...build/buy a cheap x86 box (that OS X will not run on)...
Are we sure that OS X won't run on a built computer? Now that Apple is moving to Intel, they'll need an Intel-based motherboard, that means standard memory cards, and they're already using nVidia graphics cards. The hard drives are the same. In fact, I can't think of any hardware other than the case that is now different between a PC and an Apple.
Of course, Apple could require the Intel chips have a special code that OS/X could identify and halt itself if it doesn't match. But that seems silly. Of course, we are talking about Jobs here, so who knows...
I don't know if this good, but I get about 1400FPS from glxgears on my T41p that has a FireGL T2. I'm using ATI's drivers (version 8.8.25) in Gentoo.
But, instead of posting off-topic here, you should go over to http://forums.gentoo.org/ and search for info there -- even if you're not using Gentoo it is a good resource for information.
I sense a certain troll-like tone to this, but I'll bite. Do you remember Deja (just "deja" at the end) before Google took over? The page was totally covered with advertisements. They ran their own business into the ground. Google bought their archives, and consequently saved them from being thrown away or someone else charging for their access. Then, they extended the archives to go back even further than before.
I'm not saying that the Google guys are saints, but they are relatively so compared to other big companies out there.
I understand, and agree with, your comment. But, this is a brilliant idea to achieve conservative goals through deception and force. In the mean time, conservative presidents look so generous and everybody loves them. No one is thinking of the future. The problem is that this plan requires a near complete collapse of our economy (worse than the Great Depression) to achieve its intended results. The people concocting this plan (read: wealthy) won't be the people who suffer though.
Oh, and one of those federal programs that will be eventually eliminated along with Social Security and Medicare, is NASA. This is a setup.
They ultimately do want smaller government, but they first have to create an political environment where the public will willingly let go of the government programs to which they've grown accustomed e.g., Social Security and Medicare. It's a strategy called Starving the Beast. If you drop taxes enough and increase spending enough, the country will get to a point of deficit that other countries will be less willing to finance our debt and we will be forced to either drastically increase taxes or drastically decrease spending. No one will vote for an increase in taxes in economic bad times, thus they get their small government much like the times before FDR. This is a plan concocted by Grover Norquist and the Heritage Foundation. They are GWB's main influence on economic policy. Notice this trend of spending more and more on unneeded plans while decreasing taxes. Notice the ever increasing deficit. The real conservatives do believe in smaller government, these times now are merely a means to an end.
This is an interesting interview with Princeton Economist Paul Krugman talking about some of these issues.
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...guy that makes the public aware of a problem is responsible for the problem.
My research at school is looking at a new method for debugging, or
more specifically fault localization (finding the bugs). The method
assumes the presence of a test suite where each test case can
be classified as passed or failed.
The intuition of the approach is simple (this is our hypothesis):
statements that are executed primarily by failed test cases are
more suspicious of being faulty than those that are primarily executed
by passed test cases.
So, we take the statements executed by each test case and its
pass/fail status and the source code for the progam under test as
input. Statements that are executed primarily by passed test cases
are colored green to denote safety; statements that are executed
primarily by failed test cases are colored red to denote danger; and
statements that are executed by both passed and failed are colored in
a yellowish hue to denote caution.
We use a visualization for the code called SeeSoft that represents
each line of code by a line of pixels, where the length of the line of
pixels is proportionate to the length of the source code. This gives a
miniature view of the code -- much like if you were to print out all
of the code and post it on a wall and walk away from it. This allows
the developer to see the colors of many lines of code simultaneously.
We have since extended the visualization to include an even
higher-level abstraction than the SeeSoft view. This view uses
TreeMaps and allows the simultaneous display of the colors of about 2
million lines of code.
So far, our experiments show that for programs with a single bug
showing up in the test suite, this method successfully illuminates the fault about
90% of the time.
Since you have a Thinkpad, you should download and install tpctl. It comes with a daemon called apmiser that controls power use according to CPU usage.
Listen, here's the thing: less taxes would be good if there was also less spending. This president has spent more than any other before, and continues to spend and promise to spend. This is nothing like the "small government" of your traditional conservatives. Witness this. Witness the latest spending on Medicare.
If you're interested in one explanation for why the current administration is cutting taxes so much while boosting spending (on everything, including, it now looks like, going to the moon), please google around for Grover Norquist's strategy to budgeting that he calls "starve the beast." Or, listen to this interview. It's pretty scary.
Either way, the lifetime is significantly shorter than a traditional TV. Plasma TVs must be recharged as the gas is expended. Most plasma TVs list a lifetime of 20K to 30K hours, and this may be enough. Consider though, that if you left one of these on all of the time that it would die in about 3 years. Of course, few people would leave their TV on 24/7 (except businesses and such), but I wonder if the picture degrades as the plasma is used up. After a year or two, do you then need a recharge to get as good of a picture as when you bought the TV?
Even the very latest build of Evolution out of Debian... E simply threw up his hands in disgust.
Um... Are you talking about Evolution or Enlightenment? They're not developed by the same person. And, from what I understand, the code for the latest stable version of Enlightenment has pretty much been scrapped, and they've started over almost completely to make the code small, portable, and fast.
how many people here would actually pay for a well-written, useful application, and how many would pirate it? That's why Adobe (and other companies) won't bother porting to Linux - the "free beer" mentality.
Exactly. Look at Adobe's experience with their porting of FrameMaker to Linux. Everyone was excited that this great software was ported to Linux, but almost no one actually bought it. I'm sure that Adobe has learned a lesson from this.
I've always been wondering this: how long does the battery last? I know in all of the rechargable batteries that I've had, the stored power decreases as the battery ages (for example, car batteries, laptop batteries, cordless phone batteries,...). Eventually they need to be replaced.
How long can you expect to get good performance from one of these batteries?
What is the impact on the environment when the battery goes bad and gets replaced, or the whole car gets junked?
If a car gets into an accident, are we now going to have battery acid squirting all over the already f'd up victims?
The real problem is that Klez is emailing itself from an infected machine to a flood of people using your and my email address in the From: line. Not only does this cause a ton of people to respond to you and me saying "you must have a virus" or thinking that we really think that this penis enlargement solution works (or that we need one) -- but, it distributes your email address to others who may potentially get infected themselves, who may in turn infect others. Next thing you know, your email address that you've been so diligent about keeping somewhat private is inundated with spam and viruses.
This is not a forking of slashdot, it's merely a section just like apache.slashdot.org, ask.slashdot.org, or interviews.slashdot.org.
I believe this is a new configuration for URLs of sections. So, all this is is a new section -- which is probably warranted, especially now that such a large segment of the current UNIX users are using OS X.
Slashdot Mirror
http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/17/ 158227
bibtex
...build/buy a cheap x86 box (that OS X will not run on)...
Are we sure that OS X won't run on a built computer? Now that Apple is moving to Intel, they'll need an Intel-based motherboard, that means standard memory cards, and they're already using nVidia graphics cards. The hard drives are the same. In fact, I can't think of any hardware other than the case that is now different between a PC and an Apple.
Of course, Apple could require the Intel chips have a special code that OS/X could identify and halt itself if it doesn't match. But that seems silly. Of course, we are talking about Jobs here, so who knows...
I don't know if this good, but I get about 1400FPS from glxgears on my T41p that has a FireGL T2. I'm using ATI's drivers (version 8.8.25) in Gentoo.
But, instead of posting off-topic here, you should go over to http://forums.gentoo.org/ and search for info there -- even if you're not using Gentoo it is a good resource for information.
I sense a certain troll-like tone to this, but I'll bite. Do you remember Deja (just "deja" at the end) before Google took over? The page was totally covered with advertisements. They ran their own business into the ground. Google bought their archives, and consequently saved them from being thrown away or someone else charging for their access. Then, they extended the archives to go back even further than before.
I'm not saying that the Google guys are saints, but they are relatively so compared to other big companies out there.
I understand, and agree with, your comment. But, this is a brilliant idea to achieve conservative goals through deception and force. In the mean time, conservative presidents look so generous and everybody loves them. No one is thinking of the future. The problem is that this plan requires a near complete collapse of our economy (worse than the Great Depression) to achieve its intended results. The people concocting this plan (read: wealthy) won't be the people who suffer though.
Oh, and one of those federal programs that will be eventually eliminated along with Social Security and Medicare, is NASA. This is a setup.
WHAT?! Are you sure you're not thinking of "spanking the monkey"?
They ultimately do want smaller government, but they first have to create an political environment where the public will willingly let go of the government programs to which they've grown accustomed e.g., Social Security and Medicare. It's a strategy called Starving the Beast. If you drop taxes enough and increase spending enough, the country will get to a point of deficit that other countries will be less willing to finance our debt and we will be forced to either drastically increase taxes or drastically decrease spending. No one will vote for an increase in taxes in economic bad times, thus they get their small government much like the times before FDR. This is a plan concocted by Grover Norquist and the Heritage Foundation. They are GWB's main influence on economic policy. Notice this trend of spending more and more on unneeded plans while decreasing taxes. Notice the ever increasing deficit. The real conservatives do believe in smaller government, these times now are merely a means to an end.
This is an interesting interview with Princeton Economist Paul Krugman talking about some of these issues.
...guy that makes the public aware of a problem is responsible for the problem.
i.e., "the one who smelt it dealt it."
Tarantula Web Site
The intuition of the approach is simple (this is our hypothesis): statements that are executed primarily by failed test cases are more suspicious of being faulty than those that are primarily executed by passed test cases.
So, we take the statements executed by each test case and its pass/fail status and the source code for the progam under test as input. Statements that are executed primarily by passed test cases are colored green to denote safety; statements that are executed primarily by failed test cases are colored red to denote danger; and statements that are executed by both passed and failed are colored in a yellowish hue to denote caution.
Example screenshot
We use a visualization for the code called SeeSoft that represents each line of code by a line of pixels, where the length of the line of pixels is proportionate to the length of the source code. This gives a miniature view of the code -- much like if you were to print out all of the code and post it on a wall and walk away from it. This allows the developer to see the colors of many lines of code simultaneously.
We have since extended the visualization to include an even higher-level abstraction than the SeeSoft view. This view uses TreeMaps and allows the simultaneous display of the colors of about 2 million lines of code.
Another example screenshot with the TreeMap visualization
So far, our experiments show that for programs with a single bug showing up in the test suite, this method successfully illuminates the fault about 90% of the time.
Here's some papers about this work.
Paper 1
Paper 2
Since you have a Thinkpad, you should download and install tpctl. It comes with a daemon called apmiser that controls power use according to CPU usage.
Listen, here's the thing: less taxes would be good if there was also less spending. This president has spent more than any other before, and continues to spend and promise to spend. This is nothing like the "small government" of your traditional conservatives. Witness this.
Witness the latest spending on Medicare.
If you're interested in one explanation for why the current administration is cutting taxes so much while boosting spending (on everything, including, it now looks like, going to the moon), please google around for Grover Norquist's strategy to budgeting that he calls "starve the beast." Or, listen to this interview. It's pretty scary.
Either way, the lifetime is significantly shorter than a traditional TV. Plasma TVs must be recharged as the gas is expended. Most plasma TVs list a lifetime of 20K to 30K hours, and this may be enough. Consider though, that if you left one of these on all of the time that it would die in about 3 years. Of course, few people would leave their TV on 24/7 (except businesses and such), but I wonder if the picture degrades as the plasma is used up. After a year or two, do you then need a recharge to get as good of a picture as when you bought the TV?
Even the very latest build of Evolution out of Debian... E simply threw up his hands in disgust.
Um... Are you talking about Evolution or Enlightenment? They're not developed by the same person. And, from what I understand, the code for the latest stable version of Enlightenment has pretty much been scrapped, and they've started over almost completely to make the code small, portable, and fast.
how many people here would actually pay for a well-written, useful application, and how many would pirate it? That's why Adobe (and other companies) won't bother porting to Linux - the "free beer" mentality.
Exactly. Look at Adobe's experience with their porting of FrameMaker to Linux. Everyone was excited that this great software was ported to Linux, but almost no one actually bought it. I'm sure that Adobe has learned a lesson from this.
Gentoo already has nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel packages as part of Portage.
um... i think they did.
Ha ha ha. Waterboy good movie funny. Crazy Adam Sandler. Please advice "gone with the wind" is good?
So, when the heck is E17 gonna be ready? Doesn't sound like Raster cares to ever get it done: "it's a nice test driver for evas".
I've always been wondering this: how long does the battery last? I know in all of the rechargable batteries that I've had, the stored power decreases as the battery ages (for example, car batteries, laptop batteries, cordless phone batteries,...). Eventually they need to be replaced.
How long can you expect to get good performance from one of these batteries?
What is the impact on the environment when the battery goes bad and gets replaced, or the whole car gets junked?
If a car gets into an accident, are we now going to have battery acid squirting all over the already f'd up victims?
The real problem is that Klez is emailing itself from an infected machine to a flood of people using your and my email address in the From: line. Not only does this cause a ton of people to respond to you and me saying "you must have a virus" or thinking that we really think that this penis enlargement solution works (or that we need one) -- but, it distributes your email address to others who may potentially get infected themselves, who may in turn infect others. Next thing you know, your email address that you've been so diligent about keeping somewhat private is inundated with spam and viruses.
Did I miss something? Is that it?
Seriously, on the monolithic desktop aspect: if they got rid of that MDI interface, that would make the tool WAY better.
This is not a forking of slashdot, it's merely a section just like apache.slashdot.org, ask.slashdot.org, or interviews.slashdot.org. I believe this is a new configuration for URLs of sections. So, all this is is a new section -- which is probably warranted, especially now that such a large segment of the current UNIX users are using OS X.
My question is: Will all of us current wireless users have to buy new cards and access points, or will a firmware update do the job?
Or, as starfoxmac would say: 5000% faster.