and einstein (unlike you) was imho a genius anyway. he figured out most of the stuff on paper whereas most of here couldn't even do this with our 3ghz pc's... you can't really blame him for figuring out all the constants all the way, the man had (almost) the correct theories, that what's matters, numbers are just numbers, the idea counts.
so respect to einstein and respect for 'stupiders'.
indeed, only female mosquitos suck (yeah i mean that literally and not literally).
but he has a point, if the mosquitos disappear, there will be nectar left overs that they balanced over the years. now if a more harmful species will come to eat that nectar and gain some tremendous overpower with it, we might be in big trouble which could be not even comparable to our current "ouch that damn thing bite me" problems.
try to look at the big picture, there are millions of mosquitos all over place and they probably are here for a good reason.
and as for the optimists who hope to see this invention avoiding malaria in africa, if you look at the financial point of view, bsd will really die before and be confirmed totally dead by netcraft before africa is saved. too many towns, too many people, too many mosquitos.
// next thing in the news is a nuclear rice cooking machine that will save africa from starving...
setting it up on a remote machine out of the blue isn't quite natural for me on that thing. the gui is a certain overshot, nobody asked for it, nobody needs it. i liked to run my seti just from the command line, without hassling with command line parameters to identify myself etc.
and i've been using this boinc thingy for like months now to run my seti... so where exactly is the news here ?
otherwise the cpu time sharing between different tasks and etc. is a good idea , thumbs up, but for the complexity, thumbs down.
the author of the businessweek article must clearly be on drugs.
are they daydreaming or just drunk over there ? microsoft doesnt pay anyone 21$ for a dvd-rom, the raw price for the item is under 10$ , microsoft will get it with around 10. the same logic applies for most of the components there. ati gives em a special deal and all the others.
power supply, cables, and controllers -- add another $55 the producer is lucky if he gets 10-15$ for these.
amounts count, being microsoft counts too
bill gates may be a hated man, but he is not a total moron (otherwise how would we classify the majority of the world who made the moron a billionaire ? army of utter morons ?). he won't sell anything with a financial loss, he may sell it to come out around zero profit for selling, but he won't let it cut his pockets. ofcourse most of it's profit will come later from the game licences.
imho xbox is overpriced from every angle. it's cheap appearance is just a mirage, once you realize what you could have for the same money it's probably too late...
i'd go gentoo & portage for that. if you want topnotch performance, you gotta compile the whole package as it suits your machine the best and not to follow the specs of the machine that was used by the package creator.
most binary packages out there are i386... this means that more than half of your processor capabilities are ignored... and i guess you don't want that, do you ? besides there are really nice hacks for some stack tricks and registers which will make the code faster exactly on that box with that cpu.
any packaged distro that hasn't got the packages for your athlon64 x2, definetly is just a waste of your time and machine power.
you can also use debian and sourcepackages... but i'd still recommend gentoo as from my last experience it works out better (it's meant to be built from code, it isn't an addition like in other distros).
or you could also go freebsd and use the ports there.
if you need to go to the enterprise level and have someone who's ass to kick for support, choose sun, this way you won't be paying microsoft or a minority distro.
right after they add a normal keyboard to it and gsm/gprs support:p , if i have to use a cellphone to do things that a modern gsm enabled pda can do, i obviously come 1 pocket too short.
i usually concetrate very much when i'm developing so unless i have a really special ringtone i would just miss the call. currently i have a dictophone enabled phone so i played my own tune in with my guitar, that's something that i recognize within a second and pick up the phone.
but indeed, some ringtones can be so irritating that it would even wake up the dinosaurs in their graves, one of my collegues has a damn church tone that sounds like eleven million monkeys are playing the church organ. i still wonder how many times this phone will ring until someone will just smash it with a hammer or something...
the ringtone business is here mostly because some years back the phones were unable to play mp3-s uploaded from your pc. and the ringtone providers (at least should) pay for the copyright rights of the music. people like fancy ringtones like the latest pop songs, if they can't upload these themselves, they are willing to pay a few coins each to get it. which alltogether makes millions.
i dont think this market will exist in a few years because all the new phones have some other way to get the ringtones (downloading over wap or fetching mp3-s from your pc), so paying for the free stuff will finally go away. just keep your fingers crossed that we wouldn't go backwards anytime soon.
i'd still like to see a cutdown linux which can operate on a handheld like the hp/compaq ipaq. i know something exists right now but it reminds me more of like playing with fire than getting a solid linux machine in my pocket. currently the devices run with windows-ce and i don't like the idea having this thing in my pocket at all.
ofcourse really tiny devices that have less memory than pocketpc's should choose probably something else to operate on. linux is getting more complicated each day to support new hardware and new software ideas, it's impossible to fit this everywhere.
Ironically you still can get a quality rip from the cd by attaching another computer with spdif in into your pc's spdif out. DRM or not, the other pc has no freaking idea what it's recording...
And neither will any linux or bsd machines give a **** about this drm/rootkit effort.
But i like the fact that sony is trying to bash a wall with it's head attempting to do the impossible and using the worst methods to do it.
They should try to alter the way that pirates think instead of trying to fight it back like don quixote.
nervous people ? you better think about the disabled people that have some kind of defect in their throat... they will be searched each time they're gonna fly...
after some point, the administration of postgresql is imho much clearer than the mysql version... and as for setting it up, if you can read the manual, you should be fine:)
but i don't think you should choose a database by how hard it is to set up (people that 5 years ago tried to install oracle on redhat , like me, know what means a hard to set up database), instead you should choose the database by it's capabilities for your applications. if you need simple fast selects, go mysql, if you need very deep recursive selects and stored functions, go for postgresql or any other real database.
mysql is picking up pretty fast lately, but it's still behind. if they have a stable version with optimized subqueries and heavily tested stored procedures, it's worth a look.
Yeah. Russia and China have neither stupid laws nor illegal prisoners. They're bastions of liberty and freedom.
indeed they don't have stupid laws. like the one that forbids you to take a bath on thursday:p .
[Texas law example] The entire Encyclopedia Britannica is banned in Texas because it contains a formula for making beer at home.
[Massachusetts] North Andover prohibits its citizens from carrying "space guns."
[Minnesota] Women may face up to 30 days in jail if they impersonate Santa Claus.
^^^^ now tell me that these laws are making any sense...
even worse is that you can get sued over stupidities like shown above. and this shit will even make it to the trial therefor wasting your time, limiting your freedom and making you look like a bunch of nutties. in russia you will only make it to the court if you have made a real felony, like robbed a bank or killed a person, not when you smoke in an elevator. in china nobody will sue you for not having "this toilet is certified by " in your gas stations bathroom. these countries are free in many ways that you can't even imagine.
just look at the court cases ruled in united states, there are about a zillion of them that make no sense at all (except making you laugh sometimes)...
+++ do you feel free with the riaa, patents office and the stupid law system that you have there owning you 24/7 ? i know i wouldn't... but i feel free here somewhere in the europe (and nope, i'm not from russia nor china (which isn't in europe (for those americans that missed the geographics lessons)))
somebody should just rip your damn eyes open and show you fools how you are fooled 24/7:) but it seems like it's too early for that...// as for the illegal prisoners, yeah russia has them... china probably too... but has switzerland got em ? denmark ? sweden ? === NO , and seems like they dont need them... sure every country has it's flaws somewhere, but i think that usa is not in the top list of countries that should use the word freedom. a bushman in australia or a businessman in germany is much more free than any average american...
exactly free as china, go check how many files you can easilly download in china and how many files can you get from the servers in united states... you'd be pretty surprised that china outnumbers you by more than 3 times (as would be estimated by the population). not even mentioning that the government of china is laughing at riaa and refusing to take down their search engine which also provides all kind of links to movies, mp3-s, torrents etc.
and the united states are so free.... exactly where right now ? you have no respect for human rights, you *invade* countries in middle east and your own lawsystem has made it impossible to breath air without getting sued for it.
you have the opportunity to drive a SUV in china , and you can eat a hamburger in china... and if you think that the political stuff is so not-free in china, go and try to push communism through in america (everybody rich,working and happy model), you will be killed on the first road that you cross on your way to parliament my friend...
nvm. if you are so blind to see that your country is "free", then there's really no point to have this discussion at all...
actually... in some cases you dont need to use the header file of the library:D
man dlopen man dlsym
there you go... there are a lot of libraries out there that can be used this way:)
--- as for sony, what did you do with the poor dude that invented the idea to install silently drm software into user computers and thereby fgging the user computers up? concrete boots & the ocean ?
luckily my ubuntu box won't care if you have zillion.exe's on that cdrom, i will still get my music...
for almost the same buck, i get a pda with gsm/gprs/wifi abilities, so i can make calls and use internet from somewhere in the forest (where wifi accidentally is still missing today). ofcourse if i could choose a pda with gsm stuff and with linux, i would choose that... (preferrably with a built in qwerty keyboard and an option to add a fullsize pc keyboard over the usb cable or some direct mounting).
the nokia thing is just a toy from my point of view. a quite expensive toy to browse the internet.
the resolution may be great, but the screen is actually tiny so people with less than magnificent sight are going to have trouble with this one.
if it would be capable of using gsm/gprs and give me an usable input method like a keyboard, i would consider it (especially if it could use cheap sd or mini-sd flash memory units, 512mb costs around 35 euros over here... 1gb around 70 euros).
what kind of cpu does this thing have anyway ? is it comparable to the 400mhz/200mhz cpu's used by hp/compaq handhelds ?
a) linux is already quite popular in china already, ffs, they have their own distro:D
b) and after several years, the remaining linux howtos will only be understandable when you are able to read Chinese. lucklily that will take quite some years, unless the assassinate the leading kernel/kde/gnome developers and install liu touva & other dudes named like that in place. instead you should be affraid china forking their own linux project all together and the mess that this will create (and they will rename it to Leenux)
c) with the corruption and illegal action rates currently in china, not even the forbidding order from the goverment can stop windows from being pirated there all over the place.
d) imagine the power of developers currently kept back behind the "china's wall". there may be a next "einstein of code" hidden there.
If you don't want your server taken down, keep the riff-raff out! or keep the server in a free country like china or russia where the courts and governments dont even blink at riaa or any of it's hollywood partners, public and open russian ftp servers are just full of brand new movies and music, and nobody even cares....
but 2 students in america swap some files ? may you be damned you damn h4x0rs!
You people over there are really funny with the expression "freedom" lately... since the rest of the world is a lot more free & liberal than you are (patents, riaa , illegal prisoners, bunch of stupid laws, )
and before bashing back on the united states thing, try to figure out why rich and smart people are leaving the united states and only poor people or silly are coming in....
playing doom versus serving multiple clients, as a dedicated server, the latter one is clearly the other case that i pointed out.
i guess doom3 server is a mixture of handling multiple clients and 1 heavy weight calculation algorithm with vectors... if this is the case, and amd athlon x2 will outperform this slick sun cpu , since 1 core in this sun miracle doesnt have the power of 1 core in amd. ofcourse if they would have a thread with less killing algorithms it would be good for the sun cpu, but it would be a terrible miss on a regular cpu available today (and that's why i think they have the 1 heavy weight thread and some lightweight network handling threads). it would be nogood to have 31 networking threads waiting behind 1 lazily lagging realm calculation thread.
while playing doom3 is totally different weight having most of it's cpu power teared apart by the engine that feeds your superfast 3d card with correct information and doing little else like AI behaviour or networking tasks.
besides, do you really think that sun has a fpu for each of the processor handling units ? i don't think so, cause it would be very expensive and not used in any web-, file- or mailservers. they may have more than 1, but not 8x4. and calculating bullet trajectories, lines of sight, current angles here and there, is pretty clearly fpu work mixed with heavyweight memory access.
when regular pc-s should ever have that sort of multitasking build-ups, idsoftware would ofcourse kick the multithreaded stuff out of the door and you'd be right.
alcohol is acid, quite a weak one, but still having the effects and reactions as the rest of acids have. most of the batteries that you throw into your ipod contain acid, so does the battery in your car. if you let CO2 and water together, they create a nice (and a bit unstable) carbonic acid, and that is basically all over the place. even your body contains so many acids that i would get a ban on slashdot for even naming all of these. compared to the acids created by gasoline engines and powerstations in the atmosphere, the electionics production isn't even worth mentioning.
sun is making the right move, more computing power for less watt-per-hour, and if they can spare the energy used during producing too, it's even better (and more profitable for them, since they pay for that). having a 200W P4 screaming under your table just to play solitaire is really wicked from the energetic point of view. so is driving an engine overbloated suv just to get one fat butt from one place to another. regular swedish buses that carry 30 people have the same size of engines as hummers or corvettes, sniffing the word 'wasted' anywhere ?
while this cpu will be nogood for playing doom3, it will be a very good chip for handling many many many threads'n'processes at once and therefor be ideal for running webservers and mailservers and other type of multiple client handling services. way to go sun, i hope amd will do an amd athlon 64 X32 some time soon too:)
too bad i can't afford this stuff anytime soon:(
sadly when you are interested in the price of the latest server, you're not rich enough to buy it
nobody forces you to use these new bytebuffers, they are mostly intended for async i/o, which most applications certainly dont need, their misuse makes things a lot worse usually:D
last time i checked, new FileInputStream("foo.txt") returned a sane 1 class wrapping around InputStream, which is actually as close to the ideal OOP model as it gets.
java's big advantage over old generation programming languages is that char != byte, which makes all kind of utf8 and utf16 handling transparent and very comfortable. for unexperienced new players, this ofcourse gives a lot of painful lessons too. the other big advantage is that all java libraries (unless written by serious "einsteins") can be mixed with eachother without much trouble, whereas very many languages have brilliant api's for some things that don't work with some other brilliant libraries at all (ithreads and lwp|tcltk for perl as an example).
c++'s biggest power imho is to directly include pure C code without any special hacks, this allows you to use the very core libraries of your operating system and gives it speed and comfort using the standard stuff, this is something that most languages miss big time.
comparing the stuff is pointless as stated many many times before by many many people besides me. use the right tool for the right job. c++ is the right tool for many things right now, use it where you have to use it (unless you have something that really is better, which is not mostly the case for low level stuff)
I'm no doctor either, but this is really interesting:
Experts think he could have something in his immune system that may help in producing vaccines against HIV
as far as i know a vaccine is actually a little piece of the infection itself and some antibodys to fight it (which sometimes are even derivated from the same virus), so the human body is infected with both so it's immune system can skip the invention of antibodies and just massively reproduce them to fight this little tiny infection that came along, so that the human body will be filled with enormous amount of antibodies in notime...
so now, how can experts say that someone is producing a vaccine if vaccine is just a codename for a fixture ? and how can experts say that he is healed by the vaccine if vaccine is actually only good to prevent from getting ill at all, whereas other medicaments are meant for healing the ill. infecting a flu infected people with vaccine, can make his/her situation even worse than it was before the infecting. i hope i will not be cured by those experts that gave their oppinion in the referring sources.....
you missed the detail that in asia they already found a strain resistant to tamiflu... and that the current tamiflu hasn't been tested on the human form of h5n1 because the latter does not exists yet...
but hey, great buy man, at least you make the medicine industry shine on it's brightest day ever and hopefully their bucks can pull us out of trouble when a pandemic starts and we can really buy smth useful against it:D
a) any free publicity attention is a free commercial, so microsoft would go for that b) x windows people could actually sue microsoft for stealing their name, they were here 5 years before gates. c) people have enlightened me in the mike rowe case, thnx a lot:D
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even stupider
no shit sherlock
and einstein (unlike you) was imho a genius anyway. he figured out most of the stuff on paper whereas most of here couldn't even do this with our 3ghz pc's
so respect to einstein and respect for 'stupiders'.
but he has a point, if the mosquitos disappear, there will be nectar left overs that they balanced over the years. now if a more harmful species will come to eat that nectar and gain some tremendous overpower with it, we might be in big trouble which could be not even comparable to our current "ouch that damn thing bite me" problems.
try to look at the big picture, there are millions of mosquitos all over place and they probably are here for a good reason.
and as for the optimists who hope to see this invention avoiding malaria in africa, if you look at the financial point of view, bsd will really die before and be confirmed totally dead by netcraft before africa is saved. too many towns, too many people, too many mosquitos.
setting it up on a remote machine out of the blue isn't quite natural for me on that thing. the gui is a certain overshot, nobody asked for it, nobody needs it. i liked to run my seti just from the command line, without hassling with command line parameters to identify myself etc.
... so where exactly is the news here ?
and i've been using this boinc thingy for like months now to run my seti
otherwise the cpu time sharing between different tasks and etc. is a good idea , thumbs up, but for the complexity, thumbs down.
the author of the businessweek article must clearly be on drugs.
...
are they daydreaming or just drunk over there ? microsoft doesnt pay anyone 21$ for a dvd-rom, the raw price for the item is under 10$ , microsoft will get it with around 10. the same logic applies for most of the components there. ati gives em a special deal and all the others.
power supply, cables, and controllers -- add another $55 the producer is lucky if he gets 10-15$ for these.
amounts count, being microsoft counts too
bill gates may be a hated man, but he is not a total moron (otherwise how would we classify the majority of the world who made the moron a billionaire ? army of utter morons ?). he won't sell anything with a financial loss, he may sell it to come out around zero profit for selling, but he won't let it cut his pockets. ofcourse most of it's profit will come later from the game licences.
imho xbox is overpriced from every angle. it's cheap appearance is just a mirage, once you realize what you could have for the same money it's probably too late
i'd go gentoo & portage for that. if you want topnotch performance, you gotta compile the whole package as it suits your machine the best and not to follow the specs of the machine that was used by the package creator.
... this means that more than half of your processor capabilities are ignored ... and i guess you don't want that, do you ? besides there are really nice hacks for some stack tricks and registers which will make the code faster exactly on that box with that cpu.
... but i'd still recommend gentoo as from my last experience it works out better (it's meant to be built from code, it isn't an addition like in other distros).
most binary packages out there are i386
any packaged distro that hasn't got the packages for your athlon64 x2, definetly is just a waste of your time and machine power.
you can also use debian and sourcepackages
or you could also go freebsd and use the ports there.
if you need to go to the enterprise level and have someone who's ass to kick for support, choose sun, this way you won't be paying microsoft or a minority distro.
right after they add a normal keyboard to it and gsm/gprs support :p , if i have to use a cellphone to do things that a modern gsm enabled pda can do, i obviously come 1 pocket too short.
i usually concetrate very much when i'm developing so unless i have a really special ringtone i would just miss the call. currently i have a dictophone enabled phone so i played my own tune in with my guitar, that's something that i recognize within a second and pick up the phone.
...
but indeed, some ringtones can be so irritating that it would even wake up the dinosaurs in their graves, one of my collegues has a damn church tone that sounds like eleven million monkeys are playing the church organ. i still wonder how many times this phone will ring until someone will just smash it with a hammer or something
the ringtone business is here mostly because some years back the phones were unable to play mp3-s uploaded from your pc. and the ringtone providers (at least should) pay for the copyright rights of the music. people like fancy ringtones like the latest pop songs, if they can't upload these themselves, they are willing to pay a few coins each to get it. which alltogether makes millions.
i dont think this market will exist in a few years because all the new phones have some other way to get the ringtones (downloading over wap or fetching mp3-s from your pc), so paying for the free stuff will finally go away. just keep your fingers crossed that we wouldn't go backwards anytime soon.
i'd still like to see a cutdown linux which can operate on a handheld like the hp/compaq ipaq. i know something exists right now but it reminds me more of like playing with fire than getting a solid linux machine in my pocket. currently the devices run with windows-ce and i don't like the idea having this thing in my pocket at all.
ofcourse really tiny devices that have less memory than pocketpc's should choose probably something else to operate on. linux is getting more complicated each day to support new hardware and new software ideas, it's impossible to fit this everywhere.
Ironically you still can get a quality rip from the cd by attaching another computer with spdif in into your pc's spdif out. DRM or not, the other pc has no freaking idea what it's recording ...
And neither will any linux or bsd machines give a **** about this drm/rootkit effort.
But i like the fact that sony is trying to bash a wall with it's head attempting to do the impossible and using the worst methods to do it.
They should try to alter the way that pirates think instead of trying to fight it back like don quixote.
nervous people ? you better think about the disabled people that have some kind of defect in their throat ... they will be searched each time they're gonna fly ...
i guess a fearless elephant whould just crush the fearless mouse that is trying to bite him, cause it has no idea what avoiding crushing is.
:)
however, ladies in the kitchen on chairs would be fun
after some point, the administration of postgresql is imho much clearer than the mysql version ... and as for setting it up, if you can read the manual, you should be fine :)
but i don't think you should choose a database by how hard it is to set up (people that 5 years ago tried to install oracle on redhat , like me, know what means a hard to set up database), instead you should choose the database by it's capabilities for your applications. if you need simple fast selects, go mysql, if you need very deep recursive selects and stored functions, go for postgresql or any other real database.
mysql is picking up pretty fast lately, but it's still behind. if they have a stable version with optimized subqueries and heavily tested stored procedures, it's worth a look.
Yeah. Russia and China have neither stupid laws nor illegal prisoners. They're bastions of liberty and freedom.
indeed they don't have stupid laws. like the one that forbids you to take a bath on thursday
[Texas law example]
The entire Encyclopedia Britannica is banned in Texas because it contains a formula for making beer at home.
[Massachusetts]
North Andover prohibits its citizens from carrying "space guns."
[Minnesota]
Women may face up to 30 days in jail if they impersonate Santa Claus.
^^^^
now tell me that these laws are making any sense
even worse is that you can get sued over stupidities like shown above. and this shit will even make it to the trial therefor wasting your time, limiting your freedom and making you look like a bunch of nutties. in russia you will only make it to the court if you have made a real felony, like robbed a bank or killed a person, not when you smoke in an elevator. in china nobody will sue you for not having "this toilet is certified by " in your gas stations bathroom. these countries are free in many ways that you can't even imagine.
just look at the court cases ruled in united states, there are about a zillion of them that make no sense at all (except making you laugh sometimes)...
+++
do you feel free with the riaa, patents office and the stupid law system that you have there owning you 24/7 ? i know i wouldn't
somebody should just rip your damn eyes open and show you fools how you are fooled 24/7
exactly free as china, go check how many files you can easilly download in china and how many files can you get from the servers in united states ... you'd be pretty surprised that china outnumbers you by more than 3 times (as would be estimated by the population). not even mentioning that the government of china is laughing at riaa and refusing to take down their search engine which also provides all kind of links to movies, mp3-s, torrents etc.
.... exactly where right now ? you have no respect for human rights, you *invade* countries in middle east and your own lawsystem has made it impossible to breath air without getting sued for it.
... and if you think that the political stuff is so not-free in china, go and try to push communism through in america (everybody rich,working and happy model), you will be killed on the first road that you cross on your way to parliament my friend ...
...
and the united states are so free
you have the opportunity to drive a SUV in china , and you can eat a hamburger in china
nvm. if you are so blind to see that your country is "free", then there's really no point to have this discussion at all
actually ... in some cases you dont need to use the header file of the library :D
... there are a lot of libraries out there that can be used this way :)
.exe's on that cdrom, i will still get my music ...
man dlopen
man dlsym
there you go
---
as for sony, what did you do with the poor dude that invented the idea to install silently drm software into user computers and thereby fgging the user computers up? concrete boots & the ocean ?
luckily my ubuntu box won't care if you have zillion
for almost the same buck, i get a pda with gsm/gprs/wifi abilities, so i can make calls and use internet from somewhere in the forest (where wifi accidentally is still missing today). ofcourse if i could choose a pda with gsm stuff and with linux, i would choose that... (preferrably with a built in qwerty keyboard and an option to add a fullsize pc keyboard over the usb cable or some direct mounting).
the nokia thing is just a toy from my point of view. a quite expensive toy to browse the internet.
the resolution may be great, but the screen is actually tiny so people with less than magnificent sight are going to have trouble with this one.
if it would be capable of using gsm/gprs and give me an usable input method like a keyboard, i would consider it (especially if it could use cheap sd or mini-sd flash memory units, 512mb costs around 35 euros over here... 1gb around 70 euros).
what kind of cpu does this thing have anyway ? is it comparable to the 400mhz/200mhz cpu's used by hp/compaq handhelds ?
a) linux is already quite popular in china already, ffs, they have their own distro :D
b) and after several years, the remaining linux howtos will only be understandable when you are able to read Chinese.
lucklily that will take quite some years, unless the assassinate the leading kernel/kde/gnome developers and install liu touva & other dudes named like that in place. instead you should be affraid china forking their own linux project all together and the mess that this will create (and they will rename it to Leenux)
c) with the corruption and illegal action rates currently in china, not even the forbidding order from the goverment can stop windows from being pirated there all over the place.
d) imagine the power of developers currently kept back behind the "china's wall". there may be a next "einstein of code" hidden there.
If you don't want your server taken down, keep the riff-raff out! ....
... since the rest of the world is a lot more free & liberal than you are (patents, riaa , illegal prisoners, bunch of stupid laws, )
....
or keep the server in a free country like china or russia where the courts and governments dont even blink at riaa or any of it's hollywood partners, public and open russian ftp servers are just full of brand new movies and music, and nobody even cares
but 2 students in america swap some files ? may you be damned you damn h4x0rs!
You people over there are really funny with the expression "freedom" lately
and before bashing back on the united states thing, try to figure out why rich and smart people are leaving the united states and only poor people or silly are coming in
playing doom versus serving multiple clients, as a dedicated server, the latter one is clearly the other case that i pointed out.
... if this is the case, and amd athlon x2 will outperform this slick sun cpu , since 1 core in this sun miracle doesnt have the power of 1 core in amd. ofcourse if they would have a thread with less killing algorithms it would be good for the sun cpu, but it would be a terrible miss on a regular cpu available today (and that's why i think they have the 1 heavy weight thread and some lightweight network handling threads). it would be nogood to have 31 networking threads waiting behind 1 lazily lagging realm calculation thread.
i guess doom3 server is a mixture of handling multiple clients and 1 heavy weight calculation algorithm with vectors
while playing doom3 is totally different weight having most of it's cpu power teared apart by the engine that feeds your superfast 3d card with correct information and doing little else like AI behaviour or networking tasks.
besides, do you really think that sun has a fpu for each of the processor handling units ? i don't think so, cause it would be very expensive and not used in any web-, file- or mailservers. they may have more than 1, but not 8x4. and calculating bullet trajectories, lines of sight, current angles here and there, is pretty clearly fpu work mixed with heavyweight memory access.
when regular pc-s should ever have that sort of multitasking build-ups, idsoftware would ofcourse kick the multithreaded stuff out of the door and you'd be right.
indeed, you have acid's all over the place.
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alcohol is acid, quite a weak one, but still having the effects and reactions as the rest of acids have.
most of the batteries that you throw into your ipod contain acid, so does the battery in your car.
if you let CO2 and water together, they create a nice (and a bit unstable) carbonic acid, and that is basically all over the place.
even your body contains so many acids that i would get a ban on slashdot for even naming all of these.
compared to the acids created by gasoline engines and powerstations in the atmosphere, the electionics production isn't even worth mentioning.
sun is making the right move, more computing power for less watt-per-hour, and if they can spare the energy used during producing too, it's even better (and more profitable for them, since they pay for that). having a 200W P4 screaming under your table just to play solitaire is really wicked from the energetic point of view. so is driving an engine overbloated suv just to get one fat butt from one place to another. regular swedish buses that carry 30 people have the same size of engines as hummers or corvettes, sniffing the word 'wasted' anywhere ?
while this cpu will be nogood for playing doom3, it will be a very good chip for handling many many many threads'n'processes at once and therefor be ideal for running webservers and mailservers and other type of multiple client handling services. way to go sun, i hope amd will do an amd athlon 64 X32 some time soon too
too bad i can't afford this stuff anytime soon
sadly when you are interested in the price of the latest server, you're not rich enough to buy it
nobody forces you to use these new bytebuffers, they are mostly intended for async i/o, which most applications certainly dont need, their misuse makes things a lot worse usually :D
last time i checked, new FileInputStream("foo.txt") returned a sane 1 class wrapping around InputStream, which is actually as close to the ideal OOP model as it gets.
java's big advantage over old generation programming languages is that char != byte, which makes all kind of utf8 and utf16 handling transparent and very comfortable. for unexperienced new players, this ofcourse gives a lot of painful lessons too. the other big advantage is that all java libraries (unless written by serious "einsteins") can be mixed with eachother without much trouble, whereas very many languages have brilliant api's for some things that don't work with some other brilliant libraries at all (ithreads and lwp|tcltk for perl as an example).
c++'s biggest power imho is to directly include pure C code without any special hacks, this allows you to use the very core libraries of your operating system and gives it speed and comfort using the standard stuff, this is something that most languages miss big time.
comparing the stuff is pointless as stated many many times before by many many people besides me. use the right tool for the right job. c++ is the right tool for many things right now, use it where you have to use it (unless you have something that really is better, which is not mostly the case for low level stuff)
I'm no doctor either, but this is really interesting:
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Experts think he could have something in his immune system that may help in producing vaccines against HIV
as far as i know a vaccine is actually a little piece of the infection itself and some antibodys to fight it (which sometimes are even derivated from the same virus), so the human body is infected with both so it's immune system can skip the invention of antibodies and just massively reproduce them to fight this little tiny infection that came along, so that the human body will be filled with enormous amount of antibodies in notime
so now, how can experts say that someone is producing a vaccine if vaccine is just a codename for a fixture ? and how can experts say that he is healed by the vaccine if vaccine is actually only good to prevent from getting ill at all, whereas other medicaments are meant for healing the ill. infecting a flu infected people with vaccine, can make his/her situation even worse than it was before the infecting. i hope i will not be cured by those experts that gave their oppinion in the referring sources
you missed the detail that in asia they already found a strain resistant to tamiflu ... and that the current tamiflu hasn't been tested on the human form of h5n1 because the latter does not exists yet ...
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but hey, great buy man, at least you make the medicine industry shine on it's brightest day ever and hopefully their bucks can pull us out of trouble when a pandemic starts and we can really buy smth useful against it
a) any free publicity attention is a free commercial, so microsoft would go for that :D
b) x windows people could actually sue microsoft for stealing their name, they were here 5 years before gates.
c) people have enlightened me in the mike rowe case, thnx a lot
again correction :
"If you outlaw quantum computing in US,
only outlaws might have and europeans&asians will have quantum computing."
And ofcourse we will kick the ass of american teams in distributed.net competitions!
ps. has idsoftware revealed when it's going to release QuantumDoom ?