!!
BTW this wasn't really directed at anyone in particular.
Will anyone remember your code and talk about it for years to come? Code is vision and poetry in math. If I made 6 figures a year, I'd still walk to work as I do now. I live a good life... but thanks for your monstrous perception.
You have no clue. I have a 450 with 128 megs of RAM for 300 dollars. All I did was buy Celeron 300 A and some special cas2/2 ram and a cheap motherboard. and I probably payed a thousand dollars less than you did.
Yes, I would rather be editing a.conf file. I bet I can set up a linux box faster with Vi than you a windows box by pointing and clicking (not even *really* knowing what you are changing.) There are few sound cards that don't work under linux, if you read the readme's. O, I forgot, you learned how to use windows within your first 15 minutes of using Word. What a lamer... read a book.
Hmmmm, I think it might have more to do with the fact that the male brain seems to respond and focus on visual cues, while females are more inclined to respond to auditory and tactual interaction. As programming takes alot of time spent staring at a screen silently, it just may inherently not be a womans cup of tea. For example I know alot of woman who use computers, and while they are in chat rooms in AOL or channels on IRC, they talk out loud when they respond, or read what is being typed to them. It might just sound silly to them to read C code out loud;-)
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Genious?! You've got to be kidding me... anybody with too much practice could play as cold and fast as him. He may be fast, but his rhythm structures are whacked, they show no understanding of the true nature of the nuances of volume of fluid time structures. Not to mention the fact that using augmented and minor chords over and over doesn't make "classical music". He does nothing more than go thru classical-like progressions with that shred crap. It's embarrasing and quite gay. Besides the lead guitarist from Cannibal Corpse would eat his ass out for breakfast, if you are looking for speed. Putting Malmsteen on the level of Bach or Beethoven is ludicrous. I admit that I find some of their compositions mundane, but at least they evoke some sense of the ephemeral emotions and archetypal scenes that classical music is intended to invoke. Going thru some chords and shredding scales fast, does NOT make you a viable contender in that arena.
More specifically they want to gain mind share of developers, as well as adding to the total pool of OGL, IRIS developers so that companies will have people to hire, so they(SGI), can sell more hardware and software.
Supposedly if you know IRIS Performer on linux, you know it on SGI.
The security model of the current system not only accounts for the fact that a computer system can always be broken into, but it relies on it. If a "licensing" system is put into place now, how long will it take before someone figures out how to completely take control of someone's identity.
I think the internet was not designed on the scale of "a way of life", it's simply a tool. When the time comes that the internet (or something like it) is woven into the fabric and or dictates more crucial aspects of our life, there should be some kind of licensing system so that people can be help accountable for damage. (Say cracking into someones GPS and crashing thier car) Now it's not practical, reliable or nessecary to do so.
"Or are they just letting us know that they're not as scary as we think they are so it's all right, we can just forget about them? "
Exactly. I'm sure it's been terribly obvious to them that their existance has been blantantly exposed to anyone who reads news on the internet often. I'm pretty sure in the past it has been there policy to hide themselves. Now that they realize they can't hide any longer, they are trying to make themselves seem like a toy store.
??
Can't we just give it a symbol and call it "The Operating System formerly known as linux" ?!!
I used to think HPUX sucked as well, but I actually kinda like it now. Been usin' it for about a year. Once you "gnu'ify" it. ;-)
http://hpux.cae.wisc.edu
that's what editors are for!
You sound almost as bad as the dialogue on the #freebsd channel of efnet ;-)
True. My girl was ANTI-computer... when I met her she was almost a luddite. I got her interested by showing her my povray code, and some perl scripts and explained to her how math and algorithms are a poetry in there own right. I told her about the FSF and she *almost* respects it ;-) I actually got her to telnet into my box to use dadadodo from her own request!
Outlook's "intuitive interface" is annoying. I *hate* sitting there watching it do things for me, most of the time while it's filling in addresses and shit I'm trying to do something else, and my hard drive is clicking away because of it's doing what it thinks *it* should do. Uhhhg!!! The Gimp OWNS Adobe Photoshop!!! If you audit the features of the two (with a standard install of the newest version of each) you'll see the gimp has way more features, scripting support and loads of other things you have to fork out the dough for ps. Some of Adobe plugins are cool, but if you know what you are doing, you don't need them anyway... they are just extensions of what you could really do anyway with no addons.
I'm an HP admin and I do most of my coding in
:-)
perl. Just the usual writing of tools... It seems
like everytime I want to write a C program
that ops at a system level I get hung up with
problems in the differences in the vastly different models.
I've just been using GCC to most of my C code,
so I have a feeling that the pa-risc port is going
so damn slow because of this. There are a million
different series and they all have different
implementations of their wierd busses and
proprietary crap (everytime you want to use a
struct it's series dependant).
I really doubt this will get past the educational,
unless HP intervenes and provides some tools.
I think they should because my company throws away
HP9000 equipment all the damn time. It costs more
to sell it than the money you get back for it. A
64 meg RAM stick costs 4000 dollars if you need to
repair it... so no company that would be buying
used goods would buy a used HP9000!
unless it suddenly became worth it!
I hated them when I firsted start using them,
but it kinda grows on you. I really like the
keyboards!
drunk_funk() {
// do later
}
Why? It's just users opening attachments from people they don't know. Nothing spectacular...
I think he just means a technical competitor for the mind share of the linux kernel developers... besides linux isn't an OS, it's a kernel.
Yeah sorry, I was just responding to the whole thread. I really don't care either. I should get out of the habit of reading thru a slashdot thread and making assumptions. Like I said, it wasn't thrown at you. Just the line of people throwing ideas back and forth about why it's good/bad.
Whatever.
I apologize, person.
Oops I forgot to add, that while they dont' subscibe to a spiritual entity they do not discount it either.
"I find most accurate Agnostic = no religious faith"
Actually I thought the term meant "questions the belief in a spiritual being". Agnostics can have faith in their own spiritual beliefs, however they do no subscribe to the notion of a higher sentience or omniscient power.
?
Who care's. We don't need this crap anyway.
I personally don't. It sure as hell doesn't matter
if linux is "ready for the enterprise" or any of
this crap. It's the software that matters. Writing
good free(as in speech) code. If you don't want to
work for a place that uses proprietary software,
DON'T!!!
BTW this wasn't really directed at anyone in
particular.
Woohoo, let's slashdot Dr Scriber! What's his email address?!
The whole thing was someone asked him to change the passwd file for them...
Duh
He's part of the Puffin Project. I know he's got a pa-risc based workstation so he's definately running HPUX.
Will anyone remember your code and talk about it for years to come? Code is vision and poetry in math. If I made 6 figures a year, I'd still walk to work as I do now. I live a good life... but thanks for your monstrous perception.
You have no clue. I have a 450 with 128 megs of RAM for 300 dollars. All I did was buy Celeron 300 A and some special cas2/2 ram and a cheap motherboard. and I probably payed a thousand dollars less than you did.
Yes, I would rather be editing a .conf file. I bet I can set up a linux box faster with Vi than you a windows box by pointing and clicking (not even *really* knowing what you are changing.) There are few sound cards that don't work under linux, if you read the readme's. O, I forgot, you learned how to use windows within your first 15 minutes of using Word. What a lamer... read a book.
Hmmmm, I think it might have more to do with the fact that the male brain seems to respond and focus on visual cues, while females are more inclined to respond to auditory and tactual interaction. As programming takes alot of time spent staring at a screen silently, it just may inherently not be a womans cup of tea. For example I know alot of woman who use computers, and while they are in chat rooms in AOL or channels on IRC, they talk out loud when they respond, or read what is being typed to them. It might just sound silly to them to read C code out loud ;-)