The demo of Half Life 2 has apparantly also been leaked. See screenshots here. God only knows what else they downloaded from the computers at Valve and the implecations it will have on them.
It's not a G5, it's a PPC970, completely different beasts. Not to mention neither Motorola or IBM have 2GHz chips in their roadmap until 2005. Bzzzt One point impossible
From the article: The PowerPC 970 design starts by remapping one of the POWER4 processor cores to 0.13-micron technology and increasing its frequency up to 1.8 GHz. So they more or less say here the new processors will begin at 1.8 Ghz, 2GHZ can't be that far off.
1GHz bus? gimme a break. Intel hasn't yet reached this. Two points impossible Again from the article: The 970's multiple execution units including an AltiVecâ compatible vector processor are fed by an up to 900-MHz processor interface bus, which can deliver data at a rate of up to 6.4 GBps. 900Mhz!?! This is bigger than intel, this can't be?!? Does 1Ghz look that impossible now? Maybe the bus runs on half the processor speed? This would match the artciles 900mhz / 1.8Ghz
Bad grammar, but optical audio in a graphics machine? Many Macs are also used in the audio business, so why is this impossible comming from a company suchs as Apple?
Maybe not SO impossible as you might seem to think?
And then when you are searching on google as an ignorant European trying to find out who or what Janet Reno is, you stumble onto this http://www.internetweekly.org/images/gates_janet_r eno.jpg
Although this is not official (yet), the cause seems to be arson. From the official anouncement of CIV (loosly translated in, Center for Information Services):
"Nothing is known yet about the cause, the police have started an investigation. It is true however, that their have been reports of 2 small fires in the same building the day before the fire. Security has been increased due to this. The exact cause of the big fire is not known at this moment."
Today there was another incident. They found fuel and matches in the building housing the most IT services (second only to the TWRC building, which has burnt down). Some people claim it was already burning and they were able to put out the fire. All people leaving that building (building of Computer Science) were checked for fuel fumes.
This is indeed the most interesting exams period I have ever had here at the University.
What you mean to say here is times have changed? This is only true for our part of the world. We are considered developed countries, as apposed to the developing countries we are blaming. I for one can see the relevance in examining the way we got to being "developed" and how other countries, which may be some years behind, are trying to get developed now.
You could even say we are forcing a lot of countries to get developed, thanks to our globalisation efforts. It's not fair we are measuring them with standards that are based on our thinking now, apposed to our way of thinking 200 years ago. That is measuring with two different scales, and that is hypocrisy.
The author of this letter was pointing out that this same kind of mindless acceptance of a convienient scapegoat was the same stuff that the director (a German) saw first-hand growing up in Nazi Germany. To further hammer the point home, director Verhoeven peppered the film full of rediculous propaganda commericals.
Let me just point out that Verhoeven is not a German, he is in fact Dutch. See here.
Furthermore I agree with the point the movie has some anti-war sentiments, but lets not forget that entertainment value was more important. He "based" this movie on the book, its not an exact replica of the story of the book. You cannot always make a movie of a book, without altering it a little. (See LotR). Although I must say some are more succesfull in capturing the spirit of a book than others. (Dune)
Paul Verhoeven made some excellent movies about war, such as "Soldaat of Oranje" (Soldier Of Orange) and also about violence such as Robocop.
In Robocop he does the same as in Starship Troopers, he takes some elements of the American society, blows them up a little and places them into adds in the movie. (I still want a "Nuke'em" game for my birthday;))
Basically the point I am trying to make is that although Verhoeven wants you to think about some stuff, and look at some social elements critically, he foremost wants to make an entertaining movie.
From the site: Temas joined the project in April 2002 and has been working hard on Linux porting and also generally on ANSI C++ compliance. He comes from a background of open-source development, and is currently a lead contributor to the Jabber open-source server as well as working on OGRE.
Linux port will probably be here shortly, I think.
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I am working on a website in the Netherlands where High School student can check how they made their exams.
Of course these are high school students. I wonder what the stats are for a page like slashdot, or maybe a more independant site like CNN. Has anyone got some info about this?
An important factor in Linux' cost is its maintenance. Linux requires a *lot* of maintenance, work doable only by the relatively few high-paid Linux administrators that put themselves - of course willingly - at a great place in the market. Linux seems to be needing maintenance continuously, to keep it from breaking down.
And you base that on? I admit that Linux takes a lot of work to setup and is badly documented. So as an administrator you need to know a lot of stuff and have experience. Therefor good sysadmins are scarce, and earn a decent living. But when Linux is actually running it just doesn't brake down like that and doesn't require hours of maintenance, it just works!
About the EXT2 filesystem. It has had its best time and should be replaced. Ext3 is not the *longterm* answer, and I sincerely hope Linux advocates realize this. The reason Redhat is using ext3 as its new default FS is simple, there is no valid alternative. Ext3 is the *only* new Linux FS which is included in the newest kernel release, it is mature and fully tested. There however are alternatives on the way. Such as XFS and ReiserFS. I hope one of those FS's will become the new default FS for Linux. It is after all beter to have one good FS, that several mediocre ones.
Back to Linux' cost. Factor in also the fact that crashes happen much more often on Linux than on other unices. On other unices, crashes usually are caused by external sources like power outages. Crashes in Linux are a regular thing, and nobody seems to know what causes them, internally. Linux advocates try to hide this fact by denying crashes ever happen. Instead, they have frequent "hardware problems".
Please! If this was true than why oh why are SGI and IBM (and many others) putting so much effort in Linux? Ah right, to patch it and make it work...
The steep learning curve compared to about any other operating system out there is a major factor in Linux' cost. The system is a mix of features from all kinds of unices, but not one of them is implemented right. A Linux user has to live with badly coded tools which have low performance, mangle data seemingly at random and are not in line with their specification. On top of that a lot of them spit out the most childish and unprofessional messages, indicating that they were created by 14-year olds with too much time, no talent and a bad attitude.
No argument here. Even if you stick to software from the distros themselves you end up with buggy programs with GUI's that resemble, well, don't know anything quite so bad. That give error messages like: "Error: Unkown Error" or "Oops!" or "valoir parser" (french). This really is a problem. And I hope this will be adressed in the future.
I could go on and on and on, but the conclusion is clear. Linux is not an option for any one who seeks a professional OS with high performance, scalability, stability, adherence to standards, etc
standards..like POSIX? Scalability you mean as in SMP, beowulf.. Performance as in used on many a webserver.
Face it, Linux is evolving rapidly, and perfect as it may not be, it is one damned usable, scalable, well performing, stable, FREE OS!
It's funny how you trust a certain brand, read nothing but fantastic benchmarks about it, buy the products and exactly 6 days after your warranty from you local reseller expires it crashes and burns. I called the IBM helldesk, which is also suffering from a shortage of capable personnel (for *^%%^ they don't even speak the language) and gave 'm my email. They called me back twice because they had misspelled it, and after the third attempt hadn't succeeded, they diverted their attention to another (suffering) customer.
In short, my 75 GXP drive is "experiencing some minor data loss" (helldesk: nothing to be concerned about), the Drive Fitness Test reports that my drive is in "fine health", the Dutch helpdesk does not speak Dutch (nor English, my Turkish is a bit rusty:) ).
It is always a relief to hear that "it is a known problem sir, and we are working on it".
Hahahaha! What the hell is this guy talking about? I hate these types of statements, where people hit nothing but air in their agony, restlessness to dump crap on users which in their eyes are too "dumb" to use Linux.
If you like userunfriendlyness that is fine, but why should everyone be confronted with difficult to configure ondocumented programs Linux is so blessed with! I applaud Apple for their userfriendlyness!
It is sad that there are so many people like you around, people that hold Linux back from entering the desktop market and really making a difference in the world.
You say Linux is an "Open Source" OS. That is true, but it's a sad thing a part of it's userbase is so "closed".
I have only one thing to say to you:"wake up, and start living in the real world!"
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The demo of Half Life 2 has apparantly also been leaked. See screenshots here. God only knows what else they downloaded from the computers at Valve and the implecations it will have on them.
Check here.
It's not a G5, it's a PPC970, completely different beasts. Not to mention neither Motorola or IBM have 2GHz chips in their roadmap until 2005. Bzzzt One point impossible
From the article: The PowerPC 970 design starts by remapping one of the POWER4 processor cores to 0.13-micron technology and increasing its frequency up to 1.8 GHz.
So they more or less say here the new processors will begin at 1.8 Ghz, 2GHZ can't be that far off.
1GHz bus? gimme a break. Intel hasn't yet reached this. Two points impossible
Again from the article: The 970's multiple execution units including an AltiVecâ compatible vector processor are fed by an up to 900-MHz processor interface bus, which can deliver data at a rate of up to 6.4 GBps.
900Mhz!?! This is bigger than intel, this can't be?!? Does 1Ghz look that impossible now? Maybe the bus runs on half the processor speed? This would match the artciles 900mhz / 1.8Ghz
Bad grammar, but optical audio in a graphics machine?
Many Macs are also used in the audio business, so why is this impossible comming from a company suchs as Apple?
Maybe not SO impossible as you might seem to think?
And then when you are searching on google as an ignorant European trying to find out who or what Janet Reno is, you stumble onto this http://www.internetweekly.org/images/gates_janet_r eno.jpg
Although this is not official (yet), the cause seems to be arson. From the official anouncement of CIV (loosly translated in, Center for Information Services):
"Nothing is known yet about the cause, the police have started an investigation. It is true however, that their have been reports of 2 small fires in the same building the day before the fire. Security has been increased due to this. The exact cause of the big fire is not known at this moment."
Today there was another incident. They found fuel and matches in the building housing the most IT services (second only to the TWRC building, which has burnt down). Some people claim it was already burning and they were able to put out the fire. All people leaving that building (building of Computer Science) were checked for fuel fumes.
This is indeed the most interesting exams period I have ever had here at the University.
What you mean to say here is times have changed? This is only true for our part of the world. We are considered developed countries, as apposed to the developing countries we are blaming. I for one can see the relevance in examining the way we got to being "developed" and how other countries, which may be some years behind, are trying to get developed now.
You could even say we are forcing a lot of countries to get developed, thanks to our globalisation efforts. It's not fair we are measuring them with standards that are based on our thinking now, apposed to our way of thinking 200 years ago. That is measuring with two different scales, and that is hypocrisy.
The author of this letter was pointing out that this same kind of mindless acceptance of a convienient scapegoat was the same stuff that the director (a German) saw first-hand growing up in Nazi Germany. To further hammer the point home, director Verhoeven peppered the film full of rediculous propaganda commericals.
;))
Let me just point out that Verhoeven is not a German, he is in fact Dutch. See here.
Furthermore I agree with the point the movie has some anti-war sentiments, but lets not forget that entertainment value was more important. He "based" this movie on the book, its not an exact replica of the story of the book. You cannot always make a movie of a book, without altering it a little. (See LotR). Although I must say some are more succesfull in capturing the spirit of a book than others. (Dune)
Paul Verhoeven made some excellent movies about war, such as "Soldaat of Oranje" (Soldier Of Orange) and also about violence such as Robocop.
In Robocop he does the same as in Starship Troopers, he takes some elements of the American society, blows them up a little and places them into adds in the movie. (I still want a "Nuke'em" game for my birthday
Basically the point I am trying to make is that although Verhoeven wants you to think about some stuff, and look at some social elements critically, he foremost wants to make an entertaining movie.
From the site:
Temas joined the project in April 2002 and has been working hard on Linux porting and also generally on ANSI C++ compliance. He comes from a background of open-source development, and is currently a lead contributor to the Jabber open-source server as well as working on OGRE.
Linux port will probably be here shortly, I think.
I am working on a website in the Netherlands where High School student can check how they made their exams.
Yesterday 77.000 unique visitors. 98.78% IE, 0.85% Netscape, 0.11% Gecko type browsers.
Of course these are high school students. I wonder what the stats are for a page like slashdot, or maybe a more independant site like CNN. Has anyone got some info about this?
An important factor in Linux' cost is its maintenance. Linux requires a *lot* of maintenance, work doable only by the relatively few high-paid Linux administrators that put themselves - of course willingly - at a great place in the market. Linux seems to be needing maintenance continuously, to keep it from breaking down.
And you base that on? I admit that Linux takes a lot of work to setup and is badly documented. So as an administrator you need to know a lot of stuff and have experience. Therefor good sysadmins are scarce, and earn a decent living. But when Linux is actually running it just doesn't brake down like that and doesn't require hours of maintenance, it just works!
About the EXT2 filesystem. It has had its best time and should be replaced. Ext3 is not the *longterm* answer, and I sincerely hope Linux advocates realize this. The reason Redhat is using ext3 as its new default FS is simple, there is no valid alternative. Ext3 is the *only* new Linux FS which is included in the newest kernel release, it is mature and fully tested. There however are alternatives on the way. Such as XFS and ReiserFS. I hope one of those FS's will become the new default FS for Linux. It is after all beter to have one good FS, that several mediocre ones.
Back to Linux' cost. Factor in also the fact that crashes happen much more often on Linux than on other unices. On other unices, crashes usually are caused by external sources like power outages. Crashes in Linux are a regular thing, and nobody seems to know what causes them, internally. Linux advocates try to hide this fact by denying crashes ever happen. Instead, they have frequent "hardware problems".
Please! If this was true than why oh why are SGI and IBM (and many others) putting so much effort in Linux? Ah right, to patch it and make it work...
The steep learning curve compared to about any other operating system out there is a major factor in Linux' cost. The system is a mix of features from all kinds of unices, but not one of them is implemented right. A Linux user has to live with badly coded tools which have low performance, mangle data seemingly at random and are not in line with their specification. On top of that a lot of them spit out the most childish and unprofessional messages, indicating that they were created by 14-year olds with too much time, no talent and a bad attitude.
No argument here. Even if you stick to software from the distros themselves you end up with buggy programs with GUI's that resemble, well, don't know anything quite so bad. That give error messages like: "Error: Unkown Error" or "Oops!" or "valoir parser" (french). This really is a problem. And I hope this will be adressed in the future.
I could go on and on and on, but the conclusion is clear. Linux is not an option for any one who seeks a professional OS with high performance, scalability, stability, adherence to standards, etc
standards..like POSIX? Scalability you mean as in SMP, beowulf.. Performance as in used on many a webserver.
Face it, Linux is evolving rapidly, and perfect as it may not be, it is one damned usable, scalable, well performing, stable, FREE OS!
It's funny how you trust a certain brand, read nothing but fantastic benchmarks about it, buy the products and exactly 6 days after your warranty from you local reseller expires it crashes and burns. I called the IBM helldesk, which is also suffering from a shortage of capable personnel (for *^%%^ they don't even speak the language) and gave 'm my email. They called me back twice because they had misspelled it, and after the third attempt hadn't succeeded, they diverted their attention to another (suffering) customer.
:) ).
In short, my 75 GXP drive is "experiencing some minor data loss" (helldesk: nothing to be concerned about), the Drive Fitness Test reports that my drive is in "fine health", the Dutch helpdesk does not speak Dutch (nor English, my Turkish is a bit rusty
It is always a relief to hear that "it is a known problem sir, and we are working on it".
Bottom's up!
Hahahaha! What the hell is this guy talking about? I hate these types of statements, where people hit nothing but air in their agony, restlessness to dump crap on users which in their eyes are too "dumb" to use Linux.
If you like userunfriendlyness that is fine, but why should everyone be confronted with difficult to configure ondocumented programs Linux is so blessed with! I applaud Apple for their userfriendlyness!
It is sad that there are so many people like you around, people that hold Linux back from entering the desktop market and really making a difference in the world.
You say Linux is an "Open Source" OS. That is true, but it's a sad thing a part of it's userbase is so "closed".
I have only one thing to say to you:"wake up, and start living in the real world!"
"Linux is only free....if your time is worthless"